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Websites, Spring 2008

Fall 2007

Websites for Spring 2008 are listed below. Sites are guest accessible unless otherwise noted.

Students: Log in to blackboard.amherst.edu for your personalized list of Blackboard web sites. Login to to "My Amherst" and go to your portal for a list of your courses in the Amherst Web Site.

Instuctors: If you are using the Amherst College Web Site for your course or if your Blackboard course site does not appear in this list within two working days of it becoming available to students or if you change the guest accessibility status, contact Paul Chapin at pdchapin@amherst.edu or x2144.

Courses using the Amherst web site rather than Blackboard may not be listed here. Go to the departments page, https://cms.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments, select a department and then look on the Courses page.

Organization Sites

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
American Studies
AMST 12: Religion, Democracy and American Culture
Francis G. Couvares, Karen J. Sanchez-Eppler
AMST 30: Screening Asian Americans
Karen M. Cardozo
AMST 68: Making Places: Research Methods in American Cultures
Karen J. Sanchez-Eppler, Martha A. Sandweiss
AMST 30: Screening Asian Americans
Karen M. Cardozo
Anthropology
ANTH 26: African Cultures/Societies
Miriam R. Goheen
ANTH 36: Psychological Anthropology
Douglas A. Raybeck
ANTH 43: Economic Anthropology and Social Theory
Miriam R. Goheen
Art and Art History
ARAH 56: Baroque Art
Nicola M. Courtright
ARAH 84: Women/Art in Early Modern Europe
Nicola Courtright
Asian Languages and Civilizations
ASLC 29: Fashion Matters
Paola Zamperini
ASLC 31: Asian Studies Colloquium
Maria R. Heim, Paola Zamperini
ASLC 46: Modern China
Jerry P. Dennerline
ASLC 50: Religion & Soc: Great China
Jerry P. Dennerline
Astronomy
ASTR 11: Introduction to Astronomy
George Greenstein
Biology
BIOL 06: Why Sex?
Ethan D. Clotfelter, Jill S. Miller
BIOL 14 Evolution of Human Nature
William F. Zimmerman
BIOL 18: Adaptation and Organism
Ethan J. Temeles, Michael E. Hood, Julia A. Emerson, William F. Zimmerman
BIOL 18, Section 2: Adaptation and Organism
Ethan J. Temeles, Michael E. Hood, Julia A. Emerson, William F. Zimmerman
BIOL 18, Section 3: Adaptation and Organism
Ethan J. Temeles, Michael E. Hood, Julia A. Emerson, William F. Zimmerman
BIOL 18, Section 4: Adaptation and Organism
Ethan J. Temeles, Michael E. Hood, Julia A. Emerson, William F. Zimmerman
BIOL 18, Section 5: Adaptation and Organism
Ethan J. Temeles, Michael E. Hood, Julia A. Emerson, William F. Zimmerman
BIOL 24: Genetic Analysis
Caroline E. Goutte
BIOL 30: Biochemistry
Anthony C. Bishop, Patrick L. Williams
BIOL 33: Immunology
Richard A. Goldsby
BIOL 42: Plant Sexual Diversity
Jill S. Miller
BIOL 44: Disease Biology
Michael E. Hood
Black Studies
BLST 11: Intro to Black Studies
C. Rhonda Cobham-Sander, Jeffrey B. Ferguson
BLST 33: Black Diaspora: Emancipation to Present
Jose C. Castro Alves
BLST 34: Child Labor and Education
Peter L. Moyi
BLST 42: Myth, Ritual and Iconography in West Africa
Rowland O. Abiodun
BLST 46: Survey of African Art
Rowland O. Abiodum
