AFAS G4080: Topics in the Black Experience: Martin Luther King and Radical Democracy
Okihiro, Gary; 4 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

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AFAS G4510: Critical Approaches to African-American Studies
Matsumoto, Mio; 4 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This seminar examines the past, present, and future of the interdisciplinary field of African American studies through identifying its theoretical, conceptual, and methodological advantages as well as problems and limitations, and exploring new ways of interpretations, critiques, and socio-political engagements. The seminar will read and discuss both classical and more recent studies on various major topics and problems about which African American Studies scholars and their predecessors before the 1960s have written extensively, so students can be familiarized with the shifting focuses and changing approaches over time in this field of knowledge production. Topics include "religion," "work," "class," segregation," "slavery," "psychology," "women," "literature," and so forth. The seminar will also bring various highly socialized keywords such as "race," "culture," "community," and "diaspora" to critical thinking and reflections. In all, students are expected to engage themselves in productive and serious discussions. The assumption of the entire seminar will be that African American studies is a critical and contested field formed by and emanating from still unsettled debates over what ideas, policies, social movements, and politics serve best to tackle the problems of discrimination, segregation, socialized violence, disfranchisement, and other manifestations of racism and inequality. This assumption helps us not only navigate the ongoing accumulation of ideas, knowledge, and practices in this field, but also understand the myriad manners and ideas with which a myriad number of people of African descent in this country and beyond have responded and acted.

AFAS G4520: Race and the Articulation of Difference
Gregory, Steven; 4 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SM)

This seminar examines the intersection of race, gender and nation in the formation of hierarchical social systems and their legitimating ideologies. A leading premise of this course is that racial ideologies are, foundationally, claims about the heritability of socially produced and imagined difference – claims that muster, mimic and articulate notions of difference associated within the wider problematic of political subjectivity and direct attention to the symbolic and structural organization of modern, hierarchical social systems.

AFRS BC2005: Carribean Cultures and Societies
Horn, Maja; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

Multidisciplinary exploration of the Anglophone, Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean. Discusses theories about the development and character of Caribbean societies; profiles representative islands; and explores enduring and contemporary issues in Caribbean studies (race, color and class; politics and governance; political economy, the struggles for liberation; cultural and identity and migration.)

AFRS BC3004: Introduction to African Studies
Obosede, George; 3 credits; MW 11:40am-12:55pm (LEC)

Interdisciplinary and thematic approach to the study of Africa, moving from pre-colonial through colonial and post-colonial periods to contemporary Africa. Focus will be on its history, societal relations, politics and the arts. The objective is to provide a critical survey of the history as well as the continuing debates in Africana studies.

AFRS BC3520: Art and the Colonial Archive
Christianse, Yvette; 4 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

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AFRS BC3550: Gay Harlem
Perez, Hiram; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course explores Harlem's role in the production of sexual modernity and in particular as a space of queer encounter. While much of our investigation will be devoted to the intersection of race and sexuality in African American life, we also consider Harlem's history as an Italian and a Puerto Rican neighborhood as well as its discrete micro-cosmopolitanism within the larger global city. Prerequisites: This course is being taught concurrently at Vassar College. Vassar and Barnard students will collaborate to produce an interactive map of gay Harlem. Students should be prepared for three off campus meetings during the semester. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor and is limited to 16 students. Students must come to the first class to be considered for admission and should contact Africana@barnard.edu indicating interest in the course. Please use the subject line Gay Harlem.

AFRS BC3560: Human Rights and Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Martin, J. Paul; 4 credits; T 9:00am-10:50am (SEM)

Examines the evolution of the ideas, institutions and practices associated with social justice in Africa and their relationship to contemporary international human rights movement and focuses on the role of human rights in social change. A number of themes will re-occur throughout the course, notably tensions between norms and reality, cultural diversity, economic and political asymmetries, the role of external actors, and women as rights providers. Countries of special interest include Liberia, Senegal, South African and Tanzania.

AHIS BC3949: Art of Witness: Memorials
Deutsche, Rosalyn; 4 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Examines aesthetic responses to collective historical traumas, such as slavery, the Holocaust, the bombing of Hiroshima, AIDS, homelessness, immigration, and the recent attack on the World Trade Center. Studies theories about trauma, memory, and representation. Explores debates about the function and form of memorials.

AMST W3930: Topics in American Studies: Museums, Memory and Public Culture
TBA; 4 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Beginning in the mid-19th century, American civic leaders seized upon the notion that culture could enrich and ennoble the nation´s cities as it had in the great capitals of the Old World. This seminar will explore the historical context of the transformation of culture in the United States and how the efforts of private citizens launched museums and cultural institutions for the public good. With a special emphasis on New York City and the field of public history, we will examine the museum world in both theory and practice, and will consider ongoing notions of heritage and memory.

AMST W3930: Topics in American Studies: Equity in Higher Education
Lehecka And Delbanco; 4 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Interview required. In this seminar we examine the roles colleges and universities play in American society; the differential access high school students have to college based on family background and income, ethnicity, and other characteristics; the causes and consequences of this differential access; and some attempts to make access more equitable. Readings and class meetings cover the following subjects historically and in the 21st century: the variety of American institutions of higher education; admission and financial aid policies at selective and less selective, private and public, colleges; affirmative action and race-conscious admissions; what "merit" means in college admissions; and the role of the high school in helping students attend college. Students in the seminar are required to spend at least four hours each week as volunteers at the Double Discovery Center (DDC) in addition to completing assigned reading, participating in seminar discussions, and completing written assignments. DDC is an on-campus program that helps New York City high school students who lack many of the resources needed to succeed in college and to be successful in gaining admission and finding financial aid. The seminar integrates students' first-hand experiences with readings and class discussions.

AMST W3930: Topics in American Studies: History of the US Supreme Court
Rosenberg, Benjamin; 4 credits; M 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

As Tocqueville observed, “scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.” As a consequence, the Supreme Court of the United States has been at the center of many of the most significant developments in American history. It has played significant roles in, for example, (1) the creation of the young republic and the achievement of a balance between states and the federal government, (2) race relations including the institution of slavery, (3) the rights of workers, (4) civil rights, and (5) elections. This seminar will explore the Supreme Court’s role in American society by examining its decisions on key issues throughout its history.

AMST W3930: Topics in American Studies: Freedom & Citizenship
Montas, Roosevelt; 4 credits; MW 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Freedom and Citizenship in the United States will examine the historical development of ideas of freedom and citizenship in the American context. We will examine texts that treat of issues like the rights and responsibilities of membership in a political association, the nature and limits of the power of the collective over the individual, and the norms of exclusion and inclusion that define a body politic. The course will focus exclusively on primary texts, and the order of readings will be roughly chronological, emphasizing the historical development of the concepts of citizenship, nation, and American identity. The first weeks the course will be dedicated to reading and discussing major texts in Western political history that frame the 17th century founding of the American colonies. The rest of the course will situate the American case in this historical development, beginning with an examination of the Puritan migration to New England and the early communities they formed, and continuing with the study of major documents surrounding the Revolution, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the New Deal, the Civil Rights Movement, and contemporary debates about the meaning of American citizenship. In addition to the classroom requirements, students will be expected to volunteer a minimum of 4 hours a week with the Double Discovery Center (DDC), in connection to the Freedom and Citizenship Project which DDC conducts in partnership with the American Studies Program.

ANTH V2014: Archaeology and Africa: Changing perceptions of the African Past
Crossland, Zoe; 3 credits; MW 10:10am-11:25am (LEC)

This course explores the changing perspectives on African archaeology over the last two centuries. We will trace the history of archaeological fieldwork in Africa, looking at archaeology's relationship to colonialism and European narratives of world history. These will be compared with the ways in which archaeology has been drawn upon in the post-colonial period within nationalist, Afrocentric and postcolonial accounts. Using a variety of archaeological case studies we will look at the key issues in African archaeology today, and assess how these debates have been informed by the particular history of archaeological interpretation in Africa. Topics will include the archaeology of human origins and dispersal out of Africa, the development of farming and the use of metals, the archaeology of African kingdoms and state formation, the colonial encounter, and the archaeology of the African Diaspora.

ANTH V3106: Post-Socialist China: State, Society, and Globalization
Chen, Junjie; 3 credits; MW 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

Since 1989, socialism across Eurasia has experienced profound transformations. Different from the dramatic transition to "capitalism" and "democracy" in the former Soviet bloc, China (and to a large degree, Viet Nam as well) has adroitly combined an authoritarian state with a highly capitalist economy with socialism becoming a nominal rhetoric at large.

ANTH V3921: Anticolonialism
Scott, David; 4 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Through a careful exploration of the argument and style of three vivid anticolonial texts, C.L.R. James' The Black Jacobins, Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism, Albert Memmi's Colonizer and Colonized, and Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, this course aims to inquire into the construction of the image of colonialism and its projected aftermaths established in anti-colonial discourse.

