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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Africa today represents less than 2% of the world's GDP. The legacy of colonial rule has undoubtedly contributed to a slowdown in the international competitiveness of Africa. However, there are internal factors as well. Today, many countries are progressively shifting from a US-EU-Africa paradigm, to one that includes a larger proportion of alternative investors from the Middle-East, India, and China. This seminar will focus on: the effect of the legacy of complex political intricacies and the ways in which Africa engages the world; and how African countries face and anticipate the challenges of globalization.
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This course will present an integrated perspective of science and technology in the developing work with a strong focus on Africa. It will examine the implications of science and technology for rural development, along with the potential technological solutions to problems of energy, water, transportation and affordable housing. In each of these areas, a holistic framework will be presented for the development of sustainable solutions. The cultural issues associated with technology diffusion will also be considered along with case studies that highlight the successful applications of technologies.
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Examines selected aspects on conflict in primarily sub-Saharan Africa. We focus on issues such as: theories of conflict; types of actors; behavior, especially civilian victimization; how conflicts end; and the moral evaluation of conflict. Cases and comparisons include: the 1998 Great Lakes Conflict; the child and corporate soldier in Sierra Leone and Uganda; causes and patterns of civilian victimization; the current conflict in Zimbabwe; and the problems of accountability as experienced by the International Criminal Court and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary introduction to the materials and methods of American Studies, focusing on the significance of place in U.S. history, society, and culture. Using a variety of interpretive lenses--including social history, urban history, and cultural studies--this year's course will examine specific types of places: cities, suburbs, shopping malls, amusement parks, cemeteries (to name a few possibilities). Critical issues will include such topics as race and the built environment, suburban sprawl, and the production of leisure. Texts and contexts will range equally widely, drawing on film, photography, architecture, history, and fiction.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The American visual landscape is replete with graphics dedicated to encouraging and detailing the reform of city, country, housing, farming, factory work and housework, health, and culture. This seminar will study the history of the tabulation of statistical data and its graphic representation in the form of pictographs, charts, diagrams, plans, maps, and other methods of illustration and inscription. Students will gain a thorough understanding of how graphical methods influenced policy makers as well as the perception of reforms in the minds of the American public.
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This course examines both what people want, and historically have wanted, in the workplace, and how American laws provide or fail to provide these rights and opportunities. Emphasis is on the legal regimes created by the Wagner Act of 1935 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The categories of rights that were created in these eras are constantly being re-designed and understood. We will look at how the law has interpreted these rights, and how far the expansion of workplace rights extends. Is the workplace best seen as a site for individual opportunity and personal growth, a furthering of American democracy, or an avenue to making money?
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This seminar explores the evolution of American horror fiction and cinema, from the religious roots in the Puritan sensibility to the present day when horror addresses a somewhat wider range of dreads--including, but not confined to, the traditional fear of damnation. Works selected reflect a constant oscillation between the moral and amoral ends of fear-generation. The seminar will investigate this irresolvable ambivalence about the relative merits of salvation through fear versus fear as a perverse form of entertainment.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This seminar focuses on issues involved in improving educational opportunities for children in urban schools. Students will analyze the historical and contemporary writings on issues fundamental to student educational performance, with emphasis on understanding the barriers and pathways to reform. Students will also apply their readings to case studies of selected urban school districts exploring the policy and political dimensions of various reform initiatives.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Intellectual property law is concerned with the legal regulation of mental products. It affects such diverse subjects as the visual and performing arts, new plant varieties, electronic databases, advertising, insulin producing bacteria, and video games. This course seeks to mix theoretical, historical, and policy approaches to the regulation of knowledge. Through approaching intellectual property as a regulatory system, it will examine the balancing of incentives to foster human creativity with the concern about unduly restricting its diffusion.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This seminar undertakes a close reading of Moby-Dick (1851), often acclaimed as the greatest American novel. Why was this story of a tragic sea voyage so neglected in its day, and so celebrated by later generations? To explore its twin lines of action--Ahab's drive to kill a white whale versus Ishmael's quest to know it--we use the methods of history, literature, art, religion, economics, philosophy, and ecology. Of special interest are the ways Melville anticipates recent environmental thought, depicts a globalized culture, and dramatizes the national struggle to reconcile faith and fact, race and justice.
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