ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology 145: Sexualities and Culture
Examines the field of sexuality studies using a comparative, cross-cultural approach. Emphasizes the relation between culture, history, and political economy in the emergence of sexual practices and sexualized identities. Examines theories of sexuality and identity, with particular attention to violence, human rights, and political agency.

Anthropology 179: Gender, War, and Militarism
Examines politics of militarization in relation to gender, race, and sexuality in national and international contexts of war. Explores ideologies and representations of masculinity and femininity in discourses of militarism. Topics include war crimes; contestations over historical memory; effects of militarization on gender roles; cults of heroism; and peace activism.


COMPARATIVE AND WORLD LITERATURE

Comparative and World Literature 28: Justice, Law, Violence
An introduction to the concepts of justice, law, and violence through literary and philosophical texts. Raises fundamental questions of individual human existence within the social collective. Topics include natural right, freedom of will, sacrifice, revolution, gender, and power.


HISTORY

History of Europe 176: Serbia, Bosnia, and Kosovo: The Contemporary Crisis and Its Historical Roots
Explores historical precedents for the current Yugoslav crisis. Examines the tragic events of the 1990s and South Slavic history from the Ottoman conquest to World War II. Focus is on the national histories and mythologies of Serbs, Bosnians, and Albanians.


LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Latin American Studies 142: Latin America: The Quest for Development and Democracy
A comparative examination of central issues in and components of Latin American political life, including economic development, regimes and alliances, guerrilla wars, the armed forces, human rights, and democratic consolidation. Countries studied include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, and Cuba.


POLITICAL SCIENCE

Political Science 17: Politics of the Underdeveloped World
An introduction to the political processes and problems confronting third-world states. Topics include poverty, violence, dictatorship, civil-military relations, regime transitions, and democracy.

Political Science 20: World Politics
Explores approaches to and models of international relations: theories, the causes of war, international organizations, cooperation and conflict, international political economy, regional economic agreements, and international social issues such as human rights and the environment.

Political Science 150: Human Rights in Theory, Law, and Politics
An introduction to the theory, politics, and law of human rights. Examines the emergence of human rights institutions since World War II and ongoing dilemmas in the field. Topics include cultural relativism, criminal tribunals, truth commissions, and refugees.

Political Science 157: Modern Dictatorships
Considers how dictatorships from such countries as Germany, Cambodia, Chile, Argentina, and Iraq came to power; how they abused that power; what contributed to their successes; and why some met with defeat.

Political Science 159: The Armed Forces and Politics
An introduction to the origins, nature, and behavior of the military within political systems. Focuses on the political interaction between the armed forces and civilians. Topics include military intervention, democracy, human rights, missions, defense organizations, and civilian control. Explores case studies of the United States, Russia, and countries from Latin America and Asia.

Political Science 169: Terrorism and Political Violence
Explores the nature and origin of political conflict, violence, and rebellion. Examines political violence as a political pathology and as an instrument of supporters and opponents of regimes. Examines types of political violence: terrorism, ethnic and communal conflict, rebellion, and revolutionary and counter-revolutionary violence.

Political Science 267: Ethics and International Politics*
Examines ethical debates in the field of international politics. Topics include just war theory, humanitarian aid, military intervention, international justice and human rights, aggression, peacekeeping, and global inequality.

Political Science 268: Human Rights*
Surveys the primary theoretical and empirical issues in the study of human rights. Explores major themes and contemporary topics, including, but not limited to, cultural relativism, the evolution of the human rights regime, and the impact of globalization, domestic, and international institutions.


RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Religious Studies 175: Religion and Human Rights
An examination of selected human rights struggles with particular attention given to the role of religion. Case examples are taken from North and Latin America, South Africa, South Asia, or China, among others.

Religious Studies 222: Human Rights as a Moral Discourse*
Inquiry into the moral and ethical dimensions of philosophical, religious, legal, and historical traditions of “rights-talk.” Attention paid to conceptual, historical, cross-cultural, and case-study source materials.


WOMEN'S STUDIES

Women’s Studies 30: Violence against Women
Addresses structural and interpersonal forms of violence against women and girls. Topics include sexual and physical abuse, rape and sexual assault, battering, body mutilation, forced sterilization or reproduction, sex selection, medical “silences,” political torture, and gender-specific socialization for victimization and aggression. Also discusses state and economic policies.

Women’s Studies 107: Feminisms, Race, and Antiracisms: Critical Theories and Intersectional Perspectives
Examines how path-breaking scholarship by women of color in the United States and in developing countries has been central to rethinking theoretical foundations and to new ways of knowing, understanding, and practicing politics. Focuses on scholarship that critiques and analyzes issues concerning race, antiracism, human rights, citizenship, empire, globalization, and social justice.

Women’s Studies 138: Gender and the Sex Trade
Addresses structural issues related to sexualized entertainment, including pornography, sex work, escort services, sex tourism, erotic dancing, and strip shows. Discusses how gender, race, class, citizenship, and sexuality shape the stratification of the industry. Analyzes how issues such as HIV/AIDS, traffic in women, forced prostitution, and child prostitution impact the sex trade and people working in this industry.

Women’s Studies 176: Gender, Human Rights, and Transnationalism
Explores dynamics of gender and power in human rights activism. Examines the history and evolution of human rights discourse, discourses of liberation, and critical responses to the strategy of framing women’s rights as human rights in a comparative, transnational framework.


* Graduate course