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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on three questions: Why have a small number of Western countries and Japan emerged as wealthy, industrial societies, while the great majority of countries have not? How have some third-world countries managed to achieve rapid economic development, while others have experienced stagnation or even negative growth in recent decades? The main focus is a comparison between several East Asian and African countries. Third, how has the process of globalization affected countries' chances for development? Prerequisites: Government 105 or 108 and junior or senior standing. Also offered through Global Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on West European governments, political parties and social movements. It seeks to provide students with essential information about West European politics, as well as contemporary theories about advanced capitalist democracies. Comparisons between European and American politics are frequent so that students may better see the distinctiveness of each. Issues examined include the European welfare state, the significance of the European Union, the changing contours of political conflict and what the end of the Cold War has meant for Western Europe. Especially recommended for students who plan to participate in an off-campus program in Europe and for students returning from those programs. Also offered through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines major expressions of the continued vitality of religious life in contemporary Latin America, such as the emergence over the last several decades of a theology of social change, usually called "theology of liberation." We consider the riseof this theology and the reactions and criticisms it has provoked. We examine the growth of evangelicalism in Latin America as both alternative to and consequence of liberation theology. Prerequisite: Religious Studies 100 or permission of instructor. Also offered as Religious Studies 339.
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4.00 Credits
Discussion of works by Kafka, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Brecht, Orwell, Camus, Pynchon, Kosinski and others that bear on the problem of alienation from self, work, society and nature in the modern world. The course does not satisfy the department's major requirement in political theory. Also offered through European Studies and as Philosophy 341.
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4.00 Credits
Environmentalism challenges the political, economic and philosophical foundations of modernity. This seminar examines the way this challenge has been issued by various wings of the movement, including animal liberationists, ecofeminists, neo-Malthusians, eco-guerrillas, deep ecologists and wilderness preservationists. The course does not satisfy the department's major requirement in political theory. Prerequisite: Government 206 or 344 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of many important thinkers from the Renaissance to the present, but with a special emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Syllabus may include works by Voltaire, Tocqueville, Burke, Hegel, Mill, Freud, Fromm and Arendt. Whenever appropriate, students assess modern political developments in light of the assigned texts. Prerequisite: Government 206. Also offered as Philosophy 344 and through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the basic elements of Marxist political theory and of the major streams of contemporary thought that have emerged in response to it. Some of the theorists whose work we might examine include Gramsci, Horkheimer and Adorno, Marcuse, Habermas and Foucault. Feminist, African-American and Caribbean interpreters of Marx may also be studied. Also offered through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the main currents of political thinking from the Colonial period to the end of the 19th century. The course begins with the Puritan Divines and continues through the start of the Progressive era. Thinkers considered might include Paine, the Federalists, Jefferson, Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Thoreau, Frederick Douglass and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the main currents of political thinking in the United States from the Progressive Era through the end of the 1960s. Thinkers considered include the Social Darwinists, Thorstein Veblen, W.E.B. DuBois, Jane Addams and John Dewey. We also look at both the resurgence of conservative thought in the 1950s and some of the sociological critiques of the post-war era out of which the New Left, civil rights, Black Power, feminist and ecological movements grew.
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4.00 Credits
A broad-based survey of African-American social and political thought. The focus is on the theme of duality: what it means for a culture and a people to be both integral to and excluded from the larger society of which they are a part. We will examine the variety of ways African-American thinkers have confronted this duality and how they have asserted the dignity and autonomy of their people in the context of a social order historically structured to deny them their full humanity. The course will include such African-American thinkers and writers as David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison. Also offered through U.S. Cultural and Ethnic Studies.
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