ANTH V3923: Colonialism and the Intellectual
Mokoena, Hlonipha; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course is a consideration of the choices and dilemmas faced by the category of intellectuals who have been labeled 'colonial intellectuals'.

ANTH V3933: Arabia Imagined
Messick, Brinkley; 4 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course explores Arabia as a global phenomenon. It is organized around primary texts read in English translation. The site of the revelation of the Quran and the location of the sacred precincts of Islam, Arabia is the destination of pilgrimage and the direction of prayer for Muslims worldwide. It also is the locus of cultural expression ranging from the literature of the 1001 Nights to the broadcasts of Al Jazeera. We begin with themes of contemporary youth culture and political movements associated with the Arab Spring. Seminar paper.

ANTH G4143: Accusation
Morris, Rosalind; 3 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

This course examines the politics and practices of collective accusation in comparative perspective. It treats these phenomena in their relation to processes of political and economic transition, to discourses of crisis, and to the practices of rule by which the idea of exception is made the grounds for extreme claims on and for the social body?usually, but not exclusively, enacted through forms of expulsion. We will consider the various theoretical perspectives through which forms of collective accusation have been addressed, focusing on psychoanalytic, structural functional, and poststructuralist readings. In doing so, we will also investigate the difference and possible continuities between the forms and logics of accusation that operate in totalitarian as well as liberal regimes. Course readings will include both literary and critical texts.

ANTH G4480: Critical Native/Indigenous Studies
Simpson, Audra; 3 credits; R 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

This course is an interdisciplinary survey of the literature and issues that comprise Native American and Indigenous Studies. Readings for this course are organized around the concepts of indigeneity, coloniality, power and "resistance" and concomitantly interrogate these concepts for social and cultural analysis. The syllabus is derived from some of the "classic" and canonical works in Native American Studies such as Custer Died for Your Sins but will also require an engagement with less canonical works such as Red Man's Appeal to Justice in addition to historical, ethnographic and theoretical contributions from scholars that work outside of Native American and Indigenous Studies. This course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.

ANTH G6235: Third World: After Sovereignty?
Scott, David; 3 credits; M 1100-1250 (LEC)

It is increasingly being asserted today that the concept of sovereignty no longer constitutes a plausible way of organizing our thinking about power and legitimacy in contemporary global politics. The state, so it is sometimes said, as the pre-eminent source and adjudicator of political identity within territorially bounded nation-states a well as between sovereign states, is being fundamentally challenged. What does this mean for our understanding of the Third World which came into being precisely as part of the project of the universalization of sovereignty? What are the new conceptual and political conditions in which the problem of sovereignty arises in - and for- the Third World? Through a variety of literature this course engages these questions.

ANTH G6406: The Modern State and the Colonial Subject
Mamdani, Mahmood; 3 credits; T 10:10am-12:00pm (SEM)

On the development of legal thought on the colonial subject. Focus on the American Indian in the New World, and subjugated peoples in the Ottoman Empire, in British India and in tropical and southern Africa.

CLEN G6707: Law, Performance, Film
Peters, Julie; 3 credits; TBA (SM)

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CLME G4261: Popular Islam
Al-Musawi, Muhsin; 3 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This course questions the whole idea of Arab modernity which is usually associated with the nahda or Arab awakening at the turn of the nineteenth century. Through close analysis of texts, poetry, narrative, travelogue and memoirs, it argues that the bane of modernity is its subordination to a Western ideal that minimizes or even negates its engagement with Islamic and Arab tradition. The nation state through codification processes and as led by the intelligentsia forged a social program that is no less divested of tradition and rural culture. Only after 1967, the unsettling experience of total bankruptcy, that intellectuals question the dichotomies of science versus religion and the myth of progress versus tradition. New writings take to the street where they find substance and faith that has been ignored for long under cultural dependency. These works receive due attention in relation to theoretical studies that increase readers' critical insight.

CLSL W4075: Post Colonial/Post Soviet Cinema
Shevchuk, Yuri; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-10:00pm (SEM)

The course will discuss how film making has been used as a vehicle of power and control in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet space since 1991. A body of selected films by Soviet and post-Soviet directors that exemplify the function of film making as a tool of appropriation of the colonized, their cultural and political subordination by the Soviet center will be examined in terms of post-colonial theories. The course will also focus on the often over looked work of Ukrainian, Georgian, Belarusian, Armenian, etc. national film schools and how they participated in the communist project of fostering a as well as resisted it by generating, in hidden and, since 1991, overt and increasingly assertive ways, their own counter-narratives.

CPLS W3722: Narrative and Disability
Adams, Rachel; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The past ten years have seen an explosion of memoirs, blogs, essays, novels and films about illness and disability. This course will look at the intersection of disability and narrative, investigating the ways that illness and disability give rise to unique forms of representation in a variety of media. We will contextualize our study of narrative by asking what political and social factors have given rise to the current boom in disability narratives, as well as the way we understand disability itself. We will lend historical depth to our investigation by looking to earlier examples of disability in literary and visual culture, seeking to understand how more recent representations are informed both by a longer literary history, as well as such practices as freak shows, institutionalization, and the rise of the medical and/or helping professions. Weekly meetings are organized topically to introduce students to some of the major concepts and debates currently animating the field of disability studies.

CPLS W3956: Postcolonial Narrative and the Limits of the Human
Griffiths, Michael; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course is an attempt to connect developments in postcolonial studies to developments in science studies, ecocriticism, and critical animal studies. Students will practice close reading of literary, ethnographic, and archival texts and will respond to these texts through critical academic writing, wherein they will enact their own close readings. Through global twentieth century literary texts, the course explores the idea that modernity has not destroyed but rather transformed anti-modern and nonhuman modes of experience. Have "pre-modern" or "archaic" ways of worlding from the Global South changed through contact with European Imperialism? Or have they rather subtly affected the intellectual project of Enlightenment modernity as it encroaches on them? The governance of the prior, as Elizabeth Povinelli calls it, striates postcolonial and settler colonial space, unmaking the contours of "modern" and premodern on which neocolonial modes of domination rely. If, as Bruno Latour asserts, the illusion of modernity emerges from its faith in its own purification of differing spheres (the economic and the religious, say), and if the so-called primitive socius is constituted through what Marcel Mauss called the "total social fact," then how might the assertion that "we have never been modern" change for those who have been refused inclusion in the category "human?" It is this tension between total social fact and apparatus of spherical purification that students will explore in the course.

CPLS G4075: Philosophy, Anthropology, and Politics
Balibar, Etienne; 3 credits; R 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

The debate opposing “humanism” and “anti-humanism” as ethical and epistemological discourses was especially virulent in the 60’s and 70’s in France and other European countries, involving different tendencies of Phenomenology, Marxism, Structuralism, Hegelianism, even Analytical Philosophy, around such issues as the meaning of history and the agency of the individual and collective subject. I will trace back its genealogy and its dividing lines (or points of heresy) in order to better understand what was at stake in its progressive replacement by the current controversy on “universalism”, “relativism”, and “conflicting universalities”, and how we can assess its legacy in the emergence of a new anthropological discourse involving the universality of the differences themselves. : This seminar requires an application. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Please send an email to Assistant Director Catherine LaSota by May 15, 2012 with the following information

CPLS G4104: Collective Identity in a Global World
Tsoukalas, Constantine; 1.5 credits; MW 6:10pm-8:40pm (SEM)

This seminar will address some of the political and ideological implications of the recent emergence of "cultural self-determination" as a fundamental human right. Its central object will refer to the increasing tension between hegemonically crystallized collective values emanating from contractually conceived "civic universalism," on the one hand, and personalized individual values founded on particularist "anthropological" differences (gender, race, culture, language, etc.), on the other. However, the burning issues of alterity and multiculturalism as well as struggles for recognition will not be examined just philosophically. They will be treated as historical "discursive facts" produced together with the advent of globalization and within the context of ongoing radical mutations of traditionally closed, homogenous, and integrated political and ideological spaces. Readings will include, Agamben, Althusser, Badiou, Balibar, Baumann, Bourdieu, Deleuze/Guattari, Derrida, Foucault, Freud, Girard, Hart/Negri, Levi-Strauss, Rorty, Rosanvallon, Schmitt, Taylor.

CSER W1010: Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies
Okihiro, Gary; 4 credits; TR 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

Introduction to the field of Asian American studies, including a history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S., the field's multiple pivots around race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation, and contemporary concerns of identities, community, culture, and location within the U.S. and world.

