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Requirements for this program are current for
Fall 2023
Required credits to graduate with this
degree: 120
Required credits within the major: 36
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Global Studies students use a wide-angle lens to cultivate broad perspectives on the contemporary world. For example, you will learn to think of climate change not only in terms of CO2 levels in the atmosphere, but also in terms of politics, ecologies, social movements, and global inequalities. When you examine migration, you will study not only laws and non-governmental organizations analyses of mobility trends, but the geopolitical upheavals and food systems failures that drive these trends. And students will always keep in view the grassroots and community initiatives that address these problems on the ground, since that is where the impacts of these issues are most powerfully felt and creative solutions worked out. In short, Global Studies is a major for students who are committed both to understanding the world they live in, and to making that world a better place.
Global Studies courses traverse geography and time. Some analyze the workings of global institutions and explore the operations of the global health, food, and financial systems. Others use works of art and philosophy from around the world to expose students to cultural forms like indigenous art and prison literature. Still others explore long term historical trajectories, such as the growth of global communications, media, and tourism industries. You will also have the opportunity to study abroad, intern, and engage deeply with on and off campus communities. In capstone projects you will bring together what you’ve studied to define, explore, and create new visions of the world. You will learn both critical thinking and practice the empathy needed to construct global citizenship for the 21st century.
All learning experiences offer ample opportunities for developing the communications and organizational skills that support success in future careers in any number of sectors including nonprofits, government, and industry, as well as for graduate study in a number of arenas in law, policy, social sciences, and the humanities.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
All students in baccalaureate degree programs are required to complete general University and college requirements including writing and liberal education courses. For more information about University-wide requirements, see the
liberal education requirements.
Required courses for the major, minor or certificate in which a student receives a D grade (with or without plus or minus) do not count toward the major, minor or certificate (including transfer courses).
Program Requirements
Students are required to complete 4 semester(s) of
any second language.
with a grade of C-, or better, or S, or demonstrate proficiency in the language(s) as defined by the department
or college.
CLA BA degrees require 18 upper-division (3xxx-level or higher) credits outside the major designator. These credits must be taken in designators different from the major designator and cannot include courses that are cross-listed with the major designator. The major designator for the Global Studies BA is GLOS.
Students must formally enroll in the major at the advising office, 206 Social Sciences Building. Students must meet with an advisor to develop a program that meets major guidelines.
At least 14 upper-division credits in the major must be taken at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.
A given course may only count towards one major requirement.
Students may earn a BA or a minor in global studies, but not both.
All students must complete a capstone in at least one CLA major. The requirements for double majors completing the capstone in a different CLA major will be clearly stated. Students must also complete all major requirements in both majors to allow the additional capstone to be waived. Students completing an additional degree must complete the Capstone in each degree area.
All incoming CLA first-year (freshmen) must complete the First-Year Experience course sequence.
All incoming CLA first-year (freshmen) students earning a BA, BS, or BIS degree must complete the second-year career management course CLA 3002.
Core Courses
Take exactly 2 course(s) totaling exactly 6 credit(s) from the following:
·
GLOS 3144 - Knowledge, Power, and the Politics of Representation in Global Studies
(3.0 cr)
or
GLOS 3144H - Honors: Knowledge, Power, and the Politics of Representation in Global Studies
(3.0 cr)
·
GLOS 3145 - Global Modernity, the Nation-State, and Capitalism
(3.0 cr)
or
GLOS 3145H - Honors: Global Modernity, the Nation-State, and Capitalism
(3.0 cr)
Methods/Readiness
Take exactly 1 course(s) totaling 3 - 4 credit(s) from the following:
·
ANTH 3001 - Introduction to Archaeology
[SOCS]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 4035 - Ethnographic Research Methods
(3.0 cr)
or
RELS 3415W - Art of India
[AH, GP, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
ARTH 3778 - Traditions of South Asian Painting: Past to Present
(3.0 cr)
or
ARTH 5778 - Traditions of South Asian Painting: Past to Present
(3.0 cr)
·
ARTH 3779 - Visions of Paradise: The Indian Temple
(3.0 cr)
or
RELS 3779 - Visions of Paradise: The Indian Temple
(3.0 cr)
Experiential Learning
Students must participate in a relevant experiential learning opportunity through study abroad (at least 6 weeks) or an internship (at least 100 hours). Work completed in meeting these requirements may count toward the thematic or regional concentrations. Prior approval by a Global Studies advisor is required.
Capstone
Students who double major and choose to complete the capstone requirement in their other major may waive the Global Studies BA capstone, and they do not need to replace the 3 credits.
Take exactly 1 course(s) totaling exactly 3 credit(s) from the following:
Students are required to take one upper-division writing intensive course within the major. If that requirement has not been satisfied within the core major requirements, students must choose one course from the following list. Some of these courses may also fulfill other major requirements.
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GLOS 3144 - Knowledge, Power, and the Politics of Representation in Global Studies
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3144/GloS 3144H
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course provides an introductory overview of core theories and concepts that prepare students for successful completion of the Global Studies curriculum. In this half of the Global Studies core course sequence, students will investigate questions pertaining to how representations of the modern world in popular media and academic writing contribute to, reaffirm, and often challenge relations of inequality and division tied to such categories as ethnicity, gender, and race. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary sources including magazines, novels, films, and digital media, these questions may include: How do cultural representations of the Global South reinforce European imperial and colonial projects? What role do mass-market magazines and newspapers have in constructing difference and producing stereotypes that justify imperialist attitudes? How does the development of technologies, from railroads to the internet, affect collective experiences of time and space? How is 'fake news' and intentional misrepresentation a threat to democracy and to the ecological security of the Earth? Students will meet twice a week for lecture and attend a weekly recitation section, with assignments that include short writing exercises and/or weekly Canvas posts and a midterm and final examination. This course will show how the politics of representation and knowledge production relate to changing formations of power, while giving students the conceptual vocabulary and critical skills to prepare for subsequent Global Studies courses.
Prereq: soph, jr, or sr
GLOS 3144H - Honors: Knowledge, Power, and the Politics of Representation in Global Studies
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3144/GloS 3144H
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course provides an introductory overview of core theories and concepts that prepare students for successful completion of the Global Studies curriculum. In this half of the Global Studies core course sequence, students will investigate questions pertaining to how representations of the modern world in popular media and academic writing contribute to, reaffirm, and often challenge relations of inequality and division tied to such categories as ethnicity, gender, and race. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary sources including magazines, novels, films, and digital media, these questions may include: How do cultural representations of the Global South reinforce European imperial and colonial projects? What role do mass-market magazines and newspapers have in constructing difference and producing stereotypes that justify imperialist attitudes? How does the development of technologies, from railroads to the internet, affect collective experiences of time and space? How is 'fake news' and intentional misrepresentation a threat to democracy and to the ecological security of the Earth? Students will meet twice a week for lecture and attend a weekly recitation section with assignments that include short writing exercises and/or weekly Canvas posts and a midterm and final examination. This course will show how the politics of representation and knowledge production relate to changing formations of power, while giving students the conceptual vocabulary and critical skills to prepare for subsequent Global Studies courses.
Prereq: Honors soph, jr, or sr
GLOS 3145 - Global Modernity, the Nation-State, and Capitalism
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3145/GloS 3415H
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Spring
This course provides an introductory overview of core theories and concepts that prepare students for successful completion of the Global Studies curriculum. In this half of the Global Studies core course sequence, students will investigate questions pertaining to the emergence of global modernity, capitalism, and the nation-state, with particular focus on theoretical concepts and institutional forms. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary sources including critical theory, philosophy, and texts from the social sciences, these questions may include: How did reason and culture emerge as key concepts in modernity, and how were they associated with transformations in time and space? How did the nation-state become a dominant political unit in the West, and how do postcolonial African states challenge its structure? What is the relationship between the Western liberal tradition, secularity, and violence? What are the histories and internal dynamics of the capitalist economy? Students will meet twice a week for lecture and attend a weekly recitation section, with assignments that include short writing exercises, a group project, and midterm and final examinations. This course will contextualize and trouble aspects of the global that are easily abstracted and taken for granted, while giving students the conceptual vocabulary and critical skills to prepare for subsequent Global Studies courses.
Prereq: soph, jr, or sr
Units: 3.00
GLOS 3145H - Honors: Global Modernity, the Nation-State, and Capitalism
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3145/GloS 3415H
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Spring
This course provides an introductory overview of core theories and concepts that prepare students for successful completion of the Global Studies curriculum. In this half of the Global Studies core course sequence, students will investigate questions pertaining to the emergence of global modernity, capitalism, and the nation-state, with particular focus on theoretical concepts and institutional forms. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary sources including critical theory, philosophy, and texts from the social sciences, these questions may include: How did reason and culture emerge as key concepts in modernity, and how were they associated with transformations in time and space? How did the nation-state become a dominant political unit in the West, and how do postcolonial African states challenge its structure? What is the relationship between the Western liberal tradition, secularity, and violence? What are the histories and internal dynamics of the capitalist economy? Students will meet twice a week for lecture and attend a weekly recitation section with assignments that include short writing exercises, a group project, and midterm and final examinations. This course will contextualize and trouble aspects of the global that are easily abstracted and taken for granted, while giving students the conceptual vocabulary and critical skills to prepare for subsequent Global Studies courses.
Prereq: Honors soph, jr, or sr
Units: 3.00
ANTH 3001 - Introduction to Archaeology
(SOCS)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Archaeology is the study of humans in the past, primarily through the material remains they left behind. It seeks to answer fundamental questions, such as ?When did humans first become dependent on fire??, ?What factors led to the development of agriculture??, or ?How can we explain the rise and fall of early civilizations?? The study of each of these big questions relies on answering many small questions that are asked in the context of archaeological excavations and laboratory analyses. A common theme underlies them: archaeology aims to reconstruct and understand why past human cultures changed.
The goal of this class is to provide an understanding of the methods and techniques used by archaeologists in their investigations. It includes not only hands-on learning of specific analytical techniques, such as faunal and lithic analysis as well as site survey and excavation strategies, but also focuses on the theoretical approaches that guide the questions we ask and the methods we apply to answer them. This class, therefore, prepares students for more upper-level classes in archaeology. It also leads to a new way of thinking. This way of thinking is primarily critical and analytical. It leads one to think about how data are interpreted, and how theoretical frameworks as well as innate biases color these interpretations. Seeking solutions to interpretive problems requires the creative application of multidisciplinary approaches. Therefore, the study of archaeology leads to a new way of thinking about and doing science.
ANTH 4035 - Ethnographic Research Methods
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
History of and current issues in ethnographic research. Research projects, including participant observation, interviewing, research design, note taking, life history, and other ethnographic methods.
prereq: 1003 or 1005 or grad student
ANTH 4101 - Decolonizing Archives
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Archives are not neutral. In order to decolonize them, scholars in anthropology and other disciplines must first understand the ways in which Western settler values have structured them. Who decides acquisition policy? How are items indexed, described, and related to one another? Who has access, and under what conditions? And who is structurally excluded? In this course we decolonize by recontextualizing both the archives as institutions and their contents. In other words, we use methods appropriate for contemporary anthropological archival research. We will consider preservation, curation, organizational bias in archives, analytic scale, voice, and how historical texts are material culture. Students engage in original archival research.
APEC 3003 - Introduction to Applied Econometrics
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Econometrics is the core empirical methodology used in economics. It allows economists (and others) to learn about the world through data in non-experimental situations. This course teaches student how to use common types of econometric analysis to answer research questions in an experiential learning environment.
prereq: APEC 1101 or equiv., STAT 3011 or equiv.
ARCH 4674 - World Heritage Conservation
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Design/planning options for conservation of historic buildings/cultural heritage sites. Case studies link current practices, methods/solutions with expert preservationists, site conservationists, local communities in development/design of conservation proposals.
prereq: Jr or sr or instr consent
CI 3611W - Basics in Teaching English as a Second Language
(WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
CI 3611W/SLS 3001
Grading Basis:
OPT No Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Writing intensive course that combines service learning internship with classroom lectures, discussions, group work, experiential activities. In this course, service learning requires students to act as teachers and professional leaders with students for 30 hours a semester. Prepares students for teaching ESL to adults in community programs.
prereq: Have studied another language.
COMM 3201 - Introduction to Electronic Media Production
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Students work as a team to plan, script, and shoot video productions in a hands-on multi-camera television studio. By creating their own productions and reviewing the productions of others, students learn how media aesthetics shape the presentation of themes and messages.
COMM 3422 - Interviewing and Communication
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Application of communication concepts in information interview. Planning, conducting, and evaluating informational, journalistic/elite, helping, persuasive, appraisal, and employment interviews. Class training, field experience.
ECON 4211 - Principles of Econometrics
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Data analysis/quantitative methods in economics. Violation of classical regression model assumptions, modified estimation procedures that retain desirable properties. Multi-equation models. Computer applications/interpretation of empirical results.
prereq: (ECON 1101 or ECON 1165, APEC 1101), (ECON 1102 or APEC 1102), ECON 3101, MATH 1271, (STAT 3011 or 3021), (STAT 3022 or 3032) or equivalent courses approved by the Economics Department
EPSY 3264 - Basic and Applied Statistics
(MATH)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
EPsy 3264/EPsy 5261
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Introductory statistics. Emphasizes understanding/applying statistical concepts/procedures. Visual/quantitative methods for presenting/analyzing data, common descriptive indices for univariate/bivariate data. Inferential techniques.
ESPM 3012 - Statistical Methods for Environmental Scientists and Managers
(MATH)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AnSc 3011/ESPM 3012/Stat 3011/
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Introduction to statistical principles, foundations, and methods for examining data and drawing conclusions. Confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and regression modeling of relationships in environmental and natural resource science and management problems.
prereq: Two yrs of high school math
ESPM 3031 - Applied Global Positioning Systems for Geographic Information Systems
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ESPM 3031/ESPM 5031
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Spring
GPS principles, operations, techniques to improve accuracy. Datum, projections, and coordinate systems. Differential correction, accuracy assessments discussed/applied in lab exercises. Code/carrier phase GPS used in exercises. GPS handheld units, PDA based ArcPad/GPS equipment. Transferring field data to/from desktop systems, integrating GPS data with GIS.
prereq: Intro GIS course
FNRM 3131 - Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for Natural Resources
(TS)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Spatial data development/analysis in science/management of natural resources. Data structures/sources/collection/quality. Geodesy, map projections, spatial/tabular data analysis. Digital terrain analysis, cartographic modeling, modeling perspectives, limits of technology. Lab exercises. Both onsite and fully online options for course enrollment.
prereq: Soph or jr or sr or UHP fr
GEOG 3531 - Numerical Spatial Analysis
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3531/5531
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Summer
"Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." The First Law of Geography proposed by Waldo Tobler implies the complex yet fascinating nature of the geospatial world. Spatial analysis in order to understand geographic numbers is becoming increasingly necessary to support knowledge discovery and decision-making. The objective of this course is to teach the fundamental theory and quantitative methods within the scope of geospatial analysis. The course starts with basic statistics, matrix, the background of spatial analysis, and exploratory spatial data analysis. Then, we will dive into the special nature of our spatial world, with fundamental geographic ideas and theories being introduced. The focus will be on numerical methods and models including descriptive statistics, pattern analysis, interpolation, and regression models. Finally, some advanced topics regarding spatial complexities and spatial networks will be introduced to arouse further interest in this realm. To sum, this is an introductory course that makes use of quantitative analytics such as linear algebra, statistics, and econometrics for spatial data analysis.
By taking this course you will:
-quantitatively understand critical concepts behind geospatial processes, such as scale, spatial weights, spatial autocorrelation, spatial dependence, spatial pattern.
-learn key methods of analyzing spatial data: e.g., point pattern analysis, spatial autocorrelation statistics, spatial prediction, and spatial regression.
-examine the lectured methods/models with data from geographic scenarios using Python and related programming packages.
(Prereq: high-school algebra; Basic stats and linear algebra recommended)
GEOG 3561 - Principles of Geographic Information Science
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3561/ Geog 5561
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Introduction to study of geographic information systems (GIS) for geography and non-geography students. Topics include GIS application domains, data models and sources, analysis methods and output techniques. Lectures, readings and hands-on experience with GIS software.
prereq: Jr or sr
GLOS 3105 - Exploring the World: The Practice of Interdisciplinary Research
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3105/GloS 3105H
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This class introduces Global Studies students to some of the major disciplines and methods used to make knowledge about the social world. The course first addresses fascinating philosophical questions, such as how is knowledge a social product? How are knowing and understanding different? How might we think of ignorance, too, as something constructed? We then turn from theory to practice, and to the question, how can we frame our questions, and enact our research in humble and ethically principled ways? Students will respond to this task by designing collaborative research projects. They will first identify and define a real world issue; they will review different disciplines' methods for defining and approaching the issue, and then they will jointly create a collaborative research design. The course will help Global Studies students understand the interdisciplinary nature of the Global Studies major, and it will help them begin to think about the goals, interests, and methods of their senior projects.
LAW 3000 - Introduction to American Law and Legal Reasoning
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Law 3000/Law 5000
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Law pervades all areas of modern life. Yet it remains mysterious to those without legal training. This course will equip you to better answer such questions by exploring the tools that lawyers use to interpret and apply the law. Students will learn to think like lawyers through a series of contemporary case studies that require reading, writing, thinking, and problem solving like a lawyer. Cases will be drawn from topics such as contracts, torts, civil procedure, property, business law, criminal law, sports law, privacy, and law and science.
LING 3001 - Introduction to Linguistics
(SOCS)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Ling 3001/3001H/5001
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
The ability to acquire and use language is a biological trait of the human species. This capacity for language manifests itself as thousands of particular languages spoken around the world in communities large and small. But what is language? What does it mean for a human to ?know? a particular language? How do children acquire this knowledge? How do we use language to communicate? These are some of the important questions addressed by the field of linguistics, the scientific study of the human capacity for language in its physiological, cognitive, historical, and social manifestations.
This course introduces some of the essential findings of linguistics: first and foremost, that all varieties of all languages are intricately structured at multiple distinct but related levels. Second, that this intricate structure can be described in terms that are not only precise, but which apply to all human languages. We will work to replicate some of these findings by deploying simple analytical methods on data from a variety of languages. These methods allow us to answer questions about the different structural components of language: phonology (how do speech sounds pattern?), morphology (what are possible words and how are they built?), and syntax (what is the hierarchical structure underlying sequences of words?). In all instances these methods require that we pay attention to basic notions of semantics, from which more complex conceptions of meaning will emerge.
Having characterized language as an intricately-structured system of knowledge, we will then possess the tools to ask a number of additional questions about language and cognition. How does such complex knowledge play into the actual task of sentence production or comprehension? What do we know about the neural implementation of this knowledge in human brains? How does child language acquisition proceed, and what makes it so much more robust than language acquisition later in life? Do animals have languages of their own? Can they learn human languages?
Finally, we will turn our attention to variation in language patterns observed over the passage of time, across geographical space, and within social systems. How and why do languages change over historical time? What can we know about languages spoken before the invention of writing? What distinctions exist between languages spoken in different places, and how can we tell whether similarities are due to genealogical relationships? How do new languages emerge? How do languages disappear? How does language use vary between individuals from the same place or the same community? How do socioeconomic class, ethnicity, and gender relate to the linguistic behavior of individuals? How does language policy affect educational outcomes? What about social cohesion and conflict?
Although we will find that most of these questions lack definitive answers, we will develop an understanding of what it takes to ask them meaningfully and precisely. In particular, we will be able to eliminate false or misleading answers, especially when they fail to take into account the observable and describable properties of the human capacity for language.
OLPD 3202 - Introduction to Strategies for Teaching Adults
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Theories of adult learning, learning/teaching styles, methods/perspectives of teaching, applications of teaching in various settings.
PA 3002 - Basic Methods of Policy Analysis
(SOCS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Introduction to policy analysis. Theoretical foundations/practical methods of analysis. Tools for problem definition, data collection/analysis, presentation techniques, implementation strategies. Multidisciplinary case-study approach.
PA 3003 - Nonprofit and Public Financial Management
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Concepts/tools for project/budget planning. Program analysis. Interpreting financial reports. Identifying/resolving organizational performance issues. Case studies, real-world exercises.
prereq: Jr or sr
PA 4101 - Nonprofit Management and Governance
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Managing/governing nonprofit/public organizations. Theories, concepts, real-world examples. Governance systems, strategic management practices, effect of different funding environments, management of multiple constituencies.
POL 3085 - Quantitative Analysis in Political Science
(MATH)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
POL 3085 teaches students how to study politics scientifically and introduces them to how to use quantitative analysis to answer political questions. The first part of the class covers how to formulate a theory (a possible answer to a question), specify testable hypotheses (what you would see if the theory is correct or incorrect), and set up a research design to test those hypotheses. In the second part of the class, we cover quantitative data analysis, beginning from preliminary statistical analysis to multivariate linear regression. There is no mathematical or statistical background required for this course. By the end of the class, students should be able to ask and answer political questions using quantitative data and fluently evaluate statistical analyses of political phenomena in the media and many academic articles.
PSY 3001W - Introduction to Research Methods
(WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Psy 3001W/Psy 3001V/3005W
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Concepts/procedures used to conduct/evaluate research, especially in social sciences. Benefits/limitations of traditional research methods. Evaluating scientific claims.
prereq: [1001, [2801 or 3801 or equiv]] or dept consent
SCMC 3201 - Fundamentals of Digital Filmmaking
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Practice of digital filmmaking. Digital techniques, practical tools required to produce films. Optical/digital devices as artistic tools. Historical/theoretical issues of cinema, its relation to other art forms.
SOC 3801 - Sociological Research Methods
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
This course provides an introduction to the materials and methods of social science research in a comprehensive and critical way. The course begins by introducing social science research, including philosophical and theoretical foundations. The course then covers the primary components of research design, including conceptualization, operationalization and measurement, primary and secondary data collection and sources, sampling, and the logic of comparison(s).
prereq: 1001 recommended; soc majors must register A-F
SOC 3811 - Social Statistics
(MATH)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course will introduce majors and non-majors to basic statistical measures and procedures that are used to describe and analyze quantitative data in sociological research. The topics include (1) frequency and percentage distributions, (2) central tendency and dispersion, (3) probability theory and statistical inference, (4) models of bivariate analysis, and (5) basics of multivariate analysis. Lectures on these topics will be given in class, and lab exercises are designed to help students learn statistical skills and software needed to analyze quantitative data provided in the class.
prereq: Undergraduates with strong math background are encouraged to register for 5811 in lieu of 3811 (Soc 5811 offered Fall terms only). Soc Majors/Minors must register A-F.
STAT 3021 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
STAT 3021/STAT 3021H
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This is an introductory course in statistics whose primary objectives are to teach students the theory of elementary probability theory and an introduction to the elements of statistical inference, including testing, estimation, and confidence statements.
prereq: Math 1272
ANTH 3028 - Historical Archaeology
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Anth 3028/Anth 5028
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
In this course, we will explore the theories and methods of historical archaeology ? such as material culture studies, landscape perspectives, archival, and oral historical interpretation - as a means of intervening in contemporary discussions of diversity in the United States. Historical archaeology can be a very effective means to challenge some of the standard American narratives about our diverse past. Our aim is to move beyond either a simplistic ethnic pluralism or the superficial ?melting pot? progressive history and instead grapple with the materiality of settler colonialism, white supremacy, and capitalism.
In learning about this field, we will consider what has distinguished historical archaeology from American archaeology more broadly, and how those differences are parlayed into specific research strengths. This includes several themes: colonialism; the modern world and globalizing economies; intersectional identities (race and ethnicity, class, sex and gender, religion, age, ability/disability) and social movements; public memory and commemoration; landscapes and social space; citizenship and subjectivity. Although historical archaeology until recently has been restrictively defined as addressing the European-colonized New World, the discipline in the past twenty years has significantly broadened its scope and impact on the practice of archaeology as a whole. Throughout the course we will discuss these developments, and what directions archaeology may take in the future as a result. Course work includes both reading/discussion and learning methods through practical exercises, and handling of archaeological material.
ANTH 5028 - Historical Archaeology
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Anth 3028/Anth 5028
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
In this course, we will explore the theories and methods of historical archaeology ? such as material culture studies, landscape perspectives, archival, and oral historical interpretation - as a means of intervening in contemporary discussions of diversity in the United States. Historical archaeology can be a very effective means to challenge some of the standard American narratives about our diverse past. Our aim is to move beyond either a simplistic ethnic pluralism or the superficial ?melting pot? progressive history and instead grapple with the materiality of settler colonialism, white supremacy, and capitalism. In learning about this field, we will consider what has distinguished historical archaeology from American archaeology more broadly, and how those differences are parlayed into specific research strengths. This includes several themes: colonialism; the modern world and globalizing economies; intersectional identities (race and ethnicity, class, sex and gender, religion, age, ability/disability) and social movements; public memory and commemoration; landscapes and social space; citizenship and subjectivity. Although historical archaeology until recently has been restrictively defined as addressing the European-colonized New World, the discipline in the past twenty years has significantly broadened its scope and impact on the practice of archaeology as a whole. Throughout the course we will discuss these developments, and what directions archaeology may take in the future as a result. Course work includes both reading/discussion and learning methods through practical exercises, and handling of archaeological material.
ANTH 3501 - Managing Museum Collections
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Anth 3501/Anth 5501
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Fall Even Year
This course provides a hands-on and research experience in collections management utilizing artifact, archival, and digital collections. Museum collections, the objects or specimens they contain, the information associated with them, and their care and maintenance are a crucial part of both the sciences and the humanities. While seemingly disparate, many of the issues faced by those responsible for collections are quite similar: how to preserve and care for those collections, legal issues surrounding the materials they contain, how to organize and classify the items, how to facilitate discovery and access, and how to make the information contained in them available to the broadest audience possible. The course includes lectures by museum professionals, hands-on activities and selected readings.
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for ANTH 5501.
ANTH 5501 - Managing Museum Collections
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Anth 3501/Anth 5501
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Fall Even Year
This course provides a hands-on and research experience in collections management utilizing artifact, archival, and digital collections. Museum collections, the objects or specimens they contain, the information associated with them, and their care and maintenance are a crucial part of both the sciences and the humanities. While seemingly disparate, many of the issues faced by those responsible for collections are quite similar: how to preserve and care for those collections, legal issues surrounding the materials they contain, how to organize and classify the items, how to facilitate discovery and access, and how to make the information contained in them available to the broadest audience possible. The course includes lectures by museum professionals, hands-on activities, and selected readings.
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for ANTH 3501.
BIOL 3272 - Applied Biostatistics
Credits:
4.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Biol 3272Biol 3272H//Biol 5272
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Conceptual basis of statistical analysis. Statistical analysis of biological data. Data visualization, descriptive statistics, significance tests, experimental design, linear model, simple/multiple regression, general linear model. Lectures, computer lab.
prereq: High school algebra; BIOL 2003 recommended
BIOL 3272H - Applied Biostatistics
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Biol 3272Biol 3272H//Biol 5272
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Conceptual basis of statistical analysis. Statistical analysis of biological data. Data visualization, descriptive statistics, significance tests, experimental design, linear model, simple/multiple regression, general linear model. Lectures, computer lab.
prereq: High school algebra; BIOL 2003 recommended.
BIOL 5272 - Applied Biostatistics
Credits:
4.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Biol 3272Biol 3272H//Biol 5272
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Conceptual basis of statistical analysis. Statistical analysis of biological data. Data visualization, descriptive statistics, significance tests, experimental design, linear model, simple/multiple regression, general linear model. Lectures, computer lab.
prereq: High school algebra; BIOL 2003 recommended.
GEOG 3541 - Principles of Geocomputing
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3541/Geog 5541
Typically offered:
Every Spring
The availability of computing infrastructures such as high-performance and cloud computing, high-speed networks, and rich data has led to a new scientific paradigm using computational approaches, termed computational science. Geocomputation is the "application of a computational science paradigm to study a wide range of problems in geographical and earth systems (the geo) contexts" (Openshaw, 2014). This course will introduce students to geocomputation as well as related areas including big spatial data, and cyberinfrastructure. Students will engage in hands-on exercises learning principles and best-practices in geocomputing. The ability to program is an essential skill for GIScientists. Learning to program takes time and a lot of practice, and in this course students will learn how to develop programs in the Python programming language to solve geospatial problems.
GEOG 5541 - Principles of Geocomputing
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3541/Geog 5541
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Spring
The availability of computing infrastructures such as high-performance and cloud computing, high-speed networks, and rich data has led to a new scientific paradigm using computational science. Geocomputation is the "application of a computational science paradigm to study a wide range of problems in geographical and earth systems (the geo) contexts" (Openshaw, 2014). This course will introduce students to geocomputation as well as related areas including big spatial data, and cyberinfrastructure. Students will engage in hands-on-exercises learning principles and best-practices in geocomputing. The ability to program is an essential skill for GIScientists. Learning to program takes time and a lost of practice, and in this course students will learn how to develop programs in the Python programming language to solve geospatial problems.
GLOS 1112 - Social Justice and Globalization
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
This course focuses on the relationship between two highly charged terms: globalization and social justice. We will explore questions such as: What is social justice, and how is it different from political justice or economic justice? When does the free flow of capital and commodities involved in globalizing processes endanger possibilities for social justice, and how might we check this danger? What about the mass migrations occurring now to Europe and elsewhere? To what extent are these the result of historic injustices, what new social injustices might they create, what new possibilities for social justice might they enable? How and when does the emergence of social media, network technologies and the like assist in the fight for human rights and equality, and thus enable social justice? And under what circumstances do these technologies empower phenomena like authoritarian populism, thus undermining social justice? This course will examine theoretical texts, literature, and empirical studies from the social sciences to investigate these questions.
GLOS 3105 - Exploring the World: The Practice of Interdisciplinary Research
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3105/GloS 3105H
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This class introduces Global Studies students to some of the major disciplines and methods used to make knowledge about the social world. The course first addresses fascinating philosophical questions, such as how is knowledge a social product? How are knowing and understanding different? How might we think of ignorance, too, as something constructed? We then turn from theory to practice, and to the question, how can we frame our questions, and enact our research in humble and ethically principled ways? Students will respond to this task by designing collaborative research projects. They will first identify and define a real world issue; they will review different disciplines' methods for defining and approaching the issue, and then they will jointly create a collaborative research design. The course will help Global Studies students understand the interdisciplinary nature of the Global Studies major, and it will help them begin to think about the goals, interests, and methods of their senior projects.
GLOS 3143 - Place, Community, Culture
(CIV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Students in the Global Studies program study not only the powerful political institutions and economic processes that shape our world, they also acquire the skills to perceive and investigate their own place and identities, and to interpret creative work that express different ways of being. In GLOS 3143 'Place, Community, Culture' students will explore their own locations, identities, and experiences in the context of our fraught and ethically complex times. The emphasis is on practice, on seeing one's own life as something to be enriched by seeing and feeling the world in new ways. Students will encounter a mix of philosophical works, artistic texts (novels, films, poetry, painting, music, and other forms of media) and scholarly texts that together will help students expand their ingrained and conditioned ways of seeing the world. Class themes might include self and other, community and alienation, place and placelessness, home and homelessness. Students will examine the place of ethics and politics in the negotiation of their identities and experiences. Assignments might include essays that ask students to interpret artistic works that present different avenues of insight, or creative assignments that ask you to reflect on your own experiences in relation to course readings and themes. Students will conclude the class more confident of their ability to notice and negotiate the dilemmas they will encounter in their personal and professional lives.
GLOS 3305 - Science for Sale: Environment, Capital, and Medicine
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This class uses a social justice lens to explore the interrelations of scientific discoveries, unequal global economies, and commodification. We will look at practices, new technologies, and policies that are trenchant for the negative impacts they have on environments broadly defined, and for human and non-human populations. We will ask how these practices, technologies, and policies - and the social and economic contexts that produce them - variably impact the health, well being, and valuation of particular populations. In a series of interconnected themes, we will examine what factors produce food insecurity and for whom; where and why pollution of resources such as water happens; the history and current state of antibiotic resistance; climate change and its various effects; and how new technologies can be life-saving and life-denying according to the ways national and global policies determine who gains access and who does not. We will also look at the innovative ways grassroots movements tackle issues confronting particular groups, what constitutes positive social change and by whose definition, and potential ways forward. Final projects focus on website construction or policy documents that have application beyond the classroom.
Prereq: soph or jr or sr
GLOS 3401W - International Human Rights Law
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course presents an introductory overview of the idea of human rights, its social and legal foundations and contemporary global issues. In the class, students will learn about the laws and procedures designed to protect the human rights of individuals and groups, with a special focus on the United Nations system. The course explores the conceptual underpinnings of human rights such as who is eligible to have rights, where those rights come from and who is responsible for guaranteeing them. Students will learn about how international laws are made and interpreted, and will consider the geo-political context which shapes human rights laws and procedures. Because of the evolving nature of the laws and issues in this field, students are encouraged to think analytically and ethically about how to address the many human rights challenges in the world today. The course will cover current human rights issues, including the right to health care, housing and other economic and social rights; and the right to life, freedom from torture and other civil and political rights. The course is writing intensive. The required paper for the class is a model complaint to the United Nations about a country and issue of the student's choosing. The class invites discussion and uses class exercises to engage students in the course material by shaping arguments for various legal fora.
GLOS 3412 - What is Equality?
(CIV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3412/GloS 5412
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Course explores debates about equality. Equality has many dimensions--e.g.: economic, social, political. These forms cannot be reconciled. Liberal democracies affirm the principle of political equality but defend, even in principle, social and economic inequalities. Animal rights add another wrinkle: very few of those who fight for these rights would claim political equality for animals.
GLOS 3602 - Other Worlds: Globalization and Culture
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
'Globalization' and 'Culture' are both terms that have been defined and understood in a variety of ways and the significance of which continues to be debated to the present, both inside and outside the academy. Globalization has been talked about both as an irresistible historical force, tending toward the creation of an increasingly interconnected, or, as is sometimes claimed, an increasingly homogeneous world, and as a set of processes, the outcome of which remains open-ended and uncertain, as likely to produce new kinds of differences as universal sameness. Culture meanwhile has been variously defined as that which distinguishes humans from other species (and which all humans therefore share) and as that which divides communities of humans from one another on the basis of different beliefs, customs, values etc. This course reflects on some of the possible meanings of both "Globalization" and "Culture" and asks what we can learn by considering them in relation to one another. How do the phenomena associated with globalization, such as increasing flows of people, capital, goods and information across increasing distances challenge our understandings of culture, including the idea that the world is composed of so many discrete and bounded "cultures"? At the same time, does culture and its associated expressive forms, including narrative fiction, poetry and film, furnish us with new possibilities for thinking about globalization? Does global interconnection produce a single, unified world, or multiple worlds? Are the movements of people, goods, ideas and information across distances associated with new developments caused by contemporary globalization, or have they been going on for centuries or even millennia? Might contemporary debates about climate change and environmental crisis compel us to consider these phenomena in new ways? The course addresses these questions as they have been discussed by scholars from a variety of disciplines and as they have been imagined by artists, poets, novelists and filmmakers. In doing so, it considers whether the distinctiveness of present day globalization is to be sought in part in the new forms of imagining and creative expression to which it has given rise.
GLOS 3606 - Art and Incarceration: Prison Voices and Visions
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Prisons are noisy places: clanking of metal, echoing voices, violence, laughter, and all the sounds of people living their lives in overcrowded congregate facilities without privacy or control over their surroundings. But the sounds of prisons -- the voices, the stories - are not often heard outside the prison walls. This course is meant to provide a corrective - a small corrective - to that silence. In GLOS 3606, Art and Incarceration: Prison Voices and Visions, we will read, view, and listen to creative work by incarcerated artists from around the world, and we will consider:
(1) what these artists have to say about the(ir) world(s),
(2) how art provides a space for resistance and survival within the walls of the prison, and (3) how the conditions of incarceration impact the creative process and affect our access to this important body of work.
Because the purpose of this course is to amplify and analyze the voices and visions of incarcerated artists, this course requires substantial reading, viewing, and listening. There are weekly writing assignments, but they are short and informal. There are no longer papers. There is a final take-home essay exam.
GLOS 3609 - Novels and Nations
(LITR, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3609/GWSS 3304
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
How do emerging and postcolonial nations enlist fiction in their claims to sovereignty and autonomy? How do the novel's literary techniques and strategies perform a unique brand of political and social critique vis a vis nations and nationalisms? We will focus on novels from a variety of national contexts from the Global North and South to show how literary analysis can be a companion to the social sciences in illuminating the historical and social contexts of the nation-state. In addition, we will consider the function of literature in allowing stateless nations to imagine a shared connection. We will also focus on the inner workings of the novel in order to understand the conventions and mechanisms of the genre and how it interconnects with related forms such as cinema, performance, and the visual arts.
The world today confronts a volatile scenario shaped by three intertwined political-economic processes: First, growth in surplus value or corporate profits fueled by monopoly capitalism, wage stagnation, and automation-driven improvements in productivity; second, growth in surplus or discarded matter fueled by rising consumerism and planned obsolescence in products and services; and finally, growth in surplus humanity or under-employed, unwanted populations fueled by structural transformations in the world economy with declining opportunities for good quality jobs. The combined result manifests as widening economic inequality between the 'haves' and 'have nots'; a politically volatile situation of racialized polarization in which huge numbers of people in entire regions, countries, or sectors of the globe, have little, declining, or no access to secure waged work; and an ecological crisis where the planet finds itself ill equipped to handle growing quantities of waste matter, including greenhouse gases. Our primary focus in the course will be to understand populations that are "cast out" of society, the forces that produce this condition, the mechanisms of rule by which surplus populations are managed, and the way people live and cope with their superfluity.
Class sessions are a combination of lectures, debates, student-led discussions, and audio-visual materials. 60-70 pages of weekly reading, bi-weekly commentaries, take-home midterms, short presentation, and final paper.
GLOS 3896 - Global Studies Internship
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Hands-on experience at Twin Cities organizations working at the nexus of the local and the global. Work 100 hours in non-governmental organization. Substantive coursework in Global Studies is required.
prereq: dept consent
GLOS 3900 - Topics in Global Studies
Credits:
1.0
-5.0
[max 15.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
GLOS 3215 - Supercapitalism: Labor, Consumption & the Environment in the New Global Economy
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3215/Soc 3215
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
From the jeans you buy online to the place mats you purchase at Target, most of the items we consume are made somewhere else. Global production networks link consumers of fresh green beans in Britain with growers, pickers, and packers in Zambia. And it isn't only products that move around the globe; so do people. Thanks to immense economic inequalities, wealthy families in the global North enjoy the cheap labor of Eastern European, Filipino, and Honduran nannies, house cleaners, and gardeners. How did this global economy come to be, how has it impacted workers, consumers, and ecosystems, and what are its ethical and political implications? This course focuses on the changes that have occurred over the last 70 years in the realms of labor, consumption, and the environment. We'll examine the movement away from regulated national economies to an integrated global economy; changing patterns and organization of production, distribution, consumption, and waste disposal; and new forms of capital-labor-state relations. Some of the topics we explore include the global trade in body parts; the rise of shareholder capitalism; the new "platform" economy; the growing insecurity of work; and the environmental changes global capitalism has wrought. We end by considering alternatives to the "business-as-usual" (BAU) economy.
SOC 3215 - Supercapitalism: Labor, Consumption & the Environment in the New Global Economy
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3215/Soc 3215
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
From the jeans you buy online to the place mats you purchase at Target, most of the items we consume are made somewhere else. Global production networks link consumers of fresh green beans in Britain with growers, pickers, and packers in Zambia. And it isn't only products that move around the globe; so do people. Thanks to immense economic inequalities, wealthy families in the global North enjoy the cheap labor of Eastern European, Filipino, and Honduran nannies, house cleaners, and gardeners. How did this global economy come to be, how has it impacted workers, consumers, and ecosystems, and what are its ethical and political implications? This course focuses on the changes that have occurred over the last 70 years in the realms of labor, consumption, and the environment. We'll examine the movement away from regulated national economies to an integrated global economy; changing patterns and organization of production, distribution, consumption, and waste disposal; and new forms of capital-labor-state relations. Some of the topics we explore include the global trade in body parts; the rise of shareholder capitalism; the new "platform" economy; the growing insecurity of work; and the environmental changes global capitalism has wrought. We end by considering alternatives to the "business-as-usual" (BAU) economy.
GLOS 3225 - The Power of the 1%: Global Philanthropy and the Making of a New World
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3225/ Soc 3225
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Philanthropy has come to play an increasingly important role in the economy and society, on both a national and global level. Americans gave away $450 billion in 2019, or a little over 2 percent of our country's GDP (Giving USA 2020). A few mega-philanthropists, such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg and others donated mind-boggling sums of money. These individuals and their foundations are having a significant impact around the world, changing the way public education is carried out in many countries, how global health priorities are defined, how public policies are made, and how African agricultural systems are organized.
Forbes magazine reports that there are 1,645 billionaires in the world today, 80% more than a decade ago. While some observers look positively on this philanthropic outpouring, others suggest it may be eroding democracy. In this course, we study philanthropy from a variety of perspectives, exploring who gives away money and why, how this "gift" impacts givers, receivers, and taxpayers, and what the relationship is between global philanthropy and power. Specific topics include the history of foundations; religion and charity; philanthropy and politics; consumption-based giving (or "brand aid"), and philanthropy and social policy. We'll examine case studies such as the Gates Foundation's role in African agriculture. Students will do "participant observation" in a local charity, and a research project on the philanthropic foundation or giving practice of their choice.
