Courses
Electives in the Concentration
The courses listed here may be counted as electives toward the Archives Concentration only when you have completed an archival paper or project for the course. Not all of these courses are offered each year; check the current catalog for schedules. Five College courses that meet these criteria may be counted toward the concentration. You should discuss the all your courses for the concentration with your ARX adviser.
Consult the Smith College Course Catalog for current offerings and times.
First-Year Courses
- FYS 114 Turning Points (Marilyn Schuster, Susan Van Dyne)
- FYS 118 The Groves of Academe (Pat Skarda)
- FYS 149 An Even Playing Field: Women, Sport and Equity (Chris Shelton)
- FYS 179 Rebellious Women (Kelly Anderson)
- FYS 171 Women Writing Resistance (Jennifer Guglielmo)
- FYS 184 Educating Women (Rosetta Cohen, Susan Bourque)
- FYS 187 Writers and the Body: Health and Illness in African Diasporic Women's Literature (Andrea Stone)
- FYS 192 America in 1925 (Richard Millington)
- FYS 191 Sense and Essence in Nature (Lale Burk)
- FYS 197 On Display:Museums, Collections, and Exhibition (Barbara Kellum)
- ARH 101: The Lives of Objects (Frazer Ward) limited to first- and second-year students
- ENG 118 Riding the Wave: The Women's Movement 1968-79 (Julio Alves)
- ENG 119 What's for Dinner? (Sara Eddy)
Interterm
- ARX 100-1 Virginia Woolf archives in the Mortimer Rare Book Room (Cornelia Persall; only; 1 credit, S/U)
- ARX 100-2 From Subjects of Reform to Agents for Social Change: Working Women in the Industrial Program of the YWCA (Susan Van Dyne; only; 1 credit, S/U)
Afro-American Studies
- AAS 243 African American Autobiography (Riché Barnes)
- AAS 237 20th-Century Afro-American Literature (Daphne LaMothe)
American Studies
- AMS 201 Introduction to the Study of American Society and Culture
- AMS 220 Curating American Memory
- AMS 221 New England Material Culture
- AMS 302 New England Material Culture: Historic Deerfield
- AMS 341 America in 1925 (Richard Millington)
Art History
- ARH 101 Writing Art/Art Writing (Frazer Ward)
- ARH 292/ENG 293 Art and History of the Book (Martin Antonetti)
- ARH 293 The Artist's Book in the Twentieth Century (Martin Antonetti)
East Asian Studies
- EAS 200 Methods and Approaches to East Asian Studies: Korean History and Literature at Smith College (Jina Kim)
- EAS 350 Modern Girls and Marxist Boys: Consumerism, Colonialism, and Gender in Early 20th-century East Asia (Jina Kim)
English
- ENG 199 Methods of Literary Study (Richard Millington & Floyd Cheung)
- ENG 135 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction:Writing about Sports (Pamela Petro)
- ENG 299 Green Victoria (Cornelia Pearsall)
- ENG 299 Crafting Creative Nonfiction (Robert Hosmer)
- ENG 312 Converts, Criminals and Fugitives: Print Culture of the African Diaspora, 1760-1860 (Andrea Stone)
Exercise & Sports Studies
- ESS 100 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Exercise and Sport (Jane Stangl)
- ESS 550 Women in Sport (Chris Shelton)
French
- FRN 360 The Year 1830 (Mary Ellen Birkett)
- FRN 254 France Before the Revolution (Mary Ellen Birkett)
Government
- GOV 311 Politics of Urban Social Movements (Martha Ackelsberg)
History
- HST 209 Urban Spaces/Contested Places (Nadya Sbiati)
- HST 246 Memory and History (Darcy Buerkle)
- HST 252 Women and Gender in Modern Europe (Darcy Buerkle)
- HST 278 Women in U.S History since 1865 (Jennifer Guglielmo)
- HST 280 Women Writing Resistance (Jennifer Guglielmo)
- HST 263 Latin America and the U.S. (Ann Zulawski)
- HST 371 African American Women in Slavery and Freedom (Elizabeth Pryor)
- HST 383 Research in U.S. Women's History: the Sophia Smith Collection (Jennifer Guglielmo)
Jewish Studies
- JUD 110j Elementary Yiddish: Language and Culture
- JUD 260 Yiddish Literature and Culture
Landscape Studies
- LSS105 Introduction to Landscape Studies (Nina Antonetti)
- LSS 200 Socialized Landscapes (Nina Antonetti)
- LSS 300 Rethinking Landscape (Nina Antonetti)
Presidential Seminars
- Cultural Literacy (Kevin Quashie & Susan Van Dyne)
- PRS 317 Fearing Haiti (Ginetta Candelario)
Psychology
- PSY 374 Psychology of Political Activism
Sociology
- SOC 219 Medical Sociology (Eeva Sointu)
- SOC 203 Qualitative Methods (Eeva Sointu)
- SOC 224 Sociology of the Family (Vanessa Adel)
Program for the Study of Women and Gender
- SWG 150 Introduction to the Study of Women and Gender
- SWG 222 Gender, Law and Policy (Carrie Baker)
- SWG 223 Sexual Harassment and Social Change (Carrie Baker)
- SWG 260 Documenting Lesbian Lives (Kelly Anderson)
- SWG 312 Queer Resistances: Identities, Communities and Social Movements (Nancy Whittier)
Selection of Recommended Five College Courses
The following are Five College courses that are recommended for Archives Concentration credit. Consult current course catalogue to check availability.
Amherst College
English
- ENG 62 Writing and Reform
- ENG 75 The Unprinted Page: Working with Manuscripts
History
- HIST 84 Seminar in U.S. Cultural History: Class and Culture Wars at the Turn of the 20th Century
Hampshire College
UMass Public History Program
- The Politics of Urban Heritage
Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies
- HACU 235 "Odd" Women: Gender, Class and Victorian Culture
Social Science
- SS 121 Biography and History: Radicalism, Anti-Communism, and Internationalism in the 1950s
- SS 235 Queer Publics
Mount Holyoke College
Gender Studies
- GNDST 333f U.S. Gender History Research Seminar
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Art
- ART 297 Monuments and Memorials
History
- HST 397 Introduction to Public History
- HST 497 Mining the Museum: Adventures in the Theory and Practice of Museum Work
- HST 397 Public History workshop
- HST 397 Special Topics: History of Reproductive Rights in the U.S.
- HST 791 Seminar in U.S. Women's and Gender History
