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COLLEGE EIGHT
College Eight 20B: International Affairs and Global Issues
Examines inter-related global issues: Colonialism and post-colonialism, trade, poverty, globalization, geopolitics, human rights, and the environment. Students choose a particular region on which to focus.
COLLEGE NINE
College Nine 80A: Introduction to University Discourse: International and Global Issues
Explores rhetorical principles and conventions of university discourse and provides intensive practice in analytical writing, critical reading, and speaking. Topics address contemporary global issues including economic globalization, human rights, international and inter-ethnic conflicts, poverty, and immigration.
College Nine 80B: Rhetoric and Inquiry: International and Global Issues
Explores the intersection of investigation, interpretation, and persuasion and refines strategies for writing, research, and speaking. Topics address contemporary global issues including economic globalization, human rights, international and inter-ethnic conflicts, poverty, and immigration.
COWELL COLLEGE
Cowell College 164: Making Prometheus Speak: Myth and Torture
A close reading of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound together with legal and historical documents relating to the "torture debate" in the U.S. This ancient text is the basis for thinking about the political, legal, and moral justifications that inform the current debate.
FEMINIST STUDIES
Feminist Studies 116: Ethnographies of Transnational Feminisms
Examines recent approaches to the ethonographic representation of transnationalism as both a conscious strategy for feminist alliance and as a condition of global political economy. Topics covered include feminist anthropology, non-governmental organizations, human and reproductive rights, and international peace movements.
Feminist Studies 240: Culture and Politics of Human Rights* (cross-listed as Latin American and Latino Studies 240)
Examines the role of feminist activism and jurisprudence in the expansion of human rights since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Addresses challenges of accommodating women's specificity within international human rights law. Focus on application of international and regional human rights conventions and new human rights standards.
HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
History of Consciousness 212: Feminist Theory and the Law*
Interrogation of the relationship between law and its instantiating gendered categories, supported by feminist, queer, Marxist, critical race, and postcolonial theories. Topics include hypostasization of legal categories, the contest between domestic and international human rights frameworks, overlapping civil and communal codes, cultural explanations in the law, the law as text and archive, testimony and legal subjectivity.
History of Consciousness 232A: Third World Feminisms and Globalizations*
Studies third world feminist theories and struggles and their relations to globalization; topics include nationalism, development, transnational practices, identity politics, human rights, especially the ways in which Third World feminisms respond and contribute to political, economic, social, and cultural transformations.
LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO STUDIES
Latin American and Latino Studies 80C: Power and Resistance in the Americas: Cross-Border Social Movements
Focuses on politics of power and resistance regarding major cross-border issues facing Latin Americans and Latinos in the 21st century. Emphasizes migration and migrant organizing; neoliberal "free trade" and implications for labor; organizing by women's, indigenous, and ecological movements; and for democracy and human rights. Many specific cases drawn from binational Central American experiences.
Latin American and Latino Studies 172: Visualizing Human Rights
Explores how visual artists take up the subject of human rights in response to urgent challenges facing Latina/o and Latin American communities across the Américas. Examines the imprint of film and media arts reshaping human rights discourse. Considers persistent themes in Latina/o representation, including colonialism and state terrorism; self-representation and the rights collectivities (racial, ethnic, and sexual groups); social and economic rights.
Latin American and Latino Studies 176: Gender, the Nation, and Latina Cinema
Applies theories of transnational feminism, decolonization, and globalization to the study of Latina cinematic representation in the Americas. Focusing on Latina image making, course explores representations of race, sexuality, and the nation; citizenship, diaspora, and belonging; gender-based violence and racialized state violence; militarization, human rights, and global justice.
Latin American and Latino Studies 178: Gender, Transnationalism, and Globalization
Focus on the impact of globalization and transnationalism on gender and gender relations in the Américas. Examines gender and power in the context of neoliberalism, modernity, the nation, human rights movements and global justice activism. Explores local and transnational constructions of gender, and the intersection of gender with race, ethnicity, class and sexuality.
Latin American and Latino Studies 194B: Colombia: Sociedad y política
Taught in Spanish. Overview of contemporary Colombian politics and society in historical and institutional context, with an interdisciplinary approach to the causes and consequences of political violence. Special focus on agrarian and ethnic conflict. Enrollment restricted to junior and senior Latin American and Latino studies majors.
LEGAL STUDIES
Legal Studies 128M (cross-listed as Sociology 128M): International Law and Global Justice
Examines war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the evolution and role of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Examines the evolution of the concept of international law, the rationale for its birth and existence, roots of international conflicts and genocides, possible remedies available to victims, mechanisms for the creation and enforcement of international legal order, as well as the role of colonialism, migration, poverty, race/ethnic conflicts, gender, and international corporations in creating and maintaining conflicts and wars.
Legal Studies 139: War Crimes
Explores complex international human rights/humanitarian law issues surrounding genocide and other mass violence, beginning with the Nuremberg trials following World War II up to recent atrocities in Rwanda, Bosnia, and elsewhere. Covers basic legal framework of human rights law, examines specific situations on a case by case basis, and discusses what options the international community, the nations themselves, and individuals have in the wake of such catastrophes. Enrollment restricted to legal studies majors during priority period.
