ACLS BC3450: Women and Leadership
Abzug, Liz; 4 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Examination of the social conditions and linguistic practices that have shaped the gendering of power in the United States and around the world over the past century. Through examples drawn from education, labor, civil rights, business, and politics, we will explore leadership in varying racial, class, and regional contexts.

AFAS C3930: Topics in the Black Experience: Representing Black Men
Blount, Marcellus; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This seminar will explore the ways in which African American men are represented and theorized through a range of cultural, historical, and political texts. I am particularly interested in literary and filmic portrayals of black men: from the "extravagant masculinity" of David Walker's Appeal (1829) to how young black men are socialized in and through such televisions shows as The Wire and the popular fictions of E. Lynn Harris. In looking at both canonical and less-studied texts, we will deconstruct notions of genre and, especially, narrativity. How do black men tell their individual and collective stories? How do they contest the false parameters of social protest by enacting a fuller sense of black interiority? What is the relationship between masculinities and sexualities? How does gender function as an analytical category through which to understand race? Course requirements: mandatory attendance and class participation; bi-weekly use of CourseWorks discussion board; optional class presentation; one ten to fifteen page essay.

AFAS C3930: Topics in the Black Experience: Black Masculinity
Blount, Marcellus; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

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AFAS C3930: Topics in the Black Experience: Exploring Black Chicago
Shedd, Carla; 4 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

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AFAS C3930: Topic in the Black Experience: Hispaniola
Jean-Marie, V. ; 4 credits; W 4:10p - 6:00p (SEM)

Although the island of Hispaniola comprises both Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the difference in their sociopolitical landscape is striking. The aim of the seminar is to understand the root of such sociopolitical difference by comparing and contrasting the historical and social forces that have shaped the cultural practices and political organization of these two Caribbean societies. The comparison and contrast approach hopes to elaborate the unique dimensions of Haitian and Dominican cultures while emphasizing the similarities that they inherited from colonialism and postcolonialism. We shall see that the central difference consists in the fact that Haitian society operates mainly according to an African-based cosmology whereas the Dominican Republic has been shaped by a mestizo and Eurocentric cosmology. Topics to be investigated this semester include: colonization and plantation slavery; struggles for independence and sovereignty; U.S. occupation and dictatorship; music, religion, popular culture, and the impact of globalization.

AFAS C3936: Black Intellectuals Seminar: Pan-Africanism and Internationalism
Matsumoti, M. ; 3 credits; Th 11:10a - 1:00p (SEM)

This course examines the rich and complex history of Pan-African and international thoughts in the twentieth century through the works of African, Afro-American, and Afro-Caribbean intellectuals. From the wake of European colonization of Africa to the end of South African Apartheid, the eventful century revealed black intellectuals' diverse and contentious methods, theories, and arguments designed to combat colonial rule, labor exploitation, and white supremacy. The overall aim of the course is for students to gain structured, critical, but appreciative knowledge of the variety of Pan-African intellectuals, their connections and contributions to the unfolding world events, and their ongoing debates as to what constitutes the basis of Pan-Africansim and what relationship black people of the world have with one another. The readings focus on primary sources in addition to recent studies and contemporary commentaries relevant to the weekly topics.

AFAS G4080: Topics in the Black Experience: The Short Story
Gilliam, T. ; 4 credits; Th 6:10p - 8:00p (SEM)

This course will engage the art of the accomplished, succinct statement in Afro-American and African Diasporic literature, cinema and society. This course is born out of the explicit desire to witness more black cast and black directed works, particularly in the genre of short film. It exposes the under-explored relationship between short stories and short film. The class projects encourage multiple literacies, across new media technologies, and equally attend to theory and practice. Course texts will include Es'kia Mphahlele's "Down the Quiet Street," Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker, James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues", Spike Lee's Iron Mike Tyson, Tamika Guishard's Blind Date and Kanye West's Runaway.

AFAS G4080: Topics in the Black Experience: The Spritual Quest of August Wilson: Enlightenment, Black Religion & The African American Conjure Tradition
Lespinasse, P. ; 4 credits; M 11:10a - 1:00p (SEM)

August Wilson is hailed as one of America's greatest playwrights. His award-winning cycle of ten plays, each representing a decade of the twentieth century, explores the continuing saga of black people in America from the turn of that century to its end. His nuanced examination of the profundity of black life from the ontological/existential, to the psycho-emotional, to the socio-cultural and socio-political and beyond, has in important and public ways raised the black ordinary to the level of the epic and the mythical. What is largely overlooked, however, is that Wilson's plays are also among the most profound explorations of human spirituality in general and black religion in particular of any American creative writer. Through his critiques of the black church, both humorous and biting; his vivid portrayals of the ubiquity of the African American conjure tradition in black worship and culture; and his evocations of Eastern notions of transcendence and enlightenment, Wilson portrays an emotionally rich and culturally fecund collective African American experience struggling to survive spiritual impoverishment at the of hands Western modernity. Through a close reading of Wilson's plays supplemented by readings in black religion, the sociology and psychology of religion, Eastern metaphysics and philosophical speculation, and the African American conjure tradition and its African roots, this course will explore August Wilson's fascinating quest to survey the landscape of African American spirituality, valorize its manifold expressions and seek its meaning for America today.

AFAS G4080: Topics in the Black Experience: African American Memory
Trodd, Zoe F. ; 4 credits; W 2:00pm-4:00pm (SEM)

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AFAS G4080: Topics in the Black Experience: Racial and Social Formations: Theory & Method
Okihiro, G. ; 4 credits; W 6:10p - 8:00p (SEM)

"The problem of the twentieth century," W.E.B. du bois famously observed, "is the problem of the color line." This seminar will examine the implications of that insight through the theories of racial and social formations is u.s. and world history. This seminar on the theories of racial formation and social formation, and their explanatory value for understanding the subjectivities and social locations of peoples of color in the U.S.

AFAS G4080: Topics in the Black Experience
Griffin, Farah; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

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AFAS G4510: Critical Approaches to African-American Studies
TBD; 4 credits; TBD (SEM)

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AFAS G4520: Race and the Articulation of Difference
Gregory, Steven; 3 credits; TBD (SEM)

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AFCV C1020: African Civilization
TBD; 4 credits; Multiple sections (LEC)

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AFRS BC3004: Introduction to African Studies
Webel, Mari K; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (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 BC3005: Introduction to Caribbean Societies
Horn, Maja; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (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 BC3110: Colloquium: Critical Race Theory
Hall, Kim; 4 credits; W 12:00pm-1:50pm (COL)

Students will examine the origins and development of race-thinking in the Anglo‑American world with a particular focus on representation and reading practices. Our conversations will draw upon a number of articulations of race theory, including specific post-1980s Critical Race Theory. The course examines "race" narratives as well as critical readings on race from psychoanalytic, post‑colonial, feminist, and critical legal perspectives. These readings will be framed by several interlocking questions: how does representation both respond to and influence socioeconomic conditions? What is the relationship of race to color, ethnicity, and nation? How does race interact with other categories such as class, sexuality and gender? What cultural work is performed by racial definitions and categories such as hybridity and purity?

AFRS BC3121: Black Women in America
Hall, Kim; 4 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Examines the roles of black women in the U.S. as thinkers, activists and creators during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the intellectual work, social activism and cultural expression of African American women, we examine how they understood their lives, resisted oppression and struggled to change society. We will also discuss theoretical frameworks (such as "double jeopardy," or "intersectionality") developed for the study of black women. The seminar will encourage students to pay particular attention to the diversity of black women and critical issues facing Black women today. This course is the same as WMST BC3121.

AFRS BC3146: African-American and African Writing & Screen
Christianse, Yvette; 4 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Focuses on the context and history of representations of African Americans and Africans in early American and other cinematographies; the simultaneous development of early film and the New Negro, Negritude and Pan African movements; and pioneer African American and African cinema.

AFRS BC3560: Human Rights 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.

AMST BC3401: Cultural Approaches-American Past
Kassanoff, Jennie; 4 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Introduction to the theoretical approaches of American Studies, as well as the methods and materials used in the interdisciplinary study of American society. Through close reading of a variety of texts (e.g., novels, films, essays), we will analyze the creation, maintenance, and transmission of cultural meaning within American society.

AMST W3930: Topics in American Studies: Writing September 11: Narratives and Arguments
Kirsch, Adam; 4 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were one of the greatest traumas in American history, and like all traumas, they demanded not just practical response but interpretation. How should we understand what happened that day—as an act of war, a criminal conspiracy, a punishment? How should we commemorate the victims? How did the attacks change the way Americans thought about their society and their role in the world? This seminar will examine some of the answers to such questions offered by novelists, journalists, and intellectuals in the years after 9/11. Readings will include the official government inquiry, “The 9/11 Commission Report,” and some of the conspiracy theories that challenged it; “American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center,” by William Langewiesche; “Terror and Liberalism” by Paul Berman; “Terrorist” by John Updike; “Falling Man” by Don DeLillo; and other works of fiction and nonfiction.

