American Civilization
The concentration in American civilization
offers a framework for those students who wish to take an interdisciplinary
approach to American culture. As it developed in the years following
World War II, the American studies movement here and abroad included
literary scholars who gave new weight to the historical context
of the texts they read, as well as historians eager to move beyond
the main lines of political and economic historiography into other
fields of endeavor and forms of expression.
To these early forays were added contributions
of art historians and musicologists, folklorists, and specialists
in material culture. This mix of disciplines, methods, and objects
has prompted earnest (and much debated) attempts to develop a
unified methodology, and, at best, has elicited from American
studies specialists an unusual degree of methodological self-consciousness.
We hope to instill our interdisciplinary concentrators with a
clear and responsible sense of the ways in which one may study
American culture.
Much of the work of American civilization takes
place in the departments of history and English. Students will
select two lower level courses from HIS 151, 152, 153, 212, 216,
or 240; and two upper level courses from HIS 311, 312, or 322.
Concentrators also will select four courses from ENG 210, 380,
384, 385, 386, 388, or certain sections of 235 (consult with Professor
Androne).
American civilization concentrators with an
emphasis in literature should take ENG 399 or 491; those with
a historical emphasis should select HIS 493. From the following
courses, concentrators will select at least one from philosophy
or religious studies, and one additional course: ART 107; ECO
105, 335, or 336; IDS 250; PHI 216; POS 101, 210, 231, 322, or
334; REL 261 or 262; or SPA 308.
Students who wish to emphasize historical museum
studies as part of the American civilization concentration should
take either HIS 311 or 312 and complete one supervised internship
at either the Landis Valley Farm Museum near Lancaster or the
William Penn Museum in Harrisburg.
Students interested in this concentration should
consult Professor Pankratz in the history
department.
Biochemstry
An interdisciplinary program in biochemistry
is available for students interested in chemistry and the molecular
phases of biology. It is particularly suitable for those who plan
careers in biochemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, cellular biology,
molecular biology, bacteriology, physiology and the medical professions.
The biochemistry program has been approved by the Committee of
Professional Training of the American Chemical Society.
Those concentrators who wish to receive ACS
accreditation must select CHE 323 or 324 in addition to the required
courses listed here: CHE 105, 106, 207, 208, 321, 322, 325 and
326; BIO 201, 203 and 343; MAT 107 and108; PHY 201 and 202; and
a 400 level course selected from CHE 411, 412 or 481, or BIO 481,
490, 495 or 498.
Students interested in graduate work in biochemistry
and related fields may wish to consider additional courses from
those listed above or from CHE 323 and 324 and BIO 304, 321, 323
and 332. Undergraduate research is highly recommended. Those students
interested in working in industry may wish to participate in an
industrial internship.
Students interested in this concentration should
consult Professor Texter of the chemistry
department.
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Child and Family Studies
The child and family studies interdisciplinary concentration
provides the student with comprehensive knowledge of child development
as well as dynamics of family living. The psychosocial perspective
of this program provides ideal academic preparation for students
interested in working with children either in the context of education
or human service.
Required courses in psychology include: General Psychology (PSY
100) (which may be used to satisfy general studies social science
requirement); Biological Foundations of Behavior (PSY 205); Human
Development (PSY 230) or Child Development (PSY 240); one course
from Motivation and Learning (PSY 255), Cognitive Psychology (PSY
340), or Animals in Their Environment (PSY 350); Child Psychopathology
and Behavior Disorders (PSY 391); Psychological Assessment (PSY
395); and, a 400-level psychology seminar. Required sociology
courses include SOC 105 (which may be used to satisfy the general
studies social science requirement); SOC 201; SOC 261; three courses
from ANT 263, SOC 302, SOC 312, SOC 313, or ANT 315; and SOC 490.
In addition, students must choose a methodology sequence (PSY
200 and 300 or SOC 207 and 403). PSY 300 or SOC 207 may be used
to satisfy the general studies quantitative reasoning requirement.