SOC 3225 - The Power of the 1%: Global Philanthropy and the Making of a New World
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3225/ Soc 3225
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Philanthropy has come to play an increasingly important role in the economy and society, on both a national and global level. Americans gave away $450 billion in 2019, or a little over 2 percent of our country's GDP (Giving USA 2020). A few mega-philanthropists, such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, and others donated mind-boggling sums of money. These individuals and their foundations are having a significant impact around the world, changing the way public education is carried out in many countries, how global health priorities are defined, how public policies are made, and how African agricultural systems are organized. Forbes magazine reports that there are 1,645 billionaires in the world today, 80% more than a decade ago. While some observers look positively on this philanthropic outpouring, others suggest it may be eroding democracy. In this course, we study philanthropy from a variety of perspectives, exploring who gives away money and why, how this "gift" impacts givers, receivers, and taxpayers, and what the relationship is between global philanthropy and power. Specific topics include the history of foundations; religion and charity; philanthropy and politics; consumption-based giving (or "brand aid"), and philanthropy and social policy. We'll examine case studies such as the Gates Foundation's role in African agriculture. Students will do "participant observation" in a local charity, and a research project on the philanthropic foundation or giving practice of their choice.
Pre-req: Soc Majors must register A-F.
GLOS 3231 - Geography of the World Economy
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3331/GloS 3231
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Geographical distribution of resources affecting development. Location of agriculture, industry, services. Agglomeration of economic activities, urbanization, regional growth. International trade. Changing global development inequalities. Impact on nations, regions, cities.
GEOG 3331 - Geography of the World Economy
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3331/GloS 3231
Typically offered:
Every Fall
An invisible, not-quite-dead, not-quite-alive entity?the coronavirus?forced us, rudely and tragically, to reckon with space. As we try and maintain social distance from other bodies, wear masks to disrupt the virus? pathways of diffusion, confront shortages in grocery stores, home supply outlets, and car dealerships, adjust to interruptions in many services, and either choose to, or are forced to stay at home, in our cities, in our countries, we are thinking and acting spatially. And we are reminded that ?stuff??food, medicines, toilet paper?reaches us often through geographically extensive and logistically intricate webs of economic production and distribution.
We will learn what it means to think geographically about the capitalist economy as a spatial, relational formation. In doing so, we will challenge dominant ways of understanding and analyzing the economy, and of what counts as economic. We will also examine two simultaneous aspects of the world economy?fixity and flow. On the one hand, the economy propels and is propelled by flows?of goods, of services, of people, of labor, and of finance. On the other hand, physical infrastructures are rooted in place on the earth. After all, even the digital worlds of Facebook, Google, and Amazon are enabled by vast server farms. The course will also highlight the production and proliferation of inequalities?between social groups, states, countries, and regions?in and by the world economy. In fact, we will ask: Is economic unevenness a mere byproduct of capitalist economic growth, or the condition of possibility for it? Finally, we will discuss the relationships between global phenomena and local events. Crises like global climate change, overflows of waste matter, COVID19, and the 2008 financial meltdown make it clear that the global and the local are intimately entangled. Not only do global events impact individual livelihoods, including yours and mine, but economic jitters in one place can escalate, sending shockwaves across the world.
GLOS 3407 - Global Islamophobia
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3407/Soc 3207
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Throughout the world, anti-Muslim activists and politicians have been increasingly attacking Muslims and Islam. And, international organizations have reported human rights violations against Muslims worldwide. Recently, in the United States, there have been calls to ban Muslims, as well as register American Muslims. In France, Muslim women are prohibited to wear a headscarf in high school. And in Myanmar, a genocide against Muslim minorities is currently underway. While anti-Islamic discourses have a long history in many societies worldwide (including Muslim-majority countries), the course seeks to explore the global rise of these discourses since September 11, 2001. The course examines the cultural, political, and historical origins of Islamophobic discourses that cast Muslims as "violent," "hateful," and "uncivilized." Class sessions will include some lecture but will be largely discussion based. Assignments will ask students to think and write critically about course concepts, debate and participate in simulation exercises, and reflect on personal thoughts and feelings about course content.
SOC 3207 - Global Islamophobia
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3407/Soc 3207
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Throughout the world, anti-Muslim activists and politicians have been increasingly attacking Muslims and Islam. And, international organizations have reported human rights violations against Muslims worldwide. Recently, in the United States, there have been calls to ban Muslims, as well as register American Muslims. In France, Muslim women are prohibited to wear a headscarf in high school. And in Myanmar, a genocide against Muslim minorities is currently underway. While anti-Islamic discourses have a long history in many societies worldwide (including Muslim-majority countries), the course seeks to explore the global rise of these discourses since September 11, 2001. The course examines the cultural, political, and historical origins of Islamophobic discourses that cast Muslims as "violent," "hateful," and "uncivilized." Class sessions will include some lecture but will be largely discussion based. Assignments will ask students to think and write critically about course concepts, debate and participate in simulation exercises, and reflect on personal thoughts and feelings about course content.
GLOS 3415W - Global Institutions of Power: World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3415W/ Soc 3417W
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
This course will introduce students to some of the world's most powerful global institutions -- such as the World Bank (IBRD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United Nations, and affiliated agencies such as UNHCR (for refugee support). We will follow their efforts to promote a style of global development practices -- large-scale capital lending and global expertise building -- that has crystallized into a common understanding of how global north-south dynamics should progress. Cases pursued in class may include their lending and debt policies, dam building and energy projects, climate resilience and water loans, and the ways they mediate free trade agreements among competing countries. We will also hear from the multitude of voices, theories, and practices that offer alternative visions as to how peoples strive to produce a more just, socially equitable, and climate-safe world. We will use books, articles, films, in-class debates, case study exploration, small-group projects, and guest speakers to create a lively discussion-based classroom environment.
SOC 3417W - Global Institutions of Power: World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3415W/ Soc 3417W
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
This course will introduce students to some of the world's most powerful global institutions -- such as the World Bank (IBRD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United Nations, and affiliated agencies such as UNHCR (for refugee support). We will follow their efforts to promote a style of global development practices -- large-scale capital lending and global expertise building -- that has crystallized into a common understanding of how global north-south dynamics should progress. Cases pursued in class may include their lending and debt policies, dam building and energy projects, climate resilience and water loans, and the ways they mediate free trade agreements among competing countries. We will also hear from the multitude of voices, theories, and practices that offer alternative visions as to how people strive to produce a more just, socially equitable, and climate-safe world. We will use books, articles, films, in-class debates, case study exploration, small-group projects, and guest speakers to create a lively discussion-based classroom environment.
GLOS 3611 - Stories, Bodies, Movements
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3611/GloS 5611/GWSS 3611
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
For most of us, stories seem to simply 'happen.' We listen to stories, we tell stories, we are moved by stories, and we retell stories. However, every act of telling stories involves making decisions or moves, and each re-telling of a familiar story may either give birth to new meanings, nuances, and affects, or, it may erase their possibility. Thus, each storyteller can be seen as a translator of stories with a responsibility to retell stories ethically. It is precisely through these translational acts that all politics become politics of storytelling. In this course, we will consider the ways in which the politics of the global and the intimate derive their meanings, effects, and affects from the circulation, transaction, and re-tellings of stories within and across borders. We will ask how a praxis of ethical engagement with politics can be imagined as a praxis of receiving and retelling stories. By immersing ourselves in the process of remembering, telling, listening, trimming, interweaving, distilling, and performing stories, we will consider how ethical receiving and retelling of stories involves continuous revising, repositioning, and re-theorizing of such vexed and entangled terrains and terminologies as identity, community, rights, and justice, as well as the contingent meanings of knowledge, truth, and ethics.
This course engages this terrain through a mode of active learning in which all the participants will read and reflect, listen and discuss, tell and retell, watch and play, move and perform collectively. By becoming aware of the ways in which our minds-bodies-souls are inserted in the receiving and translation of stories, we will grapple together with the ways in which our bodies--as our embodiments--help to relationally shape not only our own performances but also our responses to the performances of other living and moving bodies around us.
We will learn from writings, film, songs, and plays by writers, artists, activists, and thinkers from a range of historical and contemporary locations and struggles. These include: Marie Lily Cerat, W. E. B. Du Bois, Suheir Hammad, Sterlin Harjo, Naeem Inayatullah, June Jordan, AnaLouise Keating, Kauanui, J. Kehaulani, Audre Lorde, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Middle East Research and Information Project, Alok Rai, Nina Simone, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Sangtin Writers, Standing Rock Collective, Eve Tuck, Patrick Wolfe, and K. Wayne Yang. Many of the 'Acts' in this course will be co-facilitated with local or international artists and writers.
Grading Basis: A/F. The course requires all the participants to do sustained work and deep reflections, enjoy the process of imagining and creating with peers in a non-competitive environment.
prereq: GLOS 3611 is for jr or sr only. People from all kinds of locations and journeys are invited to join us in this collective exploration. For further information, email: nagar@umn.edu.
GLOS 5611 - Stories, Bodies, Movements
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3611/GloS 5611/GWSS 3611
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
For most of us, stories seem to simply 'happen.' We listen to stories, we tell stories, we are moved by stories, and we retell stories. However, every act of telling stories involves making decisions or moves, and each re-telling of a familiar story may either give birth to new meanings, nuances, and affects, or, it may erase their possibility. Thus, each storyteller can be seen as a translator of stories with a responsibility to retell stories ethically. It is precisely through these translational acts that all politics become politics of storytelling. In this course, we will consider the ways in which the politics of the global and the intimate derive their meanings, effects, and affects from the circulation, transaction, and re-tellings of stories within and across borders. We will ask how a praxis of ethical engagement with politics can be imagined as a praxis of receiving and retelling stories. By immersing ourselves in the process of remembering, telling, listening, trimming, interweaving, distilling, and performing stories, we will consider how ethical receiving and retelling of stories involves continuous revising, repositioning, and re-theorizing of such vexed and entangled terrains and terminologies as identity, community, rights, and justice, as well as the contingent meanings of knowledge, truth, and ethics.
This course engages this terrain through a mode of active learning in which all the participants will read and reflect, listen and discuss, tell and retell, watch and play, move and perform collectively. By becoming aware of the ways in which our minds-bodies-souls are inserted in the receiving and translation of stories, we will grapple together with the ways in which our bodies--as our embodiments--help to relationally shape not only our own performances but also our responses to the performances of other living and moving bodies around us.
We will learn from writings, film, songs, and plays by writers, artists, activists, and thinkers from a range of historical and contemporary locations and struggles. These include: Marie Lily Cerat, W. E. B. Du Bois, Suheir Hammad, Sterlin Harjo, Naeem Inayatullah, June Jordan, AnaLouise Keating, Kauanui, J. Kehaulani, Audre Lorde, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Middle East Research and Information Project, Munshi Premchand, Alok Rai, Nina Simone, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Sangtin Writers, Standing Rock Collective, Eve Tuck, Patrick Wolfe, and K. Wayne Yang. Many of the 'Acts' in this course will be co-facilitated with local or international artists and writers.
Grading Basis: A/F. The course requires all the participants to do sustained work and deep reflections, enjoy the process of imagining and creating with peers in a non-competitive environment.
Prereq: For graduate students only, or with instructor consent. People from all kinds of locations and journeys are invited to join us in this collective exploration. For further information, email: nagar@umn.edu.
GWSS 3611 - Stories, Bodies, Movements
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3611/GloS 5611/GWSS 3611
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
For most of us, stories seem to simply 'happen.' We listen to stories, we tell stories, we are moved by stories, and we retell stories. However, every act of telling stories involves making decisions or moves, and each re-telling of a familiar story may either give birth to new meanings, nuances, and affects, or, it may erase their possibility. Thus, each storyteller can be seen as a translator of stories with a responsibility to retell stories ethically. It is precisely through these translational acts that all politics become politics of storytelling. In this course, we will consider the ways in which the politics of the global and the intimate derive their meanings, effects, and affects from the circulation, transaction, and re-tellings of stories within and across borders. We will ask how a praxis of ethical engagement with politics can be imagined as a praxis of receiving and retelling stories. By immersing ourselves in the process of remembering, telling, listening, trimming, interweaving, distilling, and performing stories, we will consider how ethical receiving and retelling of stories involves continuous revising, repositioning, and re-theorizing of such vexed and entangled terrains and terminologies as identity, community, rights, and justice, as well as the contingent meanings of knowledge, truth, and ethics.
This course engages this terrain through a mode of active learning in which all the participants will read and reflect, listen and discuss, tell and retell, watch and play, move and perform collectively. By becoming aware of the ways in which our minds-bodies-souls are inserted in the receiving and translation of stories, we will grapple together with the ways in which our bodies--as our embodiments--help to relationally shape not only our own performances but also our responses to the performances of other living and moving bodies around us.
We will learn from writings, film, songs, and plays by writers, artists, activists, and thinkers from a range of historical and contemporary locations and struggles. These include: Marie Lily Cerat, W. E. B. Du Bois, Suheir Hammad, Sterlin Harjo, Naeem Inayatullah, June Jordan, AnaLouise Keating, Kauanui, J. Kehaulani, Audre Lorde, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Middle East Research and Information Project, Alok Rai, Nina Simone, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Sangtin Writers, Standing Rock Collective, Eve Tuck, Patrick Wolfe, and K. Wayne Yang. Many of the 'Acts' in this course will be co-facilitated with local or international artists and writers.
There are no prerequisites for this course. We invite people from all kinds of locations and journeys to join us in this collective exploration. For further information, email: nagar@umn.edu.
Grading Basis: A/F. The course requires all the participants to do sustained work and deep reflections, enjoy the process of imagining and creating with peers in a non-competitive environment.
GLOS 3613W - Stuffed and Starved: The Politics of Eating
(SOCS, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3613W/GloS 3613V/Soc 3613
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course takes a cross-cultural, historical, and transnational perspective to the study of the global food system. Themes explored include: different cultural and social meanings attached to food; social class and consumption; the global food economy; global food chains; work in the food sector; the alternative food movement; food justice; environmental consequences of food production.
SOC 3613W - Stuffed and Starved: The Politics of Eating
(SOCS, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3613W/GloS 3613V/Soc 3613
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course takes a cross-cultural, historical, and transnational perspective to the study of the global food system. Themes explored include: different cultural and social meanings attached to food; social class and consumption; the global food economy; global food chains; work in the food sector; the alternative food movement; food justice; environmental consequences of food production.
prereq: Soc majors/minors must register A-F
GLOS 3705 - Migrations: People in Motion
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3705/Soc 3505
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Students in this course will tackle debates related to migration from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and will compare and connect diverse migration trends around the world (Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America). Students will critically engage with various paradigms on the geopolitical, racial, and gender power dynamics that anchor migration processes and outcomes. Why would the movement of individuals from some parts of the world (often from the least developed regions to the highly developed Western nations) create such strong and highly charged debates? How are cross border social and economic relations of individuals and households maintained and perpetuated? What are particular governments doing to either encourage or hinder these movements? How are current migrations different from earlier eras? Is this gendered, and if so, how and why? The objective of this course is to explore the above questions through academic and policy published literature.
prereq: soph, jr, or sr
SOC 3505 - Migrations: People in Motion
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3705/Soc 3505
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Students in this course will tackle debates related to migration from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and will compare and connect diverse migration trends around the world (Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America). Students will critically engage with various paradigms on the geopolitical, racial, and gender power dynamics that anchor migration processes and outcomes. Why would the movement of individuals from some parts of the world (often from the least developed regions to the highly developed Western nations) create such strong and highly charged debates? How are cross border social and economic relations of individuals and households maintained and perpetuated? What are particular governments doing to either encourage or hinder these movements? How are current migrations different from earlier eras? Is this gendered, and if so, how and why? The objective of this course is to explore the above questions through academic and policy published literature.
prereq: Soph, jr, or sr
GLOS 3969 - Democracy and popular politics in India
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3489/GloS 3969
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Democracy is not only a political order; it is also a popular culture and politics. This course explores three tumultuous moments of this politics and culture in India: the pluralist nationalism which characterized Gandhian nonviolence and the Indian constitution, the majoritarianism that was often this pluralism's undertow, and Hindutva or Hindu supremacism, the now dominant populist ideology.
HIST 3489 - Democracy and popular politics in India
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3489/GloS 3969
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Democracy is not only a political order; it is also a popular culture and politics. This course explores three tumultuous moments of this politics and culture in India: the pluralist nationalism which characterized Gandhian nonviolence and the Indian constitution, the majoritarianism that was often this pluralism?s undertow, and Hindutva or Hindu supremacism, the now dominant populist ideology.
GLOS 4221 - Globalize This! Understanding Globalization Through Sociology
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4221/Soc 4321
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
From the city streets of Bangalore to the high plateaus of La Paz to the trading floors of New York City, people from around the world are becoming increasingly interdependent, creating new and revitalizing old forms of power and opportunity, exploitation and politics, social organizing and social justice. This course offers an overview of the processes that are forcing and encouraging people?s lives to intertwine economically, politically, and culturally.
prereq: Soc majors/minors must register A-F
SOC 4321 - Globalize This! Understanding Globalization through Sociology
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4221/Soc 4321
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
From the city streets of Bangalore to the high plateaus of La Paz to the trading floors of New York City, people from around the world are becoming increasingly interdependent, creating new and revitalizing old forms of power and opportunity, exploitation and politics, social organizing and social justice. This course offers an overview of the processes that are forcing and encouraging people?s lives to intertwine economically, politically, and culturally.
prereq: Soc majors/minors must register A-F
GLOS 4311 - Power, Justice & the Environment
(DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4311/Soc 4311
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
This course introduces students to the theoretical and historical foundations of environmental racism and environmental inequality more broadly. We will examine and interrogate both the social scientific evidence concerning these phenomena and the efforts by community residents, activists, workers, and governments to combat it. We will consider the social forces that create environmental inequalities so that we may understand their causes, consequences, and the possibilities for achieving environmental justice
prereq: SOC 1001 recommended
SOC 4311 - Power, Justice & the Environment
(DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4311/Soc 4311
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
This course introduces students to the theoretical and historical foundations of environmental racism and environmental inequality more broadly. We will examine and interrogate both the social scientific evidence concerning these phenomena and the efforts by community residents, activists, workers, and governments to combat it. We will consider the social forces that create environmental inequalities so that we may understand their causes, consequences, and the possibilities for achieving environmental justice
prereq: SOC 1001 recommended
GLOS 4315 - Never Again! Memory & Politics after Genocide
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4315/Soc 5315/JwSt 4315/
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
Course focuses on the social repercussions and political consequences of large-scale political violence, such as genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Students learn how communities and states balance the demands for justice and memory with the need for peace and reconciliation and addresses cases from around the globe and different historical settings.
prereq: SOC 1001 or 1011V recommended, A-F required for Majors/Minors.
GLOS 5315 - Never Again! Memory & Politics after Genocide
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4315/Soc 5315/JwSt 4315/
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
Course focuses on the social repercussions and political consequences of large-scale political violence, such as genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Students learn how communities and states balance the demands for justice and memory with the need for peace and reconciliation and addresses cases from around the globe and different historical settings.
prereq: SOC 1001 or 1011V recommended, A-F required for Majors/Minors.
JWST 4315 - Never Again! Memory & Politics after Genocide
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4315/Soc 5315/JwSt 4315/
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
Course focuses on the social repercussions and political consequences of large-scale political violence, such as genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Students learn how communities and states balance the demands for justice and memory with the need for peace and reconciliation and addresses cases from around the globe and different historical settings.
prereq: SOC 1001 or 1011V recommended, A-F required for Majors/Minors.
SOC 4315 - Never Again! Memory & Politics after Genocide
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4315/Soc 5315/JwSt 4315/
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
Course focuses on the social repercussions and political consequences of large-scale political violence, such as genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Students learn how communities and states balance the demands for justice and memory with the need for peace and reconciliation and addresses cases from around the globe and different historical settings.
prereq: SOC 1001 or 1011V recommended, A-F required for Majors/Minors.
SOC 5315 - Never Again! Memory & Politics after Genocide
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4315/Soc 5315/JwSt 4315/
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
Course focuses on the social repercussions and political consequences of large-scale political violence, such as genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Students learn how communities and states balance the demands for justice and memory with the need for peace and reconciliation and addresses cases from around the globe and different historical settings.
prereq: SOC 1001 or 1011V recommended, A-F required for Majors/Minors.
GLOS 4344 - Europe and its Margins
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Anth 4344/GloS 4344
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course explores some of the forms of human imagining (literary, artistic, political, social scientific) engendered by the notoriously hard to define entity known as "Europe." It does so by focusing on regions and populations that have been thought of at various times as marking Europe's inner and outer cultural and/or geographical limits. Topics addressed include: the relationship between physical geography, cultural memory, and the formation (or subversion) of identity claims; the reconfigured political landscapes of post-socialism and European integration; immigration, refugee flows, and the rise of far-right ethno-nationalisms; and the effects of pandemics past and present.
prereq: One course in [ANTH or GLOS]
ANTH 4344 - Europe and its Margins
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Anth 4344/GloS 4344
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course explores some of the forms of human imagining (literary, artistic, political, social scientific) engendered by the notoriously hard to define entity known as "Europe." It does so by focusing on regions and populations that have been thought of at various times as marking Europe's inner and outer cultural and/or geographical limits. Topics addressed include: the relationship between physical geography, cultural memory, and the formation (or subversion) of identity claims; the reconfigured political landscapes of post-socialism and European integration; immigration, refugee flows, and the rise of far-right ethno-nationalisms; and the effects of pandemics past and present.
prereq: One course in [ANTH or GLOS]
ARGN 3003 - Politics and Society in Latin America
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Comparative analysis of social/political structures of Argentina and Latin America in 20th century. Taught in English.
ARGN 3006 - Topics in Argentine History
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Study Argentina's history. Main topics include the legacy of Peron, the army in politics and government, the return of democracy, and current events. Taught in English.
ARGN 3008 - Latin American Literature and Cinema
(LITR, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Offered jointly by Fundación Jose Ortega y Gasset and Learning Abroad Center. Located in downtown Buenos Aires. Spanish language. Global/cultural issues. Sampling food, reading literature, experiencing music/dance. Argentine culture.
ARGN 3009 - Argentina: Stereotypes and Identity
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Intercultural perspectives on Argentina. How others perceive Argentines and how Argentines perceive themselves, through literature, humor, art, music, and history.
prereq: 1004
ARGN 3011 - Buenos Aires - City of the Arts: Spanish
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course focuses on the art and architecture of Argentina. Learn about the different artistic movements in the country and visit museums, private art collections, and public monuments. The city becomes your classroom. At the same time, get a broader perspective of world art that serves as a background for a better understanding of the art and architectural scene in Argentina throughout the past 300 years.
ARGN 3640 - Service Learning in Buenos Aires: ENG
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Students work with non-governmental and community service organizations devoted to helping children/adults in impoverished urban areas, immigrants from border countries, and groups at high risk (women, children, seniors).
ARGN 3896 - Internship in Buenos Aires
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
The Buenos Aires internship course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to become more knowledgeable regarding the local culture, organizational cultures, and the professional environment. Through practical internship experiences as well as readings, discussions, and written assignments, students will deepen their understanding of the host country?s cultural context and critically examine their own worldview.
The course is designed to guide students in the internship experience and create a foundation for a successful professional career. In addition to gaining a cross-cultural comparative view on work, the topics and assignments will deepen students? insights about themselves, professional expectations, and being successful in the workplace. Students are expected to make a valuable contribution to the internship site through the completion of major projects or tasks.
This course focuses on themes students are expected to develop and enhance over the course of the semester through class seminars and on-the-job experience, particularly characteristics of work dynamics in Argentina; work relations, work protocol, and hierarchy; differences between Argentina and the US, notions of leadership in Argentina, and local cultural traits that are unique to the country; and multiculturalism, age, gender, and communication in the workplace.
BCLA 3001 - Nationalism in Comparative Perspective
(SOCS, CIV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course studies the relationship between states and nations in both a theoretical and comparative perspective with a particular focus on the Catalan, Basque and Spanish experiences. It analyzes state building processes and the development of nationalism, as well as the social, economic and technological conditions behind its emergence, transformation and contrasting discourse. The course aims at providing a solid theoretical background on the subject of nationalism as well as introducing the students into the social and political reality that permeates in Spain’s daily life and shapes Spaniard’s political mind-frames and identities.
BCLA 3005 - Analyzing and Exploring the Global City
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Cities around the world are striving to be ?global,? and Barcelona, the capital of Catalunya, is one of the largest and most cosmopolitan cities in Spain. It is globally renowned for its art and architecture, possessing no fewer than nine UNESCO World Heritage sites, and has become a major destination for global tourism. This interdisciplinary course examines the emergence of this elegant, creative city as Spain?s gateway to the Mediterranean, and analyzes its history and evolution since its foundation by the Romans. Students will explore the role of population dynamics, industrial change, and globalization in shaping the city and the lives of its inhabitants, examining the ways in which the interplay of urbanism, politics, and society has addressed challenges of social, political, and technological change in the past and today. The course also traces the changing nature of Barcelona?s relationship with the rest of Spain, Europe, and the wider world. Topics will include ancient and Medieval Barcelona; nationalism and innovations in art and architecture; the role of the 1992 Olympics as a catalyst for urban regeneration; the impacts of gentrification, tourism, and the recent economic crisis on the city and its inhabitants; and future scenarios of urban change.
BCLA 3006 - Architectural History of Spain
(HIS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course will look at the history of architecture and urban design in Spain. Beginning with a brief introduction to the ancient styles (from the first civilization of the Iberian Peninsula), it will focus upon developments in architecture and urban planning in Spain from the 1st Century AD to the present. Special attention will be paid to the 19th and 20th Centuries in Barcelona, and several relevant field visits will be made.
BCLA 3011 - The Birth of Modern Art: Matisse, Picasso, Dalí
(AH)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
The work of these three international artists with distinct cultural roots is explored on an individual basis within the wider framework of European art movements. In each case, we will study the acceptance and/or rejection of tradition, the interaction with French art and artists, and personal experience. We will also pay attention to the role of both outside stimuli (war, relationships) and inner forces (memory, imagination). The course will include course related excursions to the Picasso Museum, the MNAC (Catalan National Museum of Art) as well as a trip to the Dalí Theatre Museum in Figueres.
BCLA 3014 - Spain As Seen Through Its Movies: 1980s to Today
(AH, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
The main goal of this course is to provide students with a general understanding of Spain, taking into consideration its recent past, but focusing mainly on some of the most relevant and controversial issues of the current situation. The use of movies as a vehicular tool allows not only for the introduction of the cultural factor, but also the very Spanish perspective(s) that helps explain how the country sees and understands itself.
The course will address the following general questions: a) what it means to speak of a "national cinema;" b) how cinema constructs and/or contests of his or her story; c) cinema's impact on shifting notions of what constitutes the human condition; d) how the formal qualities of cinematic narrative shape on-screen stories; e) where and how issues of gender, sexuality, class, and ethnicity surface in cinematic articulations of the relationship between national identity, global trends, and personal history.
There are five sections or blocks to this course. The first block will cover the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent dictatorship, indispensable to understand the last 40 years of democracy in Spain. The second block is almost a monography to the figure of Pedro Almodóvar, his time, and the ?Espańa? his movies depict. The third focuses on the genre of horror, very rich in the recent Spanish production and quite ?imitated? by Hollywood. These last two blocks serve as a good opportunity to reflect about the political/national/identity aspects of the cinema industry.
In an attempt to reverse the perspective, the last two blocks approach current Spanish issues with an important impact in the society as a whole and its citizens as individuals. The fourth block discusses Spanish politics and its most recent developments. And the fifth one is a gender approach to the demographics of the country.
ECDR 4001 - International Development: Human Rights: Policy & Practice
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Students will critically analyze theories of development and the impact of development models throughout the world, but specifically Latin America and Ecuador. They will address development theories, assumptions of development, and alternatives to development through the lens of social services. This course starts by investigating the concept of globalization within international development and its prevalence in Latin America, and in particular Ecuador. There is an emphasis throughout the course on contrasting Western thinking with Andean thought processes and connecting the global to the local. The course will have a multidisciplinary approach, and will focus on how individuals, institutions, events, and ideas are connected.
This course will focus on the critical analysis of social problems and will address the issue of social services as instruments for social inclusion through the restitution of rights and empowerment. The concept of social exclusion (discrimination, inequality, inequity, poverty) will be discussed, as well as how development has led to social inclusion or exclusion, and how social services have contributed. The course will focus on the priority care groups?children and adolescents, women, older adults, and people with disabilities?and the policies, programs, and services for them in Ecuador today.
ECDR 4002 - International Development: Social Entrepreneurship & Microfinance
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Students will critically analyze theories of development, and the impact of development models throughout the world, but specifically Latin America and Ecuador. They will address development theories, assumptions of development, and alternatives to development through the lens of social entrepreneurship. This course starts by investigating the concept of globalization within international development and its prevalence in Latin America, and in particular Ecuador. There is an emphasis throughout the course on contrasting Western thinking with Andean thought processes and connecting the global to the local. The course will have a multidisciplinary approach, and will focus on how individuals, institutions, events, and ideas are connected.
Students will identify the impacts of development on the Ecuadorian economy, specifically focusing on the concept of social entrepreneurship, which is recognized in the Ecuadorian constitution. They will study the history of this specific form of entrepreneurship, its relationship with local development, and as an alternate form of distribution and production of goods and services. Students will also analyze the economic impacts generated by these practices and how public, private, and community actors interface with this type of economy.
ECDR 4003 - International Development: Public Health & Traditional Andean Medicine
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Students will critically analyze theories of development, and the impact of development models throughout the world, but specifically Latin America and Ecuador. They will address development theories, assumptions of development, and alternatives to development through the lens of social entrepreneurship. This course starts by investigating the concept of globalization within international development and its prevalence in Latin America, and in particular Ecuador. There is an emphasis throughout the course on contrasting Western thinking with Andean thought processes and connecting the global to the local. The course will have a multidisciplinary approach, and will focus on how individuals, institutions, events, and ideas are connected.
Students will begin to address social, economic, cultural, and environmental determinants of health as a mechanism for understanding the main health problems in Ecuador. There is an emphasis throughout the course on contrasting Western thinking and medicine with Andean worldviews and ancestral medicine. The course will discuss intercultural health processes to improve the health conditions of diverse cultural groups. The course will focus on the indigenous movement in Ecuador and the recovery of the Andean culture as it relates to health and traditional health practices. Understanding the new Ecuadorian constitution, which includes the right to health, will lead into discussions of the complex political and social dimensions of health. A comparative analysis of health reform processes in Ecuador and the United States will allow the students to identify the contrasting dimensions in the search to improve the collective health in both countries.
ECDR 4004 - International Development: Environmental Challenges from the Andes to the Amazon
(SOCS, ENV)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Students will critically analyze theories of development and the impact of development models throughout the world, but specifically Latin America and Ecuador. They will address development theories, assumptions of development, and alternatives to development through the lens of the environment and sustainability. This course starts by investigating the concept of globalization within international development and its prevalence in Latin America, and in particular Ecuador. There is an emphasis throughout the course on contrasting Western thinking with Andean thought processes and connecting the global to the local. The course will have a multidisciplinary approach, and will focus on how individuals, institutions, events, and ideas are connected.
Students will identify the impacts of development on environmental challenges in Ecuador, and the relationship between environment, use and management of natural resources, and local communities. Examination of cases that involve people?s rights over the environment, food sovereignty, water management, climate change, sustainable development, and local alternatives for natural resource management and conservation will be studied.
ECDR 4101 - Historical & Political Context of Ecuador
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Ecdr 4101/Span 3510
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course will begin with a historical review from the European conquest, moving to independence and the construction of a nation state, and finally the republican era until today. Main events and characteristics from each timeframe will be highlighted. Students will discuss the ?discovery of America? from the Ecuadorian and South American context, as well as the process and impact of conquering this continent.
History and politics will come together when discussing the 20th Century. Topics such as liberal revolution, plutocracy, the uprising known as the Juliana Revolution, the populist velasquista phenomenon, dictatorships, and the return to democracy will all be examined. Additionally, the central elements of the so-called Citizen Revolution will be addressed. Current events such as the government of Moreno and his turn to the right will be discussed as well as political opposition, main actors in the political sphere, etc. The current state will be analyzed based on identifying the main elements that shape the country?s cultural diversity, its nationalities, and peoples. A comparative analysis between the western culture and the Andean culture will be carried out.
ECDR 4201 - Research in Ecuador
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
The goal of this course is to introduce the MSID student to various research concepts and practices, helping them select their study topic and title for their study, develop statements of problems and choose research questions and appropriate research design, study issues related to research ethics, develop their skills in choosing data collection instruments, and analyze the data they collect for their research. The course introduces various topics in the research cycle and provides a forum in which students can share with one another their research experience at each stage of the process.
Research projects in this course are ideally projects that fit with the development agency?s goals and activities; therefore, the student?s research interests are expected to blend with what is realistically happening at the development agency. Students must have approved proposals before proceeding on to their research sites. They will then collect necessary data and complete data analysis before heading back to Quito at the end of the six-week field period. It is likely that students will participate in field activities, meetings, and other forms of engagement that will be indirectly related to and could inform their research projects. Through hands-on experiences as well as readings, discussions, and written assignments, students will deepen their understanding of the host-country cultural context and development work from an international perspective, as well as critically examine their own worldview in order to develop, defend, and challenge their own values and beliefs.
ECDR 4896 - Internship in Ecuador
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course provides a cross-cultural experience of working on various development issues with a regional nonprofit organization. The course focuses on guiding students to understand their own identity as they integrate theory with reality by participation in local development sites. Students are prepared for entering into their community work through discussions on stakeholder and agency analysis, ethical considerations, culture specific gender and diversity context, and power and privilege.
The mentoring continues while students are at their internship placement as they come in contact with social actors, community organizations, and local and national authorities, in various regions of Quito at the marginal urban and rural levels. The students are urged to play an active role in their internships by providing suggestions and solutions, discussing alternatives, and investigating all areas of their internship placement to garner a holistic experience on the realities of development work. Through practical internship experiences as well as readings, discussions, and written assignments, students will deepen their understanding of the host-country cultural context and development work from an international perspective, as well as critically examine their own worldview in order to develop, defend, and challenge their own values and beliefs.
FLOR 3005 - History and Sociology of Modern Consumerism
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Study abroad course.
FLOR 3010W - Literary Representations of Florence: Space, Self & Other
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Study abroad course.
FLOR 3012 - Florence and the Mediterranean: A Sea of Culture
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
During the Middle Ages and in the early Modern Age, three great civilizations clashed for the control of the Mediterranean basin: the Latin West, the Byzantine Empire, and the Muslim world. But the sea was not just a theatre of war, it was also a lively economic area, with trade routes crossing it from north to south, from east to west. Moreover, it was the place where different cultures met: This course will explore their reciprocal influence, with a special focus on art history and a mainly Italian and Florentine point of view. Topics will include: the impact of Islamic art on Western culture; the role of Byzantine art in the development of Florentine painting; the rediscovery of Greek classical culture and its importance in Renaissance civilization; the consequences of the fall of Constantinople and of the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. Students will explore Florentine churches, palaces, and museums in search of visual evidence of the links between the city and the diversity of Mediterranean culture.
FLOR 3015 - Food & Identity in the Mediterranean: A Cultural History
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course is an investigation into how the identities of different peoples in the Mediterranean can be understood through the lens of the food they cultivate, trade, and eat. After an introduction to different definitions of identity, with a particular focus on the formation, maintenance, and evolution of group identity through cultural practices, the course will analyze the history and culture of food in different civilizations of the Mediterranean basin: Phoenicians, Ancient Hebrews, Greco-Romans, and others. Study of the different diets of the Byzantines and the Venetian merchants, and the influence of the spice trade and nascent Islam during the Middle Ages, will show how identities are formed, consolidated, and changed through food. The Renaissance, especially in Florence, will be the object of an in-depth analysis as a pivotal time in Western food culture and in the arts. The course will then investigate the relationship between Florentine and French elite identities via the birth of modern table manners (and dishes) and their connection with the rise of the first nation states. The last part of the course will consider modern states, migration, and how these interconnect with agricultural practices and industrial food processes that have changed the nature of food production in the Mediterranean.
FLOR 3346 - Sociology of Crime: Mafia and the Media in Italy
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Study abroad course
MADR 3002 - Ecology of Spain
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Study abroad course.
MADR 3012 - Internships in Spain
Credits:
3.0
-6.0
[max 6.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Study abroad course.
MADR 3013 - Spanish Civilization
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Madr 3013/Madr 3022
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course aims to offer a general view of Spanish culture and society through readings, lectures, and cultural activities. This semester will focus on a few topics portraying the transformations experienced in the country during the last years: the political system, social and economic problems, multi-ethnic society, new role of women, new family models, and present image of Spain. We will combine lectures, PowerPoint presentations, videos, discussions of required readings, and group debates. Being in Spain gives you a great opportunity to widen your approach to culture through language, and one of the aims of this class is to help you achieve this goal. All students are expected to come to all sessions prepared, with all indicated assignments completed beforehand.
MADR 3019 - Culture, Globalization & Media
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
The aim of this course is to introduce the notion of “culture” as the set of mental, socially mediated constructs employed by individuals and groups to interpret reality. From that basis, this course examines the set of conflicts currently underway both within Western societies—as seen, for instance, in the “Culture Wars” as well as in the latest US presidential election—as well as the tensions between the Western and non-Western cultures—such as those of India, China, and the Arab worlds—with an emphasis in the role played by the media and the cultural industries.
MADR 3021 - Art at the Prado Museum
(AH)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
The aim of this course is to make students familiar with the most relevant and internationally outstanding Spanish and European artists within the Prado Museum Permanent Collections. The course will help students to fully understand and assimilate art history fundamental concepts and movements such as Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassicism, with a specific concentration on Spanish masters such as El Greco, Velázquez, and Goya. Simultaneously, it will help students confront Spain’s and Europe most controversial history: from the dark Medieval Ages to the beginning of the 19th Century. Two observations will be fundamental to our investigations.
The first is that art history involves the study not simply of formal concepts. A work of art has a physical presence that is offered by the artist but his/her ideas, convictions, and claims are shaped in large measure by specific social circumstances. The relevance of the latter are those that turn an artwork into a masterpiece. Thus, techniques and styles of representation are just the beginning of art history research.
The second observation has to do with the relationship between art and culture: Art does not simply (or passively) reflect a given culture, but rather actively participates in its formation and development. A work of art, then, is the deepest expression of a social, religious, political, as well as intellectual context. Thus, thorough the artworks’ analysis, students will develop critical and intellectual thinking by the means of observation, research, and interpretation.
The aim of this course is to make students familiar with the most relevant and internationally outstanding Spanish Modern artists: Goya, Picasso, Dalí & Miró. With a specific concentration on these Spanish masters, the course will bring students to fully understand and assimilate such fundamental concepts and movements of art history as Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Abstraction, and Minimalism. Simultaneously, it will explore one of the most controversial periods of Spanish and European history, from the 19th through the dawn of the 20th Century. Two observations will be fundamental to our investigations.
The first is that art history involves the study of more than simply formal concepts. A work of art has a physical presence that is offered by the artist, but his/her ideas, convictions, and claims are shaped in large measure by specific social circumstances. The relevance of the latter are those that turn an artwork into a masterpiece. Thus, techniques and styles of representation are just the beginning of art history research.
The second observation has to do with the relationship between art and culture. Art does not simply (or passively) reflect a given culture, but rather actively participates in its formation and development. A work of art, then, is the deepest expression of a social, religious, political, and intellectual context. Thus, through the analysis of works of art, students will develop critical and intellectual thinking by the means of observation, research, and interpretation.
MADR 3027 - Contemporary Spanish History through Film
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Spanish cinema provides an excellent route for understanding social and political change throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries. As the most important artistic medium of modernity, cinema allows one to construct and deconstruct many myths and identities. This course will analyze the most relevant Spanish film productions primarily as socio-historical documents (content). Topics in Spain may include the Republic and Civil War (Fernán Gómez and Buńuel), the ?60s comic criticism of dictatorship (García Berlanga), and censorship (Lazaga), the transition to democracy (Garci and Almodóvar), and the new ?90s cinema (Amenábar, de la Iglesia, Medem, Coixet, and Bollaín).
MONT 3302 - Civilization of the South
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Study abroad course.
MONT 3303 - Internship
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Fren 3896/Mont 3303
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Study abroad course.
MONT 3308 - French Art History
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Study abroad course.
MONT 3312 - Contemporary French Civilization
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Study abroad course.
MONT 3313 - Masculine/Feminine: France through the Lens of Cinema
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Study abroad course.
MONT 3886 - Community Engagement in Montpellier
(CIV, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course will explore the historical, sociological, and political context of the French community but also in relation to Europe and with a comparison with the American system. It will provide an opportunity for students to reflect on their community engagement in the host country environment. Students will engage in charities/French schools and then share their experience in a classroom. They will discuss topics linked to French society at large, approaching diverse subjects such as the youth in French society, the way the education system works in France and how it differs from the US, the French social system, the concept of ?laďcité? (secularism) in France, the history of immigration from the 19th Century until today with the new waves of immigrant population, and race and gender issues. Students will have a closer look at French charity organization, NGO, and see how they work here in France. They will also examine leadership values in their country and see how they can adapt and develop them in their new environment.
This course and students' engagement in the community will deepen their understanding of the host country cultural context and will lead them to critically examine their own worldviews. Topics explored will include ethic and social responsibility, leadership, French social systems, multiculturalism in the French society, place of secularism (laďcité) in the French society, history of immigration, and gender equality.
SNGL 4001 - International Development: Human Rights: Policy, & Practice
(SOCS)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
The Political Economy of International Development (PIED) critically explores the role of the international development agenda, with a specific focus on its impact on the African continent. Students will acquire knowledge on the foundation of this agenda while capturing the complexity and paradoxes of its implementation. Students will also build on this understanding to analyze the power relationships at stake between the various actors (donors, governments, international institutions, development beneficiaries, private sector, etc.). Grounded in a theoretical approach, this course will nevertheless explore practical case studies and experiences to favor in-depth analysis.