AMST W3930: Topics in American Studies: History of the US Supreme Court
Greenaway Jr., Josep; 4 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

In this course we consider the origins of the Supreme Court, including how the framers of the Constitution envisioned the function and authority of the judicial branch of the federal government; the importance of judicial independence; and the Supreme Court’s role in the development of American democracy. We examine the lives and work of several individual justices to determine the role that perspective and life experiences have on judicial decision making. Issues considered include the evolution of the law governing civil rights, from the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. Readings range from the Federalist Papers to biographies of individual justices to relevant Supreme Court cases.

AMST W3930: Topics in American Studies: Equity in Higher Education
Lehecka And Delbanco; 4 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

In this seminar, we will examine the roles colleges and universities play in American society, the differential access to those institutions available to high school students based on family background and income, ethnicity, and other characteristics, the causes and consequences of this differential access, and some attempts to make the system more equitable. Readings and class meetings will include a study of the following subjects historically and in the 21st century: the wide variety of American institutions of higher education, financial aid policies (locally and nationally), affirmative action, and the role of the high school in helping students attend college. Students in the seminar will be 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 they need to attend college and to become more successful in gaining admission and finding financial aid. The seminar will integrate its students' first-hand experiences with readings and class discussions.

ANTH G8014: Advanced Study of South Asian History, Culture, Society
Chaterjee And Dirks; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Prerequisites: Previous graduate course on South Asia or background in South Asian studies. This course is intended to be an advanced graduate seminar on late medieval and modern South Asia (i.e., from roughly 1600 to the present). Students will be expected either to have taken a previous graduate course on South Asia or to have extensive background in South Asian studies. The content of the course will change from year to year depending on the particular interests of the students and the professor. Students will be expected to prepare a paper based on primary research, and will make a presentation on the issues involved in their research at some point during the second half of the term.

ANTH V1002: The Interpretation of Culture
Fennel, Cassie; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

The anthropological approach to the study of culture and human society. Case studies from ethnography are used in exploring the universality of cultural categories (social organization, economy, law, belief system, art, etc.) and the range of variation among human societies. Discussion Section Required.

ANTH V1007: The Origins of Human Society
Hartnett, Alexandra; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

An archaeological perspective on the evolution of human social life from the first bipedal step of our ape ancestors to the establishment of large sedentary villages. While traversing six million years and six continents, our explorations will lead us to consider such major issues as the development of human sexuality, the origin of language, the birth of art and religion, the domestication of plants and animals, and the foundations of social inequality. Designed for anyone who happens to be human.

ANTH V2004: Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
Ivy, Marilyn; 3 credits; TR 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

Introduces students to crucial theories of society, paying particular attention to classic social theory of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Traces a trajectory through writings essential for an understanding of the social: from Saussure, Durkheim, Mauss, Marx, Freud, and Weber, on to the structuralis ethnographic elaboration of Claude Levi-Strauss, the historiographic reflections on modernity of Michel Foucault, and contemporary modes of socio-cultural analysis. Explored are questions of signification at the heart of anthropological inquiry, and to the historical contexts informing these questions.

ANTH V2008: Film and Culture
Vail, Margaret; 3 credits; T 7:30pm-10:30pm (LEC)

How have cultures been represented through film? This course offers a selective introduction to the past and present of ethnographic and documentary filmmaking. It also considers Hollywood depictions of "other" cultures and the growing number of films by directors working within their own communities. Film & Culture joins scholarly and filmmaking sensibilities to examine the relation of cultural identity to portrayal in film.

ANTH V2015: Chinese Society
Cohen, Myron; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

Social organization and social change in China from late imperial times to the present. Major topics include family, kinship, community, stratification, and the relationships between the state and local society.

ANTH V3090: Introduction to Native American Studies
Simpson, Audra; 3 credits; MW 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

This course engages the ways in which the late period of "settlement" in North America relies upon particular forms of knowledge, history-making, law-making and symbolic representation. What are the contemporary implications of this period for Native peoples today? And how do the logics that made settlement "make sense" live within the present? Central to understanding these efforts at history-making is the mastery of concepts that govern the interpretation of the past. Among these critical concepts are the notions of "savagery", of "civilization", "property" and "ownership." These concepts are embedded within the practices of militarism, policy, law and representation-making that work in concert to make Indigeneity in North America known, managed, resisted and expressed in certain ways

ANTH V3465: Women, Gender, and Politics in Muslim World
Abu-Lughod, Lila; 3 credits; MW 11:00am-12:15pm (LEC)

Practices like veiling that are central to Western images of women and Islam are also contested issues throughout the Muslim world. Examines debates about Islam and gender and explores the interplay of cultural, political, and economic factors in shaping women's lives in the Muslim world, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia.

ANTH V3893: The Bomb
Seeley, Karen; 4 credits; T 9:00am-10:50am (SEM)

The first part of the course focuses on the history of the creation of the atomic bomb and the aftermath of its use during World War II. We look at the socialization of the scientists involved in the birth of the bomb; at the devastation it wrought in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and at the physical and psychological injuries that afflicted its survivors, especially the immediate and long-term effects of radiation poisoning and trauma. The course then considers the Cold War period, examining civil defense campaigns, the cultural features of weapons laboratories, and the devastating physical and environmental contamination suffered by communities--disproportionately composed of indigenous populations-where such weapons repeatedly have been tested. The second part of the course explores the transformative cultural and psychological consequences of living with the bomb. Readings consider the evidence of spontaneous psychic adaptations to life in the nuclear age. They also examine governments' deliberate attempts to shape citizens' cognitive and emotional lives. How do states produce political subjects who comply with military imperatives? What role does the continual manufacture of foreign threats and enemies play in this process? While acknowledging the powerful forces that seek to control public perceptions of nuclear arms by minimizing their destructive potential, the course concludes by considering organized resistances to increasing nuclear proliferation and to militarism.

ANTH V3922: The Emergence of State Society
D'Altroy, Terence; 4 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

The creation of the earliest states out of simpler societies was a momentous change in human history. This course examines major theories proposed to account for that process, including population pressure, warfare, urbanism, class conflict, technological innovation, resource management, political conflict and cooperation, economic specialization and exchange, religion/ideology, and information processing.

ANTH V3923: Colonialism and the Intellectual
Mokeona And Messick; 4 credits; R 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; F 10:00am-12:00pm (SEM)

Arabia, of Quranic revelation and the sacred precincts of Islam, the site of pilgrimage and the direction of daily prayer for Muslims world-wide. Arabia, of the Queen of Sheba, the Thousand and One Nights, Bedouin poets, and the peninsular novel. Arabia, of Wahhabism and Aljazeera. Organized around primary Arabic texts read in English translations, the course explores the phenomenon of Arabia. Seminar with research paper.

ANTH V3957: Ethnography of the Everyday
Morris, Rosalind; 4 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The 'Ethnography of the Everyday' offers students an opportunity to engage the discipline's methods and genres, and the ethico-philosophical questions about representativeness and exemplarity that subtend them.The course will consider the everyday as an alternative concept to 'culture' and habitus,' while looking at the ethnographic works that were informed by those ideas.Students will undertake weekly writing assignments as part of an investigation not only of method but of aesthetics, expression, and representation in general.

ANTH V3980: Nationalism
Chaterjee, Partha; 4 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course will cover the basic readings in the contemporary debate over nationalism. It will cover different disciplinary approaches and especially look at recent studies of nationalism in the formerly colonial world as well as in the industrial West. The readings will offer a mix of both theoretical and empirical studies. The readings include the following: 1) Eric Hobsbawn: Nationalism since 1700; 2) Ernest Gillner: Nations ans Nationalism; 3) Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities; 4) Antony Smith: The Ethnic Origins of Nations; 5) Linda Coley: Britons; 6) Peter Sahlins: Boundaries and 7) Partha Chatterjee; The Nation and Its Fragments. Prerequisite: intended for seniors but not necessarily anthropology majors.

ANTH G4201: Principles and Applications of Society and Culture
Marakowitz, Ellen; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

Required for students in Anthropology Department's master degree program and for students in the graduate programs of other departments and professional schools desiring an introduction in this field. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Introductory survey of major concepts and areas of research in social and cultural anthropology. Emphasis is on both the field as it is currently constituted and its relationship to other scholarly and professional disciplines.

