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3.00 Credits
Fall 2007. RAYMOND MILLER. Explores and compares two giants of Russian literature, Lev Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Their works are read for their significance, both to Russian cultural history and to European thought; special attention is paid to the portrayal of women and women's issues in both authors. Part I studies Dostoevsky's quest for guiding principles of freedom and love in a world of growing violence, cynicism, and chaos. "The Woman Question" emerges as aconstant subject: Dostoevsky particularly concerned himself with the suffering of poor and humiliated women. A close reading of several short works and the novel Brothers Karamazov set in their historical, and intellectual framework. Emphasis on the novelist's struggle between Western materialistic individualism and Eastern voluntary self-renunciation. Examines Dostoevsky's "fantastic realism" as a polyphony of voices, archetypes, and religious symbolsPart II studies Tolstoy's development both as a novelist and a moral philosopher. Examines several works, the most important being the novel Anna Karenina, with special emphasis on the tension between Tolstoy-the-artist and Tolstoy-the-moralist. Discussion of the writer's role as "the conscience of Russia" in the last thirty years of his life, as well as his influenceon such figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King. (Same as Russian 224.)
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. JANE KNOX-VOINA. Explores twentieth-century Russian culture through film, art, architecture, and literature. Topics include scientific utopias, eternal revolution, individual freedom, collectivism, conflict between the intelligentsia and the common man, the "new Soviet woman," nationalism,and the demise of the Soviet Union. Works of Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Kandinsky, Chagall, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, Brodsky, Akhmatova, Solzhenitsyn, and Tolstoya. Weekly film viewings. Russian majors are required to do some reading in Russian. (Same as Russian 221.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. SUSAN BELL. Explores a series of topics in health studies from the perspectives of the humanities and social sciences: medical ethics, the development and use of reproductive technologies, relationships between doctors and patients, disability, public health, and the experience of illness. Encourages reflection about these topics through ethnographies, monographs, novels, plays, poetry, and visual arts, such as Barker's Regeneration, Squiers's The Body at Risk:Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing, Kafka's Metamorphosis, Bosk's Forgive andRemember, and Alvord's The Scalpel and the Silver Bear. (Same as Sociology 223.). Prerequisite: Sociology 101 or Anthropology 101.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Human Population
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3.00 Credits
d-ESD,IP.Women and World Development
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3.00 Credits
ESD.Gender and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. SUSAN TANANBAUM. Seminar. Explores topics and debates in European family history from the early modern period to the present. Considers the impact of social, political, religious, and economic forces on family structures and functions. Students have an opportunity to complete individual research projects. (Same as History 222.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2007 or Spring 2008. RACHEL EX CONNELLY. Considers economic issues that occur at each age as one moves through life, such as economics of education, career choice, marriage (and divorce), fertility, division of labor in the household, child care, glass ceilings, poverty and wealth, health care, elder care, and retirement. Considers samples from age-relevant economic models, the empirical work that informs understanding, and the policy questions that emerge at each age lifecycle stage. Differences in experience based on race, gender, sexuality, income level, and national origin are an important component for discussion. Not open to students who have taken Economics 301. (Same as Economics 231.) Prerequisite: Economics 101.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2008. JENNIFER SCANLON. The suburbs, where the majority of the nation's residents live, have been alternately praised as the most visible sign of the American dream and vilified as the vapid core of homogeneous Middle America. How did the "burbs" come about, and what is their significancein American life Begins with the history of the suburbs from the mid-nineteenth century to the post-World War II period, exploring the suburb as part of the process of national urbanization. In the second part, explores more contemporary cultural representations of the suburbs in popular television, film, and fiction. Particular attention is paid to gender, race, and consumer culture as influences in the development of suburban life. (Same as History 234.)
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3.00 Credits
d - ESD,IP.Family,Gender,and Sexuality in Latin America
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