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(Same as Africana Studies 205) Mr. Mhiri. Not offered in 2008/09.
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This course examines the media's role in our changing world, covering different journalism venues, including the Web. It looks closely at what role ethics play in the news media, other related media, and how those roles are changing quickly with technology. Students research these issues, and report and write different types of stories, such as news, features, and commentary. They also visit the newsroom of a daily newspaper and meet with news professionals about the important transitions that are happening in the news business and how it affects their jobs. Applicants to the course must submit samples of original nonfiction writing and a statement about why they want to take the course. The nature of the writing submissions is specified beforehand in flyers distributed to students through the program office. Instructor to be announced. Not open to first-year students. Deadline for submission of writing samples one week after October break. Admission by permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period.
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The intent of the seminar is to help students converge upon a cultural feature from more than one direction, to recognize some of its inherent complexities, and to assess the peculiar resources for such illumination offered by a multidisciplinary approach. Topic for 2008/09: America in the World. This course focuses on current debates in American Studies about resituating the question of "America" in global terms. We explore the theoretical and political problems involved in such a reorientation of the field as we examine topics such as American militarization and empire, American involvement in global monetary organizations such as the World Trade Organization and the World Bank, the question of a distinctive national and international American culture, foreign perspectives on American and "Americanization," and the global significance of American popular culture including film and music such as hip-hop. Mr. Cornelius, Ms. VarghesRequired of students concentrating in the program. Generally not open to senior majors. Open to other students by permission of the director and as space permits. Prerequisite: course work that has dealt with American materials in at least two separate disciplines. Two 75-minute periods.
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(Same as Asian Studies 257 and Sociology 257) Ms. Moon. Not offered in 2008/09.
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This course examines "white" American identity as a cultural location and a discourse with a history-in Mark Twain's terms, "a fiction of law and custom." What are the origins of "Anglo-Saxon" American identity What are the borders, visible and invisible, against which this identity has leveraged position and power How have these borders shifted over time, and in social and cultural space How has whiteness located itself at the center of political, historical, social, and literary discourse, and how has it been displaced How does whiteness mark itself, or mask itself What does whiteness look like, sound like, and feel like from the perspective of the racial "other" What happens when we consider whiteness as a racial or ethnic category And in what ways do considerations of gender and class complicate these other questions We read works by artists, journalists, and critics, among them Bill Finnegan, Benjamin DeMott, Lisa Lowe, David Roediger, George Lipsitz, Roland Barthes, Chela Sandoval, Eric Lott, bell hooks, CherrÃe Moraga, Ruth Frankenberg, James Baldwin, Homi Bhabha, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, James Weldon Johnson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, Alice Walker, and Don DeLillo. We also explore the way whiteness is deployed, consolidated and critiqued in popular media like film (Birth of a Nation, Pulp Fiction, Pleasantville) television ("reality" shows, The West Wing) and the American popular press. MTwo 75-minute periods.
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This course provides a multidisciplinary exploration of the US economy in a global context. How does globalization affect the choices, constraints, opportunities and uncertainties faced by North Americans How has globalization reinforced and/or transformed structures of economic, political and social inequality in the US (and the rest of the world) Topics include outsourcing and off-shoring by U.S.-based multinational corporations; immigration; the consequences of dependence on petroleum imports; the U.S.-led global credit crisis; the impact of a falling dollar on the U.S. and the rest of the world; and the effects of globalization on the bargaining power of corporations, workers, communities and governments. Ms. Ali. 282b. US-Mexico Border: Nation, God, & Human Rights in AZ-Sonora (1) (Same as Latin American and Latino/a Studies 282 and Geography 282) Born in large part of violence, conquest and dispossession, the United States-Mexico border region has evolved over the last 150 years into a site of intense economic growth and trade, demographic expansion, and ethno-cultural interaction. It has also become a focus of intense political debate and conflict-especially over the last decade or so. This course focuses on these processes as they relate to the US-Mexico boundary, with an emphasis on contemporary socio-political struggles and movements and their historical-geographical roots. In doing so, it examines the dynamic intersection of different ideologies, social identities, and ethical and political commitments as they relate to nationalism, religion, and human rights in the Arizona-Sonora, Mexico region. Course participants visit the region during Spring break. Applications to determine enrollment for the course are reviewed by the instructors in the Fall. Mr. Nevins, Mr. Simpson.
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(Same as Environmental Studies 283 and Anthropology 283) Ms. Johnson.
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1.00 Credits
(Same as Geography 284 and Sociology 284) The United States is the largest military power in the history of the world. By some estimates, its current military spending exceeds that of all the rest of the world's countries combined. The U.S. military's reach is both sociologically and geographically extensive. Sociologically, the military is widely embraced within the country as a necessary and virtuous institution; indeed, for many in the United States it is the ultimate embodiment of patriotism. Geographically, the Pentagon's presence is felt in all fifty states through production of military equipment and the presence of recruitment and training facilities; moreover, the U.S. military has a strong presence in dozens of countries via, among other things, approximately 800 military bases abroad. This course seeks to understand how this situation has come to be, how it relates to American identity and practice, its material impact on communities and populations at home and abroad, and social movements that champion a robust, geographically extensive U.S. military and those whom contest it. Mr. Hoynes, Mr. Nevins
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This course introduces a set of critical tools for analyzing television culture. We begin with the assumption that television is a major shaping force for culture, politics, and society, and therefore deserves our notice and considered engagement. It offers the student a chance to examine, in a critical context, his or her own relation to TV in all its forms: the soap, the sitcom, the made-for-TV movie, the documentary, 24-hour music and news channels, the infomercial, and reality TV. Special attention is given to the way in which television's modes of address and technologies of representation constitute and transform race, gender, and class identities in the U.S. Ms. Yow, Ms. Carter
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In an effort to subjugate indigenous nations, colonizing and Christianizing enterprises in the Americas included the implicit understanding that subduing Native American women through rape and murder maintained imperial hierarchies of gender and power; this was necessary to eradicate Native people's traditional egalitarian societies and uphold the colonial agenda. Needless to say, Native women's stories and histories have been inaccurately portrayed, often tainted with nostalgia and delivered through a lens of western patriarchy and discourses of domination. Through class readings and writing assignments, discussions and films, this course examines Native women's lives by considering the intersections of sex, class, and race through indigenous frameworks. We expose Native women's various cultural worldviews in order to reveal and assess the importance of indigenous women's voices to national and global issues such as sexual violence, environmentalism, and health. The class also takes into consideration the shortcomings of western feminisms in relation to the realities of Native women and Native people's sovereignty in general. Areas of particular importance to this course are indigenous women's urban experience, Haudenosaunee influence on early U.S. suffragists, indigenous women in the creative arts, third-gender/two-spiritedness, and Native women's traditional and contemporary roles as cultural carriers. Ms. McG
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