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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to contemporary Chinese politics. Using scholarly articles, literature, journalistic accounts, and fi lms, the course presents an overview of China in world history and then moves on to issues, groups, and individuals that animate current Chinese politics, including economic and political reforms, social and cultural problems, quality of life dilemmas, the new generation of leaders, foreign policy, and China's future. (M5) Fischler
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3.00 Credits
Topics have included democracy, totalitarianism, existential political thought, Marxism, nationalism. Fall. Two 70-minute periods. Staff
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3.00 Credits
Course explores the history and politics of women's rights in China, Japan, and Korea through readings, discussions, writing, interviews, videos, and debates. Focus will be on cultural and gender differences and the politics concerning women that emerge from the different written and visual sources covered. Writing-intensive. (M5) Fischler
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3.00 Credits
This advanced-level political theory course introduces students to scholarly texts, activist writings, and historical documents pertinent to feminist theory and masculinity studies. Selected readings also address multiculturalism, race, class, sexuality, religion, and ethnicity. Theories studied will vary by semester. This class exposes students to diverse approaches to the politics of sex and gender. Prerequisite: Political Science 120 or permission of the instructor. Haddad
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3.00 Credits
Seminar on politics of family, ethnic, community, gender, workplace, lifestyle, education, class, and religious identities. Connection between forging an authentic identity and societal factors that present barriers to this pursuit. Course assumption is that marriage between self-knowledge and critical awareness of the world is essential. This requires examination of agencies by which sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia are reproduced and how these structures infl uence character development. Fall. One extended period. (U2) Olson
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3.00 Credits
This seminar covers the politics of Latin America, Asia, and Africa through reading and research. Provides the means and the methods to understand and analyze other countries. Topics change by semester and will include: women in the developing world, the politics of human rights, contentious politics, comparative revolutions, democratization and authoritarianism, states and social movements, comparative political transitions. (M5) Fischler
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3.00 Credits
How popular culture shapes outcomes of American political process; how cultural processes structure comprehension and evaluation of politics; relationship between culture and political power; how political beliefs and values are manifest in the popular culture. Discussion of consumerism, violence, race and ethnicity, gender confl icts, and religion, as treated in television, movies, music, and the Internet. Spring, alternate years. Writing-intensive. (M4) Reynolds
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3.00 Credits
Explores how contemporary society uses energy and how its use is shaped by politics and public policy, especially how energy consumption and choices of energy technologies shape patterns of human settlement, structure of social life, distribution of income, and allocation of political power. Examines implications of energy choices for the viability of the environment, levels of personal freedom, and possibilities of democratic government. (U1) Reynolds
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3.00 Credits
Using scholarly articles, literature, journalistic accounts, and fi lms, the course addresses a variety of topics that change by the term, including leadership, regime change, foreign policy, domestic politics, contentious politics, social movements and the state, women in politics, political economy, political and economic development, and the effects of globalization within China. Writingintensive. (M5) Fischler
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3.00 Credits
A thematic approach to Chinese politics and cultural movements. Using scholarly articles, literature, journalistic accounts, fi lms, and other materials, the course addresses particular topics each term, including political culture and pop culture, politics and the cinema, art and politics, culture and politics, politics and literature, and symbolic politics and social movement in China over the last century. Writing-intensive. (M6) Fischler
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