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The American experience with abortion--before and after Roe v. Wade--considering issues of religion, politics, law, medicine, gender, and ethics. Fertility and family planning, the experiences of women both as abortionists and undergoing abortions, unwed mothers, teenage pregnancy and young parenthood, and the rise of advocacy groups in favor of and opposed to abortion. Comparison practices of Britain, Europe, and Japan
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Independent Study is usually undertaken by students concurrently with the Honors Seminar, or with an instructor with whom they have had a course. Individual research in a field of special interest under the supervision of a faculty member, the central goal of which is a substantive paper or written report containing significant analysis and interpretation of a previously approved topic. Consent of instructor and director of undergraduate studies required. Instructor: Staff
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See History 191. Consent of instructor and director of undergraduate studies required. Instructor: Staff
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The literary, historic, linguistic, and ethnic diversity of South Asia presented through both readings and contemporary films. Not open to students who have taken Religion 160. Instructor: Staff
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Explores political contexts, and often competing visions, surrounding construction and reproduction of public memory. Asks how sites of memory, presenting an image of the past, express understandings, desires, and conflicts of the present. Particular focus on how times of crisis and trauma are commemorated, challenged, or hidden. Open only to juniors and seniors. Instructor: Silverblatt
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Explores twentieth-century South African history through the lens of biography and autobiography. Protagonists range from little known South Africans like Kas Maine, a sharecropper documented only in a 1931 record of a fine paid for failing to produce a dog license, to world renowned figures like Nelson Mandela. Readings cover virtually the entire twentieth century but have been carefully selected them to provide a chronological presentation of South African history. Utilizes of a mix of scholarly and non-scholarly writings, as well as discussions exposing South Africa¿s countryside and cities, its underworld and its place on the world stage. Instructor: Shapiro
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Examines the development of Zionism as both an ideology and a political movement which contributed to the establishment of Israel in 1948. An examination of political, cultural and social history of the state as constantly changing patterns of interaction between domestic factors and the impact of regional as well as inter-nation dynamics. Particular attention given to the relationship between United States and Israel. Instructor: Miller
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Inquiry into Islam's transnational past and relations of European empires to that past. Development of perspectives on the current conflict between the US and its Islamist opponents to enable critical engagement with debates on the nature of global Islamist politics and on the US as an imperial power. Close reading of case studies and original source material. Instructor: Ho
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Uses a historical perspective on issues of development to examine globalization and its impact on women¿s lives. Examines ways in which social constructions of gender plays a role in economic development. Appraises consequences of the internet revolution, new technologies, and the war for resources, particularly the impact of the material demand of microprocessor chips on war and manufacturing. Case studies of countries such as China, Korea, South Africa and Democratic Republic of Congo examine social policy, the influence of the International Women¿s Movement, and women¿s activism on their own behalf as they struggle to improve the economic conditions in which they live. Instructor: Mazumdar
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Focuses on Chinese visions of the West between the 17th century to the present, covering various historical stages Opium Wars, Cultural Revolution. Examination of how Chinese identities were entangled with images of the West. Instructor: Sachsenmaier
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