BLST 63: Alan Lomax
William S. Walker
BLST 64: Black Studies Seminar
Jeffrey B. Ferguson, Jose C. Castro Alves
Chemistry
CHEM 11: Introductory Chemistry
Karena A. McKinney, Zeynep Delen
CHEM 12: Chemical Principles
Joseph N. Kushick, Amira A. Choucair, Richmond J. Ampiah-Bonney
CHEM 22: Organic Chemistry II
David E. Hansen, Nicolette M. Fernandes, Zeynep Delen
CHEM 28: Molecular & Cell Biophysics
Nicholas C. Darnton, Patricia B. O'Hara
CHEM 43: Physical Chemistry
Mark D. Marshall
Chinese
CHIN 02: First-Year Chinese II
Tong Shen
CHIN 06: Second-Year Chinese II
Xiaoping Teng
CHIN 10: Fourth-Year Chinese II
Xiaoping Teng
Classics
CLAS 31: Athenian Empire
Rebecca H. Sinos
Colloquia
COLQ 18: Post-Cold War American Diplomacy
Norman G. Levin, Pavel Machala
COLQ 22: The Resilient Earth
Ethan D. Clotfelter, Jan E. Dizard
Computer Science
COSC 12: Intro to Computer Science II
Lyle McGeoch
COSC 37: Compiler Design
Lyle McGeoch
Economics
ECON 11: Introduction to Economics
Daniel P. Barbezat, Geoffrey R. Woglom, Jun Ishii, Steven G. Rivkin
ECON 11, Section 1: Introduction to Economics
Daniel P. Barbezat
ECON 11, Section 2: Introduction to Economics
Jun Ishii
ECON 11, Section 3: Introduction to Economics
Steve Rivkin
ECON 11, Section 4: Introduction to Economics
Geoffrey R. Woglom
ECON 24: Industrial Organization
Jun Ishii
ECON 29: US Economic History 1865-1965
Daniel P. Barbezat
ECON 38: Econ of Globalization
A Erinc Yeldan
ECON 40: Health Economics & Policy
Jessica W. Reyes
ECON 53: Macroeconomics
A. Erinc Yeldan
ECON 54: Microeconomics (Not Guest Accessible)
Christopher G. Kingston
ECON 55: Intro to Econometrics
Steven G. Rivkin
ECON 57: Advanced Macroeconomics
Geoffrey R. Woglom
ECON 64: Evaluating Social Policy
Jessica W. Reyes
ECON 70: International Monetary Economics
Edwin M. Truman
ECON 79: Institutional Economics
Christopher G. Kingston
English
ENGL 01, Section 2: Writing About Literature
Judith E. Frank
ENGL 01, Section 3: Vampire/Immigrant/Nation
Dale M. Hudson
ENGL 04: Literary History and/as Media History
Andrew C. Parker
ENGL 12: Reading Poetry
Howell D. Chickering
ENGL 26: Fiction Writing I
Judith E. Frank
ENGL 28: Fiction Writing II
Alexander S. Chee
ENGL 31: Chaucer-Canterbury Tales
Howell D. Chickering
ENGL 41: Victorian Novel II
Andrew Paker
ENGL 74: Graphic Novel
Alexander S. Chee
ENGL 84, Section 2: Film Theory & Criticism
Dale M. Hudson
ENGL 95, Section 2: Americans in Paris
Allen Guttmann
Environmental Health and Safety
European Studies
EUST 22: European Tradition II
Ronald C. Rosbottom
First Year Seminars
French
FREN 01: Elementary French
Raina F. Uhden
FREN 03: Intermediate French
Raina F. Uhden
FREN 05: Language and Literature (Not Guest Accessible)
Rosalina M. De La Carrera
FREN 07, Section 1: Contemporary Literature and Culture
Jay L. Caplan
FREN 07, Section 2: Contemporary Literature and Culture (Not Guest Accessible)
Leah D. Hewitt
FREN 08, Section 1: French Conversation
Laure A. Katsaros
FREN 08, Section 2: French Conversation
Paul V. Rockwell
FREN 27: Humanism and the Renaissance (Not Guest Accessible)
Paul V. Rockwell
FREN 39: Worldliness and Otherworldliness (Not Guest Accessible)
Rosalina M. De La Carrare
