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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies, SRE Taking its title from the essay by C. L. R. James, this course reviews the ideas of influential 20thcentury writers who considered themselves to be subjects of the African diaspora. James, Franz Fanon, Maryse Condé, and Aimé and SuzanneCésaire pushed the boundaries on nation, race, and identity and shaped whole schools of political and social thought in the later 20th century. As the debates swirl and shift around the politics of race, identity, gender, and empire, do these once-canonical figures still have relevance?
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights, Political Studies An exploration of the essentials of Marxism, this course evaluates that theory's various interpretations and assesses its future in light of recent capitalist victories. Students discuss the basic writings of Marx and the key texts of other Marxist thinkers, such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Gramsci, and Marcuse. Enrollment is limited but open to first-year students.
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4.00 Credits
Environmental Studies, Human Rights The crisis posed by collapsing ecosystems on a global scale is a threat of incalculable proportion; indeed it places the future at risk. As it can be shown that the driving force behind this crisis is the relentless expansion of the capitalist system, and as Karl Marx provided the most cogent understanding of capitalism, it follows that the study of the ecological crisis and that of Marxism can be usefully combined. The course is not merely the diagnosis of a civilizational pathology; it also is about radical pathways that can be taken to overcome the crisis, and raises the questions of an ecologically rational society, what a world beyond capitalism might be like, and how we might get there.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, Film and Electronic Arts, SRE Film has been an enormously important phenomenon in determining how audiences see themselves and the world around them. This introductory course explores cinematic representations of race, providing scholarly analysis with weekly screenings and readings keyed to a single film. Films include commercial mainstream productions as well as independent and alternative films and videos. The goal of the course is to give students the tools to read and analyze images, perform a sequence analysis, and mix shot analysis and interpretation in a small, focused essay.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the kinds of unconscious cultural assumptions that result from systems of organizing knowledge. For example, in the 1880s, as the library was becoming an increasingly central repository for knowledge, Melvil Dewey created a "scientific system" for the organizationof all current and, he believed, future knowledge. The two assumptions in his system were that he had created the best system for organizing all existing knowledge and that any knowledge that could not be fit into it was, by his definition, irrelevant. It wasn't until the 1920s that an increasing number of writers and librarians argued that Dewey's system was, in fact, one of exclusion. Now, with the ubiquity of search engines such as Google that provide access to the expanding universe of the Web, systems for classifying information have emerged that are increasingly fluid and dynamic. This course examines these systems, with their own inherent biases and limitations, and considers the sociocultural impact of classification systems in general.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights This course focuses on the legal boundaries between individual autonomy and state control, boundaries that are never static since the Constitution is an organic document, subject to continual interpretation by the Supreme Court. Topics of study include the nature and limits of freedom of speech and religion, equal protection (including affirmative action), intimacy and privacy (including abortion), due process in criminal law, and emerging concepts of constitutional adjudication such as critical legal studies and feminist jurisprudence. Landmark Supreme Court cases and opinions are examined, enabling students to consider the process of legal reasoning and the Court's reliance upon or deviation from prior legal authority. Relevant commentaries and historical documents are also read and discussed.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, Environmental Studies An introduction to the sociological perspective, the course illuminates the way in which social forces impinge on individual lives and affect human society. It is organized into four main parts: (l) Key sociological concepts and methods are introduced through the study of the fathers of sociology: Durkheim, Weber, and Marx; (2) forms of social inequality are examined, particularly those based on class, race, and gender; (3) important social institutions are surveyed: the family, the economic order, the political order, education, and religion; and (4) interrelated issues of ideology, social movements, and social change are studied.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, Environmental Studies, GSS, Human Rights, Social Policy, SRE An examination of the ways in which socially defined categories of persons (e.g., women and men, blacks and whites, rich and poor, nativeand foreign-born) are unevenly rewarded for their social contributions. Sociological theories are used to explain how and why social inequality is produced and maintained, and how it affects the well-being of individuals and social groups. The course has two general themes: the structure of inequality as part of the study of the unequal distribution of material and social resources (e.g., earnings, wealth, occupations) and the processes that determine the allocation of people to positions in the stratification system (e.g., education, intelligence, parental wealth, gender, race).
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights This course retraces the origins of modern social theory in the aftermath of the democratic revolutions in America and France and the capitalist Industrial Revolution in Britain. Readings are drawn in particular from the major works of Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel. In this way many of the enduring themes of sociology are introduced: alienation and anomie; social disorganization and community; class conflict and solidarity; secularization and the decline of traditional religion; and bureaucracy, division of labor, and professional expertise. The contributions of classical sociologists to subsequent social science, in addition to their political or ethical aspirations to criticize, reform, or revolutionize modern society, are assessed.
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4.00 Credits
Environmental Studies, Human Rights, Social Policy This course enables students to understand and use the various research methods developed in the social sciences, with an emphasis on quantitative methods. The course is concerned with the theory and rationale upon which social research is based, as well as the practical aspects of research and the problems the researcher is likely to encounter. Students first learn how to formulate hypotheses and research questions, choose the appropriate research method for the problem, and maximize chances for valid and reliable findings. They then learn how to perform simple data analysis and interpret and present findings in a written report.
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