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0.50 - 9.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
This course aims to introduce the regions of the Middle East and North Africa to curious students. We will watch and discuss a number of documentaries and dramatic films which touch on historical, social, and cultural aspects of what is known today as the Arab World. Among the major themes of the course are the following: socio-cultural diversity, colonialism, orientalism, resistance, patriarchy, gender relations, and war.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to study the current problem of nationalism. We are living in a period when nationalist and ethnic conflicts are spreading across the world once again, affecting many areas in all parts of the world. This course seeks to understand the origins and assess the role of nationalism in contemporary politics. After a theoretical and historical introduction, the course will focus on some specific cases from Africa, North America and Europe for in depth discussion and analysis.
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3.00 Credits
The course will introduce you to a number of current environmental problems, to the underlying forces which cause them, and to a range of possible solutions. In the first two parts of this course we'll move from the local and regional (forests and the decline of the salmon fisheries in the Pacific Northwest; water, rangeland and mining in the American West) to the global (global warming and ozone depletion; air and water pollution; the loss of biodiversity). In the last part of this course we'll seek to develop understanding of the possible sources of our environmental problems, especially in the U.S. Here we'll look at the political system; markets, economic growth and technological change; and ideas, ideologies and "human nature." The automobile - and its vast environmental and social consequences - will receive special scrutiny.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the revival since the mid 1970s of political Islam and what has come to be called "Islamic fundamentalism," especially in the Middle East. What is the nature and variety of political Islam today, and how does this resurgence compare to those in the past? What are its causes, and what are its implications for the Islamic world as well as for the rest of the world, the U.S. included? (For example, is it a "threat" to us and our interests?) What can be said about the compatibility Islam and democratic politics? What are the truth and implications of the assertion that "not all Islamic fundamentalists are political activists, and not all Islamic political activists are radical and prone to violence?" There are no prerequisites, although a basic course on the Middle East politics, history, etc., is a good idea. Suitable for non-majors with some background in political science.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on how policy is developed within, communities, states and nations. Students will have an opportunity through case studies to follow local and state bills as they move from idea to actual practice. The process by which social norms become legalized will examined in relation to public consensus as to what problems need to be addressed within society. An historical prospective will be used to enable students to evaluate changes in values within a community, state or nation as it moves to address social issues. Special attention will be given to policy issues that deal with social welfare, housing, health and mental health.
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3.00 Credits
This is an introductory course to African politics. We will focus on three major issues: (1) the colonial impact on the shaping of modern Africa, (2) anti colonial nationalism and the formation of new states, (3) the nature of contemporary economic and political crises and how they could be overcome.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce the politics of modern North Africa from the 19th to 20th centuries. We will study five states: a monarchy (Morocco), two populist "socialist" states in crisis (Algeria and Libya) and two secular capitalist states (Tunisia and Egypt). Our focus is mainly on the socio-economic and historical bases of the modern nation-state: the impact of colonial transformation and also the resistance to colonialism, and the different political strategies pursued by the leading elites in the five states in dealing with the global economy and the end of the cold war. This background will enable us to understand the formation and the crisis of today's North African state.
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3.00 Credits
This is an advanced humanities course designed to introduce students to the politics of state-society relations in North Africa from the 19th to the 20th centuries. The course starts with a comparative and historical overview of the process of state formation of the five North African states: two populist republics in transition (Algeria and Libya) a capitalist monarchy (Morocco), and two secular republics (Egypt and Tunisia). Two other themes will be examined. First, we will explore the impact of colonial transformations, and the rise of nationalism. Second, we will study the challenges posed by post-cold war economic globalization on the post-colonial North African states, and the rise of Islamic social movements and feminism as opposition forces to the ruling nationalist elites.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on how the development of modern politics in the West has gone hand in hand with radical changes in the ways that people think about families and live their familial lives. Questions we will examine are whether modern politics can exist without the modern family, whether the decline of religious sentiment and local community has forced ideas about the family to carry new burdens, why changes in ideas about family seem so political threatening to some groups, and whether the ideas about authority and freedom that drive politics are rooted in the family. This course will then examine the contemporary politics of the family in the United States. We will examine the ways that ideas about the family underlie conservative and liberal worldviews, debates about family values, and the way changes in the composition of the modern families reverberate in politics. Readings from the class will include selections from: Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Rousseau. The Confessions, Emile, Julie. Nietzsche. Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols. Tocqueville. Democracy in America Christopher Lasch. Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged. George Lakoff. Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think. Dorothy Dinnerstein. The Mermaid and the Minotaur.
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