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4.00 Credits
Human Rights Individuals and groups spoke, wrote, and fought to make their claims to public power in the period between 1500 and 1800 in ways that forced a reimagining of political relationships. The greatest institutions in place, particularly monarchies and the papacy, used their arsenals of words, documents, symbols, and ritual to maintain their legitimacy in the face of subtle or strenuous resistance. The tension among groups created new political vocabularies that we, in our present, have claimed by virtue of historical ownership or explicitly rejected.
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4.00 Credits
Aldrich Ames, one of the U.S. intelligence community's greatest double agents, declared following his capture in 1994 that "the espionage business, as carried out by the CIA and a few other self-serving agencies, was and is a selfserving sham." The inability of the CIA or any other U.S. intelligence service to predict almost every meaningful turn in world affairs since 1947 seems to bear him out, but not entirely. There do exist departments within each intelligence agency that have served America well: the much-maligned research and analysis (R&A) teams. This course examines the roots of the dual nature of American intelligence-the flashy operational side and the anonymous but more important R&A teams. While operative intelligence relies primarily on "closed" or classifiedintelligence, R&A teams exploit the value of "open" intelligence-information available talmost anyone who cares to go looking for it, in the media, online, etc. Students establish their own "agency" based upon open intelligence totry to determine whether espionage makes any difference at all, or if America could not drastically reduce its intelligence expenditure by focusing primarily on open intelligence.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights, Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies This course provides students with an understanding of this conflict from its inception to the present. Among the themes discussed are how a Jewish national movement arose in the late 19th century to oppose the conditions of Jewish life in Europe, and how an Arab national movement (as well as a specifically Palestinian movement) arose to oppose Ottoman and European rule of Arab peoples. Out of the clash of these movements emerged the State of Israel and the Palestinian refugees in 1948. The course examines how the political character of the conflict has changed over the decades, along with corresponding changes in military realities and the evolution of "terror" as a tactic (from the JewishIrgun to Hamas). Students also review how the conflict has been shaped by strategic and economic considerations of the great powers (Ottoman, British, American, and Soviet) as well as by considerations of domestic political culture in Israel and in the Arab world.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights Since World War II, the United States has fought two controversial and widely unpopular wars: Vietnam and the 2003 war in Iraq. Both wars began with presidential deception (the Gulf of Tonkin and WMDs) to justify a crusade against a global enemy-communism, and then terrorism. In both wars, U.S. forces became bogged down in battles against an elusive enemy and inflicted serious casualties on the civilians whose hearts and minds would ultimately determine the outcome. My Lai and Abu Ghraib brought into doubt the legitimacy of each war. And both wars generated a split in domestic public opinion between the desire to "support our troops" and the sense that the war was both ill-advised and unwinnable. The primary focus here is on Vietnam; a secondary concern is to determine if that war offers lessons that can help us understand the war in Iraq.
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4.00 Credits
The city tells its stories through neighborhood and parish, gates and walls, vineyards and graveyards, cafés and street life: markets, fairs, openair theater, and scaffolds. Students read Diderot's enigmatic Rameau's Nephew, Mercier's descriptive Tableaux, and of Benjamin's haunting arcades, Haussmanization, and Zola's Belly of Paris; they also examine maps, engravings, and Marville's early photographs. The course opens with the Regency period, when great fortunes were made and lost and all Parisians were caught up in the excitement of rue Quincampoix's paper money experiment. It ends with the Paris Commune, its state-sponsored violence and political possibilities. Throughout, it considers urban structures, from language to architecture, as they contributed to the changing social imaginaries of space.
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4.00 Credits
French Studies, German Studies, STS, Victorian Studies An outline of some of the principal transformations in the modern understanding of society and nature within a political, cultural, and institutional framework. Readings from Descartes, Leibniz, and Vico allow students to sketch the framework out of which the Enlightenment arose, while it also suggests some of the period's fundamental tensions and contradictions. The course then follows the development of these tensions through the 19th century, using as a guide a close reading of texts by writers such as Rousseau,Wollstonecraft, Burke, Fourier, Darwin, Marx, and Schopenhauer. The key texts are read in conjunction with a study of selected contemporary political forces, institutional settings, and artistic, social, or scientific practices.
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4.00 Credits
GSS, Jewish Studies, Religion This course draws upon historical texts and memoirs to examine the changing economic, social, and religious roles of Jewish women and to explore the intersection of gender with religious and ethnic identities across the medieval and modern periods. It begins by considering the status of women in Jewish law and then looking at various issues, including the forms of women's religious expression; marriage and family patterns; the differing impact of enlightenment and secularization on women inWestern and Eastern Europe; and the role of women in the Zionist and labor movements in Europe, Israel, and the United States. Did modernity in fact herald an era of greater opportunity for Jewish women? How did their experiences differ from those of Jewish men? These and related questions are considered.
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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies, American Studies, Human Rights, Social Policy, SRE An examination of contemporary immigration to the United States, in terms of the dynamics of contact between the immigrants and the society they have entered. The course explores where the immigrants come from; how and why they come; the radically different ways in which they enter theAmerican economy; how they seek to preserve or shed cultural distinctiveness and ethnic unity; and how their children are faring. The changes in American politics and law thatmade the immigration possible, political movements that have opposed the immigration, social and public policy issues involved in how immigrants influence the larger American society-in both economic and cultural terms-are examined. The experience of the largely nonwhite immigrant population with American racial divisions, as well as competition and alliances between immigrants and nativeborn blacks, are considered. Readings are drawn from social science, memoirs, fiction, policy debates, and other sources.
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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies, GSS, SRE A survey of contemporary African American intellectuals on such subjects as cultural representation, black feminism, black neoconservatism, aesthetics, nationalism, colonialism, and American legal discourse. Students read essays by Toni Morrison, Cornel West, Kimberle Crenshaw, Derrick Bell, Patricia Williams, and bell hooks, and are required to read such publications as The Nation, New Republic, and the New York Times in order to engage cogently in current debates. As an introduction to contemporary black thought, this course begins with canonical essays written from 1890 to 1980 on the subject of race, and more specifically of blackness, métissage, and gender. It also looks back at the Hill-Thomas hearings and the plethora of essays published in response to them, and considers the new affirmative action debates.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights, Philosophy, Religion Confucianism is one of the most venerable, diverse, and dynamic intellectual and cultural traditions in human history. This course explores the transformations of Confucian philosophy, social ethics, and political thought, from its ancient origins through the present, focusing on five key moments of change. Close readings in seminal texts provide a foundation in the earliest Confucian ideas of benevolence, rites, and righteousness. The course then successively considers the ideas of neo-Confucian thinkers, Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming; the globalization of Confucian thought during the 16th through the 19th centuries; how Confucian thought shaped Western ideas of rights as they entered East Asian politics and how Confucian concepts of humanity, relational ethics, and social responsibility may offer alternatives to Euro-American rights discourse; and the contemporary Confucian revival as manifested in popular culture, tourism, neoliberal economic discourse, and East Asian state authoritarianism.
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