(465) ASIAN & MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
(269) GENERAL HONORS - MEDICINE
(321) HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY AND SCIENCE
(467) OPERATIONS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
(525) PUBLIC POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
AFAM 078-401. Urban University-Community Relations.
Cross-listed: URBS 078-401
AMES 151-401.
Great Books Of Judaism.
This course will be devoted to four classic works of Jewish literature:
The Talmud, Biblical Commentary, the Passover Haggadah, and the Siddur or
prayerbook. The course will introduce the student to these books through
selected readings in order to show how they are to be read and
appreciated, and through studying the history of their development and
their place in Jewish tradition. We will also deal with the history of
these classics as books and as material objects. All readings are in
translation, and no previous background is required.
David Stern (Ph.D., Harvard, Comparative Literature, 1980), is professor
of Post-Biblical and Medieval Hebrew Literature in Asian and Middle
Eastern Studies. His primary field of research is early Biblical
commentary, and he is generally interested in the history of literary
interpretation and criticism, ancient and modern, and its relationship to
imaginative and other types of literature.
ANTH 241-301. Fundamentals of Archaeology.
This course will be taught by Robert Schuyler.
CLST 360-401. The Epic Tradition.
This course looks at a number of strands in the broad epic tradition:
narratives of warfare, quest narratives (both geographical and spiritual),
and the combination of the two in narratives of chivalry and love. We
will start with Homer, reading good portions of the "Iliad" and the
"Odyssey",and then see how Homeric themes are reprised in Virgil's
narrative oftravel, conquest, and empire, the "Aeneid". We will then look
at St. Augustine's "Confessions", which has some claim to being
considered an "epic" of spiritual discovery, and consider how Augustine
reflects back upon his classical narrative sources. From there we will
move to one medieval epic of warfare, conquest, and empire, the "Song of
Roland", which emerges from the same kind of oral poetic culture that
produced the ancient Homeric epics. In the last part of the course we
will read some Arthurian romances, which take up certain themes familiar
from epic, but place them in a new context: the medieval institution of
chivalry, where the ancient warrior is replaced by the medieval knight,
where the collective battle is replaced by the individual quest, and where
the psychology of sexual desire is now foregrounded as a motivation for
heroic self-realization.
This course will be taught by Prof. Rita Copeland
COLL 100-203. How Do You Know?
This course is devoted to understanding how we advance knowledge and
understanding over the broad range of academic disciplines. A central
concern is to further understanding of how a case is "made" for a
particular claim. The nature of "evidence" will be at the forefront of the
course. The problem of how do you know? is explored via two-week
presentations by five different faculty members, from five very different
disciplines. In each module, the faculty member, using original source
readings related to his or her own work, demonstrates how progress is made
within his or her discipline. The course integrator, who attends all
lectures, extracts common themes, provides background including a short
introduction to statistics, and leads students in an exercise exploring
the pathway from a scientific finding to its presentation in the media.
The integrator for fall 2000 will be Paul Rozin of the Psychology
department. The five faculty members will be Ian Lustick (Political
Science), Harold Feldman (Epidemiology), Rebecca Bushnell (English),
Dennis de Turck (Mathematics), and Judith Rodin (Psychology).
This course provides an introduction to economic analysis and its
applications. The operation of the market economy will be examined to
see how the size and composition of national output are determined.
Economic tools will be used to analyze such issues as unemployment,
inflation and international trade.
ECON 112-301. Topics in Economic Theory.
An introduction to game theory and its applications to economic analysis.
The course will provide a theoretical overview of modern game theory,
emphasizing common themes in the analysis of strategic behavior in
different social science contexts. The economic applications will be
drawn from different areas including trade, corporate strategy and public
policy.
ENGL 335-301. Introduction to Shakespeare.
Although Shakespeare's plays are usually studied as high canonical
literature, they were originally written as playscripts designed for the
entertainment of a disorderly, socially heterogeneous crowd and the
financial profit of the players. This course will attempt to resituate the
plays in their original theatrical setting. We will study a representative
selection of Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, and histories (to be
chosen by the class at the first meeting) along with background material
on Shakespeare's theater and his culture. There will be one or two
hour-exams, one or two short papers, and a final exam. In addition,
students are expected to meet in study groups outside of class. Students
are expected to make thoughtful, well-informed contributions to the class
listserver and discussions. Students who are not Benjamin Franklin
Scholars will be admitted only with the instructor's permission.
