GEC Coordinator: Fall 2024: Zhenzhen Lu; Winter/ST 2025: Nathan Faries

This concentration focuses on Asian literatures and visual cultures.

Complete any four credits designated with the (C033) GEC attribute, with no more than two credits from any one subject designation. One non-Bates credit may be applied toward the concentration with prior approval by the concentration coordinator. Not open to students who have declared a major in East Asian studies, a minor in Asian studies, or who have declared the following concentrations: 046 (Japanese Society and Literature), 047 (Chinese Society and Culture), and 052 (Asian Narrative Traditions).

Current offerings include:

• ASIA 130 Japanese Horror Film: Silent Era to Present
• ASIA 131 Chinese Popular Culture
• ASIA 207 The Self and the World in Premodern Chinese Literature
• ASIA 215 Film, Literature, and the Cultures of Postwar Japan
• ASIA 223 Communism, Capitalism, and Cannibalism: New and Emerging Voices in Chinese Literature
• ASIA 224 Japanese Literature & Society
• ASIA 234 Chinese Arts and Visual Culture
• ASIA 235 Supernatural in East Asia
• ASIA 236 Japanese Arts and Visual Culture
• ASIA 243 Buddhist Arts and Visual Cultures
• ASIA 245 Architectural Monuments of Southeast Asia
• ASIA 247 The Art of Zen Buddhism
• ASIA 263 Producing Gender in Japanese History: Theater, Literature, Religion, Thought, and Policing
• ASIA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• ASIA 308 Buddhist Texts in Translation
• ASIA S16 Understanding Vietnam: Its History and Culture
• AVC 234 Chinese Arts and Visual Culture
• AVC 236 Japanese Arts and Visual Culture
• AVC 243 Buddhist Arts and Visual Cultures
• AVC 245 Architectural Monuments of Southeast Asia
• AVC 247 The Art of Zen Buddhism
• AVC S16 Understanding Vietnam: Its History and Culture
• CHI 131 Chinese Popular Culture
• CHI 207 The Self and the World in Premodern Chinese Literature
• CHI 223 Communism, Capitalism, and Cannibalism: New and Emerging Voices in Chinese Literature
• CHI 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• CHI 415 Readings in Classical Chinese
• CHI 450 Special Topics in Advanced Chinese
• CHI S20 Philosophy of the Body
• FYS 564 Pop-Culture in Premodern Japan: Finding the Dog-King and his World of Performing Arts
• GSS 263 Producing Gender in Japanese History: Theater, Literature, Religion
• JPN 130 Japanese Horror Film: Silent Era to Present
• JPN 215 Film, Literature, and the Cultures of Postwar Japan
• JPN 224 Japanese Literature & Society
• JPN 263 Producing Gender in Japanese History: Theater, Literature, Religion
• REL 308 Buddhist Texts in Translation
• THEA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling

GEC Coordinator: Wesley Chaney

This concentration offers students an opportunity to consider the effects of imperialism, globalization, and rapid development on the societies of Asia.

Complete any four credits designated with the (C053) GEC attribute. Courses taken while studying in an off-campus program in Asia may substitute for up to two credits with prior approval of the coordinator. This concentration is not available to students majoring or minoring in Chinese, Japanese, or Asian studies.

Current offerings include:

• ASIA 110 East Asia between Tradition and Modernity
• ASIA 130 Japanese Horror Film: Silent Era to Present
• ASIA 131 Chinese Popular Culture
• ASIA 215 Film, Literature, and the Cultures of Postwar Japan
• ASIA 224 Japanese Literature & Society
• ASIA 225 Art and Politics in China
• ASIA 260 Cultural Psychology
• ASIA 274 China in Revolution
• ASIA 283 International Politics of East Asia
• ASIA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• CHI 131 Chinese Popular Culture
• CHI 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• HIST 110 East Asia between Tradition and Modernity
• HIST 274 China in Revolution
• JPN 130 Japanese Horror Film: Silent Era to Present
• JPN 215 Film, Literature, and the Cultures of Postwar Japan
• JPN 224 Japanese Literature & Society
• PLTC 283 International Politics of East Asia
• PSYC 260 Cultural Psychology
• THEA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling

GEC Coordinator: Trian Nguyen

This concentration explores stories and strategies of storytelling in Asian traditions past and present in literature and in film and other visual arts.

Complete any four credits designated with the (C052) GEC attribute. Two non-Bates credits may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval. Not open to students who have declared a major or minor in Chinese or Japanese, a major in East Asian studies, or a minor in Asian studies, or to students who have declared the following concentration(s): C033 (Asian Art and Literature), C046 (Japanese Society and Culture), C047 (Chinese Society and Culture), or C050 (Women and Gender in Asia).

Current offerings include:

• ASIA 130 Japanese Horror Film: Silent Era to Present
• ASIA 207 Traditional Chinese Literature in Translation
• ASIA 223 Communism, Capitalism, and Cannibalism: New and Emerging Voices in Chinese Literature
• ASIA 224 Japanese Literature & Society
• ASIA 235 Supernatural in East Asia
• ASIA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• AVC 246 Visual Narratives: Storytelling in East Asian Art
• CHI 207 Traditional Chinese Literature in Translation
• CHI 223 Communism, Capitalism, and Cannibalism: New and Emerging Voices in Chinese Literature
• CHI 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• JPN 130 Japanese Horror Film: Silent Era to Present
• JPN 224 Japanese Literature & Society
• THEA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling

GEC Coordinator: Alison Melnick Dyer

This concentration brings together courses on Buddhism from a variety of perspectives. Complete any four credits designated with the (C002) GEC attribute. 

Current offerings include:

• ASIA 208 Religions in China
• ASIA 243 Buddhist Arts and Visual Cultures
• ASIA 245 Architectural Monuments of Southeast Asia
• ASIA 247 The Art of Zen Buddhism
• ASIA 250 Buddhist Tradition
• ASIA 251 Religions of Tibet
• ASIA 289 Stupa Towers: Forms, Symbols, and Narratives in Buddhist Architecture
• ASIA 308 Buddhist Texts in Translation
• ASIA 348 Epics of Asia: Myth and Religion
• ASIA S26 The Buddhist Himalaya: Religion in Ladakh
• AVC 243 Buddhist Arts and Visual Cultures
• AVC 245 Architectural Monuments of Southeast Asia
• AVC 247 The Art of Zen Buddhism
• AVC 289 Stupa Towers: Forms, Symbols, and Narratives in Buddhist Architecture
• GSS 311 Buddhism and Gender
• PHIL 310 Buddhist Philosophy
• REL 208 Religions in China
• REL 250 Buddhist Tradition
• REL 251 Religions of Tibet
• REL 308 Buddhist Texts in Translation
• REL 311 Buddhism and Gender
• REL 348 Epics of Asia: Myth and Religion
• REL S26 The Buddhist Himalaya: Religion in Ladakh

GEC Coordinator: Li-Ping Miao

A concentration in the study of Chinese language.