CSER W3490: Post 9/11 Immigration Policy
OuYang, Elizabeth; 4 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Since September 11, 2001, there has been an avalanche of immigration enforcement policies and initiatives proposed or implemented under the guise of national security. This course will analyze the domino effect of the Patriot Act, the Absconder Initiative, Special Registration, the Real I.D. Act, border security including the building of the 700 mile fence along the U.S./Mexico border, Secured Communities Act-that requires the cooperation of state and local authorities in immigration enforcement, the challenge to birthright citizenship, and now the congressional hearings on Islamic radicalization. Have these policies been effective in combating the war on terrorism and promoting national security? Who stands to benefit from these enforcement strategies? Do immigrant communities feel safer in the U.S.? How have states joined the federal bandwagon of immigration enforcement or created solutions to an inflexible, broken immigration system?

CSER W3905: Asian American & Psychology of Race
Han, Shinhee; 4 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This seminar provides an introduction to mental health issues for Asian Americans. In particular, it focuses on the psychology of Asian Americans as racial/ethnic minorities in the United States by exploring a number of key concepts: immigration, racialization, prejudice, family, identity, pathology, and loss. We will examine the development of identity in relation to self, family, college, and society. Quantitative investigation, qualitative research, psychology theories of multiculturalism, and Asian American literature will also be integrated into the course.

CSER W3911: Native American Tribal Government
Esq Press, Daniel S; 4 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course will explore the dynamics of and issues facing present tribal governments and the other major institutions on reservations; examine their legal authorities and the kinds of institutions tribes have created to carry out their governmental and economic development responsibilities; review the historical record of these institutions, including their successes and failures; and explore innovative approaches that have or could be adopted to strengthen tribal governments and improve the socioeconomic conditions on reservations. The seminar will involve group discussion based on the readings, experiences students and the instructor have had working with tribal governments, and five presentations over the course of the semester by Native American leaders from different fields who are working to address the major issues that tribal governments and their members are facing.

CSER W3916: Native American and Indigenous Film
Gamber, John; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course will examine filmic representations by Native American and Indigenous filmmakers, screenwriters, producers, and directors in order to query the ways that these Native artists construct and communicate Indigenous self, community, and nation. In many ways these films serve to counter certain stereotypes of Native people, especially those found in films throughout cinematic history, serving a pedagogical purpose for outgroup, non-Native audiences. However, many especially more recent works move away from such autoethnographic purposes, targeting Indigenous audiences and participating in allusive conversations with and between Indigenous artistic works from a variety of genres. We will spend much of our time discussing the role of place throughout these films. Many of these films and texts assert that the acceptance of this containment ideology represents a kind of self-perpetuating colonizing. In place of such intellectual colonization, they examine the need to recognize the importance of generative indigenous movements, the ways that Native communities and/or individuals come to establish a sense of home or belonging in new spaces, whether those spaces are locations of forced or freely chosen relocations.

CSER W3919: Modes of Inquiry
Milewski, Melissa; 4 credits; F 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

One of CSER's new required courses, Modes of Inquiry aims to introduce students to a variety of ways of knowing key to several fields that investigate racial and ethnic difference in social, cultural, political and economic life. The seminar will also ask students to think reflexively and critically about the approaches they employ and evaluate the ethics, constraints and potential of contemporary knowledge production about difference. The course will culminate in a semester project, an 8-10 page proposal for research that will ideally be related to the student senior project.

CSER W3924: Latino/a and Latin American Social Movements
Rockefeller, Stuart; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

In Latin America, a wave of new popular social movements has been transforming politics and social reality. In the United States, latino/as are building on decades of organizing and demographic growth to claim a new public persona and challenge their marginal status. What are the significant areas of political action, and how can we understand them? What claims can those disenfranchised for reasons of race, class or national origin make on societies? We will discuss a number of important social movements throughout the region, while developing tools for understanding social movements and their possibilities.

CSER W3928: Colonization/Decolonization
Lomnitz and Saada; 4 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course explores the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world, emphasizing cross-cultural and social contact, exchange, and relations of power; dynamics of conquest and resistance; and discourses of civilization, empire, freedom, nationalism, and human rights, from 1500 to 2000. Topics include pre-modern empires; European exploration, contact, and conquest in the new world; Atlantic-world slavery and emancipation; European and Japanese colonialism in Asia, Africa, the Middle East. The course ends with a section on decolonization and post-colonialism in the period after World War II. Intensive reading and discussion of primary documents.

CSER W3941: Race and Law in US History
Milewski, Melissa; 4 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This seminar explores race in American courts beginning with Native Americans’ loss of their land and ending with recent debates over affirmative action and criminal sentencing. We will examine how the courts worked to uphold the power of elites – upholding slavery, affirming segregation, shaping immigration law, and regulating marriage across racial lines. At the same time, we will study how the courts provided opportunities for Americans to challenge restrictions based on race and at times allowed them to exercise their rights as citizens even when other branches of government did not.

EAAS W3405: Genre, Gender, Modern Japanese Literature
Suzuki, Tomi; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SM)

This course engages in close readings of major works of Japanese literature from the 18th-century to the present with particular attention to the issues of gender and genre in the formation of modern Japanese literature. The course considers figures such as female ghosts, wives and courtesans, youth and schoolgirls, the new woman and the modern girl, actors/actresses and cross-dressers. Readings highlight the role of literary genres, examining the ways in which the literary texts engage with changing socio-historical conditions, especially with regard to gender and social relations. Genres include puppet plays, ghost stories, melodrama, Bildungsroman, domestic fiction, autobiographical fiction, and the fantastic. Related critical issues are the novel and the formation of a national community; women’s writings; media and the development of urban mass culture; colonial and imperial spaces; history and memory. All readings are in English.

ECON W4480: Gender and Applied Economics
Edlund, Lena; 3 credits; TR 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

This course studies gender gaps, their extent, determinants and consequences. The focus will be on the allocation of rights in different cultures and over time, why women's rights have typically been more limited and why most societies have traditionally favored males in the allocation of resources.

ECON G6270: Topics in Economics of Gender
Edlund, Lena; 3 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course will deal with how standard economic tools can be successfully applied to understand the role of gender in shaping behavior and outcomes, as well as the determinants of gender roles, and gender based discrimination in the household, the labor market and society as a whole.

ENGL W3140: Race and Sexuality
Blount, Marcellus; 4 credits; W 12:10pm-2:00pm (SEM)

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. (Seminar). Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Marcellus Blount (mb33@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Race and Sexuality seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.

ENGL W3150: Immigration, Relocation, Diaspora
Gamber, John; 3 credits; TR 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

The master narrative of the United States has always vacillated between valorizations of movement and settlement. While ours is a nation of immigrants, one which privileges its history of westward expansion and pioneering, trailblazing adventurers, we also seem to long for what Wallace Stegner called a "sense of place," a true belonging within a single locale. Each of these constructions has tended to focus on individuals with a tremendous degree of agency in terms of where and whether they go. However, it is equally important to understand the tension between movement and stasis within communities most frequently subjected to spatial upheavals. To that end, this course is designed to examine narratives of immigration, migration, relocation, and diaspora by authors of color in the United States.

ENGL W3400: African American Literature I
Griffin, Farah; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

An introduction to African American literary studies. In this first part of the historical survey, we will examine the origins of African American literature, explore the nineteenth century, and look at enactments of African American modernism during the period of the Harlem Renaissance. We will begin with the poetry of Phillis Wheatley and end with the fiction of Zora Neale Hurston. Along the way, writers include David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Mae Cowdery, and Claude McKay. This introductory course will cover a range of literary genres, even as we ask questions about what constitutes “genre” as African American literary history unfolds. Course requirements: mandatory class attendance and participation, two five-page essays and a final examination.

ENGL W4503: 20th Century Poetry: Race, Gender, and Poetic Form
Golston, Michael; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

The early part of the twentieth century in Europe and America witnessed a heightened interest in the dynamics of the human body, which was conceived as a working machine and as a locus for racial, ethnic, and national identity. Students in this course will explore the intersections between discourses of race and gender physiology and the rhetoric of poetic form. Poets will include Whitman, Dickinson, Pound, Stein, Lawrence, H. D., Eliot, Hart Crane, Williams, Langston Hughes, read against contemporary texts from various scientific and humanistic disciplines, including psychology, physiology, musicology, dance theory, philosophy, and poetics.

HIST W3314: Modern France and Its Empire
Saada, Emmanuelle; 3 credits; TR 11:40am-12:55pm (LEC)

This lecture course surveys the main currents of French history from the Revolution to the present, with particular attention to the interaction between continental France and the rest of the empire. Throughout this course, the main questions will be: to what extent has the French Revolution served as point of political and cultural reference throughout the 19th and 20th centuries? Who is a citizen? And how has the response to this question been impacted by imperial developments? What is French Republicanism? And how to understand it in the imperial context? What have been the relations between political, social, economic and cultural developments? How have continental conflicts and World Wars impacted French history? How have the post WWII interrelated processes of decolonization, immigration and building of Europe deeply impacted contemporary France? We will tackle these questions by reading primary sources: works of political philosophy; literature; film; legal documents; and memoirs from the time, and by watching films.