Phyllis Rackin (Ph.D., University of Illinois, English, 1962) is Professor
of English in General Honors. She is a past President of the Shakespeare
Association of America and the author of numerous articles on Shakespeare
and literary theory and of three books, Shakespeare's Tragedies, Stages of
History: Shakespeare's English Chronicles and, with Jean E. Howard, of
Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English
Histories. A recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching,
she has been associated with the BFS program for over thirty years.
ENGL 345-301. Topics in the 18th Century Novel: Gothic Fiction and
the National Tale.
This course will address the British novel from 1745 to 1848, focusing in
particular on the relation between literary form and emerging British
nationalisms. Our readings will examine how British writers represented key
historical events both in Britain and in other European countries, and
how their fictions transformed notions of "character," both individual
and national. We'll read, for example, accounts of the 1745 Jacobite
rebellion written by Henry Fielding and Walter Scott; we'll also survey a
number of responses to the French Revolution by writers like Jane
Austen, Maria Edgeworth, William Godwin, Robert Bage, Lady Morgan, and Mary
Shelley. Alongside these authors we'll also read a number of histories of
the novel as well as critical accounts written contemporary to our texts.
There will be a number of responses, a few short essays, and a long essay
project.
This course will be taught by Prof. Michael Gamer.
ENGL 383-301. Topics in 19th Century American Authors.
Course Cancelled.
ENGL 390-401. Topics in Women and Literature: Feminist Fairy Tales.
In this course, we will address the question of how young American women
are acculturated to see some roles as desirable and other roles as
unacceptable. In particular, we will explore the impact of popular
culture, especially fairy tales, on the formation of a woman's self-image.
We will examine the value of beauty, kindness, youth, sexuality, and
wealth from variety of angles, and we will also assess what fairy tales
from different cultures suggest about a woman's size, age, intelligence,
and aggressiveness.
We will begin by reading several versions of fairy tales from different
time-periods and cultures, and we will contextualize those readings with
commentaries that are also written from a range of perspectives:
psychoanalytic, feminist, and socio-economic. Students will be required to
see several film versions of the fairy tales we examine, although there
will be no formal screenings. Once we have a fuller grasp of the variants
of a given tale, it will be easier to appreciate what values are being
endorsed by the popular dissemination of one particular version. We will
then contrast the most well-known and influential versions of fairy tales
with feminist revisions of those tales by Angela Carter, Jeanette
Winterson, Tanith Lee, Jane Yolen, and others.
Requirements include a short (one-page) oral
presentation, two 6-8 page papers, and a comprehensive final examination.
This course will be taught by Vicki Mahaffey, Professor of English.
A study of selected aspects of urban environments, with an emphasis on
West Philadelphia. Students will engage middle school children in
exercises of applied environmental research.
Robert F. Giegengack (Ph.D. Yale University, 1968) is professor of geology
and co-director of the Institute of Environmental Studies. He is a member
of the Education Advisory Council of the SEA Education Association and the
Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association. Professor Giegengack is the
recipient of both the Lindback Award and the Ira Abrams Memorial Award,
given each year to recognize distinguished teaching.
The purpose of this course is to develop an analytical framework to
understand macroeconomics and policies in the context of a developed open
economy. Although the objective of the course is to better understand
policies and their operation, the course is analytical, not descriptive.
The first part of the course extends the ideas and arguments developed in
Econ 1 and 2; the analysis is both more sophisticated and developed in
the context of a global economy. The second part of the course develops
the monetary sector in considerable detail, examining how a complex
financial system operates and affects the supply and demand for money,
and thus the level of interest rates. The last part of the course is
devoted to using the analytical framework developed in the first two
parts to study phenomena such as the determination of wages and
inflation, stabilization policies, the trade and federal deficits, etc.
The course is conducted like a seminar. It is presumed that the
students will have read all the materials before class. The class time
will be devoted to a critical examination of these materials, not to
lectures by the instructor. There will be two mid-term examinations and
a final examination. (The last will probably be a take-home
examination.) Students will also be required to write a term paper.
IMPORTANT: Permission to enroll in this class is needed for all
students. Students must attend the first day of class to complete an
application (applications will not be distributed until then). Students
should register for another 101 course in case they are not accepted.
Decisions will be made by the second class meeting.
