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1.00 Credits
See Chinese 181S. Prerequisite: Chinese 125, 126, 127A, 127B, 129A, 129B, or consent of instructor. Instructor: Staff
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Variable topics on Korean culture from global perspectives. Colonialism, occupation, national division, wars, hyper-development, gendered/ethnic conflicts, global displacements, (post)modernity. Literature, film, pop-culture, history, testimonies, and other forms of representations. Topics framed in local, regional, and global contexts. Instructor: Kwon
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Dialectic of prostitution as lived experience, and as socio-cultural metaphor. Focus on literary and cinematic texts, together with relevant theoretical works. The figure of the prostitute will be used to interrogate assumptions about gender identity, commodity value, and national discourse. Transnational traffic in women will provide context for examination of discourses of national identity in China and beyond, together with the fissures at the heart of those same discourses. Instructor: Rojas
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Literary and cinematic representations of vampirism, from Dracula to Buffy, Chinese jiangshi to the politics of blood-selling and blood donation. The figure of the vampire as embodiment of anxieties about sexuality, desire, gender identity, and ethnic alterity. Cross-cultural circulation of vampiric traditions, vampirism as a symbol of circulation in its own right. Instructor: Rojas
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Introduces cinemas in different colonial contexts, such as British in India, French in Africa, and Japanese in East Asia. Surveys colonial cinemas produced by the colonizer to legitimate colonial enterprises and their postcolonial counterparts. Examines the decolonial strategies registered in postcolonial cinemas as responses to, or ¿reflections¿ of, their colonial legacy. Maps the larger historical contexts of colonialism since the late 19th century and reflects on the current transnational trend of globalization. Instructor: Hong, Kwon
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Critical introduction to the dynamics and challenges of health policy in China, from the early twentieth century to the present, with a particular focus on the reform period. Topics to be addressed: health care and economic development, state responsibility and welfare systems, privatization, and disparities in access to health services; history of state policy on regional health planning, community health services, rural health provisions in poverty areas, and the developments in public health infrastructure urban and rural settings. Instructor consent required. Course taught in China as part of the Global Study Abroad Program. Instructor: Guo
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Comparative and connective research and analysis in the social sciences and the humanities: strengths and weaknesses of cross-cultural comparison as developed by sociologists, historians, political scientists, anthropologists, and specialists in comparative literature and religion. Not open to students who have taken Religion 121. Instructor: Litle
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Aspects of social, literary, and cultural history of the Italian cities Venice, Florence, Rome, or Milan, as anchors of larger geographical areas, cities in a specific historical period, or famed artistic centers. Taught in English. Not open to students who have previously taken this course as Italian 128. Instructor: Finucci and staff
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Key themes in Latin American societies, including art, literature, history, violence and human rights, economic development, and rebellion and revolution. Instructor: Nelson or Starn
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Interdisciplinary research seminar that allows students to practice intermediate to advanced language skills and develop individual research projects on contemporary issues in the Portuguese-speaking world as they are perceived and discussed from within these countries. Focus on the changing nature/rights of citizenship in Lusophone world and/or relationship of Portuguese speaking country to global issues of citizenship. Research paper required; research resources concentrate on journalistic and other media sources, including the Internet. Prerequisite: Portuguese 76 or consent of instructor. Instructor: Damasceno
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