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ETHS-400

Topics in Race and Ethnic Studies

W 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. R. Hillyer

Reading and critical analysis of major interpretive works. Organized around themes or analytical problems; comparative study of works in ethnic studies exemplifying different points of view, methodologies, subject matter. Focus varies
depending on instructor’s teaching and research area.

ENG-319

Postcolonial Literature: Anglophone Africa, India, Caribbean

M/W/F 12:40 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. R. Zimring

Literary works and essays exploring the literary and cultural issues that arise from the questioning and collapse of the colonial world order. Topics include decolonization and national allegories; authenticity and the invention of tradition; constructions of race; the role of women in empire and the nation; adolescence and the novel of education; Western travel and primitivism; violence and trauma. Authors include Chinua Achebe, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Aime Cesaire, J.M. Coetzee, Tsitsi Dangarembga, E.M. Forster, Una Marson, Arundhati Roy, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said.

ENVS-490

Topic: Environmental Populisms

M/W/F 9:10-10:10 J. Proctor

Application of concepts and skills from ENVS 160 and ENVS 220 to the understanding of specific environmental issues. Potential topics include biodiversity, climate change, energy, environmental justice, international agreements, land use, natural-resource depletion, pollution, sustainability, transportation, and urban sprawl. May be taken twice for credit with change of topic.

FREN-330

Francophone Literature

M/W 3:00-4:30 P. Brand

Major works by Francophone writers outside of France (Africa, Canada, Caribbean). Focus on sociocultural issues as expressed in literature. Class discussion, short papers, oral presentations, midterm, final.

HIST-141

Colonial Latin American History

T/TH 9:40-11:10 Elliott Young

History of Latin America from Native American contact cultures through the onset of independence movements in the early 19th century. Cultural confrontations, change, and Native American accommodation and strategies of evasion in dealing
with the Hispanic colonial empire.

HIST-222

Britain in the Age of Revolution, 1688 to 1815

M/W/F 9:10-11:10 David Campion

A history of Britain and its people from the Glorious Revolution to the end of the Napoleonic War. The end of absolutism and the rise of the constitutional monarchy; the Augustan Age: arts, letters, and religion; the Atlantic world and
British overseas expansion; the Enlightenment and scientific revolution; the American Revolution and its aftermath; union with Scotland and Ireland and
the creation of the British national identity; the revolution in France and the wars against Napoleon; the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.

HIST-226

20th-Century Germany

T/TH 9:40-11:10 M. Healy

Origins and consequences of World War I; attempts to develop a republican government; Nazism; evolution of the two Germanies after 1945 and their reunification. Readings on relationship between individual and state, pressures for
conformity, possibility of dissent.

HIST-242

Borderlands: U.S.-Mexico Border, 16th Century to Present

T/TH 1:50-3:20 Elliott Young

The concept and region known as the Borderlands from when it was part of northern New Spain to its present incarnation as the U.S.-Mexico border.
Thematic focus on the roles of imperialism and capitalism in the formation of borderlands race, class, gender, and national identities. The transformation of this region from a frontier between European empires to a borderline between nations.

IA-230

African Politics

T/TH 9:40-11:10 L. Vinson

Introduces students to political, social, and economic issues facing African states (primarily sub-Saharan), covering both domestic and international dimensions. The course explores the historical origins and contemporary dynamics of challenges associated with democratization, civil conflict, and underdevelopment, as well as
emerging opportunities and prospects. Students gain specific country expertise and are also equipped to make sense of the variation in the experiences of a range of African countries.

IA-342

Perception and International Relations

T/TH 11:30-1:00 B. Mandel

Processes and patterns of intergroup and international perception, views of enemies, perception in foreign policy-making and deterrence, ways of reducing perceptual distortions. Students analyze and theorize about the role of misperception - distortions in one state’s perception of other states - in international relations.

POLS-313

Global Justice

T/TH 11:30-1:00 J. Holzwarth

Normative issues in international politics, including such topics as national sovereignty, just war theory, international intervention, human rights, cultural rights, secession and self-determination, the competing ethics of patriotism, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism. Historical approaches through such thinkers as Thucydides, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, followed by contemporary readings, including such authors as
Rawls, Walzer, Kymlicka, Rorty, Nussbaum.

PSY-390

Cross-Cultural Psychology

M/W 7:00p.m.-8:30p.m. Y. Zhang

Relations between culture and human behavior. Examination of topics in psychology from a multicultural, multiethnic perspective, with special emphasis on cultural influence on research methods, self-concept, communication, emotion,
social behavior, development, mental health. Cultural variation, how culture shapes human behavior, and psychological theories and practices in different cultures.

RHMS-321

Argument and Social Justice

T/TH 9:40-11:10 M. Reyes

Investigation of argumentation and social justice. Exploration and application of
scholarship through the community-based Thank You for Arguing, a mentoring program run with local inner-city public schools. Theoretical and methodological frameworks for understanding the role of argumentation in fostering social justice
explored through readings, class discussion, and writing assignments.

RHMS-406

Race, Rhetoric, and Resistance

T/TH 9:40-11:10 K. Chirindo

Role of rhetoric in social conflicts regarding issues of race. Theories and strategies of resistance and the implications for political action. Examination of major race and resistance texts.

SOAN-285

Culture and Power in the Middle East

T/TH 1:50-3:20 O. Kosansky

Introduction to the anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa, with an emphasis on the relationship between global and local forms of social hierarchy and cultural power. Topics include tribalism, ethnicity, colonialism, nationalism, gender, religious practices, migration, the politics of identity.

SOAN-347

Borderlands: Tibet and the Himalaya

T/TH 9:40-11:10 K. Heimsath

Investigation of the “borderland” nature of anthropology dealing with Tibet and the broader Himalayan region. Without clear state definition, scholastic inquiry is dispersed among distinct themes rather than a cohesive historical or cultural approach. Focus on ethnographies of non-state peoples, cross-border travel,
marginalized lives, and international development and representation. Reading-intensive course with a series of literature review assignments leading toward a final project.

SPAN-360

Latin America and Spain: Pre-Columbian to Baroque

M/W/F 12:40-1:40 M. Raillard

Introduction to major trends in Latin American and Spanish literature from their beginnings to the baroque period. Selected works from Latin America and Spain read in the context of cultural and historical events.

SPAN-440

Contemporary Historical Narrative in Mexico

M/W/F 12:40-1:40 M. Rabasa

Study of a genre, a literary movement, or a topic in Hispanic literatures (peninsular and/or Latin American, or U.S. Latino). Extensive oral and written work culminating in a research paper written in Spanish. May be taken twice for credit with a change of topic.