Jamshed Ghandhi was born in India and educated in India, Switzerland, the
United States and England, receiving a Ph.D. in economics from
Cambridge. He taught at the universities of Manchester, Cambridge and
Wharton, and was visiting professor at the American University of
Beirut. He has a non-academic appointment as advisor on capital markets
at the World Bank. He is currently consultant to the Capital Market
Board, Turkey, and the Finance Ministry, Portugal, on development of
their financial systems; the OECD on capital markets; Central Bank of
Turkey and Citibank-Latino on manpower development programs. He is also
a member of the European Community Committee on Financial Change.
Research and study under the direction of a faculty sponsor.
Research is an important part of an undergraduate career. Students
should consult with faculty, department advisors,or the
Research Directory for Undergraduates to gain ideas and insights, as
well as to identify possible projects and sponsors. Students are encouraged to
discuss their research ideas with the GH advising staff. Since research
takes planning, students should begin well in advance.
Research proposals must be completed and turned in to the General
Honors office three days before the last day of Add. Proposal forms are
available now.
GENH 204-301. Technology and Values: Workshop in Problem Formulation and
Solution. General Requirement IV:
Formal Reasoning and Analysis.
Modeling is an integral part of problem definition and problem solving in
any discipline; it is inherently interdisciplinary
and more of a craft than a science in that there are specific techniques
to be learned and a variety of approaches. Because
most undergraduate courses deal with disciplinary fundamentals,
especially during the first two years, the functional core
of modeling is not usually taught. This course will show the student,
using specific examples, that knowledge acquisition
and its integration into new ideas, and their implementation are the
essence of problem formulation and solutions, and that
inherent to the successful pursuit of this process is the concept and
application of modeling.
We will look at problems as they arise in the normal day-to-day
disciplinary course routine of a student, and show that
although once upon a time mathematics was essential for modeling and
problem solving, the personal computer precipitated
change in our approach. Now, powerful and user friendly software have
brought explicit modeling (i.e. modeling based in
advanced mathematics) within the reach of even the computer-non
initiated. The beauty of this new technology is the
versatility and latitude to the imagination that computer modeling
affords. An explicit model of a problem is a mental
laboratory: you can test for consistency; you can gently alter the
different parts and see the consequences; and you can
explore the limits of its validity.
Jorge Santiago-Aviles and Krimo Bokreta will co-teach this course.
GENH 205-301. Search for the Post Modernist Self.
What is this elusive entity called the "self", the "individual"? When
was it born? How does it relate today to the notion of "community"? How
can one be both a "self" and at the same time a member of a community?
Chaim Potok was born and raised in New York City. He received a BA summa
cum laude in English literature from Yeshiva University, an M.H.L. and
Rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and
a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He served as
a United States Army chaplain in Korea with a front-line medical
battalion and an engineer combat battalion. He has been writing fiction
since the age of sixteen and is widely known for his novels, The
Chosen
(Edward Lewis Wallant Award), The Promise (Athenaeum Prize), My
Name is
Asher Lev, In the Beginning, The Book of Lights, and
Davita's Harp. His
novel, The Gift of Asher Lev, published in May 1990, won the National
Jewish Book Award for fiction. He is also the author of Wanderings:
Chaim Potok's History of the Jews, and of numerous articles, short
stories, and reviews. His plays, Out of the Depths and Sins of
the
Father, received their premiere productions in Philadelphia in 1990.
His
latest novel is The Gates of November. He is also author of I Am
the Clay.
GENH 210-301. Faculty and Student Collaborative Seminar To
Develop a Distinctive Penn
Undergraduate Curriculum Integrating Learning, Teaching, and
Research
Through Real World Problem Solving
Inspired by its founder, Ben Franklin, President Judith Rodin has defined
Penn's distinctive mission as helping students develop their capacity to
integrate theory and practice in humanistic, action-oriented, real-world
problem-solving. Since the present Arts and Sciences undergraduate
curriculum falls short in this regard, the seminar aims to synthesize
numerous, unrelated, academically- based community service courses into an
effectively integrated curriculum.
As now envisioned, the new Penn curriculum developed by the seminar would
have as a significant component "thematic clusters", i.e., interrelated,
cross-disciplinary, complementary sets of courses designed to stimulate and
empower students to produce, not simply "consume", societally-useful
knowledge. By societally-useful knowledge, we mean knowledge actively used
to solve universal strategic problems of democracy and society, schooling
and society, health and society, poverty and society, environment and
society, culture and society, etc., as those universal problems manifest
themselves locally at Penn and in West Philadelphia / Philadelphia.