Complete any four credits designated with the (C044) GEC attribute. Students entering Bates with proficiency in the language should begin the sequence of four credits of the concentration at the level at which they are initially placed. No more than two language courses taken in an approved study-abroad program in China may be counted toward the concentration with prior approval. Not open to students who declare a major or minor in Chinese or a major in East Asian Studies with a concentration on Chinese language or the following concentration(s): C047 (Chinese Society and Culture).

Current offerings include:

• CHI101 Beginning Chinese I
• CHI102 Beginning Chinese II
• CHI201 Intermediate Chinese I
• CHI202 Intermediate Chinese II
• CHI301 Upper-Level Modern Chinese I
• CHI302 Upper-Level Modern Chinese II
• CHI401 Advanced Chinese
• CHI415 Readings in Classical Chinese
• CHI450 Special Topics in Advanced Chinese

GEC Coordinator: Nathan Faries

The concentration offers courses from a range of disciplines including history, literature, religious studies, economics, and language, which focus on China.

Complete four courses designated with the (C047) GEC attribute, with no more than two of the following: CHI 101, 102, 201, 202, 301, 302, 401, 450. Up to two non-Bates study abroad credits may be applied toward the concentration if they are determined to be equivalent to a Bates course in the list below, or if they are judged to be appropriate by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval. Not open to students who declare a major or minor in Chinese or East Asian Studies with a concentration on Chinese language or the following concentration(s): C044 (Chinese Language).

Current offerings include:

• ASIA 131 Chinese Popular Culture
• ASIA 171 Imperial China
• ASIA 207 The Self and the World in Premodern Chinese Literature
• ASIA 208 Religions in China
• ASIA 223 Communism, Capitalism, and Cannibalism: New and Emerging Voices in Chinese Literature
• ASIA 234 Chinese Arts and Visual Culture
• ASIA 235 Supernatural in East Asia
• ASIA 251 Religions of Tibet
• ASIA 274 China in Revolution
• ASIA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• ASIA 302 Environmental History of China
• ASIA S20 Philosophy of the Body
• AVC 234 Chinese Arts and Visual Culture
• CHI 101 Beginning Chinese I
• CHI 102 Beginning Chinese II
• CHI 131 Chinese Popular Culture
• CHI 201 Intermediate Chinese I
• CHI 202 Intermediate Chinese II
• CHI 207 The Self and the World in Premodern Chinese Literature
• CHI 223 Communism, Capitalism, and Cannibalism: New and Emerging Voices in Chinese Literature
• CHI 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• CHI 301 Upper-Level Modern Chinese I
• CHI 302 Upper-Level Modern Chinese II
• CHI 401 Advanced Chinese
• CHI 415 Readings in Classical Chinese
• CHI 450 Special Topics in Advanced Chinese
• CHI S20 Philosophy of the Body
• ENVR 311 Environmental History of China
• HIST 171 Imperial China
• HIST 274 China in Revolution
• HIST 301S Environmental History of China
• REL 208 Religions in China
• REL 251 Religions of Tibet
• THEA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling

GEC Coordinator: Sylvia Federico

This concentration explores war and militarism, conflict and panic in the face of real and perceived threats, and the various social, cultural, political, and scientific responses to them.

Complete any four credits designated with the (C064) GEC attribute. One non-Bates course may be applied toward this concentration if judged appropriate upon application to the coordinator.

Current offerings include:

• AMST 141 Rise of the American Empire
• AMST 244 Native American History
• ASIA 274 China in Revolution
• BIO 315 Microbiology/Lab
• BIO 351 Immunology
• CMS 102 Medieval Worlds
• CMS 121D The Many Lives of King Arthur
• ENG 121D The Many Lives of King Arthur
• ENVR 227 Catastrophes and Hope
• EUS 220 Remembering War: The Great War, Memory, and Remembrance in Europe
• EUS S26 The Split Screen: Reconstructing National Identities in West and East German Cinema
• FRE 379 Documenting the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda
• GER 220 Remembering War: The Great War, Memory, and Remembrance in Europe
• GER 262 The Split Screen: Reconstructing National Identities in West and East German Cinema
• GER S26 The Split Screen: Reconstructing National Identities in West and East German Cinema
• HISP 347 Building Memory: Narratives of the Spanish Civil War
• HIST 102 Medieval Worlds
• HIST 141 Rise of the American Empire
• HIST 244 Native American History
• HIST 274 China in Revolution
• PLTC 344 Ethnicity and Conflict
• REL 133 Religion, Violence, and Nonviolence
• SOC 350 Race, Crime, and Punishment in America
• SOC 351 Crime and Justice over the Life Course

GEC Coordinator: Jennifer Hamilton

This concentration focuses on culture and meaning, the interpretive subfield of anthropology.

Complete four courses designated with the (C026) GEC attribute; one of the four courses must be either ANTH 101 or AMST 200. 

One non-Bates credit may be substituted for courses listed below with prior approval of the coordinator. This concentration is not open to students who have declared an Anthropology major or minor.

Current offerings include:

• AFR 100 Introduction to Africana
• AFR 162 White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History
• AFR 227 #BlackLivesMatter
• AFR 239 Anti-Blackness and the Environment
• AMST 125 Critical Perspectives on Sport and Society
• AMST 200 Introduction to American Studies
• AMST 227 #BlackLivesMatter
• ANTH 101 Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 125 Critical Perspectives on Sport and Society
• ANTH 210 Ethnographic Methods
• ANTH 212 How Music Performs Culture: Introduction to Ethnomusicology
• ANTH 333 Culture and Interpretation
• ASIA 250 Buddhist Tradition
• ASIA 252 Musics of Asia and the Pacific
• EDUC 263 Comparative and International Education
• ENVR 239 Anti-Blackness and the Environment
• MUS 212 How Music Performs Culture: Introduction to Ethnomusicology
• MUS 252 Musics of Asia and the Pacific
• MUS S25 Performing Musical Art of Indonesia
• REL 250 Buddhist Tradition
• RFSS 162 White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History

GEC Coordinator: Joseph Hall

This concentration comprises courses that address the cultural and historic developments during the period from about 1450 and 1800.

Complete four credits designated with the (C066) GEC attribute. Credits must be from at least two different departments/programs. 

Two non-Bates credits may be applied toward the concentration if they are determined to be equivalent to a Bates course in the list below, or if they are judged to be appropriate by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval.