ANTH W4277: Anthropology of the Middle East
Abu-Lughod, Lila; 3 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

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ANTH G6057: Governmentality, Citizenship and Indigenous Political Critique
Simpson, Audra; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

This seminar explores the ways in which Indigenous peoples have theorized, deployed, critiqued notions of 'nationhood', 'citizenship' and 'sovereignty' in order to articulate and claim rights to territory, to jurisdiction and to the past. Our aim is to interrogate what these critical concepts mean in the literature of anthropology, political theory and Native American Studies as well as to examine the ways in which Indigenous peoples understand and critique state practices, maintain and construct their own modes of governance and mobilize politically to achieve their ends. This course is comparative in scope; literature and cases will be drawn from various sites but will dwell largely within Native North America. This course is open to advanced level undergraduates and graduate students. (Enrollment 15)

ANTH G6248: Decolonizing Methodologies
West, Paige; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The goals of this graduate seminar are multiple. First, we will critically examine the ways in which research has been conducted and how research methodology has been taught in anthropology. Second, we will, drawing on the work of indigenous scholars and critics of the colonial nature of anthropological practice and discourse, attempt to theorize new forms of social inquiry that do not replicate the historic injustices of anthropological research, representation, and the material consequences of the two. Third, we will critically examine the assumed relationship between European social theory and the lived experiences of indigenous peoples by comparing various theories of space and place. Finally, each student will produce a draft of a dissertation research proposal.

CPLS BC3121: A Kind of Wild Justice
Charles, Collomia; 3 credits; MW 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

Examines the various motives that move our nature to turn to revenge: Orestes, compelled to murder by duty; Ferdinand, pathologically obsessed with his family honor and his sister's body; Heathcliff, driven to frustration and unfocused rage; the Continental Op, just taking care of a job. Organized into four broad categories, we will move through Archaic and Classical Greek poetry, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, the Victorian Novel and finish our study in American film noir. Readings will include: Archilochus, Shakespeare, John Webster, Emily Bronte, and Richard Stark.

CPLS G4125: Critique of Human Rights and the Institution of the Citizen
Balibar, Etienne; 3 credits; Sep. 27 - Nov 3: TuTh 6:10pm-8:50pm (SEM)

This mini-seminar requires an application. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Please send an email to Assistant Director Catherine LaSota with the following information: -name; -program and year; -relevant courses taken; -a couple of sentences explaining interest in the course; The course aims at rethinking the articulation of "insurrection" and "constitution" in the trajectory of modern citizenship. It begins with a return to the conflicts between vindications and critiques of the "natural rights" declared by bourgeois revolutionaries, and finishes with a discussion of the perspectives of a "citizenship beyond the institution" opened by the contemporary crisis of the national, social and imperial State. A turning point will be provided by the critical discussion of Hannah Arendt's statement of the "right to have rights" as a negative foundation of the political community.

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 W3250: Native American Representation
Gamber, John; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

All too often, the general population's ideas about American Indians are shaped by representations that do not come from Indian people. These often stereotyping images of Native Americans shape not only popular, but even indigenous notions about what Indians are or ought to be. This course is designed to provide students with a background in the ways that Native people have represented themselves, whether they are writing/creating back against outside portrayals or creating for their own expression. This is an ethnic studies course. As such we will be addressing issues including indigeneity, race, ethnicity, privilege, and marginalization. We will also address the intersections between these issues and those of class, gender, and sexuality.

CSER W3905: Asian American & Psychology of Race
Han, Shinhee; 4 credits; R 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 W3919: Modes of Inquiry
Fennel, Cassie; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (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 W3926: Latin Music and Identity
Edward Morales; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Latin music has had a historically strained relationship with mainstream music tastes, exploding in occasional "boom" periods, and receding into invisibility in others. What if this were true because it is a space for hybrid construction of identity that directly reflects a mixture of traditions across racial lines in Latin America? This course will investigate Latin music's transgression of binary views of race in Anglo-American society, even as it directly affects the development of pop music in America. From New Orleans jazz to Texas corridos, salsa, rock, and reggaetón, Latin music acts as both as a soundtrack and a structural blueprint for the 21st century's multicultural experiment. There will be a strong focus on studying Latin music's political economy, and investigating the story it tells about migration and globalization.

CSER W3928: Colonization/Decolonization
Ngai And Brown; 4 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This course focuses on the spread of European influence and hegemony throughout the world from the age of discovery in the late fifteenth and sixteenth century to the era of decolonization after World War II and postcolonial realities of the present. We are interested in the processes and contents of social and cultural contact and exchange, the development of knowledge, and how they shape relations of power; the place of colonialism in the development of western capitalism; and the elements of colonial power and resistance, including ideologies of liberal political philosophy, social Darwinism, and nationalism. We will think about how ideas about civilization, religion, self and other, and freedom have evolved over time and shaped the making of the modern world. Class is held as a discussion seminar based on close reading of the primary-source documents.

EAAS V2002: Introduction to Major Topics: East Asia
Gentzler, Jennings; 4 credits; MW 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

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EAAS V2361: Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Japan
Pflugfelder, Gregory; 4 credits; MW 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

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EAAS W3880: History of Modern China I
Zelin, Madeleine; 3 credits; TR 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

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EAAS G8841: Colloquium on History and Modernity in Japan
Harootunian, Harry; 3 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

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EAAS G8888: Colloquium on Chinese Legal History
Zelin, Madeleine; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

An introduction to Chinese legal history (particularly of the Qing period). Issues covered include civil and criminal law, formal and informal justice, law and the family, law and the economy, the search for legal history beyond the law codes, and the question of a rule of law in China.

EAAS G9500: Korean Literature and Colonial Modernity
Hughes, Theodore; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Examines major literary texts and critical works from the early 1900s to the end of colonial rule in 1945. Topics include the formation of "modern literature," the emergence of proletarian literature and the nationalist response, representations of the "new woman," literary agrarianisms, constructions of the "everyday," modernism, assimilation/resistance.

ECON BC3011: Inequality and Poverty
Timmer, Ashley; 3 credits; MW 9:10am-10:25am (LEC)

Conceptualization and measurement of inequality and poverty, poverty traps and distributional dynamics, economics and politics of public policies, in both poor and rich countries.

ECON BC3019: Labor Econmics
Garibotti, Maria; 3 credits; TR 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

Factors affecting the allocation and remuneration of labor; population structure; unionization and monopsony; education and training, mobility and information; sex and race discrimination; unemployment; and public policy.

ECON BC3063: Senior Seminar: Intergenerational Equity
Reback, Randall; 4 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructor's choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.

ECON G4301: Economic Growth and Development I
Quella, Nuria; 3 credits; MW 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

Empirical findings on economic development, theoretical development models; problems of efficient resource allocation in a growing economy; balanced and unbalanced growth in closed and open economic systems; the role of capital accumulation and innovation in economic growth.

ECON W4325: Economic Development of Japan
Weinstein, David; 3 credits; TR 9:10am-10:25am (LEC)

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ECON W4370: Political Economy
Alessandra Casella; 3 credits; MW 9:10am-10:25am (LEC)

The interaction between economics and politics. Anintroduction to the voting theory and other alternative theories of the interaction between economic policy and elections in democracies. Examines both fiscal and monetary policies with relation to different interest groups. Also considers political economy of stabilizationpolicies in developing countries.

ECON W4400: Labor Economics
Edlund, Lena; 3 credits; MW 11:00am-12:15pm (LEC)

The labor force and labor markets, educational and man power training, unions and collective bargaining, mobility and immobility, sex and race discrimination, unemployment.

ECON W4480: Gender and Applied Economics
Edlund, Lena; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (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 W4625: Economics of the Environment
Schlenker, Wolfram; 3 credits; TR 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

Microeconomics is used to study who has an incentive to protect the environment. Government's possible and actual role in protecting the environment is explored. How do technological change, economic development, and free trade affect the environment? Emphasis on hypothesis testing and quantitative analysis of real-world policy issues.

ECON W4750: Globalization and Its Risks
Chichilnisky, Gracie; 3 credits; MW 5:40pm-6:55pm (LEC)

The world is being transformed by dramatic increases in flows of people, goods and services across nations. Globalization has the potential for enormous gains but is also associated to serious risks. The gains are related to international commerce where the industrial countries dominate, while the risks involve the global environment, poverty and the satisfaction of basic needs that affect in great measure the developing nations. Both are linked to a historical division of the world into the North and the South-the industrial and the developing nations. Key to future evolution are (1) the creation of new markets that trade privately produced public goods, such as knowledge and greenhouse gas emissions, as in the Kyoto Protocol; (2) the updating of the Breton Woods Institutions, including the creation of a Knowledge Bank and an International Bank for Environmental Settlements.

ECON W4921: Seminar in Political Economy
Alessandra Casella; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Provides a forum in which students can integrate the economics and political science approach to political economy. The theoretical tools learned in political economy are applied: the analysis of a historical episode and the empirical relation between income distribution and politics on one side and growth on the other.

