Original Article: http://dartreview.com/archives/2005/06/02/the_hollow_curriculum.php
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