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3.00 Credits
Examines the causes of American legal change, with particular focus on the role of social movements, and whether and how legal change produces social change. Among the particular cases examined will be civil, prisoners' and women's rights. (AP)
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6.00 Credits
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1.00 Credits
This course will explore the ideas of citizenship as membership in a state and nationalism as membership in a nation, and trace them in the modern processes of state- and nation-building in the Euro-Atlantic countries and beyond. The course will focus on the intersections of citizenship and nationalism in areas such as constitutionalism, politics of identity, class, minority issues, politics of xenophobia, migration, multiple citizenship, European integration, and normative democratic dilemmas of inclusion and exclusion.
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2.00 Credits
The aim of this course is to explore how experiences of defeat in major wars contribute to the will of and difficulties in pursuing regret and historical justice, taking up examples of Germany and Japan. By discussing theoretical studies as well as fiction and films, the course examines the extent to which reflections on regret and historical justice are contained in the very formation of peoples’ identities.
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3.00 Credits
Drawing on histories, autobiographies, literature, and film produced by Tibetans, this course explores modern Tibet, focusing on Sino-Tibetan relations and contemporary religion and culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course will outline major ideas in the discipline of International Relations by an applied overview of the diverse theories, approached, and paradigms of global politics. This will include the development of conceptual frameworks and theories to facilitate the understanding and explanation of events and phenomena in world politics. Students will gain this knowledge through pop culture and film as well as through the writings of key IR Theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The class will be organized around the major theories of International relations: Realism, Liberalism, and Constructivism. These will be contrasted with theories of gender, postcolonialism, and ecology. A background in International Relations is not required, but an interest in contemporary global politics is strongly encouraged. (Subfield: IR)
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine changing norms of racial representation in American cinema. We will focus in particular on how different modes of representing racial difference imply different visions of American social and political life. Films will include The Birth of a Nation (1915), Casablanca (1942), Watermelon Man (1970), Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), The Color Purple (1985), Do The Right Thing (1989), and Crash (2005), among others.
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3.00 Credits
Debates around issues of same-sex marriage and adoption often employ the discourse of rights. This course will examine the terms of these debates in order to reconsider the assumptions underlying them. What are rights? Can rights bring about change? Why do marriage and childrearing spark so many political and moral debates? What models of sex and sexuality undergird these debates? Finally, we will consider the possibilities and limits of rights-based politics in general.
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3.00 Credits
This course is divided into two parts. The first part examines theories from the three major traditions in International Relations – Realism, Liberalism, and Constructivism. The second part of the course applies these theories to contemporary issues in world politics such as America’s role in the world, the rise of China and India, the future of the European Union, and international terrorism. Requirements include two exams (midterm and final) and a short paper.
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3.00 Credits
The course aims to introduce students to the major debates in globalization and development studies: Is globalization a new phenomenon? Does global interconnectedness lead to a clash of civilizations or to one-way diffusion from developed to developing countries, converting the globe into a giant mall? Are there processes of intermixing across time, space and identities? Is globalization an engine of progress or a vehicle of socio-economic polarization? Why has development been contested in some places and not in others? What would a completely developed world look like? These questions will be explored using multi-media and texts from various disciplines and historical periods.
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