Good ideas take time to develop. The seminar, therefore, will extend over
two semesters. Students who for one reason or another decide to take only
the Fall semester, however, will receive one credit.
Undergraduates who believe they might benefit from participating in the
seminar, might contribute significantly to its work, and welcome the
challenge to help produce societally-useful knowledge, are invited to apply
for admission through General Honors.
For more information , please contact
GENH 219-301. Judges and Judging.
Judges in law courts are bound to decide facts according to law and to
find law in keeping with precedent, statutes, and the Constitution. How
do judges shoulder this great responsibility when the cases before them
involve highly politicized, morally charged, socially divisive issues
about which the judge may have formed a strong personal opinion? The
course will address this question through a reading of cases and
commentary, including in particular Robert Cover's Justice Accused and
Lawrence Baum's The Puzzle of Judicial Behavior.
Gordon Bermant was Director of Planning and Technology at the Federal
Judicial Center, Washington, DC. He was initially trained as a comparative
and physiological psychologist, receiving a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1961 and
then spending two years in the laboratory of the late Frank A. Beach at
the University of California, Berkeley. Bermant taught and did research in
these areas at the University of California at Davis. He then moved to
Seattle where he developed a general research, conference, and fellowship
program in behavioral and social sciences at the Battelle Seattle Research
Center and lectured on a variety of psychological subjects at the
University of Washington. His research interests moved in the direction of
relations between psychology and law, and he became an early contributor
to the development of that interdisciplinary field in the 1970's. He
joined the Federal Judicial Center, which is the research and training
agency of the United States court system, as its first psychologist in
1976. He subsequently returned to law school and graduated from George
Mason University School of Law in 1991. Bermant is the author or editor of
more than 70 books, articles, and reviews in various areas. He is a Fellow
of divisions 6, 9, and 41 of the American Psychological Association and a
Charter Fellow of the American Psychological Society.
GLAW 064-301. The American Legal System.
This course will examine how American civil law responds to economic,
social, technological and political change. This course will trace
selected areas of law which illustrate law's dynamic. Some of the areas
of special current legal interest include the law as arbiter of scientific
truth; issues of life and death (who decides on the giving or withholding
of medical treatment of those who can -- and who cannot -- decide for
themselves); the changing ground rules of sexual harassment in the
workplace; rights of the disabled and the fine line between administering
pain relief and medical intervention resulting in death; and the
increasing expansion of legislation to speed "corrections" in the common
law.
Samuel Diamond is a graduate of the Wharton School (1952) and the Law
School (1955) of this University. After two years of service in the Navy,
he has practiced law in Philadelphia, concentrating in real estate and
corporate law. He has taught at Drexel University and at the Wharton and
Law Schools of the University of Pennsylvania. He was 1990 chairman of
the Philadelphia Bar Association section on real property law and 1997
Co-Chair of the Bar Association's Committee on Professional Responsibility.
GMED 073-301. Selected Topics in Medicine: Infectious Outbreaks and
Epidemics.
GMED 073-302. Selected Topics in Medicine: Infectious Diseases.
This course is concerned with the examination of the interactions between
human beings, their organs and cells, and various infectious agents such
as bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Both the biological and societal
factors influencing these interactions will be studied.
Helen Davies (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1960) is professor of
microbiology in the School of Medicine. She is recipient of the Lindback
Award and has been designated one of the two Distinguished Basic Science
Educator Awardees in the School of Medicine. Prof. Davies is the author
of more than seventy papers in the areas of bacterial bioenergetics,
infectious diseases, enzyme kinetics, bacterial infections,
discrimination in higher education, and affirmative action for women and
minority groups.
GMED 073-303. Cancer.
This will be a seminar course considering cancer as a problem, from the
molecular to the psycho-socio-economic level. Topics will include the
biology and biochemistry of cancer cells; environmental and genetic
factors in causation; epidemiology and geography; natural history of common
human cancers with problems in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment;
and social and political aspects of cancer research and care.
