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3.00 Credits
The utopian tradition in the social sciences has often served as the basis not only for critique but also for the explicit and unconscious yearnings of the human community. In this course we will examine the key texts and voices in that tradition with a view towards their contribution to an environmental imagination-a sensibility that insists on the intrinsic value of the eco-system. The relationship between the environmental imagination and the articulation of various public policy proposals has been at times useful and at other times a hindrance or simply a co-optation of the deeper impulses and goals of the environmental movement. In this course the emphasis will be on the relationship between these two aspects of environmental praxis. We will also examine several critical debates within the area of environmental politics. Issues concerning: the needs of advanced industrial societies and those of the environment, environmental ethics, environmental activism, environmental protection and environmental regulation will be surveyed. The importance of environmental movements (how they are formed) and whose interests are served by them will be examined in great detail. Grass roots organizations, to determine the variety of resources open to those interested in environmental politics. Theories of environmental politics will be studied to provide a background and context for the on going debates regarding "rights" and the "environment." Power relations between advanced industrialized nations and developing nations will be examined in order to identify areas of commonality as well as those that are contested.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces issues, perspectives and visions of the global age with the objective of developing a multidisciplinary framework for analyzing problems that can be applied to a variety of global problems. Topics include euro-centrism, the cold war, cross-border movements, the problem of global slums, inequality and the world economy, ethnic conflict and religious extremism, and other issues affecting the world scene. (Fall/Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine selected literary texts and films both as expressions of specific national identities and in their intercultural relatedness. Though historical roots will be treated, emphasis will be on contemporary manifestations of the cultural issues of Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, migrants, Latin America and Asia. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the holistic study of the relationship between humans and the environment in a global context, including the cultural, technological and economic dimensions of environmental problems. It will examine the earth's regions and ecosystems and trace the impact over time of human populations on the earth's resources. Current issues such as increased resource consumption and waste generation will be highlighted, as well as the current agencies and regulations that mediate the relationship between humans and the environment.
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3.00 Credits
An integrative seminar meant to pull together the diverse elements of international studies, including economic, political, historic, literary and cultural aspects. This course is usually taken by International Studies majors in their senior year; the senior thesis is written in conjunction with the course. International Studies majors who will not be present at Manhattanville in the Fall semester of their senior year may take the course in their junior year with the consent of the instructor. (Fall)
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4.00 Credits
This course looks at the films produced in the two Germanys during the 40 years of that country's separation into West (FRG) and East (GDR), analyzing them both as aesthetic vehicles and as expressions of a particular political-historical context. Films will include those of now world-famous directors such as Frank Beyer, Konrad Wolf, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders. Films are in German with English subtitles. Lectures and supplementary readings are in English. ( Spring)
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4.00 Credits
This course uses Edgar Reitz' epic 16 hour film "Heimat" [iGerman, with English subtitles] to investigate German sociohistorical developments from the end of World War I to Germany's political and economic dominance of Europe in the 1980's. Praised for it's emotional intensity, cinematic beautyand attention to detail, the film is an excellent vehicle for learning about the events of modern German history and their effect on individual lives. Lectures and readings are in English. (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
20th- century English and Irish writers whose work challenges social, religious, and aesthetic conventions. Course deals with the beginnings and refinements of modernism, the effects of class and cultural conflicts, the risks of intimacy and the search for values in contemporary society. Includes W.B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Doris Lessing, Edna O'Brien, and Harold Pinter. (Spring '08)
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3.00 Credits
This course will address the interrelationship of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland from the early Christian period to the present. Chief topics will include the spread of Christianity, the growth of Norman feudalism, the emergence of nation states, the influence of the Reformation, the emergence of England as the dominant center, the fate of the Celtic countries, the growth of empire, industrialization, and finally the emergence of devolution movements in the 19th and 20th centuries. ( Fall '08)
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3.00 Credits
This course will follow the emergence of Modern Ireland from the Elizabethan conquest to the modern period. Special attention will be paid to the experience of conquest and colonization, the impact of the Penal Laws, the major social dislocation caused by the Potato Famine, modernization, the role of the Catholic church, the cultural and political influence of the Celtic Revival, and the background to the current situation in Northern Ireland. ( Spring '08)
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