Current offerings include:

• AFR 301E Black Struggles against American Slavery
• AFR 309 Visions of Freedom Before 1619 in the Iberian Black Atlantic
• ASIA 251 Religions of Tibet
• ENG 213 Shakespeare
• ENG 214 Shakespeare and Early Modern Racialization
• ENG 222 Topics in Seventeenth-Century Literature
• ENG 239 Shakespeare’s Queens
• ENG 282 Paradise Lost: Contexts and Afterlives
• ENG 283 Early Modern Sex and Sexuality
• ENG 395L Utopia/Dystopia Fiction
• ENG 395W Advanced Early Modern Studies
• ENG S43 Shakespeare in the Theater in London
• FRE 250 Power and Resistance through Writing
• FRE 372 Woman Writer/Women Written
• FRE 373 Close-up on the Enlightenment: Film, Text, Context
• GSS 283 Early Modern Sex and Sexuality
• HISP 232 Visions of Freedom Before 1619 in the Iberian Black Atlantic
• HIST 140 Origins of New Nations, 1500-1820
• HIST 181 Creating Latin America: A History
• HIST 270 From Madrid to Manila: Globalization and the Spanish Empire
• HIST 301E Black Struggles against American Slavery
• HIST 301Y The Spanish Inquisition
• LALS 181 Creating Latin America: A History
• LALS 270 From Madrid to Manila: Globalization and the Spanish Empire
• LALS 303 The Spanish Inquisition
• LALS 309 Visions of Freedom Before 1619 in the Iberian Black Atlantic
• MUS 210 Classical Music in Western Culture
• PHIL 272 Philosophy in the Modern Era (1600-1800)
• REL 216 American Religious History, 1550-1840
• REL 251 Religions of Tibet
• REL 314 The Spanish Inquisition

GEC Coordinator: Charles Nero

An interdisciplinary concentration that focuses on the history, theory, production, and criticism of cinema and other moving-image media. Courses examine cinema’s artistic and cultural contributions, moving-image media as practices of social significance, and techniques of directing, acting, and editing sound and image.

Complete four credits designated with the (C019) GEC attribute, with no more than two from the same department/program. Students are encouraged to take one credit with a film production component. Two non-Bates credits may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval.

Current offerings include:

• AFR 162 White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History
• AFR 202 Coming of Age While Black
• AFR 242 Passing/Trespassing
• AFR 395T African American Literary Criticism
• ASIA 130 Japanese Horror Film: Silent Era to Present
• ASIA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• AVC 209 Introduction to Video Production
• AVC 211 Animation I: Hand-Drawn Animation
• CHI 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• ENG 105 9/11 in Literature and Film
• ENG 395O Cinema’s Inner World
• ENG 395S Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: 1970s U.S. Culture
• ENG 395T African American Literary Criticism
• EUS 247 Contemporary Russia on Film
• EUS S26 The Split Screen: Reconstructing National Identities in West and East German Cinema
• EUS S33 Central European Theater and Film
• FRE 151 Gender, Race, and Social Class in French and Francophone Film
• FRE 235 Advanced French Language and Introduction to Film Analysis
• FRE 340 Social Pulse, Documentary Impulse
• FRE 373 Close-up on the Enlightenment: Film, Text, Context
• FRE 379 Documenting the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda
• FYS 434 Remaking Movies: Art, History, and Politics
• GER 262 The Split Screen: Reconstructing National Identities in West and East German Cinema
• GER S26 The Split Screen: Reconstructing National Identities in West and East German Cinema
• GSS 151 Gender, Race, and Social Class in French and Francophone Film
• HISP 228 Screen and Media
• HISP S31 The Spain of Pedro Almodóvar
• JPN 130 Japanese Horror Film: Silent Era to Present
• MUS 340 Music and Cinema
• PLTC S33 Central European Theater and Film
• REL 100 Religion and Film
• RFSS 120 Introduction to Screen Studies
• RFSS 162 White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History
• RFSS 202 Coming of Age While Black
• RFSS 220 Constructions of Italian American Men and Masculinities
• RFSS 240 Film Theory
• RFSS 242 Passing/Trespassing
• RFSS 257 Rhetorical Criticism
• RFSS 260 Lesbian and Gay Images in Film
• RFSS 276 Television Criticism
• RFSS 391E The Interracial Buddy Film
• RFSS 391F Bollywood
• RFSS 391J Film Festival Studies
• RFSS S24 American Cinema in the 1990s: Historical Context for Contemporary Issues
• RUSS 247 Contemporary Russia on Film
• THEA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• THEA S33 Central European Theater and Film

GEC Coordinator: Mark Tizzoni

The goal of this concentration is to encourage students to think in an interdisciplinary and intersectional manner about the construction of racial,ethnic, and other identities (including gender and class) in social, cultural, political, and historical contexts.

Complete any four credits designated with the (C037) GEC attribute. One non-Bates credit may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval.

Current offerings include:

• AFR 100 Introduction to Africana
• AFR 114 Introduction to African American Literature I: 1600-1910
• AFR 115 Introduction to African American Literature II: 1910-Present
• AFR 119 Cultural Politics
• AFR 162 White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History
• AFR 201 Race, Ethnicity, and Feminist Thought
• AFR 202 Coming of Age While Black
• AFR 221 Sociology of Immigration
• AFR 227 #BlackLivesMatter
• AFR 236 Race Matters: Tobacco in North America
• AFR 239 Anti-Blackness and the Environment
• AFR 242 Passing/Trespassing
• AFR 249 African American Popular Music
• AFR 253 The African American Novel
• AFR 255 Black Poetry
• AFR 259 Contemporary African American Literature
• AFR 267 Blood, Genes, and American Culture
• AFR 301E Black Struggles against American Slavery
• AFR 306 Queer Africana: History, Theories, and Representations
• AFR 308 Black Resistance from the Civil War to Civil Rights
• AFR 309 Visions of Freedom Before 1619 in the Iberian Black Atlantic
• AFR 320 Immigrant Racialization
• AFR 395T African American Literary Criticism
• AFR S15 Queer and Trans Reproductive Justice
• AMST 119 Cultural Politics
• AMST 141 Rise of the American Empire
• AMST 227 #BlackLivesMatter
• AMST 236 Race Matters: Tobacco in North America
• AMST 240I French in Maine
• AMST 244 Native American History
• AMST 247 Contemporary Arab American Literature
• AMST 267 Blood, Genes, and American Culture
• AMST 281 Arab American Poetry
• AMST 288 Visualizing Race
• AMST 308 Black Resistance from the Civil War to Civil Rights
• AMST 350 Theorizing the Klan: The White Power Movement and the making of “America”
• AMST 395J Frontier and Border in U.S. Literature
• ANTH 101 Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 167 Culture in the Americas
• ASIA 261 Cultural History of Japan: From Jōmon Pottery to Manga
• AVC 288 Visualizing Race
• CMS 107 Race Reception and the Modern Creation of the Ancient and Medieval Past
• CMS 112 Ancient Greek History
• CMS 216 Conflict and Community in Medieval Spain
• CMS 292 The Dawn of the Middle Ages
• CMS 293 Trans-Saharan Africa in the Middle Ages
• EDUC 242 Race and Justice in American Education
• ENG 105 9/11 in Literature and Film
• ENG 114 Introduction to African American Literature I: 1600-1910
• ENG 115 Introduction to African American Literature II: 1910-Present
• ENG 132 Narratives of Assimilation and Alienation: “Immigrant Fiction” and the Making of Modern American Lit
• ENG 143 Nineteenth-Century American Literature
• ENG 214 Shakespeare and Early Modern Racialization
• ENG 247 Contemporary Arab American Literature
• ENG 253 The African American Novel
• ENG 255 Black Poetry
• ENG 259 Contemporary African American Literature
• ENG 281 Arab American Poetry
• ENG 283 Early Modern Sex and Sexuality
• ENG 306 Queer Africana: History, Theories, and Representations
• ENG 395J Frontier and Border in U.S. Literature
• ENG 395T African American Literary Criticism
• ENVR 239 Anti-Blackness and the Environment
• EUS 215 Jewish Lives in Eastern Europe
• EUS 217 Fortress Europe: Race, Migration, and Difference in European History
• EUS 230 Cold War Identities: Competing Images of Self and Society in the US and the Soviet Union
• FRE 151 Gender, Race, and Social Class in French and Francophone Film
• FRE 208 Introduction to the Francophone World
• FRE 240E Le Maghreb: Vue de l’Enfance
• FRE 240F Borders and Disorders
• FRE 240I French in Maine
• FRE 377 Colon/Colonisé: Récits de l’Expérience Nord-Africaine
• FRE 379 Documenting the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda
• FYS 318 Through the Eyes of Children
• FYS 571 Gender without Borders: a Transnational Odyssey
• GER 105 Germany and the “New Europe:” The Cultures of Central and East-Central Europe after 1989
• GSS 151 Gender, Race, and Social Class in French and Francophone Film
• GSS 155 Gender, Power, and Politics
• GSS 201 Race, Ethnicity, and Feminist Thought
• GSS 238 Queer Power: Political Sociology of U.S. Sexuality Movements
• GSS 267 Blood, Genes, and American Culture
• GSS 270 Sociology of Gender
• GSS 282 Constitutional Law II: Rights and Identities
• GSS 283 Early Modern Sex and Sexuality
• GSS 301Z Intersectionality and Feminist Social Movements
• GSS 306 Queer Africana: History, Theories, and Representations
• GSS 310 Gender, Race, and Judaism
• GSS 312 Transgender Narratives
• GSS 340 Poverty, Policy, and Social Inclusion
• GSS 377 Colon/Colonisé: Récits de l’Expérience Nord-Africaine
• GSS S15 Queer and Trans Reproductive Justice
• HIST 107 Race Reception and the Modern Creation of the Ancient and Medieval Past
• HIST 112 Ancient Greek History
• HIST 141 Rise of the American Empire
• HIST 216 Conflict and Community in Medieval Spain
• HIST 217 Fortress Europe: Race, Migration, and Difference in European History
• HIST 236 Race Matters: Tobacco in North America
• HIST 244 Native American History
• HIST 267 Blood, Genes, and American Culture
• HIST 268 US Latinx History
• HIST 291 Colonization and Resistance in Late Antique North Africa
• HIST 292 The Dawn of the Middle Ages
• HIST 293 Trans-Saharan Africa in the Middle Ages
• HIST 301E Black Struggles against American Slavery
• HIST 301G Black Resistance from the Civil War to Civil Rights
• HIST 301Z Intersectionality and Feminist Social Movements
• HIST S28 Wabanaki History in Maine
• JPN 261 Cultural History of Japan: From Jōmon Pottery to Manga
• LALS 167 Culture in the Americas
• LALS 220 Central America and The Caribbean
• LALS 268 US Latinx History
• LALS 309 Visions of Freedom Before 1619 in the Iberian Black Atlantic
• MUS 249 African American Popular Music
• PLTC 121 The Moral Basis of Politics
• PLTC 155 Gender, Power, and Politics
• PLTC 203 Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States
• PLTC 238 Queer Power: Political Sociology of U.S. Sexuality Movements
• PLTC 256 Feminist Political Thought
• PLTC 260 Nationalism and Nation Building
• PLTC 282 Constitutional Law II: Rights and Identities
• PLTC 286 Inequality and Reform in U.S. Criminal Justice
• PLTC 301Z Intersectionality and Feminist Social Movements
• PLTC 344 Ethnicity and Conflict
• PLTC 354 Race and the Right to Vote in the U.S.
• REL 140 Religion, Race, & Colonialism
• REL 223 Conflict and Community in Medieval Spain
• REL 292 The Dawn of the Middle Ages
• REL 306B Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays
• REL 310 Gender, Race, and Judaism
• REL 365B W. E. B. Du Bois and American Culture
• RFSS 162 White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History
• RFSS 202 Coming of Age While Black
• RFSS 242 Passing/Trespassing
• RUSS 230 Cold War Identities: Competing Images of Self and Society in the US and the Soviet Union
• SOC 221 Sociology of Immigration
• SOC 238 Queer Power: Political Sociology of U.S. Sexuality Movements
• SOC 242 Race and Justice in American Education
• SOC 250 Privilege, Power, and Inequality
• SOC 270 Sociology of Gender
• SOC 320 Immigrant Racialization
• SOC 321 Black Immigrant Narratives
• SOC 340 Poverty, Policy, and Social Inclusion
• SOC 350 Race, Crime, and Punishment in America
• THEA 238 Race and Ethnicity in Modern and Contemporary American Drama

GEC Coordinator: Keiko Konoeda

A concentration in the study of modern Japanese language.

Complete any four credits designated with the (C043) GEC attribute. Students entering Bates with proficiency in the language should begin the sequence of four credits for the concentration at the level at which they are initially placed. No more than two language credits taken in an approved off-campus study program in Japan may be counted toward the concentration. Two non-Bates credits may be applied toward this concentration if judged appropriate upon application to the coordinator. Not open to students who declare an Asian Studies major (Japanese track), a major or minor in Japanese, or the concentration C046 (Japanese Society and Culture).

Current offerings include:

• JPN101 Beginning Japanese I
• JPN102 Beginning Japanese II
• JPN201 Intermediate Japanese I
• JPN202 Intermediate Japanese II
• JPN305 Upper Intermediate Japanese
• JPN350 Topics in Advanced Japanese

Japanese Society and Culture (C046)

GEC Coordinator: Justine Wiesinger

This concentration offers courses in a range of disciplines including history, literature, religious studies, economics, and language, all of which focus on Japan.

Complete four credits designated with the (C046) GEC attribute, including no more than two of the following: JPN 101, 102, 201, 202, 305, 350. Up to two credits on an approved study-abroad program in Japan may be counted toward the concentration with prior approval. This concentration is not open to students who declare a major or minor in Japanese, a major in Asian studies, a minor in Asian studies, or the concentration C043 (Japanese Language).