HIST BC3414: United States in the World
Esch, Elizabeth; 3 credits; MW 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

Examination of the meaning of empire in its relationship to the historical development of what we now call the United States of America. Starting with the thirteen colonies and moving west through time and space, we will examine the relationship of ideas, geography, borders, immigration, culture, economies and the military to the expansion of U.S. power in the world. Using insights from our current "global" moment, we will investigate questions dealing with the control and use of resources, the structure of society, the meaning of political borders, inequality and power.

HIST BC3440: Introduction to African-American History
Naylor, Celia; 3 credits; TR 11:40am-12:55pm (LEC)

Major themes in African-American History: slave trade, slavery, resistance, segregation, the "New Negro," Civil Rights, Black Power, challenges and manifestations of the contemporary "Color Line."

HIST W3478: US Intellectual History 1865-Present
Blake, Casey; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

This course examines major themes in U.S. intellectual history since the Civil War. Among other topics, we will examine the public role of intellectuals; the modern liberal-progressive tradition and its radical and conservative critics; the uneasy status of religion in asecular culture; cultural radicalism and feminism; critiques of corporate capitalism and consumer culture; the response of intellectuals to hot and cold wars, the Great Depression, and the upheavals of the 1960s. Fields(s): US

HIST W3523: Health Inequality: Modern US
Roberts, Samuel; 3 credits; MW 10:10am-11:25am (LEC)

Through assigned readings and a group research project, students will gain familiarity with a range of historical and social science problems at the intersection of ethnic/racial/sexual formations, technological networks, and health politics since the turn of the twentieth century. Topics to be examined will include, but will not be limited to, black women's health organization and care; HIV/AIDS politics, policy, and community response; "benign neglect"; urban renewal and gentrification; medical abuses and the legacy of Tuskegee; tuberculosis control; and environmental justice. The course prerequisite is an application to the course, noting previous coursework in United States history; coursework as a major in pre-health professional (pre-med, pre-nursing, or pre-public health); or social science/History coursework in African-American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, or American Studies.

HIST W3618: The Modern Caribbean
Lightfoot, Natasha; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

This lecture course examines the social, cultural, and political history of the islands of the Caribbean Sea and coastal regions of Central and South American that collectively form the Caribbean region, from Amerindian settlement, through the era of European imperialism and African enslavement, to the period of socialist revolution and independence. The course will examine historical trajectories of colonialism, slavery, and labor regimes, post-emancipation experiences and migration, radical insurgencies and anti-colonial movements, and intersections of race, culture, and neocolonialism. It will also investigate the production of national, creole, and transborder indentities. Formerly listed as "The Caribbean in the 19th and 20th centuries"

HIST BC3681: Women and Gender in Latin America
Milanich, Nara ; 3 credits; TR 10:10am-11:25am (LEC)

Examines the gendered roles of women and men in Latin American society from the colonial period to the present. Explores a number of themes, including the intersection of social class, race, ethnicity, and gender; the nature of patriarchy; masculinity; gender and the state; and the gendered nature of political mobilization.

HIST W3716: History of Islamic Society
Kamaly, Hossein; 3 credits; MW 10:10am-11:25am (LEC)

Focus on religions, conversion, ethnic relations, development of social institutions, and the relationship between government and religion.

HIST BC3805: Law and Society in South Asia: Law and Lawnessness
Rao, Anupama; 3 credits; MW 10:10am-11:25am (LEC)

The institution of “rule of law,” and the administration of justice were key pillars of British colonization of the subcontinent. This upper-level lecture course therefore examines law as a critical site from which to explore changing conceptions of self and community from the pre-colonial, to the post-colonial periods. The course addresses key issues concerning the cultural construction of the body, the relationship of law and violence, and the emergence of subaltern legalities in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. The readings for the course are interdisciplinary in nature, and explore recent departures in anthropology and history, as well as critical legal studies. We are concerned in particular with: the construal of crime; the definition of the criminal, the workings of colonial-modern law; debates over legal codification; emergent conceptions of personhood and agency, popular illegalities, urban violence, and comparative constitutionalism.

HIST BC3980: World Migration
Moya, Jose; 3 credits; TR 11:40am-12:55pm (LEC)

Overview of human migration from pre-history to the present.  Sessions on classical Rome; Jewish diaspora; Viking, Mongol, and Arab conquests; peopling of New World, European colonization, and African slavery; 19th-century European mass migration; Chinese and Indian diasporas; resurgence of global migration in last three decades, and current debates. 

HIST W4206: Power and Violence in Russian History
Antonov, Sergei; 4 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission is required; preference will be given to majors and concentrators, seniors and juniors. Each meeting of this seminar will consider a particular way in which power was structured and exercised in Imperial and Soviet Russia, looking at violence in its various manifestations, at the role of law in containing it, and at the changing ways Russia's rulers represented their personal authority. Through a combination of novels, memoirs, and selected scholarly texts, we will also examine Russians' traditional obsession with war and all things military; the development of modern terrorism, secret police, and political repression; and power hierarchies within families and communities.

HIST W4235: Central Asia: Imperial Legacies, New Images
Kendirbai, Gulnar T; 4 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission is required; preference will be given to majors and concentrators, seniors and juniors. This course is designed to give an overview of the politics and history of the five Central Asian states, including Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan starting from Russian imperial expansion to the present. We will examine the imperial tsarist and Soviet legacies that have profoundly reshaped the regional societies’ and governments’ practices and policies of Islam, gender, nation-state building, democratization, and economic development. Field(s): ME/EA

HIST BC4542: Education in American History
Woloch, Nancy; 4 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Consideration of the place educational institutions, educational ideas, and educators have played in American life. Emphasis will be on the connection between education and social mobility.

HIST BC4546: 14th Amendment and Its Issues
Rosenberg, Rosalind; 4 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The role of the 14th Amendment in shaping the modern American Constitution; theories of judicial review; the rise and fall of economic due process; the creation of civil liberties; the civil rights revolution; and the end of states' rights.

HIST BC4788: Gender, Sexuality, Power, Africa
George, Abosede; 4 credits; W 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

This course deals with the scholarship on gender and sexuality in African history. The central themes of the course will be changes and continuities in gender performance and the politics of gender and sexual difference within African societies, the social, political, and economic processes that have influenced gender and sexual identities, and the connections between gender, sexuality, inequality, and activism at local, national, continental, and global scales.

HIST W4865: Vietnam War: History, Media Memory
Armstrong, Charles; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission is required; preference will be given to majors and concentrators, seniors and juniors. The wars in Vietnam and Indochina as seen in historical scholarship, contemporary media, popular culture and personal recollection. The seminar will consider American, Vietnamese, and international perspectives on the war, paying particular attention to Vietnam as the "first television war" and the importance of media images in shaping popular opinion about the conflict. Group(s): B, C, D

HIST W4920: Global Justice in Historical Perspective
Moyn, Sam; 4 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

HIST G8911: Histories of the Public Sphere in Latin America
Piccato, Pablo; 4 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (CL)

This colloquium will examine the historical literature on the public sphere, particularly in Europe, Latin America and the United States. We will examine uses of the category in studies that deal with intellectual debates, cultural processes, elite and popular politics, and the shifting boundaries of public and private life. Thus, discussions will stress criticisms of Jurgen Habermas' model from the perspective of gender, non-European societies, popular cultures, and class analysis. Field(s): LA

HIST G8924: Resistance and the Black Atlantic
Lightfoot, Natasha; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

This course investigates in-depth the significance of resistance among African-descended communities in the Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanophone and Lusophone Atlantic World from approximately 1700-1950. We will examine the genesis of resistance as it affected key historical transformations such as slavery and abolition, labor and migration, and transatlantic political organizing. The class will explore various forms of resistance to racial epistemologies, racialized labor regimes, and gendered discourses that formed a continuum of cultural and political opposition to oppression among Black Atlantic communities. The course will also reflect on how resistance plays a central role in the formation of individual and collective identities among black historical actors. Resistance will be explored as a critical category of historical analysis, and a central aspect in the making of the "Black Atlantic.

HRTS V3001: Introduction to Human Rights
Nathan, Andrew; 3 credits; MW 11:40am-12:55pm (LEC)

Evolution of the theory and content of human rights; the ideology and impact of human rights movements; national and international human rights law and institutions; their application with attention to universality within states, including the U.S., and internationally.

HRTS BC3850: Human Rights and Public Health
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HRTS BC3852: Child Protection, Rights Perspective
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HRTS W3950: Human Rights and Human Wrongs
Cronin, Bruce; 4 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This course will examine the tension between two contradictory trends in world politics. On the one hand, we have emerged from a century that has seen some of the most brutal practices ever perpetrated by states against their populations in the form of genocide, systematic torture, mass murder and ethnic cleansing. Many of these abuses occurred after the Holocaust, even though the mantra “never again” was viewed by many as a pledge never to allow a repeat of these practices. Events in the new century suggest that these trends will not end anytime soon. At the same time, since the middle of the twentieth century, for the first time in human history there has been a growing global consensus that all individuals are entitled to at least some level of protection from abuse by their governments. This concept of human rights has been institutionalized through international law, diplomacy, international discourse, transnational activism, and the foreign policies of many states. Over the past two decades, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and international tribunals have gone further than any institutions in human history to try to stem state abuses. This seminar will try to make sense of these contradictions.

