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3.00 Credits
I nternship Fall 2008.
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5.00 Credits
Practical Curricular Training Fall 2008 / Spring 2009. This course provides credit for professional training related to the degree. Students are expected to engage in such training for at least five hours per week. Training should take the form of teaching, research, or other work relevant to the student's program of study. It may take place at institutions of higher learning, with government agencies, or at other sites as appropriate. Students meet regularly with an advisor and submit a written report at the end of the internship. Grading is pass/fail.
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3.00 Credits
I nter-University Consortium Fall 2008.
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3.00 Credits
The Great War in Narrative Perspective(s) Spring 2009. Ann-Louis Shapiro The legacies of World War I continue to be felt nearly a century later. Because it was a "total war," it drew virtually all aspects of human lifeinto its orbit. Yet these legacies have been understood differently by authors writing in different times, in different genres, and within different historiographical frameworks. This course expores the various resonances and interpretations of the "Great War" by asking: How did eyewitnessaccounts shape the war story How did the understanding of the war's legacies change in light of subsequent conflicts What role did novelists and filmmakers play in telling the war story And how have popular accounts intersected with those of professional historians What are the important differences of interpretation that have emerged from various analytic frameworks In addressing these questions, the course uses primary and secondary documents, novels, and films to explore the creation and transformation of historical knowledge.
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3.00 Credits
Outsider Art Fall 2008. Vera Zolberg It is a cliché of current cultural criticism that traditional boundaries-between high and low art, art and politics, art and life itself-have become hopelessly blurred. When piles of bricks are placed in museums, when music is composed for performance underwater, when a few minutes of silence is called "music," the boundaries become so fluid that conventionalunderstandings of art are strained. This is manifest in the difficulties that arise among art historians, aestheticians, social scientists, and policymakers when they try to delineate what is art, what it should include or exclude, whether and how it should be evaluated, what importance to assign to art, and whether or not to support the artistic community with public funds. This class strives to understand these changes in the meaning of art in two ways. First, recent sociological theories of art are surveyed from texts by Becker, Bourdieu, Geertz, and others. These theories are then examined to illuminate a concrete empirical phenomenon, "outsider art"-that is, workcreated by "pure" amateurs (be they folk artists, madmen, hobbyists, orhomeless people), putatively unsullied by academic or commercial pressures. Our larger goal is to explore myths and realities of the socially marginal and the aesthetically pure by analyzing the role each myth plays in the ongoing transvaluation of contemporary culture. Cross listed with Sociology.
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3.00 Credits
Gender, Identity, and Agency in a Globalizing World Spring 2009. Elzbieta Matynia Recognizing that gender equity is still poorly reflected even in accountable democratic societies, this seminar focuses on the intersection of gender and citizenship. The course concentrates on postcolonial and postcommunist societies as they are challenged by both nation and globalization. The role of women in the early 21st century who are caught between local, national, and global pressures in new or newly-consolidated democracies, is examined. Various strategies through which local women (and local feminism) respond to these pressures are considered. The discussion on introducing change in the context of movements for social transformation, or in the context of enabling democratic infrastructure, is informed by two key categories: identity and agency. Relationships between women and nationalist projects, between nationhood and identity, and between gender and public and private citizenship are explored. The relatively recent emergence of globalization-a supraterritorial system of interdependence-is consideredfor its gender implications. While examining the role of women in local settings and in global civil society, questions of the universality of human rights; the principle of gender mainstreaming; and the tensions between feminism, liberalism, cultural relativism, and multiculturalism are discussed. Finally, consideration is given to the prospects for (and implications of) global feminism in a global civil society. Cross listed with Sociology.
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3.00 Credits
Merleau-Ponty Fall 2008. Three credits. Bernard Flynn This course deals with Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception and The Visible and Invisible. The Phenomenology of Perception is read in terms of its inherence in, and transformation of, the phenomenological tradition. His writing after this work, particularly The Visible and the Invisible, is viewed as an elaboration of a new ontology in which the body as "subject" ofperception gives way to the notion of the flesh. From the within the tradition of phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty appropriates and transforms Saussurean linguistics, psychoanalytic theory, and the thought of Heidegger.
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3.00 Credits
Modern Deductive Logic Spring 2009. Three credits. Shamik Dasgupta The purpose of this course is to provide students with knowledge and understanding of the basic concepts of modern deductive logic, both in syntax and semantics. We start with sentential logic and discuss methods of constructing truth tables, truth trees, and derivations (for both the systems of SD and SD+). We then turn to predicate logic and consider certain differences and similarities between sentential and predicate logic and adjust the methods of truth trees and derivations to predicate logic.
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3.00 Credits
H eidegger's Being and Time Spring 2009. Three credits. Simon Critchley Martin Heidegger is arguably the most important philosopher in the twentieth-century Continental tradition, and Being and Time is his magnum opus. In this course students read carefully and critically the first division of the book and as much of the second division as we can cover. We also look at Heidegger's later texts. The objective of the course is for students to have a firm grasp on the key philosophical issues and concepts raised by the project that Heidegger called "fundamental ontology." These include: Heidegger'relation to Husserl and his critical adoption of phenomenological method; his critique of traditional epistemology; his account of the nature of the world and the relation of persons to world; his critique of the Cartesian understanding of world and space; his account of intersubjectivity and his critique of modernity; the key concept of "thrown projection" and an explanation of the various"existentials" (state-of-mind, understanding, and discourse); his concepts ofthrownness, falling, and inauthenticity; his account of moods and anxiety as the basic attunement of the human being; the meaning of care as the being of the human being; his critique of the realism-vs.-idealism debate; his concept of truth and his critique of the traditional concept of truth; an analysis of beingtoward- death, conscience, authenticity, and historicity.
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3.00 Credits
Basic Freud Fall 2008. Three credits. Alan Bass This course covers the major concepts in Freud, stressing their revolutionary nature. Topics include trauma, defense, wishes, dreams, unconscious processes, infantile sexuality, perversion, narcissism, identification, life and death drives, anxiety, disavowal, and ego splitting.
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