Current offerings include:

• ASIA 109 Anime: Shojo and Society in Japanese Animation
• ASIA 130 Japanese Horror Film: Silent Era to Present
• ASIA 215 Film, Literature, and the Cultures of Postwar Japan
• ASIA 224 Japanese Literature & Society
• ASIA 235 Supernatural in East Asia
• ASIA 236 Japanese Arts and Visual Culture
• ASIA 261 Cultural History of Japan: From Jōmon Pottery to Manga
• ASIA 263 Producing Gender in Japanese History: Theater, Literature, Religion, Thought, and Policing
• AVC 236 Japanese Arts and Visual Culture
• GSS 109 Anime: Shojo and Society in Japanese Animation
• GSS 263 Producing Gender in Japanese History: Theater, Literature, Religion
• JPN 101 Beginning Japanese I
• JPN 102 Beginning Japanese II
• JPN 109 Anime: Shojo and Society in Japanese Animation
• JPN 130 Japanese Horror Film: Silent Era to Present
• JPN 201 Intermediate Japanese I
• JPN 202 Intermediate Japanese II
• JPN 215 Film, Literature, and the Cultures of Postwar Japan
• JPN 224 Japanese Literature & Society
• JPN 261 Cultural History of Japan: From Jōmon Pottery to Manga
• JPN 263 Producing Gender in Japanese History: Theater, Literature, Religion
• JPN 305 Upper Intermediate Japanese
• JPN 350 Topics in Advanced Japanese
• JPN S25 Traditional Japanese Theater: Noh, Puppet Theater, and Kabuki
• JPN S29 Performing Fukushima: Theater and Film
• THEA S25 Traditional Japanese Theater: Noh, Puppet Theater, and Kabuki

GEC Coordinator: Myron Beasley

Material culture has been defined from numerous perspectives most notably anthropology, archaeology, art history, cultural theory, and history. Since the 1970s in particular, scholars in these and other disciplines have used material culture sources of evidence to explore the everyday lives of ordinary citizens. The term material culture refers both to the psychological role, the meaning, that all physical objects in the environment have to mean something to people in a particular culture and to the range of manufactured objects that are typical within a socio-culture and form an essential part of cultural identity. Generally speaking, the phrase

“material culture” refers to the “things” of our daily lives. This can mean things we purchase, create, or otherwise come by. Our material lives range from our bodies to the clothes we wear, the specific objects we use, the food we eat, and the places we go. In essence, it is the “stuff” of our daily lives—products of culture.

Complete four credits designated with the (C083) GEC attribute. Two non-Bates credits may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval.

Current offerings include:

• AFR 119 Cultural Politics
• AFR 267 Blood, Genes, and American Culture
• AMST 119 Cultural Politics
• AMST 200 Introduction to American Studies
• AMST 210 Technology in U.S. History
• AMST 267 Blood, Genes, and American Culture
• AMST 353 Critical Theory/Critical Acts
• ANTH 101 Cultural Anthropology
• ASIA 236 Japanese Arts and Visual Culture
• ASIA 243 Buddhist Arts and Visual Cultures
• ASIA 245 Architectural Monuments of Southeast Asia
• AVC 236 Japanese Arts and Visual Culture
• AVC 243 Buddhist Arts and Visual Cultures
• AVC 245 Architectural Monuments of Southeast Asia
• AVC 252 Art of the Middle Ages
• AVC 361 Museum Internship
• CMS 252 Art of the Middle Ages
• FRE 207 Introduction to Contemporary France
• GSS 210 Technology in U.S. History
• GSS 267 Blood, Genes, and American Culture
• GSS 353 Critical Theory/Critical Acts
• GSS 355 Gender and Technology
• HIST 210 Technology in U.S. History
• HIST 267 Blood, Genes, and American Culture
• REL 252 Art of the Middle Ages
• THEA 235 Fashion: A Survey of Western Culture

Medieval Worlds (C051)

GEC Coordinator: Mark Tizzoni

An interdisciplinary exploration of the medieval world that embraces the frameworks of a Global Middle Ages, examining Africa, Asia, Europe, and beyond from roughly 300-1600 CE.

Complete four credits designated with the (C051) GEC attribute.

One non-Bates credit may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval. For students majoring in Classical and Medieval Studies, only one course may be double-counted between the major and the concentration. 

Current offerings include:

• ANTH S21 Economic Ecologies: Anthropology, Digital Humanities, and Climate Change in the North Atlantic
• ASIA 207 The Self and the World in Premodern Chinese Literature
• ASIA 259 Caravans, Khans, and Commissars: A History of Central Eurasia
• ASIA 263 Producing Gender in Japanese History: Theater, Literature, Religion, Thought, and Policing
• AVC 241 The Art of Islam
• AVC 251 The Age of the Cathedrals
• AVC 252 Art of the Middle Ages
• AVC 254 Sacred Travel/Shrines/Souvenir
• AVC 265 Florence to Bruges: The Early Renaissance in Europe
• AVC 373 Art of the Global Middle Ages
• AVC S22 Hell and Damnation: Imaging the Afterlife
• AVC S24 Textile Towns: Medieval Tuscany and Modern Lewiston
• CHI 207 The Self and the World in Premodern Chinese Literature
• CHI 415 Readings in Classical Chinese
• CMS 102 Medieval Worlds
• CMS 104 Introduction to Medieval English Literature
• CMS 107 Race Reception and the Modern Creation of the Ancient and Medieval Past
• CMS 121D The Many Lives of King Arthur
• CMS 206 Chaucer
• CMS 216 Conflict and Community in Medieval Spain
• CMS 220 The Medieval Year
• CMS 241 The Art of Islam
• CMS 251 The Age of the Cathedrals
• CMS 252 Art of the Middle Ages
• CMS 254 Sacred Travel/Shrines/Souvenir
• CMS 265 Florence to Bruges: The Early Renaissance in Europe
• CMS 266 Magic and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages
• CMS 276 Saints, Ships, and Sultans: The Horn of Africa in the Middle Ages
• CMS 291 Colonization and Resistance in Late Antique North Africa
• CMS 292 The Dawn of the Middle Ages
• CMS 293 Trans-Saharan Africa in the Middle Ages
• CMS 344 Chaucer and His Context
• CMS 373 Art of the Global Middle Ages
• CMS 395E Medieval Romance
• CMS S21 Economic Ecologies: Anthropology, Digital Humanities, and Climate Change in the North Atlantic
• CMS S22 Hell and Damnation: Imaging the Afterlife
• CMS S26 Textile Towns: Medieval Tuscany and Modern Lewiston
• CMS S37 The Middle Ages through Film and Television
• ENG 104 Introduction to Medieval English Literature
• ENG 121D The Many Lives of King Arthur
• ENG 206 Chaucer
• ENG 249 Medieval English Dream Visions
• ENG 286 Race before Race: Articulating Difference in Medieval England
• ENG 344 Chaucer and His Context
• ENG 395E Medieval Romance
• EUS 233 Russian Myths and Legends
• GSS 263 Producing Gender in Japanese History: Theater, Literature, Religion
• HIST 102 Medieval Worlds
• HIST 107 Race Reception and the Modern Creation of the Ancient and Medieval Past
• HIST 216 Conflict and Community in Medieval Spain
• HIST 220 The Medieval Year
• HIST 259 Caravans, Khans, and Commissars: A History of Central Eurasia
• HIST 266 Magic and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages
• HIST 276 Saints, Ships, and Sultans: The Horn of Africa in the Middle Ages
• HIST 291 Colonization and Resistance in Late Antique North Africa
• HIST 292 The Dawn of the Middle Ages
• HIST 293 Trans-Saharan Africa in the Middle Ages
• HIST 295 Montezuma’s Mexico: Aztecs and their World
• HIST S37 The Middle Ages through Film and Television
• JPN 263 Producing Gender in Japanese History: Theater, Literature, Religion
• REL 220 The Medieval Year
• REL 223 Conflict and Community in Medieval Spain
• REL 252 Art of the Middle Ages
• REL 253 The Age of the Cathedrals
• REL 266 Magic and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages
• REL 292 The Dawn of the Middle Ages
• RUSS 233 Russian Myths and Legends