ECON G6308: Political Economy: Theory and Emprics
TBD; 3 credits; TBD (LEC)

The course is primarily intended for graduate level students in economics but is open for enrollment by graduate students in political science as well as those with knowledge of econometrics and microeconomics. Explores several current topics in the theory of political economy as well as its historical evolution, drawing on both economic and political science literature. It will focus primarily on economic decision-making, taking into consideration political processes.

ECON G6451: The Economics of Labor I
Wachter, Till Von; 3 credits; TBD (LEC)

Introduction to labor economics, theory and practice.

ECON G6903: Theory of International Trade
Davis, Donald; 3 credits; TBD (LEC)

The theory of comparative advantage, the gains form trade, trade and income distribution, international factor mobility, growth and trade.

EEEB W4321: Human Nature: DNA, Race & Identity
Pollack, Robert; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

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EEEB W4700: Race: The Tangled History of a Biological Concept
Shapiro, Jill; 4 credits; MW 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

From Aristotle to the Bell Curve, this course examines the history of race as a biological concept. We will explore the complex relationship between the scientific study of biological differences, real, imagined, or invented and the historical and cultural factors involved in the development and expression of "racial ideas."

EMPA U6036: Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility
Decker, Hans W; 3 credits; M 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

This course will introduce students to the global context of CSR through comparative business perspectives. After considering the theoretical frameworks for undertaking CSR activities the course will addresses a number of public policy issues facing globalizing companies through a series of case studies. Under examination is the manner in which business and ethical considerations have impacted upon different social, labor, and environmental challenges. We will be asking students to consider: to what extent such factors have been, and will be, part of the corporate strategy decision-making process; why companies are having to adapt (or not) to different pressures; and whether they might sometimes be going above and beyond the standards required by regulation.

EMPA U8225: Public Management: Power of Social Innovation
Goldsmith, Steve; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

The course is designed to introduce you to the field of public management. It is a practical course organized around the tools managers may use to influence the behavior of their organizations. The course also discusses the political environment in which public managers must interact.

ENGL W3285: Post-1945 American Literature
Posnock, Ross; 3 credits; MW 6:10pm-7:25pm (LEC)

This course surveys major works of American fiction, poetry, essays, literary and cultural criticism written since 1945. It will situate the analysis of literature against a historical backdrop that includes such key events as the Holocaust; the atomic bomb; the Beatniks; youth counterculture; the women's, peace, and Civil Rights movements; the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf Wars; the energy crisis; globalization; the rise of the internet; and the War on Terror. We will also consider major literary and artistic movements such as postmodernism, the Beats, confessional poetry, minimalism, the New Journalism, and historiographic metafiction. Lectures will emphasize literature in its cultural/historical context, but will also attend to its formal/aesthetic properties.

ENGL W3510: Immigration, Relocation, Diaspora
Gamber, John; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (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 G6792: Law and the Humanities
Peters, Julie; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course offers graduate students working in law and humanities an intensive theoretical and methodological training in the field.  We will read a number of theoretical texts—those that have been most influential or provocative for theorists of law and culture (Plato, Cover, Benjamin, Schmitt, Lacan, Derrida, Foucault, Agamben, Butler, etc.).  We will then engage in a series of case studies of trials and other legal events, looking at primary sources (trial documents, judicial opinions, film footage, journalism, etc.) and evaluating a variety of critical approaches to this material.  In this context, guest speakers may be invited to discuss their current work.  Finally, the seminar will function as a research colloquium, in which students will develop their own projects, circulating their work in the seminar. Students in any field (literature, history, political theory, anthropology, performance, etc...) and at any stage of graduate study welcome.

FREN BC3073: Africa in Cinema
Glover, Kaiama; 3 credits; TR 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

Representations of African culture by filmmakers from various cultural backgrounds. Social and ideological positions and the demands of exoticism. The constructions of the African as other and the responses they have elicited from Africaïs cineastes.

FYSB BC1216: Revolution: Locke to Luxembourg
Sloan, Herbert E; 4 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (SEM)

Close reading of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary texts from the 18th through the 20th century. Examination of revolutions as debates among competing points of views, with emphasis on the ways in which the language of revolution is challenged and transformed in the course of these debates. Readings include: selections from Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War; selections from, Paine, Common Sense and Rights of Man; Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France; Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women; Conrad, The SecretAgent, Lenin, What Is to Be Done?; Luxemburg, "Leninism or Marxism?"; Kollontai, "Women and the Revolution." Films include "Battleship Potemkin" (S. Eisenstein) and "Rosa Luxemburg" (M. von Trotta).

FYSB BC1228: Ethnicity and Social Transformation
Ellsberg, Margaret R; 3 credits; MW 1:10pm-2:25pm (SEM)

Novels, memoirs, films and fieldwork based on the American experience of immigration during the twentieth centure. Readings will include works by Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Christina Garcia, Julia Alvarez, Fae Ng, Gish Jen, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Malcolm X.

FYSB BC1286: Culture, Ethics, Economics
Pereira, Sonia; 3 credits; TR 10:35am-11:50am (SEM)

What if humans were only capable of caring for their own interests? What kind of economic world could we expect to find? One in which the common good would be attained by market forces, or one in which many would be left behind? This course uses a diversity of sources to examine the interplay of culture, ethics and economics. The starting point is Adam Smith�s work. Economists and policy makers have focused on one side of Adam Smith�s work represented by self-regarding behavior and the supremacy of the invisible hand in market functioning. However, Adam Smith also pointed out that one of humans� central emotions is �sympathy�, a natural tendency to care about the well-being of others. In light of the recent events as well as research this other side of Adam Smith�s work appears now more relevant. We analyze evidence of cooperative versus self-regarding behaviors and its relationship with the economy, human evolution and cultural values in a variety of settings. Readings include works from Adam Smith, Milton Freedman, Charles Dickens, David Rockefeller and Chris Gardner.

HBSS T4122: Special Topics in Health Education: Women's Health Issues
Pasagian-Macaulay; 3 credits; Thurs. 3:00PM - 4:40pm (LEC)

Although life expectancy has been increasing over the past century in the U.S., women and men differ with respect to death rates (mortality) and the impact of disease (morbidity). Despite the fact that women outlive men, they incur more years hampered with disability and reduced quality of life than do men. This course will focus on the potential biologic and environmental influences on women's health. Upon completion of this course students will be able to critique and evaluate clinical studies in the literature. In addition, students will develop a basic understanding of the process of planning and funding health promotion programs.

HIST/AMST W3478: U.S. Intellectual History, 1865 To the Present
Blake, Casey; 3 credits; MW 5:40pm-6:55pm (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 ina secular 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.

HIST BC1401: American Civilization to Civil War
Sloan, Herbert E; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

The major intellectual and social accommodations made by Americans to industrialization and urbanization; patterns of political thought from Reconstruction to the New Deal; selected topics on post–World War II developments.

HIST BC3255: Italy Balkans Turkey 1918-39
TBD; 3 credits; MW 1:10pm-2:35pm (LEC)

The course examines the social, economic and political impact World War I had on the Balkans, Italy, and Turkey. In particular, the growing influence of fascism from its birthplace in Italy to its emergence in various forms throughout the Balkans will be the central theme in the course.

HIST BC3321: Colonial Encounters
Tiersten, Lisa; 3 credits; MW 11:00am-12:15pm (LEC)

Examines the shaping of European cultural identity through encounters with non-European cultures from 1500 to the post-colonial era. Novels, paintings, and films will be among the sources used to examine such topics as exoticism in the Enlightenment, slavery and European capitalism, Orientalism in art, ethnographic writings on the primitive, and tourism.

HIST BC3408: Emerging Cities: 19th Century Urban History of the Americas and Europe
Baics, Gergely; 3 credits; MW 9:10am-10:25am (LEC)

Urban history of 19th century cities in Europe and the Americas. First, we study the economic, geographic, and demographic changes that produced 19th century urbanization in the Western world. Second, we examine issues of urban space: density, public health, housing conditions, spatial reforms, and the origins of the modern city planning.

HIST BC3413: United States 1940-1975
Carnes, Mark; 3 credits; MW 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

Emphasis on foreign policies as they pertain to the Second World War, the atomic bomb, containment, the Cold War, Korea, and Vietnam. Also considers major social and intellectual trends, including the Civil Rights movement, the counterculture, feminism, Watergate, and the recession of the 1970s.

HIST BC3414: United States in the World
Esch, Elizabeth; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (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 10:35am-11:50am (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 W3535: History of City of New York
Jackson, Kenneth; 3 credits; MW 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

The social, cultural, economic, political, and demographic development of America's metropolis from colonial days to present. Slides and walking tours supplement the readings (novels and historical works).

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 W3657: Medieval Jewish Cultures
Carlebach, Elisheva; 3 credits; MW 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

This course will survey some of the major historical, cultural, intellectual and social developments among Jews from the fourth century CE through the fifteenth. We will study Jewish cultures from the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the age of the Talmuds, the rise of Islam, the world of the Geniza, medieval Spain, to the early modern period. We will look at a rich variety of primary texts and images, including mosaics, poems, prayers, polemics, and personal letters.

