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3.00 Credits
It is recommended that students who are majoring in IS enroll in this required introductory course in their second year. This course surveys international, social, political, and cultural patterns in the context of global interactions. We emphasize contact between populations in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe from the late nineteenth century forward. The focus is on the globalization of economies, technological change, and urbanization; human environment relations; cross-cultural relations and cultural transformations; and transformation of national and international political orders. This interdisciplinary course draws from the social sciences and humanities to provide perspectives and historical depth in the analysis of current issues. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
It is recommended that students who are majoring in IS enroll in this required introductory course in their second year. This course examines a select set of global issues in depth. The emphasis is on questioning dominant conceptions of the international order that privileges states by treating them as natural actors in the international arena; that privileges the Western world by treating it as the center; and that privileges the balance of power and deterrence by treating military force as the primary means of self-help in allegedly anarchical space beyond state frontiers. Topics include nationalism, transnational identities generated by migration and refugee flows, global environmental movements, human rights, cyber space, and international conflicts. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor and program director. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course form. This course may be counted as one of the electives required for the IS major. This is a reading and research course for independent study not related to BA research or BA paper preparation. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: INST 23101 and consent of instructor. Required of students with fourth-year standing who are majoring in IS, but enrollment not permitted in quarter of graduation. This weekly seminar, taught by graduate student preceptors in consultation with faculty readers, is designed to aid students in their thesis research. Students are exposed to different conceptual frameworks and research strategies. Students must have approved topic proposals and faculty readers to participate in the seminar. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: INST 29800. This course may not be counted as one of the electives required for the IS major. This weekly seminar, taught by graduate student preceptors in consultation with faculty readers, offers students continued BA research and writing support. Students present drafts of their work and critique the work of their peers. This is an optional course for students who are majoring in IS. All students, however, are encouraged to participate in this seminar. NOTE: Students who are completing dual majors may not take this course for credit. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor and program director. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course form. This is a reading and research course for independent study related to BA research and BA thesis preparation. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course constitutes a survey of the work of the Franco-Czech author Milan Kundera. The primary readings consist of his novels and short stories, from Laughable Loves to the recent Slowness. In studying Kundera's essays (particularly those in The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed), we examine the relation between his critical thought and his novelistic practice. Such topics as sexism/misogyny, national identity, and political ideology are taken up in our discussions of this controversial novelist and critic. In addition, film adaptations of his work are shown and discussed. Texts in English. M. Sternstein. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Tolstoy' s most famous novel has been the subject of critical controversy ever since its first serialized publication in the 1870s. This course is dedicated to a slow and close reading and careful interpretation o f Tolstoy ? masterpiece. The course also includes several additional short works by Tolstoy on love. All work in English. Students majoring in Russian may read the text in the original and discuss it in a Russian intensive sectio n. Autumn
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor. Written in the wake of the Crimean War (1856) and the emancipation of the serfs (1861), Tolstoy's War and Peace represents Russia' s most important national narrative. This course focuses on both the artistic and the intellectual facets o f War and Peace . Readin g War and Peac e we not only learn a lot about Russian history and culture, but we also have a rare chance to visit th e writer ? workshop and witness the creation of a completely original, organic work of art. All work in Englis h. L. Steiner. Spring
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3.00 Credits
Russia acquired a modern literature in the eighteenth century, during the ascendancy of the neo-classicist aesthetics, leading to a flowering of literary culture in the 1830s at the hands of such writers as Pushkin, Lermonotov, and Gogol. The so-called "Golden Age" of Russian literature existed in a creative tension both with the neo-classical heritage and with contemporary developments in Western Europe, most notably Romanticism. This survey of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Russian literature includes works by Lomonosov, Derzhavin, Radishchev, Karamzin, Zhukovskii, Pushkin, Griboedov, Baratynskii, Lermontov, and early Gogol. Texts in English and the original. Optional Russian intensive section offered . Autumn.
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