FREN 43: Agents Provocateurs: Scandalous French Artists, from Baudelaire to Celine
Laure A. Katsaros
FREN 51: French Cultural Studies
Leah D. Hewitt
FREN 61: European Film
Jay L. Caplan
FREN 63: Three Masterpieces of French Literature
Ronald C. Rosbottom
Geology
GEOL 11: Principles of Geology
John T. Cheney, Tekla A. Harms
GEOL 28: Hydrogeology
Anna M. Martini
German
GERM 02: Elementary German II
Sigrit I. Schutz
GERM 10: Advanced Composition and Conversation
Sigrit I. Schutz
GERM 14: Advanced Reading, Conversation, Style II
Sigrit I. Schutz
GERM 44: Popular Cinema
Christian Rogowski
GERM 51: Joyful Apocalypse: Vienna Around 1900
Christian Rogowski
History
HIST 16: Modern China
Jerry P. Dennerline
HIST 20: Middle East 1800-Present
Monica M. Ringer
HIST 22: Colonialism and Post-Colonial Africa
Sean Redding
HIST 28: People and Pollution, 1760-Present
Jill R. Payne
HIST 29: Reformation Era: 1500-1660
Margaret R. Hunt
HIST 46: Women's History 1865-Present
Martha Saxton
HIST 58: Religion & Soc: Great China
Jerry P. Dennerline
HIST 64: Intro to South African History
Sean Redding
HIST 69: Public History in the United States
Martha A. Sandweiss
HIST 74: Sex, Gender and the Family
Margaret R. Hunt
HIST 93: Modern Turkey & Modern Iran
Monica M. Ringer
Japanese
JAPA 01H: Intro to Japanese I
Wako Tawa
JAPA 02: Building Survival Skills
Wako Tawa, Kozue Miyama, Ikumi Kayama
JAPA 06: Authentic Japanese Materials
Wako Tawa
JAPA 10H: Conquering Kanji II
Wako Tawa
JAPA 12: Reading to Learn
Wako Tawa, Kozue Miyama
JAPA 14: Thematic Read and Write
Wako Tawa, Ikumi Kayama
JAPA 16: Great Books and Films
Wako Tawa, Fumiko U. Brown, Ikumi Kayama
Kenan Colloquium
Latin
LATI 42: Advanced Readings in Latin Literature II
Andreola Rossi
Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought
LJST 30: Law, Speech and the Politics of Freedom
Martha M. Umphrey
LJST 34: Law, Crime and Culture
Martha M. Umphrey
Mathematics
MATH 06: Calculus with Elementary Functions
Tanya L. Leise
MATH 11: Intro to the Calculus
Robert L. Benedetto
MATH 15: Discrete Mathematics
David A. Cox
MATH 17: Intro to Statistics
Katherine E. Tranbarger
MATH 18: Regression Modelling
Katherine E. Tranbarger
MATH 22: Linear Algebra with Applications
Tanya L. Leise
MATH 26: Groups, Rings and Fields
Robert L. Benedetto
MATH 27: Set Theory
Daniel J. Velleman
Mellon
MELL 12: Science, Values, Spirit Tradition
Arthur G. Zajonc
Music
MUSI 07: Music: Human, Cult Right
Jeffers L. Engelhardt
MUSI 23: Music & Culture III
Jenny L. Kallick
MUSI 49: Anthropology of Music
Jeffers L. Engelhardt
Neuroscience
NEUR 26: Intro to Neuroscience
Stephen A. George, Sarah M. Turgen
Philosophy
PHIL 01: Rights and Wrongs
Jyl Gentzler
PHIL 43: Plato's Republic
Jyl Gentzler
PHIL 65: Seminar: Consciousness
Joseph G. Moore
Physics
PHYS 09: Energy
Larry R. Hunter
PHYS 16: Mechanics & Wave Motion
Kannan Jagannathan, Nicholas C. Darnton, Daniel H. Guest
PHYS 17: Electromagnetism and Optics
Arthur G. Zajonc, Jonathan R. Friedman
PHYS 24: Maxwellian Synthesis
David S. Hall
PHYS 26: Intermediate Lab
Jonathan R. Friedman
PHYS 30: Stat Mech & Thernodynamics
Kannan Jagannathan
PHYS 48: Quantum Mechanics
Larry R. Hunter
Pick Colloquium
Political Science
