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The abolition of torture, as well as of cruel and inhuman punishment, is one of the key standards of achievement of the modern era. This discussion course begins with the fact that torture is a remarkably persistent reality in order to explore how, in different times and places, it was contained and how it was overcome (if only temporarily). Classic European cases feature in the first part of discussion. Human rights and humanitarian campaigns against torture in the second half of the twentieth century are discussed in the second part. The United States, past and present, is the focus of the third part. M. Geyer. Autumn.
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This course concentrates on Franklin, John Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison. R. Lerner. Autumn.
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Prior knowledge of Plato' s Republi c helpful. Enrollment limited . This course is a reading o f Plato ? Law s, with attention to the following themes: war and peace; courage and moderation; reason and law; music, poetry, drinking, and education; sex, marriage, and gender; property and class structure; crime and punishment; religion and theology; and the relation between philosophy and politic s. N. Tarcov. Autumn.
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PQ: Consent of instructor. Class limited to fifteen students. D. Hutchinson. Autumn.
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American Sign Language is the language of the deaf in the United States and much of Canada. It is a full-fledged autonomous language, unrelated to English or other spoken languages. This introductory course teaches the student basic vocabulary and grammatical structure, as well as aspects of deaf culture. D. Ronchen. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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PQ: LGLN 10300. This course continues to increase grammatical structure, receptive and expressive skills, conversational skills, basic linguistic convergence, and knowledge of idioms. Field trip required. D. Ronchen. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing or consent of instructor required; core background in evolution and genetics strongly recommended. This course does not meet requirements for the biological sciences major. This course draws on readings in and case studies of language evolution, biological evolution, cognitive development and scaffolding, processes of socialization and formation of groups and institutions, and the history and philosophy of science and technology. We seek primarily to elaborate theory to understand and model processes of cultural evolution, while exploring analogies, differences, and relations to biological evolution. This has been a highly contentious area, and we examine why. We seek to evaluate what such a theory could reasonably cover and what it cannot. W. Wimsatt, S. Mufwene. Winter.
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This sequence introduces Kazakh, a Turkic language spoken in Kazakhstan and neighboring countries. This sequence teaches the fundamentals of grammar to enable students to read, write, and speak Kazakh. Students are exposed to the history and culture of Kazakhstan through modern and nineteenth-century literature, as well as to current events through mass media. K. Arik. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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This course introduces students to reading, writing, and speaking modern Hebrew. All four language skills are emphasized: comprehension of written and oral materials; reading of nondiacritical text; writing of directed sentences, paragraphs, and compositions; and speaking. Students learn the Hebrew root pattern system and the seven basic verb conjugations in both the past and present tenses, as well as simple future. At the end of the year, students can conduct short conversations in Hebrew, read materials at their level, and write short essays. A. Finkelstein. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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PQ: LING 20100/30100 or equivalent. This course introduces basic goals and methods of current syntactic theory through a detailed analysis of a range of phenomena, with emphasis on argumentation and empirical justification. Major topics include phrase structure and constituency, selection and subcategorization, argument structure, case, voice, expletives, and raising and control structures. Autumn.
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