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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Emphasis on the necessity for being knowledgeable about the target culture, the techniques that can be used to penetrate another culture and the responsibilities one has in achieving intercultural communication.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Examination of international armed conflict as an historical and cultural phenomenon. An emphasis is placed on causes of international armed conflict.Conventional (and unconventional) approaches to international conflict resolution are covered.Discussion of contemporary issues is included.
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2.00 Credits
2 cr. A study of the body as an expressive instrument, a site of social conditioning, and a means of shaping and conveying identity. The course is organized thematically, with a specific dance culture to illustrate a set of issues ranging from sexuality, desire, and exoticism to empowerment and assertion of identity through dance. Through readings and analysis of performance, our study of dance as a cultural phenomenon leads us to investigations of history, politics, social dynamics and the shifting categories of race, class and gender, belief and cultural identity.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Students are exposed to divergent points of view and forms of analysis that surround the debate over globalization. The course stresses that globalization is not only about economics and politics but also wide ranging cultural, social and moral issues confronting the world community.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Political and social movements are peoples' collective efforts to transformhistory. This course examines politicalmovements fromthe unique perspective of popular music performers who, throughout history and across cultures,have used song and dance as liberating andmobilizing forces for political action. Throughout the course,we will examine social and political movements from an interdisciplinary perspective, applying social change theory, literary theory, liberation theology and feminist theory to popular music. Tracing these movements through their particular historical and cultural contexts, we will explore the impact of popular music on social transformation and political change.
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2.00 Credits
2 cr. An exploration of film as cultural expression and as a mediumthroughwhich the viewermay explore crosscultural issues. Section 001 French Culture Section 002 German Culture Section 003 Native American Culture Section 004 Russian Culture Section 005 Hispanic Culture.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Inquiry into the nature and role of human rights in the context of current international relations. Issues to be addressed range from the relationship between individual and collective rights to the problems of implementation of these rights. Among topics to be considered are torture, political repression, rights of women and indigenous peoples and cultural diversity.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. An examination of contemporary trends that are pushing toward increasing political and economic cooperation among European states. In addition, the course will explore forces at work that are resisting tendencies toward European unity. The course includes geographical, cultural, social, political and economic elements as well as in-depth treatment of two key players,Germany and Russia. May be applied to GMN minor. See instructor.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Cross-listed with LIS 3303. Taught in English. A course designed to introduce the student to the complex issues concerning contemporary Latin America. Students will explore current topics and events from a multidisciplinary point of view.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. An introduction to Russian history fromlate tsarismto the post-communist era. The first half of the course treats the last years of the tsarist autocracy, the Russian Revolution,Lenin and Stalin, the nature of Soviet communism, and the concept of totalitarianism. The second half of the course considers the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras,Gorbachev and perestroika, the collapse of the Soviet Union,Russia underYeltsin and Putin,and the Chechen wars. Cultural and intellectual history is an integral part of the course.
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