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The Hollow Curriculum

By Kale S. Bongers and Scott L. Glabe | Thursday, June 2, 2005

All of the courses listed below are taught at the College. A student could follow the program below and meet all the "Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts" as outlined by the Organizations, Regulations, Courses book distributed by Registrar. While we have not confirmed this schedule is feasible as far as timetables go, it should provide the reader with a pretty good idea of how little one could learn and still graduate from Dartmouth. (NB: Distributive requirements are slightly different for the class of 2008 of later; these courses also satisfy the new distributive requirements.)

I. English

English 5—Expository Writing

II. First-Year Seminar

English 7.2—Envisioning Latin America

III. Foreign Language Courses

Italian 1—Introductory Italian I

Italian 2—Introductory Italian II

Italian 3—Introductory Italian III

IV. General Education Requirements

A. Distributive Requirement. Each student must take and pass ten courses, as follows:

1. One in the Arts

Women's and Gender Studies 45/Film and Television Studies 46—Television and Histories of Gender

2. One in Literature

Women's and Gender Studies 40/English 62—Immigrant Women Writing in America

3. One in Philosophical or Historical Analysis or Religion

Jewish Studies 15/Women's and Gender Studies 60—Judaism, Sexuality, and Queerness

4. One in International or Comparative Study

African and African American Studies 18/History 39—Power, Corruption, and Resistance in Film and Writing of Contemporary Africa

5. Two in Social Analysis

Latino Studies 45/Anthropology 12—Welcome to Amexica: Comparative Perspectives on the U.S./Mexico Borderlands

Native American Studies 58/Environmental Sciences 58—Environmental Justice Movements in the United States

6. One in Quantitative and Deductive Sciences

Sociology 10—Quantitative Analysis of Social Data (also meets requirements of sociology major)

7. Two in the Natural Sciences

Earth Sciences 5—Natural Disasters and Catastrophes

Earth Sciences 6—Environmental Change

8. One in Technology or Applied Science

Engineering 2—The Technology of Sailing (meets laboratory requirement)

B. World Culture Requirement. Each student must take and pass one course in each of three areas:

1. European

Women and Gender Studies 46/Comparative Literature 29—Tears, Love, Happiness: Feminine Territories/Feminist Readings

2. North American

Religion 13—Beyond God the Father: An Introduction to Gender and Religion

3. Non-Western

Environmental Sciences 52—Contemporary Native American Environmental Issues

V. Major: Sociology

A. Prerequisite: One introductory level course, either Sociology 1 or 2.

Sociology 2—Social Problems

B. One theory course: Sociology 11 or 12

Sociology 11—Social Organization

C. One methods course: Sociology 10, 16 or 17

Sociology 10—Quantitative Analysis of Social Data

D. Seven additional courses in Sociology numbered 10 or higher

Majors are encouraged to identify an area of concentration within Sociology. Standard majors must satisfy the culminating experience requirement by successfully completing any One of the following three options: Senior Independent Study Project (Sociology 90), The Sociological Imagination (Sociology 91) or Honors Thesis (Sociology 98). The culminating experience may be counted as one of the seven additional courses in Sociology numbered 10 or higher that are required for completion of the major.

Sociology 43—Dangerous Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender

Sociology 44—Complexities of Latino Identity in the United States

Sociology 45—Educational Issues among Immigrant Children

Sociology 46—Constructing Black Womanhood

Sociology 59—Special Topics in Inequality, Identity, and Culture

Sociology 60—Gender, Marriage, and Brave New Families: Sociology of Reproduction

Sociology 91—The Sociological Imagination

VI. Electives

Film and Television Studies 42—Asian Animation

Comparative Literature 10—Border Crossings: Exile, Expatriation, and Immigration

Comparative Literature 28—Los Angeles/Modernism

English 63—Here and Queer: Placing Sexuality

Earth Sciences 8/College Course 4—Life on Mars?

History 5.7—Comparative Third World History: Theory and Practice of National Liberation

Religion 52—Women's Rituals: From Africa and Around the World

History 96—Marriage and Divorce in the African Context

Women's and Gender Studies 48—Queer Marriage, Hate Crimes, and Will and Grace

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