HRTS W3995: Human Rights Senior Seminar 
TBA; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Priority given to human rights majors. The senior seminar is a capstone course required for the human rights major. The seminar provides students the opportunity to discuss human rights from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and to explore various theoretical approaches and research methodologies. Students undertake individual research projects while collectively examining human rights through directed readings and discussion.

HRTS G4020: Introduction to Human Rights
Chuman, Joseph; 3 credits; R 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

Prerequisites: the department's permission for non-HRSMA students. Email humanrightsed@columbia.edu. This course provides a wide-ranging survey of conceptual foundations and issues in contemporary human rights. The course examines the philosophical origins of human rights, their explication in the evolving series of international documents, questions of enforcement, and current debates. It also explores topics such as women's rights, development and human rights, the use of torture, humanitarian intervention, and the horrors of genocide. The broad range of subjects covered in the course is intended to assist students in honing their interests and making future course selections in the human rights field.

HRTS G4020: Introduction to Human Rights
Ikawa, Daniela; 3 credits; M 8:10pm-10:00pm (SEM)

Prerequisites: the department's permission for non-HRSMA students. Email humanrightsed@columbia.edu. This course provides a wide-ranging survey of conceptual foundations and issues in contemporary human rights. The course examines the philosophical origins of human rights, their explication in the evolving series of international documents, questions of enforcement, and current debates. It also explores topics such as women's rights, development and human rights, the use of torture, humanitarian intervention, and the horrors of genocide. The broad range of subjects covered in the course is intended to assist students in honing their interests and making future course selections in the human rights field.

HRTS G4215: The International Human Rights Movement: Past, Present and Future
Bickford, Louis; 3 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Prerequisites: the department's permission for non-HRSMA students. Email humanrightsed@columbia.edu. The human rights movement is one of the most successful social justice movements of our time, establishing universal principles that govern how states should treat citizens and non-citizens. The movement strengthens, and is strengthened by, a complex web of institutions, laws, and norms that constitute a functioning global system that builds on itself progressively, animated by strong NGOs. The course will address the evolution of the international human rights movement and on the NGOs that drive the movement on the international, regional and domestic levels. Sessions will highlight the experiences of major human rights NGOs and will address topics including strategy development, institutional representation, research methodologies, partnerships, networks, venues of engagement, campaigning, fundraising and, perhaps most importantly, the fraught and complex debates about adaptation to changing global circumstances.

HRTS G4300: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Policy and Practice
Rosenthal, Mila; 3 credits; M 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

This course will address economic and social human rights through the lens of what is happening now in the early 21st century, in light of the enormous shifts that have taken place since the modern human rights movement first emerged in the aftermath of WWII. The course will address many of the central debates about economic and social rights and then examine how those debates apply to specific rights and topics including development, health, housing, work, food and education. Throughout, the course will examine how activists and policymakers have responded to all these changes, and ask what might lie ahead for the human rights movement in addressing economic and social rights in a multilateral, globalized world.

HRTS G4320: Human Rights and Foreign Policy
Petrova, Tsveta; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Prerequisites: the department's permission. Email humanrightsed@columbia.edu. Human rights play a distinctive role as "the political utopia" in contemporary international life. Still, human rights violations remain widespread and human rights norms are still the focus of numerous controversies, from their definition to their protection and promotion by various international actors with different moral and strategic agendas. This course will examine the place of human rights in the foreign policies of the US and a number of other countries around the globe. The course explores the social construction of human rights and national interests as well as the context, instruments, and tradeoffs in the formulation and implementation human rights foreign policies. Some of the questions this class will consider include: What are human rights and how is their protection best assessed? How have different states promoted and contributed to the violation of human rights abroad? How does human rights promotion strengthen and undermine other foreign policy goals? What's the role of non-state actors in the promotion and violation of human rights across the globe? When has the impact of the human rights norms and regimes been the greatest and when have the efforts of state and non-state actors to promote human rights at home and abroad made the most difference?

HRTS G4820: Human Rights and International Organizations
Andreopoulos, George; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

This course examines the role of international organizations in the promotion and protection of internationally recognized human rights norms. In particular, the course surveys contending approaches on the importance of international organizations in world politics; explores the constitution, history and function of various international organizations for the promotion/protection of human rights and studies the way in which the human rights discourse has been increasingly intersecting with the peace and security and the sustainable development discourses in the work of these organizations; provides an overview of the growing interaction between international organizations and NGOs; and assesses the record of these organizations’ monitoring and enforcement mechanisms in the area of human rights. Registration priority given to Human Rights Studies M.A. (HRSMA) students. Non-HRSMA students should email humanrightsed@columbia.edu to be put on waitlist.

HRTS G8010: Human Rights Grad Res Colloq I
Martin, J. Paul; 1 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

Colloquium I introduces students to current research in the field and resources in print and electronic formats fundamental to advanced human rights research. Class meetings include lectures by faculty and researchers in the field and library staff on reference tools and skills. Students will complete the thesis proposal and present their proposals for peer review. Colloquium I may be taken for one or two credits.

HSPS G8445: Legacies of Empire and Soviet Union
Nepomnyashchy, Catha; 4 credits; M 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

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ITAL G4401: Holocaust and Resistance in Italy
Leake, Elizabeth; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

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MDES W3260: Rethinking Middle East Politics
Mitchell, Timothy; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

This course examines a set of questions that have shaped the study of the politics of the modern Middle East. The topics covered in the course include: the kinds of modern state that emerged in the Middle East and the ways its forms of power and authority were shaped; the birth of economic development as a way of describing the function and measuring the success of the state, and the changing metrics of this success; the influence of oil on the politics of the region; the nature and role of Islamic political movements; the transformation of the countryside and the city and the role of rural populations and of urban protest in modern politics; and the politics of armed force and political violence in the region, and the ways in which this has been understood.

MDES W3915: A History of African Cities
Diouf, Mamadou; 3 credits; MW 10:10am-11:25am (SEM)

The seminar is an interdisciplinary exploration of the history of African cities, examining very closely three periods: the pre-colonial, the colonial, and the postcolonial. Its focus is the intersection of geography, politics, and society. Using colonialism, empire, and globalization as key analytical frames of urban processes, it pays special attention to the historical forms of urban cultures, politics, economies, leisure and representations which are shaped by – and are shaping – the various ways in which urban dwellers experience life in their cities.

MDES W3923: Central Question in Islamic Law
Hallaq, Wael; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

Through detailed discussions of certain landmarks in Islamic legal history (e.g., origins; early formation; sources of law; intellectual make-up; the workings of court; legal change; women in the law; legal effects of colonialism; modernity and legal reform, etc.), the course aims at providing an introductory but integrated view of Islamic law, a definition, so to speak, of what it was/is.

MDES G4326: The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust: Memory and Representation
Balakian, Peter; 3 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course is an investigation of the impact of genocide on the self and the imagination’s representations in literature, film, and video testimony; primary texts will include poetry, memoir, video testimony, film, and visual art. Methodology will involve literary criticism and theoretical works in the study of trauma, literary theory, and testimony. The course will concern itself with the aftermath of two twentieth century genocides—that of the Armenians in Turkey during World War I and of the Jews in Europe during World War II—both seminal events of the twentieth century that, in various ways, became models for ensuing genocides. Students will be permitted to write about other post-genocidal texts with the instructor’s permission.

MDES G6232: Islamic Law Through Texts
Hallaq, Wael; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

This graduate seminar is conducted entirely in Arabic sources. We will read various passages from the Quran in order to highlight the Quran’s moral imperatives about living in nature as well as about the generation of wealth and its distribution within the social order. We will then move on to examine the genre of fiqh (substantive law) with regard to the same themes, examining the moral structures of society in terms of the ethic of spending. Themes such as making money, building capital, charity, welfare, etc. will be examined in depth as constituting a system of checks-and-balances, through close readings of the concepts of kasb, zakat, sadaqa, waqf, etc. PROFICIENCY IN ARABIC REQUIRED.

PHIL V2702: Contemporary Moral Problems
Bell, Macalester; 3 credits; TR 11:40am-12:55pm (LEC)

In this class, we will discus the moral dimensions of several contemporary issues, including (but not limited to) affirmative action, abortion, poverty, the treatment of non-human animals, punishment, and terrorism. As we delve into these specific issues, we will also explore different conceptions of morality and justice, and the presuppositions about human nature and value that underlie them.

