Research Guides by Course

Research Guides by Subject


The following guides are designed for students enrolled in courses that are part of the Library Intensive Program. Each guide focuses on the subject matter of a specific course taught at Brandeis that has been designated "library intensive." The guides are designed to be used in conjunction with a librarian-led research seminar.

AMERICAN STUDIES

Gender and the Professions (AMST 118a)
Love and Marriage (AMST 124b)
History of Childhood and Youth in America (AMST 150b)
Legal Foundations of American Capitalism (AMST189a)
Greening the Ivory Tower (AMST 191b)

ANTHROPOLOGY

AIDS: Science, Society and Policy (ANTH 142a)
Cross-Cultural Art and Aesthetics (ANTH 184b)
Latin American in Ethnographic Perspective (ANTH 131b)
Meaning & Material Culture (ANTH 128)
Medicine, Body, and Culture (ANTH 127a)
Museums and Public Memory (ANTH 159a)
Rise of Mesoamerican Civilizations (ANTH 147b)
Violence & the Sacred in Asia (ANTH 137b)
Writing Systems & Scribal Traditions (ANTH 153a)

BIOLOGY

Biology of Behavior (BIOL 50b)
Conservation Biology (BIOL 17b)
Growth Control and Cancer (BIOL 172B)
Human Reproductive Biology (BIOL 160b)

CHEMISTRY

Forensic Science: Col. Mustard, Candlestick, Billiard Room (CHSC 6a)

ECONOMICS

Outsourcing and Offshoring: Information Technology and Globalization (ECON 162a)
Global Economic Environment (ECON 201a)
International Trade Policy and Institutions (Econ 260a)

ENGLISH

Methods of Literary Studies (ENG 200)

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Tropical Ecology (BIOLÂ 134b)

FINE ARTS

The Age of Cathedrals (FA 42b)
Art and the Asian City: Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong (USEM 20b)
Art and the Bible
Arts of the Ming Dynasty (FA 15b)
Buddhist Art (FA 13b)
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Stieglitz Circle (FA 173a)
Iconography and Iconology (FA 197b)
Impressionism: Avant-Garde Rebellion in Context (FA 171a)
Making Tradition in Modern Japan and Beyond (Studies in Asian Art, FA 184a)
Methods and Approaches in the History of Art (FA 197b)
Nineteenth-Century European Painting and Sculpture (FA 170b)
Picasso and Matisse (FA 173b)
Post-Impressionism and Symbolism, 1880-1910 (FA 174b)
Resources for Women in Art and Feminist Art Criticism (FA 197b)
Twentienth-Century Japanese and Chinese Visual Culture (Studies in Asian Art, FA 184a)

HELLER SCHOOL - HEALTH/SOCIAL POLICY - SID

Children, Youth, and Families (HS 317b)
Gender Analysis in Development Planning (HS 284f)
Gender, Work and Family Policy (HS 549a)
Global Perspectives on Health
(HSSP 102a)
Health Services Resources (HS 600c)
Institute on Assets and Social Policy
National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Sustainable International Development Frameworks for Development (HS 271a)

LEGAL STUDIES

Environmental Law and Policy (LGLS 132b)
International Law (LGLS 125b)

MUSIC

Music and Globalization (MUS 31b)
Women and Music (MUS 151b)

NEAR EASTERN & JUDAIC STUDIES

Art, Artifacts, and History: The Material Culture of Modern Jews (NEJS 133a)
Introduction to Christianity (NEJS 128a)
Structure and Agendas of the American Jewish Community (JCS 229a)

POLITICS

Human Rights and International Relations (POL 63a)
Politics of the Modern Welfare State (POL 159)

SOCIOLOGY

Sociology of the Body and Health (SOC 189a)
Women's Biography and Society
Social Perspectives on Motherhood and Mothering (SOC 132b)
Social Change in American Communities (SOC 156a)
Aging in Society (SOC 177b)
Families (SOC 130a)
Globalization and the Media (SOC 120b)
Sociology of Education (Soc 104a)
Sociology Graduate Seminar -- How to do a Literature Search
Environment Health and Society (SOC 193a)

SPANISH

Latino Popular Culture (SPAN 191a)
Introduction to Hispanic Cultural Studies (SPAN 109b)
Art & Revolution: The Latin American Avant-Garde (SPAN 164)
Seminar in Literary & Cultural Studies (SPAN 198)
Spanish Composition, Grammar, and Stylistics (SPAN 106a)

THEATER

Drama and Social Issues (USEM 36b)

USEM

American Autobiographies (USEM 13b)
Immigrants (USEM 70a)
Science in Art (USEM 83b)

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