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3.00 Credits
K. Olson, M. Wehrer How have social and political movements attempted to make peace and foster social justice This course examines the particular mechanisms of social change in a variety of different historical and cultural contexts, as well as the ways in which those same methods have been interpreted as models for the transformation of society as a whole. Working through case studies that range from national liberation movements to contemporary anti-globalization campaigns, the course offers tools for researching and analyzing the relationship between social movements and changing conceptions of social justice as a whole. Open to first-years, sophomores, and juniors; seniors by permission. This course is crosslisted as PEAC 214.
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3.00 Credits
M. Moran This course considers women's work, inside and out of the home, from historical and cross-cultural perspectives. Focusing on comparative cases from Europe, the United States, and the developing world, the issues explored include the definition of productive work, the evolution of women's "natural" roles as care-givers to children and others, women's impact upon the paid labor force and resulting reevaluation of the domestic division of labor, how governments' family policies are impacted by the changing composition of the work force, and whether professional women "have it all" in terms of family and career - and at what expense. Students are asked to think through their expectations for career and family beyond Colgate and to consider the place of work (however defined) in their lives and conceptions o
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3.00 Credits
This course is crosslisted as PEAC 218. For course description, see the Peace and Conflict section on the Courses of Study page.
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3.00 Credits
M. Loe This interdisciplinary course explores gender and sexuality as primary markers of social inequality in our society and among the most salient organizing agents of our everyday lives. Course readings span several disciplines, including literature, history, philosophy, sociology, and psychology. Students analyze gender and sexuality using comparative historical and sociological perspectives. Subthemes of the course include culture, socialization, body and performance inequality, intersectionality, essentialism, privilege, resistance, and social change.
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3.00 Credits
P. Lopes This course is a general introduction to concepts, theories, and issues related to mass media and society. Over the last 200 years tremendous changes have revolutionized the nature of mass communication in modern societies. This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of the nature of mass media and its social significance. It addresses the impact of different types of communication from information exchange, to news, to entertainment, to advertising. Students are introduced to a wide range of media including print, telegraphy, film, recorded sound, radio, television, and digital media. This course is about analyzing how media texts are produced; why some messages enter mass media channels and others do not; how these messages affect audiences and how audiences receive them; and the general impact of mass media on contemporary society, culture, and politics. This course is open to sophomores and first-year students only.
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3.00 Credits
This course is crosslisted as GEOG 225, EDUC 225, and POSC 225. For course description, see the Geography section on the Courses of Study page
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3.00 Credits
This course is crosslisted as ASTR 130. For course description, see the "Astronomy under Physics and Astronomy; Pre-Engineering: Course Offerings" section on the Courses of Study page.
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3.00 Credits
A. Maca All too often, the world's civilizations are presented by popular media in terms of universalistic appeals to the romantic and grandiose ideals of Euro-American civilization. The "civilization" of the ancient Maya has not escaped this. While its popularization certainly has benefited research and fueled interest in the ancient Maya on a global scale, the Maya often are portrayed in light of the social, political, and economic institutions that are most compatible with the perspectives and experiences of Western audiences. Scholarship on the ancient Maya also is guilty of such cultural biases. Therefore this course grapples with how, when, and why science and scholarship on the Maya have engaged with popular imagination and the interests of modern capitalist nations and global economies. The course has two goals: 1) to provide a solid understanding of the history of one of the most advanced ancient civilizations of the world, and 2) to encourage the development of a critical perspective on how this history has been constructed by Western historians, archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and others
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3.00 Credits
R. Ammerman, A. Aveni, J. Kerber, A. Maca From Neolithic settlements to the great cities of the ancient world, such as Uruk, Mohenjo Daro, Pompeii, Copan, and Teotihuacan, and encompassing Native American remains in our local central New York environment, this interdisciplinary, team-taught course offers a global study of archaeology and focuses on the role of material culture in shaping human identity. The course entertains questions such as, how did the world's first great cities come to be Where did writing come from Why did ancient people all over the world revere their dead What ends did human sacrifice serve What are the lessons of archaeology regarding the human transformation of the environment Perspectives on these issues are offered by faculty who specialize in a wide range of facets of the study of archaeology in different cultures of the world. This course is crosslisted as CLAS 240.
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3.00 Credits
C. Henke The words "nature" and "the environment" conjure up visions of wild animals and open landscapes, but are people part of nature, too This course shows how nature and human culture are intertwined, both in terms of how we shape our environment as well as how it shapes us. Through a series of case studies, students explore this relationship, focusing especially on the way that nature and culture are "political": inequalities, social problems and movements, and power relations all flow from the way that we interact with our environment. The course takes a global, comparative, and historical view of this process, and includes the following special topics: the rise of environmental awareness and environmental social movements; globalization and environmental values; consumption and the environment; environmental inequalities and justice; risk, technology, and environmental politics; and public policy and the environment. (Formerly list ed as SOAN 345, Environmental Politi
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