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4.00 Credits
A comprehensive overview of the theory of plate tectonics. The historical development of the theory is reviewed, considering in detail the contributions of continental drift, geosynclines, apparent polar wandering, sea floor spreading and geomagnetic reversals. Current interpretations of the plate tectonic theory are discussed in relation to rock assemblages, geophysics and paleogeographic reconstructions. There is a significant emphasis on the nature and origin of orogenic belts. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Semester-long studies in appropriate areas of the earth sciences may be designed in consultation with an individual instructor in the geology department. May use seminar format when appropriate. Permission of instructor and senior standing are required. Counts for SYE credit. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
The senior thesis is an extended application of a student's geological background toward research of an original nature. It involves posing questions, developing hypotheses, conducting field and/or laboratory work, applying scholarship and library research, interpreting results and compiling those results into a finished thesis for submission to the department. Completion of Senior Thesis may lead to graduation with honors (see Honors in the Curriculum section of this Catalog). Guidelines and deadlines for thesis preparation should be obtained from the department chair. Counts for SYE credit. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the reasons for the emergence of a global political economy. Using case studies, students examine the basic concepts and vocabulary in the political-economic analysis of globalization, such as free trade, capital accumulation, international division of labor, neo-liberalism, privatization, structural adjustment and sustainable development. The course explores the consequences of changing patterns of transnational economic and governance structures for nation-states, ecosystems and people's lives, and examines the repercussions of economic globalization. Discussion of the opposition movements that have formed to contest globalization, such as those emerging from labor movements, environmentalism and feminism.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of their own identities and social locations leads students to an understanding of how those identities exist in a global matrix of cultural, economic and political relationships. Students are introduced to various theoretical and political positions on identity, with a focus on gender, race, ethnicity, class, spirituality and sexuality. While much of the material is drawn from the contemporary era, the historical context of European conquest and expansion and the Middle Passage frame a critical examination of the evolving ideas of "America" and the "West. Also offered through Caribbean and Latin American Studies and Native American Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar addresses how processes of contemporary globalization shape and reshape the nature of ecological questions. What is entailed in the construction of an ecological perspective that is sensitive not only to the pressures on the Earth imposed by global capital accumulation, but also to the tradition of the oppressed in their everyday struggles for social justice? The course examines why social movements concerning women's issues, the environment, poor people and civil rights are increasingly seeing social and political ecology as fundamental to their long-term strategies, and compares the ways environmental questions have been raised in different geographical spaces of the world economy.
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4.00 Credits
The seminar covers the geographical and historical rise of East Asian economies in the context of "quasi-states" in the world economy,the spectacular economic growth of China, and the social and economic crisis gripping South Asia in the context of contemporary debates about neo-liberalism, gender, identity, community and communalism. What are the prospects for East and South Asia in the new global millennium? Topics include regional perspectives on global capital accumulation, global inequalities, human rights discourse, fundamentalism and social movements.
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4.00 Credits
An introductory reading-intensive seminar on Karl Marx's hugely influential critique of political economy. The object of the course is to try to work through the path of argument in Volume 1 of Capital. How does Marx elaborate upon the concept of critique? How is Capital a work of critique? How do contemporary transformations in global political economy relate to Marx's critique of political economy? Other works by Marx may be used insofar as they help us obtain a deeper purchase into Capital.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the complex and difficult processes through which nations confront - or fail to confront - their histories ofcolonization, genocide and other types of mass violence. Through a comparative look at case studies such as South Africa, Israel/ Palestine and the United States, the course examines a variety of collective responses to mass violence, including denial, truth commissions, war crimes trials and reparations.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the dynamics of Japanese culture, old and new, high and low, within itself and in relation to other cultures, particularly the West. Its approach is broadly comparative: "interdisciplinary"to examine the interrelationships among different arts and cultural phenomena in the Japanese society, and "intercultural" to study themutual relationships and influences between Japan and western countries. Each topic is placed in wide historical, religious, social and artistic contexts, in search of its contemporary meanings and expression. Also offered as Modern Languages (Japanese) 243.
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