Peter Nowell (M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1952) is professor of
pathology at the School of Medicine. His research is represented in over
400 publications dealing with various aspects of cancer,
particularly the basic mechanisms of abnormal growth (e.g. oncogenes,
chromosomal abnormalities). He has served as chairman of the department
of pathology, and as director of the Cancer Center, and is the
recipient of numerous awards, including the Lindback Award for
Distinguished Teaching.
Technically, there is only one utopia, that imagined by Thomas More in
the 16th century. More invented the term. For him, utopia was a pun: it
was literally "no place." But it was also a homonym with eutopia - "the
best place." The best place is also no place, a harmless dream, a piece
of fantasy. Yet for More and for many others who created utopias,
they were also serious business. Utopia is both daydream and aspiration.
This course will consider the ways in which Western society has represented
"the best place" from Genesis and Plato through the Renaissance and the
18th century to the fantasies of science fiction. What is utopia? How have men
thought about it? Why? What roles has utopia played in W estern culture?
Critical for perspective on the topic will be reflecting on the present:
is it possible to imagine utopia in the 20th century?
Readings for the course will consist entirely of primary sources - i.e.
the utopias themselves. Students will be required to make one or two oral
presentations and to write a paper (15 pages).
Michael Ryan is director of Special Collections at Van Pelt Library.
HIST 214-301. Media and Politics.
This course is an examination of the history of various media forms
(newspapers, radio, television, films) and of the relationships between
those media and traditional politics as well as the links between popular
culture and politics more generally. It will be grounded in history, but
will employ an interdisciplinary approach that will sample different
media forms, different political issues and political moments as examples
of the dialectic between media and politics and culture, including media
representations of history and of politics. The course also will include
political critiques of the mass media as ideological institutions.
This course will be taught by Prof. Barbara Savage.
HIST 214-402. The Emergence of Modern America.
This seminar focuses on the emergence of America as an urban, industrial,
and multiethnic society between the early nineteenth century and the
1930s. Major topics include: work, class, and mobility; race and
ethnicity; family and life course; and social policy and social
institutions. Requirements include reading one book each week and short
papers.
Michael B. Katz, the Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor in the History
Department, was recently named a Spencer Foundation Senior Fellow.
Dr. Katz, a specialist in American social history, received one of
four awards given by the foundation in the past twelve months.
Dr. Katz focuses on three areas: the history of education,
the history of urban social and family structure and the history of poverty
and social welfare. He received his M.A.T. and Ed.D. from Harvard
University. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a resident fellow
at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for
Historical Studies at Princeton, the Russell Sage Foundation and the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He also has held a
fellowship from the Open Society Institute. He is a fellow of the National
Academy of Education and the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Dr. Katz is the author of numerous books and essays,
including The People of Hamilton, Canada West: Family and Class in a
Mid-Nineteenth Century City, the 1975 winner of the Albert C. Corey
Prize from the American and Canadian Historical Associations. His book,
The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on
Welfare, was a 1990 finalist for the American Sociological
Association's Distinguished Book Award. He is completing a book on the
redefinition of the American welfare state since 1980, Market Price
or Social Value? Redefining America's Welfare State.
The recent controversies over the Enola Gay exhibit and the teaching of
U.S. history to school children have made exceptionally visible the degree
to which history may be used to define national identity. Scientific
achievements may play central roles in partisan accounts--both as
testimonials to national virtue and as the means to resolve various sorts
of disputes. This course will discuss the uses of history in contemporary
and past situations, drawing examples from the U.S., Europe, the Middle
East, and Africa.
This course will be taught by Prof. Henrika Kuklick.
The first part of this course will inquire into the nature of law and the
legal process, the second part will introduce the law of contracts, and
the last will cover some of the basic principles of international law.
Eric Orts is associate professor of Legal Studies. His areas of research
include corporate law, corporate governance, environmental law and
policy. He is currently working on a project on corporate law in the
European Union.
LGST 210-301. Corporate Responsibility and Ethics.
Explores theories of business responsibility from a multi-disciplinary and
managerial perspective. Presents current theories of business ethics and
examines how they apply to a number of case studies. Topics include
ethical and social responsibility issues with regard to consumer product
safety, advertising, affirmative action, sexual harassment, employee
rights, whistle-blowing, conflicts of interest, and worker safety.
Alan Strudler is assistance professor of Legal Studies. His research
ares include ethics negotiation, moral psychology, and corporate
responsibility. His current projects include the law and ethics of
insider trading and the social psychology of moral influence.