This course will dedicate particular attention to the social experiences of the populations in developing countries from a political and historical perspective. Furthermore, students will be better inclined to critically appreciate the contribution of institutional mechanisms in the bi-lateral, multilateral, and non-government sectors in the development of Sub-Saharan African nations. Students will examine multidisciplinary ways of thinking that can be used to synthesize and analyze local, national, and global issues, and the connections among these experiences.
Students will then examine constructs of human rights and services in developing countries in general and Senegal in particular. As background to the course, we will attempt to create a common understanding of key concepts such as human rights, social justice, human services, social services, social welfare, community development, and social work. Students will then look at how these ideals are implemented in Senegal and the limitations and challenges of the implementation.
SNGL 4002 - International Development: Entrepreneurship & Inclusive Finance
(SOCS)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
The Political Economy of International Development (PIED) critically explores the role of the international development agenda, with a specific focus on its impact on the African continent. Students will acquire knowledge on the foundation of this agenda while capturing the complexity and paradoxes of its implementation. Students will also build on this understanding to analyze the power relationships at stake between the various actors (donors, governments, international institutions, development beneficiaries, private sector, etc.). Grounded in a theoretical approach, this course will nevertheless explore practical case studies and experiences to favor in-depth analysis.
This course will dedicate particular attention to the social experiences of the populations in developing countries from a political and historical perspective. Furthermore, students will be better inclined to critically appreciate the contribution of institutional mechanisms in the bi-lateral, multilateral, and non-government sectors in the development of Sub-Saharan African nations. Students will examine multidisciplinary ways of thinking that can be used to synthesize and analyze local, national, and global issues, and the connections among these experiences.
This course will then examine constructs of inclusive finance in developing countries in general and Senegal in particular. It will challenge students to understand development policy tools that use microfinance as a strategy for economic growth in the war on poverty. A critical reflection on the limits of microfinance as a durable development approach will allow students to better understand attempts at innovation that respond to specific problems related to microfinance, and the course will introduce them to diverse perspectives on microfinance in the contemporary global economy. Students will engage with topics such as microfinance, social entrepreneurship, access to capital, and financial services.
SNGL 4003 - International Development: Public & Community Health
(SOCS)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
The Political Economy of International Development (PIED) critically explores the role of the international development agenda, with a specific focus on its impact on the African continent. Students will acquire knowledge on the foundation of this agenda while capturing the complexity and paradoxes of its implementation. Students will also build on this understanding to analyze the power relationships at stake between the various actors (donors, governments, international institutions, development beneficiaries, private sector, etc.). Grounded in a theoretical approach, this course will nevertheless explore practical case studies and experiences to favor in-depth analysis.
This course will dedicate particular attention to the social experiences of the populations in developing countries from a political and historical perspective. Furthermore, students will be better inclined to critically appreciate the contribution of institutional mechanisms in the bi-lateral, multilateral, and non-government sectors in the development of Sub-Saharan African nations. Students will examine multidisciplinary ways of thinking that can be used to synthesize and analyze local, national, and global issues, and the connections among these experiences.
Students will then examine constructs of public and community health in developing countries in general and Senegal in particular. This course will present students with an overview of the social-health system in Senegal and critically discuss the main obstacles that Senegal has had to overcome in the realm of public health. It will highlight health determinants, explain the choice of the Senegalese to prioritize the fight against certain illnesses, and present the organization of its public health services.
SNGL 4004 - International Development: Sustainable Development & Climate Change
(SOCS, ENV)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
The Political Economy of International Development (PIED) critically explores the role of the international development agenda, with a specific focus on its impact on the African continent. Students will acquire knowledge on the foundation of this agenda while capturing the complexity and paradoxes of its implementation. Students will also build on this understanding to analyze the power relationships at stake between the various actors (donors, governments, international institutions, development beneficiaries, private sector, etc.). Grounded in a theoretical approach, this course will nevertheless explore practical case studies and experiences to favor in-depth analysis.
This course will dedicate particular attention to the social experiences of the populations in developing countries from a political and historical perspective. Furthermore, students will be better inclined to critically appreciate the contribution of institutional mechanisms in the bi-lateral, multilateral, and non-government sectors in the development of Sub-Saharan African nations. Students will examine multidisciplinary ways of thinking that can be used to synthesize and analyze local, national, and global issues, and the connections among these experiences.
Students will then examine constructs of sustainable development and climate change in developing countries in general and Senegal in particular. Students will look at the human and natural environments in urban and rural Dakar. Students will engage with topics such as waste management in urban settings, mangrove swamps, coastal preservation in Senegal (maritime erosion, the loss of biodiversity, difficulties accessing fishing waters), flooding in Dakar neighborhoods, recycling, and the repurposing of waste objects. Students will consider a variety of solutions to these challenges, wrestle with the questions of balance between practical needs and preservation, and propose ways to best implement these solutions in the Senegalese value context.
SNGL 4101 - Historical & Political Context of Senegal
(HIS)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course provides a broad historical overview of Senegal and in-depth analysis of the cultural underpinnings that have shaped the country. Using this rich history and diverse culture, students will explore and analyze the structure of the political, socio-economic, and social policies that characterize Senegal today.
The course will look at Senegalese history and culture from the original Kingdoms and cover more modern periods from the slave trade to colonization through decolonization. Students will examine the human past, study the beliefs, practices, and relationships that shaped the human experience over time in Senegal. Students will analyze the place of Senegal in the broader West African sub region; discuss the physical and human resources available for Senegal?s development and the major challenges and constraints it faces; and take a critical look at the country?s economic policy and political system.
Students will discuss Senegalese cultures, cultural values, arts, and lifestyles using literature, visuals, and the performing arts. They will consider how literature forges the conscience of a nation and how the encouragement of thriving artistic expression can help the development efforts and the carving of a national identity.
SNGL 4201 - Research in Senegal
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
In this course, the MSID student will learn about various research concepts and practices; make decisions involved in research, including selecting a topic and title for their study, developing statements of problems, and choosing research questions and appropriate research design; learn about issues related to research ethics; and develop their skills in choosing data collection instruments and analysis of the data they collect for their research. The course does this by introducing various topics in the research cycle and providing a forum in which students can share with one another their research experience at each stage of the process. Students will learn to develop, defend, and challenge their own values and beliefs
Research projects in this course are ideally projects that fit with the development agency?s goals and activities; therefore, the student?s research interests must blend with what is realistically happening at the development agency. Students must have approved proposals before proceeding onto their research sites to allow them collect necessary data and complete data analysis before heading back to Dakar at the end of the six-week field period. It is likely that students will participate in field activities, meetings, and other forms of engagement that will be indirectly related to and could inform their research projects. Students will be presented with concrete opportunities to identify and apply their knowledge of ethics, both in solving short-term problems and in creating long-term forecasts.
As stated on the MSID website, the governments of the United States and MSID countries have laws protecting human subjects of research. Due to the timeline for gaining the necessary permissions for doing research with human subjects, such research cannot be conducted while abroad on LAC programs. However, there are still a wide variety of projects, that include interaction with people, that are available. See more information on options for Undergraduate Research Abroad.
The course will also include 15 hours of French or Wolof instruction to prepare students with practical vocabulary for the workplace.
SNGL 4896 - Internship in Senegal
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course provides a cross-cultural experience of working on various development issues with a regional nonprofit organization. The course focuses on guiding students to understand their own identity as they integrate theory with reality through participation in local development sites. Students are prepared for entering into their community work through discussions on stakeholder and agency analysis, culture specific gender and diversity context, and power and privilege. Students will learn to develop, defend, and challenge their own values and beliefs
The mentoring continues while students are at their internship placement. They come in contact with social actors, community organizations, and local and national authorities in various regions of Dakar at the marginal urban and rural levels. The students are urged to play an active role in their internships by providing suggestions and solutions, discussing alternatives, and investigating all areas of their internship placement to garner a holistic experience of the realities of development work. Through practical internship experiences as well as readings, discussions, and written assignments, students will deepen their understanding of the host-country cultural context and development work from an international perspective, as well as critically examine their own worldview. Students will be presented with concrete opportunities to identify and apply their knowledge of ethics, both in solving short-term problems and in creating long-term forecasts.
The course will also include 15 hours of French or Wolof instruction to give students practical vocabulary for the workplace.
THAI 4001 - International Development: Human Rights & Marginalized Communities
(SOCS)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course will focus on human rights broadly defined, including social work as well as other efforts to educate and work with vulnerable populations. The course will look at the roles of local people, nonprofits, government agencies, and intergovernmental entities in determining how to best work with and serve vulnerable populations and how these different stakeholders collaborate while addressing complex, often sensitive situations. Course content will focus on citizenship and orphan/vulnerable children, as well as human trafficking, disabilities, migrant workers, and LGBT issues in the Thai context, as well as minority issues, especially with the hill tribes of Northern Thailand. Students in this course will utilize the content learned in this collaborative classroom setting and apply it individually toward a specific internship placement or research topic during the second half of the semester.
This course encourages students to think critically about development theories and practices. For the majority of examples and reading, the course will draw on case studies from Thailand and links to global development issues. We will explore ?development? as a contested value and process on multiple scales?local, national, and global. We will place special emphasis on the practice of development: What does it mean to actually ?do? development in a cross-cultural international setting? We will examine the roles of outsiders and facilitators and how local communities and organizations can be empowered through the development process.
THAI 4002 - International Development: Entrepreneurship & Sustainable Food Systems
(SOCS)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Food systems and sustainability are critical environmental and economic issues in understanding development. This course focuses on two connected issues: food production and agriculturally based entrepreneurship, including but not limited to coffee growing and production, sustainable and organic food production, and related topics. A key part of the course will be understanding the natural interconnectedness between the environment, where crops are cultivated, and the business of selling these crops on a local and/or international scale. The course will examine agricultural commodity production (coffee) from bean to cup, examining the growing, production, selling, and business of coffee as both a local production process, international commodity, and local consumption. We will further explore spaces for innovation in sustainable food production, in particular around community-supported sustainable and organic agriculture, and the role of small-scale production in ensuring the resilience and sustainability of the global food supply.
This course encourages students to think critically about development theories and practices.
A majority of examples and reading will be drawn on case studies from Thailand and their links to global development issues. ?Development? as a contested value and process will be explored in multiple scales?local, national, and global. Special emphasis will be on the practice of development: What does it mean to actually ?do? development in a cross-cultural international setting? We will examine the roles of outsiders and facilitators and how local communities and organizations can be empowered through the development process.
This course will focus on the concept of ?One Health??integrating the health sciences so that health is understood as a broader concept rather than a narrow disciplinary focus. Issues related to this topic will include public health, community education about health, veterinary, and animal care issues and organizations (and how human and animal health are linked), clinics, local hospitals, and traditional medicine. Special emphasis will be placed on contemporary issues in Thailand, especially success with public health and family planning, as well as issues around HIV/AIDS education and prevention, zoonotic disease such as COVID-19, and related issues. Students in this course will utilize the content learned in this collaborative classroom setting and apply it individually toward a specific internship placement or research topic during that second half of the semester.
This course encourages students to think critically about development theories and practices. A majority of examples and reading will be drawn on case studies from Thailand and their links to global development issues. ?Development? as a contested value and process will be explored in multiple scales?local, national, and global. Special emphasis will be on the practice of development: What does it mean to actually ?do? development in a cross-cultural international setting? We will examine the roles of outsiders and facilitators and how local communities and organizations can be empowered through the development process.
THAI 4004 - International Development: Sustainable Architecture & Design
(SOCS)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course will examine sustainable design, including vernacular architecture, sustainable product design, urban planning, alternative (green) power (wind/solar/hydro), sustainable engineering, and sustainable and alternative architecture. It will focus on how design can be used in development to support sustainability, especially in the built and manufactured environment, drawing on culturally and ecologically appropriate design principles.
This course encourages students to think critically about development theories and practices. A majority of examples and reading will be drawn on case studies from Thailand and their links to global development issues. ?Development? as a contested value and process will be explored in multiple scales?local, national, and global. Special emphasis will be one the practice of development: What does it mean to actually ?do? development in a cross-cultural international setting? We will examine the roles of outsiders and facilitators and how local communities and organizations can be empowered through the development process.
THAI 4101 - Historical & Political Context of Thailand
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course explores the history of modernization, conditions of social transition, and current issues that characterize Thailand and influence relationships among various social groups. Students will enhance their understanding of the process of modernization and multi-level adjustment of Thai society in different historical contexts. Cultural diversity, political transition, and economic development are integral in analyzing and understanding these topics.
Thailand is unique in southeast Asia for its lack of colonization. It also has a long history of development in southeast Asia, serving as a regional hub for international development. This course will examine the development process in Thailand, its political and social history, and especially the current struggles of modernity and as an emerging economy in southeast Asia.
While many of the basic issues of development have been successfully dealt with (literacy is high, clean water and basic needs are met, etc.), Thailand is now dealing with growing inequality, challenges of post-modernity, and increasing demand for popular participation in politics within a patron-client-based society.
THAI 4201 - Research in Thailand
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
In this course, the MSID student will learn about various research concepts and practices; make decisions involved in research, including selecting a topic and title for their study, developing statements of problems, and choosing ethical research questions and appropriate research design; learn about issues related to research ethics; and develop their skills in choosing data collection instruments and analysis of the data they collect for their research. The course does this by introducing various topics in the research cycle and providing a forum in which students can share with one another their research experience at each stage of the process. Through the course students will develop, defend, and challenge their own values and beliefs.
Research projects in this course are ideally projects that fit with the development agency?s goals and activities; therefore, the student?s research interests must blend with what is realistically happening at the development agency. Students must have approved proposals before proceeding onto their research sites to allow them to collect necessary data and complete data analysis before heading back to Chiang Mai at the end of the six-week field period. It is likely that students will participate in field activities, meetings, and other forms of engagement that will be indirectly related to and could inform their research projects.
This course also includes an optional 10 hours of Thai language instruction as needed.
THAI 4896 - Internship in Thailand
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course provides a cross-cultural experience of working on various development issues with a regional nonprofit organization. The course focuses on guiding students to understand their own identity as they integrate theory with reality by participating in local development sites. Students are prepared for entering into their community work through discussions on stakeholder and agency analysis, culture-specific gender and diversity context, ethics, and power and privilege. Through the course students will develop, defend, and challenge their own values and beliefs.
The mentoring continues while students are at their internship placement as they come in contact with social actors, community organizations, and local and national authorities in various regions of Chiang Mai province at the marginal urban and rural levels. The students are urged to play an active role in their internships by providing suggestions and solutions, discussing alternatives, and investigating all areas of their internship placement to garner a holistic view of the realities of development work. Through practical internship experiences as well as readings, discussions, and written assignments, students will deepen their understanding of the host-country cultural context and development work from an international perspective, as well as critically examine their own worldview.
This course also includes an optional 10 hours of Thai language instruction as needed.
TLDO 3001 - 20th Century Spanish Literature
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Span 3212/Tldo 3001
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Spanish literature.
TLDO 3006 - The Camino de Santiago: Past and Present
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Study abroad course
TLDO 3007 - Comparative Public Health
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Public health systems are facing an increasing number of challenges: the pressures of globalization, aging populations, and the increase in patient lawsuits, as well as the high costs of medical research and treatments. With these issues in mind, we must critically analyze the manner in which medical care is provided in different systems so that we can design and adapt systems that provide high quality, effective, and efficient health care. Changes made to health care systems are frequently based on economic and political considerations, and many countries are currently experiencing significant challenges in health care that depart from the way their health care has been financed and provided in the past.
This course will introduce students to the Spanish health care system and the context in which it is developing, studying the key changes that have taken place up to the present day. Based on a series of case studies, students will be able to compare the Spanish health care model with other models like those of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, and/or developing nations.
You will compare health care systems and performance on a variety of topics including morbidity and mortality, disease ranking, health system cost, quality, and safety to name a few. You will also develop your critical evaluation skills to analyze the quality of the evidence used to support the policies and practice of health care. This will enable you to critically observe the role governmental and non-governmental organizations play with regard to health care and health status.
Throughout the course, special attention will be paid to comparisons between Spain and the United States with a focus on identifying and understanding health disparities and how each country and their health system are addressing elimination of health disparities. Health disparities exist for a variety of reasons, and this course will help you understand what those factors are, and how each country is attempting to improve the social determinants that directly contribute to health disparities.
TLDO 3009 - Diversity in Global Health
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course will dive into sociological diversity and existing culture in order to reflect on the influence of global and local dynamics on the health of different populations.
Beginning with a historical overview that will bring us to the paradigm of social determinants of health and its successive reformulations (Dahlgren & Whitehead, 1991; Acheson, 1998; OMS, 2005), we will begin to study the topic of equity in health, defined as ?the absence of potentially remediable, systematic differences in one or more aspects of health across socially, economically, demographically, or geographically defined population groups or subgroups.? (Maconko & Starfield, 2002). At the same time, we will study the topic of health inequities, which consist of ?health differences between different populations that are important, systematic, avoidable, and unjust? (Whitehead, 1992).1
We will learn about the ecological and sociological dimensions using models like Sustainable Development Goals or questioning supposedly universal constructs like the Human Development Index, while remembering to reflect on concrete social situations and the cultural setting in which they develop.
The concept of health will be approached from its widest and most holistic dimension to introduce the contribution of the social sciences, from a global perspective on health to more specific contexts, and the differentiation between disease, discomfort, and illness. We will debate on the importance of terms like health care systems, pluralism, and alternative therapies and, finally, we will be introduced to a socio-cultural perspective to help us rethink concepts like health, hygiene, or care.
The health care mechanism, the institutionalization of care, and the functioning of these institutions will be another focus of our attention, analyzing the characteristics of teamwork, leadership or the formation of stereotypes. In this sense, we will try to bring together a dual perspective which includes a reflection on society and patients, and the continual questioning of our function as professionals in the area of health care and research.
In a more practical sense, we will analyze perspectives on determinants of health in groups made vulnerable by their condition or stigmatization in a determined society (we will focus on the local situation but also extend the comparison and reflection to other places), also questioning the acceptance of terms which we hear often as health care professionals and in coordination with other disciplines such as ?dependency? or ?normality.?
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1 Quotation translated from Spanish by translator. Original English quotation could not be found and may differ somewhat from translation above.
TLDO 3012 - Global Bioethics
(CIV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Bioethics was initially projected with very wide objectives. V.R. Potter understood it as a dialogue between scientists and humanists to preserve humanity from its self-destruction and promote quality of life. In his words, ?Mankind is urgently in need of a new wisdom that will provide the ?knowledge of how to use knowledge? for man?s survival and for improvement in the quality of life?.I therefore propose the term bioethics in order to emphasize the two most important ingredients in achieving the new wisdom that is so desperately needed: biological knowledge and human values.? The Encyclopedia of Bioethics, edited by Warren Reich in 1978, suggests the following definition of bioethics: ?systematic study of human conduct in the area of the life sciences and health care, insofar as this conduct is examined in the light of moral, values, and principles.?
The complex, multi-disciplinary model of modern healthcare creates numerous ethical conflicts. When the values of all the actors are taken into account when making decisions, there is inevitably disparity of criteria. The conflicts generated are not merely technical; they are also ethical, because the values of the people or institutions involved can be in conflict. In these instances, it is important that the medical professional knows to consider technical issues (the medical facts) and the values at play (the preferences of those involved, principles, norms, etc.), in order to make a good decision. At present, bioethics is considered a practical or applied ethics (to biomedicine), that attempts to resolve ethical dilemmas present in biomedicine. There are various fields within bioethics. The most relevant are foundational bioethics (which deals with the philosophical foundations of bioethics), environmental bioethics, clinical bioethics, and the bioethics of research. Bioethical issues tend to be complex problems that extend beyond the limits of a sole profession, for which reason it is essential to consider the input of healthcare professionals, philosophers, lawyers, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, and any other profession involved in the most hot-button ethical issues relating to the life sciences.
All the fields mentioned have great relevance due to the importance and prevalence of the issues taken on by bioethics. There are a great number of publications that indicate how numerous professionals confront common, difficult-to-regulate bioethical dilemmas in the clinical sphere as well as the in the area of research or in relation to the environment, but the formation needed to tackle these problems is insufficient. In a significant number of these articles, it is concluded that it is necessary to improve the bioethical formation of future professionals to be able to better address these issues. For this reason, education in bioethics has become a priority both in the United States and in Europe, as well as the rest of the world, as these issues are not limited to a specific area, but rather are global.
TLDO 3024 - Tracing Three Cultures in Spain
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Spring & Summer
Three-week intensive course. Lectures, discussions, field trips, including Madrid's 'Museo del Prado', 'El Escorial' Palace, Guided Tours of Judaic Toledo and Mozarabic Segovia. Christian, Muslim, and Jewish culture in literature/art, how they conform to identity of modern Spain. Sephardic heritage in literature/architecture in Toledo. Interaction between Islamic/Hispano-Mozarabic artists. Role of Epic/Reconquest in medieval Spanish literature. Religious painting, Christian iconography during Baroque/Counter-reformation periods.
TLDO 3105W - Cultural Heritage of Spain
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Span 3105W/Span 3105V/Tldo 310
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Main periods of Spanish history. Political, social, anthropological, and economic characteristics of each. Spanish culture/society, from beginning of Franco regime in 1939 to present. Cultural trends in literature/arts in relation to social phenomena.
prereq: Two yrs of college-level Spanish
TLDO 3211 - Writers of the Spanish Empire and Its Decline
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Span 3211/Tldo 3211
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Masterpieces of Spain's most significant renaissance and golden age writers, including Lope de Vega, Calderon, Cervantes, Garcilaso, Gongora, Quevedo, and authors of picaresque novels and mystic poetry.
TLDO 3232 - Art and Architecture in Spain: Periods and Styles
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Characteristics of major periods in Spanish art/architecture. Greek, Roman, Romanesque, Gothic, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Romanticism, Modernism, 20th century avant-garde.
TLDO 3233 - Christian, Muslim, Jewish Art: Toledo
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Art of three cultures are studied in/around Toledo.
TLDO 3234 - Master Painters of Spain
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Development of Spanish painting studied in works of El Greco, Velázquez, Goya, Picasso, and Dali. Visits to Madrid's Museo del Prado and Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.
TLDO 3237 - Spanish Transition Toward Democracy
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Changes in Spain from Franco's death in 1975 to Law for Political Reform and Constitution of 1978. Role of Monarchy, Army, political parties, and trade unions in shaping Constitution and defining Spain as semi-federal state.
TLDO 3238 - Spain and the European Union
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Formation of EU. Impact of building a single European market on Spanish and greater European economies. Readings from daily press.
TLDO 3242 - History and Memory
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Study abroad course.
TLDO 3302 - Ethnology and Folklore of the Iberian Peninsula
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Traditional forms of life in Iberian Peninsula in terms of social/economic features. Literary, artisitic, and religious aspects.
prereq: Two yrs of college level Spanish
TLDO 3314 - 20th Century Spanish Art
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Spanish artists who were most affected by European avant-garde movements and have greatly affected art in/outside Spain (e.g., Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Juan Miro, Juan Gris).
TLDO 3502 - Spain Since 1936
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Span 3502/Tldo 3502
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Main features and social significance of General Franco's authoritarian regime as opposed to German/Italian models. Origins of the Civil War. Later social/economic development Problems in political/constitutional transition since Franco.
prereq: Two yrs of college level Spanish
TLDO 3517 - Introduction to the History and Present Situation of Spanish Women
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Theoretical/practical approach to fundamental transformations that have conditioned lives of Spanish women, from Golden Age to present. Aspects of women's participation in economic world and in culture.
TLDO 3810 - Seminar: Spanish Language Film
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Contemporary cultural/aesthetic trends in Spanish film industry. Viewing/analysis of most significant films of Saura, Bardem, Gurierrez, Aragon, and other directors.
TLDO 3970 - Internships in Spain
Credits:
3.0
-6.0
[max 12.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Span 3970/Tldo 3970
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Experiential learning in many fields. Classroom component on meaning of work in Spain and social organizational structure/culture of workplace.
prereq: Two yrs of college-level Spanish
TLDO 3975 - Service-Learning and the Immigrant Experience in Spain
Credits:
3.0
-4.0
[max 8.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Students volunteer at one of several Toledo institutions and collaborate with immigrant population or with Spaniards who work with the immigrant community. Weekly seminar, readings, discussion, reflection, presentations.
ANTH 4031W - Anthropology and Social Justice
(CIV, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
Practical application of theories/methods from social/cultural anthropology. Issues of policy, planning, implementation, and ethics as they relate to applied anthropology.
prereq: 1003 or 1005 or 4003 or grad student or instr consent
CHIC 3375 - Folklore of Greater Mexico
(DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Scholarly survey and exploration of the sociocultural function of various types of folklore in Greater Mexico. Ways in which folklore constructs and maintains community, as well as resists and engenders cultural shifts.
PHIL 3304 - Law and Morality
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
What is law? Must true laws be just? When (if ever) are civil disobedience or legal punishment morally justified? Do good laws incorporate (or legislate) morality? Consider and debate these issues using philosophical texts, case law, and the occasional novel.
POL 3235W - Democracy and Citizenship
(CIV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
This course considers the nature of contemporary democracy and the role that members of the political community do, can, and should play. While approaches in teaching the class vary, students can expect to read historical and contemporary texts, see films and videos, to approach questions about the nature of democracy, justifications for democracy, and challenges faced by contemporary democracy as it relates to racial inequality, immigration, gender inequality, and ecological crises. Topics will include: the centrality of social movements for democracies; deliberative and participatory democracy; as well as questions about how members of political communities can best participate in democratic life to address structural inequalities. Students will write a longer essay that allows them to demonstrate their capacities to understand and explain complex ideas and to make a theoretically compelling argument, using appropriate supporting evidence.
Suggested prerequisite 1201
POL 4275 - Domination, Exclusion, and Justice: Contemporary Political Thought
(DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Contemporary Political Theory systematically analyzes the meaning and significance of concepts central to current politics: domination, exclusion, and justice. Starting from basic concerns about the nature of politics, humans, power and justice, this course will explore how these basic starting assumptions organize the norms, practices, and institutions of political and social order. To explore these topics, the field turns to key texts, as well as to political and social events and other media (film, historical documents, etc.). Through this course, students will also be introduced to different interpretive approaches, ranging from democratic theory, feminist, queer and critical race theories, as well as ethics and moral philosophy. Organized around the politics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the course will pursue a range of questions about democratic legitimation, the exclusion of historically marginalized communities, systematic inequalities of different kinds, as well as ideals of democracy and justice. It will range from theoretical inquiry to practical questions of implementing different political projects. Through this course, students will develop skills in critical thinking, careful reading and clear writing, as well as recognizing and constructing arguments. These skills are basic for the critical, lifelong role that all of us play as members of political community.
prereq: 1201 recommended
SPAN 3606 - Human Rights Issues in the Americas
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Human rights movement. International law of human rights and the justice system. Focuses on human rights cases in the Americas and on cultural practices related to human rights.
HIST 3728 - The History of Human Rights
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
HIST 3728 / HIST 5728
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
What are human rights? How and when did they originate? How were such rights promoted, protected, and contested at different historical junctures, and by whom? In this course, we will examine the historical processes through which human rights have been conceptualized, codified, violated, and vindicated. Throughout the semester, we will travel across the globe and trace events that span from the eighteenth century to the present day. Our search will take us through the multiple histories that have shaped what we nowadays recognize as the human rights framework ? its institutions, products, and norms. Integrating perspectives and readings from the humanities, social sciences and legal studies, this course explores how meanings of human rights have fluctuated in response to historical developments, and how human rights have come to gain their prominent role in contemporary politics, law, and culture.
HIST 5728 - The History of Human Rights
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
HIST 3728 / HIST 5728
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
What are human rights? How and when did they originate? How were such rights promoted, protected and contested at different historical junctures, and by whom? In this course, we will examine the historical processes through which human rights have been conceptualized, codified, violated, and vindicated. Throughout the semester, we will travel across the globe and trace events that span from the eighteenth century to the present day. Our search will take us through the multiple histories that have shaped what we nowadays recognize as the human rights framework ? its institutions, products and norms. Integrating perspectives and readings from the humanities, social sciences and legal studies, this course explores how meanings of human rights have fluctuated in response to historical developments, and how human rights have come to gain their prominent role in contemporary politics, law and culture.
POL 4403W - Constitutions, Democracy, and Rights: Comparative Perspectives
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
POL 4403W / POL 5403
Typically offered:
Fall Even, Spring Odd Year
Around the world, fundamental political questions are often debated and decided in constitutional terms, and in the United States, the constitution is invoked at almost every turn to endorse or condemn different policies. Is adhering to constitutional terms the best way to safeguard rights and to achieve a successful democracy? When and how do constitutions matter to political outcomes? This course centers on these questions as it moves from debates over how constitutional drafting processes should be structured and how detailed constitutions should be, to the risks and benefits of different institutional structures (federal v. unitary, and the distribution of powers between the executive, legislature, and judiciary), to which rights (if any) should be constitutionalized and when and why different rights are protected, closing with a discussion of what rules should guide constitutional amendment and rewrite. For each topic, we compare how these issues have been resolved in the U.S. with alternative approaches in a wide variety of other countries around the globe. The goal is not only to expose students to the variety of ways, successful or unsuccessful, that other political communities have addressed these issues, but also to gain a more contextualized and clearer understanding of the pros and cons of the U.S. model, its relevance for other democratic or democratizing countries, whether and how it might be reformed, and, generally speaking, when/how constitutions matter for democratic quality and stability.
POL 5403 - Constitutions, Democracy, and Rights: Comparative Perspectives
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
POL 4403W / POL 5403
Typically offered:
Fall Even, Spring Odd Year
Around the world, fundamental political questions are often debated and decided in constitutional terms, and in the United States, the constitution is invoked at almost every turn to endorse or condemn different policies. Is adhering to constitutional terms the best way to safeguard rights and to achieve a successful democracy? When and how do constitutions matter to political outcomes? This course centers on these questions as it moves from debates over how constitutional drafting processes should be structured and how detailed constitutions should be, to the risks and benefits of different institutional structures (federal v. unitary, and the distribution of powers between the executive, legislature, and judiciary), to which rights (if any) should be constitutionalized and when and why different rights are protected, closing with a discussion of what rules should guide constitutional amendment and rewrite. For each topic, we compare how these issues have been resolved in the U.S. with alternative approaches in a wide variety of other countries around the globe. The goal is not only to expose students to the variety of ways, successful or unsuccessful, that other political communities have addressed these issues, but also to gain a more contextualized and clearer understanding of the pros and cons of the U.S. model, its relevance for other democratic or democratizing countries, whether and how it might be reformed, and, generally speaking, when/how constitutions matter for democratic quality and stability.
SOC 4101W - Sociology of Law
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Soc 4101V/Soc 4101W/Soc 5101
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
This course will consider the relationship between law and society, analyzing law as an expression of cultural values, a reflection of social and political structure, and an instrument of social control and social change. Emphasizing a comparative perspective, we begin by discussing theories about law and legal institutions. We then turn our attention to the legal process and legal actors, focusing on the impact of law, courts, and lawyers on the rights of individuals. Although this course focuses on the US legal system, we will explore issues of the relationship between US law and global law and concepts of justice.
prereq: [[SOC 1001] and [SOC 1101 or 3101 or 3102]] recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A-F
SOC 4101V - Honors: Sociology of Law
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Soc 4101V/Soc 4101W/Soc 5101
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
This course will consider the relationship between law and society, analyzing law as an expression of cultural values, a reflection of social and political structure, and an instrument of social control and social change. Emphasizing a comparative perspective, we begin by discussing theories about law and legal institutions. We then turn our attention to the legal process and legal actors, focusing on the impact of law, courts, and lawyers on the rights of individuals. Although this course focuses on the US legal system, we will explore issues of the relationship between US law and global law and concepts of justice.
Additional special assignments will be discussed with honors participants who seek to earn honors credit toward the end of our first class session. Examples of additional requirements may include:
- Honors students will be expected to interview a current Sociology graduate student working on a LCD topic. Following this, each student will individually be expected to do an in-class power point presentation explaining how the interviewees? research relates with themes presented in the course. Students will also be expected to meet as a group and individually with the professor four times during the course semester.
- Sign up and prepare 3-4 discussion questions in advance of at least one class session.
- Work with professor and TA on other small leadership tasks (class discussion, paper exchange, tour).
- Write two brief (1-page) reflection papers on current news, or a two-page critique of a class reading
- Attend a presentation, workshop, or seminar on a related topic for this class and write a 2-page maximum reflective paper.
prereq: honors student, [[SOC 1001] and [SOC 1101 or 3101 or 3102]] recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A-F
SOC 5101 - Sociology of Law
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Soc 4101V/Soc 4101W/Soc 5101
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
This course will consider the relationship between law and society, analyzing law as an expression of cultural values, a reflection of social and political structure, and an instrument of social control and social change. Emphasizing a comparative perspective, we begin by discussing theories about law and legal institutions. We then turn our attention to the legal process and legal actors, focusing on the impact of law, courts, and lawyers on the rights of individuals. Although this course focuses on the U.S. legal system, we will explore issues of the relationship between U.S. law and global law and concepts of justice.
prereq: graduate student
SOC 4104 - Crime and Human Rights
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4104/GloS 4104H/Soc 4104/
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course addresses serious violations of humanitarian and human rights law, efforts to criminalize those violations (laws and institutions), and consequences of these efforts. Special attention will be paid to the impact interventions have on representations and memories of atrocities on responses and the future of cycles of violence. Case studies on Holocaust, Balkan wars, Darfur, My Lai massacre, etc. Criminal justice, truth commissions, vetting, compensation programs.
prereq: SOC 1001, at least one 3xxx SOC course recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A-F
SOC 4104H - Honors: Crime and Human Rights
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4104/GloS 4104H/Soc 4104/
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course addresses serious violations of humanitarian and human rights law, efforts to criminalize those violations (laws and institutions), and consequences of these efforts. Special attention will be paid to the impact interventions have on representations and memories of atrocities on responses and the future of cycles of violence. Case studies on Holocaust, Balkan wars, Darfur, My Lai massacre, etc. Criminal justice, truth commissions, vetting, compensation programs.
Additional special assignments will be discussed with honors participants who seek to earn honors credit toward the end of our first class session. Examples of additional requirements may include:
· Honors students will be expected to interview a current Sociology graduate student working on an LCD topic. Following this, each student will individually be expected to do an in-class PowerPoint presentation explaining how the interviewees? research relates to themes presented in the course. Students will also be expected to meet as a group and individually with the professor four times during the course semester.
· Sign up and prepare 3-4 discussion questions in advance of at least one class session.
· Work with professor and TA on other small leadership tasks (class discussion, paper exchange, tour).
· Write two brief (1-page) reflection papers on current news or a two-page critique of a class reading
· Attend a presentation, workshop, or seminar on a related topic for this class and write a 2-page maximum reflective paper.
prereq: SOC 1001, at least one 3xxx SOC course recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A-F
SOC 5104 - Crime and Human Rights
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4104/GloS 4104H/Soc 4104/
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course addresses serious violations of humanitarian and human rights law, efforts to criminalize those violations (laws and institutions), and consequences of these efforts. Special attention will be paid to the impact interventions have on representations and memories of atrocities on responses and the future of cycles of violence. Case studies on Holocaust, Balkan wars, Darfur, My Lai massacre, etc. Criminal justice, truth commissions, vetting, compensation programs.
prereq: at least one 3xxx SOC course recommended
SOC 4171 - Sociology of International Law: Human Rights & Trafficking
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4406/GloS 5171/Soc 4171/S
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course takes a sociological approach to international law, considering how history, institutions, power, and interests shape the phenomenon. What is international law, where does it come from, and how does it work? What does international law tell us about globalization and nation-states? Does it make a difference in the world? Does it have a real impact on the day-to-day lives of individuals? When is it followed; when is it ignored? This course takes a broad sociological view of international law. We analyze the actors and processes that constitute international law and then focus on particular substantive areas, including human rights, economic development,environmental concerns, trafficking, and drug interdiction.
prereqs: 1001 or 3101 or 3102 or instr consent; soc majors/minors must register A-F
SOC 5171 - Sociology of International Law: Human Rights & Trafficking
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4406/GloS 5171/Soc 4171/S
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course takes a sociological approach to international law, considering how history, institutions, power, and interests shape the phenomenon. What is international law, where does it come from, and how does it work? What does international law tell us about globalization and nation-states? Does it make a difference in the world? Does it have a real impact on the day-to-day lives of individuals? When is it followed; when is it ignored? This course takes a broad sociological view of international law. We analyze the actors and processes that constitute international law and then focus on particular substantive areas, including human rights, economic development,environmental concerns, trafficking, and drug interdiction.
prereqs: Graduate student or instructor consent
AFRO 3866 - The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, 1954-1984
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3866/Afro 5866/Hist 3856
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Modern black civil rights struggle in the U.S., i.e., the second reconstruction. Failure of reconstruction, abdication of black civil rights in 19th century. Assault on white supremacy via courts, state, and grass roots southern movement in 1950s and 1960s. Black struggle in north and west. New emphasis on Black Power, by new organizations. Ascendancy of Ronald Reagan, conservative assault on the movement.
CHIC 3771 - Latino Social Power and Social Movements in the U.S.
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
How Latinos have collectively resisted social domination. Theories of social power/movements. Resistance by Latinos during 60s/70s. Current organized efforts to curb immigration, establish English as official language, and limit immigrant rights.
CSCL 3122 - Movements and Manifestos
(LITR)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Movements that emerge when a group of writers, filmmakers, artists, composers,
or musicians puts forth a new definition of literature, film, art, or music?and sets in motion new relations
(aesthetic and social) of word, image, sound. Manifestos?statements of position?that articulate or
counter such definitions. Movements created by scholars or critics after the fact. Focuses on one or two
related movements (e.g., romanticism and realism, surrealism and negritude, new wave and third cinema).
ENGL 3506 - Social Movements & Community Education
(CIV)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Spring
In this course, we'll examine four progressive social movements. After beginning with a foundational civil rights movement example, we will learn about the anti-racist feminism branch of the women's movement, often referred to as "third-wave feminism." We'll also study the Occupy movement that arose in response to the Great Recession (the financial crisis beginning in 2008). Then we'll take a look at two social movements that, while by no means underground, tend to fly below the radar: the prison abolition movement and the fight for public schools. While all of these social movements have different emphases, they also overlap quite a bit in their systemic analysis of society and their strategies for action. As activist, organizer, and trainer Rinku Sen observes, "the history of community organizing and social movements is replete with tactics learned in one movement being applied to another."
As we study these social movements, community organizing will be of particular interest to us. How do the groups, collectives, nonprofits, and communities propelling these different social movements organize themselves, their leadership, their strategies, and their activities? How do they make decisions? What do meetings and planning processes look like? What do they do when they disagree? How do they recruit and mobilize? How do they communicate with and confront the general public, elected officials, and the more powerful elements of the ruling class? How do they talk about the work they're doing? How do they develop a vision of the world they'd like to live in while still inhabiting the present one, with all its flaws and injustices? We'll also examine the role of education in organizations working for social change. Whether through trainings, "political education," reading groups, or small group activities associated with popular education, many of the social-movement groups we'll study have developed educational strategies and curricula.
Hands-On Learning through Community Education: As we study these social movements and their approaches to organizing and educating in the comfortable confines of our university classroom, we'll also learn about them experientially through our service-learning. That is, we'll work 2 hours per week at local education initiatives in K-12 schools, adult programs, and social-justice organizations in the non-profit and grassroots sectors, comprising a total of 24 hours by the end of the semester. This hands-on learning will strengthen our academic grasp of social movements, organizational dynamics, and teaching and community organizing by providing us with grounded perspectives. More broadly, we'll get a feel for what it's like to get involved as citizens, activists, teachers, and learners attempting to build cross-organizational coalitions. And we'll share what we learn with each other.
Representatives from the Center for Community-Engaged Learning (the U's service-learning office) and various community organizations will attend our second class session to tell you about their respective sites and how you can get involved. For our third class session, you will rank the top three community sites you'd like to work at. You will then be "matched" with a community organization, and your community education work will begin as soon as this matching process is complete. (We try to honor students' first and second choices, while also making sure that you also have some fellow classmates at your site.) To help prepare you, at a time convenient for you, you will also attend a training session facilitated by the Minnesota Literacy Council (MLC) or the Center for Community-Engaged Learning-- details will be provided in class.
GWSS 4490 - Topics: Political Economy and Global Studies
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Topics specified in Class Schedule.
prereq: Sr or grad student or instr consent
HIST 3432 - Modern Africa in a Changing World
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
-4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3432/Afro 3432
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Survey of modern African history from early 19th century to present. Focuses on socioeconomic, political, and cultural development in Africa, from abolition of trans-Atlantic slave trade through postcolonial era.
POL 3252W - Revolution, Democracy, and Empire: Modern Political Thought
(AH, CIV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Spring Even Year
From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, Europe and its colonies were wracked by large scale, sweeping changes: from the violent emergence of the sovereign state, to intense religious conflict, to geographic expansions at once transformative and brutal in search of new economic markets. These changes posed extraordinary challenges to usual ways of conceiving of political order and governance. Our course this semester will read these changes through three key concepts – revolution, democracy, and empire. Class discussion will seek to understand different meanings of these concepts, their political stakes, and ways of knowing how to move between political ideals and historical examples. Students will read a range of materials – from primary historical sources, to philosophic texts, political pamphlets and treatises, and travel journals – so as to study the effects on both the European context and beyond.
prereq: Suggested prerequisite 1201
POL 3423 - Politics of Disruption: Violence and Its Alternatives
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Political struggles aimed at undermining the existing political order have been a pervasive feature of global politics. Modern states have constantly been sites of relentless challenges from their citizenry, which sometimes take the form of non-violent action while on other occasions manifest in terrorism and violence. This course introduces students to the politics of disruption and violent and non-violent struggles targeted at bringing about political change. We will study a range of manifestations of such struggles focusing on some well-known cases such as the US civil rights movement, the Arab Springs, the Ferguson riots and the Islamic State (ISIS). Can non-violent resistance succeed against a coercive state? Why do individuals and groups participate in high-risk political struggles? What explains patterns of violence in civil conflicts? What are the effects of violence? What facilitates peace? This course will enable you to answer these questions.