POSC 04: The State
Javier Corrales
POSC 13: World Politics
Pavel Machala
POSC 22: Modern Indonesia
Doreen Lee
POSC 29: Women and Politics in Africa
Catharine A Newbury
POSC 34: American Political Thought
Thomas L. Dumm
POSC 51: Political Economy of Petro-States
Javier Corrales
POSC 52: Wireless Communities
Doreen Lee
POSC 56: Regulating Citizenship
Kristin Bumiller
POSC 80: Contemporary Political Theory
Thomas L. Dumm
POSC 81: Taking Marx Seriously
Pavel Machala
POSC 85: States of Poverty
Kristin Bumiller
Psychology
PSYC 12: Biology Psychology
John-Paul Baird
PSYC 20: Social Psychology
Rob C. Foels
PSYC 22: Statistics and Experiment Design
Courtney B. Stein
PSYC 32: Psychology of Adolescence
Elizabeth J. Aries
PSYC 34: Memory
Courtney B. Stein
PSYC 35: Sports Psychology
Catherine A. Sanderson
PSYC 40: Sex Role Socialization
Rose R. Olver
PSYC 46: Environmental Psychology
Amy P. Demorest
PSYC 54: Close Relationships
Catherine A. Sanderson
PSYC 63: Psychology and the Law
Rob C. Foels
Religion
RELI 20: Close Reading: The Classics of Judaism and Christianity
Robert Doran
RELI 24: Muhammad and the Qur'an
Ken Garden
RELI 37: The Body in Ancient Judaism
Susan Niditch
RELI 40: Prophecy, Wisdom, and Apocalyptic
Susan Niditch
RELI 45: History of Christianity--The Early Years
Robert Doran
RELI 54: Revival & Reform in Islam
Ken Garden
Russian
RUSS 02: First-Year Russian II
Bridget M. Dahill, Dale E. Peterson, Tatyana Babyonyshev
RUSS 20: People and Culture: Eurasia
Sergey Glebov
RUSS 28: Tolstoy
Jane A. Taubman
Sociology
SOCI 12: An Introduction to Sociology
Ronald A. Lembo
SOCI 16: Social Research
Jerome L. Himmelstein
SOCI 21: The Family
Elizabeth H. Souza
SOCI 32: Thinking Differently About Culture
Ronald A. Lembo
SOCI 43: Drugs and Society
Jerome L. Himmelstein
Spanish
SPAN 01: Elementary Spanish
Maria V. Maillo
SPAN 03, Section 3: Intermediate Spanish
Maria V. Maillo
SPAN 03, Section 4: Intermediate Spanish
Maria V. Maillo
SPAN 03, Section 5: Intermediate Spanish
Patricia Ferrer, Maria V. Maillo
SPAN 05: Language and Literature
Lucia M. Suarez, Patricia Ferrer, Maria V. Maillo
SPAN 05, Sections 3-6: Language and Literature
Patricia Ferrer
SPAN 06: Spanish Conversation
Hilda O. Benitez
SPAN 08: Hispanic Civilization and Culture
Maria V. Maillo
SPAN 36: Spanish Cinema
Sara H, Brenneis
SPAN 64: Don Quixote
Ilan Stavchansky
SPAN 84: Love
Ilan Stavchansky
SPAN 89: Postwar Spain and the Novel
Sara J. Brenneis
Theatre and Dance
THDA 27: Blacks in Film
Manuame Mukasa
Women's and Gender Studies
WAGS 24: Gender Labor
Alicia E. Ellis, Rose R. Olver
WAGS 32: Human Rights Activism
Amrita Basu, Martha Saxton



Organizational Sites

Committees
Lecture Committee
Amy Demorest, Paul Rockwell, Jessica Reyes
Psychology Student Faculty Committee
Buffy Aries
Community Based Learning
Library
Library Organization Site (Most Areas Guest Accessible)
Sherre Harrington
Safety and Environmental Health
Student Organizations
Peer Advocates for Sexual Respect
Gretchen Krull
Student Senate
Raj Borsellino
Summer Programs
Replenishing Democracy
Amrita Basu, Kristin Bumiller
Summer Genomics
Ethan Clotfelter, Julie Emerson, Jill Miller, David Ratner
Updated Feb. 29, 2008 at 2:30 p.m.