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4.00 Credits
Explores how education has been and continues to be a central institution of American society, reflecting social ideals and ideologies while also directly shaping the contours and structures of society in both productive and detrimental ways. Examines different philosophical foundations of formal learning and how those theories have become manifested across time in various educational practices. Investigates how schools currently operate, specific issues the American educational system faces, and the implications of various schooling practices for structuring American society.
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4.00 Credits
The course will examine cultural, social, and political manifestations of difference and its contexts in confrontation by examining cases of ethnic and religious conflict from East, Southeast, and South Asia. We will examine dominant understandings of difference in these regions, and then read appropriate ethnographic work from the region. This will bring our attention to recent issues of ethno-religious discord in Sri Lankan civil war; communal violence in India and Pakistan; ethnic wars in Burma (Myanmar); discord among the Muslim, Tibetan, and Han Chinese; ethnoreligious violence in Indonesia; and Muslim "insurgency" in southern Thailand. The course will bring critical attention to bear on the issues of ethnicity, religion, and conflict in a trajectory from imperial/colonial to national settings across Asia.
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4.00 Credits
Latin American economic history has been a difficult and frustrating quest for sustained and equalitarian economic growth. This quest has included periods of outstanding economic performance, but these are usually followed by economic catastrophes. Brief moments when inequality seemed to recede were likewise followed by social disasters. The intention of this course is to expose students to the main topics and debates in Latin American economic history about this region's failure to overcome economic backwardness, poverty, and inequality.
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the changing nature of humanitarian intervention since the end of the Cold War, with particular emphasis on the current NATO-led mission in Afghanistan. The readings will offer a broad survey of the different methods and means of modern intervention, as well as an introduction to some of the more theoretical debates over the different ends and justifications provided for intervention today.
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4.00 Credits
This course deals with historical and contemporary treatments of freedom. We ask questions like: is freedom an inward or outward experience? How is freedom related to slavery? What distinguishes modern from ancient liberty? We also look at positive compared with negative liberty; equality and the "fair value" of liberties; free labor versus the right to be lazy. Authors include Aristotle, Epictetus, Hobbes, Rousseau, Constant, Marx, Douglass, Berlin, Skinner, Cohen, Nozick, Rawls, Sen, Taylor, Russell.
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4.00 Credits
This tutorial explores the cultural meanings and experiences of violence. We examine how everyday people experience violence and the strategies they take to understand, challenge, or even perpetuate it. While contextualizing violence in socioeconomic realities, we explore the discourses and practices by which violence becomes considered legitimate, abhorrent, worthy of human rights attention, or even state-sanctioned. We consider how scholars represent violence that is simultaneously collective, political, and social while also subjective, emotional, and personal.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of America as a world actor after 1940: how has it defined its increasingly important role in international affairs; what have been the most frequent instruments of its power; what have been its major successes and failures; how have domestic political and economic forces affected America's policies abroad?
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4.00 Credits
What have we learned from two centuries of democratic revolutions about how they succeed and why they fail? And how much can this history tell us about contemporary prospects for democratization elsewhere, for instance in Russia, China, or the Middle East? This course critically engages the comparative literature on democratization while introducing students to the variety of empirical methods researchers have brought to bear on questions like these.
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4.00 Credits
What is cosmopolitanism? Are there, or should there be, universal human values? This tutorial examines the problem of universalism in the politics of cosmopolitanism and human rights. It also aims to understand how cosmopolitanism manages facts of political difference and resistance. Particularly concerned with cosmopolitan proposals for "democratic regime change" and "humanitarian intervention" to enforce human rights, the ultimate question this seminar poses is: what is the foundation of human rights politics?
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4.00 Credits
This course provides a critical examination of key debates around liberalism. The first part analyzes both the classical accounts of liberalism and the relation between liberalism and democracy. The second part focuses on variants of liberalism and the relative importance that equality and freedom, culture, value pluralism, toleration, and state neutrality play in the foundations of a liberal order. The third part examines various criticisms against liberalism including utilitarianism, communitarianism, feminism, Marxism, and radical views.
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