This course will expose students to the theoretical and empirical "building
blocks" that will allow them to construct, estimate, and interpret powerful
models of consumer behavior. Over the years, researchers and practitioners
have used these models for a wide variety of applications, such as new
product sales forecasting, analyses of media usage, and targeted marketing
programs. Other disciplines have seen equally broad utilization of these
techniques.
The course will be entirely lecture-based with a strong emphasis on
real-time problem solving. Most sessions will feature sophisticated
numerical investigations using Microsoft Excel. Much of the material is
highly technical. Students must have a high comfort level with basic
integral calculus, and recent exposure to a formal course in
probability/statistics would be helpful (but not required).
This course will be taught by Peter Fader, Associate Professor of Marketing.
The purpose of this course is to bring together decision-making in
socio-economic field and in literature. In literature there are
wonderful examples in which the heroes of the books make their own
decisions. In these examples, the authors not only bring new
sophisticated analytical parameters, but also use a variety of artistic
means directed toward developing the imagination of the reader.
Unfortunately, the methods used are far from being analytical; the modern
analytical methods for decision-making developed in the socio-economic
field are not used. The course proposed here would encompass
socio-economic examples of decision-making conceptions, along with
literature. The course must give a clear synthesis of analytic and
artistic methods of thinking, which is important in connection with new
situations. This course can be crucial in instructing aesthetically
educated students who are pragmatically oriented. Finally, the students
will better understand the value of nonpragmatic categories of art and
their priceless role in the developing of their intellect and
decision-making abilities.
Aron J. Katsenelinboigen was born in the Soviet Union. He graduated from
Moscow State Economic Institute and obtained a Doctor of Sciences degree
in Economics. He has worked in the USSR Academy of Sciences and was
promoted to head of the Department of Complex Systems at the Central
Economic Mathematical Institute. He also taught mathematical economics
at Moscow State University. Since his emigration to the United States,
Prof. Katsenelinboigen has been a visiting lecturer in the Department of
Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Social
Systems Department and then the Decision Sciences Department as a
professor. Prof. Katsenelinboigen is the author of fifteen books, nine
of which were published in the United States. More than sixty articles
of the author have been published, but only in western countries. His
current research is concerned primarily with the category of
indeterminism and the aesthetic method.
Vera Zubarev was born in
the former Soviet Union. She graduated from
Odessa University and obtained her masters degree in literature. Six
years ago Vera emigrated to the USA. She was admitted to the doctoral
program at the Slavic Department, University of Pennsylvania, and in 1994
she defended her doctoral thesis. She continues to teach Russian
language at the University of Pennsylvania. In the last years Vera
published several books in poetry, and a book in literary theory, A
Systems Approach to Literature: Mythopoetics of Chekhov's Four Major
Plays (Greenwood Press, 1997). Her current interests concern the linkage
between literature and business in the frame of her research on literary
problems.
This is the first semester of a small-section three-semester sequence in
introductory physics for well-prepared students. Topics will include
classical laws of motion, interaction between particles, conservation
laws and symmetry principles, rigid body motion, wave motion, and kinetic
theory and thermodynamics.
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove's principal scholarly work has been the preparation
of evaluated reviews and summaries of what is known about the nuclei
with mass numbers 5 to 20. These include isotopes of hydrogen, helium,
lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon and
sodium. For her these elements are among the most interesting both
from the point of view of basic nuclear research, and for understanding
the nucleosynthesis of elements in stars. Applied uses include energy
generation through fusion, dating of artifacts, and nuclear medicine.
Each year, over 1200 scientific papers are written by scientists all
over the world dealing with the spectroscopy of the light nuclei; that
is, the ways in which these nuclei absorb and emit energy.
This introductory course explores the economics and politics of policy
analysis and management in government. The first part of the semester is
devoted to the analysis of the economics and politics of government policy
formulation and implementation. This is followed by a detailed
examination of why, how, and with what success/failure government
intervenes in a variety of areas: health, education, welfare, law
enforcement, housing and urban development, international trade, the
environment are examples of the topics that may be covered. Finally, the
course examines the growing importance of allowing competitive markets to
provide publicly funded services, taking advantage of private management
approaches to fostering innovation in public management. Three major
areas in which this is occurring will be examined:
privatization/contracting out of government activities; business
improvement improvement districts: homeowners associations.