HIST BC3676: Latin America: Migration/Race/Ethnicity
Moya, Jose; 3 credits; TR 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

Examines immigrations to Latin America from Europe, Africa, and Asia and the resulting multiracial societies; and emigration from Latin America and the formation of Latino communities in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere. Analyzes the socioeconomic and discursive-cognitive construction of ethno-racial identities and hierarchies, and current debates about immigration and citizenship. -

HIST W3716: History of Islamic Society
Kamaly, Hossein; 3 credits; MW 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

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

HIST W3719: History of Modern Middle East
Khalidi, Rashid; 3 credits; TR 9:10am-10:25am (LEC)

This Course will cover the History of the Middle East from the 18th century until the present, examining the region ranging from Morocco to Iran and including the Ottoman Empire. It will focus on transformations in the states of the region, external intervention , and the emergence of modern nation-states, as well as aspects of social, economic, cultural and intellectual history of the region.

HIST W3800: Gandhi's India
Bakhle, Janaki; 3 credits; MW 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

Focus on the history of modern India, using the life and times of Mohandas Gandhi as the basis for not only an engagement with an extraordinary historical figure, but also for a consideration of a great variety of historical issues, including the relationship between nationalism and religion, caste politics in India and affirmative action policies in the United States today, and racism as encountered by Gandhi in relation to colonialism and the Civil Rights movement in the U.S.

HIST BC3861: Chinese Cultural History
Ko, Dorothy; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

Introduction to visual and material cultures of China, including architecture, food, fashion, printing, painting, and the theatre. Using these as building blocks, new terms of analyzing Chinese history are explored, posing such key questions as the meaning of being Chinese and the meaning of being modern.

HIST W3926: Historical Origins of Human Rights
Moyn, Sam; 4 credits; MW 9:10am-10:25am (LEC)

Dedicated to four main topics on human rights: 1) long-term origins; 2)short-term origins; 3) evolution through the present; 4) moral defenses and ideological criticisms

HIST W4227: Empire and Nation: Nationality Issues in the Russian Empire
Bilenky, Serhiy; 4 credits; M 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

This senior seminar deals with nationalist challenges and nationality policies in imperial Russia. Particular emphasis will be placed on the imperial policies vis-à-vis national peripheries (primarily Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic, and Volga region) as well as religious minorities (particularly Jews, Roman Catholics, and Muslims). We will also analyze the relationship between the imperial government and Russian nationalism. The gap between nation and empire in Russia will be considered. The main chronological focus of the seminar is the long nineteenth century, the late eighteenth-the early twentieth centuries.

HIST W4235: Central Asia: Imperial Legacies, New Images
Kendirbai, Gulnar T; 4 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

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.

HIST BC4324: Vienna and the Birth of the Modern
Coen, Deborah; 4 credits; M 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Examines Vienna from the 1860s through the 1930s as the site of intellectual, political, and aesthetic responses to the challenges of modern urban life. Through readings in politics, literature, science, and philosophy, as well as through art and music, we explore three contested elements of personal identity: nationality, sexuality, and rationality.

HIST BC4333: History of Childhood in Britain and Europe
Shapira, Michal; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This research seminar explores the changing history of childhood in Britain and Europe. We will examine children's lives and what childhood came to represent in different periods and cultures. We will discuss the latest scholarship on topics of child psychology; childhood as a site for state and expert intervention; popular and scientific practices of childrearing; theories of parenthood; the construction of childhood as a period of education rather than labor; children in democractic and dictorial regimes; juvenile delinquency; and children and consumerism. We will draw on secondary sources that examine the history of private life, gender, selfhood, the family, war and nationalism. Not open to first-year students.

HIST W4358: Themes in Intellectual History: Education
Lilla, Mark; 4 credits; F 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

"Themes in Intellectual History" offers an intensive examination of one major intellectual concept or problem as it develops over time. This semester will be devoted to some classic modern works on education: its aims, its methods, its prerequisites, its limitations, its social and political implications. These works by Montaigne, Descartes, Locke, Vico, and Rousseau have been chosen for intensive study due to their wide influence and the starkly different pedagogical alternatives they develop. Particular attention will be devoted to Rousseau's Emile and its relation to its precursors.

HIST W4380: The Idea of Europe
Collins, Nancy; 4 credits; M 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This seminar is dedicated to studying the historical developments of the idea of Europe from antiquity until the early twenty-first century with an emphasis on modern times. We will examine the major shifts in the meanings and interpretations of Europe, covering regions from Russia to the United Kingdom, Hungary to the Netherlands, Portugal to Estonia. We will consider a wide range of historical perspectives, including but not limited to political, legal, economic, cultural, and religious traditions.

HIST W4400: America and the Natural World, 1800-Present
Leach, William; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This seminar deals with how Americans have treated and understood the natural world, connected or failed to connect to it, since 1800. It focuses on changing context over time, from the agrarian period to industrialization, followed by the rise of the suburban and hyper-technological landscape. We will trace the shift from natural history to evolutionary biology, give special attention to the American interest in entomology, ornithology, and botany, examine the quest to save pristine spaces, and read from the works of Buffon, Humboldt, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Darwin, Aldo Leopold, Nabokov, among others. Perspectives on naming, classifying, ordering, and most especially, collecting, will come under scrutiny. Throughout the semester we will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the environmentalist movement, confront those who thought they could defy nature, transcend it, and even live without it.

HIST W4481: Culture, Memory, Crisis in the US
Hallett, Hilary-Anne ; 4 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

How have Americans used culture as a means of responding to, interpreting, and memorializing periods of social, economic, and political crisis? Do these periods create breaks in cultural forms and practices? Or do periods of significant upheaval encourage an impetus to defend cultural practices, thereby facilitating the ?invention of tradition?? How are the emotional responses produced by critical moments?whether trauma, outrage, insecurity, or fear?turned into cultural artifacts? And, finally, how are cultural crises memorialized? This course focuses on Americans? cultural responses to the lynching of black Americans in the era of World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II to answer these questions. We will examine a wide range of individual and collective cultural expressions, including anti-lynching plays and songs, WPA programs, the 1939 World?s Fair, war photographs and radio broadcasts, the zoot suit and swing culture, and the military?s effort to preserve culture in European war areas.

HIST W4535: 20th Century New York City History
Jackson, Kenneth; 4 credits; M 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

This course explores critical areas of New York's economic development in the 20th century, with a view to understanding the rise, fall and resurgence of this world capital. Discussions also focus on the social and political significance of these shifts. Assignments include primary sources, secondary readings, film viewings, trips, and archival research. Students use original sources as part of their investigation of New York City industries for a 20-page research paper. An annotated bibliography is also required. Students are asked to give a weekly update on research progress, and share information regarding useful archives and websites.

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 BC4587: Modern Representations of Slavery
Naylor, Celia; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Remembering Slavery: Critiquing Modern Representations of the Peculiar Institution. The enslavement of people of African descent signifies a crucial historical and cultural marker not only for African-Americans but also for Americans in general. We will interrogate how and why images of slavery continue to be invoked within the American sociocultural landscape (e.g., in films, documentaries, historical novels, and science fiction).

HIST BC4678: Idea of Western Hemisphere
TBD; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Interdisciplinary examination of conceptualizations of the Western Hemisphere as a distinct geoculture from the age of Bolivar and Jefferson to that of Chávez and Obama. Working across media and expansively engaging primary sources we interrogate the international political economy of geography and the role of culture in international history.

HIST W4768: Writing Contemporary African History
Mann, Gregory; 4 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

An exploration of the historiography of contemporary (post-1960) Africa, this course asks what African history is, what is unique about it, and what is at stake in its production.

HIST W4946: International Criminal Law: History and Theory
Moyn, Sam; 4 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Application required

HIST BC4953: Anarchism: A Global History
Moya, Jose; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Explores the historical development of anarchism as a working-class, youth, and artistic movement in Europe, North and Latin America, the Middle East, India, Japan, and China from the 1850s to the present. Examines anarchism both as an ideology and as a set of cultural and political practices.

HIST G8165: History of Political Economy
Wennerlind, Carl; Force, Pierre; 4 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

A study of the emergence of political economy in eighteenth-century Britain and France, with a focus on the problematic relationship between economics and politics, and the gradual establishment of economics as a separate field of knowledge. Authors include Hobbes, Locke, Mandeville, Montesquieu, Hume, Rousseau, Smith, Say, and Ricardo.

HIST G8530: Civil War and Reconstruction
Foner, Eric; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

Colloquium on the Civil War and Reconstruction. The Civil War and the crisis of Reconstruction. Emphasis on the implications of Emancipation for American history and the social and political struggle over Reconstruction.

