• Course Description
• Laboratory
• Syllabus
  • Readings
  • Evaluation
  • Schedule

This is a challenging course. It is so because of various reasons. It is challenging because of the intellectual breadth of the readings assigned, from the books, to the readings placed "On Reserve." It is equally challenging because it presumes that such learning will occur in various venues, from the classroom, to exchanges in an "on-line" forum, and the relationship between these and lectures and performances outside the classroom. I am a firm believer in this, and I will presume that students who enroll this class want to engage in this kind of learning. Attendance is mandatory to all lectures, events and performances scheduled in this syllabus.

Fifty percent of the final grade of the course will originate in three papers on the books by Weatheford (10%), Northrop (15%), and Osterhammel (25%). The remaining 50% of the grade will originate in two "on-line" portfolios, products of student posting of commentary on the Labs scheduled, and on the range of cocurricular events written into the course. Each of the portfolios will include assays that will address, broadly speaking, the following two themes: for the Lab, "History and Science", and for the co-curricular events, "Multidisciplinarity & cross-cultural" Study of Colonialism in the Americas." All this will be fully explained in class.