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4.00 Credits
Can we all live by one set of rules This course investigates the broad field of global study by addressing fresh and age-old issues in international law from the personal to the global, including borders, sources and enforcement of international law, law of the sea, immigration and asylum, post-national federation, colonization, world order, and global citizenship. Readings include case studies, memoirs, fiction, and other texts focusing on individuals, cultures, and states. Open to first- and second-year students. Every year. (4 credits) Intermediate Courses
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4.00 Credits
Global media is the world's most influential "consciousness industry." As such, the way it is organized vitallimpacts global views. How is global media organized, who owns it, and how has it transformed When did a "global media system" emerge, and where is it heading In this course, we will investigate the historical andcontemporary struggles by various groups to determine the course of globalization, particularly through media, and consider contesting paradigms that have been offered. Next offered in 2008-2009. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the workings of economic systems from the perspective of the incentives facing the firm and consumer. The course provides an introduction to the economics of information and organization which is used to evaluate resource allocation under the specific institutional environment of different economic systems. Our understanding of the incentive system is then used to evaluate the overall economic system. The focus of the course is primarily on the U.S., Japan and the former Soviet Union/Russia. As time permits the course may examine China, Germany and Central Europe. Prerequisite: Economics 119. Next offered Spring 2009. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Sixty years ago, Palestine/Israel and India/East and West Pakistan were partitioned, and Ireland became a republic, all with deep national-ethnic-religious results for the postcolonial space. From a transnational comparative culture framework, this course explores these and other zones in terms of partition, pluralism, and citizenship. Considerations include territoriality, family and community definitions, memory, resistance, assimilation, and border-crossing, all in the context of categories such as gender, sex, race, and religion. Next offered in 2008-2009. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course offers a theoretical and practical introduction to the study and promotion of human rights. Using broad materials, it focuses on the evolution and definition of key concepts, the debate over "universal" rights,regional and international institutions, core documents, the role of states, and current topics of interest to the human rights movement. Open to first- and second-year students. Every year. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
The course introduces students to the diversity of Muslim societies in the Arab world, Europe, Africa, North America, and Asia. It traces Islam as a culturally lived local and transnational experience. The course applies various social-science and humanities theories to complex case studies to illuminate connections between Islam and ethnicities, gender, media, travel, migration, citizenship, politics, and social change. Concurrently the course aims to undo the many stereotypes about Islam and Muslim societies. Next offered Spring 2009. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
Building on "Global Media Industries" (a recommended but not required prerequisite), this course focuses onthe shape and effects of specific global media. We examine the transformation of old media genres and the emergence of new global ones, including the telenovela, Bollywood film, MTV, animé, Bhangra, and hip-hop, as well as transnational audience formation. We consider questions of cultural imperialism, self-representation, and media control. Alternate years; not offered in 2008-2009. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
When communication takes place across language barriers, it raises fundamental questions about meaning, style, power relationships, and traditions. This course treats literary translation as a particularly complex form of cross-cultural interaction. Students will work on their own translations of prose or poetry while considering broader questions of translation, through critiques of existing translations, close comparisons of variant translations, and readings on cultural and theoretical aspects of literary translation. Advanced proficiency in a second language required. Alternate years; next offered in Fall 2008. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
The USSR's 1991 dissolution ended one of history's great experiments. Socialism sought to dissolve ethnicity andovercome ethnic conflict with a focus on equality. Instead it exacerbated nationalism and created-separated identities. But how Topics include ethno-creation, control, and resistance; ethnic animosities and the USSR's destruction; new states after 1991; "diaspora" populations beyond ethnic homelands; local rebellions; new"native" dictatorships; and recent international organizations. Alternate years; next offered Spring 2009. (4credits)
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4.00 Credits
Macalester students widely seek to do "global good." Yet the concrete effects of many transnational careers areunclear. Positive worldly transformation Imposition of Western values This course examines ethics and consequences in international elite agency, focusing on cosmopolitan lives and selected professions, capped by a highly tailorable final project. Recent Macalester alumni serve as resources to support rich inquiry in transnational vocation. Alternate years; not offered in 2008-2009. (4 credits)
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