Music and Culture (C080)

GEC Coordinator: Gina Andrea Fatone

This concentration provides opportunities to examine and consider the ways that music and culture shape each other. Individually and collectively, the courses cover a vast range of musical traditions and their cultures, as well as introducing many ways of combining musical, historical, anthropological, and cultural-theoretical tools of analysis.

Complete four courses designated with the (C080) GEC attribute. One non-Bates credit may be applied to the concentration, if judged comparable to one of those below, with pre-approval by the coordinator. Not open to students who have declared a major or minor in Music.

Current offerings include:

• AFR 249 African American Popular Music
• ANTH 212 How Music Performs Culture: Introduction to Ethnomusicology
• ASIA 252 Musics of Asia and the Pacific
• MUS 210 Classical Music in Western Culture
• MUS 212 How Music Performs Culture: Introduction to Ethnomusicology
• MUS 247 History of Jazz
• MUS 248 Music in Contemporary Popular Culture
• MUS 249 African American Popular Music
• MUS 252 Musics of Asia and the Pacific
• MUS 253 Music and the Embodied Mind
• MUS 392 Community-Engaged Music and Well-being
• MUS S25 Performing Musical Art of Indonesia
• PSYC 253 Music and the Embodied Mind

Philosophy and Psychology (C031)

GEC Coordinator: David Cummiskey

This concentration is intended to acquaint students with scholarly work on questions of interest

to philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists and to facilitate students’ own clear thinking on such issues. Given the breadth of the disciplines of philosophy, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, a wide variety of issues is addressed in these courses. Topics include moral judgment, moral responsibility, sensation and perception, the self, theory of mind, and the relationship between mind and brain. Students consider such issues from both disciplinary perspectives.

Complete four courses designated with the (C031) GEC attribute, two of which must be from philosophy list and two of which must be from psychology and neuroscience list below. Only one of the applicable FYS courses may count towards the Philosophy requirement and Psychology requirement. Two non-Bates credits may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval.

Current offerings:

Philosophy:

• BIO 323E Philosophy of Evolution
• CMS 271 Ancient Philosophy
• DCS 252 Philosophy of Cognitive Science
• GSS 262 Feminist Philosophy
• PHIL 150 Philosophies to Live By
• PHIL 195 Introduction to Logic
• PHIL 210 Philosophy of Cognitive Science
• PHIL 211 Philosophy of Science
• PHIL 213 Biomedical Ethics
• PHIL 233 Making Moral Minds: Nature, Nurture, and the Sources of Morality
• PHIL 235 Philosophy of Mind
• PHIL 236 Theory of Knowledge
• PHIL 256 Moral Philosophy
• PHIL 257 Moral Luck and Social Identity
• PHIL 260 Philosophy of Religion
• PHIL 262 Feminist Philosophy
• PHIL 271 Ancient Philosophy
• PHIL 272 Philosophy in the Modern Era (1600-1800)
• PHIL 274 20th C European Philosophy: Consciousness and Reality
• PHIL 310 Buddhist Philosophy
• PHIL 321J Self-Knowledge
• PHIL 321K Philosophy of Animal Minds
• PHIL 323E Philosophy of Evolution
• PHIL 324E Virtue and Emotions
• PHIL 362 Consciousness in Science
• PHIL S17 The Ethics of Care
• PHIL S23 Reparations
• REL 260 Philosophy of Religion

Psychology and Neuroscience:

• ASIA 260 Cultural Psychology
• EXDS S21 Life Architecture: Designing Your Future Work
• MUS 253 Music and the Embodied Mind
• NRSC 160 Introduction to Neuroscience
• NRSC 208 Neuroscience, Ethics, and Society
• NRSC 252 Philosophy of Cognitive Science
• NRSC 330 Cognitive Neuroscience/Lab
• NRSC 335 Degeneration and Regeneration of the Nervous System
• NRSC 363 Physiological Psychology/Lab
• NRSC 372 Consciousness in Science
• PSYC 101 Principles of Psychology
• PSYC 160 Introduction to Neuroscience
• PSYC 210 Social Psychology
• PSYC 211 Psychology of Personality
• PSYC 215 Medical Psychology
• PSYC 230 Cognitive Psychology
• PSYC 234 Philosophy of Mind
• PSYC 235 Clinical Psychology
• PSYC 240 Developmental Psychology
• PSYC 253 Music and the Embodied Mind
• PSYC 260 Cultural Psychology
• PSYC 275 Psychology of Sport, Exercise, and Performance
• PSYC 302 Sensation and Perception
• PSYC 317 Psychology and Law
• PSYC 330 Cognitive Neuroscience/Lab
• PSYC 363 Physiological Psychology/Lab
• PSYC 380 Social Cognition
• PSYC 381 The Self
• SOC 210 Social Psychology

Popular Culture (C040)

GEC Coordinator: Jon Cavallero

This concentration encourages students to explore different genres of popular culture from a variety of cultures in order to understand the powerful impact they have on shaping peoples’ values and attitudes.

Complete any four credits designated with the (C040) GEC attribute. One non-Bates credit may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval.

Current offerings include:

• AFR 119 Cultural Politics
• AFR 162 White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History
• AFR 242 Passing/Trespassing
• AFR 249 African American Popular Music
• AMST 119 Cultural Politics
• AMST 288 Visualizing Race
• ASIA 245 Architectural Monuments of Southeast Asia
• ASIA 261 Cultural History of Japan: From Jōmon Pottery to Manga
• AVC 245 Architectural Monuments of Southeast Asia
• AVC 288 Visualizing Race
• EUS 233 Russian Myths and Legends
• JPN 261 Cultural History of Japan: From Jōmon Pottery to Manga
• MUS 248 Music in Contemporary Popular Culture
• MUS 249 African American Popular Music
• RFSS 162 White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History
• RFSS 242 Passing/Trespassing
• RFSS 276 Television Criticism
• RFSS 391A The Rhetoric of Alien Abduction
• RUSS 233 Russian Myths and Legends

• RUSS 233 Russian Myths and Legends

Premodern History (C048)

GEC Coordinator: Sylvia Federico

The historical study of peoples and cultures to 1500 C.E.

