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1.00 Credits
From the Orient Express to espresso, the city of Venice conjures images of mystery, intrigue, romance and passion. For 1,000 years this unique island city provided the main crossroads between East and West and was one of the richest centers of commerce in the world. This seminar takes an interdisciplinary approach in examining a wide range of questions including: How did Venice's commerce with the East and its control of the Mediterranean influence its art and architecture What projects are currently underway to save the city from the sea What are the religious and political impoications of the famous carnival How was the Jewish ghetto formed and what role did it play in Venetian society How did Venice manage to maintain an independent republic for nearly 1,000 years These and many other questions will be answered as we journey through Venice's past by reading the private journal of Fra Mauro (a 16th century monk and Venetian mapmaker), viewing films including Dangerous Beauty (about the Venetian courtesan and poet Veronica Franca), listening to the music of Monteverdi and Gabriellis, following the detective Aurelio Zen through the Calle of Venice, and exploring resources on the Internet, as we create tours through Venice's six sestieri. The seminar will emphasize the development of analytical reading, discussion and writing skills. An optional side trip to the Met in New York for a tour of Venetian art will be arranged. While the course is engaging the issues, it will also help you master skills that you will need throughout your time at Trinity--and afterwards. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. This section is reserved for IDP students only. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
Americans pride themselves on values of democracy. individualism, and personal efficacy. What remain hidden in this discourse of national pride are the poverty, economic inequality, and the class, racial, gender, and sexual cleavages that are also features of American society at the beginning of the new century. This seminar will introduce students to these developments by taking us on a journey up the class ladder of American society. Through the use of film, journalism, sociology, anthropology, guest speakers and field work, we will examine American society through a variety of analytical prisms: opportunity and constraint; power and resistance; mobility ladders and mobility traps; individualism and group identities. This course is discussion-driven. Each student is expected to be full participants in class discussions. This course is also writing-intensive and will require the mastery of several different analytical styles. There will also be a final project that will deal with images of class and "making it in America" in the media. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
In this seminar, we will look at social class from a number of perspectives including cultural, economic, and historical. Some of the questions we'll ask are: How is class constructed, and by whom Can a person move from one class to another What do race and gender have to do with class How is class depicted in "serious" and popular culture Is the class structure in America somehow different than the class structure in other countries 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
We are living through a time of revolutionary changes in human history that some have argued are as important as such earlier breakthroughs as the creation of the alphabet or the invention of the printing press. We share a sense that these momentous changes are somehow driven by the new information technologies and the formation of a global market, shaped by dominant states and powerful transnational corporations. But how exactly do these technological, economic and political factors interact and with what weight in determining outcomes And what about social and cultural forces We will never really understand our global age without addressing questions of the Western cultural and social roots of so many of the now dominant forces shaping outcomes and affecting lives around the globe. This seminar will examine the ways in which social scientists from a variety of disciplines have addressed these issues. How have scholars attempted the daunting task of taking the entire globe and all of its peoples as a unit of analysis in under to understand the processes of globalization We will assess the systematic ways in which they have done so and evaluate the understandings of our global age that representative works have generated. Given its challenging subject matter, this seminar will pay as much attention to theory and method (how issues framed and tackled) as to substantive conclusions reached. Throughout, the seminar will emphasize the development of analytical reading, discussion, and writing skills 1.00 units, Seminar
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0.50 Credits
No Course Description Available. 0.50 units min / 1.00 units max, Independent Study
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1.00 Credits
This course examines the history, societies, and cultures of various regions of the Americas (North and Central America, the Caribbean, the Andean rRegion, Brazil, the Southern Cone). The course moves from the major pre-Columbian civilizations, through the period of conquest and colonization (as European powers integrated the Americas to their own economic, political and cultural ends), the colonial times, and the first manifestations of the desire for independence. The second half of the course focuses onto the construction of national states and cultures during the 19th century as well as the main historical and political events of the 20th century. Discussions will be based on lectures, readings, documentaries, and feature films. Latin American newspapers on the Internet will also be used to inform our debates of current events. This course is taught in English and thus does not count toward the "language concentration" (or minor) in Spanish. Latin American studies majors and minors cannot use this course as one of the four language courses. Spanish majors can use it only as a related field course. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the religions of Japan, which are surveyed from pre history to the present. The course will cover the major religious traditions (Shinto, Buddhism, Shugendo, Japanese Christianity, and new religions) and themes in the study of Japanese religions. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
A thematic survey of Buddhist thought, practice and social history in East Asia. The teachings and history of the major schools of Buddhism in China, Japan and Tibet will be considered alongside such themes as Buddhism and state, female bodhisattvas, and this worldly aid. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
When the ancient Romans encountered the Afri people who lived in North Africa near Carthage, they called their land "Africa." Today, the term is used to describe the 840 million diverse people who live on the continent. By the 18th century, scientific racism justified slavery and colonialism by categorizing African people as a single, inferior race. Although these theories have been discredited, the legacy of this thinking continues to shape the way the world views and relates to Africa and Africans. This course is designed to look at how we understand, study, and represent Africa. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will examine how Africa has been constructed and imagined from "dark continent" to homeland, address theories of pan-Africanism and blackness, look at how ideas of "tradition" have shaped the study of Africa, critically engage with media representations of Africa, and examine how international policy has been shaped by these images. 1.00 units, Lecture
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