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This course examines the transformations in work that characterized industrial development in America, from the mechanization of textile manufacturing in 18th century New England to the "rationalization" of factories in the 20th century. It also explores in detail the ways in which many Americans came to understand industrial society as a class society, tracing both the history of class conflict in America and the compelling class ideologies that stood behind that conflict. The course concludes with an extended study of how men and women--both famous and forgotten--expressed these class ideologies in art and literature, with a focus on painting, photography, and film. 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 seminar explores the sense of place as revealed in literature. The knowledgeable appreciation of place rests on a foundation of history, physical geography, and culture, and has been expressed through superb works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. On a personal level, the cultivation of place awareness enriches one's experience of life. For society as a whole, the appreciation of place is a necessary element of harmonious and sustainable inhabitation. Conversely, the widespread absence of this knowledge and appreciation contributes mightily to ecological destruction and to the "faceless ubiquity" of so many modern American landscapes. The writings we will examine range widely, including writers from different parts of the world and different time periods, but the greatest emphasis is on contemporary American literature. 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 themes of marriage and relationships have been a central concern of literature since the very first storytellers. This course will examine how 20th century writers have contributed to the ongoing discussion of these themes. As a class, we will look at how cultural norms and historical conditions have influenced the portrayal of relationships over time. As we read through the texts, we will analyze the major 20th century movements that have shaped each author's vision. 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 take as its central problem the collection, display and interpretation of non-western visual culture from roughly the 18th century to the present. It will explore anthropological and art-historical theories of primitive culture, and the Western phenomenon of "primitivism" in modern art. It will also examine musicological practices in ethnographic and primitive art museums. A major aim of the course is to understand how a larger world history may be written into a museum display or an early 20th century piece of French or German modernist art, or--to put it another way--to understand how such cultural practices may yield ideological, and ultimately, political advantages. An on-going question for the course will be: How has Western thought distinguished its own cultural and artistic products from those made by peoples it has considered "other," "not us" ("primitive," "exotic," less "developed," "folk" or "ethnic") 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 Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923 and the Holocaust stand as the quintessential instances of genocide in our time. This course will offer students access to the latest scholarship on Nazi Germany's war on the Jews and Ottoman Turk genocide against the Armenians. Whenever possible, original sources and eyewitness accounts will be consulted. At every juncture, problems of interpretation will be brought to the attention of participants. In keeping with the comparative nature of the course, linkages to the genocidal situations of the post-War period will be brought into the discussion, especially the events in Rwanda, Cambodia and former Yugoslavia. The extent to which these events have altered the paradigm will be investigated. It is anticipated that in studying how the paradigm of genocide wasestablished and has evolved students will achieve a greater understanding about the fabric underlying any problem in historical research. Even more, by placing the emphasis on the examination and analysis of primary sources, it is hoped that they will be guided in their investigation of controversial or emotionally laden subjects by scholarship as opposed to polemics and platitudes. 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 elective is designed to introduce students to the ways that art and culture are used and portrayed by artists, dealers, collectors, and art historians/theorists on the world wide web. After an intensive, introduction to the internet, students will join a course called "Art and Technology" which meets only on the web and deals with similar themes. The MALS students will meet for the final week to discuss seminar outcomes and present final projects. Final projects consist of a written plan for an online course that the student might be able to teach in his/her field using internet technology. For more information and to begin the seminar see: http://orion.ramapo.edu/~sgorewit. 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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Although the tradition of the Gothic in American literature has been likened to a "poetics of fear," this is not a course in the horror story. Still, the Gothic is a literature of darkness, as the vocabulary of its study implies. The Other, the doppelganger, the unspeakable, the proscribed, the irrevocable, violence, duplicity, and madness: this is the language of the Gothic. At once subversive and popular, Gothic literature is psychologically complex, morally unsettling, and deeply rewarding. In this class we will explore this literary tradition, begun in the years following the Enlightenment in opposition to the "age of reason." This class will consider manifestations of the Gothic in American literature from Poe to the present. We will consider fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor and others. Recent criticism has considered the work of contemporary writers like Amiri Baraka, Kathy Acker and Paul Auster in a gothic context, so we will not be confined to genre writers. 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 society and culture in which a people live shape their illness and healing experience. Illness and disease are determined and defined by the social, cultural, political and economic environment of the individual in his/her society. The type of healthcare sought by and accessible to a sick person is also largely determined by cultural background and socioeconomic class. Different cultures across time have had a variety of explanations for the causes of illness based on their understanding of nature which is reflected in the way they speak about and treat disease. Finally, we will examine the way biomedicine, the established healing art in the West, is practiced today. We will also study the role of non-western therapies practiced by many cultural groups in this country as well as the growing popularity of "alternative and complementary" medicine in the United States. 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 aim of this course is to examine and understand the culture, theory and narrative of difference in World Feminism. The seminars will be organized around themes found in works by women writers from around the globe. We will focus on a vast range of texts which will be set in dialogue with the theoretical works of philosophers and literary critics such as De Laurentis, Gubar, Irigary and Kristeva, and to movies by controversial directors. This course will offer a framework for a comparative analysis of global feminist issues as they emerge in the writings of contemporary women writers of different nationalities. This analysis will impart global awareness and will show how nationality, as well as gender, race and class cut across women's definition of themselves, their personal and public lives and affect their literary creation. 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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Most Americans think of the "Islamic World" as an entity apart from "the West", and eternally in conflict with it. Indeed, since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, this portrait of Islam and the West has proliferated around the world: two civilizations, apparently diametrically opposed, locked in mortal conflict. But this is a very recent phenomenon in history, and one that ignores the overwhelming evidence that Muslims have always considered themselves to be part of western civilization, not its enemies. This course will examine the evolution of Islam's relationship to the Judeo-Christian world, from the time of Muhammad to the present. It will proceed roughly chronologically, with emphasis placed on key periods and their literature. For example: (1) Christian and Muslim chronicles of the Crusades; (2) Writings of Ottoman reformers wrestling with the "western question" in the 1800s; (3) Arab and/Turkish nationalist movements vs. Islamic reform movements, from the 1950s to the present; and (4) Present-day representations of the United States and Israel. The course will stimulate critical thinking by requiring students to examine the nature of religious and racial identities, and how those identities have changed. 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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