Complete any four credits designated with the (C048) GEC attribute. One non-Bates credit may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval.

Current offerings include:

• AFR 303 Birthing while Black
• ANTH 167 Culture in Americas
• ASIA 171 Imperial China
• AVC 251 The Age of the Cathedrals
• AVC 252 Art of the Middle Ages
• AVC 265 Florence to Bruges: The Early Renaissance in Europe
• CMS 101 Introduction to the Ancient World
• CMS 102 Medieval Worlds
• CMS 108 Roman Civilization: The Republic
• CMS 109 Roman Civilization: The Empire
• CMS 112 Ancient Greek History
• CMS 216 Conflict and Community in Medieval Spain
• CMS 251 The Age of the Cathedrals
• CMS 252 Art of the Middle Ages
• CMS 265 Florence to Bruges: The Early Renaissance in Europe
• CMS 292 The Dawn of the Middle Ages
• CMS 293 Trans-Saharan Africa in the Middle Ages
• GSS 303 Birthing while Black
• HIST 101 Introduction to the Ancient World
• HIST 102 Medieval Worlds
• HIST 108 Roman Civilization: The Republic
• HIST 109 Roman Civilization: The Empire
• HIST 112 Ancient Greek History
• HIST 171 Imperial China
• HIST 216 Conflict and Community in Medieval Spain
• HIST 292 The Dawn of the Middle Ages
• HIST 293 Trans-Saharan Africa in the Middle Ages
• LALS 167 Culture in the Americas
• REL 223 Conflict and Community in Medieval Spain
• REL 252 Art of the Middle Ages
• REL 253 The Age of the Cathedrals
• REL 292 The Dawn of the Middle Ages

GEC Coordinator: Trian Nguyen

Composers, choreographers, directors, curators, and producers often interact with performing artists, studio artists, and writers in order to engage audiences. What is produced, for whom, and in support of which values? Work in this concentration considers the interrelationship between cultural producers and cultural consumers.

Complete any four credits designated with the (C061) GEC attribute from at least two

departments/programs. One non-Bates credit may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval.

Current offerings include:

• AFR 119 Cultural Politics
• AFR 162 White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History
• AFR 249 African American Popular Music
• AFR 252 Contemporary Issues in Dance
• AMST 119 Cultural Politics
• ASIA 247 The Art of Zen Buddhism
• ASIA 252 Musics of Asia and the Pacific
• ASIA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• AVC 209 Introduction to Video Production
• AVC 247 The Art of Zen Buddhism
• AVC 361 Museum Internship
• AVC S26 Museum Studies
• CHI 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• DANC 250 Dance Histories of the United States
• DANC 252 Contemporary Issues in Dance
• DANC 300 Bates Dance Festival
• HIST 253 Dance Histories of the United States
• MUS 247 History of Jazz
• MUS 249 African American Popular Music
• MUS 252 Musics of Asia and the Pacific
• MUS S25 Performing Musical Art of Indonesia
• RFSS 162 White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History
• THEA 231 Scene Design
• THEA 233 Costume Design
• THEA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling

GEC Coordinator: Cynthia Baker

This concentration focuses on different aspects of religious studies.

Complete four courses from the Religious Studies department and/or designated with the (C001) GEC attribute.

Current offerings include:

• Any Religious Studies (REL) course
• ASIA 243 Buddhist Arts and Visual Cultures
• ASIA 247 The Art of Zen Buddhism
• ASIA 289 Stupa Towers: Forms, Symbols, and Narratives in Buddhist Architecture
• AVC 243 Buddhist Arts and Visual Cultures
• AVC 247 The Art of Zen Buddhism
• AVC 251 The Age of the Cathedrals
• AVC 252 Art of the Middle Ages
• AVC 289 Stupa Towers: Forms, Symbols, and Narratives in Buddhist Architecture
• AVC 373 Art of the Global Middle Ages
• AVC S22 Hell and Damnation: Imaging the Afterlife
• CMS 251 The Age of the Cathedrals
• CMS 252 Art of the Middle Ages
• CMS 373 Art of the Global Middle Ages
• CMS S22 Hell and Damnation: Imaging the Afterlife
• HIST 301Y The Spanish Inquisition
• LALS 303 The Spanish Inquisition
• PHIL 310 Buddhist Philosophy

GEC Coordinator: Alison Melnick Dyer

This concentration introduces students to different aspects of the history, culture, religion, literature, and art of South Asia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Southeast Asia.

Complete any four credits designated with the (C087) GEC attribute. Two non-Bates credits may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval. Participation in the SITA (South India Term Abroad) Program may be substituted for two credits with prior approval. Not open to minors in Asian studies.

Current offerings include:

• ASIA 243 Buddhist Arts and Visual Cultures
• ASIA 245 Architectural Monuments of Southeast Asia
• ASIA 250 Buddhist Tradition
• ASIA 251 Religions of Tibet
• ASIA 252 Musics of Asia and the Pacific
• ASIA 308 Buddhist Texts in Translation
• AVC 243 Buddhist Arts and Visual Cultures
• AVC 245 Architectural Monuments of Southeast Asia
• EUS 206 The Empire Strikes Back: The Ends of European Empires in the Twentieth Century
• HIST 206 The Empire Strikes Back: The Ends of European Empires in the Twentieth Century
• MUS 252 Musics of Asia and the Pacific
• MUS 290C Gamelan Ensemble
• MUS S25 Performing Musical Art of Indonesia
• PHIL 310 Buddhist Philosophy
• REL 250 Buddhist Tradition
• REL 251 Religions of Tibet
• REL 308 Buddhist Texts in Translation
• RFSS 391F Bollywood

The City in History: Urbanism and Constructed Spaces (C057)

GEC Coordinator: Dolores O’Higgins

This concentration addresses the role of urban centers in human culture from their emergence in earliest recorded history to the present. The study of urban forms, architecture, and spaces is by definition interdisciplinary, integrating social, political, historical, theoretical, geographical, technological, and aesthetic considerations.

Complete any four credits designated with the (C057) GEC attribute. One non-Bates credit that focuses on urban history, design, and/or function may be applied toward this concentration if judged appropriate upon application to the coordinator. This may include supervised archaeological fieldwork, with approval of the coordinator.