POL 4463 - The Cuban Revolution Through the Words of Cuban Revolutionaries
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Why do policy makers in Washington, D.C. continue to rail against the Cuban Revolution? Despite their best efforts, both Republican and Democratic administrations, the Revolution is still in place after six decades. How to explain? This is the central research question of the course. A definitive answer would require a thorough examination of the revolution from its initiation until today?which is beyond what can be done in a semester. The focus, rather, is more limited. First, how was the revolution made and consolidated?from 1953 until about 1969?and, second, how has it been able to survive and advance since the collapse of the Soviet Union, that is, since 1991? The emphasis here is on the role of leadership and strategy, how the Cubans and their leaders saw and see what they are doing?in their own words. This is an attempt to get into their heads, their understandings, through documents, speeches and writings.
In keeping with the goals of liberal education, this course helps students to think outside the box of conventional wisdom. Why, for example, an underdeveloped society lacking many of the characteristics of a liberal democracy can do a better job in meeting the basic needs of its citizens than its far richer neighbor to the north? What the Cubans seek to do is reorganize human relations on the basis of solidarity and not individual self-interest. How successful they have been in that pursuit is exactly one of the questions to which the course seeks to provide an answer. These questions are not simply of intellectual interest. Given the deepening crisis of world capitalism with the accompanying human misery, to know about Cuba's reality can have life and death consequences. Given, also, that the U.S. government doesn?t make it easy for most of its citizens to travel to the island to make up their own minds about its reality, this course is a unique educational opportunity.
POL 4487 - The Struggle for Democratization and Citizenship
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
How best to advance democracy?through the ballot box or in the streets? This question more than any other is what informs the course. As well as the streets, the barricades and the battlefields, it argues, are decisive in the democratic quest. If democracy means the rule of the demos, the people, then who gets to be included in ?the people"? An underlying assumption of the course is that the inclusion of previously disenfranchised layers of society into the category of the people, the citizens, is due to social struggles or the threat of such?an assumption to be examined in the course. Struggles refer to any kinds of movement for social change, from protests and strikes to revolutions broadly defined. This course seeks to see if there are lessons of struggle. The course traces the history of the democratic movement from its earliest moments in human history and attempts to draw a balance sheet. In the process it seeks to answer a number of questions. Did social inequality always exist? How do property rights figure in the inclusion process? What is the relationship between the state, social inequality and democracy? Which social layers played a decisive role in the democratic breakthrough? What are the effective strategies and tactics in the democratic struggle? How crucial is leadership? And lastly, can the lessons of the past inform current practice? A particular feature of the course is to read about the thinking and actions of activists on both sides of the democratic struggle in, as much as possible, their own words.
POL 4773W - Advocacy Organizations, Social Movements, and the Politics of Identity
(DSJ, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
This course introduces students to the major theoretical concepts and empirical findings in the study of U.S interest group politics. Students will read books and articles from a wide range of topics that include how interest groups are formed and maintained; various strategies and tactics that groups use to influence Congress, the courts, and executive branch; and whether those strategies result in fair and effective representation for all citizens in society. Throughout the semester students will be exposed to research using a variety of methodologies and intellectual approaches. Further, the class discussions will emphasize general concepts that reoccur in the readings and in other classes. The goal is to assist students in mastering the key concepts in group politics.
This is also a writing intensive course. Effective writing is encouraged through several writing assignments that require you to think clearly and express your thoughts concisely.
SOC 3322W - Social Movements, Protests, and Change
(CIV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3322W/Soc 3322W
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Focusing on the origins, dynamics, and consequences of social movements, this course explores debates about the dilemmas and challenges facing movement organizations, the relationship between social movements and various institutions, and the role of social movements and protest in bringing about change. The course is organized around general theoretical issues concerning why people join movements, why they leave or remain in movements, how movements are organized, the strategies and tactics they use, and their long-term and short-run impact.
prereq: 1001 recommended; soc majors/minors must register A-F
AMIN 4511 - Indigenous Political Economies
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Sources, nature, consequences of social/economic development/change in Indian communities. Precontact Indian communities. Effect of European contact. Social movements into 20th century, including phenomenon of urban Indian communities.
prereq: 1001
AMST 4301 - Workers and Consumers in the Global Economy
(DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Impact of global economy on workplaces/workers in the United states, Mexico, and Caribbean countries. Influence on consumption. Consequences for American culture/character. Effects on U.S./Mexican factory work, service sector, temporary working arrangements, offshore production jobs in Dominican Republic, and professional/managerial positions.
ANTH 4053 - Economy, Culture, and Critique
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Anth 4053/8205
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Systems of production/distribution, especially in nonindustrial societies. Comparison, history, critique of major theories. Cross-cultural anthropological approach to material life that subsumes market/nonmarket processes.
APEC 3001 - Applied Microeconomics: Consumers, Producers, and Markets
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Econ 3101/Econ 3012/ApEc 3001
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Consumer/producer decisions. Theory of supply/demand. Markets, pricing, investment, effect regulation, market failures.
prereq: [[1101 or ECON 1101 or 1101H or ECON 1101H], [MATH 1142 or MATH 1271]] or instr consent; intended for undergrads in [Ag/Food Bus Mgmt, Appl Econ]
APEC 3007 - Applied Macroeconomics: Policy, Trade, and Development
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Indicators of economic development, growth in trade, and welfare of developing countries. Globalization. Drivers of growth, productivity, technical change, and research. Comparative advantage. Distribution consequences of trade. Trade policy instruments/institutions.
prereq: [1101 or ECON 1101], [1101H or ECON 1101H], [1102 or ECON 1102], [1102H or ECON 1102H]; 3001, 3006 recommended
APEC 3071 - Microeconomics of International Development
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Characteristics and performance of peasant agriculture; potential role of agriculture in economic development, and design of economic policies to achieve agricultural and economic development; role of women in agricultural development.
prereq: 1101, 1102, Econ 1101, 1102, or instr consent
CSCL 3405 - Marx for Today
(AH, DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
A century and a half after the publication of Karl Marx?s Capital, Vol. 1 (1867), this course will reflect on the political urgency of our current moment in order to understand the relevance and complexity of Marx and the Marxist tradition. We will pursue an intensive study of primary readings written by Karl Marx himself, exploring the social, philosophical, and political history of Marxist thought and familiarizing ourselves with key concepts such as labor-power, primitive accumulation, the commodity, use value, exchange-value, surplus-value, crisis, money, and capital. As we study Marx as a theoretician, we will also examine his work as a political revolutionary, writer, and correspondent with many of the most important revolutionary figures of his day. Here we will foreground his analysis of the labor of enslaved Black persons in the plantation economies of the Southern United States?which he ties to the labor markets of capitalism in Europe?as well as his more explicit critiques of slavery and colonialism.
Following this close reading of Marx and the Marxist tradition, we will consider the ways that critical thinkers and political activists, both in the United States and globally, continue to resist, create, and dream under the banner of Marxism throughout the twentieth century and into our own new century. We will center questions of racial justice through the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois and contemporary Marxist scholars of race, indigeneity, and diaspora, focusing on Du Bois?s attention to the links between race and social class in America. Alongside critical reappraisals of Marx?s thought, we shall think about the influence of Marx?s writings on political activists in the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, and on American labor, as well as on South American revolutionaries like Carlos Marighella. We will then move to a study of Marxist feminism, linking race and gender in U.S. and global Marxisms through readings by Black Panther activist and intellectual Angela Davis, the social historian Nancy Fraser, and Italian Marxist feminist Silvia Federici. We will revisit the question of gender oppression and feminist resistance through a Marxist frame, with reference to the revival of socialist prospects in the work of Jodi Dean and Mackenzie Wark. Finally, we will examine the contemporary fight over reproductive rights and the history of the ?Wages for Housework? movement.
From these readings and conversations we will think about how Marx?s ideas and their larger legacy can help us to understand our current moment and our political, social, and ecological futures. In as much as this is a course on theoretical perspectives, it will also be one that seeks to use Marx, and the Marxist tradition, to develop critical perspectives and solutions to pressing issues of racial injustice, social inequality, and environmental devastation.
ECON 4317 - The Chinese Economy
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Overview of the Chinese Economy; transition from command economy to a market-based one and effects on economic indicators; current economic issues and concerns of the Chinese economy; role of China in today's world economy.
prereq: (ECON 1101or ECON 1165, APEC 1101), (ECON 1102 or APEC 1102), MATH 1271 or equivalent courses approved by the Economics Department.
ECON 4331W - Economic Development
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Economic growth in low income countries. Theory of aggregate and per capita income growth. Population growth, productivity increases, and capital formation. Allocation of resources between consumption and investment and among sectors. International assistance/trade.
prereq: ECON 1101 (or ECON 1165, APEC 1101), ECON 1102 (or APEC 1102), ECON 3101, ECON 3102, MATH 1271 or equivalent courses approved by the Economics Department, and completion of freshman writing practice.
ECON 4431W - International Trade
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Econ 4431W/Econ 4431V/Econ 443
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Theories of trade/trade patterns. Trade restrictions/commercial policy. International factor movements. Economic growth/development. Regional integration.
prereq: ECON 1101 (or ECON 1165, APEC 1101), ECON 1102 (or APEC 1102), ECON 3101, ECON 3102, MATH 1271, or equivalent courses approved by the Economics Department, and completion of freshman writing practice.
ECON 4432W - International Finance
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Balance of payments; international financial markets; exchange rate determination; international monetary system; international investment and capital flows; financial management of the multinational firm; open economy macroeconomic policy.
prereq: ECON 1101 (or ECON 1165, APEC 1101), ECON 1102 (or APEC 1102), ECON 3101, ECON 3102, MATH 1271 or equivalent courses approved by the Economics Department and first-writing course.
GEOG 5385 - Globalization and Development: Political Economy
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Nature/scope of modern world system (capitalism), its impact on regional development processes. Roles of state and of international financial institutions.
prereq: Sr or grad or instr consent
HIST 3283 - Marx, Capital, and History: An Introduction to Marxist Theory and History
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3283/Hist 5283
Typically offered:
Spring Even Year
Explore Marx's understanding of capitalism/its history. Marx's argument regarding historical specificity of capitalism as economic/social condition.
HIST 3419 - History of Capitalism: Uneven Development Since 1500
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3219/Hist 3419
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Causes of economic inequities in contemporary world. Long-term economic developments in cases taken from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North/South America. Various theoretical approaches to study of economic development. Introduction to key concepts.
POL 3477 - Political Economy of Development
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
How can the vast disparities of wealth between countries be explained? Why have some countries in the post-colonial world, in particular, those of East Asia, experienced stunning economic growth, while those in other parts have not? We will explore inequality among nations through an engagement with competing explanations from multiple disciplines. Do free markets, the legacies of colonialism, state power, culture, or geography offer the most persuasive account of current patterns of global inequality? The course also examines what we mean by "development" and exposes students to cutting-edge debates in contemporary development studies. By the end of the course, students will have a better understanding of the causes of and possible solutions to global inequality.
POL 3489W - Citizens, Consumers, and Corporations
(CIV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Spring Even Year
Corporations are the most powerful actors in the global political economy. They employ millions of people, produce a wide variety of goods, and have massive effects on the communities where they do business. Although considered to be "legal persons," corporations are not living beings with a conscience. Milton Friedman famously proclaimed that the only moral obligation of corporations is the maximize shareholder returns. Yet maximizing financial returns may negatively affect humans, other living beings, and the planet. This potential conflict between profit and ethics is at the heart of this course, which focuses on how people have mobilized as citizens and consumers to demand ethical behavior from corporations. We will explore these different modes of action through an examination of corporate social responsibility for sweatshops, the industrial food system in the United States, and the privatization of life, water, and war. The course also considers how corporations exploit racial hierarchies and immigration status in their pursuit of profit.
POL 3833 - The United States and the Global Economy
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
POL 3833 teaches students about the politics of the global economy with a focus on the role the United States plays within it. The class covers a variety of topics in international political economy, including international trade, international investment, and international finance. Students will learn about the factors that drive politicians' decision-making, interest-group stances, and citizens' preferences over such salient issues as tariffs and other forms of trade protection, trade and investment agreements, central banking, interest rates, international migration, and more. No background in economics is required or assumed.
POL 4481 - Comparative Political Economy: Governments and Markets
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Pol 3481H/Pol 4481
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course analyzes the compatibility of democracy and markets - whether democratic institutions undermine (enhance) the workings of market institutions and vice versa. Competing theoretical perspectives in political economy are critically evaluated. And the experiences of countries with different forms of democratic market systems are studied. Among the topics singled out for in-depth investigation are the economics of voting, producer group politics, the politics of monetary and fiscal policy, political business cycles, and trade politics.
GCC 3017 - World Food Problems: Agronomics, Economics and Hunger
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Agro 4103/ApEc 4103/GCC 3017
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
This course provides a multi-disciplinary look at problems (and some of the possible solutions) affecting food production, distribution, and requirements for the seven plus billion inhabitants of this planet. It is co-taught by a plant geneticist (Morrell) and an economist (Runge) who together have worked on international food production and policy issues for the past 40 years. Historical context, the present situation and future scenarios related to the human population and food production are examined. Presentations and discussions cover sometimes conflicting views from multiple perspectives on population growth, use of technology, as well as the ethical and cultural values of people in various parts of the world. The global challenge perspective is reflected in attention to issues of poverty, inequality, gender, the legacy of colonialism, and racial and ethnic prejudice. Emphasis is placed on the need for governments, international assistance agencies, international research and extension centers, as well as the private sector to assist in solving the complex problems associated with malnutrition, undernutrition, obesity, and sustainable food production.
Through a better understanding of world food problems, this course enables students to reflect on the shared sense of responsibility by nations, the international community and ourselves to build and maintain a stronger sense of our roles as historical agents. Throughout the semester students are exposed to issues related to world food problems through the lenses of two instructors from different disciplinary backgrounds. The core issues of malnutrition and food production are approached simultaneously from a production perspective as well as an economic and policy perspective throughout the semester.
This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course. GCC courses are open to all students and fulfill an honors experience for University Honors Program students.
GCC 5017 - World Food Problems: Agronomics, Economics and Hunger
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Agro 4103/ApEc 4103/GCC 3017
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
This course provides a multi-disciplinary look at problems (and some of the possible solutions) affecting food production, distribution, and requirements for the seven plus billion inhabitants of this planet. It is co-taught by a plant geneticist (Morrell) and an economist (Runge) who together have worked on international food production and policy issues for the past 40 years. Historical context, the present situation and future scenarios related to the human population and food production are examined. Presentations and discussions cover sometimes conflicting views from multiple perspectives on population growth, use of technology, as well as the ethical and cultural values of people in various parts of the world. The global challenge perspective is reflected in attention to issues of poverty, inequality, gender, the legacy of colonialism, and racial and ethnic prejudice. Emphasis is placed on the need for governments, international assistance agencies, international research and extension centers, as well as the private sector to assist in solving the complex problems associated with malnutrition, undernutrition, obesity, and sustainable food production.
Through a better understanding of world food problems, this course enables students to reflect on the shared sense of responsibility by nations, the international community and ourselves to build and maintain a stronger sense of our roles as historical agents. Throughout the semester students are exposed to issues related to world food problems through the lenses of two instructors from different disciplinary backgrounds. The core issues of malnutrition and food production are approached simultaneously from a production perspective as well as an economic and policy perspective throughout the semester.
This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course. GCC courses are open to all students and fulfill an honors experience for University Honors Program students.
AGRO 3203W - Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Agro/AnSc 3203/AgUM 2224
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Ecological/ethical concerns of food production systems in global agriculture: past, present, and future. Underlying ethical positions about how agroecosystems should be configured. Decision cases, discussions, videos, other media.
AMIN 3312 - American Indian Environmental Issues and Ecological Perspectives
(ENV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
American Indian environmental issues in U.S./Canada. Analysis of social, political, economic, legal forces/institutions. Colonial histories/tribal sovereignty.
ANSC 3203W - Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Agro/AnSc 3203/AgUM 2224
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Ecological/ethical concerns of food production systems in global agriculture: past, present, and future. Underlying ethical positions about how agroecosystems should be configured. Interactive learning using decision cases, discussions, videos, other media.
APEC 3611W - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
(ENV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Concepts of resource use. Financial/economic feasibility. External effects, market failures. Resource use, environmental problems. Measuring impacts of resource development. Economics of alternative resource programs, environmental strategies.
prereq: 1101 or ECON 1101 or 1101H or ECON 1101H
ARCH 3711W - Environmental Design and the Sociocultural Context
(SOCS, CIV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Arch 3711W/Arch 3711V
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Designed environment as cultural medium/product of sociocultural process/expression of values, ideas, behavioral patterns. Design/construction as complex political process.
prereq: Soph or above
ARTH 3434 - Art and the Environment
(AH, ENV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Western art has a long tradition of depicting and directly engaging with the environment?from ancient earthworks such as Stonehenge and Avebury Stone Circle, to 18th and 19th century landscape paintings and 20th century photographs, to land and earth art of the 1960s and ?70s, and what is now called environmental or eco art. Such art has had a prominent place in art?s history, but do we really need art to save the environment? Studies repeatedly show that the arts are crucial to understanding and forestalling environmental disaster because, it turns out, human attitudes are shaped by the stories we tell, by our ability to imagine the unimaginable, to accept the inanimate as potentially coming to life, to picture things on a vast scale. In this course students learn the historical development of artistic movements from 1968, when the first exhibition of such art, called ?Earthworks,? took place at the Dwan Gallery in New York, up to the present day. The course tracks the changing aesthetic, political, and climatic forces that influenced such art, from the anti-institutionalism and participatory approaches of the 1960s to the more activist artistic engagement with environmentalism today. The class takes up two primary concerns: understanding the historical and scientific conditions that have given rise to such art and learning the ways in which artists have sought to intervene in and affect a changing environment. Students put historical knowledge, environmental research, and visual analysis skills to work in a culminating group project creating art that responds to a contemporary environmental problem.
CSCL 3322 - Visions of Nature: The Natural World and Political Thought
(ENV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Scientific and cultural theory concerning the organization of nature, human nature, and their significance for development of ethics, religion, political/economic philosophy, civics, and environmentalism in Western/other civilizations.
EEB 3001 - Ecology and Society
(ENV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Basic concepts in ecology. Organization, development, function of ecosystem. Population growth/regulation. Human effect on ecosystems.
prereq: [Jr or sr] recommended; biological sciences students may not apply cr toward major
Explore contemporary texts from multiple disciplines to analyze the role of stories in interpreting nature. Emphasis on lived experience, civic motivation, and observational research that enrich effective nature writing. Optional service-learning component.
ESPM 3011W - Ethics in Natural Resources
(CIV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Normative/professional ethics, and leadership considerations, applicable to managing natural resources and the environment. Readings, discussion.
Political processes in management of the environment. How disagreements are addressed by different stakeholders, private-sector interests, government agencies, institutions, communities, and nonprofit organizations.
ESPM 3251 - Natural Resources in Sustainable International Development
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ESPM 3251/ESPM 5251/LAS 3251
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall
International perspectives on resource use and sustainable development. Integration of natural resource issues with social, economic, and policy considerations. Agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, non-timber forest products, water resources, certification, development issues. Global case studies. Impact of consumption in developed countries on sustainable development in lesser developed countries.
ESPM 3607 - Natural Resources Consumption and Sustainability
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Current world trends for industrial raw materials; environmental/other tradeoffs related to options for satisfying demand/needs; global and systemic thinking; provides a framework for beginning a process of thinking critically about complex environmental problems/potential solutions in a diverse global economy.
GEOG 3376 - Political Ecology
(ENV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Environmental problems and political economic processes are intimately connected. The latter shape where and how people encounter nature, who has access to resources, and which communities are exposed to or protected from environmental harms. In this course, you will join others in examining how environmental problems are produced and how people organize to address them. Through readings, video, film, and lectures you will learn to identify the racial and class dimensions of environmental change. You will also understand the goals and principles of the environmental justice movement and explore inspiring struggles to build socially just ecological relations. Over the course of the semester you will acquire robust analytical and theoretical tools for understanding the political and ecological dimensions of racial capitalism and settler colonialism and learn how alternative social and ecological worlds might be generated and sustained.
GEOG 3379 - Environment and Development in the Third World
(SOCS, ENV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3379/GloS 3303
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Inequality in the form of extreme wealth and poverty in our world are major causes of environmental degradation. In addition, development failure as well as certain forms of economic growth always led to environment disasters. This course examines how our world?s economic and political systems and the livelihoods they engender have produced catastrophic local and global environmental conditions. Beyond this, the course explores alternative approaches of achieving sustainable environment and equitable development.
prereq: Soph or jr or sr
GEOG 4002W - Environmental Thought and Practice
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Changing conceptions of nature, culture, and environment in Western social/political thought. How our understanding of humans/nonhumans has been transformed by scientific and technological practices. Interdisciplinary, reading intensive.
prereq: Jr or sr
PHIL 3301 - Environmental Ethics
(ENV)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
Philosophical basis for membership in moral community. Theories applied to specific problems (e.g., vegetarianism, wilderness preservation). Students defend their own reasoned views about moral relations between humans, animals, and nature.
PUBH 3003 - Fundamentals of Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Credits:
2.0
[max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:
PubH 3003/PubH 3004/PubH 3005/
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Scientific, sociocultural, and attitudinal aspects of alcohol and other drug abuse problems. Emphasizes incidence, high-risk populations, prevention, and intervention.
SOC 4305 - Environment & Society: An Enduring Conflict
(ENV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4305/Soc 4305
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Examines the interaction between human society and the natural environment, focusing on the contemporary and global situation. Takes the perspective of environmental sociology concerning the short-range profit-driven and ideological causes of ecological destruction. Investigates how society is reacting to that increasing destruction
prereq: 1001 recommended or a course on the environment, soc majors/minors must register A-F
SUST 3017 - Environmental Justice
(DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Spring
With a focus on understanding environmental justice, including interconnections between health, economic and environmental disparities, this course shows students how they can take action for sustainability. Students synthesize multiple disciplinary perspectives and participate in small group collaborative activities, service learning, and digital mapping, all related to contemporary challenges.
ESPM 3603 - Environmental Life Cycle Analysis
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ESPM 3603/ESPM 5603
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Concepts/issues relating to inventory, subsequent analysis of production systems. Production system from holistic point of view, using term commonly used in industrial ecology: "metabolic system."
ESPM 5603 - Environmental Life Cycle Analysis
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ESPM 3603/ESPM 5603
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Concepts, major issues relating to inventory and subsequent analysis of production systems. Production system from holistic point of view, using term commonly used in industrial ecology: "the metabolic system."
prereq: [Math 1142 or [Math 1271, Math 1282]], [Econ 1101 or ApEc 1101]
GCC 3011 - Pathways to Renewable Energy
(TS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GCC 3011/GCC 5011
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
This interdisciplinary course will examine obstacles to energy transitions at different scales. It will explore the role of energy in society, the physics of energy, how energy systems were created and how they function, and how the markets, policies, and regulatory frameworks for energy systems in the US developed. The course will closely examine the Realpolitik of energy and the technical, legal, regulatory, and policy underpinnings of renewable energy in the US and Minnesota. Students will learn the drivers that can lead global systems to change despite powerful constraints and how local and institutional action enables broader reform. Students will put their learning into action by developing a proposal and then working on a project to accelerate the energy transition and to ensure that the energy transition benefits people in a just and equitable way.
This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.
prereq: sophomore, junior, senior
GCC 5011 - Pathways to Renewable Energy
(TS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GCC 3011/GCC 5011
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
This interdisciplinary course will examine obstacles to energy transitions at different scales. It will explore the role of energy in society, the physics of energy, how energy systems were created and how they function, and how the markets, policies, and regulatory frameworks for energy systems in the US developed. The course will closely examine the Realpolitik of energy and the technical, legal, regulatory, and policy underpinnings of renewable energy in the US and Minnesota. Students will learn the drivers that can lead global systems to change despite powerful constraints and how local and institutional action enables broader reform. Students will put their learning into action by developing a proposal and then working on a project to accelerate the energy transition and to ensure that the energy transition benefits people in a just and equitable way.
This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.
GCC 3013 - Making Sense of Climate Change - Science, Art, and Agency
(CIV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GCC 3013/GCC 5013
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
The overarching theme of the course is the role of artistic/humanistic ways of knowing as tools for making sense and meaning in the face of "grand challenges." Our culture tends to privilege science, and to isolate it from the "purposive" disciplines--arts and humanities--that help humanity ask and answer difficult questions about what should be done about our grand challenges. In this course, we will examine climate change science, with a particular focus on how climate change is expected to affect key ecological systems such as forests and farms and resources for vital biodiversity such as pollinators. We will study the work of artists who have responded to climate change science through their artistic practice to make sense and meaning of climate change. Finally, students create collaborative public art projects that will become part of local community festivals/events late in the semester.
GCC 5013 - Making Sense of Climate Change - Science, Art, and Agency
(CIV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GCC 3013/GCC 5013
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
The overarching theme of the course is the role of artistic/humanistic ways of knowing as tools for making sense and meaning in the face of "grand challenges." Our culture tends to privilege science, and to isolate it from the "purposive" disciplines--arts and humanities--that help humanity ask and answer difficult questions about what should be done about our grand challenges. In this course, we will examine climate change science, with a particular focus on how climate change is expected to affect key ecological systems such as forests and farms and resources for vital biodiversity such as pollinators. We will study the work of artists who have responded to climate change science through their artistic practice to make sense and meaning of climate change. Finally, students create collaborative public art projects that will become part of local community festivals/events late in the semester.
This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.
GCC 3031 - The Global Climate Challenge: Creating an Empowered Movement for Change
(CIV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GCC 3031/GCC 5031
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Students will explore ecological and human health consequences of climate change, the psychology of climate inaction, and will be invited to join us in the radical work of discovering not only their own leadership potential but that of others. We will unpack the old story of domination and hierarchy and invite the class to become part of a vibrant new story of human partnership that will not only help humanity deal with the physical threat of climate change but will help us create a world where we have the necessary skills and attitudes to engage the many other grand challenges facing us. Using a strategy of grassroots empowerment, the course will be organized to help us connect to the heart of what we really value; to understand the threat of climate change; to examine how we feel in the light of that threat; and to take powerful action together. Students will work in groups throughout the course to assess the global ecological threat posed by climate change, and they will be part of designing and executing an activity where they empower a community to take action.
This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.
prereq: soph, jr, sr
GCC 5031 - The Global Climate Challenge: Creating an Empowered Movement for Change
(CIV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GCC 3031/GCC 5031
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Students will explore ecological and human health consequences of climate change, the psychology of climate inaction, and will be invited to join us in the radical work of discovering not only their own leadership potential but that of others. We will unpack the old story of domination and hierarchy and invite the class to become part of a vibrant new story of human partnership that will not only help humanity deal with the physical threat of climate change but will help us create a world where we have the necessary skills and attitudes to engage the many other grand challenges facing us. Using a strategy of grassroots empowerment, the course will be organized to help us connect to the heart of what we really value; to understand the threat of climate change; to examine how we feel in the light of that threat; and to take powerful action together. Students will work in groups throughout the course to assess the global ecological threat posed by climate change, and they will be part of designing and executing an activity where they empower a community to take action.
This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.
For: so, jr, sr, grad
GCC 3032 - Ecosystem Health: Leadership at the Intersection of Humans, Animals, and the Environment
(ENV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GCC 3032/GCC 5032
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
What are the effects of climate change, disease emergence, food and water security, gender, conflict and poverty, and sustainability of ecosystem services on health, and how do we lead across boundaries for positive change? Unfortunately, these large-scale problems often become overwhelming, making single solution-based progress seem daunting and difficult to implement in policy. Fortunately, the emerging discipline of ecosystem health provides an approach to these problems grounded in trans-disciplinary science. Ecosystem health recognizes the interdependence of human, animal and environmental health, and merges theories and methods of ecological, health and political sciences. It poses that health threats can be prevented, monitored and controlled via a variety of approaches and technologies that guide management action as well as policy. Thus, balancing human and animal health with the management of our ecosystems. In this class, we will focus on the emerging discipline of ecosystem health, and how these theories, methods, and shared leadership approaches set the stage for solutions to grand challenges of health at the interface of humans, animals, and the environment. We will focus not only on the creation and evaluation of solutions but on their feasibility and implementation in the real world through policy and real-time decision making. This will be taught in the active learning style classroom, requiring pre-class readings to support didactic theory and case-based learning in class. Participation and both individual and group projects (written and oral presentation) will comprise most of the student evaluation. These projects may reflect innovative solutions, discoveries about unknowns, or development of methods useful for ecosystem health challenges. We envision that some of them will lead to peer-review publications, technical reports, or other forms of publication.
This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.
GCC 5032 - Ecosystems Health: Leadership at the intersection of humans, animals and the environment
(ENV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GCC 3032/GCC 5032
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
What are the effects of climate change, disease emergence, food and water security, gender, conflict and poverty, and sustainability of ecosystem services on health? Unfortunately, these large-scale problems often become overwhelming, making single solution-based progress seem daunting and difficult to implement in policy. Fortunately, the emerging discipline of ecosystem health provides an approach to these problems grounded in trans-disciplinary science. Ecosystem health recognizes the interdependence of human, animal and environmental health, and merges theories and methods of ecological, health and political sciences. It poses that health threats can be prevented, monitored and controlled via a variety of approaches and technologies that guide management action as well as policy. Thus, balancing human and animal health with management of our ecosystems. In this class, we will focus on the emerging discipline of ecosystem health, and how these theories, methods and computational technologies set the stage for solutions to grand challenges of health at the interface of humans, animals and the environment. We will focus not only on the creation and evaluation of solutions, but on their feasibility and implementation in the real world through policy and real time decision making. This will be taught in the active learning style classroom, requiring pre class readings to support didactic theory and case-based learning in class. Participation and both individual and group projects (written and oral presentation) will comprise most of the student evaluation. These projects may reflect innovative solutions, discoveries about unknowns, or development of methods useful for ecosystem health challenges. We envision that some of them will lead to peer-review publications, technical reports or other forms of publication.
This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.
GEOG 3401W - Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change
(ENV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3401W/5401W
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Geographic patterns, dynamics, and interactions of atmospheric, hydrospheric, geomorphic, pedologic, and biologic systems as context for human population, development, and resource use patterns.
GEOG 5401W - Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change
(ENV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3401W/5401W
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Geographic patterns, dynamics, and interactions of atmospheric, hydrospheric, geomorphic, pedologic, and biologic systems as context for human population, development, and resource use patterns.
prereq: grad student or instr consent
HSCI 3244 - Nature's History: Science, Humans, and the Environment
(HIS, ENV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
HSci 3244/5244
Typically offered:
Every Fall
We examine environmental ideas, sustainability, conservation history; critique of the human impact on nature; empire and power in the Anthropocene; how the science of ecology has developed; and modern environmental movements around the globe. Case studies include repatriation of endangered species; ecology and evolutionary theory; ecology of disease; and climate change.
HSCI 5244 - Nature's History: Science, Humans, and the Environment
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
HSci 3244/5244
Typically offered:
Every Fall
We examine environmental ideas, sustainability, conservation history; critique of the human impact on nature; empire and power in the Anthropocene; how the science of ecology has developed; and modern environmental movements around the globe. Case studies include repatriation of endangered species; ecology and evolutionary theory; ecology of disease; and climate change.
HSCI 3246 - History of (Un)Natural Disasters
(HIS, ENV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
HSci 3246/HSci 5246
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, wildfires, epidemic disease, and technological failures? This course will examine large scale natural events in American and world history, the social, technological, and environmental conditions that underlie them, and their historical consequences. Human societies have long been embedded in physical landscapes where they are subject to specific environmental conditions and physical risks: eight thousand-year-old wall paintings in Turkey depict the eruption of Hasan Dag volcano over the city of Catal Huyuk, for example. But then and now, it takes a certain combination of social conditions and environmental events to create a natural disaster. In this course, we will use historical natural disasters to explore the interconnections between the structures and ideas of human society and environmental forces. Humans have not been simply the random victims of natural disasters; where and how they chose to live influenced the impact of any disastrous event. Examining these events in a historical context will help us see the social, technological, scientific, and environmental systems that have been constantly interacting, but which are normally taken for granted until they break down.
HSCI 5246 - History of (Un)Natural Disasters
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
HSci 3246/HSci 5246
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, wildfires, epidemic disease, and technological failures. This course will examine large scale natural events in American and world history, the social, technological, and environmental conditions that underlie them, and their historical consequences. Human societies have long been embedded in physical landscapes where they are subject to specific environmental conditions and physical risks: eight thousand-year-old wall paintings in Turkey depict the eruption of Hasan Dag volcano over the city of Catal Huyuk, for example. But then and now, it takes a certain combination of social conditions and environmental events to create a natural disaster. In this course, we will use historical natural disasters to explore the interconnections between the structures and ideas of human society and environmental forces. Humans have not been simply the random victims of natural disasters; where and how they chose to live influenced the impact of any disastrous event. Examining these events in a historical context will help us see the social, technological, scientific, and environmental systems that have been constantly interacting, but which are normally taken for granted until they break down.
AAS 3486 - Hmong Refugees from the Secret War: Becoming Americans
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AAS 3486/Hist 3486
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
Socio-economic, political, gender, cultural/religious changes in Hmong American community during last three decades. How Hmong are racialized in American society. Impact to first/second generations.
AAS 3862 - American Immigration History
(HIS, DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AAS 3862/Chic 3862/Hist 3862
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Global migrations to U.S. from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa, from early 19th century to present. Causes/cultures of migration. Migrant communities, work, and families. Xenophobia, assimilation/integration, citizenship, ethnicity, race relations. Debates over immigration. Place of immigration in America's national identity.
AMST 3113W - Global Minnesota: Diversity in the 21st Century
(DSJ, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Diverse cultural (racial, ethnic, class) groups in America. Institutions/processes that shape their relations and create domination, resistance, hybridity, nationalism, racism, alliance. Specific content may vary.
CHIC 3352 - Transborder Theory: Global Views/Borderland Spaces
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Even Year
Demographic realities, political/economic shifts, cultural exchanges that characterize U.S.-Mexico borderland spaces in global economy. Historically contextualized, transnational approach to cultures, politics, and economics of U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Dynamics of borderland spaces.
CHIC 3862 - American Immigration History
(HIS, DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AAS 3862/Chic 3862/Hist 3862
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Global migrations to U.S. from Europe, Asia, Latin American, and Africa, from early 19th century to present. Causes/cultures of migration. Migrant communities, work, and families. Xenophobia, assimilation/integration, citizenship, ethnicity, race relations. Debates over immigration. Place of immigration in America's national identity.
CHIC 5374 - Migrant Farmworkers in the United States: Families, Work, and Advocacy
(CIV)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Chic 3374/Chic 5374
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Socioeconomic/political forces that impact migrant farmworkers. Effects of the laws and policies on everyday life. Theoretical assumptions/strategies of unions and advocacy groups. Role/power of consumer. How consuming cheap food occurs at expense of farmworkers.
CSCL 3335 - Aliens: Science Fiction to Social Theory
(DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
In English, the word ?alien? designates both immigrants from other countries and beings from other worlds. Aliens of all sorts are everywhere; they tend to provoke fascination, fantasy, and for many, fear and anxiety. But the deeper philosophical significance of aliens says as much about us as it does about them. In this course, we will explore these questions through a range of novels, films, and artworks from the 1890s to the present day, with an emphasis on science fiction and American popular culture.
ENGL 3026 - Mediterranean Wanderings: Literature and History on the Borders of Three Continents
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Situated between three continents and at the intersection of numerous ethnic and national cultures, the Mediterranean is like no other place on earth. A place of diverse languages, religions, economies, governments, and ways of daily life, it serves as a microcosm for the world itself imagined as an integrated global system. This course explores the history of the Mediterranean with particular emphasis on the literatures it has produced over the last three millennia. As the protagonists of these epic poems, religious texts, and novels travel from one shore to another, they experience the Mediterranean as a place of violence, cultural accommodation, hope, ethnic and linguistic bewilderment, and endless moral challenge. This course will place as much emphasis on the region's history as its cultural productions. With that in mind, reading may include David Abulafia's The Great Sea in addition to The Odyssey, The Aeneid, the biblical books of Joshua and Acts, Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata (an epic set during the first crusade), Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Antony and Cleopatra, Flaubert's Salammbo, Akli Tadjer's Les ANI du Tassali, A.b. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani, and Pamuk's The White Castle.
FSOS 4108 - Understanding and Working with Immigrants and Refugee Families
(SOCS, DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
This course focuses on the impact of “immigration” (i.e., refugee vs. various types of immigration statuses) on family relationships, specifically how culture of origin and acculturation processes influence individuals and families over time; explores issues faced by various immigrant family systems, including a consideration of generational status, gender identities, social classes, and ethnic/racial group identities; develops intercultural interaction skills that prepare students to effectively engage with diverse immigrant families in multiple contexts; and builds practical skills that enhance students’ abilities to work in and collaborate with community-and faith-based organizations to strengthen cultural resources while overcoming barriers to increase service utilization.
GEOG 3381W - Population in an Interacting World
(SOCS, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3381W/GLOS 3701W
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Comparative analysis and explanation of trends in fertility, mortality, internal and international migration in different parts of the world; world population problems; population policies; theories of population growth; impact of population growth on food supply and the environment.
HIST 3483 - Hmong History Across the Globe
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AAS 3483//ALL 3776/Hist 3483
Typically offered:
Fall Odd, Spring Even Year
Hmong interaction with lowland Southeast Asian states (Laos, Vietnam) and Western colonial powers (French, American) since 19th century. Changes to religious, social, political, and gender institutions. Aspirations for political autonomy.
HIST 3862 - American Immigration History
(HIS, DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AAS 3862/Chic 3862/Hist 3862
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
Global migrations to U.S. from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa, from early 19nth century to present. Causes/cultures of migration. Migrant communities, work, and families. Xenophobia, assimilation/integration, citizenship, ethnicity, race relations. Debates over immigration. Place of immigration in America's national identity.
PA 3481 - Cedar Riverside: Where The World Meets MN
Credits:
2.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
The Cedar Riverside Neighborhood; Where the World Meets Minnesota is an immersion course in our Cedar Riverside neighborhood that parallels the immersion experience of study abroad. The course encourages civic engagement and will provide opportunity to learn and work in the Cedar Riverside community while examining questions of leadership, power, cultural diversity and social change. Students will participate in class-based discussion seminars, neighborhood excursions and community work. Throughout the immersion experience, students are challenged to question, think, and respond thoughtfully to current issues facing the Cedar-Riverside community and cultivate leadership skills. Students can expect to gain new frameworks for understanding leadership and civic engagement in a domestic cultural context, deepened skill in identifying complex problems, strategic questioning, reflection and meaning making, as well as consciousness of relationship between self, world and text/theory.
CHIC 3374 - Migrant Farmworkers in the United States: Families, Work, and Advocacy
(CIV)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Chic 3374/Chic 5374
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Socioeconomic/political forces that impact migrant farmworkers. Effects of the laws and policies on everyday life. Theoretical assumptions/strategies of unions and advocacy groups. Role/power of consumer. How consuming cheap food occurs at expense of farmworkers.
CHIC 5374 - Migrant Farmworkers in the United States: Families, Work, and Advocacy
(CIV)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Chic 3374/Chic 5374
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Socioeconomic/political forces that impact migrant farmworkers. Effects of the laws and policies on everyday life. Theoretical assumptions/strategies of unions and advocacy groups. Role/power of consumer. How consuming cheap food occurs at expense of farmworkers.
ANTH 3306W - Medical Anthropology
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Relations among human affliction, health, healing, social institutions, and cultural representations cross-culturally. Human health/affliction. Medical knowledge/power. Healing. Body, international health, colonialism, and emerging diseases. Reproduction. Aging in a range of geographical settings.
prereq: 1003 or 1005 or entry level soc sci course recommended
ANTH 4075 - Cultural Histories of Healing
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Spring Even Year
Introduction to historically informed anthropology of healing practice. Shift to biologically based medicine in Europe, colonialist dissemination of biomedicine, political/cultural collisions between biomedicine and "ethnomedicines," traffic of healing practices in a transnationalist world.
GEOG 3411W - Geography of Health and Health Care
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Application of human ecology, spatial analysis, political economy, and other geographical approaches to analyze problems of health and health care. Topics include distribution and diffusion of disease; impact of environmental, demographic, and social change on health; distribution, accessibility, and utilization of health practitioners and facilities.
GWSS 3203W - Blood, Bodies and Science
(TS, SOCS, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Summer
This course examines the contemporary politics of health and medicine from a critical race theory, disability-oriented, and feminist/queer/trans perspective. Who is understood to be deserving of health and medical care? Who should decide how to govern the provision of care? Who, if anyone should profit from life-saving medical treatment or medicines? How did we come to have the health system we have now? How have Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and people of color communities fought for access to equitable health care in the context of the racial history of medicine and health? Struggles for justice and equity in health and medicine are integrally related to the question of how society treats people who are in need of care. Topics include the history of DIY health movements; trans health care bans; the science and history of pandemics, including Covid and HIV; the history of health insurance; struggles for global equity in vaccines and pharmaceuticals; disability; reproductive justice movements; and the history of eugenics.
