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3.00 Credits
This course will study the missionary activity of the church. After a brief look at mission and evangelization in the New Testament and the early church, we will then explore several important moments of missionary contact in the Americas, Africa, and Asia in the modern (post-Columbian) period. The course will conclude with a look at contemporary missionary practice and theory.
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3.00 Credits
"Third Cinema" is the terms for a wide, multicultural range of films from the Third World. The films' stylistic and thematic practices differentiate them from the Hollywood and European traditions that have dominated world cinema. We will not study these films merely as isolated masterpieces, but rather in relation to their larger cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts. To this end, the course readings will include essays concerning not only the films themselves but also the theoretical and political issues they engage: colonialism and post-colonialism, cultural, ethnic, racial, and sexual difference, and questions of otherness and multiculturalism.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will be concerned with two central ideas - equal opportunity and discrimination. We will focus on what constitutes equal opportunity with respect to gender and race and how best to achieve it, as well as what constitutes sexual and racial discrimination and how best to avoid it. We will begin by considering arguments of those who hold that feminist causes discriminate against men and that affirmative action programs discriminates against whites, and then look at opposing arguments. The goal of the course will be to help students make up their own minds about which In this course, we will be concerned with two central ideas - equal opportunity and discrimination. We will focus on what constitutes equal opportunity with respect to gender and race and how best to achieve it, as well as what constitutes sexual and racial discrimination and how best to avoid it. We will begin by considering arguments of those who hold that feminist causes discriminate against men and that affirmative action programs discriminates against whites, and then look at opposing arguments. The goal of the course will be to help students make up their own minds about which views on these topics are most morally defensible. Requirements: Two papers (10-15 pages in length) and participation in class discussions.
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3.00 Credits
Taught in English, this seminar offers a comparative study of 19th, 20th, and 21st-century fiction writing in the Lusophone South Atlantic, particularly exploring the historical connections and the cultural links between Brazil and Angola. Topics for discussion include the slave trade, colonialism, luso-tropicalism, race relations, religion, diaspora, postcolonial identities, and the charged notion of Lusophone black cultures. Readings in Brazilian and Angolan fiction, as well as in historical and anthropological writing. Among the authors to be considered are, on the Brazilian side, Machado de Assis, Lima Barreto, Jorge Amado, and António Olinto, and, on the Angolan side, Luandino Vieira, Pepetela, José Eduardo Agualusa, and Ondjaki.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides insights into 20th- and 21st-century Brazilian history, culture, and politics through film, photography, literature, and popular music. Topics discussed include Samba, Bossa Nova, Tropicalia, and the reception of Cinema Novo and of the new Brazilian Cinema. Special attention will be paid to Tropicalia (a movement with key manifestations in the visual arts, cinema, popular music, and literature) and the circumstances surrounding its creation, including the repressive military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to 1985. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement and is cross-listed in FTT. Offered in English.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the basic institutions and practices of American politics. It examines the institutional and constitutional framework of American politics and identifies the key ideas needed to understand the subject and develop a basis for evaluating American politics today.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the issues which have arisen around race and representation in American politics and introduces students to the contexts from which these questions evolved. The course focuses on African Americans, but also examines the distinctive sets of factors shaping political participation associated with Mexican Americans, Native Americans and Asian Americans and which therefore affect their relation to the American polity. The course introduces historical patterns predating the founding of the republic which have shaped American political institutions throughout their history, and compares statutory discrimination against and the evolution of citizenship rights for Blacks and for other racial and ethnic groups. More contemporary developments of legal protection for voting rights, debates over electoral redistricting, the impact of the intersection of race and gender on political representation will be examined. The development of political philosophy as well as party and electoral dynamics, and racial attitudes are also considered. Since the 2008 Presidential campaign will be underway, we will also explore the implications of developments in the primary and general elections. Approaches to these questions will be considered from the contrasting intellectual traditions incorporated within the political and social sciences, reflecting distinctive methodologies and perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
What is poverty? What does it mean to be poor, destitute and powerless? Does poverty in the developed world refer to the same conditions and factors that determine poverty in developing and undeveloped countries? What does genteel poverty mean? Does the ability to possess material goods and to consume indicate lack of poverty? What is the cycle of poverty? Can one break out of it? This course will address these and other questions on poverty through anthropological analysis. The course is divided into two parts: a) poverty in the pre-industrial era, and b) poverty in contemporary societies. Topics covered in Part A include the beginnings of poverty and social inequality in the earliest complex urban societies of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, urbanism, production, distribution and poverty in various time periods including classical Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, and slavery, colonialism and poverty. Part B will address issues such as the relationship between industrialism, colonialism and poverty in the 19th and 20th centuries, instituted poverty in post-colonial and post-industrial societies, and global manifestations of poverty in the 21st century. The course materials include readings from anthropology (archaeology, cultural anthropology, and biological anthropology), history, economics, theology, political science, as well as documentaries and films.
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3.00 Credits
The course explores the economic, state, and national conditions of multiculturalism as a social relation and semiotic form. Seminal questions include the issues of difference deployed in debates over multiculturalism and anthropology's location in them as a study of human diversity.
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3.00 Credits
Presents a review and discussion of social scientific research concerning the nature of race and ethnicity and their expression as social and cultural forces in the organization of multiethnic societies. The focus is multidisciplinary.
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