Legal Studies 173 (cross-listed as Politics 173): International Law
Origins and development of international law: international law is examined both as a reflection of the present world order and as a basis for transformation. Topics include jurisdiction and sovereignty, treaties, use of force, commercial law, and human rights.
POLITICS
Politics 7: Politics of Religion
Considers both the religious sources of political ideas and the political sources of religious ideas, addressing topics such as sovereignty, justice, love, reason, revelation, sacrifice, victimhood, evil, racism, rebellion, reconciliation, and human rights.
Politics 150: Democratization, Citizenship, and Human Rights in South America
Examines military regimes, transitions to civilian rule, and politics of democratization in contemporary Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Focus on the contradictions and legacies of transition politics, the challenges of democratizing political institutions, and the political and social consequences of neoliberalism. Emphasis on human rights, citizens' movements (especially feminisms), changing dynamics of civil society, and contemporary efforts to deepen democracy and extend meaningful citizenship to subaltern social groups and classes.
Politics 160C: Security, Conflict, Violence, War
Genesis and theories of conflict and war and their avoidance (past, present, future). Relationship between foreign policy and intra- and interstate conflict and violence. National security and the security dilemma. Non-violent conflict as a normal part of politics; violent conflict as anti-political; transformation of conflict into social and interstate violence. Interrelationships among conduct of war, attainment of political objectives, and the end of hostilities. Civil and ethnic wars. Political economy of violence and war.
Politics 190G: Issues in International Law
Explores theory and reality of international law; how it determines or governs or modifies policies of government. Emphasis on contemporary political and economic forces and international law in nuclear age, competing areas for new law, law of seas, human rights, new international economic issues, the environment.
Politics 190V: Problems in Latin American Politics
Research seminar allows advanced students to engage in current scholarly debates in the sub-field of Latin American politics. Topics and countries covered vary from year to year but may include civil society, citizenship and cultural politics in Latin/o America, comparative perspectives on democratization, politics and culture in Brazil, feminisms and women's movements in Latin America, the politics of race and ethnicity in the Americas, and human rights and social justice in a neoliberal era.
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychology 118A: Children and War
Examine development and behavioral ecology of children affected by war. Discuss development of displaced children, abandoned children, orphaned children, children living in protracted conflict, and child soldiers. Review child protection strategies and psychosocial intervention.
* Graduate course
College Eight 20B: International Affairs and Global Issues
Examines inter-related global issues: Colonialism and post-colonialism, trade, poverty, globalization, geopolitics, human rights, and the environment. Students choose a particular region on which to focus.
COLLEGE NINE
College Nine 80A: Introduction to University Discourse: International and Global Issues
Explores rhetorical principles and conventions of university discourse and provides intensive practice in analytical writing, critical reading, and speaking. Topics address contemporary global issues including economic globalization, human rights, international and inter-ethnic conflicts, poverty, and immigration.
College Nine 80B: Rhetoric and Inquiry: International and Global Issues
Explores the intersection of investigation, interpretation, and persuasion and refines strategies for writing, research, and speaking. Topics address contemporary global issues including economic globalization, human rights, international and inter-ethnic conflicts, poverty, and immigration.
COWELL COLLEGE
Cowell College 164: Making Prometheus Speak: Myth and Torture
A close reading of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound together with legal and historical documents relating to the "torture debate" in the U.S. This ancient text is the basis for thinking about the political, legal, and moral justifications that inform the current debate.
FEMINIST STUDIES
Feminist Studies 116: Ethnographies of Transnational Feminisms
Examines recent approaches to the ethonographic representation of transnationalism as both a conscious strategy for feminist alliance and as a condition of global political economy. Topics covered include feminist anthropology, non-governmental organizations, human and reproductive rights, and international peace movements.
Feminist Studies 240: Culture and Politics of Human Rights* (cross-listed as Latin American and Latino Studies 240)
Examines the role of feminist activism and jurisprudence in the expansion of human rights since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Addresses challenges of accommodating women's specificity within international human rights law. Focus on application of international and regional human rights conventions and new human rights standards.
HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
History of Consciousness 212: Feminist Theory and the Law*
Interrogation of the relationship between law and its instantiating gendered categories, supported by feminist, queer, Marxist, critical race, and postcolonial theories. Topics include hypostasization of legal categories, the contest between domestic and international human rights frameworks, overlapping civil and communal codes, cultural explanations in the law, the law as text and archive, testimony and legal subjectivity.
History of Consciousness 232A: Third World Feminisms and Globalizations*
Studies third world feminist theories and struggles and their relations to globalization; topics include nationalism, development, transnational practices, identity politics, human rights, especially the ways in which Third World feminisms respond and contribute to political, economic, social, and cultural transformations.
LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO STUDIES
Latin American and Latino Studies 80C: Power and Resistance in the Americas: Cross-Border Social Movements
Focuses on politics of power and resistance regarding major cross-border issues facing Latin Americans and Latinos in the 21st century. Emphasizes migration and migrant organizing; neoliberal "free trade" and implications for labor; organizing by women's, indigenous, and ecological movements; and for democracy and human rights. Many specific cases drawn from binational Central American experiences.
Latin American and Latino Studies 172: Visualizing Human Rights
Explores how visual artists take up the subject of human rights in response to urgent challenges facing Latina/o and Latin American communities across the Américas. Examines the imprint of film and media arts reshaping human rights discourse. Considers persistent themes in Latina/o representation, including colonialism and state terrorism; self-representation and the rights collectivities (racial, ethnic, and sexual groups); social and economic rights.
Latin American and Latino Studies 176: Gender, the Nation, and Latina Cinema
Applies theories of transnational feminism, decolonization, and globalization to the study of Latina cinematic representation in the Americas. Focusing on Latina image making, course explores representations of race, sexuality, and the nation; citizenship, diaspora, and belonging; gender-based violence and racialized state violence; militarization, human rights, and global justice.
Latin American and Latino Studies 178: Gender, Transnationalism, and Globalization
Focus on the impact of globalization and transnationalism on gender and gender relations in the Américas. Examines gender and power in the context of neoliberalism, modernity, the nation, human rights movements and global justice activism. Explores local and transnational constructions of gender, and the intersection of gender with race, ethnicity, class and sexuality.
Latin American and Latino Studies 194B: Colombia: Sociedad y política
Taught in Spanish. Overview of contemporary Colombian politics and society in historical and institutional context, with an interdisciplinary approach to the causes and consequences of political violence. Special focus on agrarian and ethnic conflict. Enrollment restricted to junior and senior Latin American and Latino studies majors.
LEGAL STUDIES
Legal Studies 128M (cross-listed as Sociology 128M): International Law and Global Justice
Examines war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the evolution and role of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Examines the evolution of the concept of international law, the rationale for its birth and existence, roots of international conflicts and genocides, possible remedies available to victims, mechanisms for the creation and enforcement of international legal order, as well as the role of colonialism, migration, poverty, race/ethnic conflicts, gender, and international corporations in creating and maintaining conflicts and wars.
Legal Studies 139: War Crimes
Explores complex international human rights/humanitarian law issues surrounding genocide and other mass violence, beginning with the Nuremberg trials following World War II up to recent atrocities in Rwanda, Bosnia, and elsewhere. Covers basic legal framework of human rights law, examines specific situations on a case by case basis, and discusses what options the international community, the nations themselves, and individuals have in the wake of such catastrophes. Enrollment restricted to legal studies majors during priority period.
Legal Studies 173 (cross-listed as Politics 173): International Law
Origins and development of international law: international law is examined both as a reflection of the present world order and as a basis for transformation. Topics include jurisdiction and sovereignty, treaties, use of force, commercial law, and human rights.
POLITICS
Politics 7: Politics of Religion
Considers both the religious sources of political ideas and the political sources of religious ideas, addressing topics such as sovereignty, justice, love, reason, revelation, sacrifice, victimhood, evil, racism, rebellion, reconciliation, and human rights.
Politics 150: Democratization, Citizenship, and Human Rights in South America
Examines military regimes, transitions to civilian rule, and politics of democratization in contemporary Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Focus on the contradictions and legacies of transition politics, the challenges of democratizing political institutions, and the political and social consequences of neoliberalism. Emphasis on human rights, citizens' movements (especially feminisms), changing dynamics of civil society, and contemporary efforts to deepen democracy and extend meaningful citizenship to subaltern social groups and classes.
Politics 160C: Security, Conflict, Violence, War
Genesis and theories of conflict and war and their avoidance (past, present, future). Relationship between foreign policy and intra- and interstate conflict and violence. National security and the security dilemma. Non-violent conflict as a normal part of politics; violent conflict as anti-political; transformation of conflict into social and interstate violence. Interrelationships among conduct of war, attainment of political objectives, and the end of hostilities. Civil and ethnic wars. Political economy of violence and war.
Politics 190G: Issues in International Law
Explores theory and reality of international law; how it determines or governs or modifies policies of government. Emphasis on contemporary political and economic forces and international law in nuclear age, competing areas for new law, law of seas, human rights, new international economic issues, the environment.
Politics 190V: Problems in Latin American Politics
Research seminar allows advanced students to engage in current scholarly debates in the sub-field of Latin American politics. Topics and countries covered vary from year to year but may include civil society, citizenship and cultural politics in Latin/o America, comparative perspectives on democratization, politics and culture in Brazil, feminisms and women's movements in Latin America, the politics of race and ethnicity in the Americas, and human rights and social justice in a neoliberal era.
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychology 118A: Children and War
Examine development and behavioral ecology of children affected by war. Discuss development of displaced children, abandoned children, orphaned children, children living in protracted conflict, and child soldiers. Review child protection strategies and psychosocial intervention.
* Graduate course