Students combining child and family studies with elementary,
early childhood, or special education should complete the following
courses in addition to the professional courses offered by the
education department: PSY 100 (fulfills general studies social
science requirement); one course from PSY 205, 255, 340, or 350;
either PSY 230 or 240; PSY 391(or PSY 390, if 391 equivalent is
taken in education); and any PSY 400 level seminar; SOC 105 (fulfills
general studies social science requirement); SOC 261; three courses
from ANT 263, SOC 302, SOC 312, SOC 313, or ANT 315; and SOC 490.
In addition students must select a methodology sequence (PSY 200
and 300 or SOC 207 and 403) which may be used to fulfill the general
studies quantitative reasoning requirement.
Students interested in this concentration should contact Professor
Meyers (sociology) or Professor
Snyder (psychology).
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Crime and Justice
The political science, psychology,
and sociology departments offer
a crime and justice interdisciplinary area of concentration, which
focuses on the legal, political, administrative, psychological,
and sociological analysis of criminal deviance and societal responses
to crime
The courses provide students with a broad-based understanding
of traditional and contemporary theoretical explanations of criminal
behavior; the current patterns related to the incidence and prevalence
of crime and victimization in contemporary society; the methodological
and statistical techniques used to measure and analyze criminal
deviance; the implications and ramifications of criminal deviance
for society in general and for its individual members; as well
as an understanding of the broader political, legal, and ethical
contexts in which the criminal justice system operates.
Students in the combined program complete the following courses:
Introduction to Sociology (SOC 105) and American Government (POS
101), both of which are required general studies courses in introductory
social science; Social Institutions and Problems (SOC 201); Statistics
(SOC 207), which satisfies the general studies quantitative reasoning
requirement; Crime and Deviance (SOC 251); Crime, Culture and
Conflict Resolution (ANT 253) or Juvenile Delinquency (SOC 302);
Research Methods (SOC 403); Internship (SOC 482) or approved elective
course; Senior Seminar (SOC 490); Comparative World Views (POS
206); Law and Society (POS 216); Criminal Law (POS 231); Senior
Seminar in Crime and Justice (POS 425); one course from: Public
Policy (POS 214), Public Administration (POS 302), or Metropolitan
Politics (POS 310); General Psychology (PSY 100); two courses
from Social Psychology (PSY 106), Theories of Development (PSY
230), Theories of Personality (PSY 250), Adult Psychopathology
and Behavior Disorders (PSY 390), or Child Psychopathology and
Behavior Disorders (PSY 391); and one course from Sex Roles (IDS
303), Psychology and the Law (IDS 305), or Men and Women: Debating
the Differences (IDS 323).
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Environmental Policy
Environmental Policy is offered as a combined concentration
at Albright. This means the student fulfills the environmental
policy requirements and chooses a second field of study under
Albright’s combined concentration program. Examples of majors
often combined with environmental policy include political science,
economics, psychology, and biology. Students in Environmental
Policy examine the politics of the environment and the development
and implementation of environmental policy. They address such
issues as how to place environmental issues on the political agenda
and how to evaluate environmental programs. They learn the agencies
and players in environmental issues. They also learn to evaluate
the underlying assumptions that contribute to environmental problems
and that justify certain types of solutions. This interdisciplinary
combined concentration is designed to prepare students for careers
in government, public advocacy, law, and other fields involving
environmental issues. Students from this field have gone to work
for regional environmental non-profits, national environmental
agencies, and private firms, as well as further study in graduate
school.
Environmental Policy co-concentrators must take
EVS 101 and 400 plus two Political Science courses of the following
three: POS 320, 321, and 399. In addition students should take
three courses from the following list: POS 214, 302, 320, 321,
325, 340 (International Environmental Politics) and 399; ANT 210
and 315; ECO 224 and 335; PHI 270; PSY 306 (Environmental Topics)
and 350. Recommended general studies courses include POS 101;
ECO 105; PSY 100 and ECO 207 or SOC 207.
