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  • POLI 375: Democratic Engagement

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    What is democracy How healthy is democracy in the United States and/or abroad What counts as engagement Is talking enough Should citizens do more than vote What types of activism count as engagement This course addresses these fundamental questions in addition to those raised during our interaction over the semester. Democratic Engagement offers a community-based experience focused on observing, participating in, and documenting several different approaches to political engagement in the greater Poughkeepsie metro area. The class combines theory and practice in two ways. First, the class offers a theoretical exploration of concepts such as democracy, participation, deliberation, activism, and power through an examination of texts, articles, and films. Secondly, students employ their own gazes to evaluate engagement in action through off-campus visits, guest lectures, and participation in local politics. Students work in small teams with a local organization on a public policy issue designed by the organization for in-depth research on an advocacy project. Students complete a final report to be turned in to the organization at the end of the semester. The class also makes an end-of-the-semester presentations with community organizers and the Vassar community. Ms. Gregory. Prerequisite: by permission of instructor One 2-hour period.
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  • POLI 376: Seminar in Feminist Theory in Political Thought

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    This seminar studies a major theorist, school, or problem in feminist theory. Ms. Shanley. Prerequisite: by permission of instructor. One 2-hour period. Not offered in 2008/09.
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  • POLI 380a: Hermeneutics and the Comparative Study of Politics

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    Considered by some to be a "new philosophy of science," hermeneutics has become in recent years an increasingly established approach to social and political inquiry. This seminar seeks to explicate and critically examine hermeneutical principles in the context of the comparative study of politics. What are hermeneutical approaches to understanding institutional power relations, political practices, and the character and composition of cultures and societies And what contributions, if any, might hermeneutics make to political explanation This seminar focuses on these questions. Illustrative studies are drawn from the instructor's familiarity with politics in the area widely characterized as "The Middle East." Significant, original, and semester-long research projects are developed out of the empirical curiosities of the participants. Mr. Davison.
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  • POLI 381a: Politics of Memory:Latin America/Comparative Perspective

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    (Same as Latin American and Latino/a Studies 381) This seminar analyzes theoretical debates and political processes around what has become known as the politics of memory, or "coming to terms with" violent political pasts. Readings come from a range of disciplines and explore distinct political mechanisms, symbolic acts, and day-to-day social and cultural relations that influence the construction or reconstruction, as well as the fragmentation and/or absence of political community. Case studies are primarily from Latin America but also draw from other regions. Ms. Hite.Prerequisite: by permission of instructor One 2-hour period.
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  • POLI 383a: Global Political Thought

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    Conventional international relations theory derives its core concepts primarily from Western political thought. Political relations in most of the world, however, are based on ways of imagining and acting that are constituted through different and multiple languages of political, economic and social thought. Classics such as The Shahnameh, The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, The Adventures of Amir Hamza, The Arthasastra, The Rayavacakamu offer textured understandings of worlds shaped by imaginations of order, justice, governance, power, authority and sovereignty. This seminar introduces students to some of these ways of thinking world politics through a careful reading of classic texts such as Popol Vuh, Sundiata, Muqaddimah, Ain-e-Akbari, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Tale of Genji and Journey to the West. The idea is to read these classics as global texts rather than as the essences of specific cultures or civilizations. The focus will therefore be on analyzing how certain classic texts have traveled, been translated, understood or appropriated across various historical groupings. Mr. Muppidi.
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  • POLI 384b: Seminar in Political Theory

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    An examination of selected theorists and problems in contemporary political theory. Mr. Davison. Prerequisite: by permission of instructor. One 2-hour period.
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  • POLI 385a: Families,Politics,and Law

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    This course examines emerging perspectives on family forms and state regulation of families that have appeared in response to such developments as same-sex marriage and parenting; multi-racial families created by intermarriage and by transracial and intercountry adoption; increasing numbers of single-parent households; and reproductive technologies that enable people to procreate by using donated eggs and sperm and/or hired gestational service (and in the future, perhaps, by cloning). The course explores these issues from the perspective of theories of social justice that put concerns of race, economic class, and gender at the center of their analysis. Ms. Shanley. Prerequisite: by permission of instructor One 2-hour period.
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  • POLI 399a: or b.Senior Independent Work

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    Independent work is normally based on a student's desire to study with an instructor a specialized aspect of a course taken with that instructor. Normally 1 unit entails substantial directed reading, the writing of a long paper, and biweekly conferences with the instructor. This course cannot be used to satisfy the requirement of 2 units of 300-level work in the major. In no case shall independent work satisfy the subfield distribution requirement. The department.
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  • PSYC 105a: and b.Introduction to Psychology:A Survey

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    This course is designed to introduce the student to fundamental psychological processes, their nature and development, and contemporary methods for their study through a survey of the major research areas in the field. Areas covered include the biological and evolutionary bases of thought and behavior, motivation and emotion, learning, memory, thinking, personality, developmental, and social psychology. Significant work in the course is devoted to developing skills in quantitative analysis. Students are expected to participate in three hours of psychological research during the semester. Students may not take both 105 and 106. The department. Open to all classes. Enrollment limited.
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