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4.00 Credits
How do the "laws of war" regulate the conduct of the United States in the "Global War on Terrorism?" This seminar examines the historical development of two legal concepts: jus ad bellum, which determines the legitimacy of the use of armed force; and jus in bello, which defines the duties of soldiers and belligerent states. Drawing on this background, the seminar explores how these laws have influenced U.S. military and anti-terrorism operations since 9/11.
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4.00 Credits
Examines radically different perspectives on the question of whether human rights discourse is merely rhetorical or captures a significant dimension of reality for peoples in diverse cultures. Topics include compatibility of human rights with contending philosophical systems and religions, feminism, and critical theory; challenges to human rights from various scientific perspectives, including evolutionary biology, genetic engineering, and brain research; and the relative significance of human rights in law and government, economics, and foreign policy.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the impact of books on Western culture from the time of Gutenberg. Hands-on experience in studying the book as a physical object and theoretical reflection on the nature of printing as a means of communication. Students will consider the publishing history of great books such as Shakespeare's First Folio and will address the problem of books as elements in the electronic media.
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4.00 Credits
Am I a mind, a body, or both? Can mind affect body just by thinking? Can our mental life be reduced to brain activity? This seminar explores the nature of mind and its puzzling relation to the body through three different disciplines: philosophy, psychiatry, and literature. We will read both historical and contemporary works, including selections from Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Nagel, Jackson, Freud, Kramer, Tolstoy, Lawrence, and Proust.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar probes how economic thinkers from the right and left view human behavior and the proper role of government in society. Each week, seminar participants read and discuss a brief, nontechnical, policy-oriented book by a prominent economist. There will also be required writing assignments. Students must have some background in economics, such as an AP economics course in high school or simultaneous enrollment in Economics 10.
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4.00 Credits
This class examines body ideals over the past century by focusing on four body-shaping techniques in American culture: fitness and body building, weight reduction, surgical alterations, and surface adornments. Through these topics the course will explore changing ideals of femininity and masculinity, and evolving notions of the self. The course will pay close attention to the racial and sexual politics of these bodily ideals, and the ways in which people have either affirmed or transgressed bodily norms.
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4.00 Credits
Everyone wants to be happy. But do we even know what we want when we say that we desire happiness? Few questions generate so much existential anxiety and overwhelming philosophical interest. For without knowledge of happiness, how can we know what it means to live a good life? This course examines these questions as they have been considered variously in philosophy and psychoanalysis. Readings include works by Aristotle, Descartes, Rousseau, Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, and Zizek.
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4.00 Credits
This course addresses some of the fundamental issues of the nature of the self, issues which appear at the intersection of religion and psychology. The course will focus on issues of narrative as well as "world construction," the ways in which both individuals and cultures create frameworks of meaning. The readings explore philosophical, psychological, and literary perspectives on religious experience and include works by William James, Freud, Jung, Dostoevsky, Flannery O'Connor, Malcolm X and others.
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4.00 Credits
We read a series of Shakespeare plays alongside classic texts of Western political philosophy in order to explore how Shakespeare illuminates the deepest questions of political philosophy, and vice versa. Though there are many legitimate ways to read classical literature and classical political theory our basic framing questions are existential. That is to say: What is the true condition of, and what are the legitimate hopes for, finite, self-conscious, collective human existence in this world?
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4.00 Credits
Examines several sides of the history of genetics -- scientific, cultural, social, and political -- through the reading of original texts, through the study of their reception, rejection, or modification, through the analysis of their incorporation into fiction as well as social theory and practice, and through the exploration of their interaction with other sciences and with agricultural and medical practices.
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