HIST G8538: The South After Reconstruction
Fields, Barbara J.; 4 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

The period of Southern history between the end of Reconstruction and World War I, during which the foundation was laid for a Southern Order more durable than any of its predecessors - either the Old South of King Cotton, the Confederate South of the Civil War era, or the Republican south of the Reconstruction.

HIST G8547: History of Women and Gender
Kessler-Harris, Alice; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (COLL)

Intensive reading and discussion course designed to critically analyze some of the major themes and newest scholarship in women's and gender history.

HIST G8712: U.S.,. Middle East, and the Cold War
Khalidi, Rashid I; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

This course will examine various answers to these questions, as well as the continuities and disjunctures between these different periods. Specifically, we will look at great power policies in the Middle East until 1917, and attempt to see which constants carried over to the Soviet period and the Cold War. We will also examine the degree to which the United States simply stepped into the shoes of Britain in the Middle East, beginning in 1947. Much of the course will concentrate on the strategic weight attached to the Middle East by great power rivals, and the nature of their interaction with each other and with internal regional dynamics -- nationalism, religion, reform and revolution -- in the pre-Soviet and Soviet periods. We will conclude by examining how the collapse of the Soviet Union has changed the situation in the Middle East.

HIST G9702: The Ottoman Empire and Its Rivals
Philliou, Christine M; 4 credits; T 9:10am-10:50am (SEM)

In this research seminar we will consider the 18th- and 19th-century Ottoman Empire in light of two kinds of rivals: rival empires, such as Iran, Russia, Britain and France, and rival movements that arose within Ottoman domains. The course will proceed chronologically and, alternating between external and internal rivals, we will examine the ways particular rivalries shaped the internal workings of Ottoman governance. Major sets of issues include: methods and frameworks for comparing empires; political participation and allegiances of borderland populations between Ottoman and rival empires; 19th-century movements for reform and nationalism that linked external and internal rivals; and analogous mechanisms of governance that arose in rival empires such as Russia. Along with weekly readings students are expected to develop a research project of their own, presenting the results and a final research paper in the closing weeks of the semester.

HPMN P8530: Aging and Health Policy: A Global Perspective
Gusmano, Michael; 1.5 credits; Mon 5:30pm - 8:20pm (SEM)

Not currently available.

HPMN P8539: Health and Health Systems in Low Income Countries
Kruk, Margaret; 3 credits; Mon 1:00pm - 3:50pm (SEM)

There are wide, and in some instances growing, global disparities in health status. In some countries in southern sub-Saharan Africa, for example, the AIDS epidemic has cut 20 years from average life expectancy over the past decade while the developed world has enjoyed a boom of new health discoveries and advances. AIDS and a resurgence in malaria and TB have added to the tremendous strain on fragile health systems, which have already been ravaged by years of underfunding. Government-run health systems in developing countries, whose main role is to deliver a modest package of essential interventions for largely preventable and/or treatable conditions, are on the verge of collapse. This course examines the state of public health systems in developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia in the context of global initiatives to dramatically improve health outcomes. The course will cover recent trends in health outcomes, the structure, history and performance of developing country health systems, the international players in health (including the UN and other multilateral and bilateral organizations), key constraints to improving health care delivery, and potential ways forward. This course focuses on international and national health policy as it pertains to developing countries but also deals with questions of health management and implementation of complex systems

HPMN P8561: Managing Public Health Non-Profits
Rosenthal, David; 1.5 credits; Mon 9:00am - 11:50am (LEC)

Directing a public health non-profit requires knowledge of a variety of diverse content as well as organizational skills. This class will focus on leadership, facilitating change, human resources, strategic planning, grantwriting/fund-raising and assessing program effectiveness that public health professionals working as managers encounter on a regular basis. Students will have the opportunity to develop strategies for responding to daily management situations. The goal of the class will be to provide students an experience that will directly translate to working in public health organizations.

HPMN P8577: Health Policy in the Global Context
Muennig, Peter; 3 credits; Tue 2:00pm - 4:50pm (LEC)

This course critically examines approaches to public health policy in the developing context. We will explore the major determinants of morbidity and mortality across nations including: basic public health infrastructure, education policy, health system quality, appropriate technology use, gender issues, and democracy. We will attempt to analyze these issues on a macroeconomic level while recognizing that policy exists for people and communities rather than for economic growth per se. Since many policy decisions have more to do with political economy than evidence-based governance, emphasis will be placed on current debate on the topics discussed.

HPMN P8588: Seminar: Health Disparities and Public Policy
Muennig, Peter; 1.5 credits; Sat 9:00am - 4:50pm (SEM)

It isn’t surprising is that, in the US, people that live in lousy housing, have limited access to health care, and work in risky jobs live unhealthy lives and die prematurely. But can providing a robust welfare state really more than make up the difference? We can be relatively certain that the chain smoking, alcohol drinking French and Japanese do not have a healthier lifestyle. So why is it that the French and Japanese so dramatically outlive white, native-born Americans? Health disparities are differences in the burden of disease between communities or socio-demographically defined groups of people. They can arise as a result of limitations in access to medical care or other social resources, but might also arise from perceptions (e.g. discrimination or a sense of being treated unfairly) or other daily stressors. Though socioeconomic disparities were recognized in the ancient medical writings of both Eastern and Western civilizations, remarkably little is known about why disparities lead to morbidity and mortality. More importantly, little is known about which policies work best to reverse the impact of disparities on health and civil society. Unlike a class in the socio-medical sciences, this class focuses primarily focuses on the policy implications of socio-economic disparities. From a policy perspective, solutions must be causally linked not only with reductions in poverty (or increases in education), but also to improvements in health. Taking this one step further, they must also be cost-effective to be worthwhile. We ask whether it is more cost-effective to address disparities in access to care, or to treat some of the underlying causes of these disparities with policies that address education quality, income distribution, market regulations, disability insurance, and other forms of social insurance.

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 G4020: Introduction to Human Rights
Chuman, Joseph N; 3 credits; R 4:30pm-6:00pm (LEC)

This course will provide a wide-ranging survey of conceptual foundations and issues in contemporary human rights. The class will examine the philosophical origins of human rights, their explication in the evolving series of international documents, as well as questions of enforcement through international law and treaty arrangements. The course will also examine contemporary topics that are in the forefront of concern, among them - the status of women, refugees, children, the use of torture and the horrors of genocide. Though the course emphasizes political rights, it also recognizes the evolution of the human rights culture, the growing importance of economic rights and tensions related to globalization and multiculturalism. 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 G4800: Human Rights and International Law
Sabatello, Maya; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-7:00pm (SEM)

This course introduces the fundamental concepts and problems of public international law. What are the origins of international law? Is international law really law? Who is governed by it? How are treaties interpreted? What is the relationship between international law and domestic law? We examine the interplay between law and international politics, in particular with reference to international human rights, humanitarian law, the use of force, and international criminal prosecutions. No prior knowledge of international law is required. While the topics are necessarily law-related, the course will assume no prior exposure to legal studies.

HRTS G4820: Human Rights and International Organizations
Andreopoulos, George; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (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.

HRTS G8010: Human Rights Grad Res Colloq I
Martin, J. Paul; 1-2 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.

HRTS G8020: Human Rights Grad Res Colloq II
Martin, J. Paul; 2-3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

Colloquium II is designed for Human Rights Studies students writing the thesis and other graduate students completing similar research projects on human rights. The colloquium provides a structured opportunity to research and write in stages. Students review and discuss current research in human rights, review research resources and develop skills required for a successful thesis, present their own and discuss others’ work, and receive constructive advice on their work and the thesis process. Colloquium II is taken for two or three credits.

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

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INAF U4090: Humanitarian Affairs Practicum
Martone, Gerald; 1.5 credits; R 6:10pm-8:00pm (PRC)

This seven-week practicum is designed to give students from a variety of disciplines a background in some of the psychosocial issues associated with fieldwork in the context of complex emergencies. Practitioners from humanitarian aid organizations, public health experts, trauma specialists and managers from international organizations will present sessions focusing on psychosocial issues that confront fieldworkers in conflict settings.

INAF U4409: Politics, Society, Economic Development --Brazil I
Trebat, Thomas; 1.5 credits; W 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

This course is a practicum, which has been designed to enable you to discuss major problems of contemporary Brazil with important political figures, business representatives, activists and analysts. Normally the guest speaker will make an opening statement of approximately 40 minutes and the rest of the time will be devoted to a discussion. Guest speakers may recommend one or two articles or documents they have written, or that they think are particularly relevant, for the policy issues they will discuss.