PHIL V3701: Ethics
Vogt, Katja; 4 credits; TR 11:40am-12:55pm (LEC)

Prerequisites: One course in philosophy Corequisites: PHILV3711 Required Discussion Section 0 points Prerequisites: One course in philosophy. Introduction to the three central theories of normative ethics: consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics; introduction to selected topics in meta-ethics. Required Discussion Section.

PHIL V3716: Topics in Ethics: Ethics of Sex and Reproduction
Bell, Macalester; 3 credits; TR 11:40am-12:55pm (LEC)

In this class we will take up a number of questions concerning sexual morality and the ethics of reproduction: What is desire? Is jealousy always irrational? Does sexual desire necessarily objectify its target? Is objectification always morally problematic? Are some sex acts perverse? Does pornography harm? What is consent and why is it morally significant? Can someone be harmed by being brought into existence? Are there good reasons for having children? Is abortion morally permissible? We will take up these and related questions in this course. Our readings will be drawn primarily from contemporary sources, and at least one class in philosophical ethics is recommended.

PHIL V3751: Political Philosophy
Honneth, Axel; 3 credits; TR 8:40am-9:55am (LEC)

Six major concepts of political philosophy including authority, rights, equality, justice, liberty and democracy are examined in three different ways. First the conceptual issues are analyzed through contemporary essays on these topics by authors like Peters, Hart, Williams, Berlin, Rawls and Schumpeter. Second the classical sources on these topics are discussed through readings from Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Marx, Plato, Mill and Rousseau. Third some attention is paid to relevant contexts of application of these concepts in political society, including such political movements as anarchism, international human rights, conservative, liberal, and Marxist economic policies as well as competing models of democracy.

PHIL V3752: Philosophy of Law
Moody-Adams, Michele; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (SEM)

This course explores philosophical reflection on the relationship between law, society and morality. We discuss the nature of law, the nature of legal reasoning, the relationship between law and social policy, and central concepts in civil and criminal law. Readings are drawn from such sources as the natural law tradidion, legal positivism, legal realism, and Critical Legal Theory. Readings will be supplemented by analysis of classic cases.

PHIL C3912: Political Philosophy
Moody-Adams, Michele; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course will re-examine some of the foundations of liberal theory, in the idea of a rational individual who is rationally concerned with autonomous pursuits, and who is a locus of liberal rights (so-called "negative" liberties). Why do individuals in this sense matter? What qualifies as an individual in this sense? Do corporations qualify? Do they have liberal rights? Do some human beings fail to qualify? Does this mean that human rights are not well conceived as liberal rights? Do the answers to the questions suggest that political institutions organized around liberal rights are not well designed?

PHIL G4260: Kant's Ethics
Kitcher, Patricia; 3 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

The course will trace (and evaluate) central themes in Kant's ethical theory through his major texts, the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Critique of Practical Reason, the Metaphysics of Morals, and relevant parts of Religion within the Bounds of Mere Reason. Themes include the role of reason in moral evaluation and decision, freedom and autonomy, moral egalitarianism, moral idealism, moral dilemmas, and Kant's idea of the good.

PHIL G9703: Recognition Theory in Politics/Moral Political Theory
Honneth, Axel; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The concept of recognition (the acknowledgement of one subject's value by another) and its importance for the moral and political thought of Rousseau, Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. Special attention will be paid to the claim that rationality depends on the human need to be recognized by others.

POLS V1013: Political Theory
Johnston, David; 3 credits; MW 11:40am-12:55pm (LEC)

What is the relationship between law and justice? Are capacities of political judgment shared by the many or reserved for the few? What does human equality consist of and what are its implications? Can individual freedom be reconciled with the demands of political community? What are the origins and effects of persistent gender inequalities? These are some of the crucial questions that we will address in this introductory course in political theory. The course is divided into five thematic sections, each addressing an enduring political problem or issue and centered on a key text in the history of political thought: 1. Laws, Obligations, and the Question of Disobedience Sophocles, Antigone; 2. Democratic Citizenship and the Capacities of Political Judgment Plato, Republic; 3. Origins and Effects of (In)equality John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government; 4. Paradoxes of Freedom Jean Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract; 5. The Woman Question John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women.

POLS V1501: Introduction to Comparative Politics
Kasara, Kimuli; 3 credits; TR 10:10am-11:25am (LEC)

Lecture and discussion. Introduction to some of the major approaches and issues in the contemporary study of politics within nations, including the causes of revolution, the roots of democracy, and the nature of nationalism, through systematic study of politics in selected countries.

POLS V1601: International Politics
Putnam, Tonya; 3 credits; MW 10:10am-11:25am (LEC)

Setting and dynamics of global politics; application of theories of international relations to selected historical and contemporary problems.

POLS BC3102: Colloquium: Race and Modern Political Thought
Smith, Michelle; 4 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

Prerequisites: POLS 1013 or the equivalent. Race and Modern Political Thought is a Political Theory colloquium that explores how the concept of race became available to modern thought as a legitimate conceptualization of human being and difference and to political thought as an idea useful to structuring political communities. Is race best understood in ideological terms, i.e., as a viewpoint shared by philosophers and lay-persons alike about difference that usefully reflected the needs and aspirations of slaveholders and colonialists? Or is race instead an artifact of modern forms of reasoning? Or should we ignore questions of origin and simply take seriously the notion that the only practical—ethically correct or politically progressive—approach to theorizing race is to attend critically to the organization of racial power? What kind of idea is race?

POLS W3202: Labor and American Politics
Warren, Dorian; 3 credits; MW 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

This course examines the role and impact of organized labor in American politics. It will explore the history and development of the American labor movement; its significance as a central political actor in major social policy debates of the 20th century; as a mobilizing force in elections; its complex and often uneasy relationship with other political actors including business, urban political machines, and the civil rights movement; and contemporary dilemmas facing labor in a period of union decline and resurgence.

POLS W3209: Business and Politics
Nunnari, Salvatore; 3 credits; MW 11:40am-12:55pm (LC)

This class provides an overview of modern business strategy in non-market (that is, political, social, or legal) environments. The cases and readings emphasize strategies to improve the performance of companies in light of their multiple constituencies. Cases are set both internationally and within the United States and illustrate how managers are called upon to interact with the public and governments in local, national, and international settings. Topics include legislation affecting business, regulation and antitrust, intellectual property, international trade policy, activists and the media, and ethics and corporate responsibility.

POLS W3260: Latino Politics: Immigration/Immigrant: Latin Political Experience
de la Garza, Rodolfo; 3 credits; MW 11:40am-12:55pm (LEC)

This course focuses on the political incorporation of Latinos into the American polity. Among the topics to be discussed are patterns of historical exclusion, the impact of the Voting Rights Act, organizational and electoral behavior, and the effects of immigration on the Latino national political agenda.

POLS W3285: Freedom of Speech and Press
Bollinger, Lee; 3 credits; MW 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

Examines the constitutional right of freedom of speech and press in the United States. Examines, in depth, various areas of law, including extremist or seditious speech, obscenity, libel, fighting words, the public forum doctrine, and public access to the mass media. Follows the law school course model, with readings focused on actual judicial decisions.

POLS V3313: American Urban Politics
Minkoff, Scott; 3 credits; MW 11:40am-12:55pm (LEC)

A study of cities in the US focusing on local government structures and relationships with other levels of government. Themes include power and decision-making; the leadership and administration of cities; and present day problems and strategies to deal with them. Topics include urban political economy, political machines and urban reform, race and ethnicity in urban politics, and urban problems such as fiscal strain, poverty, the burden of growth and attracting economic investment, the costs and consequences of urban terror and disaster, and the global city. (Cross-listed by the American Studies Program.)

POLS V3401: Democracy and Dictatorship Europe
Berman, Sheri; 3 credits; MW 11:40am-12:55pm (LEC)

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POLS BC3402: Comparative Politics of Gender Inequality
Ullman, Claire F; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

Comparative Politics Prerequisites: Not an introductory-level course. Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC 3507. Enrollment limited to 20 students; L-course sign-up through eBear. Barnard syllabus. Uses major analytical perspectives in comparative politics to understand the persistence of gender inequality in advanced industrial states. Topics include: political representation and participation; political economy and capitalism; the historical development of welfare states; electoral systems, electoral quotas; the role of supranational and international organizations; and social policy.

POLS V3413: Political Movements in Middle East and North Africa
El-Ghobashy, Mona; 3 credits; R 10:10am-11:25am (LEC)

The 2011 "Arab Spring" took all observers by surprise. Yet the region has a rich history of bottom-up demands for accountable government. This course examines the diverse forms of popular mobilization in the Middle East region from the 19th century to 2011, including women's, human rights, and labor movements. (Cross-listed by the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures)

POLS BC3504: Social Movements
El-Ghobashy, Mona; 4 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

Comparative Politics Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent. Admission by application through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Barnard syllabus. Examines the origins, trajectories, and effects of social movements, from 18th century Britain to 19th century Iran to late 20th century Argentina, China, and the United States. Focuses on social movements’ relation to political parties, the state, and transnational forces and asks whether social movements promote or undermine democratization.

