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3.00 Credits
See Classics 373 for description. Not offered 2009-10. Classics 373 Description
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3.00 Credits
See Classics 375 for description. Not offered 2009-10. Classics 375 Description
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Few ideological forces have been as influential in shaping Latin America as Christianity and Marxism. Sometimes mutually antagonistic and sometimes compatible, the Marxist and Christian traditions have both inspired selfless moral acts and excused moral atrocities. In this course we will study the origin of modern, secular, liberal economies in the 19th century and the consequent debates among Marxists and Christians over property, the stages of history, the legitimacy of state authority, and the standards of just war. At the heart of the course are the mass movements of the 20th century-movements as varied as the Cristeros of the 1920s (who fought to defend the Catholic church and private property from the secular state) and the liberation theology movements of the 1960s and 1970s (many of which found a mandate for revolution in the example of Jesus and the historical analysis of Marx). Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This class traces the history of the relation between humans and animals, principally as it has emerged in Western thought and culture. What does it mean to be an animal How have our answers to this question figured in the development of our moral, political, and religious traditions How have we made recourse to the notion of animality to make sense of what it means to be human What could it possibly mean for an animal to be free What is the historical and conceptual relation between animal liberation and human liberation How have these issues played out in practices such as zookeeping, husbandry, slaughter, sex, consumption, companionship, ritual, jurisprudence, or dressing your dog in silly little sweaters These are some of the foremost questions broached by the burgeoning academic field of "animal studies," and we will address them by means of primary source readings (complemented by secondary readings and the occasional film) that span time from the ancients to our day. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course examines how the 16th-century incorporation of the Andes into the Atlantic world by Spain affected Europe, and transformed indigenous society in creating the vast viceroyalty of Peru. The four thematic foci of the class are the Andean mining and market economy centered around PotosÃ, and its impact on the European economy and politics; the role of the royal state in Andean society; the organization of colonial society; and its cultural and religious dynamism. (A reading knowledge of Spanish is an asset for the research project, but is by no means essential.) This course is designed for junior history majors, and is limited to those who have completed two courses in history at Reed. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. The aim of this research seminar is to use the conceptual tools developed by a series of seminal intellectuals to investigate cultural, social, and scientific practices pertaining to biological life, primarily in the 20th century. These might include arguments about biotechnology, the extension of legal personhood to natural objects, patent claims over living species, the regulation andproduction of seeds, the development of organic agriculture, the incorporation of natural objects into our systems of political representation, bioethics, bioart, bioprospecting, and biopolitics (the administration of human populations as if they were living organisms). Notwithstanding their diversity, these phenomena all played out against the backdrop of liberal systems of jurisprudence, politics, property rights, and ethics. Hence, the normative claims and institutional structures associated with modern liberalism, rather than specific geographic locales, will serve as proximate historical contexts for our investigations. Prerequisite: this course is designed for junior history majors, and is limited to those who have completed two courses in history at Reed. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one year.
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2.00 Credits
One-half or full course for one semester. Individual study in fields either more specialized than the regular courses or not covered by them. Individual reading also may be done in connection with a regular course for one or two units additional to the course. Prerequisites: junior or senior standing and approval of instructor and division.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one year. A study of the elements of Latin grammar and first readings in Latin literature. Lecture.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one year. A review of grammar and continued readings in Latin prose and poetry, with an introduction to Cicero's rhetoric and Virgilian poetry. Prerequisite: Latin 110 or equivalent. Lecture-conference.
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