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 Special
Programs
Albright allows students to individualize their curricula with
special program options. The programs consist of five or six courses.
These programs are designed to complement the student’s major
field of study. They provide an extra dimension to education and
enhance career opportunities. The completion of a program will be
indicated on the student’s transcript.
The Art History Program
The study of art history is essential to any basic understanding
of the visual environment in which we live. What may at first appear
to be "academic" actually leads to profound insights into
why our modern world looks the way it does. The Art History Program
attempts to impart this awareness through a variety of courses covering
the entire historical spectrum of human artistic endeavor, from
cave painting to the latest developments in the international art
scene. The Art History Program is coordinated wherever possible
with exhibitions in the Freedman Gallery and various programs in
studio art and filmmaking. An art history course includes a field
trip to one of the major museums in New York or Philadelphia. Thanks
to our proximity to these art centers, students of art history at
Albright College are exposed not only to the usual instructional
materials but are able to study from the masterworks themselves.
Specific course requirements are listed in the art department course
offerings.
For more information about the Art History Program, contact Professor
Fahy.
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The Cultural Anthropology Program
The Cultural Anthropology Program is designed for
students interested in studying cultural anthropology. Using a truly
global perspective, courses in this program investigate how various
groups and societies define a unique integrated social reality through
addressing various aspects of social living. All students in this
program should take Anthropology (ANT 204) and any four of the following:
Food and Culture (ANT 206), Crime, Culture and Conflict Resolution
(ANT 253), Sex, Gender and Culture (ANT 263), Gender, Environment
and Development (ANT 315), or Illness and Healing (ANT 326).
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The Crime And Justice Program
The purposes of the Crime and Justice Program include introducing
students to the dimensions and definitions of crime; having students
appreciate the implications criminal deviance has for individuals
who are crime victims as well as the changes in lifestyles and options
occasioned by both violent and nonviolent crime experienced by all
of society’s members; understanding the nature of social systems
and how criminal deviance is related to other social institutions;
understanding the sociological theories used to explain criminal
deviance; and understanding of the role of law in human societies
as both a regulating force and a preserver of individual rights
and freedoms from a variety of academic perspectives.
Students interested in completing this program will be able to
satisfy some of their general studies requirements through courses
in political science, sociology, history, and philosophy. All students
interested in this program should take Social Problems (SOC 201)
and Crime and Deviance (SOC 251), and should select two from the
following: Crime, Culture and Conflict (ANT 253); Public Policy
(POS 214); Law And Society (POS 216); Criminal Law (POS 231); Public
Administration (POS 302); Philosophy and the Law (PHI 230); or Juvenile
Delinquency (SOC 302). They also must choose one course from American
Social History (HIS 311); Adult Psychopathology and Behavior Disorders
(PSY 390) if the student has satisfied the prerequisite; or Child
Psychopathology and Behavior Disorders (PSY 391) with permission
of the instructor.
The director is Professor Meyers.
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The Ecological Anthropology Program
Environmental problems are intimately connected to people’s
beliefs and behaviors. That is why a technological or scientific
analysis is not enough. Rather, one has to examine the human condition
from an interdisciplinary perspective, taking social, historical,
economic, political, religious, and philosophical aspects into consideration.
Ecological anthropology is specially suited for this task because
it brings a holistic and global perspective to the study of human-environment
interactions.
Ecological anthropology focuses on how human groups have managed
to function and persist in diverse environments and how environmental
factors have influenced, directly or indirectly, the diversity of
cultural traits recorded in the ethnographic record (e.g., distinct
technologies, economies, and food ways). Thus, prehistoric and historic
human ecosystems, from hunting and gathering to states and empires,
are examined. Attention is also paid to the role of culturally mediated
beliefs on the transformation of the natural environment.
As a result of cooperation with the Sociology Department, students
interested in Ecological Anthropology can use the World Cultures
Data Center located in Teel Hall. The center has state-of-the art
computer facilities and several social sciences data sets that can
be used to formulate testable hypothesis about sociocultural patterns
and the environment. Several national surveys, international data
files, historical data files, and cross-cultural data files are
available.
This program is appropriate for individuals planning graduate
study or work in anthropology, geography, demography, biology, medicine,
law, natural resource management, environmental education, public
policy, environmental health, and agricultural economics and development.
The student will fulfill the ecological anthropology requirements
(5 courses) and the requirements for an area of concentration. Recommended
concentrations that may be combined with ecological anthropology
include biology, sociology, economics, political science, history,
psychology, and religious studies. In completing the Ecological
Anthropology Program, students will be able to fulfill their Interdisciplinary
course requirement and part of their general social sciences requirement.