POLS BC3521: Civil Rights & Civil Liberties
Franzese, Paula; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

Explores seminal caselaw to inform contemporary civil rights and civil liberties jurisprudence and policy. Specifically, the readings examine historical and contemporary first amendment values, including freedom of speech and the press, economic liberties, takings law, discrimination based on race, gender, class and sexual preference, affirmative action, the right to privacy, reproductive freedom, the right to die, criminal procedure and adjudication, the rights of the criminally accused post-9/11 and the death penalty.

POLS W3595: Social Protection Around the World
Mares, Isabela; 3 credits; MW 8:40am-9:55am (LEC)

This course employs the tools of comparative politics to account for the development of social policies in both developed and developing countries. The policies and institutions by which governments provide social protection to their citizens vary significantly across countries. Some governments provide only meager benefits to a narrow group of citizens, while others cover the entire population. In some countries, these benefits are provided directly by the state, while in others, many responsibilities are delegated to societal organizations, such as labor unions, religious organizations and so on.

POLS V3604: Civil War and Intervention in Africa
Autesserre, Severine; 3 credits; TR 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

Why does violent conflict persist in post-independence Africa? Why do nearly half of the countries that emerge from war lapse back into violence after five years? Why do most international interventions fail to bring peace to affected populations? This class focuses on recent conflict and post-conflict situations in Africa as background against which to understand the distinct dynamics of violence and international interventions in civil wars.

POLS BC3805: International Organization
Cooley, Alexander A; 4 credits; M 11:00am-12:50pm (COL)

Description International Relations Prerequisites: POLS V1601 or the equivalent. Admission by application through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Barnard syllabus. Exploration of the various structures, institutions, and processes that order relations among states and/or actors in the international system. Emphasis will be placed on contemporary issues such as dilemmas of humanitarian intervention, the politics of international institutions, the rise of non-governmental organizations, and globalization.

POLS BC3810: Aid, Pol, Violence Africa
Autesserre, Severine; 4 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

International Relations Prerequisites: POLS V1601 or the equivalent. Admission by application through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Barnard syllabus. Explores the concepts, theoretical traditions and debates around development and humanitarian aid, focusing on the relationships between aid, politics, and violence. It looks at the political and military impacts of aid, the linkage between humanitarian aid and conflict resolution, and aid's contribution to perpetuating subtle forms of domination.

POLS W3911: Citizenship and Exclusion
Isiksel, Turkuler; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SM)

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission is required to register. Pre-registration is not permitted. Seminar in Political Theory. Pre-registration is not permitted. For most seminars, interested students must attend the first class meeting, after which the instructor will decide whom to admit. Senior majors receive priority, followed by junior majors, then all other students.

POLS W3911: Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Elster, Jon; 4 credits; R 6:10pm-8:00pm (SM)

POLS W3921: American Politics Seminar: Equality and the Law
Abdur, Robert; 4 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

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POLS W3921: American Politics Seminar: Issues that Divide America
Gertzog, Irwin; 4 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Seminar focuses on four political issues so contentious that they have produced enduring cultural, socio-economic, and political divisions throughout the United States. The four issues are slavery and efforts to end it; the use of alcoholic beverages and the struggle to curtail it; abortion and attempts to prohibit it; and lesbian and gay rights and the battle to impede them.

POLS W3921: American Politics Seminar: Majority Rule/Minority Rights
Smith, Raymond A; 4 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

This course will examine one of the central challenges to both the theory and the practice of democracy: the reconciliation of majority rule with minority rights in a way that neither sacrifices popular sovereignty nor oppresses small or disfavored groups. This course will draw upon both "classics" of political science regarding the role of minority groups in American politics as well as upon contemporary scholarship focused largely on ethnoracial and other minority groups.

POLS W3921: American Politics Seminar: Bill of Rights
Zebrowski, Martha K; 4 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

This seminar is an investigation of the nature and importance of the federal Bill of Rights in the American federal and state constitutional systems. Common readings, class discussions, and student seminar papers consider the social, political, and legal significance of the Bill of Rights in historical and contemporary American discourse and analysis, along with constitutional case law regarding specific rights. The first part of the course is devoted to a discussion of common, required readings that consider the Bill of Rights in historical and contemporary perspective. The second part of the course is devoted to students' presentations, in class, of their own research on individual topics relating to a particular rights grounded in the American federal and state bills of rights.

POLS W3930: Constitutional Law
Rosdeitcher, Sidney; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course explores major features of U.S. constitutional law through close examination of  selected decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Through student discussion and some lecturing, the seminar addresses issues arising from the Constitution's allocation of power among the three branches of government, including the role of the federal judiciary in a democratic polity; the allocation of powers between the National and State governments, including the scope of Congress’ regulatory powers; and the protection of the private sphere from arbitrary and discriminatory government conduct, including the evolution of the concept of liberty from its protection of economic interests before the New Deal to its current role in  protecting individual autonomy and privacy, protections against racial and gender discrimination and some aspects of freedom of speech and press.  More generally the seminar aims to enhance understanding of some main aspects of our constitutional tradition and the judicial process by which it is elaborated.

POLS W3961: International Politics Seminar: Law & Ethics of International Intervention
Doyle, Michael; 4 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This seminar offers an opportunity for students to explore the law, ethics and politics of international intervention. We will concentrate on humanitarian and preventive intervention. When should states or international organizations be permitted or required to intervene in order to rescue populations from a humanitarian emergency? When can states anticipate a potential attack and act so as to forestall it? Drawing on the literature and examining historical cases, the seminar aims to foster a discussion of what would be better procedural and substantive guidelines for making these difficult decisions.

POLS W3961: International Politics Seminar: Human Rights
Putnam, Tonya; 4 credits; W 12:10pm-2:00pm (SEM)

POLS G4476: Korean Politics
Terry, Sue; 3 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course examines the history, internal politics and foreign relations of South and North Korea. The course will survey the Korean peninsula’s modern history, beginning with Japanese colonialism and moving on to partition and the establishment of two separate Koreas, Cold War politics, the Korean War, South Korea’s democracy movement, and the present-day North Korean nuclear and humanitarian crises, among other topics. The course will conclude by considering the possibility and implications of a future unified Korea.
Since the division of the Korean peninsula in 1945, South Korea has developed into one of the largest trading nations in the world with a vibrant democratic polity. North Korea, isolated, destitute, and now ruled by a third-generation hereditary dictatorship, has descended into a perpetually aid-dependent state that maintains internal control through extreme repression. What does the future hold for the two Koreas? Special attention will be given to the North’s strategy of brinkmanship, the implications of possible regime collapse, and an analysis of U.S. North Korea policy.
The course aims to provide students with the information necessary to analyze and understand present-day South and North Korea. By providing a survey of the modern Korean peninsula, the course will enable students to place contemporary issues (whether it be South Korean elections or the ongoing North Korean nuclear threat) in their historical context. The course also aims to provide students with practical tools that will be useful in dealing with policy issues.

POLS G4491: Post-Soviet States and Markets
TBD; 3 credits; (LEC)

Recommended preparation: some familiarity with Communist or post-Communist states. Considers the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and the challenge of building new political and economic systems in the post-Communist space. Evaluates contending theories of markets, transitions, constitutions, federalism, and democratic institutions. Primary focus on the post-Soviet states, with some reference to Eastern Europe and China.

POLS W4496: Contemporary African Politics
Kasara, Kimuli; 3 credits; TR 11:40am-12:55pm (LEC)

Topics include the transition from colonialism to independence, ethnic and class relations, the state, strategies for development, international influences, and case studies of selected countries.

POLS G6601: Issues in Political Theory
Johnston, David; 3 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

A survey of selected issues and debates in political theory. Areas of the field discussed include normative political philosophy, history of political thought, and the design of political and social institutions.

POLS G6801: Theories of International Relations
Jervis, Robert L; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

Issues and problems in theory of international politics; systems theories and the current international system; the domestic sources of foreign policy and theories of decision making; transnational forces, the balance of power, and alliances.

POLS G8601: Problems in International Law and Justice
Cohen, Jean; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

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POLS G8607: Topics in Political Philosophy
Johnston, David; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

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POLS G8658: Constitution Making Process
Elster, Jon; 3 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (CL)

POLS G8825: Domestic Politics in Internationational Relations
Margalit, Yotam; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (CL)

POLS G8839: The Causes and Consequences of Terrorism
Fortna, Virginia Page; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This course examines the politics of terrorism, with a focus on theoretical and empirical studies of its causes and consequences. We will look at both domestic and transnational forms of terrorism. We begin with issues of definition, and theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of terrorism. We then turn to the causes of terrorism, considering questions such as when, where, and why terrorism occurs, which individuals and which groups resort to terror and why, and who are the targets of terrorist attacks. We then turn to the consequences of terrorism, both for the outcome of conflicts, and for domestic politics.

