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1.00 Credits
This course examines the history of women in China from 1000 CE to the present, with a dual emphasis on probing changes and continuities in women's roles as defined by the ideologies of successive regimes and exploring their life experiences through ethnography, film, short stories, and women's writings. To what extent have Chinese women conformed to their prescribed roles throughout the period under study? In what ways did they challenge these conventions? What strategies have they pursued to enhance their agency and expand their influence in the family, community, and society at large?
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0.50 Credits
If you want an opportunity to deepen your understanding and experience of dialogue, consider taking the Dialogue Seminar offered as part of the Difficult Dialogues Initiative. Each section of this half-credit course will be led by a faculty member paired with experienced DD fellows. The course will include a small set of readings on dialogue, but will focus on in-class dialogues that draw from the experiences and issues raised by the public events in the Difficult Dialogues fall symposium. The course includes readings and short papers, and attendance at 6 to 8 DD symposia events over the course of the semester is a requirement of the class. Symposium topic for the fall of 2012: The End of Things This semester we will focus on issues of death, extinction, and renewal. Notions of apocalypse, dystopian futures, and cataclysmic (or transformative) natural events recur in our popular culture and film, some with a focus on the year 2012. While some are speculative and superstitious, others reflect the serious challenges to our political and economic systems, and the natural environment.
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1.00 Credits
Explores how radicalized subjects in the U.S. give meaning to their lives through the genre of autobiography. Combines critical methods from literary studies and sociological research to examine the relationship between authority and authorship, identity and race, subjective and objective reality, and autobiography and fiction. The course is guided by three principal questions: How do authors create themselves as subjects and develop authority and agency by telling the stories of their lives? And what is the relationship between autobiography and fiction? Through such investigations, particularly via historical and cultural contextualization, we hope to better understand why the autobiography has long been the favored genre of literary self-expression and political self-representation for writers of color.
Prerequisite:
P=VE placement or IDND 018
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1.00 Credits
Explores how radicalized subjects in the U.S. give meaning to their lives through the genre of autobiography. Combines critical methods from literary studies and sociological research to examine the relationship between authority and authorship, identity and race, subjective and objective reality, and autobiography and fiction. The course is guided by three principal questions: How do authors create themselves as subjects and develop authority and agency by telling the stories of their lives? And what is the relationship between autobiography and fiction? Through such investigations, particularly via historical and cultural contextualization, we hope to better understand why the autobiography has long been the favored genre of literary self-expression and political self-representation for writers of color.
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1.00 Credits
From Cannibals to Corporations: Humanity in Context. The purpose of this course is to provide students with a rich anthropological understanding of culture. What does it mean to be human across our many differences and similarities? How do people give meaning to their lives across time and space? How are some of the most intimate features of our lives socially patterned? Students will learn to see the familiar in the strange and the strange in the familiar—in other words to appreciate something about other cultures and, through this mirror, to learn something new about their own. The class also provides an introduction to anthropological history, ethnographic method, and social theory. From the U.S. suburbs to hunter-gatherers in the Amazon, students will explore the diversity of human societies around the world through the lens of critical issues such as development, power, identity, war, globalization, inequality, and cultural survival in the twenty-first century. Through class assignments, students will also have the opportunity to use tools of anthropological observation and problem-solving. Throughout the semester, we will discuss the politics and practicality of applying anthropological knowledge for a more just world.
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1.00 Credits
Discussions of geopolitics invariably refer to the problems of Third World (under) development. What is so compelling about the idea of development? Why does it ail much of the so-called Third World? What are some of the solutions to development dilemmas—neoliberal market reforms or attention to women, ethnic groups and other heretofore marginal issues such as the environment? Or is the development enterprise fundamentally flawed as some postcolonial scholars claim? This course introduces students to key histories, concepts and debates in international development through critical and analytical engagements with fiction, films and theoretical literatures on the subject.
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1.00 Credits
This course examines the value of ethnographic forms of research and knowledge production, its conceits, as well as its limits. While other genres of research design and methods will be considered, the primary focus will be upon qualitative ones, including participatory techniques developed by field practitioners. Special emphasis will be placed upon cultivating a critical stance towards these methods, the cultural assumptions that underlie them, and the impact relations of power have upon the research process as a whole. Towards this end, assignments (including a mini-ethnography) are designed to help students: 1) design their own research project; 2) select methods that are appropriate to it; 3) gain the intellectual flexibility and confidence to make adjustments as necessary in “the field”; and 4) to reflect upon the inter-personal dynamics of the research process during the write up phase of their project.
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1.00 Credits
Advanced Topics in Development Theory. This seminar provides students with an opportunity to engage in an in-depth study of some classical theorists of modernity and development. It aims to establish firm theoretical and textual foundations for the future study of politics, economics, culture and social relations related to "third world development." Topics vary. The theme of the Fall 2012 seminar is: "Conversations with the Ghost of Marx."
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1.00 Credits
Designed to provide senior international development and social change majors and students entering the B.A./M.A. program the opportunity to apply their undergraduate training to some of the main contemporary and cutting-edge themes in international development, as well as prepare them for further work (either advanced study or entry to the job market) in international development. Themes studied include globalization as it relates to international development, refugees and forced migration, human rights, environmental protection, implications for development of the spread of religious-based extremism, food security, foreign policy and humanitarian aid.
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1.00 Credits
This course investigates the development practices and theories that have emerged to address population displacement in its various forms. It looks at the relationship between forced displacement and the nation-state, the changing nature of humanitarian emergencies in a globalising world, and the role of diaspora. The course also explores the issues around urbanisation, urban development and displacement, and transnational networks and associations in development processes and agendas.
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