HMED 3001W - Health, Disease, and Healing I
(HIS, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
HMED 3001W/HMED 3001V
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Introduction to intellectual/social history of European/American medicine, health care from classical antiquity through 18th century.
HMED 3040 - Human Health, Disease, and the Environment in History
(HIS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring & Summer
Introduction to historical relationship of human health and the environment. How natural/human-induced environmental changes have, over time, altered our experiences with disease and our prospects for health.
PHIL 3305 - Medical Ethics
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Moral problems confronting physicians, patients, and others concerned with medical treatment, research, and public health policy. Topics include abortion, living wills, euthanasia, genetic engineering, informed consent, proxy decision-making, and allocation of medical resources.
SOC 3241 - Sociology of Women's Health: Experiences from Around the World
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Health care is a fundamental right, but access to it is not shared evenly by all. This course considers women's and men's health needs, and how health systems assign priority to those needs. The course also covers how differences in health policy, national medical systems, levels of wealth, and cultural contexts around the world affect women's health and treatment and their experiences of wellness and illness. Women are taking an active role in shaping healthy societies. The final portion of this course looks at the goals and successes of women's movements in the health sphere. Throughout the course, there will be an emphasis on how sociological approaches to health differ from medical or epidemiological approaches, the advantages of the sociological approaches, and the respective advantages and disadvantages of qualitative versus quantitative approaches to studying women's health.
Pre-req: Soc majors and minors must register A-F; Soc 1001 recommended.
SOC 3246 - Diseases, Disasters & Other Killers
(HIS, ENV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Soc 3246/Soc 5246
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course studies the social pattern of mortality, beginning with demographic transition theory. Students will study specific causes of death or theories of etiology, including theories about suicide, fundamental cause theory, and the role of early life conditions in mortality. Students learn tools for studying mortality, including cause of death classifications and life tables.
Soc majors/minors must register A-F.
SOC 4246 - Sociology of Health and Illness
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
This course is an introduction to the importance of health and illness in people’s lives, how social structures impact who gets sick, how they are treated, and how the delivery of health care is organized. By the end of the course you will be familiar with the major issues in the sociology of health and illness, and understand that health and illness are not just biological processes, but profoundly shaped by the organization of society.
prereq: One sociology course recommended; soph or above; soc majors/minors must register A-F
GCC 3003 - Seeking Solutions to Global Health Issues
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GCC 3003/GCC 5003/NURS 5040H
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Often, the most progress on challenging issues such as health and equity is made when you apply an interdisciplinary perspective. The same is true for global health issues. Whether responding to emerging pandemics, food insecurity, maternal mortality, or civil society collapse during conflict, solutions often lie at the intersection of animal, environmental, and human health.
In this course, students will work in teams to examine the fundamental challenges to addressing complex global health problems in East Africa and East African refugee communities here in the Twin Cities. Together we will seek practical solutions that take culture, equity, and sustainability into account. In-field professionals and experts will be available to mentor each team, including professionals based in Uganda and Somalia. This exploration will help students propose realistic actions that could be taken to resolve these issues. This course will help students gain the understanding and skills necessary for beginning to develop solutions to global health issues.
This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course. GCC courses are open to all students and fulfill an honors experience for University Honors Program students.
GCC 5003 - Seeking Solutions to Global Health Issues
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Often, the most progress on challenging issues such as health and equity is made when you apply an interdisciplinary perspective. The same is true for global health issues. Whether responding to emerging pandemics, food insecurity, maternal mortality, or civil society collapse during conflict, solutions often lie at the intersection of animal, environmental, and human health.
In this course, students will work in teams to examine the fundamental challenges to addressing complex global health problems in East Africa and East African refugee communities here in the Twin Cities. Together we will seek practical solutions that take culture, equity, and sustainability into account. In-field professionals and experts will be available to mentor each team, including professionals based in Uganda and Somalia. This exploration will help students propose realistic actions that could be taken to resolve these issues. This course will help students gain the understanding and skills necessary for beginning to develop solutions to global health issues.
This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course. GCC courses are open to all students and fulfill an honors experience for University Honors Program students.
GCC 3016 - Science and Society: Working Together to Avoid the Antibiotic Resistance Apocalypse
(TS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GCC 3016/GCC 5016
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Before the discovery of antibiotics, even a simple thorn prick could lead to life threatening infection. Antibiotics are truly miracle drugs, making most bacterial infections relatively easy to cure. However, this landscape is rapidly changing with the advent of microbes that are resistant to antibiotics. This course will provide an overview of how antibiotic use invoked antibiotic resistance, including in depth discussions of antibiotic resistant microorganisms and the impact of globalization on this exploding problem. Societal and ethical implications associated with antibiotic use and restriction in humans and animals will be discussed, along with global issues of antibiotic regulation and population surveillance. The class will conclude with discussions of alternative therapeutic approaches that are essential to avoid "antibiotic apocalypse." The course will include lectures by world-renowned experts in various topics, and students will leverage this knowledge with their own presentations on important topics related to issues of personal freedom versus societal needs.
This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.
GCC 5016 - Science and Society: Working Together to Avoid the Antibiotic Resistance Apocalypse
(TS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GCC 3016/GCC 5016
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Before the discovery of antibiotics, even a simple thorn prick could lead to life threatening infection. Antibiotics are truly miracle drugs, making most bacterial infections relatively easy to cure. However, this landscape is rapidly changing with the advent of microbes that are resistant to antibiotics. This course will provide an overview of how antibiotic use invoked antibiotic resistance, including in depth discussions of antibiotic resistant microorganisms and the impact of globalization on this exploding problem. Societal and ethical implications associated with antibiotic use and restriction in humans and animals will be discussed, along with global issues of antibiotic regulation and population surveillance. The class will conclude with discussions of alternative therapeutic approaches that are essential to avoid "antibiotic apocalypse." The course will include lectures by world-renowned experts in various topics, and students will leverage this knowledge with their own presentations on important topics related to issues of personal freedom versus societal needs.
This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.
GCC 3028 - Harnessing the power of research, community, clinic and policy to build a culture of health
(DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GCC 3028/GCC 5028
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Imagine a world where factors such as race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status had no bearing on a person's health status, quality of life, or longevity--a world where everyone had an equal opportunity to live a long and healthy life. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Despite decades of focused public health efforts, health inequities remain; individuals from low income and diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds are far more likely to, (1) struggle with chronic health conditions, (2) report lower quality of life, and (3) have a lower life expectancy, than others. Bold and innovative solutions are needed to address this grand challenge. Integration is one such method that can potentially increase the success and sustainability of approaches to reduce health disparities and create a culture of health for all. Integration is an approach to solving complex public health problems that merges academic research, clinical practice, policy and community resources in new ways.
This interactive course will challenge students to identify root causes of health, including access to food, housing, transportation and education. Students will also focus on health disparities and barriers to eliminating these existing, disparate, negative outcomes. Students will be introduced to the concept of integration science and practice; will learn about the importance of integration across research, practice, community, and policy domains to address health disparities; and will cultivate the communication skills needed to intentionally and successfully facilitate integration practice. Course instructors with unique vantage points as concerned scientists, health practitioners, and policy wonks will engage students in class discussions and activities, individual writing assignments and small-group work aimed at unveiling the reasons health disparities persist globally--challenging them to consider opportunities for integration to alleviate existing disparities. The semester will culminate in students working in groups to create their own integrated projects aimed at addressing a health disparity.
GCC 5028 - Harnessing the Power of Research, Community, Clinic and Policy to Build a Culture of Health
(DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GCC 3028/GCC 5028
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Imagine a world where factors such as race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status had no bearing on a person's health status, quality of life, or longevity--a world where everyone had an equal opportunity to live a long and healthy life. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Despite decades of focused public health efforts, health inequities remain; individuals from low income and diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds are far more likely to, (1) struggle with chronic health conditions, (2) report lower quality of life, and (3) have a lower life expectancy, than others. Bold and innovative solutions are needed to address this grand challenge. Integration is one such method that can potentially increase the success and sustainability of approaches to reduce health disparities and create a culture of health for all. Integration is an approach to solving complex public health problems that merges academic research, clinical practice, policy and community resources in new ways.
This interactive course will challenge students to identify root causes of health, including access to food, housing, transportation and education. Students will also focus on health disparities and barriers to eliminating these existing, disparate, negative outcomes. Students will be introduced to the concept of integration science and practice; will learn about the importance of integration across research, practice, community, and policy domains to address health disparities; and will cultivate the communication skills needed to intentionally and successfully facilitate integration practice. Course instructors with unique vantage points as concerned scientists, health practitioners, and policy wonks will engage students in class discussions and activities, individual writing assignments and small-group work aimed at unveiling the reasons health disparities persist globally--challenging them to consider opportunities for integration to alleviate existing disparities. The semester will culminate in students working in groups to create their own integrated projects aimed at addressing a health disparity.
ANTH 3005W - Language, Culture, and Power
(SOCS, DSJ, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Studying language as a social practice, students transcribe and analyze conversation they record themselves, and consider issues of identity and social power in daily talk.
ANTH 3036 - The Body in Society
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
Body-related practices throughout the world. Readings, documentaries, mass media.
ANTH 3242W - Hero, Savage, or Equal? Representations of NonWestern Peoples in the Movies
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course will explore images of nonWestern peoples and cultures as they have appeared in the movies and in other popular media. It has four aims: l) to introduce the problem of nonWestern peoples in the West from historical points of view, 2) to discuss the relationship between mass media and issue of representation to the marketplace, 3) to introduce the concept of morality in and through collective representations as developed by Durkheim, and 4) to analyze the problem of moral agency in a series of Hollywood and Independent movies which portray nonwestern peoples and cultures. We will watch movies portraying three different groups of cultures, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, and the Japanese. In each unit, we will first read important commentary on Western representations of each of these peoples, such as Bernard Smith on Pacific Islanders and Vine Deloria on images of Native Americans and Gina Marchetti on Hollywood?s Japanese.
ANTH 4049 - Religion and Culture
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Anth 4049/RelS 4049
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Religious beliefs and world views cross-culturally. Religious dimensions of human life through theories of origins, functions, and forms (e.g. myth, ritual, symbolism) of religion in society.
prereq: 1003 or 1005 or instr consent
ARTS 3206W - Art + Ecology
(WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Art + Ecology explores the history, theory, and contemporary practice of artists engaged with the ecological issues of our time. This seminar offers an introduction to the dynamic and emerging field of Environmental Art, focusing on the ways in which artists use creativity to work across disciplines to address ecological concerns. This course investigates the role contemporary artists play as catalysts in relation to a range of concerns, including environmental justice, mass extinction, climate change, and treatment of "waste" as well as issues of the quality of the air, water, soil, and habitat. This seminar also will introduce the notion of artists as agents of change who build communities of ecologically aware practices around interrelated environmental and social issues. Students will be encouraged to see how their creativity and imagination can contribute to finding solutions to pressing environmental problems.
COMM 3676W - Communicating Terrorism
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Terrorism as an ethical and international problem. Different cultures' historical trajectories for terrorism. Contrasts between Algerian, Irish, and Arab terrorism.
COMM 3681W - Rhetorical Fictions and 20th Century Conflicts
(LITR, GP, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Analysis of selected 20th-century documentary novels. Nature of artistic truth in relation to historical truth. Cross-cultural comparisons of responses to impact of Anglo-American policies.
CSCL 3130W - Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures and Theory: 1700 to the Present
(LITR, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Odd, Spring Even Year
Readings in colonial/postcolonial literatures/theory from at least two world regions: Africa, the Americas, the Arab world, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific. Cultural/psychological dynamics and political economy of world under empire, decolonization, pre- vs. post-coloniality, globalization.
CSCL 3251 - Popular Music and Mass Culture
(AH)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Close examination of widely varying musical forms and styles, "classical" and "popular," in relation to human subjectivity and configurations of culture, ideology, and power.
ENGL 3093 - Law and Literature
(LITR, DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
ENGL 3093 Law & Literature examines how law and literature render diversity and social justice. The law is generally defined as a country?s (or community?s) system of rules that regulate people?s actions and administer justice to them. Literature is generally defined as an assortment of oral and written texts regarded as having intellectual, aesthetic, and moral value. This course puts legal and literary texts into conversation to answer questions about how they render the equality of and the justice for diverse peoples.
ENGL 3505 - Protest Literature and Community Action
(DSJ)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course combines academic analysis and experiential learning to understand, in both theory and practice, different perspectives on the power of "protest" in civic life. We will read a selection from the vast genre of progressive protest literature (pamphlets, poems, polemics, lists of demands, teaching philosophies, organizing principles, cultural histories, newsletter articles, movement chronicles, and excerpts from novels and biographies) from four key social-justice movements: the American Indian Movement, the Black Power movement, the post-Great Recession struggle for economic power, and the battle for immigrant rights. We'll also learn about this experientially as we roll up our sleeves and get involved in local community-based education initiatives and local social-justice organizations through our service-learning. Students receive initial training from CLA Career Services, The Center for Community-Engaged Learning, the Minnesota Literacy Council, as well as orientations at community sites.
GEOG 3374W - The City in Film
(AH, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3374W/3374V/5374W
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Cinematic portrayal of changes in 20th-century cities worldwide including social and cultural conflict, political and economic processes, changing gender relationships, rural versus urban areas, and population and development issues (especially as they affect women and children).
GEOG 3377 - Music in the City
(DSJ, AH)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Why is music so central to the life of the city? Throughout the ages, throughout the world, music seems to have a special power to fill urban space with meaning. This is mostly why the music industry is always desperately trying to chase the new ways music is produced and consumed. Much about the rapid changes in the industry can be linked to changes taking place in the geography of cities and globalization. Through music, people feel connected to landscapes, neighborhoods, buildings, and identities. Music gives value to places, so helps cement us/them divisions, a process easily seen (heard) in national anthems. This course tries to understand how the interplay exactly occurs between sounds, places, and differences through case studies from many genres. The course makes use of a large range of media and learning styles. Themes include the transnational circuits of reggae, the class backgrounds of punk, Motown and civil rights, psychedelic counterculture, underground electronic music, and the ambivalent identities of Minneapolis's very own Prince.
GEOG 3388 - Going Places: Geographies of Travel and Tourism
(CIV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Are you wondering whether you will be able to travel as you did a few years ago? One of the largest industries, tourism is in a profound crisis. This course understands tourism in relation to other kinds of mobility, like shopping, colonialism, trafficking, migration, and pilgrimage. As the negative environmental and health impacts of tourism have become obvious, significant demands have emerged on its practices and policies. Investigating the landscapes and economies of cars, planes, beaches, parks, malls, and museums, we come to appreciate the unique challenges tourism poses for global citizenship and the planet. To gain a critical geographical understanding of mobility we engage a range of ethical frameworks such as human rights, feminism, social justice, and utilitarianism. Our final destination is an informed and critical ethics of travel in the age of pandemics and climate change.
HIST 3417W - Food in History
(HIS, ENV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Odd, Spring Even Year
Significance of food in society, from earliest times to present. Why we eat what we eat. How foods have been "globalized." Dietary effects of industrial modernity. Material culture, social beliefs. Examples from around world.
HIST 3418 - Drink in History
(HIS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Even, Spring Odd Year
Significance of alcohol and stimulating beverages. Interdisciplinary study of alcohol/prohibition regimes throughout history.
JOUR 3552 - Technology, Communication & Global Society
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course examines the various ways in which technology continues to evolve, and to have a role in ongoing societal changes. The course focuses on unpacking the specific ways in which technology are evolving, and connecting those changes to impacts on communication and media A variety of theories or perspectives relevant or related to technology use and global communication will be considered to help make sense of the interplay between the technology use and societies in a global setting. The course is divided into three main parts: first, understanding of the specifics of relevant technology; second, connecting the technical features to theoretical views of technology; third, examining global patterns of technology use in media and communication. The readings and discussions place special emphasis on specific forms of technology, including mobile phones, Web, and social media. Grounded in a global context, we will investigate the political, cultural, social, technological, and economic conditions that shape and are shaped by the presence of the Internet at the national and cross-national levels; the effects of technology use on the form and content of mass communication at the global level; and the implications of technology use for human and social relations across national borders.
LING 3101W - Languages of the World
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Survey of language families of the world. Classifying languages genetically/typologically. Historical relationships among languages.
prereq: 3001 or 3001H or 5001 or instr consent
TH 3152W - Global Avant-Gardes: Theatre, Music, Modernity
(HIS, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3152W/Th 3152W/Th 5152W/
Typically offered:
Every Spring
What does it mean to be an avant-garde artist in the Global South? In postcolonial Africa and Asia, where arts were linked to national modernization projects, artists have played a key role in shaping citizens? identity, alongside schools and universities. While participating in modernizing projects, avant-garde artists maintained independence from state institutions and voiced criticism of dictators. This course examines avant-garde performance in several locations of the Global South, analyzing dramas of national history, modernist music, activist theater, cosmopolitan dance, transnational cultural circuits, and politically radical performances.
Reading historical, social, and performance studies, we will develop methods for analyzing performances that aim to make transformative social interventions. These include textual analysis, ethnography, performance analysis, and tracking transnational cultural exchange. You will apply select methods in your final research paper, which centers on an avant-gardist cultural phenomenon in the contemporary Global South.
CSCL 3211 - Global and Transnational Cinemas
(GP)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
CSCL 3211/SCMC 3211
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
This course explores Global and Transnational Cinemas as alternative traditions to the dominant Hollywood-centered accounts of film history. Students will grapple with the historical, social, and political motivations of cinematic projects that critique traditions of national cinema, or that resist the hegemonic force of neocolonial cultural centers. Italian Neo-realism and the French New Wave will be examined as movements that challenge politics and mass culture. Third Cinema in Latin America and pan-African cinematic movements will be examined through their struggles with both colonialism and the rise of post-colonial dictatorships. Indian and Japanese cinemas of the 50s & 60s will mark out new possibilities of filmmaking and distribution. Finally, counter-hegemonic and experimental movements in U.S.-based film, such as the L.A. Rebellion and Fluxus, will allow students to understand how opposition to Hollywood style could exist within the very centers of cultural power while also reaching out to larger global communities.
SCMC 3211 - Global and Transnational Cinemas
(GP)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
CSCL 3211/SCMC 3211
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
This course explores Global and Transnational Cinemas as alternative traditions to the dominant Hollywood-centered accounts of film history. Students will grapple with the historical, social, and political motivations of cinematic projects that critique traditions of national cinema, or that resist the hegemonic force of neocolonial cultural centers. Italian Neo-realism and the French New Wave will be examined as movements that challenge politics and mass culture. Third Cinema in Latin America and pan-African cinematic movements will be examined through their struggles with both colonialism and the rise of post-colonial dictatorships. Indian and Japanese cinemas of the 50s & 60s will mark out new possibilities of filmmaking and distribution. Finally, counter-hegemonic and experimental movements in U.S.-based film, such as the L.A. Rebellion and Fluxus, will allow students to understand how opposition to Hollywood style could exist within the very centers of cultural power while also reaching out to larger global communities.
ENGL 3025 - The End of the World in Literature and History
(HIS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
EngL 3025/RelS 3627
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
For at least two and a half millennia, prophets, politicians, and poets have crafted terrifying accounts about the end of the world. This comparatist seminar examines the way different cultures have imagined a final apocalypse with particular attention to the political and social consequences of their visions. Students will read texts that focus on pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, nuclear holocaust, prophecy, cybernetic revolt, divine judgment, resource depletion, meteoric impact, or one of the many other ways in which humans write of their demise. They will use literary analysis to explore the many historical and contemporary wastelands they will encounter. They will write short papers and give in-class presentations on different kinds of apocalypse.
RELS 3627 - The End of the World in Literature and History
(HIS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
EngL 3025/RelS 3627
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
For at least two and a half millennia, prophets, politicians, and poets have crafted terrifying accounts about the end of the world. This comparatist seminar examines the way different cultures have imagined a final apocalypse with particular attention to the political and social consequences of their visions. Students will read texts that focus on pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, nuclear holocaust, prophecy, cybernetic revolt, divine judgment, resource depletion, meteoric impact, or one of the many other ways in which humans write of their demise. They will use literary analysis to explore the many historical and contemporary wastelands they will encounter. They will write short papers and give in-class presentations on different kinds of apocalypse.
AFRO 3006 - Impact of African Migrations in the Atlantic World
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage in the Americas. While the exact number remains unknown, it is estimated that over 10 million Africans arrived in the New World over a period of 400 years. Most of them were bound for Central and South America with less than half a million arriving to the British colonies in North America. At the dawn of the 21st Century, however, U.S. census figures determined that more Africans had arrived in the United States voluntarily since 1990, than the total amount brought in as captives. This course examines the impact of African migrations in the Atlantic World beginning with the explorations of Portuguese mariners down the coast of West Africa in the 15th century, which set the foundation for the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
AFRO 3120 - Social and Intellectual Movements in the African Diaspora
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3120/Afro 5120/Hist 3456
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Political, cultural, historical linkages between Africans, African-Americans, African-Caribbean. Black socio-political movements/radical intellectual trends in late 19th/20th centuries. Colonialism/racism. Protest organizations, radical movements in United States/Europe.
AFRO 4105 - Ways of Knowing in Africa and the African Diaspora
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Impact of European knowledge systems on African world. How peoples on African continent and across African diaspora have produced/defined knowledge. Continuity/change in the way African peoples have thought about and left their epistemological imprints upon the world.
CSCL 3351W - The Body and the Politics of Representation
(HIS, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Western representation of the human body, 1500 to present. Body's appearance as a site and sight for production of social and cultural difference (race, ethnicity, class, gender). Visual arts, literature, music, medical treatises, courtesy literature, erotica. (previously 3458W)
POL 3462 - The Politics of Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the United States, South Africa and Cuba
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Is it true that since the election of Donald Trump, the United States is more racist than ever? Is racism on the rise elsewhere in the world? Consistent with the goals of liberal education, this course helps students navigate their way through what is often seen as one of the most perplexing and intractable problems in today's world?racial and ethnic conflicts. It supplies a set of theoretical tools that can be utilized in the most diverse of settings?including, though to a lesser extent, gender. Rather than looking at these conflicts, as the media and popular knowledge often does, as centuries-old conflicts deeply set in our memory banks, a script from which none of us can escape, the course argues that inequalities in power and authority?in other words, class?go a long way in explaining racial and ethnic dynamics. To support this argument, the course examines the so-called ?black-white? conflict in three settings, the U.S., South Africa, and Cuba. While all three share certain similarities, their differences provide the most explanatory power. Most instructive is the Cuba versus U.S. and South Africa comparison. Specifically, what are the consequences for race relations when a society, Cuba, attempts to eliminate class inequalities? The course hopes to show that while we all carry with us the legacy of the past, we are not necessarily its prisoners.
SOC 4461 - Sociology of Ethnic and Racial Conflict
(DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 4461/Soc 4461
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
"I can't breathe." The last words of George Floyd. Words that traumatized a nation, and the world. While the death of George Floyd galvanized peoples worldwide to speak out against discrimination and inequality, well before his death studies suggested that ethnic and racial discrimination and conflict re-occur on an ongoing basis. From the events of the Holocaust - to the genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar - to the torture of Uighurs in China - to the Atlantic slave trade - we explore how identities are formed - and thereafter - how those same identities are deployed - to exclude and marginalize - with targeted precision. Across the world, we examine how racial bias and racial animus contribute to slavery, torture, mass displacement, economic destitution, and genocide.
prereq: 1001 recommended; soc majors/minors must register A-F
AAS 3341 - Asian American Images
(AH, DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AAS 3341/Comm 3341
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
From 19th-century anti-Chinese political cartoons to Harold and Kumar, visual representations of Asians in the United States have long influenced how Asian Americans are seen and treated. What are some of the ways that photography, graphic arts, and digital culture have pictured Asian Americans as aliens, citizens, immigrants, workers, family and community members, entertainers, and artists? Course topics will relate visual images to particular historical moments, including the early exclusion period and the "yellow peril" stereotype; WWII Japanese American incarceration and the drawings of Miné Okubo, and photo-journalism documenting U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia and its aftermath. How do photographic and other images work to counter historical amnesia, heal traumatic loss, and document social injustice? Other weeks of the class will explore the ways that individuals, families, and communities use photographs, video, and other visual media to preserve a sense of connection and belonging. We will also look at how contemporary Asian American photographers such as Tseng Kwong Chi, Nikki Lee, and Wing Young Huie experiment with visual images to raise questions of racial and national identity, social inequality, gender, sexuality, and political agency. The course also includes a digital storytelling project that encourages students to create video images and sound reflecting Asian American immigration stories from local communities.
COMM 3341 - Asian American Images
(AH, DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AAS 3341/Comm 3341
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
From 19th-century anti-Chinese political cartoons to Harold and Kumar, visual representations of Asians in the United States have long influenced how Asian Americans are seen and treated. What are some of the ways that photography, graphic arts, and digital culture have pictured Asian Americans as aliens, citizens, immigrants, workers, family and community members, entertainers, and artists? Course topics will relate visual images to particular historical moments, including the early exclusion period and the "yellow peril" stereotype; WWII Japanese American incarceration and the drawings of Miné Okubo, and photo-journalism documenting U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia and its aftermath. How do photographic and other images work to counter historical amnesia, heal traumatic loss, and document social injustice? Other weeks of the class will explore the ways that individuals, families, and communities use photographs, video, and other visual media to preserve a sense of connection and belonging. We will also look at how contemporary Asian American photographers such as Tseng Kwong Chi, Nikki Lee, and Wing Young Huie experiment with visual images to raise questions of racial and national identity, social inequality, gender, sexuality, and political agency. The course also includes a digital storytelling project that encourages students to create video images and sound reflecting Asian American immigration stories from local communities.
AAS 3351 - Asian Americans and Popular Culture
(AH, DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AAS 3351/Comm 3351
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Over the past few decades, Asian Americans have become increasingly visible both as the subjects and producers of popular culture in the United States. This course will explore how this new recognition of Asian Americans in popular literature, cinema, television, and entertainment is related both to longer histories of Asian immigration and racial exclusion and to post-1960s efforts to forward racial awareness, community activism, and social justice. Our first unit will look at how particular stereotypes such as the yellow peril or the wartime enemy encouraged anti-Asian feeling and violence and legal restrictions on immigration and naturalization. We will then examine how throughout history, Asian immigrants and their descendants used song, dance, theater, writing, and other forms of popular culture to express personal desires and foster collective ties. Our final unit concentrates on contemporary popular culture and its relationship to the changing identities of Asian Americans. How do Asian Americans influence the current essays, films, and videos that are consumed by millions today? How are increasingly pan-ethnic, interracial, multiracial, transnational, and global experiences reflected in popular culture?
COMM 3351 - Asian Americans and Popular Culture
(AH, DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AAS 3351/Comm 3351
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Over the past few decades, Asian Americans have become increasingly visible both as the subjects and producers of popular culture in the United States. This course will explore how this new recognition of Asian Americans in popular literature, cinema, television, and entertainment is related both to longer histories of Asian immigration and racial exclusion and to post-1960s efforts to forward racial awareness, community activism, and social justice. Our first unit will look at how particular stereotypes such as the yellow peril or the wartime enemy encouraged anti-Asian feeling and violence and legal restrictions on immigration and naturalization. We will then examine how throughout history, Asian immigrants and their descendants used song, dance, theater, writing, and other forms of popular culture to express personal desires and foster collective ties. Our final unit concentrates on contemporary popular culture and its relationship to the changing identities of Asian Americans. How do Asian Americans influence the current essays, films, and videos that are consumed by millions today? How are increasingly pan-ethnic, interracial, multiracial, transnational, and global experiences reflected in popular culture?
AFRO 3341 - Black Geographies
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3341/Geog 3341
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course will engage the sub-discipline of Black Geographies by looking at Geographical literature on the question of Blackness as well as case studies on the ways in which Afro-descendant populations make place. Course readings and films will attend to Blackness as it manifests across the African Diaspora, with specific focus on the Americas. We will discuss the experiences and struggles of enslaved Africans in the Americas, struggles against slavery, the ways in which we can understand histories of Blackness, and different forms of struggle employed by Afro-descendant populations today. At the end of the semester students will have a solid grounding in the literature around Black Geographies, as well as a nuanced understanding of the different ways in which Black populations analyze and create space.
GEOG 3341 - Black Geographies
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3341/Geog 3341
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course will engage the sub-discipline of Black Geographies by looking at Geographical literature on the question of Blackness as well as case studies on the ways in which Afro-descendant populations make place. Course readings and films will attend to Blackness as it manifests across the African Diaspora, with specific focus on the Americas. We will discuss the experiences and struggles of enslaved Africans in the Americas, struggles against slavery, the ways in which we can understand histories of Blackness, and different forms of struggle employed by Afro-descendant populations today. At the end of the semester students will have a solid grounding in the literature around Black Geographies, as well as a nuanced understanding of the different ways in which Black populations analyze and create space.
CHIC 3446 - Chicana and Chicano History II: WWII, El Movimiento, and the New Millennium
(HIS, DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Chic 3446/Hist 3446
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Experiences of people of Mexican descent in the U.S. Notions of citizenship from WWII. Chicano civil rights movement. Impact of immigration patterns/legislation. Cultural wars, changing demographics. Social, economic, and political changes that influenced day-to-day life of Mexican Americans. Meaning of racialized "Mexican" identity. How different groups of Mexicans have understood their relationships to other Americans and other Latino groups.
HIST 3446 - Chicana and Chicano History II: WWII, El Movimiento, and the New Millennium
(HIS, DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Chic 3446/Hist 3446
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Experiences of people of Mexican descent in U.S. Notions of citizenship from WWII. Chicano civil rights movement. Impact of immigration patterns/legislation. Cultural wars, demographics. Social, economic, political changes. Meaning of racialized "Mexican" identity. How different groups of Mexicans have understood their relationships to other Americans/other Latino groups.
ANTH 3047W - Anthropology of Sex, Gender and Sexuality
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Anth 3047W/GWSS 3047W
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
This course explores the concepts of "sex," "gender," and "sexuality" through the scholarship of feminist anthropology, queer anthropology, and their antecedents. Students will read ethnographies that grapple with the contingent and shifting formations of these social constructions - when they emerge, disentangle, re-entangle, submerge, etc. The course will highlight the roles of imperialism, (settler) colonialism, capitalism, racism, heteropatriarchy, ableism, and other forms of social power in shaping these formations as well at the social categories - "sex," "gender," and "sexuality" - themselves.
Critical thinking of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os around construction of gender. Politics of sexual identity. How the self is gendered in relationship to sexual, racial, class, and national identities under different social structural conditions. Way in which the "borders" that define/confine sexual norms shift over time.
Is there such a thing as global queer aesthetic? If so, how do various modes of representation and expression (novels, poetry, and sophisticated uses of language across film, television and video, digital media, pop music and punk) elaborate and enact queerness in particular material ways while also helping to create a larger, intermedial queer culture?
GLBT 3404 - Transnational Sexualities
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GLBT 3404/GWSS 3404
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Lesbian/gay lives throughout world. Culturally-specific/transcultural aspects of lesbian/gay identity formation, political struggles, community involvement, and global networking. Lesbian/gay life in areas other than Europe and the United States.
GWSS 3003 - Gender and Global Politics
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Similarities/differences in women's experiences throughout world, from cross-cultural/historical perspective. Uses range of reading materials/media (feminist scholarship, fiction, film, news media, oral history, autobiography).
GWSS 3404 - Transnational Sexualities
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GLBT 3404/GWSS 3404
Typically offered:
Fall Odd, Spring Even Year
Lesbian/gay lives throughout world. Culturally-specific/transcultural aspects of lesbian/gay identity formation, political struggles, community involvement, and global networking. Lesbian/gay life in areas other than Europe and the United States.
GWSS 4001 - Nations, Empires, Feminisms
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Spring Even Year
Feminist critiques of the nation-state and citizenship, political economy and development, globalization, and/or empire and colonialism. Overview of the broader literature and an interrogation of specific attendant questions (such as how do feminists theorize state violence; what are feminist and queer critiques of U.S. empire; and how do feminists theorize globalization from above and below).
GWSS 4406 - Black Feminist Thought in the American and African Diasporas
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 4406/Afro 5406/GWSS 4406/
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Critically examine spatiality of African descendant women in Americas/larger black diaspora. Writings from black feminist/queer geographies, history, contemporary cultural criticism. Recent black feminist theorizing.
SW 3703 - Gender Violence in Global Perspective
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Theories/research on violence in intimate domestic relationships examined through multiple lenses. Overview of interventions in Minnesota, United States, and other societies.
AMIN 5412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Grading Basis:
OPT No Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.
AMST 5412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.
ANTH 5412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Grading Basis:
OPT No Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the inter connections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.
CHIC 3412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.
GWSS 3515 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.
CHIC 3212 - Chicana Feminism: La Chicana in Contemporary Society
(AH, DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Chic 3212/GWSS 3212/GWSS 3410
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Scholarly/creative work of Chicanas or politically defined women of Mexican American community. Interdisciplinary. Historical context, cultural process, and autoethnography.
GWSS 3212 - Chicana Feminism: La Chicana in Contemporary Society
(AH, DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Chic 3212/GWSS 3212/GWSS 3410
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Scholarly/creative work of Chicanas or politically defined women of Mexican American community. Interdisciplinary. Historical context, cultural process, and autoethnography.
CSCL 3350W - Sexuality and Culture
(DSJ, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
CSCL 3350W/GLBT 3456W
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
GLBT 3456W - Sexuality and Culture
(DSJ, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
CSCL 3350W/GLBT 3456W
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
GLOS 3681 - Gender and the Family in the Islamic World
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3681/GWSS 3681/RelS 3716/
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
This course explores the experiences of Muslim women and Muslim families from a historical and comparative perspective. Expanding the discussion on Muslim women's lives and experiences beyond the Middle East, by also centralizing on the experiences of Muslim women and families outside of this geographical area highlights the complex and diverse everyday experiences of Muslim women around the world. This wider lens exposes the limitations intrinsic in the stereotypical representation of Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular. We will explore the intricate web of gender and family power relations, and how these are contested and negotiated in these societies. Some of the themes the course explores include the debates on Muslim women and colonial representations, sexual politics, family, education and health, women and paid work, gender and human rights, and Islamic feminisms debates.
prereq: At least soph; 1001 recommended
GWSS 3681 - Gender and the Family in the Islamic World
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3681/GWSS 3681/RelS 3716/
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
This course explores the experiences of Muslim women and Muslim families from a historical and comparative perspective. Expanding the discussion on Muslim women's lives and experiences beyond the Middle East, by also centralizing on the experiences of Muslim women and families outside of this geographical area highlights the complex and diverse everyday experiences of Muslim women around the world. This wider lens exposes the limitations intrinsic in the stereotypical representation of Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular. We will explore the intricate web of gender and family power relations, and how these are contested and negotiated in these societies. Some of the themes the course explores include the debates on Muslim women and colonial representations, sexual politics, family, education and health, women and paid work, gender and human rights, and Islamic feminisms debates.
prereq: At least soph; 1001 recommended
RELS 3716 - Gender and the Family in the Islamic World
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3681/GWSS 3681/RelS 3716/
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
This course explores the experiences of Muslim women and Muslim families from a historical and comparative perspective. Expanding the discussion on Muslim women's lives and experiences beyond the Middle East, by also centralizing on the experiences of Muslim women and families outside of this geographical area highlights the complex and diverse everyday experiences of Muslim women around the world. This wider lens exposes the limitations intrinsic in the stereotypical representation of Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular. We will explore the intricate web of gender and family power relations, and how these are contested and negotiated in these societies. Some of the themes the course explores include the debates on Muslim women and colonial representations, sexual politics, family, education and health, women and paid work, gender and human rights, and Islamic feminisms debates.
prereq: At least soph; 1001 recommended
SOC 3681 - Gender and the Family in the Islamic World
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3681/GWSS 3681/RelS 3716/
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
This course explores the experiences of Muslim women and Muslim families from a historical and comparative perspective. Expanding the discussion on Muslim women's lives and experiences beyond the Middle East, by also centralizing on the experiences of Muslim women and families outside of this geographical area highlights the complex and diverse everyday experiences of Muslim women around the world. This wider lens exposes the limitations intrinsic in the stereotypical representation of Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular. We will explore the intricate web of gender and family power relations, and how these are contested and negotiated in these societies. Some of the themes the course explores include the debates on Muslim women and colonial representations, sexual politics, family, education and health, women and paid work, gender and human rights, and Islamic feminisms debates.
prereq: At least soph; 1001 recommended
GWSS 3505W - Girls, Girlhood, and Resistance
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GWSS 3505W/GWSS 3505V
Typically offered:
Fall Odd Year
A critical engagement with what constitutes "girlhood" and "resistance" through comparative analyses of girls' resistance and activism across North America.
GWSS 3505V - Girls, Girlhood, and Resistance
(WI)
Credits:
0.0
-3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GWSS 3505W/GWSS 3505V
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Fall Odd Year
A critical engagement with what constitutes "girlhood" and "resistance" through comparative analyses of girls' resistance and activism across North America.
GWSS 4103 - Transnational Feminist Theory
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GWSS 4103/GWSS 5104
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Third World and transnational feminisms. Interrogating the categories of "women," "feminism," and "Third World." Varieties of power/oppression that women have endured/resisted, including colonization, nationalism, globalization, and capitalism. Concentrates on postcolonial context.
GWSS 5104 - Transnational Feminist Theory
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Odd Year
Third World and transnational feminisms. Interrogating the categories of "women," "feminism," and "Third World." Varieties of power/oppression that women have endured/resisted, including colonization, nationalism, globalization, and capitalism. Concentrates on postcolonial context.
CHIC 3375 - Folklore of Greater Mexico
(DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Scholarly survey and exploration of the sociocultural function of various types of folklore in Greater Mexico. Ways in which folklore constructs and maintains community, as well as resists and engenders cultural shifts.
ECON 4311 - Economy of Latin America
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Economic evolution in Latin America since 1950. Trade liberalization, poverty, inflation, development strategies in selected Latin American countries. Theory/applications of important issues.
prereq: [MATH 1271, ECON 1101, ECON 1102] or equiv
HIST 3402W - Modern Latin America 1825 to Present
(HIS, GP, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3402W/LAS 3402W
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
National and contemporary period 1825 to present, with emphasis on social, cultural, political, and economic change.
LAS 3429 - Latin American History in Film and Text
(AH, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3429/LAS 3429
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Cinematic representations of Latin America in the context of other historical and literary narratives. Experiences of Latinos in Hollywood. Compare U.S. films with those produced in Latin America. Specific themes vary by term (e.g., women, revolution, colonialism).
POL 3479 - Latin American Politics
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
LAS 4479/Pol 3479/Pol 5479
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course offers an introduction to the political history and contemporary politics of Latin America, along with some of the main concepts and theories used by social scientists to explain the region?s political dynamics. Through a comparative, historical approach, the course aims to help students understand the continued challenges faced by countries in the region-- to the establishment of security, the rule of law and rights protection, to the stability and quality of democracy, and to sustainable and equitable economic growth?and how these interact. The objective of the course is not only to help students understand the similarities and differences in outcomes in Latin America over time, but also to reflect on what the region?s experiences can teach us about the requirements of and barriers to meaningful democracy and sustainable and equitable development around the world, including ?north of the border.? In other words, the course seeks not just to provide students? knowledge about Latin America, but to help them learn from Latin America.
POL 4492 - Law and (In)Justice in Latin America
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Pol 4492/Pol 5492
Typically offered:
Every Spring
This course examines, from various angles, how law and justice function in contemporary Latin America, highlighting similarities and differences within and between countries and issue areas. Students reflect on and debate the causes behind the varied outcomes, as well as the effectiveness, actual and potential, of the different institutional and social change efforts that have been underway in the region since the 1980s. Specific topics addressed include accountability for past and present mass violence; origins of and responses to crime, from "mano dura" policies to criminal justice reform and anti-corruption initiatives; and advances and limitations in equal rights protection. Special attention is paid across the course to issues of indigeneity, race, class, gender, and sexuality. Throughout, students compare situations within Latin America, which is by no means a monolith, as well as consider parallels between Latin America and the United States, where, despite great differences in wealth, history and culture, similar problems of law and justice can be found. The course aims thus not only to teach students about Latin America but also to get students to think about what we might learn from Latin America.
POL 5492 - Law and (In)Justice in Latin America
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Pol 4492/Pol 5492
Typically offered:
Every Spring
This course examines, from various angles, how law and justice function in contemporary Latin America, highlighting similarities and differences within and between countries and issue areas. Students reflect on and debate the causes behind the varied outcomes, as well as the effectiveness, actual and potential, of the different institutional and social change efforts that have been underway in the region since the 1980s. Specific topics addressed include accountability for past and present mass violence; origins of and responses to crime, from "mano dura" policies to criminal justice reform and anti-corruption initiatives; and advances and limitations in equal rights protection. Special attention is paid across the course to issues of indigeneity, race, class, gender, and sexuality. Throughout, students compare situations within Latin America, which is by no means a monolith, as well as consider parallels between Latin America and the United States, where, despite great differences in wealth, history and culture, similar problems of law and justice can be found. The course aims thus not only to teach students about Latin America but also to get students to think about what we might learn from Latin America.