POLS G8867: International Cooperation and Institutions
Urpelainen, Johannes; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

Why do governments and leaders cooperate?  What is the role of international institutions in world politics?  This course is an introduction to the scientific study of international cooperation and institutions.   The course emphasizes recent empirical and theoretical research across issue areas.

POLS G9290: Qualitative Methods in Political Science
Warren, Dorian; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

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PSYC G4615: Psychology of Culture and Diversity
Purdie-Vaughns; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

A comprehensive examination of how culture and diversity shape psychological processes. The class will explore psychological and political underpinnings of culture and diversity, emphasizing social psychological approaches. Topics include culture and self, cuture and social cognition, group and identity formation, science of diversity, stereotyping, prejudice, and gender. Applications to real-world phenomena discussed.

RELI W4322: Exploring Sharia: Islamic Law
Haider, Najam; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The platform of every modern Islamist political party calls for the implementation of the sharia. This term is invariably (and incorrectly) interpreted as an unchanging legal code dating back to 7th century Arabia. In reality, Islamic law is an organic and constantly evolving human project aimed at ascertaining God's will in a given historical and cultural context. This course offers a detailed and nuanced look at the Islamic legal methodology and its evolution over the last 1400 years. The first part of the semester is dedicated to classical Islamic jurisprudence, concentrating on the manner in which jurists used the Quran, the Sunna (the model of the Prophet), and rationality to articulate a coherent legal system. The second part of the course focuses on those areas of the law that engender passionate debate and controversy in the contemporary world. Specifically, we examine the discourse surrounding Islamic family (medical ethics, marriage, divorce, women's rights) and criminal (capital punishment, apostasy, suicide/martyrdom) law. The course concludes by discussing the legal implications of Muslims living as minorities in non-Islamic countries and the effects of modernity on the foundations of Islamic jurisprudence

SOCI W1000: The Social World
Khan, Shamus; 3 credits; MW 10:10am-11:25am (LEC)

Identification of the distinctive elements of sociological perspectives on society. Readings confront classical and contemporary approaches with key social issues that include power and authority, culture and communication, poverty and discrimination, social change, and popular uses of sociological concepts.

SOCI W2420: Race and Place in Urban America
Shedd, Carla; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

Analyzing the relationship between race/ethnicity and spatial inequality, emphasizing the institutions, processes, and mechanisms that shape the lives of urban dwellers. Surveying major theoretical approaches and empirical investigations of racial and ethnic stratification in several urban cities, and their concomitant policy considerations.

SOCI V3235: Social Movements: Collective Action
Minkoff, Debra; credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (SEM)

Social movements and the theories social scientists use to explain them, with emphasis on the American civil rights and women's movements. Topics include theories of participation, the personal and social consequences of social movements, the rationality of protest, the influence of ideology, organization, and the state on movement success, social movements, and the mass media.

SOCI BC3911: The Social Contexts of U.S. Immigration Law and Policy
Salyer, John; 4 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Examines the historical and contemporary social, economic, and political factors that shape immigration law and policy along with the social consequences of those laws and policies.  Addresses the development and function of immigration law and aspects of the immigration debate including unauthorized immigration, anti-immigration sentiments, and critiques of immigration policy.

SOCI W3915: Stigma and Discrimination
Phelan, Jo; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course considers stigma and discrimination as general processes that apply to a broad range of phenomena, from mental illness to obesity to HIV/AIDS to racial groups. We will use a conceptual framework that considers power and social stratification to be central to stigma and discrimination. We will focus on both macro- and micro-level social processes and their interconnections, and we will draw on literature from both sociology and psychology.

SOCI W3960: Seminar: Problems of Law and Society - Law, Science and Society
Cole, Jonathan; 4 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This course addresses basic contemporary social issues from several angles of vision: from the perspective of scientists, social scientists, legal scholars, and judges. Through the use of case studies, students will examine the nature of theories, evidence, "facts," proof, and argument as found in the work of scientists and scholars who have engaged the substantive issues presented in the course.

SOCI G4032: Sociology of Labor Markets
Cohen, Yinon; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

We will discuss the main concepts and processes necessary for understanding the functioning of labor markets in rich countries. The main topics to be discussed are: changes in the employment relationships, trends in labor force participation, the dynamics of occupations and industries, unemployment and underemployment, human capital and formal education, wage determination and earnings inequality, information and social networks in the labor markets, segmented labor markets, labor unions, labor market discrimination, ethnic and gender inequalities, and immigrants in the labor market. At the end of the course students are expected to be familiar with the main debates and developments in the field of sociology of labor markets.

SOCI G4121: Racial and Ethnic Inequality
Shedd, Carla; 3 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This seminar critically examines how racial/ethnic inequality is generated and maintained in contemporary American society. We will explore the merits and limitations of various paradigms that aim to explain racial inequalities and the concomitant social policies that have been implemented and/or proposed. Major topics include: residential segregation, wealth inequality, educational achievement, employment outcomes, crime & punishment, and culture.

SOCI G4138: Religious Idenitity and Politics - Middle Eas/South Asia
Barkey, Karen; 3 credits; M 10:10am-12:00pm (LEC)

This is a comparative course intended to bridge areas and disciplines in the social sciences. Both the Middle East and South Asia are areas of democratization and conflict around issues of ethnic, religious, and communal issues. The pull and push of democratic politics and conflict along communal dimensions can be studied fron an historical as well as comparative perspective, by looking at India, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, (and Syria, and Iraq) to understand first the historical legacies of communalisms and then the impact of religious and ethnic politics as they developed in the post democratic era.

SOCI G4370: Processes of Stratification and Inequality
Spilerman, Seymour; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

The nature of opportunity in American society; the measurement of inequality; trends in income and wealth inequality; issues of poverty and poverty policy; international comparisons.

SOCI G6043: Political Sociology of Science and Medicine
Nelson, Alondra; 3 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course explores twin phenomena: 1) the socio-cultural organization of the institutions of science and medicine and 2) the ways in which the biosciences and biomedicine have come to organize the social world. The understanding that science and its medical applications are central to contemporary societies-and indeed are transforming our social landscapes-will underlie our exploration. Themes discussed included medical inequality; biological citizenship; health social movements; race and health; scientific epistemology; genetics and genomics; and the "politics of life itself."

SOCI G6055: Sociology of Law
Becher, Deborah; 3 credits; R 10:10am-12:00pm (SEM)

This course will introduce students to several lines of research in the sociology of law. Students will develop a familiarity with this research that allows them to identify the legal foundations of any aspect of social life. They will also learn to compare and contrast different perspectives on and theoretical approaches to understanding the social dimensions of law. By the end of the course, students should be able to identify areas of research in the sociology of law that are ripe for development.

SOCI G6320: Immigration, Cities, States: Deciphering the Global
Sassen, Saskia J; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Transnational processes such as economic globalization and cross-border migrations confront the social sciences with a series of theoretical and methodological challenges. This course examines these challenges through a focus oon both macro level cross-border flows and micro processes which might take place at a global or at a sub-national level. Particular attention will go to analyzing the challenges for theorization and empirical specification.

URBS V3550: Community Building
Abzug, Liz; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

Community building has emerged as an important approach to creating an economic base, reducing poverty and improving the quality of life in urban neighborhoods. In this course, students examine the methods, strategies, and impact of community building on the economic, social, and political development of urban neighborhoods.

URBS V3920: Social Entrepreneurship
Kamber, Thomas; 4 credits; M 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

Introduction to the main concepts and processes associated with the creation of new social enterprises, policies, programs, and organizations; criteria for assessing business ventures sponsored by non-profits and socially responsible initiatives undertaken by corporations; specific case studies using New York City as a laboratory.

WMST V3312: Theorizing Women's Activism
Bernstein and Jakobsen; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (T 2:10pm-4:00pm)

Prerequisites: Critical Approaches or Feminist Theory or permission of instructor. Helps students develop and apply useful theoretical models to feminist organizing on local and international levels. It involves reading, presentations, and seminar reports. Students use first-hand knowledge of the practices of specific women's activist organizations for theoretical work.

WMST BC3514: Historical Approaches to Feminist Questions
Ko, Dorothy; 4 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course will provide students with a comparative perspective on gender, race, and sexuality by illuminating historically specific and culturally distinct conditions in which these systems of power have operated across time and space. In particular, the course seeks to show how gender has not always been a binary or primary category system. Such approach is also useful in understanding the workings of race and sexuality as mechanisms of differentiation. In making these inquiries, the course will pay attention to the intersectional nature of race, gender, and sexuality and to strategic performances of identity by marginalized groups.

WMST G6001: Genealogies of Feminism: Voice of the Witness
Hirsch, Marianne; 4 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SM)

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