INAF U4545: Contemporary Diplomacy
Hirsch, John; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This course examines the process of diplomacy; the patterns, purposes, and people that shape the contemporary interactions of states. In the first, entitled "Making War and Peace"- we look at a series of the most important episodes in twentieth-century diplomacy. In the second section under the heading "Professional Norms and Pathologies"-we consider some of the problems faced by diplomats in any period. The concluding section of the course called "The Newest 'New Diplomacy'"- takes up distinctive aspects of diplomacy in the current period: how the United States and other governments have dealt with the proliferation of multilateral organizations (and of weapons of mass destruction), with ethnic warfare and genocide, with the pressures and opportunities of globalization, and with the war on terrorism that began after September 11, 2001.

INAF U6017: International Trade
Panagariya, Arvind; 3 credits; F 1:30pm-3:20pm (LEC)

Prerequisites: SIPA U6400 The course has two dimensions: theory and policy. In the former, the fundamental models of international trade theory will be presented. Using these models we will try to understand why countries specialize and trade, what determines the pattern of trade (i.e., which country will export which good), and how trade affects relative prices, welfare, and income distribution within a country. The second part of the course deals with issues concerning trade policy. We will compare the effects of and rationale behind the usage of various policy instruments such as tariffs, subsidies, quotas, etc. The political economy of trade policy and trade policy in developing countries will also be covered. Additional topics may be included at a later stage if time permits.

INAF U6041: Corporate Social Responsibility
Bauer, Joanne R; 3 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to learn about the growing importance of human rights and their impact in the world today. Through an in-depth examination of the field of business and human rights students will gain an understanding of the existing and emerging international human rights framework relevant to business, learn ways in which business and human rights intersect, and be exposed to the range of methods and tactics being employed by human rights advocates and businesses to address their human rights impacts. By the end of the course, the student will have a firm grasp of the current business and human rights debates, and be able to critically evaluate the efficacy of applying human rights standards to corporations and the effect of corporate practices on human rights. Classroom discussion will include a review of trends in human rights; the development of human rights principles or standards relevant to corporations; human rights issues facing business operations abroad; the growing public demand for greater accountability; strategies of civil society advocacy around business and human rights; collaborative efforts between business and non-profit organizations; and other issues managers must deal with. Through guest lectures, students will have the opportunity to engage first hand with business managers and advocacy professionals dealing with these issues.

INAF U6042: Energy Business and Economic Development
Morris, Ellen; 3 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

Energy is a key input and a key business in economic development. The course first develops the current understanding of the economic development process, with a focus on the role of energy, and energy businesses and markets. Then we examine development problems and policies in resource dependent economies, middle income reforming economies, low income economies and conclude with a look at the interface between economic development and environmental protection.

INAF U6043: Integrated Development Practice
Sachs, Jeffrey; 3 credits; T 8:00am-10:00am (LEC)

This course aims to provide students with a general introduction to the basic core competencies and practical skills required of a generalist development practitioner. The course will be offered at a number of universities around the world, and each week students will have the opportunity to learn from an expert practitioner. (For a complete list of participating universities, see Annex 3.) Course topics will be grounded in a practical, multi-disciplinary approach that will focus on the inter-relationship of each of the following core fields of study: Public Health, Agriculture and Nutrition, Environment and Climate Science, Technology and Engineering, Economics, Policy, Anthropology and Social Studies, and Management. Both conceptual and practical management issues will be stressed throughout each course topic. The course will incorporate state-of-the-art web-based technologies for sharing lectures across countries, and to facilitate international discussion and collaboration among students at participating universities. The Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CNMTL) will support the interactive, web-based components of the course including the development of electronic learning resources and the lecture videos. Contact Mark Orrs ([email protected]) with any questions. Recitation is required.

INAF U6046: Media and Economic Development
Schiffrin, Anya Maria; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

Media has an important role to play in the economic development of emerging countries. Much scholarly work has been done on how the media can help promote good governance, sound policy making and economic growth. However, the reality is often very different. Underpaid and poorly trained journalists struggle to write about economics and business. They often work in newsrooms that lack resources and they face tremendous political and commercial pressures. This research seminar will look first at the theory of what role the media should play and then examine how journalism actually copes with these multiple challenges. We will spend a lot of time looking at media coverage of economics and development to see how it lives up to the grand ideals. We will consider how developing country journalists engage with government, international organizations and civil society. A key question addressed by the course is explaining why the media has often failed to live up to expectations. We will consider subjects such as censorship, ownership and the effect that donor-driven training has on the media

INAF U6190: Complex Emergencies: Root Causes to Rebuilding
Salomons, Dirk; 3 credits; M 11:00a - 12:50p (LEC)

This course forms an introduction to the broader program on humanitarian affairs. We will address the root causes of complex humanitarian emergencies, the practices of humanitarian intervention, the main actors, and the opportunities and dilemmas for rebuilding. We will also discuss the main critiques of humanitarian action and possible alternatives. The course advocates the principle that humanitarian aid should be provided from a (long-term) development perspective? otherwise it can reinforce conflict and exclusion.

INAF U6212: New Media in Development Communication
Nelson, Anne; 3 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

New Media in Development Communication is an inter-disciplinary course that will introduce students to advanced concepts in communications skills and policy, with an emphasis on applicability in developing countries. The world is in the midst of simultaneous revolutions in communications technologies and the attitudinal changes brought about by the forces of globalization. The media plays an increasingly crucial part in international affairs, both in affecting and recording change. This course will give students hands-on experience with new technologies (such as Internet publication, video, and cell phones) combined with guidance in the principles of creating editorial products. It will address evolving policy issues and new challenges in development communications, such state censorship and communications in the context of natural disasters and humanitarian crises. Special attention will be given to the challenges and opportunities of working under technologically primitive field conditions with modest resources. The course will offer occasional guest speakers who are leading figures in the field.

INAF U6222: Intelligence Establishment and National Security
Wagner, Abraham; 1.5 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

"National Estimates and National Security" explores the evolution of estimative intelligence porcess and related technologies as well as their application to the current national security environment. Beginning with an overview of Intelligence Community organization; the intelligence process; and its relation to policy-making, the course considers important questions and strategic estimates of the Cold War, and Cold War era, as well as estimates related to the problems posed by state and non-state actors; terrorists; and the development of nuclear weapons by nations such as Iran and North Korea. Course Dates - September 7 - October 19

INAF U6234: Public Opinion, Energy, and Environment
Folke, Olle; 1.5 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Public opinion is a key determinant of public policy. To learn about policy we thus need to understand the shaping forces and determinants of opinions. In a basic framework, voters acquire information which is then transformed into political preferences. How information is transformed into preferences and opinions is dependent on a multitude of factors. The transformation is also the key element of how public opinion is shaped. Once public preferences and opinions are formed they constitute constraints on the policy space of political actors. An enlightening example of this process is the issue of climate change, where public opinion severely shapes the possible avenues of policy design. This course is designed to give students a general understanding of the determinants of public opinion and how it is measured. A theory heavy first half of course work is combined with a second half focusing on case studies from environmental policy and energy policy in order to provide a deeper understanding public opinion on these policy areas. In this part of the course special attention will be given to climate change. Besides giving students knowledge about how public opinion is shaped and constrains policy design and implementation, it will also provide students with the basic skills to assess public opinion polls. Dates: October 21, 28, November 4, 11, 18, December 2, and 9

INAF U6236: History of American Ecology & Environmentalism
Tjossem, Sara; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

We will explore various conceptions of nature and ecology in changing ideas of conservation, preservation, the Dust Bowl, the atomic age, growing environmentalism, and the current focus on biodiversity as one route to a sustainable society. We will look at how scientific information has been constructed and used in environmental debates over pollution and overpopulation and will question the utility of distinguishing between "first nature" (untouched by humans) and "second nature" (nature modified by humans). Along the way, we will address connections between environmentalism and nationalism, the relationship between environmental change and social inequality, the rise of modern environmental politics, and different visions for the future of nature.

INAF U6253: Introduction to International Development
Ocampo, Jose A; 3 credits; R 6:10pm-8:00pm, F 9:00am-11:00am, F 1:00pm-2:50pm, F 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This course is the gateway introductory course for those concentrating on Economic and Political Development. As such, this course will provide participants with a framework and context for their programmatic work over the next two years. The course aims to provide students with: 1) a systematic overview of how development approaches, actors and perspectives have changed over time. 2) a historically informed understanding of ongoing debates concerning not only how to promote development (means) but also what constitutes "development" (ends). 3) an introduction to current thinking on how development intersects with human rights, conflict resolution and humanitarian affairs.

INAF U6310: Budgeting for Nonprofits/NGO's
Holloway, Sarah; 3 credits; Multiple sections (LEC)

There are more than one million nonprofit organizations in the United States and hundreds of thousands more internationally and the number is growing. The nonprofit sector includes an enormous diversity of organizations, ranging from complex health care systems, to education and arts institutions, to small community-based human service organizations. This course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of how to conduct the financial management of a nonprofit entity. Through the use of readings, case studies, a class project and lecture, we will study financial statements, financial analysis, and accounting for non-profit organizations and international NGOs. We will examine how the principles of financial management assist the nonprofit and NGO manager in making operating, budgeting, capital, and long-term financial planning decisions. We will also explore contemporary ethical, accountability, and mission issues facing national and international organizations.