They will also earn the Ecological Anthropology designation on their
transcripts. Required courses are: Anthropology (ANT 204); Food
and Culture (ANT 206); Culture and Environment (ANT 210); Gender,
Environment and Development (ANT 315); and Illness and Healing (ANT
326).
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The European Studies Program
The European Studies Program offers students the opportunity to
broaden their knowledge of the European continent through a multi-disciplinary
approach. In so doing, they can better combine their chosen concentration
with courses that would not otherwise integrate as easily into their
study track. European Studies is particularly well-suited for students
in the arts, philosophy, or who are focusing on the mastery of a
European language and wish to clarify the relationship of their
chosen discipline to other fields. It is also helpful to students
in history and political science who may have chosen in their concentration
to focus on non-European areas, yet wish to integrate knowledge
of Europe for academic, pre-professional or personal reasons. The
program requires the completion of five courses, including at least
one from each of the three following groups: (1) History, Philosophy,
Religious Studies, (2) Anthropology, Economics, Political Science,
Psychology, and (3) Art, Literature, Music.
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The Film/Video Program
The Film/Video Program provides in-depth study of film and video
through a selection of five courses. Specific course requirements
are listed in the art department course offerings. For more information
about this program, contact Professor
Adlestein.
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The Latin American Studies Program
The Latin American Studies Program is a simple five-course curriculum.
In either their first or second year of study, students must take
the Introduction to Latin American Studies course (LAS225). In the
third or fourth year of study, students must take the core seminar
on Latin America (LAS 400). The students must then take at any point
in their four years at Albright, one Latin American content course
in the humanities and one in the social sciences. The fifth course
is an elective course, which is basically any Latin American content
course listed across the curriculum. Students are permitted to "double-count"
these courses as fulfilling both the Latin American Studies Program
requirements and either general studies requirements or the particular
requirements of any degree program.
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The Marine Science Program
Students in good academic standing in any area of concentration
can participate in this one-semester program arranged through the
Marine Science Education Consortium. Four of the courses in this
program are offered in half-semester sessions at the Duke Marine
Laboratory in Beufort, N.C. and the Bermuda Station for Research.
The program is administered by the biology
department, and specific course requirements are listed in the
biology department offerings.
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The Music Program
The Music Program has been designed for students who want to continue
to improve their vocal or instrumental performance skills within
a structured academic program of music study as an addition to their
chosen area of concentration. These students will complete music
literature and theory courses as part of their program, and further
develop their musical abilities through participation in one of
the major performance ensembles (Concert Choir, Concert Band, String
Chamber Orchestra) and private instruction. Specific course requirements
are listed in the music department offerings.
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The Music Business Program
The Program in Music Business is designed primarily for non-musicians
desiring to work in music industries as an addition to their chosen
area of concentration. These students will complete courses in the
fundamentals of music literature and theory and music business,
and pursue internships in appropriate areas. Specific course requirements
are listed in the music department offerings.
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The Photography Program
The Photography Program provides in-depth study of photography
through a selection of five courses. Specific course requirements
are listed in the art department course offerings. For more information
about this program, contact Professor
Watcke.
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The Theatre Program
The Theatre Program is a group of five courses that can supplement
any concentration or combined concentration program. The program
offers readings in dramatic literature, practical and theoretical
introductions to theatre, and technical instruction. When enhanced
by the performance and production opportunities afforded by the
College’s Domino Players, the Theatre Program is at once an
academic program, a creative outlet, preparation for post-graduate
work in community or professional theatre, and a basis for further
work in theatre on the graduate level. The director of the program
is Professor Morrow. Specific
course requirements are listed in the English
department offerings.
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The Women’s Studies Program
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.
In particular, the program has the following goals: To develop
the leadership potential of women students by exposing them to women’s
history and achievements in various fields; to offer male students
the opportunity to study the history of women’s achievements
and 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 work 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.
In completing the Women’s Studies Program, students will
be able to fulfill some of their general
studies requirements in literature, psychology, political science,
history, and religious studies as well as earning the Women’s
Studies designation on their
transcripts.
Students electing this program will take one core Women’s
Studies interdisciplinary course, either Women and Men: Debating
the Differences (IDS 323) or Sex Roles (IDS 303), 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.) For more information about the Women’s Studies
Program contact Professor Mary Jane Androne in the English
department.
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