FAS Expands Core Offering

The Core Committee approved five courses to count for Core credit, one class to be cross-listed, and three departmental classes to be counted for the Core on April 17.

History 1533: "The Modern Police State," taught by Terry D. Martin `85, an associate professor of history, will become Historical Studies A-79.

Martin, who designed his course on the role of the secret police in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and Communist East Germany to be a Core, wanted to teach it in the history department this year as a "dry run."

This will be Martin's first time teaching within the Core.

"I like teaching broad courses, and I liked Core classes while I was a student here," he said.

Professor of Anthropology Maryellen Ruvolo will teach Science B-59: "Genes and Human Diversity," which she had previously taught as Anthropology 103.

The material in her course will not be altered to fit Core requirements-instead, she said, "I wanted to beef it up in a lot of ways."

She said she has added a wealth of updated material, on ethics and the genome project.

Ruvolo's course will cover the nuts and bolts of modern genetics and human population genetics. Another theme of the course is reconstructing the past to understand human evolution.

Sugata Bose, who will become a tenured professor next year, will teach Historical Studies A-16: "The Making of Modern South Asia."

Jennifer L. Hochschild, a professor of government, will teach Social Analysis 66: "Race, Ethnicity, and Politics in the United States."

University Professor William J. Wilson will teach Social Analysis 68: "Race, Class, and Poverty in Urban America."

Literature and Arts C-40: "The Chinese Literati," taught by Professor of Chinese History Peter K. Bol, will now be cross-listed in Historical Studies B.

English 10a: "Major British Writers I" and English 10b: "Major British Writers II" were approved as departmental alternatives for Literature and Arts A.

English 167p: "Postcolonial Narratives" was approved as a departmental alternative for Literature and Arts C.

Economics 1010b: "Macroeconomic Theory" was approved as a departmental alternative for Social Analysis.

-Staff writer Melissa R. Brewster can be reached at brewst@fas.harvard.edu.