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In this course, participants will examine contemporary concepts of explaining international conflict and the range of responses implicated by approaches to conflict. Students will compare definitions of war: Is it a manifestation of an economic war economy or as military response to threat or ethnic conflict or civil war These definitions include corresponding political rhetoric such as democracy, freedom, empire and terrorism. Students will examine the public popular conversation articulating the sources of conflict, as well as closely examine the issues underlying conflict in selected case studies. Finally, students explore terms of a dialogue necessary to resolve conflict, including the use of human rights language, with particular attention on how the international use of rights-talk challenges the traditional concept of rights as understood in domestic USA discourse. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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In her new book MUSIC IN EVERYDAY LIFE, the British sociologist of music, Tia DeNora, notes that "music serves as a kind of template against which feeling, perception, representation, and social situation are created and sustained," later calling it "a building material of self-identity" and "the cultural material par excellence of emotion and the personal." This seminar examines some of the many ways in which music acts within individual, social and cultural life as a powerful part of the search for identity and meaning. In the process we explore a wide range of music and many different forms of inquiry, drawing particularly upon the backgrounds and experiences of the members of the class. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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This course explores processes and implications of mediated information dissemination using texts, case studies, screenings, field trips, and experiential processes. Sessions include discussion of Sol Worth's theories and practice of ethnographic films, Raoul Vaneigem's ideas about mediated abstraction, and Shoshanna Zuboff's concerns about panoptic power and social organization. Students will have the opportunity to explore image-making potentials of video, computer, and telecommunication technologies. The underlying themes of this research share the humanistic, values-oriented approach of the Core program. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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The course will look at the relationships between colonizer and colonized in the British Empire and India in particular. Although it will include some of the classic colonial writings, for example, Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS, and Forster's PASSAGE TO INDIA, the course will also include some of the new historical work done on and in India by scholars associated with "subaltern studies," as well as fiction and criticism written by contemporary Indian writers. The course will consider, as few scholars and teachers have done, the way in which colonial metaphors and modes appeared in social, political, and literary life at home in England during its imperial years, and thus present familiar materials in a very fresh light. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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The representation of African American women in American film will be examined historically and with reference to the relationship between existing feminist theory and issues of race and class. The goal of the course is to permit students to critically assess the nature of media and "entertainment" imagery in relation to sexual, racial, and class oppression. By juxtaposing the images of African American women throughout American cinematic history, students will begin to understand that these images were created not only to "entertain", but also to support and legitimize the existing social, economic, and political realities of the African American condition. We will also examine how the issues of color and "color stereotypes" continue to create and maintain class decisions within the African American community. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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This course begins with a careful consideration of urban life, drawing upon writings by a variety of social theorists and social scientists. This review allows us to trace the development of ideas about urban life that have informed attempts by psychologists to understand the experience of living in cities. The remainder of the course involves an exploration of specific issues and topics that comprise contemporary urban psychology, e.g., the nature of urban friendships and community; living with crime and violence; stimulation, personality and adaptation; density, noise, pollution, and the reality of urban stress; and urban aesthetics and adventure. While the course will focus primarily upon the American city, material will also be drawn from work done in a variety of other countries. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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Movies, television, music, advertising, the popular press all create attractive images and tell compelling, funny, and sometimes frightening stories which often seem to come from the real world right around us. There is much melodramatic sex and violence, plenty of romanticism, fantasy, greed, and desire. But there are also important elements of realism which reflect, acknowledge, comment on, or even satirize important social issues and tensions. It has become conventional to blame mass media and popular culture for what we don't like about our society, to regard them as powerful conspiracies against traditional values. However, the situation is actually much more dynamic and interesting than that, often open to a surpassing variety of understandings depending upon who one is or where positioned. This course will explore various strategies for interpreting popular culture to consider what it says about our time and how it affects our individual and social lives. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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This course will study religion from an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. Although religion is a modern Western concept derived from the Christian usage of the term to signify the worship of God, it is now used to denote any belief in or commitment to an ultimate meaning of life. After surveying the current status of religion in American society, we will turn to a history of religion, from ancient to modern times, ending in a review of the methods now used in the study of religion. The bulk of the course will concentrate on using scientific, historical, philosophical, and theological methods to investigate the significance of religion in world history, concluding with an analysis of the modern conflict between religion and secularism. The aim will be to enable an examination of the entire spectrum of religious practice, an understanding of the function of religion in human life, and an evaluation of the validity of a religious perspective. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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The course title derives from Leslie Fielder's influential work The Stranger in Shakespeare (1972), on an outsider/alien in Shakespeare. Increasing attention is being given to the proposition that when we regard Shakespeare's career within the cultural and economic context of London, of an England eager for expansion, we can observe his interest in the nature and identity of the Other. These strangers manifest themselves to Shakespeare and his contemporaries either through direct contact, translated story, or the narratives of voyagers. The strangers appear as people of color, new world savages, non-believers, or exotics of antiquity or the faraway. This seminar will concentrate on a select body of plays in which Shakespeare depicts encounters with others, such as The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and Anthony and Cleopatra. In addition to careful reading of the texts, we will review, through discussion and presentation, the critical literature on the cultural context of the stranger in Shakespeare. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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East Asia has stood out in human history in many dimensions such as population scale, literate civilization, and economic progress. Its 2,000 year-long history and Confucian culture have amazed the world, while its past social turbulence and recent, rapid industrialization have equally surprised many in the West. Combining an historical survey of the region's political and social development with a topical examination in traditional and contemporary East Asia, this course attempts to: 1) foster an overview of East Asia's culture, history, and society; 2) understand the impact of cultural and social change on human relations; and 3) examine the cultural similarities and differences between the West and the East. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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