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Millions of species of animals, plants, and microbes inhabit our planet. Genomics, the study of all the genes in an organism, is providing new insights into this amazing diversity of life. We begin with the fundamentals of DNA, genes, and genomes. We then explore microbial diversity, with an emphasis on how genomics can reveal many aspects of organisms, from their ancient history to their physiological and ecological habits. We follow with examinations of animal and plant diversity, focusing on domesticated species, such as dogs and tomatoes, as examples of how genomic methods can be used to identify genes that underlie new or otherwise interesting traits. Genomics has also transformed the study of human diversity and human disease. We examine the use of DNA to trace human ancestry, as well as the use of genomics as a diagnostic tool in medicine. With the powerful new technologies to study genomes has come an increased power to manipulate them. We conclude by considering the societal implications of this ability to alter the genomes of crop plants, livestock, and, potentially, humans.
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Recent topics include: Objectivity, Liberation, the Deliberating Citizen, Animal Humans, Utopias and Distopias, Freedom and Opression, and Literature in Wonderland. Consult the MAP website for descriptions of each term's offerings.
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Readings: Hebrew Scriptures and Christian New Testament, ancient Greek drama and philosophy, Vergil, and Augustine. Continues with Dante's Inferno, selections from Paradiso, and other texts from the Middle Ages.
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Readings: Hebrew Scriptures and Christian New Testament, ancient Greek drama and philosophy, Vergil, and Augustine. Continues with Machiavelli's Prince, a Shakespearean play or Milton's Samson Agonistes, and other texts from the Renaissance.
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Readings: Hebrew Scriptures and Christian New Testament, ancient Greek drama and philosophy, Vergil, and Augustine. Continues with Pascal's Pensées, Rousseau's Confessions, and other texts from the Enlightenment.
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Readings: Hebrew Scriptures and Christian New Testament, ancient Greek drama and philosophy, Vergil, and Augustine. Continues with Marx's Communist Manifesto, selections from Darwin, Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality, or Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, and other texts from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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The same as MAP-UA 402, but with additional emphasis on writing. Students read and write about the course texts both for the lecture course and in their linked section of Writing the Essay (EXPOS-UA 1).
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The same as MAP-UA 404, but with additional emphasis on writing. Students read and write about the course texts both for the lecture course and in their linked section of Writing the Essay (EXPOS-UA 1).
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Examines the common base and regional variations of Islamic societies. An "Islamic society" is here understood as one that shares, either as operative present or historical past, that common religious base called Islam. For Muslims, Islam is not simply a set of beliefs or observances, but also includes a history; its study is thus by nature historical, topical, and regional. The emphasis in the premodern period is first on the Quran and then on law, political theory, theology, and mysticism. For the more recent period, the stress is on the search for religious identity. Throughout, students are exposed to Islamic societies in the words of their own writings.
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4.00 Credits
Key concepts related to understanding sub-Saharan African cultures and societies, concentrating in particular on teaching students how to think critically and consult sources sensibly when studying non-Western cultures. Topics include problems in the interpretation of African literature, African history, gender issues, the question of whether African thought and values constitute a unique system of thinking, the impact of the slave trade and colonialism on African societies and culture, and the difficulties of and means for translating and interpreting the system of thought and behavior in an African traditional society into terms meaningful to Westerners. Among the readings are novels, current philosophical theory, and feminist interpretations of black and white accounts of African societies and courses Foundations of Contemporary Culture the place of women in them. Issues are approached with the use of analyses from history, anthropology, sociology, literary theory, and philosophy.
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