Courses

Selected topics from among the following: the administrations of Jefferson and Madison, the War of 1812, the Era of Good Feelings, Western Expansion, and Jacksonian Democracy.

A study of the range, development, and cultural work of Victorian novels. Topics may include genres like realism, sensation fiction, domestic fiction, detective fiction, and popular fiction, as well as narrative forms like the marriage plot and the Bildungsroman, investigating how the novel shaped normative ideas of gender, race, and class, but also provided ways to resist them.

A broad survey of natural history and diversity of our closest relatives, the living nonhuman primates – lemurs, lorises, galagos, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes – focusing on anatomical, ecological, and behavioral differences among primate taxonomic groups and implications of this variation for human biology, behavior, and evolution.

The political, social, economic, and intellectual structures of Europe and their transformation from the late seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth century (1789).

The political, social, economic, and intellectual structures of Europe and their transformation from the late seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth century (1789).

The main theories used in women's studies today will be analyzed from a historical perspective and with respect to the combined effects of gender, race, and class on the status of women in contemporary society. The course will include the study of the problems inherent in establishing full social equality for women.

This course examines the argument that human beings have rights simply because they are human. It seeks to understand what should count as a right, how rights can be defended against persistent violation, and whether human rights activism can be an effective agent for political change.

An overview of theories and research pertaining to individual and family development across the life from birth through old age. Examination of the tasks and challenges that are unique to each state of development. 744 / 1272 Queens College

An examination of the political problems that grew out of the conception of the nation-state, such as sovereignty, constitutionalism, democracy, political liberty, and social change.

Exploration of theoretical formulations that inform the work of literary study, examining what different methodologies value, how they are articulated, and how they assign meaning to texts. The course focuses on at least three distinct critical methods, and it includes both the use of theory in interpreting specific literary texts and the critical scrutiny of theoretical texts themselves.