Janet Pack is professor of Public Policy and Management. Her current
projects include Metropolitan Studies, and studies of the impact of
urban poverty on city budgets and of the increasing role of the private
sector in providing services traditionally the responsibility of local
governments.
This seminar is intended for students interested in American politics or
concentrating in American politics in their major. It will examine the
origins and development of American democracy, compare its major
differences with both the new and old democracies, and address its
institutions that both have been copied by and perplexed other democracies.
The first weeks of the seminar will look at two of the celebrated 19th
century European analysts of American democracy: A. de Tocqueville and
James Bryce. Then the social and economic base of American democracy will
be examined, particularly its political culture. The third theme is
directed to comparisons of the Presidency, the Courts, the Federal, and
local institutions, and the role of public opinion with other established
democracies.
The seminar will conclude with the questions of democracy and foreign
policy and why democracies succeed or fail. Written assignments are two
papers and a set of final essays.
This course will be taught by Prof. Henry Teune.
PSCI 389-301. Interpreting the American Constitution.
The focus of this seminar is one of the most vital aspects of politics:
identifying and interpreting the nation's most fundamental rules. It is
concerned with a) the configuration of this polity in language that has
binding authority and b) the public arguments made to justify
constructions of meaning from this language and from other sources of
constitutional values. The goal of the course is to provide a systematic
approach to the problems of constitutional interpretation, through an
emphasis on three interrogatives:
This course will be taught by Prof. Will Harris.
This seminar explores the condition under which women become politically
active and the relevance of gender to forms of activism, organizational
practices, and choice of issues. Using contemporary and historical case
studies, we will examine women's activism in feminist and anti-feminist
movements and organizations; in single-sex organizations devoted to a
broad range of goals; and in mixed-gender movements, including civil
rights and trade unions.
This course will be taught by Dr. Robin Leidner.
URBS 220-401. The Emergence of Modern America.
(465) ASIAN & MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
General Requirement III: Arts and Letters
TR 10:30-12
WILL 741
Cross listed: JWST 151-401 RELS 027-401(025) ANTHROPOLOGY
Distribution II: History and Tradition
TR 9-10:30
MUSE 329
An introduction to the nature of archaeological data. The methods by which
they are gathered and analyzed. Methods of dating. Problems of
interpretation. Laboratory sessions.
(101) CLASSICAL STUDIES
General Requirement III: Arts and Letters
TR 10:30-12
WILL 321
WATU credit optional
Cross-listed: COML 354-301.
(000) COLLEGE
Proposed for Science Studies
TR 4:30-6
Location TBA
The GH section of this course is currently filled. The other recitation
sections (201 and 202) have sapce available.
Recitations will be in the same time slot. Approximately every two
weeks, one of the slots will be a recitation. (113)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
COML 354-301. The Epic Tradition.
General Requirement III: Arts and Letters
TR 10:30-12
WILL 321
WATU credit optional
Cross-listed: CLST 360-401.
(169) ECONOMICS
ECON 001. Introduction to Economics - Micro.
General Requirement I: Society
Students must also enroll in lecture session ECON 001-003.
ECON 001-233. F 10-11 MOOR 224
ECON 001-234. F 11-12 NEGB 121
Distribution I: Society
TR 10:30-12
MCNB 167-8(197) ENGLISH
Distribution III: Arts & Letters
TR 1:30-3
BENN 219
This course is currently fully enrolled.
Distribution III: Arts and Letters
TR 3-4:30
BENN 227
Distribution III: Arts & Letters
MWF 1-2
Distribution III: Arts & Letters
TR 3-4:30
(201) ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
ENVS 404-301. Urban Environment: West Philadelphia.
SEM TR 1:30-3 HAYD 358
SEM TBA
and community time, to be announced.(213) FINANCE
FNCE 101-301. Monetary Economics.
MW 3-4:30
CPCR CHRM
Not for first year students.
Permission needed from instructor.
(237) GENERAL HONORS
GENH 099 Independent Study.
Prerequisite: Math 140 or permission of instructor.
T 7-9:30 PM
KCEH 106
General Requirement III: Arts & Letters
W 3-6
WILL 303
Permission of
department required.
Juniors or seniors only. This course is currently fully enrolled.
