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3.00 Credits
St. Petersburg is said to be not only one of the "strangest" and most beautiful cities in the world, but also the "cradle" of Russian literature. In this seminar, we will explore a variety of works by classic Russian authors who wrote about this city in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reading their texts, we will try to look at the city through the eyes of their protagonists: the poor madman Evgenii from Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman, the ill-fated clerk Akaky Akakievich from Gogol's The Overcoat, the anonymous dreamer from Dostoevsky's White Nights and the "paradoxicalist" from his Notes from Underground; the poetry of Mandelshtam and Akhmatova and the new proletarian types of Zoshchenko's short stories will accompany us on our journey through Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad of the first half of the twentieth century, until we come across the autobiographical protagonists of Dovlatov, Brodsky and other non-conformist writers, who populated the city's literary landscape in the sixties and seventies. "Walking" the routes of this beautiful and sometimes frightening city, we will attempt to trace the history of its literary representation and try to answer the question, why it was Petersburg that became Russia's literary capital. The mythology of St. Petersburg and the notion of its "text" will remain central to our discussions throughout the course. Special attention in this seminar will be devoted to aspects of Russian phraseology, style and vocabulary. The class is conducted entirely in Russian, including both primary and secondary readings.
Prerequisite:
Russian 252 or permission of the instructor
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3.00 Credits
Russian senior thesis.
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3.00 Credits
Russian senior thesis.
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3.00 Credits
Russian independent study.
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3.00 Credits
Russian independent study.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the natures and roles of science and technology in today's society, and of the problems which technical advances pose for human values. An introduction to science-technology studies. Topics include: scientific creativity, the Two Cultures, the norms and values of science, the Manhattan Project and Big Science, the ethics and social responsibility of science, appropriate technology, technology assessment, and various problems which spring from dependencies engendered by living in a technological society, e.g., computers and privacy, automation and dehumanization, biomedical engineering.
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3.00 Credits
A research-oriented course designed to give students direct experience in evaluating and assessing scientific and technological issues. Students initially study particular techniques and methodologies by employing a case study approach. They then apply these methods to a major research project. Students may choose topics from fields such as biotechnology, computers, biomedical engineering, energy, and other resource development. Students will apply their background of historical, philosophical, and technological perspectives in carrying out their study.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to sociological analysis. The course focuses on the relationship of individual men and women to the social world and introduces students to systematic institutional analysis. Students will explore the intersection of biography, history, culture, and social structure as seen in the work of classical and contemporary social thinkers, including Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Veblen, Simmel, and Goffman. Special consideration will be given to the social and cultural problems of capitalism, rationality and irrationality in modern institutions and organizations, the psychological dilemmas facing the individual in modern society, and the problem of social order and conflict.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the roots, goals, and social organization of contemporary radical Islamist terrorism and of the state efforts to defeat it. A focus on: the recruitment, training, and indoctrination of Islamist terrorists; their ideologies and self-images; and case studies of specific terrorist attacks and the vulnerabilities of modern societies that such attacks reveal. The course analyzes the exigencies and dilemmas of ensuring public safety in a democratic society. Special attention to: the structure and ethos of intelligence work; the investigation of terrorist networks and their financing; the relationship between organized and semi-organized crime and terrorism; the legal dilemmas of surveillance, preemptive custody, and "extraordinary rendition" in democratic societies; and the technology and organization of ascertaining identities in modern society. The course also addresses the crisis facing European societies--particularly the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany--with growing populations of radical Islamist minorities who reject cultural assimilation into Western social or legal frameworks, a crisis paralleled in the United States, with important differences, by widespread illegal immigration. An assessment of the ideology of multiculturalism and its intended and unintended consequences in the fight against terror. The course also examines the threat of terrorists' use of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons of mass destruction and the defenses against such threats. Finally, it appraises the structure and content of mass media coverage of terrorism, as well as official and nonofficial propaganda on all sides of these issues. A Gaudino Fund Course.
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3.00 Credits
In contemporary societies, race remains an enduring impediment to the achievement of equality. Generally understood as a socially meaningful way of classifying human bodies hierarchically, race manifests itself in a number of arenas, including personal experience, economic production and distribution, and political organization. In this course, we will explore how race emerges in local and global environmental issues, like pollution and climate change. We will begin with a review of some of the landmark texts in Environmental Studies that address "environmental racism," like Robert Bullard's Dumping in Dixie and David Pellow's Garbage Wars. We will examine how and to what extent polluting facilities like landfills, oil refineries, and sewage treatment plants are disproportionately located in communities of color; we will also pay attention to how specific corporations create the underlying rationale for plotting industrial sites. After outlining some of the core issues raised in this scholarship, we will turn to cultural productions--like literature, film, and music--to understand how people of color respond to environmental injustice and imagine the natural world.
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