SPAN 3221 - Interpreting Colonial Latin America: Empire and Early Modernity
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Span 3221/Tldo 3002
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
The conquest and colonization of Latin America is a complex issue, which demands an interdisciplinary approach to achieve a better understanding of this multidimensional social conflict. The course examines the role of colonial discourse as producer of the epistemic colonial difference and explores the legacies of colonialism. Students will be expected to focus on and to think about the organizational mechanisms through which aural and visual practices mediate reality in Colonial Latin America. Furthermore, students will learn to be critical readers by considering how cultural texts may be historically determined and by exploring how individuals may shape a particular cultural theme in a variety of manners. The course will focus on critical readings and discussion of cultural artifacts, literary texts, and documents of Colonial Latin America. Studies will include material pertaining to the aural and visual production of the period, including European and indigenous accounts of the conquest, as well as indigenous, African, criollo, mestizo and women writings during the colony from an interdisciplinary perspective. Concentration will center on the textual strategies, topics, world views, motivations, projects, and expectations explicit or implicit in the texts, their significance at the time, and their importance for understanding the formation of what we know as Latin America today. The course also is devoted to the conquest of Latin America by analyzing the role of colonial discourse and the legacies of colonialism in the region. With cultural artifacts, texts and documents, students will deal with different theoretical approaches deriving from the humanities and the social sciences. Such interdisciplinary method will provide the tools, concepts, and strategic visions to carry on analytical tasks in class. All the work for the course, except for certain supplementary readings, will be in Spanish. Requirements will include preparation of assigned readings, presentation of analytical and comprehensive tasks, class discussions, and a research project. The course provides training in analytical thinking and cultural critique of colonial society in Latin America, bringing a global perspective to our curriculum.
Pre-req: A grade of C- or better in SPAN 3104W or SPAN 3104V or TLDO 3104W or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or SPAN 3105V or TLDO 3105W or SPAN 3107W or SPAN 3107V or TLDO 3107W
SPAN 3222 - Interpreting Modern and Contemporary Latin America
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Span 3222/Tldo 3222
Typically offered:
Every Spring
The aim of this course is to organize a discussion around the issues of nation building and modernization in Latin America through the study of representative 19th- century authors. The selected materials are essential documents of their times, and often influential statements about the history, identity, and culture of the region. Through a close examination of essays, novels, short stories, poems, and other texts students can appreciate their cultural legacy and understand the socio-historical context and the intellectual forces that shaped Modern Latin America. Concentration will center on the textual strategies, topics, world views, motivations, projects, and expectations explicit or implicit in the texts, their significance at the time, and their importance for understanding the formation of what we know as Latin America today. The course also examines Modern Latin America by analyzing the role of political discourse and the legacies of colonialism in the region. With literary texts and documents, students will deal with different theoretical approaches deriving from the humanities and the social sciences. Such interdisciplinary method will provide the tools, concepts, and strategic visions to carry on analytical tasks in class. All the work for the course, except for certain supplementary readings, will be in Spanish. Requirements will include preparation of assigned readings, presentation of analytical and comprehensive tasks, class discussions, and a research project. The course provides training in analytical thinking and cultural critique of Modern Latin America, bringing a global perspective to our curriculum.
prereq: A grade of C- or better in SPAN 3104W or SPAN 3104V or TLDO 3104W or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or SPAN 3105V or TLDO 3105W or SPAN 3107W or SPAN 3107V or TLDO 3107W
SPAN 3401 - Latino Immigration and Community Engagement
(CIV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Service-learning course. U.S. power structures associated with emigration from Latin America. Rapid demographic change. Global economic system/emigration. Human rights. Federal immigration reform. Language issues. Inclusive political, economic, educational systems. Dialogue with Latino immigrants, community visits, civic engagement. Instructor approval required for January or summer offering.
Pre-req: A C- or better in SPAN 3015W or SPAN 3015V or SPAN 3019W
SPAN 3512 - Modern Latin America
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Span 3512, conducted entirely in Spanish, will consider some of the relations between daily life and symbolic production in modern Latin America. We will begin by exploring the emergence of ways of naming and mapping the hemisphere: where/what is Latin America? What is the history of cultures and the movement of peoples that have given rise to what we imagine as Latin America today? What do we mean by such names as America, Hispanic, Latino, etc.? What is the relation between Latin America and Latino? What are different ways to explore cultural manifestations and products? Using film, documentaries, production of soap operas, the web, and other resources, we will go on to examine a series of topics from a historical perspective, including education, modernity, modernization, and identity formation.
Prereq: A grade of C- or better in SPAN 3104W or SPAN 3104V or TLDO 3104W or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or SPAN 3105V or TLDO 3105W or SPAN 3107W or SPAN 3107V or TLDO 3107W
SPAN 3920 - Topics in Spanish-American Literature
Credits:
3.0
[max 9.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course focuses on a wide gamut of intellectual, literary, and artistic movements in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries across eras. Engaging with the most up-to-date trends of critical and methodological tools in cultural, literary, and philosophical analysis, students will examine a variety of issues in conversation with the political and social conditions that have influenced shifts in art, cultural, and intellectual praxis among different groups of peoples, writers, and artists across disciplines and continents.
Topics vary and are specified in the class schedule.
prereq: SPAN 3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or instructor consent
CHIC 3425 - History of Modern Mexico
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Chic 3425/Hist 3425
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Summer
Mexico from independence to the present: struggles for land, liberty, and equality; ethnicity, gender, and class; economic growth, nationalism, and globalization; urbanization, immigration, demographic transition. Issues of race, religion, and national identity; the US-Mexico War, the 1910 Mexican Revolution, urbanization, migration, free trade agreements, and the War on Drugs.
HIST 3425 - History of Modern Mexico
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Chic 3425/Hist 3425
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Summer
Mexico from independence to the present: struggles for land, liberty, and equality; ethnicity, gender, and class; economic growth, nationalism, and globalization; urbanization, immigration, demographic transition. Issues of race, religion, and national identity; the US-Mexico War, the 1910 Mexican Revolution, urbanization, migration, free trade agreements, and the War on Drugs.
HIST 3401W - Early Latin America to 1825
(HIS, GP, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3401W/HIST 3401V/LAS 3401
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Societies of Americas, Spain, and Portugal before contact. Interactions among Native Americans, African slaves, and Europeans, from colonization through independence. Religion, resistance, labor, gender, race. Primary sources, historical scholarship.
LAS 3401W - Early Latin America to 1825
(HIS, GP, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3401W/HIST 3401V/LAS 3401
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Societies of Americas, Spain, and Portugal before contact. Interactions among Native Americans, African slaves, and Europeans, from colonization through independence. Religion, resistance, labor, gender, race. Primary sources, historical scholarship.
GEOG 3161 - Europe: A Geographic Perspective
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3161/GLoS 3921
Typically offered:
Fall Even Year
It is impossible to think about the contemporary world without the lasting impact Europe has had on it. But what are the deeper reasons for Europe to emerge as a dominant region from the late Middle Ages onwards? Why has Europe recently found itself in profound economic and political, even existential crisis? Historical geography provides answers. Divided by landscape, language, religion, and war, European empires imposed the state-form, capitalism, and their cultures on the rest of the world. European societies even became the supposed standard for how all humanity is meant to live. But there have always been cracks in this success story. The project of the European Union promised peace and prosperity for half a billion people but faces unprecedented challenges, from Brexit, the Ukraine war, and the return of state racism to climate change and covid. This course will guide you through Europe?s general historical characteristics to understand how it shaped globalization.
GER 3014 - German Media
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Introduction to German language media. German language newspaper/magazine articles. The Internet. Radio/TV broadcasts. Structure/style of journalistic prose.
prereq: 3011
GER 3604W - Introduction to German Cinema
(AH, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Even, Spring Odd Year
An introduction to the study of German cinema, with a focus on the relation between German film and German history, literature, culture, and politics.
GER 3655 - Cultures of Control and Surveillance in Germany and the US
(HIS, CIV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Odd Year
Discourses and practices of social control and surveillance in comparative/historical perspective. Explores the central conceptual condition for modern ethics: the relationship between individual and society. Paintings, manuals, scholarly and philosophical essays, and literary texts including writings by Franz Kafka.
GLBT 3211 - History of Sexuality in Europe
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GLBT 3211/Hist 3211
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
History of sexuality in Europe, from ancient Greece to present. Plato's philosophy of love, St. Augustine's conception of sin, prostitution in 15th century, sexual science of Enlightenment. Industrial revolution and homosexual subcultures. Rape scares and imperialism. Eugenics and Nazi Germany.
GSD 3512W - Imagined Communities: German and European, Culture and Controversies, 1700 to Present
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Survey of representative cultural-historical events in Europe (German-speaking countries, Scandinavian, the Netherlands) from 1700 to present.
HIST 3211 - History of Sexuality in Europe
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GLBT 3211/Hist 3211
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
History of sexuality in Europe, from ancient Greece to present. Plato's philosophy of love, St. Augustine's conception of sin, prostitution in 15th century, sexual science of Enlightenment. Industrial revolution and homosexual subcultures. Rape scares and imperialism. Eugenics and Nazi Germany.
HIST 3244 - History of Eastern Europe
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
History of the peoples of the region from their origins to modern times, culture and society in the Middle Ages; Golden Age of Eastern Europe; loss of independence; nationalism and formation of national states; fascism and World War II, Jews in Eastern Europe; communist and post-communist periods.
HIST 3283 - Marx, Capital, and History: An Introduction to Marxist Theory and History
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3283/Hist 5283
Typically offered:
Spring Even Year
Explore Marx's understanding of capitalism/its history. Marx's argument regarding historical specificity of capitalism as economic/social condition.
HIST 3615W - Women in European History: 1500 to the Present
(HIS, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GWSS 3615W/Hist 3615W
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
History of women in Western Europe from early modern period to present. Changes crucial to women's lives. Family/kinship structure, control over property, organization of work, religious ideas/practices, education, politics, beliefs/attitudes about female body.
HIST 3691W - The British Empire
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Gain/loss of colonies in Ireland, America, India, Africa. Development of racism, multicultural composition of British society, debates about economic motives for empire, resistance of colonized peoples to conquest/domination.
HIST 3721 - Studies in 20th-Century Europe From the Turn of the Century to the End of World War II: 1900-45
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3721/5721
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Summer
Social, political, and cultural changes/conflicts. Background to WWI, its impact. Revolution, failure of interwar stability. Fascism. WWII, its consequences.
HIST 3722 - Studies in 20th-Century Europe From the End of World War II to the End of the Cold War: 1945-91
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3422/Hist 3722
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Social, economic, political, and cultural impacts of WWII upon Europe. Division of Europe. Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, cooperation in Western Europe. Impacts of modernization. End of Cold War.
ITAL 3837 - Imagining Italy: Italian and Italian-American Culture, History, and Society through Film
(AH, GP)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Ital 1837/Ital 3837
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Weekly guest lectures and critical readings expand from different disciplinary perspectives upon issues raised by films. Urban life, religion, nationalism, opera, violence, leisure, food, fascism, terrorism, family, emigration/immigration, ethnicity, Mediterranean culture.
PHIL 3005W - General History of Western Philosophy: Modern Period
(AH, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Phil 3005W/V/3105
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Can anything be known beyond a shadow of a doubt? How ought scientific knowledge be discovered and justified? In what does one's identity as a person consist? How does our human nature affect the way that we conceive of and come to know the world? This course examines the momentous intellectual transformations in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries that inspired such questions and their innovative solutions.
POL 3265 - Ideas and Protest in French Postwar Thought
(AH, CIV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
France witnessed a number of extraordinary events in the 20th century: the carnage and trauma of World Wars I and II; the Vichy regime’s collaboration with German Nazis; the general strike and student protests of the 1960s; the tensions prompted by anti-colonialism and later decolonization in North Africa; and the challenges of post-colonialism and racial politics. This course will examine these events, the political and ethical challenges they raised, and the intellectuals who shaped the ensuing public debates. It will draw on historical documents, cultural media (e.g. posters, art, film), and philosophical texts to explore contemporary France in its century of politics and protest. Thinkers range from film-maker Gillo Pontecorvo, to philosopher-playwright Jean-Paul Sartre, to philosopher Michel Foucault.
SCAN 3501W - Scandinavian Culture Past and Present
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Even, Spring Odd Year
Cultural, social, and political developments; principal views and core values; major cultural figures; Scandinavian mentality. Readings in translation for nonmajors. Invited lectures on central topics within selected areas of study.
Issues of origin/language, immigration/settlement, traditions/values, culture/politics, and transgressions of boundaries from the old to the new studied through photos, diaries, letters, stories, and novels by Moberg, Rolvaag, Ager, and other pioneers. All readings in translation.
SPAN 3910 - Topics in Spanish Peninsular Literature
Credits:
3.0
[max 9.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
In this course, we will explore specific themes or issues, from different time periods, as they are reflected in Spanish peninsular literature. The focused study of the class topic will be framed within a broader exploration of larger historical, political and cultural movements and trends. Through the study of the diverse topics explored in different classes, students will gain an appreciation for the diversity of cultures in Spain and the plurality of possible critical approaches to literary texts. Students will develop the skills and vocabulary to engage in a critical practice of textual analysis.
Topics vary and are specified in the class schedule.
Prereq: SPAN 3104W or SPAN 3104V or TLDO 3104W or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105W or SPAN 3105V or VENZ 3512 or instructor consent.
ARTH 3315 - The Age of Curiosity: Art, Science & Technology in Europe, 1400-1800
(AH, TS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3315/Hist 3708/ArtH 5315/
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Diverse ways in which making of art and scientific knowledge intersected in early modern Europe. Connections between scientific curiosity and visual arts in major artists (e.g., da Vinci, Durer, Vermeer, Rembrandt). Artfulness of scientific imagery/diagrams, geographical maps, cabinets of curiosities, and new visual technologies, such as the telescope and microscope.
ARTH 5315 - The Age of Curiosity: Art, Science & Technology in Europe, 1400-1800
(AH, TS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3315/Hist 3708/ArtH 5315/
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Diverse ways in which making of art and scientific knowledge intersected in early modern Europe. Connections between scientific curiosity and visual arts in major artists (e.g., da Vinci, Durer, Vermeer, Rembrandt). Artfulness of scientific imagery/diagrams, geographical maps, cabinets of curiosities, and new visual technologies, such as the telescope and microscope.
HIST 3708 - The Age of Curiosity: Art, Science & Technology in Europe, 1400-1800
(AH, TS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3315/Hist 3708/ArtH 5315/
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Diverse ways in which making of art and scientific knowledge intersected in early modern Europe. Connections between scientific curiosity and visual arts in major artists (e.g., da Vinci, Durer, Vermeer, Rembrandt). Artfulness of scientific imagery/diagrams, geographical maps, cabinets of curiosities, and new visual technologies, such as the telescope and microscope.
HIST 5708 - The Age of Curiosity: Art, Science & Technology in Europe, 1400-1800
(AH, TS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3315/Hist 3708/ArtH 5315/
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Diverse ways in which making of art and scientific knowledge intersected in early modern Europe. Connections between scientific curiosity and visual arts in major artists (e.g., da Vinci, Durer, Vermeer, Rembrandt). Artfulness of scientific imagery/diagrams, geographical maps, cabinets of curiosities, and new visual technologies, such as the telescope and microscope.
CSCL 3123 - Jewish and German Writing at the Margins: Multilingualism, Race, Memory
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
CSCL 3123/Ger 3631/JwSt 3631
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
How are minority stories, novels, and poems constructed at the margins of a majority culture's language? This course addresses this question by exploring the complexity of Jewish culture in modernity, with a focus on 20th and 21st century German and American literature. We will first tackle the open-ended and endlessly productive question of what is meant by Jewish culture. What is a Jewish writer and is there such a thing as Jewish writing? What makes a text ? How do Jewish authors challenge the assumptions of majority culture in their work? What role do multilingualism and translation play in the formation of Jewish cultures at the margins? We will trace the lines of affinity between the U.S. and Europe to explore the entangled histories of Germans and Jews, and between German Jews and Turkish Germans, as we look at works that challenge and expand the definition of Jewishness in the 20th century. Additional topics to be considered include how the legacies of American slavery and European colonialism shape our understandings of the Nazi genocide of the Jews, and whether Jewish writing should be understood under the rubric of whiteness? Moving beyond the approach to German Jewish literary studies anchored in Weimar Germany, we will explore the circulation of Jewish memory between Europe and the U.S. in the aftermath of the Holocaust. We will read works by, among others, Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Gershon Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Benjamin Stein, Walter Benjamin, Barbara Honigmann, Hélčne Cixous, Raymond Federman, W.G. Sebald, Allen Ginsberg, Adeena Karasick, Alfred Kazin, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Avram Sutzkever, Zafer Senocak.
prereq: No knowledge of German required; some work in German must be done in order to count this course toward a German minor or a German, Scandinavian, Dutch major.
GER 3631 - Jewish and German Writing at the Margins: Multilingualism, Race, Memory
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
CSCL 3123/Ger 3631/JwSt 3631
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
How are minority stories, novels, and poems constructed at the margins of a majority culture?s language? This course addresses this question by exploring the complexity of Jewish culture in modernity, with a focus on 20th and 21st century German and American literature. We will first tackle the open-ended and endlessly productive question of what is meant by Jewish culture. What is a Jewish writer and is there such a thing as Jewish writing? What makes a text "Jewish"? How do Jewish authors challenge the assumptions of majority culture in their work? What role do multilingualism and translation play in the formation of Jewish cultures at the margins? We will trace the lines of affinity between the U.S. and Europe to explore the entangled histories of Germans and Jews, and between German Jews and Turkish Germans, as we look at works that challenge and expand the definition of Jewishness in the 20th century. Additional topics to be considered include how the legacies of American slavery and European colonialism shape our understandings of the Nazi genocide of the Jews, and whether Jewish writing should be understood under the rubric of "whiteness." Moving beyond the approach to German Jewish literary studies anchored in Weimar Germany, we will explore the circulation of Jewish memory between Europe and the U.S. in the aftermath of the Holocaust. We will read works by, among others, Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Gershon Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Benjamin Stein, Walter Benjamin, Barbara Honigmann, Hélčne Cixous, Raymond Federman, W.G. Sebald, Allen Ginsberg, Adeena Karasick, Alfred Kazin, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Avram Sutzkever, Zafer ?enocak.
prereq: No knowledge of German required; some work in German must be done in order to count this course toward a German minor or a German, Scandinavian, Dutch major.
JWST 3631 - Jewish and German Writing at the Margins: Multilingualism, Race, Memory
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
CSCL 3123/Ger 3631/JwSt 3631
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
How are minority stories, novels, and poems constructed at the margins of a majority culture's language? This course addresses this question by exploring the complexity of Jewish culture in modernity, with a focus on 20th and 21st century German and American literature. We will first tackle the open-ended and endlessly productive question of what is meant by Jewish culture. What is a Jewish writer and is there such a thing as Jewish writing? What makes a text "Jewish"? How do Jewish authors challenge the assumptions of majority culture in their work? What role do multilingualism and translation play in the formation of Jewish cultures at the margins? We will trace the lines of affinity between the U.S. and Europe to explore the entangled histories of Germans and Jews, and between German Jews and Turkish Germans, as we look at works that challenge and expand the definition of Jewishness in the 20th century. Additional topics to be considered include how the legacies of American slavery and European colonialism shape our understandings of the Nazi genocide of the Jews, and whether Jewish writing should be understood under the rubric of "whiteness." Moving beyond the approach to German Jewish literary studies anchored in Weimar Germany, we will explore the circulation of Jewish memory between Europe and the U.S. in the aftermath of the Holocaust. We will read works by, among others, Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Gershon Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Benjamin Stein, Walter Benjamin, Barbara Honigmann, Hélčne Cixous, Raymond Federman, W.G. Sebald, Allen Ginsberg, Adeena Karasick, Alfred Kazin, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Avram Sutzkever, Zafer Senocak.
prereq: No knowledge of German required; some work in German must be done in order to count this course toward a German minor or a German, Scandinavian, Dutch major.
GER 3633 - The Holocaust: Memory, Narrative, History
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Ger 3633/JwSt 3633
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Decades after the end of the second world war, the Holocaust continues to play a formative role in public discourse about the past in Germany and Austria. As the event itself recedes into the past, our knowledge about the Holocaust has become increasingly shaped by literary and filmic representations of it. This course has several objectives: first, to deepen students' historical knowledge of the events and experiences of the Holocaust, and at the same time to introduce critical models for examining the relationship between personal experience, historical events, and forms of representation. This class will introduce students to the debates about the politics of memory and the artistic representation of the Holocaust, with special focus on public debates about the complex ways in which Holocaust memory surfaces in contemporary Germany and Austria, and by the accrual of layers of text and discourse about the Holocaust. We will explore the controversies and debates about public Holocaust memorialization in Germany, Austria, and the U.S. We will also explore the complex interplay between documentary and fictional accounts of the Holocaust, with attention paid to literary and film texts that challenge and "remediate" the limits of Holocaust representation. Additional topics will include Holocaust testimony; Holocaust memoirs, and 2nd and 3rd generation Holocaust literature, the Historians' Debate of the 1980s.
No knowledge of German required.
JWST 3633 - The Holocaust: Memory, Narrative, History
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Ger 3633/JwSt 3633
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Decades after the end of the second world war, the Holocaust continues to play a formative role in public discourse about the past in Germany and Austria. As the event itself recedes into the past, our knowledge about the Holocaust has become increasingly shaped by literary and filmic representations of it. This course has several objectives: first, to deepen students' historical knowledge of the events and experiences of the Holocaust, and at the same time to introduce critical models for examining the relationship between personal experience, historical events, and forms of representation. This class will introduce students to the debates about the politics of memory and the artistic representation of the Holocaust, with special focus on public debates about the complex ways in which Holocaust memory surfaces in contemporary Germany and Austria, and by the accrual of layers of text and discourse about the Holocaust. We will explore the controversies and debates about public Holocaust memorialization in Germany, Austria, and the U.S. We will also explore the complex interplay between documentary and fictional accounts of the Holocaust, with attention paid to literary and film texts that challenge and "remediate" the limits of Holocaust representation. Additional topics will include Holocaust testimony; Holocaust memoirs, and 2nd and 3rd generation Holocaust literature, the Historians' Debate of the 1980s.
No knowledge of German required.
HIST 3727 - History of the Holocaust
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3727/JwSt 3520/RelS 3520
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Study of 1933-1945 extermination of six million Jews and others by Nazi Germany on basis of race. European anti-Semitism. Implications of social Darwinism and race theory. Perpetrators, victims, onlookers, resistance. Theological responses of Jews and Christians.
JWST 3520 - History of the Holocaust
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3727/JwSt 3520/RelS 3520
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Study of 1933-1945 extermination of six million Jews and others by Nazi Germany on basis of race. European anti-Semitism. Implications of social Darwinism and race theory. Perpetrators, victims, onlookers, resistance. Theological responses of Jews and Christians.
RELS 3520 - History of the Holocaust
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3727/JwSt 3520/RelS 3520
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Study of 1933-1945 extermination of six million Jews and others by Nazi Germany on basis of race. European anti-Semitism. Implications of social Darwinism and race theory. Perpetrators, victims, onlookers, resistance. Theological responses of Jews and Christians.
AMES 3820 - Topics in Middle Eastern Cultures
Credits:
3.0
[max 9.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Topics specified in Class Schedule.
AMES 3832 - The Politics of Arabic Poetry
(LITR, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course engages with Arabic poetry in its socio-political context. How have Arab poets from the
pre-Islamic era till the present time used their verse as a tool to affirm the structure of their society, or to
struggle with it? What roles did Arabic poetry play at the Abbasid imperial courts? How does Arabic
poetry participate in the constitution and promulgation or subversion of political ideologies? And what
presence has it had in Arab peoples' struggles for independence or reform, historically and today as part
of the Arab Spring?
AMES 3833 - Jinn, Ghosts, and Demons in Arabic Literature
(GP, LITR)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Jinn, also known as genies, are supernatural beings intrinsic to Islamic cosmology and culture: neither human nor divine, of our world but (usually) invisible to us. This course traces the trope of the jinni in Arabic literature: from the place of jinn in the Quran and Islamic tradition, through their role in the composition of the greatest poetry, to their reincarnation in modern works of literature. Following a survey of classic texts and contexts, we will ask why modern authors summon demons and resurrect ghosts, and what political and cultural work these unruly beings are called to perform. More specifically, we will explore the manner in which jinn are latched onto modern debates on personal and collective trauma, memory, madness, relations between East and West (or North and South), political and state violence, gender relations and hierarchies, and virtual realities.
AMES 3867 - Orientalism and the Arab World
(AH, DSJ)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course explores the various manners in which ?the Arab World? is constructed and re/presented in American and European discourses. Reading through scholarly writings, literature, visual arts, and popular media, this course illuminates the manner in which the idea of a monolithic ?Arab World? and quintessential ?Arab? subject are constructed and re/produced for western consumption. Crucially, this course also examines the manner in which this re/production of the ?Arab World/Subject? is integral to the construction of western identity itself ? serving as a foil to western self-conceptualization.
The concept of orientalism was introduced into western scholarship by Edward Said through his seminal 1978 work, Orientalism, often credited as a foundational text in the field of postcolonial studies. In the first part of the course, we will closely read Orientalism and some of the influential critical engagements with Said?s book. We will also discuss how orientalist discourse has been subsumed under the debates on the ?Clash of Civilizations? and ?The War on Terror? in the 21st century. The second part of the course will look at orientalist representations in a variety of mediums, from literature and visual art to video games. In the final part of the course, we will try to ?inventory the traces? of Orientalism on the Oriental subject, or examine the manner Arab artists and writers have engaged with orientalism?s legacies.
AMES 5866 - Gender and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Survey of modern Arabic literature’s key role in the articulation, construction, and subversion of gendered subjectivities. Explores the construction of masculine and feminine subjectivities, as well as the blurring of the dichotomy between the two. Also explores how homoerotic desire is presented in modern Arabic novels. Engages the complex interplay between the gender politics of literary texts, and the broader historical and political contexts from which they emerge. All texts covered in this course will be in English translation, however those able to read texts in the original Arabic are encouraged to do so.
ANTH 3021W - Anthropology of the Middle East
(SOCS, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Anth 3021W/Anth 5021W/RelS 370
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Fall Even Year
Anthropological methods of analyzing/interpreting Middle Eastern cultures/societies.
ANTH 5021W - Anthropology of the Middle East
(SOCS, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Anth 3021W/Anth 5021W/RelS 370
Typically offered:
Fall Even Year
Anthropological field methods of analyzing/interpreting Middle Eastern cultures/societies.
HIST 3494W - Christ in Islamic Thought
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3494W/RelS 3718W
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Course examines the history of the figure of Christ in Islamic thought, from the beginnings of Islam in the Qur'an and the Hadith to the recent 2013 book by Reza Aslan, Zealot. The course is based on close reading of primary sources from regions extending from Spain to Iran, and in various languages (in translation): Arabic, Greek, French, Farsi, and Italian. Course demonstrates how much the interpretation of the figure of Christ in Islamic thought belonged to specific historical contexts.
prereq: None
HIST 3504 - The Cultures of the Silk Road
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ALL 3872/Hist 3504/RelS 3708
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Past/present state of the cultures that flourished in Central Asia (present-day CA republics, Iran, Afghanistan) after Alexander the Great and declined with opening of sea routes.
HIST 3505 - Survey of the Modern Middle East
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AMES3806/Arab/Hist/MELC3505/55
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Political history of Middle East in modern era. Socio-economic/intellectual issues. Decline of Ottoman Empire. Imperialism. Nationalism, rise/development of states. Political Islam.
HIST 3507 - History of Modern Egypt
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Fall Odd, Spring Even Year
Main political events. Underlying social, economic, and intellectual issues. Impact of Egypt on region. Developments in Egypt compared with those of other leading Arab states.
HIST 3509 - Approaches to the Study of the Middle East
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Intensive reading/discussion course. Ways in which historians/social scientists have studied Middle East. Problems they have encountered. Paradigms, issues, and debates in Middle Eastern Studies.
HIST 3514W - Water and Oil: An Environmental History of the Middle East
(HIS, ENV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Water and Oil focuses on the far?reaching impacts of environmental change upon Middle Eastern societies, culture, politics, economic development or underdevelopment, and violence. It offers a narrative of the Middle Eastern past that is not framed by a specific place, ethnic group, religion, or intellectual tradition. The course is designed to enable students to think deeply about technology and the environment across the Middle East, and the region?s development as shaped by local practices, global politics, economic interests, and the struggle for resource management.
HIST 3546 - Islam and the West
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3643/Hist 3546/RelS 3714
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Cultural/intellectual trends that have defined fundamental differences between Islam and the West. Development of historical, philosophical, and intellectual mindset of both spheres. Factors in tension, anxiety, and hatred between Muslim world and Europe and the United States.
JWST 3205 - Women, Gender, and the Hebrew Bible
(AH)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
CNES 3205/JwSt 3205/RelS 3205
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
How men, women, gender, sexuality is portrayed in Hebrew Bible. Social/religious roles/status of women in ancient Israel. Read biblical texts from academic point of view.
JWST 3515 - Multiculturalism in Modern Israel: how communities, ideologies, and identities intersect
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
CNRC/JwSt 3515/Hebr5515
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
This course focuses on the way various cultural groups in Israel attempt to achieve cultural recognition. Students will learn how various ethnic and religious groups shape their identities through process of acculturation and struggle. Students will learn about several Israeli cultures by reading literature, book chapters and case-studies, and watching movies, all of which center on these debates.
Students will examine various case studies centered on these multicultural issues in Israel and will discuss and reflect on the implications of the issues raised by the course material for the international community, the United States, and for their own lives.
RELS 3205 - Women, Gender, and the Hebrew Bible
(AH)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
CNES 3205/JwSt 3205/RelS 3205
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
How men, women, gender, sexuality is portrayed in Hebrew Bible. Social/religious roles/status of women in ancient Israel. Read biblical texts from academic point of view.
RELS 3708 - The Cultures of the Silk Road
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ALL 3872/Hist 3504/RelS 3708
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Past/present state of cultures that flourished in Central Asia (present-day CA republics, Iran, Afghanistan) after Alexander the Great. Decline with opening of sea routes.
RELS 3714 - Islam and the West
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3643/Hist 3546/RelS 3714
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Cultural/intellectual trends that have defined differences between Islam and the West. Development of historical, philosophical, and intellectual mindset of
both spheres. Factors in tension, anxiety, and hatred between Muslim world and Europe and the United States.
RELS 3718W - Christ in Islamic Thought
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3494W/RelS 3718W
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Course examines the history of the figure of Christ in Islamic thought, from the beginnings of Islam in the Qur'an and the Hadith to the recent 2013 book by Reza Aslan, Zealot. The course is based on close reading of primary sources from regions extending from Spain to Iran, and in various languages (in translation): Arabic, Greek, French, Farsi, and Italian. Course demonstrates how much the interpretation of the figure of Christ in Islamic thought belonged to specific historical contexts.
AMES 3871 - Islam: Religion and Culture
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ALL 3871/Arab 3036/RelS 3715/H
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course is a brief survey of the religion and civilization of Islam. It introduces students to 1) Islamic history from its inception in the seventh century CE to the present, with emphasis on the life of the Prophet Muhammad and the early Caliphate; 2) The authoritative texts of Islam, i.e. the Quran and Prophetic traditions (Hadith); 3) The institutions and discourses characteristic of Islamic civilization; and 4) The transformation of Muslim life and thought in the modern period. By taking this course, students become familiar with the chief ideas, characters, narratives, rites, localities, and movements associated with Islam.
prereq: Soph or jr or sr
HIST 3493 - Islam: Religion and Culture
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ALL 3871/Arab 3036/RelS 3715/H
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course is a brief survey of the religion and civilization of Islam. It introduces students to 1) Islamic history from its inception in the seventh century CE to the present, with emphasis on the life of the Prophet Muhammad and the early Caliphate; 2) The authoritative texts of Islam, i.e. the Quran and Prophetic traditions (Hadith); 3) The institutions and discourses characteristic of Islamic civilization; and 4) The transformation of Muslim life and thought in the modern period. By taking this course, students become familiar with the chief ideas, characters, narratives, rites, localities, and movements associated with Islam.
prereq: Soph or jr or sr
RELS 3712 - Islam: Religion and Culture
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ALL 3871/Arab 3036/RelS 3715/H
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course is a brief survey of the religion and civilization of Islam. It introduces students to 1) Islamic history from its inception in the seventh century CE to the present, with emphasis on the life of the Prophet Muhammad and the early Caliphate; 2) The authoritative texts of Islam, i.e. the Quran and Prophetic traditions (Hadith); 3) The institutions and discourses characteristic of Islamic civilization; and 4) The transformation of Muslim life and thought in the modern period. By taking this course, students become familiar with the chief ideas, characters, narratives, rites, localities, and movements associated with Islam.
prereq: Soph or jr or sr
AMES 3877 - The Arab Renaissance: Narrating Modernity
(AH, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AMES 3877/5877
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
The Nah?a, a word meaning renaissance, awakening, or simply the act of standing up, is the name Arab writers and intellectuals of the 19th c. gave their own historical period. What does it mean to view oneself as living through a revival? How does this view shape the contours of the past, or of the future? This class will address these questions through a survey of the political, intellectual, social, and cultural aspects of Arab modernity. We will examine how Arab thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th century produced new genres, identities, and communal affiliations to narrate their experience of modernity, which they often coded as ?the encounter with the West.? Our readings, all in English translation, will cover the first confrontations (and love affairs) with European powers, the self-professed urgency of projects of reforming language, literature, and cultural institutions, the growing schism between religious and secular thought, and the attempts to articulate indigenous alternatives to Western-style modernity.
AMES 5877 - The Arab Renaissance: Narrating Modernity
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AMES 3877/5877
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
The Nah?a, a word meaning renaissance, awakening, or simply the act of standing up, is the name Arab writers and intellectuals of the 19th c. gave their own historical period. What does it mean to view oneself as living through a revival? How does this view shape the contours of the past, or of the future? This class will address these questions through a survey of the political, intellectual, social, and cultural aspects of Arab modernity. We will examine how Arab thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th century produced new genres, identities, and communal affiliations to narrate their experience of modernity, which they often coded as ?the encounter with the West.? Our readings, all in English translation, will cover the first confrontations (and love affairs) with European powers, the self-professed urgency of projects of reforming language, literature, and cultural institutions, the growing schism between religious and secular thought, and the attempts to articulate indigenous alternatives to Western-style modernity.
ARTH 3015W - Art of Islam
(AH, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3015W/ClCv 3015W/RelS 370
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Architecture, painting, and other arts from Islam's origins to the 20th century. Cultural and political settings as well as themes that unify the diverse artistic styles of Islamic art will be considered.
RELS 3706W - Art of Islam
(AH, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3015W/ClCv 3015W/RelS 370
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Architecture, painting, and other arts from Islam's origins to the 20th century. Cultural and political settings as well as themes that unify the diverse artistic styles of Islamic art will be considered.
GEOG 3145 - The Islamic World
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3145/GloS 3645/RelS 3711
Typically offered:
Every Fall
The Islamic World is an overarching course on the Muslim world that addresses the following intellectual concerns:
1. Islam and its contribution to the emergence of the modern world
2. Medieval Muslim civilization and their contribution to human culture
3. The relationship between Islam and gender roles in different Muslim cultures
4. The Muslim community?s struggle against colonialism and post-colonialism
5. Islam?s role in the struggle for Democracy and Development in the Muslim World
6. The relationships between Islam and the environment
7. The relationships between Islam and human rights
8. The relations between the West?s war on terror and the terror of War in the Muslim
World
RELS 3711 - The Islamic World
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3145/GloS 3645/RelS 3711
Typically offered:
Every Fall
The Islamic World is an overarching course on the Muslim world that addresses the
following intellectual concerns:
1. Islam and its contribution to the emergence of the modern world
2. Medieval Muslim civilization and their contribution to human culture
3. The relationship between Islam and gender roles in different Muslim cultures
4. The Muslim community?s struggle against colonialism and post-colonialism
5. Islam?s role in the struggle for Democracy and Development in the Muslim World
6. The relationships between Islam and the environment
7. The relationships between Islam and human rights
8. The relations between the West?s war on terror and the terror of War in the Muslim
World
HIST 3511 - Muslims and Jews: Conflict and Co-existence in the Middle East and North Africa since 1700
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3511/JwSt 3511/RelS 3079
Typically offered:
Fall Odd Year
Diversity of social/cultural interactions between Muslims and Jews and between Islam and Judaism since 1700. What enabled the two religious communities to peacefully coexist? What were causes of conflict? Why is history of Muslim-Jewish relations such a contested issue?
JWST 3511 - Muslims and Jews: Conflict and Co-existence in the Middle East and North Africa since 1700
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3511/JwSt 3511/RelS 3079
Typically offered:
Fall Odd Year
Diversity of social/cultural interactions between Muslims and Jews and between Islam and Judaism since 1700. What enabled the two religious communities to peacefully coexist? What were causes of conflict? Why is history of Muslim-Jewish relations such a contested issue?
RELS 3079 - Muslims and Jews: Conflict and Co-existence in the Middle East and North Africa since 1700
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3511/JwSt 3511/RelS 3079
Typically offered:
Fall Odd Year
Diversity of social/cultural interactions between Muslims and Jews and between Islam and Judaism since 1700. What enabled the two religious communities to peacefully coexist? What were causes of conflict? Why is history of Muslim-Jewish relations such a contested issue?
HIST 3512 - History of Modern Israel/Palestine: Society, Culture, and Politics
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Jwst/Hist 3512/RelS 3113/GloS
Typically offered:
Fall Odd Year
History of Zionism/Israel. Arab-Jewish conflict, tensions between religious/secular Jews. Relationships between Mizrahi, Ashkenazi, Russian, Ethiopian, Arab citizens. Israeli cultural imagery. Newsreels, political posters, television shows, films, popular music.
JWST 3512 - History of Modern Israel/Palestine: Society, Culture, and Politics
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Jwst/Hist 3512/RelS 3113/GloS
Typically offered:
Fall Odd Year
History of Zionism/Israel. Arab-Jewish conflict, tensions between religious/Jews. Relationships between Mizrahi, Ashkenazi, Russian, Ethiopian, Arab citizens. Israeli cultural imagery. Newsreels, political posters, television shows, films, popular music.
RELS 3113 - History of Modern Israel/Palestine: Society, Culture, and Politics
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Jwst/Hist 3512/RelS 3113/GloS
Typically offered:
Fall Odd Year
History of Zionism/Israel. Arab-Jewish conflict, tensions between religious/secular Jews. Relationships between Mizrahi, Ashkenazi, Russian, Ethiopian, Arab citizens. Israeli cultural imagery. Newsreels, political posters, television shows, films, popular music.
HIST 3513 - North Africa since 1500: Islam, Colonialism, and Independence
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3513Hist 5513 /RelS 3721/
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
History of Maghrib (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, disputed territories of Western Sahara) from time of Ottoman expansion/Sharifian dynasties (Sa'dian/'Alawid) in 16th/17th Centuries to end of 20th century. Focus on encounter of Islamic cultures/societies of Maghrib with Africa/Europe.
HIST 5513 - North Africa since 1500: Islam, Colonialism, and Independence
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3513Hist 5513 /RelS 3721/
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
History of the Maghrib (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and disputed territories of Western Sahara from time of Ottoman expansion/Sharifian dynasties [Sa'dian/'Alawid]) in 16th/17th Centuries to end of 20th century. Focus on encounter of Islamic cultures/societies of Maghrib and Africa/Europe
RELS 3721 - North Africa since 1500: Islam, Colonialism, and Independence
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3513Hist 5513 /RelS 3721/
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
History of Maghrib (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, disputed territories of Western Sahara) from time of Ottoman expansion/Sharifian dynasties (Sa'dian/'Alawid) in 16th/17th Centuries to end of 20th century. Focus on encounter of Islamic cultures/societies of Maghrib with Africa/Europe.
HIST 3547 - The Ottoman Empire
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3547/RelS 3722
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Survey of Islam's most successful empire, from its founding circa 1300 to its demise in 1923. Lands, institutions, peoples, historical legacy.
RELS 3722 - The Ottoman Empire
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3547/RelS 3722
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Survey of Islam's most successful empire, from its founding circa 1300 to its demise in 1923. Lands, institutions, peoples, historical legacy.
AFRO 3002 - West African History: 1800 to Present
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3002/Hist 3455
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
West African history from late 18th century to present. Past/profound changes including new 19th century state formation, European colonialism, post-colonial issues.
AFRO 3103 - World History and Africa
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3103/Afro 5103
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
This course is an interdisciplinary survey of the history of the African continent. It examines the social, cultural, economic and political transformations that shaped varied African communities from prehistory to the present. Focusing primarily on the intricate intersection of culture, society, economics, and politics, the course examines the concept of ?world history? and Africa?s location in the production of this history as theoretical and analytical lenses. It puts particular emphasis on the social, cultural and political developments that informed individual and collective experiences of various African peoples and societies, including the historical narratives and scholarly discourses associated with them.
AFRO 3432 - Modern Africa in a Changing World
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
-4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3432/Afro 3432
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Socioeconomic, political, and cultural development in Africa, from abolition of trans-Atlantic slave trade through postcolonial era.
AFRO 3578 - Contemporary Sub-Saharan African Popular Art Forms
(AH, TS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course explores popular art practices and representations ? mediated through the lens of television, radio, popular cinema, sequential art, and the internet ? as the everyday expressions of modern African identities. As sites where the tensions, frictions, collisions and notably, the productive creativities of the local and the global are circulated, negotiated and contested, African popular cultures provide insights into a unique and increasingly crucial facet of contemporary African artistic practice as critical intervention. The course is designed on the premise that Africans of all social strata and lifestyles are strategic and deliberate consumers of popular cultural forms, generated within local cultures as signifiers of larger social, political, and economic processes. In light of prevailing studies which sometimes end up naively celebrating agency and resistance, AFRO 3578 underscores the role of popular cultures as public/private sites of power's ideological and material (re-) production, contestation, or transformation. It considers creative practices as sites of both resistance and accommodation; of creative adaptation, innovation, and resilience. Through our discussion of communication technologies and their role in transmitting artistic and political ideas beyond the confines of dominant discourses and established institutions, we will evaluate the interface of technology and sociocultural shifts.