W 2-5
MELL 514
Cory Bowman
Center for Community Partnerships
Room 519, 133 South 36th Street (across from the Penn
Book Store)
bowman@pobox.upenn.edu
(215)
898-0289
M 2- 5
WILL 303
Not for first-year students.
(261) GENERAL HONORS - LAW
These courses are for students who do not necessarily intend to pursue a
career in the law. They aim to communicate the nature of legal scholarship
and thinking in the context of a specific area, such as intentional torts,
affirmative action or civil rights. The courses will emphasize critical
readings of case material, and will place this material in the appropriate
social, cultural and legal contexts.
Distribution I: Society
TR 1:30-3
LOGN 203
(269) GENERAL HONORS - MEDICINE
GH medicine courses are designed for undergraduates, interested in
considering human diseases from many aspects-biological, clinical and
social. An attempt will be made to use each disease to illustrate modern
approaches in biomedical research, problems in health maintenance and
care, and socio-political effects of common severe disorders. The courses
are not designed to provide technical information to premedical students
in preparation for professional school.
CANCELLED This course will be offered Spring 2001.
Juniors or seniors only.
TR 4-5:30
JOHN 209
M 2-5
MRGN 196
(317)
HISTORY
HIST 112-301. Utopian Thought.
Distribution II: History and Tradition
Freshman Seminar: First-Year Students Only
W 2-5
WILL 304
T 2-5
JAFF 201
This course is currently fully enrolled.
T 2-5
WLNT 344B
Cross-listed: URBS 220-401.
(321) HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE
HSSC 438-301. Who Owns the Past?
R 2-5
LOGN 337
(353) JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM
JWST 151-401. Great
Books of Judaism.
Gen Req III: Arts & Letters
TR 10:30-12
WILL 741
Cross Listed: AMES 151-401, RELS 027-401
(373) LEGAL STUDIES
LGST 101-301. Introduction to Law and Legal Process.
TR 10:30-12
SHDH 106
MW 1:30-3
SHDH 205
(410) MARKETING
MKTG 399-301. Probability Models in Marketing and Electronic
Commerce
W 3-6
Location TBA
Pre-requisite: Math 140-141.
(467) OPERATIONS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
OPIM 402-301. The Aesthetic Approach to Decision Making.
TR 4:30-6
SHDH 202
Pre-requisite: ability to play chess, at least on the level of novice.
(497) PHYSICS
PHYS 170-301. Honors Physics I.
General Requirement VI: Physical World
LEC MWF 10-11, DRLB 2C2
LEC M 2-3, DRLB A6
LEC T 11-12, DRLB A1
PHYS 170-302, LAB W 1-3, DRLB LAB
(525) PUBLIC POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
PPMT 201-301. Political Economics of Government.
TR 3-4:30
VANC 110
Pre-requisite: ECON 001 or equivalent
(505) POLITICAL SCIENCE
PSCI 298-303. American Democracy in Comparative Perspective.
M 2-5
MCNB 110
Distribution I: Society
TR 10:30-12
WLNT 363B
This is a liberal arts seminar in political theory and political science
that uses law as its material; it is not a course in law for its own sake.
Its more general objectives include assisting students in reading and
criticizing political texts, assessing constitutional arguments and making
compelling ones of their own, developing interpretive theory, and
reasoning and writing more rigorously at a level of conceptual abstraction
beyond policy preferences.
Half of the class will be admitted through PARIS during Advance
Registration. The other half (non-BFS and closed-out BFS) will be admitted
by permission of the instructor during Registration-Drop/Request, based on
interviews during Advance Registration and after PARIS has filled the
first half.
(541) RELIGIOUS STUDIES
RELS 027-401. Great Books of
Judaism.
General Requirement III: Arts & Letters
TR 10:30-12
WILL 741
Cross Listed: AMES 151-401 JWST 151-401
(589) SOCIOLOGY
SOCI 425-401. Women and Political Activism.
Distribution I: Society
W 2-5
WILL 317
Cross-listed: WSTD 431-301.(657) URBAN STUDIES
URBS 078-401. Urban University-Community Relations.
W 2-5
Cross listed: AFAM 078-401
Course Cancelled
T 2-5
WLNT 344B
Cross-listed: HIST 214-402
(677) WOMEN'S STUDIES
WSTD 431-301. Women and Political Activism.
W 2-5
WILL 317
Cross listed: SOCI 425-401.
Last updated: August 2, 2000