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3.00 Credits
This course explores the regional organization of U.S. society and its economy during the pivotal twentieth century, emphasizing the shifting dynamics that explain the spatial distribution of people, resources, economic activity, human settlement patterns, and mobility. Special focus on the regional restructuring of industry and services, transportation, city growth, and cultural consumption. Two-day weekend field trip in Illinois and Wisconsin required. This course is offered in alternate years. M. Conzen. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the political, economic, social, cultural, racial, and military aspects of the major Asian wars of the twentieth century (e.g., Pacific, Korean, Vietnam). The first part of the course, pays particular attention to just war doctrines. We then use two to three books for each war (along with several films) to examine alternative approaches to understanding the origins of these wars, their conduct, and their consequences. B. Cumings. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
The focus of this course is to examine empirical evidence to determine if an individual's social context has the ability to impact her political behavior. We examine two major questions: to what extent do we observe correlation between individuals actions and those within a social framework and to what extent may we identify a causal relationship between the political behavior of the social group and the individual. Specific readings are drawn from collective action problems, information flow within networks, network formation, and the extent to which we can observ e respondents ' voting behaviors that are consistent with the ir discussant s' surveys or field experimen ts. B. Sinclair. Spring
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to be both an introduction to the field and an opportunity to examine the forty-year history of scholarship in Asian American studies and its future direction. We familiarize ourselves with some of the classic texts in Asian American studies (including documentary films), identifying various approaches and debates, while also carefully considering historical contexts in which the works were produced. Readings alternate between historical narrative and theoretical works meant to provide the tools with which to think about how historical narratives are constructed. T. Mah. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Cultural issues in both the broad and more narrow sense have been central to political debates and mobilizations among and about African Americans in the twentieth century. This course explores the roots of this preoccupation as manifested at the dawn of the twentieth century through the observations of W. E. B. Du Bois and other black intellectuals and critical events (e.g., World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Harlem Renaissance). T. Holt. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
J. Sparrow. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the spatial dynamics of empire, the frontier, regional development, the social character of settlement patterns, and the evolution of the cultural landscapes of America from pre-European times to 1900. All-day northern Illinois field trip required. This course is offered in alternate years. M. Conzen. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the economic, social, and physical development of the city in North America from pre-European times to the mid-twentieth century. We emphasize evolving regional urban systems, the changing spatial organization of people and land use in urban areas, and the developing distinctiveness of American urban landscapes. All-day Illinois field trip required. This course is offered in alternate years. M. Conzen. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
The aim of this course is to help students think philosophically about human rights. We ask whether human rights has or needs philosophical foundations, what we need such foundations for, and where they might be found. We also ask some questions that tend to generate the search for philosophical foundations: Are human rights universal or merely the product of particular cultures What kinds of rights (e.g., political, cultural, economic, negative, positive) are human rights Can there be human rights without human duties Without universal enforcement Do the rights we enshrine as human mark only some of us (e.g., men) as human Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
This course is concerned with the theory and the historical evolution of the modern human rights regime. It discusses the emergence of a modern "human rights" culture as a product of the formation and expansion of the system of nation-states and the concurrent rise of value-driven social mobilizations. It juxtaposes these Western origins with competing non-Western systems of thought and practices on rights. The course proceeds to discuss human rights in two prevailing modalities. First, it explores rights as protection of the body and personhood and the modern, Western notion of individualism. Second, it inquires into rights as they affect groups (e.g., ethnicities and, potentially, transnational corporations) or states . M. Geyer. Winter.
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