Current offerings include:

• AFR 100 Introduction to Africana
• AFR 162 White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History
• AMST 141 Rise of the American Empire
• AMST 240I French in Maine
• ASIA 245 Architectural Monuments of Southeast Asia
• ASIA 289 Stupa Towers: Forms, Symbols, and Narratives in Buddhist Architecture
• AVC 241 The Art of Islam
• AVC 245 Architectural Monuments of Southeast Asia
• AVC 251 The Age of the Cathedrals
• AVC 252 Art of the Middle Ages
• AVC 265 Florence to Bruges: The Early Renaissance in Europe
• AVC 289 Stupa Towers: Forms, Symbols, and Narratives in Buddhist Architecture
• AVC S24 Textile Towns: Medieval Tuscany and Modern Lewiston
• CMS 102 Medieval Worlds
• CMS 108 Roman Civilization: The Republic
• CMS 109 Roman Civilization: The Empire
• CMS 218 Greek and Roman Myths
• CMS 241 The Art of Islam
• CMS 251 The Age of the Cathedrals
• CMS 252 Art of the Middle Ages
• CMS 265 Florence to Bruges: The Early Renaissance in Europe
• CMS S26 Textile Towns: Medieval Tuscany and Modern Lewiston
• EUS 254 Berlin and Vienna, 1900-1914
• EUS 302 Sex and the Modern City: European Cultures at the Fin-de-Siècle
• FRE 240I French in Maine
• GER 254 Berlin and Vienna, 1900-1914
• GSS 314 Sex and the Modern City: European Cultures at the Fin-de-Siècle
• HIST 102 Medieval Worlds
• HIST 108 Roman Civilization: The Republic
• HIST 109 Roman Civilization: The Empire
• HIST 141 Rise of the American Empire
• HIST 295 Montezuma’s Mexico: Aztecs and their World
• HIST 301A Sex and the Modern City: European Cultures at the Fin-de-Siècle
• LALS 295 Montezuma’s Mexico: Aztecs and their World
• REL 218 Greek and Roman Myths
• REL 252 Art of the Middle Ages
• REL 253 The Age of the Cathedrals
• REL 295 Montezuma’s Mexico: Aztecs and their World
• RFSS 162 White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History
• SOC 236 Urban Sociology

GEC Coordinator: Bruno Salazar-Perea

This concentration focuses on knowledges acquired through observation, articulation, and experience of the body.

Complete any four credits from the Dance program and/or designated with the (C027) GEC attribute. Any two DANC 270 courses complete one concentration credit. One non-Bates credit may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval. Dance majors and minors are limited to two concentration credits in dance.

Current offerings include:

• Any course in Dance
• AFR 267 Blood, Genes, and American Culture
• AMST 267 Blood, Genes, and American Culture
• ASIA S20 Philosophy of the Body
• AVC 212 Drawing: From Still Life to the Model
• AVC 312 Drawing the Figure
• BIO 102 Sensory Biology
• BIO 129 Human Nutrition
• BIO 217 Human Anatomy and Physiology I
• BIO 218 Human Anatomy and Physiology II
• BIO 301 Pathophysiology
• BIO 308 Neurobiology
• BIO 311 Comparative Anatomy of the Chordates/Lab
• BIO 320 Pharmacology
• BIO 328 Developmental Biology/Lab
• BIO 337 Animal Physiology/Lab
• BIO 351 Immunology
• CHEM 125 Bioenergetics and Nutrition
• CHEM 320 Mechanisms of Memory
• CMS 204 Classics and the History of Sexuality
• DCS 106 TechnoGenderCulture
• ENG 131 Tragedy and the Drama of Voice
• GSS 106 TechnoGenderCulture
• GSS 202 Queer and Trans Sports Studies
• GSS 204 Classics and the History of Sexuality
• GSS 267 Blood, Genes, and American Culture
• GSS 355 Gender and Technology
• HIST 267 Blood, Genes, and American Culture
• MUS 253 Music and the Embodied Mind
• NRSC 160 Introduction to Neuroscience
• NRSC 308 Neurobiology
• NRSC 320 Mechanisms of Memory
• NRSC 363 Physiological Psychology/Lab
• PSYC 160 Introduction to Neuroscience
• PSYC 215 Medical Psychology
• PSYC 235 Clinical Psychology
• PSYC 253 Music and the Embodied Mind
• PSYC 275 Psychology of Sport, Exercise, and Performance
• PSYC 363 Physiological Psychology/Lab
• THEA 235 Fashion: A Survey of Western Culture
• THEA 236 Pattern Drafting and Draping
• THEA 261 Introduction to Acting
• THEA 263 Introduction to Voice and Speech

GEC Coordinator: Lisa Maurizio

In this concentration, students explore national literatures as well as literatures from different historical epochs in translation. Students consider how these literatures represent culturally distinct experiences and contribute to a complex understanding of global imaginations, values, and societies.

Complete any four credits designated with the (C067) GEC attribute. One non-Bates credit may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval.

Current offerings include:

• ASIA 207 The Self and the World in Premodern Chinese Literature
• ASIA 215 Film, Literature, and the Cultures of Postwar Japan
• ASIA 223 Communism, Capitalism, and Cannibalism: New and Emerging Voices in Chinese Literature
• ASIA 224 Japanese Literature & Society
• ASIA 235 Supernatural in East Asia
• ASIA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• CHI 207 The Self and the World in Premodern Chinese Literature
• CHI 223 Communism, Capitalism, and Cannibalism: New and Emerging Voices in Chinese Literature
• CHI 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• CMS 204 Classics and the History of Sexuality
• CMS S17 Readings in the Odyssey of Homer
• ENVR 216 Nature in the Cultures of Russia
• EUS 216 Nature in the Cultures of Russia
• EUS 233 Russian Myths and Legends
• EUS 254 Berlin and Vienna, 1900-1914
• FYS 318 Through the Eyes of Children
• FYS 447 Holocaust on Stage
• GER 254 Berlin and Vienna, 1900-1914
• GSS 204 Classics and the History of Sexuality
• JPN 215 Film, Literature, and the Cultures of Postwar Japan
• JPN 224 Japanese Literature & Society
• PLTC 243 Politics and Literature
• RUSS 216 Nature in the Cultures of Russia
• RUSS 233 Russian Myths and Legends
• RUSS S27 From Baba Yaga to Putin: Myths and Legends in Russian Culture
• THEA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling

GEC Coordinator: Alison Melnick Dyer

Focusing on gender issues, this concentration affords students a context for studying individuals and their interactions in an Asian context.

Complete any four credits designated with the (C050) GEC attribute. One non-Bates credit may be applied toward the concentration if judged comparable to one of those below by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval.

Current offerings include:

• ASIA 171 Imperial China
• ASIA 215 Film, Literature, and the Cultures of Postwar Japan
• ASIA 224 Japanese Literature & Society
• ASIA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• ASIA 320 Advanced Seminar: Current Research on Asia
• CHI 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling
• GSS 263 Producing Gender in Japanese History: Theater, Literature, Religion
• GSS 311 Buddhism and Gender
• HIST 171 Imperial China
• JPN 215 Film, Literature, and the Cultures of Postwar Japan
• JPN 224 Japanese Literature & Society
• JPN 263 Producing Gender in Japanese History: Theater, Literature, Religion
• REL 311 Buddhism and Gender
• THEA 287 Chinese Drama and Storytelling