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1.50 Credits
Following the history of women in science that we explored in the fall semester, this class begins a discussion and analysis of current issues in gender and science. We look at the feminist critique of science and scientific objectivity before turning to women's careers in science. Several questions are central to our inquiry: Do women "do" science differently? Could alternative science and mathematics education help increase women's representation in fields that continue to be male-dominated such as physics, engineering, and computer science? How do social expectations of men and women effect career choices and retention? In addition to exploring these issues, we hear from a number of women scientists. Drawing from both the Hilltop and Medical School Campuses, our visitors include faculty members from chemistry, biology, engineering, earth and planetary sciences, medicine, physics, medical administration, among others, who share their reflections about women and science. This course is restricted to Women in Science FOCUS program participants.
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3.00 Credits
The legal system has assumed a major role in contemporary American life, a role that locates it as an essential governing authority that articulates the general rights and restraints for American citizens. The Law and Society FOCUS centers its attention on a few of the social controversies that depict the changes and diversity in the present-day American social order. The seminar particularly spotlights issues that are associated with status of America's youth and on the privileges and restraints that our legal system extends to its young people. Regular topics for our inquiry include: students' freedom of expression, privacy in the educational environment, religion in schools, abortion rights of minor females, juvenile criminality, and affirmative action in education. Combining students' exposure to shaping the law in the abstract with the application of the law in live controversies is an important element of the year's experiences. Thus the first semester's course work exclusively involves reading major opinions of the appellate courts, while the second semester's work entails an extensive commitment to observing the adjudication of disputes in trial courts. Prerequisite: admission to the Law and Society FOCUS plan.
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3.00 Credits
The Law and Society FOCUS is designed to expose students to some contemporary legal debates in American society and to expand their understanding of those issues as they are adjudicated in our legal system. We explore these current topics within the basic liberal arts tradition, which emphasizes the view that the legal system is a social instrument for seeking a "just society." The seminar, accordingly, is an introduction to legal controversies as questions of public policies that have philosophical, social, political, and economic implications, as well as legal ones. Prerequisite: admission to the Law and Society FOCUS plan.
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3.00 Credits
How have foreigners viewed Argentina over time? What was the meaning of bloodshed among gauchos? What are the origins of tango? And at one point, one third of Argentina's population consisted of Afro-descendants-what happened to them? This FOCUS course helps students find answers to such questions and more. A history of Argentina from Spanish settlement to the present, focusing on the wars of independence; economic growth and urbanization; immigration; gauchos and popular culture; Juan and Evita Peron; the "Dirty War"; and the transition to democracy and neo-liberalism. The course complements an offering on Argentine culture led by professor Claire Solomon of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in the spring semester. It also provides historical background for a field trip by the students to Buenos Aires, Argentina, during spring break. It covers the history of one of Latin America's largest and most important countries and gives students the chance to compare processes of cultural, political, and economic development with the United States and other countries in the Americas. Prerequisite: admission to the FOCUS Argentina program.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we examine the various expressions of Argentine culture that have given us gauchos, tango, Jorge Luis Borges, and one of the most prolific and honored cinematic traditions of Latin America. In particular, we explore the ways in which history and culture interact to express the experience of Argentina and Buenos Aires. We study films, popular music, dance, literature, sport, and theater to gain insight into that experience. This course is part of the Buenos Aires FOCUS program; it includes a trip to Buenos Aires over spring break and is intended to be taken after Focus 2601 (Argentina: Past and Present).
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the Cuban experience from its beginnings as a Spanish colony to its independence. Topics to be studied includes, among others, the Tainos; slavery; the preeminence of sugar and tobacco as an economic and cultural force; social structures; race; the documentaries; examination of the paintings of Wilfredo Lam and the photographs of Walker Evans; and the study the contribution of music to the Cuban ethos. We contrast various approaches to the understanding of Cuban history such as those of Fernando Ortiz, Hugh Thomas, and Louis Peres. Short readings are drawn from Las Casas, Marti, Felix Varela, and others. Requirements: three short papers (five to seven pages) and an oral report.
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3.00 Credits
The word "Cuba" strikes a resonant chord with many of us-a mix of curiosity, anxiety and hope-shaped by many years of controversy and stereotyping, on one hand, and myth making, on the other. Whether you want to develop an understanding of Cuban literature on and off the island, or to learn about music and dance history that led up to the Buena Visa Social Club phenomenon, this is a seminar for you. Organized chronologically and thematically as a companion course to Focus 267, "Cuban Transitions: From Colonialism to Communism," it covers a comprehensive range of topics related to contemporary Cuba. Faculty with ample firsthand knowledge of Cuba and invited speakers encourage wide-ranging discussions about the interplay of such issues as the politics of race and sexuality, repression and exile, censorship and dissent. African cultural heritage and syncretic religious practices are presented as both a source of pride for Cubans and a symbol of their unique Caribbean experience. By examining a variety of ideological perspectives in prose fiction, poetry, political speeches, artwork, musical forms, personal testimonies, and film, this seminar allows students to exchange perceptions across various disciplines, question myths and erase the distance between theory and context-based critical practice. Prerequisite: successful completion of the first-semester course, Focus 267.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the literature of Ireland from the fall of Parnell to the outbreak of World War II. This is the period of an emerging cultural nationalism, a great efflorescence of literature in many genres, and some of the most important political, social, and military events in modern Irish history. One of the remarkable things about the period is the close relationship between prominent figures in the literary and artistic world and those in the realm of politics and social change. The result was a rich cross-fertilization of ideas and attitudes that had enormous implications for the future of this embattled island nation. We explore this vital and transformative exchange by close attention to some primary texts of the period. Writers studied include: Yeats, Gregory, Wilde, Synge, Shaw, Joyce, and Bowen.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the intersection of literature and culture in Ireland from the establishment of the Fianna Fail government of de Valera in 1932, through the lean years of the 1940s to '70s, to the economic boom of the Celtic Tiger in the 1990s and beyond. To appreciate this small nation's rocky road to a successful entrance into the European Union, economic security, and national confidence, we closely read how Ireland's rich and diverse literature casts a cold but feeling eye on its hard-earned independence and fraught nationalism. For the fiction, poetry, and drama of Ireland not only mirrors but often moves the story of this nation's growth and transformation over the decades of economic, social, and political strife.
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1.50 Credits
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