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Environmental Science
The interdisciplinary nature of the Environmental Science Concentration
(see Interdisciplinary Studies) allows students to address a wide
range of contemporary questions through the study of biology,
chemistry, political science, economics, mathematics, and philosophy.
The concentration is designed for science students wishing to
pursue careers in environmental research/technology and resource
management.
Environmental Science concentrators must take EVS 101 and 400
and five biology courses. Biology courses must include BIO 201,
202, 203 and 311 plus one botany course from the following: BIO
304, 308, or 314. Students also must choose one course from a
group in the sciences including CHE 323, BIO 321, or BIO 494.
Additional requirements include CHE 105 and 106 and CHE 207 and
208; ECO 105 and 224; and MAT 210 (or approved statistics course).
Concentrators must also take one course in philosophy from PHI
203, 204, 245, 250, or 270; and three political science courses
from POS 101, 214, 320, or 321. Students should be aware that
some graduate programs in the field also require a semester of
calculus and some experience with computers.
Students interested in this concentration should contact Professors
Osgood or Campbell in the biology department.
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Latin American Studies
Latin America has always occupied a place of unique and singular
importance for the United States. For instance, the Panama Canal,
the economic embargo of Cuba, the NAFTA, preservation of the Amazon
rainforests, drug trafficking, etc., are just a few of the many
subjects that have consumed the imaginations, the interests, and
the energies of U.S. business people, politicians, students and
even tourists.
In fact, the regions of North, Central, and South America, including
the Caribbean, are becoming ever more intertwined culturally,
linguistically, economically and politically. For the student
interested in issues of bi-lingualism in secondary education,
international trade and finance, foreign affairs, diplomatic history,
modern foreign languages, etc., knowledge of Latin America and
the region’s relationship to the United States is becoming
ever more indispensable.
The Latin American Studies curriculum offers students the opportunity
to learn about Latin America from a broad-based interdisciplinary
perspective.
Students interested in pursuing a course of study at Albright
with the primary focus on Latin America have the option of selecting
Latin American Studies as an Interdisciplinary Area of Concentration.
Students wishing to complement a traditional disciplinary focus
with a Latin American contextualization can choose to combine
Latin American Studies with another concentration. Each of these
options is explained more fully under the Latin American Studies
course offerings.
Students interested in any of the Latin American Studies curricular
options should consult Professor
Kiddy, director of the Johnson Center for Latin
American Studies.
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Psychobiology
The bachelor of science in psychobiology is intended
for students with interest in organismic biology and natural science
approaches to psychology. The concentration is ideal for developing
an appreciation of the emerging fields of neuroscience, neuropsychology,
and health psychology. Individuals arrange courses to satisfy
their particular interests and prepare for advanced study in psychology;
psychobiology; veterinary medicine; biology; behavioral ecology;
the health professions (medicine, dentistry, physical therapy,
occupational therapy and optometry); or employment in varied areas
including pharmaceutical research or sales and allied health professions.
Required psychology courses are General Psychology
(PSY100) and Social Psychology (PSY 106) (one of these fulfills
the general studies social science requirement); Research Design
and Analysis I (PSY 200); Human Development (PSY 230) or Child
Development (PSY 240); Behavioral Neuroscience (PSY 305); Cognitive
Psychology (PSY 340) or Animals in Their Environment (PSY 350);
Adult Psychopathology and Behavior Disorders (PSY 390) or Child
Psychopathology and Behavior Disorders (PSY 391); and, a 400 level
seminar. Required biology courses are two selected from BIO 201,
202, or 203; three other biology courses from BIO 204 or 300 level
and higher; and, two more courses in biology or psychology. Either
Research Design and Analysis II (PSY 300) or MAT 210 must be taken
(either fulfills general studies quantitative reasoning requirement).
