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3.00 Credits
Evidence-Based Treatments Spring 2009. Three credits. Shireen Rizvi This course is designed to familiarize students with the benefits and limitations of identifying and using empirically supported psychological treatments (ESTs) and the professional controversies surrounding identification and dissemination of ESTs. Students will become familiar with a number of ESTs for various mental disorders in an adult population and the principles from which many of them are drawn, specifically learning theory and behavior therapy. The ESTs covered in this course include, but are not limited to, exposure therapy for PTSD, interpersonal psychotherapy for depression, and cognitive behavioral group treatment for social anxiety disorder.
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1.00 Credits
Departmental Seminar Fall 2008, Spring 2009. One credit per semester. Joan Miller This seminar serves as a forum for discussion about issues of central concern to the research interests of the department. Both staff and outside speakers present their current work on a rotating basis. The seminar is held every other week. This course cannot be counted toward fulfillment of the PhD seminar requirements.
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3.00 Credits
E thnographic Field Methods Fall 2008. Three credits. Terry Williams The purpose of this course is twofold: One, provide training in field methods engaging sociological research, or fieldwork, with primary emphasis on participant-observation. Two, establish a forum for students to direct their work and creative energies towards social, environmental and political issues in the public sphere. This approach allows the researcher to discover communities, to create a channel of communication, to find ways of continual engagement and project development, and perhaps, to carry knowledge and expression beyond the immediate community and into the realm of culture.
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3.00 Credits
Fundamentals of the Sociology of Media [F] Spring 2009. Three credits. Paolo Carpignano This course examines the notions of medium and mediation from different perspectives. It covers three main areas: First, it surveys theories and theoretical approaches to media that, directly or indirectly, have contributed to the definition of the field, such as medium theory, information theory, semiotics, cultural studies, mediology, and others. Second, it examines today's media industry, its institutional apparatus, its forms of production and distribution, and its economic and political power. Third, it relates some media-specific historical and technological changes, such as reproduction, recording, transmission, and networking, to the transformation of social experience. Finally, the course suggests that it is from the combination of these levels of analysis that one can understand the experience of mediation and the mediation of experience. Cross-listed as GHIS 6127.
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3.00 Credits
Concept of Culture [A] Fall 2008. Three credits. Elzbieta Matynia The preoccupation of many social thinkers with the phenomenon of "culture" long antedates J.G. Herder's remark that "nothing is moindeterminate than this word." Still, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists have shared a preoccupation with culture ever since. This seminar addresses the history of social thought, the sociology of knowledge, and studies of culture, and it explores the main debates surrounding the idea of culture and its development. Whether discussing the Greek notion of paidea, the Romantic ideal of genius, or the historiographic essays of the Annales historians of our own day, dynamics of two contrasting approaches to culture will be traced: the broad empirical and anthropological approach, and the narrower normative and "humanistic" approach. Thereadings-some of them passionate critiques of culture-include works byPlato, Aristophanes, Vico, Rousseau, Herder, Goethe, Marx, Ferdinand de Saussure, Sigmund Freud, Fernand Braudel, J. Heuzinga, Ernst Cassirer, Mikhail Bakhtin, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Samuel Beckett. Cross-listed with Liberal Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Seminar as Organic Novel [D] Fall 2008. Three credits. Terry Williams This course examines the social construction of narrative, including the novel, novellas, short stories, the nature of anecdotes, the social function of the storyteller, and the storyteller's place in city life. While sociology is a science, it is also one of the arts, fed by a creative imagery so evident in drama, music, poetry and the novel. This relationship between art and science is a core part of the course. Students must find a location and construct a narrative account of a situation, events, and actors. This course attempts to create a living novel while embracing the unity of science and art through the various ways of understanding reality. Students read from their recordings in weekly journals about their individual experiences and discuss how they are doing the process. This enables the page to be the central element in the analysis, as students are not limited to writing nonfiction accounts of the events experienced. Limited to 10 students.
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3.00 Credits
The Interpretive Turn in Contemporary Social Science Fall 2008. Three credits. Carlos Forment This seminar introduces graduate students to the "interpretive turn" thatis currently sweeping the human sciences. We will examine some of the most recent and influential approaches within this tradition: Intentionalism (as exemplified in the work of Quentin Skinner); Language Games (Ludwig Wittgenstein); Universal Pragmatics (Jurgen Habermas); Critical Hermeneutics (Hans Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur); Discursive Strategies (Michel Foucault); and Symbolic Practices (Pierre Bourdieu).
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3.00 Credits
Civil Society and Democratic Life in the Post-Colonial World: A Tocquevillian Perspective Spring 2009. Three credits. Carlos Forment This course introduces graduate students to the current debates regarding the changing relationship between civil society and democratic life in the postcolonial world of Latin America, India, Africa, and the Middle East. In order to make sense of the different socio-historical trajectories, particular institutional configurations, and divergent forms of civic democracy that emerged in this part of the world, a common framework based on the work of Alexis de Tocqueville is adopted. During dicussions, the class develops a Tocquevillian account of postcolonial democracy as well as a postcolonial reading of Tocqueville.
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3.00 Credits
Time, Life, and Matter: Topics in the Histories of Science, Technology, and Media [A,B] Spring 2009. Three credits. Orit Halpern This course will be a preliminary survey of the latest methodological and theoretical approaches in science and media studies as they intersect with critical history and historiography. Topics to be covered will include histories of subjectivity, race, and gender in relationship to the life and information sciences; post-humanism; the production of "nature" and "culture" categories of analysis and structures for the production of historical time; and histories of representation and perception. Students read texts from science, history and philosophy of science, and media studies. Readings may include: Gilles Deleuze, Georges Canguilhem, Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault, Fredrich Kittler, Hayden White, William James, Henri Bergson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Grosz, Donna Haraway, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Gender, Identity, and Agency in a Globalizing World [C] Spring 2009. Three credits. 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.
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