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4.00 Credits
This seminar situates contemporary transformations in "Greater China" - Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan - in a worlhistorical perspective as well as within East Asian regional perspectives. It examines theses on the geographical centrality of China as a "Middle Kingdom" in a "maritime Asia" connected networks of tribute and long-distance trading relations, reviews developments in modern China since 1949, and critically examines the postmodern reforms that have spilt over into 21st-century political economy. What is China's contemporary trajectory? The seminar will seek possible futures for some of the most urgent problems confronting global political economy.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces a distinct way of organizing literary study, substituting for the study of national traditions the notion of postcoloniality as a global condition affecting not only literature but also categories we use to think about human experience: relations between colonizers and colonized and between culture and power; identity, authenticity and hybridity; roots, motherland, mother tongue; nationality. Readings include contemporary literature produced in the Indian subcontinent, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Africa, Canada and the Caribbean, as well as important theoretical texts about postcoloniality. Also offered as English 357 and Philosophy 357.
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4.00 Credits
Postcolonial theory addresses issues of identity, culture, literature and history arising from the social context of colonization, resistance to colonization, liberation from colonization and the formation of new nations. It crosses the boundaries of the social sciences and humanities in its approach to theory and analysis of the discourses used to constitute colonial and postcolonial subjects. We begin with some classic texts of postcolonial theory before moving to a focus on specifically feminist debates and texts within postcolonial studies. Literature and film are used in dialog with theoretical texts to examine questions about gender and women's issues in various societies. Also offered as English 367, Gender Studies 367 and Philosophy 367.
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4.00 Credits
Pan-Africanism is a composite of diverse and conflicting ideas that is rooted in Africa and the dispersal of African peoples within the African continent and to many regions of the world, especially during the last 2,000 years. The course focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular attention to several Pan- African Congresses, issues of identity and community, concepts of diaspora and return, development debates, and the very contentious reparations movement, and concludes with various scholarly perceptions on prospects for Pan-Africanism. Also offered through African Studies and Global Studies.
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4.00 Credits
Independent Study.489,490.SYE:Senior Project
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4.00 Credits
SYE:Honors Project
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4.00 Credits
Increasingly, Americans are cynical about politics. This course examines the problems that give rise to that skepticism, as well as what might be done about them. The course is an introduction to the major institutions and actors of the American political system, including the Constitution, parties, interest groups and the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government. Attention is also given to cultural, ideological and economic contexts and to the mechanisms and possibilities of political change.
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4.00 Credits
Comparative politics analyzes how demands emerge, power is exercised and benefits are distributed in different countries. It uses both historical and contemporary evidence to examine how societies respond to these challenges in order to appreciate and learn from the differences among them. Developing societies, communist and formerly communist regimes, as well as industrialized democracies, are analyzed and compared as a basis for evaluation and judgment. Also offered through Global Studies.
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4.00 Credits
An analysis of international relations as a political process with particular emphasis on patterns of conflict and cooperation. Major areas of study include theories concerning the nature of the international system, nationalism, balance of power, collective security, alliance systems, international law and organization, political economy, war, deterrence, arms control and disarmament, the emerging international order, human rights and the environment. Also offered through Global Studies.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the answers that philosophers from Plato to Nietzsche have given to the question, "How should political life be organized?"This question leads us to consider the related problems of justice, power, equality, freedom and human nature. The course includes discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of liberal democracy. Also offered as Philosophy 206 and through European Studies.
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