AFRO 3601W - African Literature
(LITR, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
The globalized present has witnessed increased mobility as economic, political, and social unrest intensify, forcing mass migration of populations across scorching deserts, treacherous mountains and perilous seas. In the United States and in Western Europe specifically, the consequence of this mobility?immigration?remains the single most cross-cutting issue and the most vexed political challenge of the day. Defined as threatening and intrusive, frequently criminalized in discourse and in action, immigrants have become scapegoats for a wide range of problems that bedevil every aspect of life in every country. Blamed for everything from taking jobs from locals to rising crime and the spread of communicable diseases, immigrants have become victims of xenophobic violence and repositories for the routine fear-mongering prevalent in post-9/11 global terror and counter-terror climate. This course addresses the keys issues that arise in contemporary immigration and global security debates. Throughout the course of the semester, we will interrogate the literary and audio-visual arts as a mirror of the times, reflecting socio-political conditions. In a bid to place the current ?crisis? in a historical perspective, we will examine select works by African writers, filmmakers and artists, which provide examples that enable us to move beyond stereotypes and common assumptions.
AFRO 3654 - African Cinema
(AH, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Summer
This course introduces you to films written and directed by African filmmakers beginning the 2nd part of the 20th Century. Through an exploration of the stylistic and thematic issues raised by each film, it is expected that students will gain a broad understanding of how African filmmakers portray African social and cultural life, including the artistic and political contexts within which they work. In this way, students will gain an historical perspective on the origins of African filmmaking, confront the basic social, cultural and aesthetic questions raised by African filmmakers and critics, and consider how questions raised by African filmmakers and their films fit into the larger context of world cinema. We will contrast postcolonial African films with Hollywood jungle epics, settler/adventure romances in safari paradise, and colonial movies about Africa. Moving beyond strict categories and standards we will also examine the role of documentary films in shaping our understanding of African people's lives and the social construction of reality. We will review the place of documentary film in the current media-scape and discuss its functions and limitations. Most films will be screened in original languages with English subtitles.
FREN 3471 - Topics in Francophone African Literature and Cultures
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Odd Year
Issues relevant to cultures/societies of francophone Sub-Saharan Africa as reflected in literature, film, and cultural critique.
prereq: 3101W
HIST 3432 - Modern Africa in a Changing World
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
-4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3432/Afro 3432
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Survey of modern African history from early 19th century to present. Focuses on socioeconomic, political, and cultural development in Africa, from abolition of trans-Atlantic slave trade through postcolonial era.
HIST 3455 - West African History: 1800 to Present
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3002/Hist 3455
Typically offered:
Every Spring
West African history from late-18th century to present. Themes include study of continuities with past. Profound changes including new 19th century state formation, European colonialism, post-colonial issues.
AFRO 3435 - Political Dynamics in the Horn of Africa
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3435 /Pol 3435
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Who wields political power? Who challenges those in power? And how do they legitimize their claims and go about enforcing them? These are the core questions that will guide our exploration of the political dynamics in the Horn of Africa. Just like most regions in Africa, the Horn is home to diverse cultures and languages. What distinguishes it, however, is the contested nature of state borders, which have been redrawn in ways not observed anywhere else in Africa since the end of European colonialism. The purpose of this class is to delve deeper into these conflicts, to examine the interactions between incumbent governments, armed rebel groups and international actors in shaping war and peace in the Horn. Throughout this journey, we will pay special attention to ideas of sovereignty, identity and violence and draw on literature outside of the Horn to help us better dissect what is going on within it.
POL 3435 - Political Dynamics in the Horn of Africa
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3435 /Pol 3435
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Who wields political power? Who challenges those in power? And how do they legitimize their claims and go about enforcing them? These are the core questions that will guide our exploration of the political dynamics in the Horn of Africa. Just like most regions in Africa, the Horn is home to diverse cultures and languages. What distinguishes it, however, is the contested nature of state borders, which have been redrawn in ways not observed anywhere else in Africa since the end of European colonialism. The purpose of this class is to delve deeper into these conflicts, to examine the interactions between incumbent governments, armed rebel groups, and international actors in shaping war and peace in the Horn. Throughout this journey, we will pay special attention to ideas of sovereignty, identity, and violence and draw on literature outside of the Horn to help us better dissect what is going on within it.
AFRO 3205 - History of South Africa from 1910: Anti-Racism, Youth Politics, Pandemics & Gender (Based Violence)
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3205/Hist 3435
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
We are all living in extraordinary times. But what does that mean? In South Africa, we have seen the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures implemented to control it causing massive social upheaval and personal distress. It has forced the people in the country to confront issues that life prior to the pandemic had made easy to turn away from. Misogyny, gender based violence, and sexual violence, a long-standing emergency in the south of Africa, have been forced into our vision once again. It was not the pandemic that created this violence. Nor was it the first time people had been outraged by a lack of action to address it. In the years approaching 2020, calls, protests and demonstrations were increasingly demanding the culture of impunity in gender based violence be ended; sometime with violent outcomes against the protestors themselves. Over those same years, nationwide protests have rocked South Africa's university campuses. The student movements known as #RhodesMustFall, #FeesMustFall and #RUReferenceList highlight the contrasts and disappointments of the recent past in South Africa, confront the legacy of racism and misogyny in its institutions and knowledge systems, and resonate with a history of anti-racism and struggle that now, in turn, similarly fuel the on-going Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements worldwide.
HIST 3435 - History of South Africa from 1910: Anti-Racism, Youth Politics, Pandemics & Gender (Based Violence)
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3205/Hist 3435
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
We are all living in extraordinary times. But what does that mean? In South Africa, we have seen the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures implemented to control it causing massive social upheaval and personal distress. It has forced the people in the country to confront issues that life prior to the pandemic had made easy to turn away from. Misogyny, gender based violence and sexual violence ? a long-standing emergency in the south of Africa ? have been forced into our vision once again. It was not the pandemic that created this violence. Nor was it the first time people had been outraged by a lack of action to address it. In the years approaching 2020, calls, protests and demonstrations were increasingly demanding the culture of impunity in gender based violence be ended; sometime with violent outcomes against the protestors themselves. Over those same years, nationwide protests have rocked South Africa?s university campuses. The student movements known as #RhodesMustFall, #FeesMustFall and #RUReferenceList highlight the contrasts and disappointments of the recent past in South Africa, confront the legacy of racism and misogyny in its institutions and knowledge systems, and resonate with a history of anti-racism and struggle that now, in turn, similarly fuel the on-going Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements worldwide.
AFRO 3431 - Early Africa and Its Global Connections
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3431/Hist 3431
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Survey of African history from earliest times to 1800. Focuses on socioeconomic, political, and cultural development in pre-colonial Africa from ancient Egypt through the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
HIST 3431 - Early Africa and Its Global Connections
(HIS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3431/Hist 3431
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Survey of African history from earliest times to 1800. Focuses on socioeconomic, political, and cultural development in pre-colonial Africa from ancient Egypt through the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
AFRO 3433 - Economic Development in Contemporary Africa
(SOCS, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3433/ApEc 3061
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Major socio-economic challenges that confront post-independence sub-Saharan African countries in quest for sustainable economic development/growth. Causes of persistent poverty/inequality, role of institutions/multinational agencies. Growth in 21st century.
prereq: APEC 1101 or ECON 1101
APEC 3061 - Economic Development in Contemporary Africa
(GP, SOCS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3433/ApEc 3061
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Major socio-economic challenges that confront post-independence sub-Saharan African countries in quest for sustainable economic development/growth. Causes of persistent poverty/inequality, role of institutions/multinational agencies. Growth in 21st century.
prereq: 1101 or ECON 1101
AFRO 3436 - Fighting for History:Historical Roots of Contemporary Crises in Africa
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3436/Hist 3436
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Open any newspaper and there is almost certain to be one or more articles about crises or chaos in Africa. Journalistic accounts highlight famines, tribalism, failed states, ethnic cleansing, the plight of refugees, and the AIDS pandemic. There rarely, if ever, is a serious discussion of the underlying causes of this instability. Instead, it is implicitly assumed that this is the natural order of events in the Dark Continent. This course challenges the racially inspired cultural arrogance which underlies assumptions about Africa and explores it with the long-term structural and historical roots of the crises which confront many parts of Africa. It is a course about Africans and how they responded to the challenges and legacies that date back to the colonial period and before. Throughout this course we will be concerned with African initiatives in a rapidly changing political, economic, social, and ideological context and the changing ways that the Global North has represented Africa. In doing so we will be fight for a more accurate history of Africa.
HIST 3436 - Fighting for History:Historical Roots of Contemporary Crises in Africa
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3436/Hist 3436
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Open any newspaper and there is almost certain to be one or more articles about crises or chaos in Africa. Journalistic accounts highlight famines, ?tribalism,? failed states, ethnic cleansing, the plight of refugees and the AIDS pandemic. There rarely, if ever, is a serious discussion of the underlying causes of this instability. Instead, it is implicitly assumed that this is the natural order of events in the ?Dark Continent.? This course challenges the racially inspired cultural arrogance which underlies assumptions about Africa and explores it with the long-term structural and historical roots of the crises which confront many parts of Africa. It is a course about Africans and how they responded to the challenges and legacies that date back to the colonial period and before. Throughout this course we will be concerned with African initiatives in a rapidly changing political, economic, social, and ideological context and the changing ways that the Global North has represented Africa. In doing so we will be fight for a more accurate history of Africa.
AFRO 3478W - Contemporary Politics in Africa and the Colonial Legacy
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3478W/Afro 5478/Pol 3478W
Typically offered:
Every Spring
At the core, this class is about the interaction between the assertion of and challenge to political authority in Africa. Who should have the right to make decisions that structure people's lives? To what extent is "might" an important source of political authority? How, in turn, do people respond to these different means of establishing political authority? Using these questions as a springboard, this class will examine some broader themes relating to colonialism, state building, conflict and development in Africa. Politics in Africa, just as in any other place in the world, is complex and for that reason, the objective of the class is not to give you answers, but to have you think critically about the issues we cover. Towards this end, this class will draw on different sources ranging from novels to manifestos so as to illustrate both the mundane and extraordinary events that have helped shape the political landscape of the continent.
POL 3478W - Contemporary Politics in Africa and the Colonial Legacy
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3478W/Afro 5478/Pol 3478W
Typically offered:
Every Spring
At the core, this class is about the interaction between the assertion of and challenge to political authority in Africa. Who should have the right to make decisions that structure people's lives? To what extent is "might" an important source of political authority? How, in turn, do people respond to these different means of establishing political authority? Using these questions as a springboard, this class will examine some broader themes relating to colonialism, state building, conflict, and development in Africa. Politics in Africa, just as in any other place in the world, is complex and for that reason, the objective of the class is not to give you answers, but to have you think critically about the issues we cover. Towards this end, this class will draw on different sources ranging from novels to manifestos so as to illustrate both the mundane and extraordinary events that have helped shape the political landscape of the continent.
AMES 3232W - "Short" Poetry in China and Japan
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Short poetic forms of China and Japan. Chinese quatrains and octets. Japanese tanka and haiku. Translations by modern poets. Texts in original languages (with provided glosses). Art of translation. Translators' conceptions of East Asian 'exoticism.'
AMES 3265W - The Fantastic in East Asia: Ghosts, Foxes, and the Alien
(LITR, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
How the strange/alien is constructed in premodern Chinese/Japanese literature. East Asian theories of the strange and their role in the classical tale, through the works of Pu Songling, Edo-era storytellers, and others. Role of Buddhist cosmology and salvation.
prereq: Some coursework in East Asia recommended
AMES 3336 - Revolution and Modernity in Chinese Literature and Culture
(LITR, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Introduction to modern Chinese literature, visual culture, and critical thought from beginning of 20th century to end of Mao era. Examples of literature/culture, parallel readings of Chinese critical essays. Readings are in English translation.
AMES 3337 - Contemporary Chinese Literature and Popular Culture
(LITR, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Contemporary Chinese literature, popular culture. End of Mao era to present. Creative results of China's "opening and reform." Commercialization and globalization of culture. Literature, visual culture, popular music.
AMES 3351 - Martial Arts in Chinese Literature and Film
(AH, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Investigation of the martial arts motif in Chinese literature and its cinematic descendants. Class materials include ancient stories about sage kings, assassin-retainers, lady knights-errant; recent blockbusters such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Hero," and "Kung Fu Hustle;" the careers and stardoms of Bruce Lee, Jet Li, and Jackie chan; and American animated films featuring martial arts themes, such as "Mulan" and the "Kung Fu Panda" series. While reflecting cultural transformations across history, these examples manifest a consistent poetics of emptiness, due to the genre's thematic preoccupation with resistance and transcendence, as well as its roots in Confucian-Daoist-Buddhist philosophies. In these regards, the martial arts genre, other than being a pop culture phenomenon, offers a meaningful gateway toward rediscovering the Chinese tradition's cosmopolitan potentials.
AMES 3356W - Chinese Film
(AH, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Survey of Chinese cinema from China (PRC), Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Emphasizes discussion/comparison of global, social, economic, sexual, gender, psychological, and other themes as represented through film.
AMES 3357 - Taiwan Film
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course examines the history of Taiwan film from the Japanese colonial period to the early 21st century along with the increased (though still quite limited) availability of pre-1980s films on DVD with English subtitles. We will cover topics such as dialect films; Nationalist propaganda; "healthy realism;" connections with the Hong Kong, Hollywood, and mainland Chinese film industries; the aesthetics of New Taiwan Cinema; the imagination of Taiwan as a postcolonial Southeast Asian rather than East Asian or Chinese polity; and the battle for commercial viability in the global film market. Throughout the course, we will closely analyze cinematic form and narrative structure in addition to broader issues of nation, society, politics, and ecology.
AMES 3362 - Women Writers in Chinese History
(AH, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This class surveys the surprisingly diverse and vibrant tradition of women writers in Chinese cultural history, which during its long imperial period (221 B.C.E.-1911 C.E.) was dominated by a male-centered cultural order. The class situates individual women writers within their specific historical settings and larger cultural backdrops, thus introducing students to literary themes, gender dynamics, and conditions of cultural production in Chinese history. The class also addresses complex shifts in female writing and its social presence across the premodern-modern transition. Taught in English and no prerequisites.
AMES 3372 - History of Women and Family in China, 1600-2000
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ALL 3372/Hist 3469
Typically offered:
Fall Even, Spring Odd Year
Marriage/family life, foot binding, cult of women's chastity. Women in nationalist/communist revolutions. Gender relations in post-socialist China. Effect of ideologies (Confucianism, nationalism, socialism) on women/family life. Differences between ideology and social practice.
AMES 3374 - Patterns in Chinese Cultural History
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
OPT No Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
A survey course of Chinese cultural history across its long evolution. It connects historical and cultural knowledge to the Chinese literary and intellectual traditions, and unveils larger trends in the developments of Chinese culture and society during the pre-20th-century period and across the tradition-modern divide. Taught in English and no prerequisites.
AMES 3436 - Postwar Japanese Literature in Translation
(LITR, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This is an introductory survey of modern Japanese literature and its role in the postwar debates around Japanese culture, aesthetics, politics, and environment. Beginning with the occupation of Japan by the US military and ending with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (postponed by a global pandemic), students will analyze the main movements in postwar Japanese literary production and the core issues featured in this literature. We will explore national genres in Japan, their premodern precursors, and postmodern manifestations. The course has no prerequisite and assumes no prior knowledge of Japanese cultures or experience with literary analysis. All materials, lectures, and discussions are in English.
AMES 3437 - The Japanese Novel
(LITR, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Survey of the principal authors of the period spanning Japan's opening to the West (1860s) to World War II. Writers include Natsume Soseki, Shiga Naoya, Kawabata Yasunari, Edogawa Rampo, Hayashi Fumiko, and Tanizaki Junichiro.
AMES 3441W - Japanese Theater
(AH, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Japanese performance traditions. Emphasizes noh, kabuki, and bunraku in their literary/cultural contexts. Relationship between these pre-modern traditions and modern theatrical forms (e.g., Takarazuka Revue).
AMES 3456 - Japanese Film
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Themes, stylistics, and genres of Japanese cinema through work of classic directors (Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu) and more recent filmmakers (Itami, Morita). Focuses on representations of femininity/masculinity.
AMES 3458 - Japanese Animation
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course takes up the technologies, genres, and themes of Japanese animation. By examining the works of important directors alongside media theories and other related writings, the course will cover not only the major genres and recurrent themes of anime, but also the cultural and critical contexts for apprehending anime.
AMES 3467 - Science Fiction, Empire, Japan
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Premised on its historical position as a non-Western colonial empire, this course takes up Japan as a focal point for examining the relations between science fiction and imperialism. Discussions center on the colonial underpinnings of Japanese science fiction and how particular motifs (future war, time travel, posthuman bodies) critically interrogate this history.
AMES 3468 - Environment, Technology and Culture in Modern Japan
(ENV)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Read/view historical, literary, visual texts to discover guiding ideas about nature, environment, technology use in Japan. No prior knowledge of Japan is necessary.
AMES 3471 - Introduction to Japanese Religions
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
An introduction to the development of different forms of religious practice in Japan over the past fourteen hundred years. A survey of Japanese religions and their development will be combined with specific examples (past and present) that demonstrate the way that religious belief has manifested itself in various forms of cultural practice.
AMES 3478 - Modern Japan, Meiji to the Present (1868-2000)
(HIS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ALL 3478/EAS 3471/Hist 3471
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Japan's development as industrial/imperial power after Meiji Restoration of 1868. Political developments in Taisho years. Militarization/mobilization for war in 1930s. Japan's war with China, Pacific War with US. American Occupation. Postwar economic recovery, high growth. Changing political/popular culture of 1980s, '90s.
AMES 3520 - Topics in Korean Culture
Credits:
1.0
-3.0
[max 9.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Selected topics in Korean culture. Topics specified in the Class Schedule.
AMES 3536 - Modern Korean Literature
(LITR, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Modern Korean literature in English translation from the colonial period until the 1990s. Read literary texts critically, using genre categories, theories of narrative voice, different understandings of modern literary subjectivity, and historical contextualization.
AMES 3558 - Korean Popular Culture
(AH, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course is an introduction to contemporary Korean popular culture, with a focus on television, video, and online media. We will learn how to think critically about a variety of popular culture phenomena, including dramas, variety shows, comedy performances, video games, food-related programs and videos, political satire and commentary, and music videos. By engaging with the academic scholarship on popular culture, we will learn how to analyze the stories, images, and sounds of Korean popular culture, while situating these within their various cultural and social contexts. Topics covered will include the Korean Wave (hallyu), the culture industry, digital platforms and economies, celebrity, fandom, and globalization. Attention will be given both to the local conditions of cultural production and the transnational influences of Korean media on East and Southeast Asia, as well as Europe and the Americas.
AMES 3576 - Language & Society of the Two Koreas
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course is designed to offer an introduction and contrastive analysis of the language and society of the two Koreas; the Republic of Korea (better known as South Korea) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (better known as North Korea). This course will introduce the growing divide of the past 70 years between North and South Korea in the areas of language, society, and culture.
EAS 3468 - Social Change in Modern China
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
EAS 3468W/Hist 3468W/5468
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Opium War and opening of Treaty Ports in 19th century; missionary activity and cultural influence; changes in education system; women's movement; early industrialization; socialism and collectivization after 1949; industrialization of Taiwan; PRC's entry into the world trading system.
EAS 3471 - Modern Japan, Meiji to the Present (1868-2000)
(HIS)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ALL 3478/EAS 3471/Hist 3471
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Japan's early development as industrial/imperial power after Meiji Restoration of 1868. Political developments in Taisho years: social, cultural, economic trends that supported them. Militarization/mobilization for war in 1930s. Japan's war with China, Pacific War with the United States. American occupation. Postwar economic recovery, high growth. Changing political/popular culture of 1980s, '90s.
HIST 3468 - Social Change in Modern China
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
EAS 3468W/Hist 3468W/5468
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Opium War and opening of Treaty Ports in 19th century. Missionary activity and cultural influence. Changes in education system. Women's movement. Early industrialization. Socialism/collectivization after 1949. Industrialization of Taiwan. PRC's entry into world trading system.
HIST 3477 - Samurai, Geisha, and How They Became Japanese
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
How samurai, geisha, and Zen Buddhism came to be considered as the quintessential Japanese tradition in 20th century. Modernity, nationalism, orientalism, international politics, globalization.
HIST 5468 - Social Change in Modern China
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
EAS 3468W/Hist 3468W/5468
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Opium War and opening of Treaty Ports in 19th century; missionary activity and cultural influence; changes in education system; women's movement; early industrialization; socialism and collectivization after 1949; industrialization of Taiwan; PRC's entry into the world trading system.
SOC 3671 - Chinese Society: Culture, Networks, & Inequality
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Introduces students to sociological perspectives and analyses of cultures, social networks, and socioeconomic inequalities in post-1980 China. In addition to lectures, the instructor will show video clips about various backgrounds of China and group discussions will be organized to exchange opinions about issues of common interest. Students will gain a basic understanding of how Chinese society operates today.
prereq: 1001 recommended, soc majors/minors must register A-F
AMES 3377 - A Thousand Years of Buddhism in China: Beliefs, Practices, and Culture
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ALL 3377/RelS 3377
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Buddhism in China, 4th-15th centuries. Introduction of Buddhism to China. Relevance of Buddhist teaching to indigenous thought (e.g., Taoism, Confucianism). Major "schools": Tiantai, Huayan, Chan/Zen, etc.. Cultural activities of monks, nuns, and lay believers.
RELS 3377 - A Thousand Years of Buddhism in China: Beliefs, Practices, and Culture
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AMES 3377 / RELS 3377
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Buddhism in China, 4th-15th centuries. Introduction of Buddhism to China. Relevance of Buddhist teaching to indigenous thought (e.g., Taoism, Confucianism). Major "schools": Tiantai, Huayan, Chan/Zen, etc.. Cultural activities of monks, nuns, and lay believers.
AMES 3556 - Korean Film and Media
(AH, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AMES 3556 / AMES 5556
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course is an introduction to Korean film from the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945) to the present day. We discuss the emergence of the Korean film industry under the conditions of colonial modernity and the various political pressures put on film production in South Korea until the 1990s. We will then turn to the last twenty years, during which South Korean film and television have experienced a boom in popularity in East Asia and globally. Throughout, we will focus on the formal and technical aspects of film, representations of history and historical memory, genre borrowing and genre mixing, and the relationships between art-house and culture industry productions.
AMES 5556 - Korean Film and Media
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AMES 3556 / AMES 5556
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course is an introduction to Korean film from the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945) to the present day. We discuss the emergence of the Korean film industry under the conditions of colonial modernity and the various political pressures put on film production in South Korea until the 1990s. We will then turn to the last twenty years, during which South Korean film and television have experienced a boom in popularity in East Asia and globally. Throughout, we will focus on the formal and technical aspects of film, representations of history and historical memory, genre borrowing and genre mixing, and the relationships between art-house and culture industry productions.
HIST 3264 - Imperial Russia: Formation and Expansion of the Russian Empire in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3264/Hist 5264
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Interaction with Europe/Asia. Attempts at modernization/ reform. Emancipation of serfs/rise of revolutionary movements.
HIST 3265 - 20th-Century Russia: The Collapse of Imperial Russia, the Revolutions, and the Soviet Regime
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3265/Hist 5265
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Analysis of factors that led to collapse of tsarist regime. 1917 revolution. Evolution of Soviet regime/collapse of Soviet communism. Emphasis on role of nationalities/rise of Commonwealth of independent states.
HIST 3637 - Modern Russia: From Peter the Great to the Present
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Political, social, and cultural forces which have shaped modern Russia. Emphasis will be on modernization, attempts at reforms in the imperial and Soviet period, and the dissolution of empires.
HIST 3767 - Eastern Orthodoxy: History and Culture
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3767/RelS 3611
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Development of the orthodox church in Byzantium, the Islamic Near East, the Slavic world and in the diaspora; impact of orthodoxy on political and cultural institutions, interaction with other Christian and non-Christian communities; orthodox spirituality and aesthetics.
HIST 5264 - Imperial Russia: Formation and Expansion of the Russian Empire in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3264/Hist 5264
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Interaction with Europe and Asia; attempts at modernization and reform; emancipation of the serfs and rise of revolutionary movements.
HIST 5265 - 20th-Century Russia: The Collapse of Imperial Russia, the Revolutions, and the Soviet Regime
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3265/Hist 5265
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Analysis of the factors that led to the collapse of the tsarist regime; discussion of the 1917 revolution, the evolution of the Soviet regime and the collapse of Soviet communism. Emphasis on the role of nationalities and the rise of the Commonwealth of independent states.
POL 4474W - Russian Politics: From Soviet Empire to Post-Soviet State
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Twenty five years ago, Russia appeared to be democratizing and was even on friendly relations with the US and NATO. Now Vladimir Putin runs the state with the FSB (KGB), and US-Russian relations are at their worst point since the 1970s. This course examines major themes and periods in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian politics. It begins with the Russian Revolution of 1917, and continues with a study of the creation of the USSR and Soviet rule under Lenin, Stalin, and later decades. We look in depth at the economic and political system set up by the Communist Party, and at the causes of its collapse in 1991, which has had profound legacies for the post-Soviet development of Russia. Then in the second half of the course we turn to themes of political, economic, social and civic development under Yeltsin and Putin. We will pose the following questions: Why does democratization begin and why does it fail? How is economic reform undermined? What type of state and regime is Russia now? What caused the Chechen wars and the massive bloodshed in the Caucasus during this period? Is Putin trying to recreate the Soviet Union and retake control of its neighbors? Are US-Russian relations improving as a result of Obama's "Reset," or are we now in an era of a new Cold War? What is Russia's goal in Syria, Iran, or Central Asia? Is Putin rebuilding Russia, or driving it to disaster, and how will this impact the West?
RELS 3611 - Eastern Orthodoxy: History and Culture
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3767/RelS 3611
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Development of orthodox church in Byzantium, Islamic Near East, Slavic world, and diaspora. Impact of orthodoxy on political/cultural institutions. Interaction with other Christian/non-Christian communities. Orthodox spirituality/aesthetics.
RUSS 3105 - Russian Poetry and Prose
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Appreciation of literary values through stylistic analysis and literary interpretation; analysis of humanistic elements. Readings in Russian.
prereq: Russ 3102 or concurrent enrollment in Russ 3102 or permission
RUSS 3404 - Tolstoy in Translation
(LITR, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Russ 3404/5404
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
Novels, stories, and philosophical writings of Leo Tolstoy.
RUSS 3421 - Literature: Middle Ages to Dostoevsky in Translation
(LITR)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Russ 3421/5421
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Russian literature from about 1000 A.D. to mid-19th century; emphasizing writers of the first half of the 19th century.
RUSS 3512 - Russian Art and Culture
(AH, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Odd Year
Major trends in Russian visual arts in context of social, political, and ideological questions.
RUSS 5404 - Tolstoy in Translation
(LITR, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Russ 3404/5404
Typically offered:
Spring Even Year
Novels, stories, and philosophical writings of Leo Tolstoy.
RUSS 5421 - Literature: Middle Ages to Dostoevsky in Translation
(LITR)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Russ 3421/5421
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Russian literature from about 1000 A.D. to mid-19th century; emphasizing writers of the first half of the 19th century.
RUSS 3411 - Dostoevsky in Translation
(LITR, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Russ 3411/5411
Typically offered:
Spring Even Year
Novels, stories, and miscellaneous writings of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
RUSS 5411 - Dostoevsky in Translation
(LITR, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Russ 3411/5411
Typically offered:
Spring Even Year
Novels, stories, and other writings of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
RUSS 3422 - Literature: Tolstoy to the Present in Translation
(LITR)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Russ 3422/5422
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Survey of Russian literature from mid-19th century to the present: realism, modernism, feminism and other trends.
RUSS 5422 - Literature: Tolstoy to the Present in Translation
(LITR)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Russ 3422/5422
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Survey of Russian literature from mid-19th century to the present: realism, modernism, feminism and other trends.
AMES 3637W - Modern Indian Literature
(LITR, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ALL 3637W/GloS 3637W
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Survey of 20th century literature from South Asian countries, including India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. All readings in English. Focuses on colonialism, post-colonialism, power, and representation.
AMES 3638 - Islam and Modernity in South Asia
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course explores the multiple genealogical trajectories of Islamic thought in South Asia through the varied lens of its literary traditions. For centuries, literature has remained an important site for the expression of Islamic identity and its interaction with the larger history of the subcontinent. Muslim writers have traversed diverse domains of human experience through multiple genres: while poetry has been a widely celebrated genre for the expression of private love, drama has emerged as a crucial site for public politics and activism. In this course, students will read texts that have circulated across South Asia and interpret them in relation to enduring questions about power, justice, identity, community and love (both human and divine) in Islam. Reading a wide array of works from diverse temporal and spatial locations, this course examines how the aesthetic and discursive world of South Asia provides a terrain on which the Islamic "socius" of the region has come to define itself in a unique manner. In addition, we also investigate how these literary cultures-at different historical junctures-articulated a secular ethos to define Hindu-Muslim relations in the subcontinent. We further discuss questions of genres-epic, romance, drama, novel and lyric-as a way of thinking about the circulation of literary forms across languages, cultures and national spaces in the past and the present.
AMES 3651 - Ghosts of India
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Writers, filmmakers, and other creative art practitioners from almost every corner of this living world use the figure of the ghost to address questions of ethics, justice, violence, and repression. This course focuses on India's modern ghosts as well as ghosts and spirits from classical Indian literature. In every sphere of our lives, public and private, we are chased by various ghosts that often appear in forms of memory, remembrance, nostalgia, and forgetfulness. Ghosts scare us, enchant us, and capture our imagination. Our intellectual engagement will consist of theorizations around the figure of the ghost and its various conceptual offshoots (hauntology, specter, the uncanny, etc.) as encountered through literary and filmic texts. The course will also connect these ghostly tales with issues of nationalism, gender, communal and ethnic violence, and capitalism.
AMES 3673 - Voices of India: Languages, Literature, and Film
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
A course on Indian languages and literatures that studies the languages of India from genealogical, linguistic, typological, historical, and sociological perspectives. Diachronic analysis of the languages of India in relation to some structural features will be also investigated. This course will also provide an overview of literatures of several main South Asian languages with a focus on Hindi - Urdu literatures. We will address the origin of Hindi-Urdu literatures, periodization, and naming of each period. We will also examine the important writers and their representative work, along with the literary trends and influences of each period, including political, social, and cultural situations which helped to shape the writers and their work. Among the representative literary works in Hindi-Urdu, some have been made into films.
POL 3431 - Politics of India
(GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
The course introduces students to the politics of India; a non-Western, parliamentary political system that stands out as a bastion of democracy in the developing world, despite underdevelopment & significant ethno-religious divisions. By focusing on India, we offer an understanding of the problems of democratization, underdevelopment, governance & political violence. We examine India’s political institutions & challenges confronting the institutions such as socio-economic inequalities, social exclusion, social divisions, ethno-religious & ideological insurgencies, criminalization of politics & rampant corruption. The course enables students to answer important questions: Why did democracy endure in post-colonial India when much of the developing world endured authoritarian regimes? What accounts for the persistence of ethno-religious conflict & violence? What determines a country’s approach to socio-economic development? What accounts for India’s economic development over the last few decades? How do we explain the existence of political democracy and rampant corruption?
AMES 3636 - South Asian Women Writers
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AMES 3636, AMES 5636
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Survey of South Asian women's writing, from early years of nationalist movement to present. Contemporary writing includes works by immigrant writers. Concerns, arguments, and nuances in works of women writing in South Asia and diaspora.
AMES 5636 - South Asian Women Writers
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
AMES 3636, AMES 5636
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Survey of South Asian women's writing, from early years of nationalist movement to present. Contemporary writing includes works by immigrant writers. Concerns, arguments, and nuances in works of women writing in South Asia and diaspora.
AMES 3671 - Hinduism
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ALL 3671/Hist 3492/RelS 3671/R
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Development of Hinduism focusing on sectarian trends, modern religious practices, myths/rituals, pilgrimage patterns/ religious festivals. Interrelationship between Indian social structure/Hinduism.
Development of Hinduism focusing on sectarian trends, modern religious practices, myths/rituals, pilgrimage patterns/ religious festivals. Interrelationship between Indian social structure/Hinduism.
RELS 3671 - Hinduism
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ALL 3671/Hist 3492/RelS 3671/R
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Development of Hinduism focusing on sectarian trends, modern religious practices, myths/rituals, pilgrimage patterns/ religious festivals. Interrelationship between Indian social structure/Hinduism.
AMES 3679 - Religion and Society in Modern South Asia
(AH, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Survey of religious formations in modern South Asia (Hindu, Islamic, Sikh, Buddhist). Transformation of religious practice/thought in modernity. Relation between religion and nationalism. Geopolitical dimensions of religious transformation in South Asia.
RELS 3679 - Religion and Society in Modern South Asia
(AH, GP)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ALL/RelS 3679/AMES 3679/5679
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Survey of religious formations in premodern India (Hindu, Islamic, Sikh). Transformation of religious practice/thought. Religion and nationalism. Geopolitical dimensions of religious transformation in South Asia.
ARTH 3014W - Art of India
(AH, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3014W/ RelS 3415
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Indian sculpture, architecture, and painting from the prehistoric Indus Valley civilization to the present day.
RELS 3415W - Art of India
(AH, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3014W/ RelS 3415
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Indian sculpture, architecture, and paintings from the prehistoric Indus Valley civilization to the present day.
ARTH 3778 - Traditions of South Asian Painting: Past to Present
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3778/ArtH 5778
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course surveys the rich diversity of painted media in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, from 5th-century murals to contemporary canvases that travel the world. We will locate the works in their physical, ritual, and intellectual contexts.
We will explore how the familiar categories with which we describe painting, such as Landscape, Portraiture, Narrative, and even Modern, might be productively reassessed in light of South Asian aesthetic traditions by locating the works in their physical, ritual, and intellectual contexts. The course culminates in the contested spaces of contemporary art, where questions of politics, identity, and intention come to the fore. Although mainly focusing on the painting traditions of India, the course will include painting from Pakistan, the Himalayas, Sri Lanka, and the South Asian diaspora.
The humanities sharpen our ability to develop critical questions and to judge why and how one answer or interpretation may be stronger than another. Humanistic thinking is developed in dialogue; it emerges between individuals in conversation with each other and with their objects of study. This course asks you to boldly bring your curiosity, convictions, and blind-spots to our collective conversation, close reading, and individual writing.
The course consists of two weekly meetings, and one or two trips to nearby museums or galleries.
ARTH 5778 - Traditions of South Asian Painting: Past to Present
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3778/ArtH 5778
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course surveys the rich diversity of painted media in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, from 5th-century murals to contemporary canvases that travel the world. We will locate the works in their physical, ritual, and intellectual contexts.
We will explore how the familiar categories with which we describe painting, such as Landscape, Portraiture, Narrative, and even Modern, might be productively reassessed in light of South Asian aesthetic traditions by locating the works in their physical, ritual, and intellectual contexts. The course culminates in the contested spaces of contemporary art, where questions of politics, identity, and intention come to the fore. Although mainly focusing on the painting traditions of India, the course will include painting from Pakistan, the Himalayas, Sri Lanka, and the South Asian diaspora.
The humanities sharpen our ability to develop critical questions and to judge why and how one answer or interpretation may be stronger than another. Humanistic thinking is developed in dialogue; it emerges between individuals in conversation with each other and with their objects of study. This course asks you to boldly bring your curiosity, convictions, and blind-spots to our collective conversation, close reading, and individual writing.
The course consists of two weekly meetings, and one or two trips to nearby museums or galleries.
ARTH 3779 - Visions of Paradise: The Indian Temple
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3779/RelS 3779
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course traces the development and diversity of the Indian temple, focusing the ways in which people interact with sacred space and how religious art addresses its viewers. We primarily focus on Hinduism, but also include Buddhism and Jainism. We will discuss the role of sculpture, painting, textiles, dance, and food within the temple. We will also examine how the legacy of colonial and orientalist scholarship inflects our study of these traditions and monuments.
Although the architecture of both structural and rock-cut temples will be our main object of study, we will also discuss the role of sculpture, painting, textiles, and food within the temple. Our consideration of the structures will be attentive to the ways in which people interact with the space and how objects of sacred art address their viewers.
In classroom discussions we will work together to create an interpretive model that is synthetic, critical, and appreciative of the enormously diverse field that is South Asian Art. Lectures will move from explanatory descriptions of objects and histories that are covered in the textbook to critical interpretations of the historiographies that shape their contemporary reception. Class discussions and assignments are intended to encourage students to bring their own ways of looking at this art, to read critically in light of what they see, and to consider new approaches to the material. No prior experience in the history of art or religions of South Asia is required for this course.
RELS 3779 - Visions of Paradise: The Indian Temple
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3779/RelS 3779
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course traces the development and diversity of the Indian temple, focusing the ways in which people interact with sacred space and how religious art addresses its viewers. We primarily focus on Hinduism, but also include Buddhism and Jainism. We will discuss the role of sculpture, painting, textiles, dance, and food within the temple. We will also examine how the legacy of colonial and orientalist scholarship inflects our study of these traditions and monuments.
Although the architecture of both structural and rock-cut temples will be our main object of study, we will also discuss the role of sculpture, painting, textiles, and food within the temple. Our consideration of the structures will be attentive to the ways in which people interact with the space and how objects of sacred art address their viewers.
In classroom discussions, we will work together to create an interpretive model that is synthetic, critical, and appreciative of the enormously diverse field that is South Asian Art. Lectures will move from explanatory descriptions of objects and histories that are covered in the textbook to critical interpretations of the historiographies that shape their contemporary reception. Class discussions and assignments are intended to encourage students to bring their own ways of looking at this art, to read critically in light of what they see, and to consider new approaches to the material. No prior experience in the history of art or religions of South Asia is required for this course.
GLOS 3981W - Capstone Seminar
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3981W/GloS 3985V
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
In the Capstone Seminar, students will write a 25-30 page undergraduate thesis on a self-defined topic related to their thematic and/or regional concentration. The course is designed to support academic research and writing in an interdisciplinary field, and to provide students a space to synthesize what they have learned in the classroom, through study abroad, in internships, and from life experiences. Students can expect lecture, class discussion, small-group work and peer review, and one-on-one meetings with the instructor.
Prereq: dept consent
GLOS 3985V - Honors Capstone Seminar
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3981W/GloS 3985V
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
In the Honors Capstone Seminar, students will write a 25-30 page cum laude or magna cum laude honors thesis on a self-defined topic related to their thematic and/or regional concentration. The course is designed to support academic research and writing in an interdisciplinary field, and to provide students a space to synthesize what they have learned in the classroom, through study abroad, in internships, and from life experiences. Students can expect lecture, class discussion, small-group work and peer review, and one-on-one meetings with the instructor. Students interested in summa cum laude honors should not take this class; they should consult the Global Studies advisor.
Prereq: dept consent
AFRO 3601W - African Literature
(LITR, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
The globalized present has witnessed increased mobility as economic, political, and social unrest intensify, forcing mass migration of populations across scorching deserts, treacherous mountains and perilous seas. In the United States and in Western Europe specifically, the consequence of this mobility?immigration?remains the single most cross-cutting issue and the most vexed political challenge of the day. Defined as threatening and intrusive, frequently criminalized in discourse and in action, immigrants have become scapegoats for a wide range of problems that bedevil every aspect of life in every country. Blamed for everything from taking jobs from locals to rising crime and the spread of communicable diseases, immigrants have become victims of xenophobic violence and repositories for the routine fear-mongering prevalent in post-9/11 global terror and counter-terror climate. This course addresses the keys issues that arise in contemporary immigration and global security debates. Throughout the course of the semester, we will interrogate the literary and audio-visual arts as a mirror of the times, reflecting socio-political conditions. In a bid to place the current ?crisis? in a historical perspective, we will examine select works by African writers, filmmakers and artists, which provide examples that enable us to move beyond stereotypes and common assumptions.
AMES 3232W - "Short" Poetry in China and Japan
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Short poetic forms of China and Japan. Chinese quatrains and octets. Japanese tanka and haiku. Translations by modern poets. Texts in original languages (with provided glosses). Art of translation. Translators' conceptions of East Asian 'exoticism.'
AMES 3265W - The Fantastic in East Asia: Ghosts, Foxes, and the Alien
(LITR, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
How the strange/alien is constructed in premodern Chinese/Japanese literature. East Asian theories of the strange and their role in the classical tale, through the works of Pu Songling, Edo-era storytellers, and others. Role of Buddhist cosmology and salvation.
prereq: Some coursework in East Asia recommended
AMES 3356W - Chinese Film
(AH, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Survey of Chinese cinema from China (PRC), Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Emphasizes discussion/comparison of global, social, economic, sexual, gender, psychological, and other themes as represented through film.
AMES 3441W - Japanese Theater
(AH, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Japanese performance traditions. Emphasizes noh, kabuki, and bunraku in their literary/cultural contexts. Relationship between these pre-modern traditions and modern theatrical forms (e.g., Takarazuka Revue).
AMES 3637W - Modern Indian Literature
(LITR, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ALL 3637W/GloS 3637W
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Survey of 20th century literature from South Asian countries, including India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. All readings in English. Focuses on colonialism, post-colonialism, power, and representation.
AMST 3113W - Global Minnesota: Diversity in the 21st Century
(DSJ, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Diverse cultural (racial, ethnic, class) groups in America. Institutions/processes that shape their relations and create domination, resistance, hybridity, nationalism, racism, alliance. Specific content may vary.
ANTH 3005W - Language, Culture, and Power
(SOCS, DSJ, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Studying language as a social practice, students transcribe and analyze conversation they record themselves, and consider issues of identity and social power in daily talk.
