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4.00 Credits
A course intended to raise levels of oral proficiency for advanced students and consolidate command over complex grammatical structures. By the end of the term, students will be expected to converse in a clearly participatory fashion, initiate, sustain and bring closure to a wide variety of communicative tasks using diverse strategies.
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4.00 Credits
Health care in America poses fundamental policy challenges to our ability to protect low income Americans from the costs of illness; to produce high quality care; to efficiently use health care resources, and to allow Americans to die without pain, in the company of family, as they desire. This course aims to offer students a solid understanding of the American health care system, the potential impact of new reform legislation, and challenges that will remain in the future.
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4.00 Credits
Is a fundamental transformation occurring in the American racial order? And if there is, can we tell if these changes are for the better or for the worse? What does the election of Barack Obama reveal about racial and ethnic politics in the United States? We start to answer these questions by exploring the history American racial dynamics. We will then examine how African Americans, Anglos, Latinos, and Asian Americans relate to one another---and to the majority---by looking at such phenomena as multiracialism, ethnic coalitions, and genomics. We consider what public policies, if any, are needed to further racial and ethnic justice. Finally, we examine trends and potential obstacles that may affect the outcome of any transformation, including immigration policy, the criminal justice system, and differences in wealth holding.
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4.00 Credits
This course critically examines the assumptions of modern economics and how these assumptions mold the ideas and conclusions of the discipline. A principal question is the appropriate scope of the market. This question will be examined both theoretically and through examples drawn from both microeconomics and macroeconomics; possible examples include health care, the environment, international trade, social security, and financial crisis and unemployment.
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4.00 Credits
A theoretical and historical survey of the evolution of republican (representative) government, with a particular focus upon Anglo-American institutions. We will alternate between philosophical treatments and empirical studies of republican regimes. Questions include: How did republican government evolve centuries before mass elections? Did arguments for legislative supremacy prefigure the rise of parliamentary authority? If so, how? What is the role of virtue in a democratic republic? How can government ensure the "rule of the wise" without fostering autocratic power? What institutions besides elections keep the ruled attuned to the people? What critique might republican theory advance of emerging "populist" arrangements?
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4.00 Credits
The American family is often thought to be changing in ways considered unfortunate for children and society. At the same time, the family continues to occupy a central place in people's lives. We examine how and why American families have changed and explore the consequences of these changes.
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Culture of the early Cold War (1945-1965) in the context of political events and intellectual developments. We will be particularly interested in the unintended consequences of Cold War policies and in trans-Atlantic cultural exchange. Subjects include the literature of totalitarianism, Abstract Expressionism, the Beats, the philosophy of higher education, the Warren Court, film noir, and the French New Wave.
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American cities have changed in extraordinary ways. Once projected to be doomed to a future of blight and decay, Boston has become a model of urban renaissance. Using Boston as a case, this course considers issues of: technology booms, economic change and inequality, political governance, elite relations, cultural institutions, race and ethnic relations, immigration, gentrification and suburbanization. Regular guest speakers. Requirements: 5 short memos on neighborhood visits; 1 term paper; midterm essay and take-home final exam.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the significance of the Supreme Court during the Chief Justiceship of Earl Warren in the broader context of the development of American thought and society. Explores the basic premise that the Warren Era represented not only a major constitutional revolution but that it produced a fundamental transformation in the conception of the role of law in American society. Subjects to be studied are Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Movement, and the history of race relations; McCarthyism and civil liberties; the emergence of a right to privacy in Griswold v. Connecticut; and the "rights" revolution in jurisprudence. In conclusion, we assess the global influence of the Warren Court in encouraging the spread of human rights and judicial review.
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4.00 Credits
Even before the formal establishment of the United States, assumptions about sex have helped determine who is entitled to - and not entitled to - the privileges and protections of full citizenship. This course investigates the roles that sex, gender, and sexuality have played in configuring notions of citizenship over time as well as the ways in which sexual rights remain a site of contestation and struggle in the modern United States.
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