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This seminar will explore urban history from a comparative and theoretical perspective. We will examine, first, the works on European urban history and theory by authors like Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre, and David Harvey, followed by works on urbanism in the United States, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. We will focus on comparative assessments of urban space, planning and the built environment; on socioeconomic structures, ideologies and practices or production, reproduction, and consumption; and on urban politics and culture. Throughout, we will pay special attention to the relationship between the emergence and evolution of capitalism and modern urban life. Priority enrollment for INTS majors, but the course is open to non-INTS juniors and seniors with prior approval from the instructor. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This seminar examines the outstanding features of the full range of politics in the Arab world, from regimes and resistances to the new forms of politics in civil society and private spheres. (Also offered under political science and Middle Eastern studies.) 1.00 units, Seminar
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This course examines the state of African affairs at the beginning of the millennium, particularly the occurrence of democratic transformation in some cases and state collapse in others. We will begin with an analysis of the nature of structural adjustment during the 1980s and then link that experience to various transitions which have occurred since 1990. Particular focus will be on the interplay of global, regional, and local dynamics during those transitions. (Also offered under African Studies, Public Policy & Law, and Political Science.) 1.00 units, Lecture
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An in-depth seminar course on the role of five Zen monks (Dogen, Doryo, Genno, Ryokan, and Hakuin) as they appeared in Japanese culture. This course focuses on the dual function of Zen monks as masters (of monastic lineages) and saviors (with miraculous powers). Drawing on hagiographical literature, poetry, popular plays, and artwork, it will survey the representations of Zen monks in premodern Japan. (Also offered under Religion.) Enrollment limited. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
This seminar, taking the entire globe as a unit of study, will examine the emerging unifying elements of the contemporary world system. Emphasis on issues of justice and basic human needs and rights. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
Sustainability is the state of harmony between the economy, environment, and community. Here we will investigate the relationship between sustainability and the material-cultural practice of architecture. We will read the work of Mahatman Gandhi, Lewis Mumford, Doxiadis, Victor Olgyay and Otto Koenigsberger, and closely study the Whole Earth Catalogue, Drop City, Auroville, appropriate technology, Hassan Fathy, Buckminster Fuller, and others. We will look at green architecture, both as an idea and in practice (at the Druk Lotus School, the Eden Project, and elsewhere). 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
In the modern Middle East, novelists, short story writers, and poets have been among the sharpest social critics. Many have addressed highly controversial topics or have defied cultural taboos, by writing about oppression, corruption, and violence in their political, religious, or sexual dimensions. In this reading- and discussion-intensive seminar, we will read works by writers from a range of Middle Eastern countries -- including Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Morocco, and Egypt -- in order to understand and analyze some of the major social issues and dilemmas that have confronted the region's peoples during a century of profound changes. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course is a cross-cultural investigation of the gendered nature of human rights and of the changes in different societies that have resulted from struggles for human rights for women. Topics covered will include rights to protection against sexual abuse and gender violence (such as female genital mutilation), subsistence rights, reproductive rights, human rights and sexual orientation, and the rights of female immigrants and refugees. The course will make use of formal legal documents as well as cultural materials such as novels, films, personal testimonies, religious rituals, and folk traditions in music. (Also listed under Public Policy.) 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
An examination, from the perspectives of geography and space, of the complex of processes often described as globalization. The course will focus on the changing spatial patterns of political and economic power since the 1970s and evaluate future scenarios in a world in which the territorial aspirations of political communities clash with globalizing flows. Particular attention will be given to the articulation of global and local processes in Hartford and their impact on everyday life in the city. Community learning projects will be an integral part of the course. (This course includes a community learning component.) 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This course studies migration by exploring how Muslim communities from a variety of regions settled throughout the world. Readings will cover the early expansion of Islam into Spain, Central and Southern Asia, the movement of Muslims via Sufism into Africa and the Balkans during the 13th to 15th centuries and end with a comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of how Muslims in the modern era from South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe settled in the "West." Emphasis will be placed on major developments in the last three decades in order to highlight the complex phenomena of political Islam that has entered into the social mainstream of many "western" societies. The student will focus on Muslim migration to Europe and North America in order to understand the growing reality that the U.S., much like Europe, is being permanently shaped by its growing Muslim population and how this reality affects race and gender relations in their respective societies. Students will also become acquainted with diverse theoretical perspectives that span disciplines as well as with the current trends that characterize Muslim diasporic experiences in an international settin 1.00 units, Seminar
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