ANTH 3047W - Anthropology of Sex, Gender and Sexuality
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Anth 3047W/GWSS 3047W
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
This course explores the concepts of "sex," "gender," and "sexuality" through the scholarship of feminist anthropology, queer anthropology, and their antecedents. Students will read ethnographies that grapple with the contingent and shifting formations of these social constructions - when they emerge, disentangle, re-entangle, submerge, etc. The course will highlight the roles of imperialism, (settler) colonialism, capitalism, racism, heteropatriarchy, ableism, and other forms of social power in shaping these formations as well at the social categories - "sex," "gender," and "sexuality" - themselves.
ANTH 3242W - Hero, Savage, or Equal? Representations of NonWestern Peoples in the Movies
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course will explore images of nonWestern peoples and cultures as they have appeared in the movies and in other popular media. It has four aims: l) to introduce the problem of nonWestern peoples in the West from historical points of view, 2) to discuss the relationship between mass media and issue of representation to the marketplace, 3) to introduce the concept of morality in and through collective representations as developed by Durkheim, and 4) to analyze the problem of moral agency in a series of Hollywood and Independent movies which portray nonwestern peoples and cultures. We will watch movies portraying three different groups of cultures, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, and the Japanese. In each unit, we will first read important commentary on Western representations of each of these peoples, such as Bernard Smith on Pacific Islanders and Vine Deloria on images of Native Americans and Gina Marchetti on Hollywood?s Japanese.
ANTH 3306W - Medical Anthropology
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Relations among human affliction, health, healing, social institutions, and cultural representations cross-culturally. Human health/affliction. Medical knowledge/power. Healing. Body, international health, colonialism, and emerging diseases. Reproduction. Aging in a range of geographical settings.
prereq: 1003 or 1005 or entry level soc sci course recommended
ANTH 4029W - Anthropology of Social Class
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Anth 3049W / Anth 4029W
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course is divided into three parts, each of which has different, but related, purposes. The initial part has general and theoretical goals. First, differences between cultural anthropology and sociology with respect to the study of class difference will be introduced. Secondly, the major theories about hierarchy in pre-state society will be examined. Third, central theories and concepts in the study of stratification in complex societies will be surveyed. In particular, attention will be paid to the relationship between class and individual taste in the work of Pierre Bourdieu. The second part will focus on attitudes about class difference in N. American society. Topics will center on class in everyday life, with special reference to the domains of education, consumption and romantic love. The third part of the course will concern class in nonWestern and/or developing countries, specifically in the Pacific and India. Throughout the course, in addition to readings and lectures, use will be made of representations of class in popular culture, such as magazines and the movies.
ANTH 4031W - Anthropology and Social Justice
(CIV, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Spring Odd Year
Practical application of theories/methods from social/cultural anthropology. Issues of policy, planning, implementation, and ethics as they relate to applied anthropology.
prereq: 1003 or 1005 or 4003 or grad student or instr consent
APEC 3611W - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
(ENV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Concepts of resource use. Financial/economic feasibility. External effects, market failures. Resource use, environmental problems. Measuring impacts of resource development. Economics of alternative resource programs, environmental strategies.
prereq: 1101 or ECON 1101 or 1101H or ECON 1101H
ARTS 3206W - Art + Ecology
(WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Art + Ecology explores the history, theory, and contemporary practice of artists engaged with the ecological issues of our time. This seminar offers an introduction to the dynamic and emerging field of Environmental Art, focusing on the ways in which artists use creativity to work across disciplines to address ecological concerns. This course investigates the role contemporary artists play as catalysts in relation to a range of concerns, including environmental justice, mass extinction, climate change, and treatment of "waste" as well as issues of the quality of the air, water, soil, and habitat. This seminar also will introduce the notion of artists as agents of change who build communities of ecologically aware practices around interrelated environmental and social issues. Students will be encouraged to see how their creativity and imagination can contribute to finding solutions to pressing environmental problems.
CI 3611W - Basics in Teaching English as a Second Language
(WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
CI 3611W/SLS 3001
Grading Basis:
OPT No Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Writing intensive course that combines service learning internship with classroom lectures, discussions, group work, experiential activities. In this course, service learning requires students to act as teachers and professional leaders with students for 30 hours a semester. Prepares students for teaching ESL to adults in community programs.
prereq: Have studied another language.
CNRC 3082W - Greek Tragedy in Translation
(LITR, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
CNES 3082W/CNES 5082W
Typically offered:
Fall Even, Spring Odd Year
Origins of tragedy. Ancient theatres. Selected plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides.
COMM 3451W - Intercultural Communication: Theory and Practice
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Theories of and factors influencing intercultural communication. Development of effective intercultural communication skills.
prereq: Planning an intercultural experience
COMM 3676W - Communicating Terrorism
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Terrorism as an ethical and international problem. Different cultures' historical trajectories for terrorism. Contrasts between Algerian, Irish, and Arab terrorism.
COMM 3681W - Rhetorical Fictions and 20th Century Conflicts
(LITR, GP, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Analysis of selected 20th-century documentary novels. Nature of artistic truth in relation to historical truth. Cross-cultural comparisons of responses to impact of Anglo-American policies.
COMM 4404W - Language Borderlands
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Effect of multilingualism on self identity/sense of community. Subjective/social dimensions of being multilingual. Experience of language loss.
CSCL 3130W - Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures and Theory: 1700 to the Present
(LITR, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Odd, Spring Even Year
Readings in colonial/postcolonial literatures/theory from at least two world regions: Africa, the Americas, the Arab world, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific. Cultural/psychological dynamics and political economy of world under empire, decolonization, pre- vs. post-coloniality, globalization.
CSCL 3351W - The Body and the Politics of Representation
(HIS, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Western representation of the human body, 1500 to present. Body's appearance as a site and sight for production of social and cultural difference (race, ethnicity, class, gender). Visual arts, literature, music, medical treatises, courtesy literature, erotica. (previously 3458W)
Is there such a thing as global queer aesthetic? If so, how do various modes of representation and expression (novels, poetry, and sophisticated uses of language across film, television and video, digital media, pop music and punk) elaborate and enact queerness in particular material ways while also helping to create a larger, intermedial queer culture?
CSCL 3425W - Critical Theory and Social Change
(AH, DSJ, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
This course introduces students to influential thinkers in the field of critical theory, broadly conceived. Critical theory is similar to philosophy because it asks big questions that stretch the boundaries of human knowledge. But it is distinct in its focus on practical change?critical theory advocates for a more just and emancipated human world. Its key techniques are the diagnosis and critique of histories, systems, and ideologies of social power. Critical theory emerged from a group of Marxist intellectuals in the 1920s and 30s who were concerned about the rise of fascism, the staggering inequalities produced by industrial capitalism, the trauma of mass violence, and the numbing standardization of modern life. Since then, the field has expanded to encompass concerns about structural racism, gender inequality, the rise of neoliberalism, the expansion of modern carceral and mental health systems, and the ongoing inequities wrought by histories of slavery, colonization, and imperial conquest. Featured authors may include Sigmund Freud, W. E. B. Du Bois, Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Frantz Fanon, Herbert Marcuse, Patricia Hill Collins, Malcom X, Jackie Wang, Angela Y. Davis, Sheldon George, Alfredo Carrasquillo, Joshua Javier Guzman, Willy Apollon, Jean Rouch, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Saidiya Hartman, bell hooks, Édouard Glissant, Aurora Levins Morales, Michael Rothberg, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Christopher Pexa, Yuichiro Onishi, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Lewis Gordon, and Barbara Christian.
ECON 4331W - Economic Development
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Economic growth in low income countries. Theory of aggregate and per capita income growth. Population growth, productivity increases, and capital formation. Allocation of resources between consumption and investment and among sectors. International assistance/trade.
prereq: ECON 1101 (or ECON 1165, APEC 1101), ECON 1102 (or APEC 1102), ECON 3101, ECON 3102, MATH 1271 or equivalent courses approved by the Economics Department, and completion of freshman writing practice.
ECON 4431W - International Trade
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Econ 4431W/Econ 4431V/Econ 443
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Theories of trade/trade patterns. Trade restrictions/commercial policy. International factor movements. Economic growth/development. Regional integration.
prereq: ECON 1101 (or ECON 1165, APEC 1101), ECON 1102 (or APEC 1102), ECON 3101, ECON 3102, MATH 1271, or equivalent courses approved by the Economics Department, and completion of freshman writing practice.
ECON 4432W - International Finance
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Balance of payments; international financial markets; exchange rate determination; international monetary system; international investment and capital flows; financial management of the multinational firm; open economy macroeconomic policy.
prereq: ECON 1101 (or ECON 1165, APEC 1101), ECON 1102 (or APEC 1102), ECON 3101, ECON 3102, MATH 1271 or equivalent courses approved by the Economics Department and first-writing course.
ENGL 3003W - Historical Survey of British Literatures I
(HIS, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course will provide a historical survey of British literature from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. Our focus will be on tracing the interactions between literature and wider British culture as well as on tracing the development of literary form during this period. You should leave this course being able to identify major literary trends and authors and link them to corresponding formal techniques and innovations. You should also have a sense of the major historical and political events, rulers, and social conditions in Britain at this time. Additionally, because this is a writing intensive course, you will leave this class familiar with the process of writing a research paper with a literary focus, which includes finding and successfully incorporating contemporary scholarly research about your topic into your paper, crafting an original argument, utilizing textual evidence, and evaluating existing scholarship.
ENGL 3004W - Historical Survey of British Literatures II
(HIS, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
In this wide-ranging survey of British and post-colonial literature from the late eighteenth century to the present, we will explore representative literary texts and genres from British Romanticism, the Victorian period, Modernism, and the postwar era. Besides analyzing the language, aesthetic features, and technical construction of these literary artifacts, we will examine our readings as reflections of and reactions to social upheavals like the Industrial Revolution, challenges to the traditional role of women, scientific discoveries that sparked religious doubt, and the First World War. Additionally, because this is a writing intensive course, you will familiarize yourself with the process of writing a research paper with a literary focus, which includes finding and successfully incorporating contemporary scholarly research about your topic into your paper, crafting an original argument, utilizing textual evidence, and evaluating existing scholarship.
ESPM 3011W - Ethics in Natural Resources
(CIV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Normative/professional ethics, and leadership considerations, applicable to managing natural resources and the environment. Readings, discussion.
Political processes in management of the environment. How disagreements are addressed by different stakeholders, private-sector interests, government agencies, institutions, communities, and nonprofit organizations.
FLOR 3010W - Literary Representations of Florence: Space, Self & Other
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 6.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Study abroad course.
GEOG 3374W - The City in Film
(AH, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3374W/3374V/5374W
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Cinematic portrayal of changes in 20th-century cities worldwide including social and cultural conflict, political and economic processes, changing gender relationships, rural versus urban areas, and population and development issues (especially as they affect women and children).
GEOG 3381W - Population in an Interacting World
(SOCS, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3381W/GLOS 3701W
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Comparative analysis and explanation of trends in fertility, mortality, internal and international migration in different parts of the world; world population problems; population policies; theories of population growth; impact of population growth on food supply and the environment.
GEOG 3411W - Geography of Health and Health Care
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Application of human ecology, spatial analysis, political economy, and other geographical approaches to analyze problems of health and health care. Topics include distribution and diffusion of disease; impact of environmental, demographic, and social change on health; distribution, accessibility, and utilization of health practitioners and facilities.
GEOG 4002W - Environmental Thought and Practice
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Changing conceptions of nature, culture, and environment in Western social/political thought. How our understanding of humans/nonhumans has been transformed by scientific and technological practices. Interdisciplinary, reading intensive.
prereq: Jr or sr
GER 3104W - Reading and Analysis of German Literature
(LITR, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Introduction to literary analysis. Readings from drama, prose, and lyric poetry, from 18th century to present.
prereq: 3011
GER 3604W - Introduction to German Cinema
(AH, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Even, Spring Odd Year
An introduction to the study of German cinema, with a focus on the relation between German film and German history, literature, culture, and politics.
GLOS 3401W - International Human Rights Law
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall
This course presents an introductory overview of the idea of human rights, its social and legal foundations and contemporary global issues. In the class, students will learn about the laws and procedures designed to protect the human rights of individuals and groups, with a special focus on the United Nations system. The course explores the conceptual underpinnings of human rights such as who is eligible to have rights, where those rights come from and who is responsible for guaranteeing them. Students will learn about how international laws are made and interpreted, and will consider the geo-political context which shapes human rights laws and procedures. Because of the evolving nature of the laws and issues in this field, students are encouraged to think analytically and ethically about how to address the many human rights challenges in the world today. The course will cover current human rights issues, including the right to health care, housing and other economic and social rights; and the right to life, freedom from torture and other civil and political rights. The course is writing intensive. The required paper for the class is a model complaint to the United Nations about a country and issue of the student's choosing. The class invites discussion and uses class exercises to engage students in the course material by shaping arguments for various legal fora.
GLOS 3415W - Global Institutions of Power: World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3415W/ Soc 3417W
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
This course will introduce students to some of the world's most powerful global institutions -- such as the World Bank (IBRD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United Nations, and affiliated agencies such as UNHCR (for refugee support). We will follow their efforts to promote a style of global development practices -- large-scale capital lending and global expertise building -- that has crystallized into a common understanding of how global north-south dynamics should progress. Cases pursued in class may include their lending and debt policies, dam building and energy projects, climate resilience and water loans, and the ways they mediate free trade agreements among competing countries. We will also hear from the multitude of voices, theories, and practices that offer alternative visions as to how peoples strive to produce a more just, socially equitable, and climate-safe world. We will use books, articles, films, in-class debates, case study exploration, small-group projects, and guest speakers to create a lively discussion-based classroom environment.
GLOS 3981W - Capstone Seminar
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3981W/GloS 3985V
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
In the Capstone Seminar, students will write a 25-30 page undergraduate thesis on a self-defined topic related to their thematic and/or regional concentration. The course is designed to support academic research and writing in an interdisciplinary field, and to provide students a space to synthesize what they have learned in the classroom, through study abroad, in internships, and from life experiences. Students can expect lecture, class discussion, small-group work and peer review, and one-on-one meetings with the instructor.
Prereq: dept consent
GSD 3511W - Vikings, Knights, and Reformers: German and European Culture and Controversies to 1700
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Survey of representative cultural-historical events in Europe (German-speaking countries, Scandinavian, the Netherlands) from early Germanic times to 1700.
GSD 3512W - Imagined Communities: German and European, Culture and Controversies, 1700 to Present
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Survey of representative cultural-historical events in Europe (German-speaking countries, Scandinavian, the Netherlands) from 1700 to present.
GWSS 3203W - Blood, Bodies and Science
(TS, SOCS, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Summer
This course examines the contemporary politics of health and medicine from a critical race theory, disability-oriented, and feminist/queer/trans perspective. Who is understood to be deserving of health and medical care? Who should decide how to govern the provision of care? Who, if anyone should profit from life-saving medical treatment or medicines? How did we come to have the health system we have now? How have Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and people of color communities fought for access to equitable health care in the context of the racial history of medicine and health? Struggles for justice and equity in health and medicine are integrally related to the question of how society treats people who are in need of care. Topics include the history of DIY health movements; trans health care bans; the science and history of pandemics, including Covid and HIV; the history of health insurance; struggles for global equity in vaccines and pharmaceuticals; disability; reproductive justice movements; and the history of eugenics.
HIST 3417W - Food in History
(HIS, ENV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Odd, Spring Even Year
Significance of food in society, from earliest times to present. Why we eat what we eat. How foods have been "globalized." Dietary effects of industrial modernity. Material culture, social beliefs. Examples from around world.
HIST 3514W - Water and Oil: An Environmental History of the Middle East
(HIS, ENV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Water and Oil focuses on the far?reaching impacts of environmental change upon Middle Eastern societies, culture, politics, economic development or underdevelopment, and violence. It offers a narrative of the Middle Eastern past that is not framed by a specific place, ethnic group, religion, or intellectual tradition. The course is designed to enable students to think deeply about technology and the environment across the Middle East, and the region?s development as shaped by local practices, global politics, economic interests, and the struggle for resource management.
HIST 3615W - Women in European History: 1500 to the Present
(HIS, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GWSS 3615W/Hist 3615W
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
History of women in Western Europe from early modern period to present. Changes crucial to women's lives. Family/kinship structure, control over property, organization of work, religious ideas/practices, education, politics, beliefs/attitudes about female body.
HIST 3691W - The British Empire
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Gain/loss of colonies in Ireland, America, India, Africa. Development of racism, multicultural composition of British society, debates about economic motives for empire, resistance of colonized peoples to conquest/domination.
HIST 3704W - Daily Life in Europe: 1300-1800
(HIS, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Even, Spring Odd Year
Living conditions and daily life in Europe before the Industrial Revolution. Topics include marriage and family, life at court, nobles, peasants, disease, farming, livestock-raising, urban life, the middle classes, manufacturing, trade, piracy, witchcraft, war, crime, and social deviance.
HMED 3001W - Health, Disease, and Healing I
(HIS, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
HMED 3001W/HMED 3001V
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Introduction to intellectual/social history of European/American medicine, health care from classical antiquity through 18th century.
LING 3101W - Languages of the World
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Survey of language families of the world. Classifying languages genetically/typologically. Historical relationships among languages.
prereq: 3001 or 3001H or 5001 or instr consent
PHIL 3001W - General History of Western Philosophy: Ancient Period
(AH, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Phil 3001W/V/3101
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Major developments in ancient Greek philosophic thought: pre-Socrates, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic thinkers.
PHIL 3005W - General History of Western Philosophy: Modern Period
(AH, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Phil 3005W/V/3105
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Can anything be known beyond a shadow of a doubt? How ought scientific knowledge be discovered and justified? In what does one's identity as a person consist? How does our human nature affect the way that we conceive of and come to know the world? This course examines the momentous intellectual transformations in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries that inspired such questions and their innovative solutions.
POL 3235W - Democracy and Citizenship
(CIV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
This course considers the nature of contemporary democracy and the role that members of the political community do, can, and should play. While approaches in teaching the class vary, students can expect to read historical and contemporary texts, see films and videos, to approach questions about the nature of democracy, justifications for democracy, and challenges faced by contemporary democracy as it relates to racial inequality, immigration, gender inequality, and ecological crises. Topics will include: the centrality of social movements for democracies; deliberative and participatory democracy; as well as questions about how members of political communities can best participate in democratic life to address structural inequalities. Students will write a longer essay that allows them to demonstrate their capacities to understand and explain complex ideas and to make a theoretically compelling argument, using appropriate supporting evidence.
Suggested prerequisite 1201
POL 3252W - Revolution, Democracy, and Empire: Modern Political Thought
(AH, CIV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Spring Even Year
From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, Europe and its colonies were wracked by large scale, sweeping changes: from the violent emergence of the sovereign state, to intense religious conflict, to geographic expansions at once transformative and brutal in search of new economic markets. These changes posed extraordinary challenges to usual ways of conceiving of political order and governance. Our course this semester will read these changes through three key concepts – revolution, democracy, and empire. Class discussion will seek to understand different meanings of these concepts, their political stakes, and ways of knowing how to move between political ideals and historical examples. Students will read a range of materials – from primary historical sources, to philosophic texts, political pamphlets and treatises, and travel journals – so as to study the effects on both the European context and beyond.
prereq: Suggested prerequisite 1201
POL 3451W - Politics and Society in the New Europe
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Even, Spring Odd Year
The devastation of Europe through two World Wars put the deadly results of ultra-nationalism on full display. To avoid such destruction again, a group of European technocrats and leaders embarked on a mission of incrementally deepening economic and later, social partnerships between an ever-expanding number of European countries. These efforts culminated in the birth of the European Union in the late 20th Century. From its inception, the Union has found obstacles in the forms of a weak institutional structure and authority, deep skepticism of a central European authority, financial crisis, ethnic anxiety, and resurgent nationalism. Yet, the continuation and strengthening of the Union is seen as the antidote to the rise of anti-democratic and authoritarian tendencies on the continent. Some of the key questions that we will engage in are: What are the ideological and historical roots of the European Union? What are the structural flaws of the Union? What are the obstacles to a stronger Union? Is the Union still or even more essential than ever? What are the ways the Union could collapse from within and from the intervention of outside forces?
POL 3489W - Citizens, Consumers, and Corporations
(CIV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Spring Even Year
Corporations are the most powerful actors in the global political economy. They employ millions of people, produce a wide variety of goods, and have massive effects on the communities where they do business. Although considered to be "legal persons," corporations are not living beings with a conscience. Milton Friedman famously proclaimed that the only moral obligation of corporations is the maximize shareholder returns. Yet maximizing financial returns may negatively affect humans, other living beings, and the planet. This potential conflict between profit and ethics is at the heart of this course, which focuses on how people have mobilized as citizens and consumers to demand ethical behavior from corporations. We will explore these different modes of action through an examination of corporate social responsibility for sweatshops, the industrial food system in the United States, and the privatization of life, water, and war. The course also considers how corporations exploit racial hierarchies and immigration status in their pursuit of profit.
POL 4403W - Constitutions, Democracy, and Rights: Comparative Perspectives
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
POL 4403W / POL 5403
Typically offered:
Fall Even, Spring Odd Year
Around the world, fundamental political questions are often debated and decided in constitutional terms, and in the United States, the constitution is invoked at almost every turn to endorse or condemn different policies. Is adhering to constitutional terms the best way to safeguard rights and to achieve a successful democracy? When and how do constitutions matter to political outcomes? This course centers on these questions as it moves from debates over how constitutional drafting processes should be structured and how detailed constitutions should be, to the risks and benefits of different institutional structures (federal v. unitary, and the distribution of powers between the executive, legislature, and judiciary), to which rights (if any) should be constitutionalized and when and why different rights are protected, closing with a discussion of what rules should guide constitutional amendment and rewrite. For each topic, we compare how these issues have been resolved in the U.S. with alternative approaches in a wide variety of other countries around the globe. The goal is not only to expose students to the variety of ways, successful or unsuccessful, that other political communities have addressed these issues, but also to gain a more contextualized and clearer understanding of the pros and cons of the U.S. model, its relevance for other democratic or democratizing countries, whether and how it might be reformed, and, generally speaking, when/how constitutions matter for democratic quality and stability.
POL 4461W - European Government and Politics
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Pol 4461W/5461
Typically offered:
Fall Odd, Spring Even Year
This course will introduce you to three major topics that shape European social and political life today: 1) the struggle over what makes for a national/European identity: how contested national identities matter to European democratic politics and to the new populist movements, and the historical role of Islam in shaping European identities 2) the role of institutions in shaping popular representation and citizen agency; 3) European Union policies: dealing with immigration, the single currency and foreign and security policy especially in regard to Eastern/Central Europe and Russia. Each section will conclude with a comparative class debate, led by students, on the way contested historical interpretations and identities, institutions and policies matter also to US political and civic life.
This is a writing intensive course and you will be asked to write a 12-15 page research essay on a European country of your choice. Several assignments, preceded by a writing workshop, will help you complete your final essay. The course will consist of lectures with PPTs, class discussions and group work, and at least one guest lecturer working in a local business connected with Europe. Indeed this course aims at preparing you to live and work in a deeply interconnected world, with special attention to the historical, social, political and economic ties between the US and Europe.
Small changes will be made to the syllabus if current events or unexpected class needs require it, but the main themes, most readings and the assignments will remain as indicated in the syllabus.
prereq: 1054 or 3051 or non-pol sci grad or instr consent
POL 4474W - Russian Politics: From Soviet Empire to Post-Soviet State
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Twenty five years ago, Russia appeared to be democratizing and was even on friendly relations with the US and NATO. Now Vladimir Putin runs the state with the FSB (KGB), and US-Russian relations are at their worst point since the 1970s. This course examines major themes and periods in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian politics. It begins with the Russian Revolution of 1917, and continues with a study of the creation of the USSR and Soviet rule under Lenin, Stalin, and later decades. We look in depth at the economic and political system set up by the Communist Party, and at the causes of its collapse in 1991, which has had profound legacies for the post-Soviet development of Russia. Then in the second half of the course we turn to themes of political, economic, social and civic development under Yeltsin and Putin. We will pose the following questions: Why does democratization begin and why does it fail? How is economic reform undermined? What type of state and regime is Russia now? What caused the Chechen wars and the massive bloodshed in the Caucasus during this period? Is Putin trying to recreate the Soviet Union and retake control of its neighbors? Are US-Russian relations improving as a result of Obama's "Reset," or are we now in an era of a new Cold War? What is Russia's goal in Syria, Iran, or Central Asia? Is Putin rebuilding Russia, or driving it to disaster, and how will this impact the West?
POL 4773W - Advocacy Organizations, Social Movements, and the Politics of Identity
(DSJ, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
This course introduces students to the major theoretical concepts and empirical findings in the study of U.S interest group politics. Students will read books and articles from a wide range of topics that include how interest groups are formed and maintained; various strategies and tactics that groups use to influence Congress, the courts, and executive branch; and whether those strategies result in fair and effective representation for all citizens in society. Throughout the semester students will be exposed to research using a variety of methodologies and intellectual approaches. Further, the class discussions will emphasize general concepts that reoccur in the readings and in other classes. The goal is to assist students in mastering the key concepts in group politics.
This is also a writing intensive course. Effective writing is encouraged through several writing assignments that require you to think clearly and express your thoughts concisely.
POL 4885W - International Conflict and Security
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Pol 4885/Pol 5885
Typically offered:
Fall Odd, Spring Even Year
Why do states turn to military force and for what purposes? What are the causes of war and peace? What renders the threat to use force credible? Can intervention in civil wars stall bloodshed and bring stability? How effective is military force compared to other tools of statecraft? How can states cope with the threat posed by would-be terrorists? What is counterinsurgency doctrine? What is the future of military force in global politics?
This course addresses these questions - and others. The course is organized loosely into three sections or themes. The first section explores the causes and consequences of interstate war and peace. We will examine whether and how the international system, domestic institutions and politics, ideas and culture, ethnic and racial prejudice and inequity, and human psychology shape the path to war. Along the way, we debate whether war has become obsolete and why great power rivalry might be raising its ugly head once again. Attention is also devoted to the impact of war on economy and politics as well as the relations between armed forces and civilian government. The second section of the class explores the possibilities, limits, and challenges of more limited uses of force - such as the threat of force (coercion), peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention, and terrorism and counterterrorism. A third theme explores the strategic and ethical implications of the use of force and especially of innovation in military technologies - nuclear weapons, cyber, drones. Across all three sections, we examine how war and society mutually affect each other, including how racial, ethnic, and other categorical identities affect critical dynamics in security, from threat perception to military mobilization.
The course is organized around theoretical arguments, historical cases and data, and policy debates. Sessions are deeply interactive, engaged discussion is a must, and the class often divides into smaller groups for more intensive debate. Class time is also devoted to helping students craft an effective final research paper.
PORT 3502W - Global Portuguese: 1900-present
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Every Spring
This course is the second half of a two-semester introduction to Global Portuguese literatures and cultures. Beginning where PORT3501w ended, you will examine twentieth-century cultural texts in Portuguese, focusing primarily on Brazil, though also reading texts from other countries where Portuguese, among other languages, is spoken, such as Angola, Mozambique, and Portugal. Much of what you will study is related to different modernist traditions. You will primarily read poetry and short stories, though you may also study other genres, such as songs and essays. PORT3501w is not a prerequisite. PORT3502w is taught in Portuguese, and all of the reading, writing, and speaking will be done in Portuguese. Assessments include essays and may also include other graded assignments, such as oral presentations or written exams.
prereq: 3003
PSY 3001W - Introduction to Research Methods
(WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Psy 3001W/Psy 3001V/3005W
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Concepts/procedures used to conduct/evaluate research, especially in social sciences. Benefits/limitations of traditional research methods. Evaluating scientific claims.
prereq: [1001, [2801 or 3801 or equiv]] or dept consent
SCAN 3011W - Readings in Scandinavian Languages
(WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Scan 3011W/Scan 4011
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Reading/composition in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish for advanced proficiency. Introduction to differences between the three languages.
prereq: [Dan or Nor or Swed][1004 or 4004] or instr consent
SCAN 3501W - Scandinavian Culture Past and Present
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Typically offered:
Fall Even, Spring Odd Year
Cultural, social, and political developments; principal views and core values; major cultural figures; Scandinavian mentality. Readings in translation for nonmajors. Invited lectures on central topics within selected areas of study.
SOC 3322W - Social Movements, Protests, and Change
(CIV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3322W/Soc 3322W
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Focusing on the origins, dynamics, and consequences of social movements, this course explores debates about the dilemmas and challenges facing movement organizations, the relationship between social movements and various institutions, and the role of social movements and protest in bringing about change. The course is organized around general theoretical issues concerning why people join movements, why they leave or remain in movements, how movements are organized, the strategies and tactics they use, and their long-term and short-run impact.
prereq: 1001 recommended; soc majors/minors must register A-F
TH 3152W - Global Avant-Gardes: Theatre, Music, Modernity
(HIS, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3152W/Th 3152W/Th 5152W/
Typically offered:
Every Spring
What does it mean to be an avant-garde artist in the Global South? In postcolonial Africa and Asia, where arts were linked to national modernization projects, artists have played a key role in shaping citizens? identity, alongside schools and universities. While participating in modernizing projects, avant-garde artists maintained independence from state institutions and voiced criticism of dictators. This course examines avant-garde performance in several locations of the Global South, analyzing dramas of national history, modernist music, activist theater, cosmopolitan dance, transnational cultural circuits, and politically radical performances.
Reading historical, social, and performance studies, we will develop methods for analyzing performances that aim to make transformative social interventions. These include textual analysis, ethnography, performance analysis, and tracking transnational cultural exchange. You will apply select methods in your final research paper, which centers on an avant-gardist cultural phenomenon in the contemporary Global South.
TLDO 3105W - Cultural Heritage of Spain
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Span 3105W/Span 3105V/Tldo 310
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Main periods of Spanish history. Political, social, anthropological, and economic characteristics of each. Spanish culture/society, from beginning of Franco regime in 1939 to present. Cultural trends in literature/arts in relation to social phenomena.
prereq: Two yrs of college-level Spanish
ARTH 3014W - Art of India
(AH, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3014W/ RelS 3415
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Indian sculpture, architecture, and painting from the prehistoric Indus Valley civilization to the present day.
RELS 3415W - Art of India
(AH, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3014W/ RelS 3415
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Indian sculpture, architecture, and paintings from the prehistoric Indus Valley civilization to the present day.
ANSC 3203W - Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Agro/AnSc 3203/AgUM 2224
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Ecological/ethical concerns of food production systems in global agriculture: past, present, and future. Underlying ethical positions about how agroecosystems should be configured. Interactive learning using decision cases, discussions, videos, other media.
AGRO 3203W - Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Agro/AnSc 3203/AgUM 2224
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Ecological/ethical concerns of food production systems in global agriculture: past, present, and future. Underlying ethical positions about how agroecosystems should be configured. Decision cases, discussions, videos, other media.
ANTH 3021W - Anthropology of the Middle East
(SOCS, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Anth 3021W/Anth 5021W/RelS 370
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Fall Even Year
Anthropological methods of analyzing/interpreting Middle Eastern cultures/societies.
ANTH 5021W - Anthropology of the Middle East
(SOCS, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Anth 3021W/Anth 5021W/RelS 370
Typically offered:
Fall Even Year
Anthropological field methods of analyzing/interpreting Middle Eastern cultures/societies.
ARCH 3711W - Environmental Design and the Sociocultural Context
(SOCS, CIV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Arch 3711W/Arch 3711V
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Designed environment as cultural medium/product of sociocultural process/expression of values, ideas, behavioral patterns. Design/construction as complex political process.
prereq: Soph or above
ARCH 3711V - Honors: Environmental Design and the Sociocultural Context
(SOCS, CIV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Arch 3711W/Arch 3711V
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Designed environment as cultural medium and as product of a sociocultural process and expression of values, ideas, and behavioral patterns. Design/construction as complex political process.
prereq: Honors, [soph or above]
ARTH 3015W - Art of Islam
(AH, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3015W/ClCv 3015W/RelS 370
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Architecture, painting, and other arts from Islam's origins to the 20th century. Cultural and political settings as well as themes that unify the diverse artistic styles of Islamic art will be considered.
RELS 3706W - Art of Islam
(AH, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
ArtH 3015W/ClCv 3015W/RelS 370
Typically offered:
Every Fall
Architecture, painting, and other arts from Islam's origins to the 20th century. Cultural and political settings as well as themes that unify the diverse artistic styles of Islamic art will be considered.
CSCL 3350W - Sexuality and Culture
(DSJ, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
CSCL 3350W/GLBT 3456W
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
GLBT 3456W - Sexuality and Culture
(DSJ, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
CSCL 3350W/GLBT 3456W
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
GEOG 3401W - Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change
(ENV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3401W/5401W
Typically offered:
Every Spring
Geographic patterns, dynamics, and interactions of atmospheric, hydrospheric, geomorphic, pedologic, and biologic systems as context for human population, development, and resource use patterns.
GEOG 5401W - Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change
(ENV, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Geog 3401W/5401W
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
Geographic patterns, dynamics, and interactions of atmospheric, hydrospheric, geomorphic, pedologic, and biologic systems as context for human population, development, and resource use patterns.
prereq: grad student or instr consent
GLOS 3415W - Global Institutions of Power: World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3415W/ Soc 3417W
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
This course will introduce students to some of the world's most powerful global institutions -- such as the World Bank (IBRD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United Nations, and affiliated agencies such as UNHCR (for refugee support). We will follow their efforts to promote a style of global development practices -- large-scale capital lending and global expertise building -- that has crystallized into a common understanding of how global north-south dynamics should progress. Cases pursued in class may include their lending and debt policies, dam building and energy projects, climate resilience and water loans, and the ways they mediate free trade agreements among competing countries. We will also hear from the multitude of voices, theories, and practices that offer alternative visions as to how peoples strive to produce a more just, socially equitable, and climate-safe world. We will use books, articles, films, in-class debates, case study exploration, small-group projects, and guest speakers to create a lively discussion-based classroom environment.
SOC 3417W - Global Institutions of Power: World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3415W/ Soc 3417W
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall
This course will introduce students to some of the world's most powerful global institutions -- such as the World Bank (IBRD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United Nations, and affiliated agencies such as UNHCR (for refugee support). We will follow their efforts to promote a style of global development practices -- large-scale capital lending and global expertise building -- that has crystallized into a common understanding of how global north-south dynamics should progress. Cases pursued in class may include their lending and debt policies, dam building and energy projects, climate resilience and water loans, and the ways they mediate free trade agreements among competing countries. We will also hear from the multitude of voices, theories, and practices that offer alternative visions as to how people strive to produce a more just, socially equitable, and climate-safe world. We will use books, articles, films, in-class debates, case study exploration, small-group projects, and guest speakers to create a lively discussion-based classroom environment.
GLOS 3613W - Stuffed and Starved: The Politics of Eating
(SOCS, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3613W/GloS 3613V/Soc 3613
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course takes a cross-cultural, historical, and transnational perspective to the study of the global food system. Themes explored include: different cultural and social meanings attached to food; social class and consumption; the global food economy; global food chains; work in the food sector; the alternative food movement; food justice; environmental consequences of food production.
SOC 3613W - Stuffed and Starved: The Politics of Eating
(SOCS, GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GloS 3613W/GloS 3613V/Soc 3613
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Periodic Fall & Spring
This course takes a cross-cultural, historical, and transnational perspective to the study of the global food system. Themes explored include: different cultural and social meanings attached to food; social class and consumption; the global food economy; global food chains; work in the food sector; the alternative food movement; food justice; environmental consequences of food production.
prereq: Soc majors/minors must register A-F
GWSS 3505W - Girls, Girlhood, and Resistance
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GWSS 3505W/GWSS 3505V
Typically offered:
Fall Odd Year
A critical engagement with what constitutes "girlhood" and "resistance" through comparative analyses of girls' resistance and activism across North America.
GWSS 3505V - Girls, Girlhood, and Resistance
(WI)
Credits:
0.0
-3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
GWSS 3505W/GWSS 3505V
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Fall Odd Year
A critical engagement with what constitutes "girlhood" and "resistance" through comparative analyses of girls' resistance and activism across North America.
HIST 3401W - Early Latin America to 1825
(HIS, GP, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3401W/HIST 3401V/LAS 3401
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Societies of Americas, Spain, and Portugal before contact. Interactions among Native Americans, African slaves, and Europeans, from colonization through independence. Religion, resistance, labor, gender, race. Primary sources, historical scholarship.
LAS 3401W - Early Latin America to 1825
(HIS, GP, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3401W/HIST 3401V/LAS 3401
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
Societies of Americas, Spain, and Portugal before contact. Interactions among Native Americans, African slaves, and Europeans, from colonization through independence. Religion, resistance, labor, gender, race. Primary sources, historical scholarship.
HIST 3402W - Modern Latin America 1825 to Present
(HIS, GP, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3402W/LAS 3402W
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
National and contemporary period 1825 to present, with emphasis on social, cultural, political, and economic change.
LAS 3402W - Modern Latin America 1825 to Present
(HIS, GP, WI)
Credits:
4.0
[max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3402W/LAS 3402W
Typically offered:
Every Fall, Spring & Summer
National and contemporary period 1825 to present. Social, cultural, political, and economic change.
HIST 3494W - Christ in Islamic Thought
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3494W/RelS 3718W
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Course examines the history of the figure of Christ in Islamic thought, from the beginnings of Islam in the Qur'an and the Hadith to the recent 2013 book by Reza Aslan, Zealot. The course is based on close reading of primary sources from regions extending from Spain to Iran, and in various languages (in translation): Arabic, Greek, French, Farsi, and Italian. Course demonstrates how much the interpretation of the figure of Christ in Islamic thought belonged to specific historical contexts.
prereq: None
RELS 3718W - Christ in Islamic Thought
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Hist 3494W/RelS 3718W
Typically offered:
Periodic Spring
Course examines the history of the figure of Christ in Islamic thought, from the beginnings of Islam in the Qur'an and the Hadith to the recent 2013 book by Reza Aslan, Zealot. The course is based on close reading of primary sources from regions extending from Spain to Iran, and in various languages (in translation): Arabic, Greek, French, Farsi, and Italian. Course demonstrates how much the interpretation of the figure of Christ in Islamic thought belonged to specific historical contexts.
POL 3478W - Contemporary Politics in Africa and the Colonial Legacy
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3478W/Afro 5478/Pol 3478W
Typically offered:
Every Spring
At the core, this class is about the interaction between the assertion of and challenge to political authority in Africa. Who should have the right to make decisions that structure people's lives? To what extent is "might" an important source of political authority? How, in turn, do people respond to these different means of establishing political authority? Using these questions as a springboard, this class will examine some broader themes relating to colonialism, state building, conflict, and development in Africa. Politics in Africa, just as in any other place in the world, is complex and for that reason, the objective of the class is not to give you answers, but to have you think critically about the issues we cover. Towards this end, this class will draw on different sources ranging from novels to manifestos so as to illustrate both the mundane and extraordinary events that have helped shape the political landscape of the continent.
AFRO 3478W - Contemporary Politics in Africa and the Colonial Legacy
(GP, WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Afro 3478W/Afro 5478/Pol 3478W
Typically offered:
Every Spring
At the core, this class is about the interaction between the assertion of and challenge to political authority in Africa. Who should have the right to make decisions that structure people's lives? To what extent is "might" an important source of political authority? How, in turn, do people respond to these different means of establishing political authority? Using these questions as a springboard, this class will examine some broader themes relating to colonialism, state building, conflict and development in Africa. Politics in Africa, just as in any other place in the world, is complex and for that reason, the objective of the class is not to give you answers, but to have you think critically about the issues we cover. Towards this end, this class will draw on different sources ranging from novels to manifestos so as to illustrate both the mundane and extraordinary events that have helped shape the political landscape of the continent.
SOC 4101W - Sociology of Law
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Soc 4101V/Soc 4101W/Soc 5101
Grading Basis:
A-F or Aud
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
This course will consider the relationship between law and society, analyzing law as an expression of cultural values, a reflection of social and political structure, and an instrument of social control and social change. Emphasizing a comparative perspective, we begin by discussing theories about law and legal institutions. We then turn our attention to the legal process and legal actors, focusing on the impact of law, courts, and lawyers on the rights of individuals. Although this course focuses on the US legal system, we will explore issues of the relationship between US law and global law and concepts of justice.
prereq: [[SOC 1001] and [SOC 1101 or 3101 or 3102]] recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A-F
SOC 4101V - Honors: Sociology of Law
(WI)
Credits:
3.0
[max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:
Soc 4101V/Soc 4101W/Soc 5101
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Typically offered:
Every Fall & Spring
This course will consider the relationship between law and society, analyzing law as an expression of cultural values, a reflection of social and political structure, and an instrument of social control and social change. Emphasizing a comparative perspective, we begin by discussing theories about law and legal institutions. We then turn our attention to the legal process and legal actors, focusing on the impact of law, courts, and lawyers on the rights of individuals. Although this course focuses on the US legal system, we will explore issues of the relationship between US law and global law and concepts of justice.
Additional special assignments will be discussed with honors participants who seek to earn honors credit toward the end of our first class session. Examples of additional requirements may include:
- Honors students will be expected to interview a current Sociology graduate student working on a LCD topic. Following this, each student will individually be expected to do an in-class power point presentation explaining how the interviewees? research relates with themes presented in the course. Students will also be expected to meet as a group and individually with the professor four times during the course semester.
- Sign up and prepare 3-4 discussion questions in advance of at least one class session.
- Work with professor and TA on other small leadership tasks (class discussion, paper exchange, tour).
- Write two brief (1-page) reflection papers on current news, or a two-page critique of a class reading
- Attend a presentation, workshop, or seminar on a related topic for this class and write a 2-page maximum reflective paper.
prereq: honors student, [[SOC 1001] and [SOC 1101 or 3101 or 3102]] recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A-F