Professional interests in biology-related fields may require elective
courses in chemistry, mathematics, or physics.
Students interested in this program should contact
Professor Snyder (psychology) or
Professor Campbell (biology).
An environmental psychobiology track allows students
to focus on the biological, psychological and social basis of
the environmental crisis. Evolutionary theory is used as an integrating
framework. The relationships between humans and the environment
are explored from two perspectives: Western science and indigenous
peoples around the world (including Native Hawaiians and peoples
of the Inuit Arctic, the Australian Outback, and the American
Northwest and Southwest). Students develop skills in research
design and analysis and have the opportunity to participate in
ongoing field research on several endangered species including
the humpback whale. Students interested in this program should
contact Professor Green in the psychology department.
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Women’s Studies
The Women’s Studies Program offers a series
of courses on women, gender, and the family, providing a coherent
grasp of women’s achievements throughout history as well
as a sense of female psychology and socialization. In offering
students a systematic range of women’s studies perspectives
and fields, the program allows them the opportunity to relate
the interdisciplinary study of women’s experience to the
content of their major academic field of study.
More specifically, the program has the following
goals: To develop the leadership potential of women by exposing
them to women’s history and their achievements in various
fields; to offer male students the opportunity to study the history
of women’s contributions in the arts and sciences and to
understand fully the unique nature of women’s experiences;
to understand the ways in which women’s works in art, literature,
history, science, religion and philosophy have been inspired and
influenced by a tradition of women’s works in all creative
and academic fields; and to identify the particular circumstances
of working class and minority women and understand how the forces
of gender, race and class shape their lives and determine their
works.
Since its inception in 1989, the Women’s Studies
Program includes a growing number of courses on male gender roles
which reflect the growing body of scholarship centered on how
men are gendered in American society. Although the majority of
Women’s Studies courses emphasize gender in western societies,
one of the goals of this program is to provide a global context
and to offer students courses which will define the roles and
issues of women and men in non-western societies.
Students interested in Women’s Studies may
elect one of two options:
- The Women’s Studies Program. The Women’s
Studies Program which requires one core interdisciplinary course,
either Sex Roles: An Introduction to Women’s Studies (IDS
303), or Women and Men: Debating the Differences (IDS 323) and
FOUR other Women’s Studies courses. (Students may also
choose to take both Women’s Studies IDS courses and THREE
other Women’s Studies courses.)
- The Combined Concentration in Women’s Studies. The
Combined Concentration in Women’s Studies would allow students
to combine Women’s Studies with another area of study.
The requirements for a Combined Concentration in Women’s
Studies are: Sex Roles: An Introduction to Women’s Studies
(IDS 303); Women and Men: Debating the Differences (IDS 323);
Seminar in Women’s Studies (WMS 400) and FOUR other Women’s
Studies courses. It is important to understand that students
electing the Combined Concentration in Women’s Studies
could not earn General Studies credit for the courses, which
are part of their concentration.
The listings and topics vary from year to year, but among the
courses offered on a regular basis which students might choose
for either the Program or the Combined Concentration are: Sex
Roles: Introduction to Women’s Studies (IDS 303); Women and
Men: Debating the Differences (IDS 323); Science and Gender (SPI
244); The Feminine Face of Philosophy (PHI 228); Women and the
Bible (REL 244); Goddesses: East and West (REL 255); Women in
Latin America (LAS 340); U.S. Social History: The American Family
1600-1900 (HIS 311); Sex, Gender and Culture (ANT 263); Psychology
of Gender (PSY 406); The Family (SOC 261); Family Relations (SOC
312); Women Writing in America (ENG 235); Black Women Writers
(ENG 235); American Women Playwrights (ENG 235); Women’s
Texts (ENG 390); Woman and Literature: The Middle Ages and the
Renaissance (ENG 390).
For more information about Women’s Studies contact Professor
Mary Jane Androne in the English
department.
Interdisciplinary
Areas of Concentration