INAF U6352: United Nations and Globalization
Jenks, Bruce; 3 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

The course will explore the multiple dimensions of the impact of globalization on the role of the United Nations. The new millennium has seen a vigorous debate take shape on global governance. Every aspect of global governance is currently the subject of review and debate : the financial system, security and the role and composition of the Security Council, a new climate change architecture, the trade regime and the future of the Doha round, human rights, the future of development assistance and the provision of global public goods, and the need for a new multilateralism. It has been over half a century since so many core issues at the heart of effective global governance have been on the drawing board simultaneously. This course will analyse the implications of a range of these issues for the current work of the UN and for its future role. The session headings indicate the specific issues that will be covered. SIPA: Intl Org. SIPA: UN Studies.

INAF U6359: Global Economic Governance
Ocampo, Jose A; 3 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

This course aims at familiarizing students with major issues surrounding global economic governance and its effects on developing countries. It will start with two general lectures that will deal with the objectives of international cooperation, the historical evolution of the current governance and typologies of the different rules, organization and governance structures that have been created at varied times. It will then deal in detail with major topics in the broad agenda of global economic governance, exploring both issues that are the subject of current debates as well as the institutional questions involved. "Global economic governance" is understood in a broad sense, to refer both to global and regional frameworks, as well as those rules of international transactions that have been left to bilateral agreements or are under the domain of national sovereignty. "Economic" is also understood in a broad sense, to include also social and environmental issues.

INAF U6362: Global Colllective Action
Barrett, Scott; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

Prerequisites: SIPA U4200 or SIPA U6400. This course develops a framework in which the role of institutions emerges endogenously. The course then applies this to a large number of cases, from climate change to nuclear non-proliferation; from big science research to over-fishing; from war to peacekeeping; from disease eradication to choosing technical standards. The course shows what globalization really means. It also reveals the relationship between global (and regional) collective action and international development. Applying the framework requires tools. Economics enables us to express the consequences of different outcomes in comparable units. It also exposes fundamental incentives. Game theory makes us consider who the players are, what their choices are, and the nature of their interaction. Game theory explains why institutions (like treaties) exist and what they are and are not able to do.

INAF U6368: Women and Globalization
Barry, Subha; 1.5 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

This course will relate the topics of globalization to women and focus on how globalization has and is affecting women's lives around the world. With a case-study focus, we will explore how globalization has either fostered or inhibited the utilization of the female talent pool in certain contexts. Case studies will include Middle East, India, Russia, China and Latin America. Course Dates: September 7 - October 19

INAF U6405: Human Rights and Development Policy
Braun, Rainer; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

Human rights can provide a framework for shaping development policies. How will the observance of human rights criteria in planning, implementing and evaluating development projects and policies contribute to their effectiveness and sustainability? The class will examine development policy choices and their impact by juxtaposing the interests and points-of-view of the various stakeholders involved in designing and implementing development policies.

INAF U6406: International Responses to Landmine Challenges
Kirkey, Christopher; 1.5 credits; F 12:00pm-5:00pm, S 10:00am-2:00pm (LEC)

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction effectively seeks to permanently eliminate landmines. The origins, negotiation, and implementation of this December 1997 international agreement forms the substantive core of this course. The course will continue by examining the operationalization of the Convention. What programs have been implemented and which have proved to be successful? What is the geographic scope of the humanitarian threat posed by landmines in October 2004? What roles are states, international organizations and nongovernmental organizations playing? As a practical example of global humanitarian intervention by the international community, what challenges remain and how best can they be tackled? Finally, how "successful" has the Ottawa Convention been? Dates: October 29th and 30th

INAF U6440: Peace Operations in Fragile States
Guehenno, Jean-Marie; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course will focus on peace operations and the stabilization of fragile states. It will assess the various tools used by the International community and the evolution in their use: the deployment of military forces, transitional authorities, multidimensional operations, security sector reform, rule of law and transitional justice, support to political processes. It will conclude with an examination of the evolving broader political context and the growing challenge it poses to effective stabilization strategies: an increasingly divided international community, limited consent of host countries, obstacles to effective reform of the United Nations. The course will be entirely based on case studies drawn from operations of the last 20 years.

INAF U6480: Poverty and Development in Local Perspective
Schoenhals, Martin; 3 credits; M 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

Poverty alleviation is one of the central goals of development. In this course we will discuss the origins of poverty, debates about how to define it, and potential solutions to eliminate it worldwide. We will discuss poverty and gender, urban versus rural poverty, migration and its effects, and many other topics. Case studies will include China, because of the claims made about its success in poverty alleviation during its last two decades of rapid industrialization, and India, the nation with the largest number of poor people worldwide. The course, taught by an anthropologist, will adopt a local perspective in order to understand poverty's full effects on a society and culture. In keeping with the spirit of anthropology, we will fully consider the views of poor people about their own lives and about potential solutions to poverty.

INAF U6639: Challenges to Security - South Asia
Abbas, Hassan ; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This seminar course focuses on the central challenges shaping current debates about security and conflict in South Asia, specifically in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Burma. The overall social-political and economic development of South Asia has been seriously hindered by intra-state as well as inter-state conflicts in recent decades. This region, which is ethnically, culturally and linguistically one of the most diverse in the world, has also been host to deeply entrenched ethnic hostility, simmering insurgencies, religious extremism and numerous wars. The course broadly has four segments: 1) an examination of strategic culture of leading states of South Asia and major border conflicts, 2) analysis of how internal security issues (especially ethnic, religious and sectarian related) affect regional security arena, 3) an evaluation of how non-state actors and influences are affecting security in the area, and 4) exploration of consequences of instability and conflict in South Asia for international security, specifically in the context of nuclear proliferation in relation to the AQ Khan network in Pakistan.

INAF U6644: The Idea of Political Islam
Abbas, Hassan ; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course will analyze the assumptions and frameworks that are commonly used to define and understand the idea of Political Islam. Political Islam and its manifestations in world politics can be assessed in at least three different ways: as an explanation of the Islamic theory and concepts that determine how things are supposed to be; an understanding of the process by which politics and Islam are intertwined in the real Islamic world; and a prediction of what will be. We will explore these different approaches of theory and search for our own best way to make sense of the politics of the Muslim world. This course will pay special attention to contemporary writings on the subject by Muslim scholars as well as non-Muslim writers. For the purpose of understanding the prevailing scenario, the course will specifically focus on Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey, though other cases where political Islam influences the direction of the state will be discussed as well. Besides surveying the diversity of political thought in contemporary Islam, Patterns of interaction between various Muslim states and the West (especially the United States) will be studied as this factor also influenced ideological formations and modes of political mobilizations in various parts of the Muslim World.

INAF U6672: Political Economy of Pakistan
Zaidi, Akbar; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This seminar course will try and provide a broad historical review of the nature of changes which have taken place in Pakistan and have affected many of the impressions which are now part of conventional wisdom about Pakistan. The emphasis of the course will be on social and structural change and transformation, of society, the state and the economy. The early half of the course will familiarise students through some chronology of Pakistan, looking at events and processes in different eras, in a political economy framework, followed by a deeper analysis of key themes over time.

INAF U6680: US Energy Security: Geopolitics- Oil & Gas
Chanis, Jonathan; 3 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This seminar is designed to provide students with a broad understanding of the relationship between U.S. national security and the economics and politics of the international oil and gas industry. The course places the current U.S. energy predicament in the context of past American experiences, and it analyzes how energy policy affects U.S. relations with other states. The course also examines how these other states use their energy resources (or lack thereof) to cooperate and/or compete with the United States. The political, economic, diplomatic and military aspects of "energy security" are considered through a series of case studies. The final sessions are devoted to the U.S. bilateral energy security issues with Canada and Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, India, and China.

INAF U6735: Issues in Rural Development
Kale, Pratima; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This is a survey course; students will be exposed to a range of resource persons, ideas and concepts. The objectives of the course are to: improve the understanding of the role and importance of rural development in today's world; develop awareness and conceptual, analytical and operational skills relevant to the social, environmental and economic dimensions of rural development, improve the ability to engage with and influence debates on rural development, and increase the ability to access the rural development literature and community. The course is organized around technical, economic and governance issues.

INAF U6751: International Human Rights Law
Ergas, Yasmine; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course introduces students to international human rights law (IHRL). In what sense are internationally-defined human rights "rights" and in what sense can the instruments which define them be considered "law"? How do we know that a claim is actually a "human right"? What are the relations among international, regional and national institutions in establishing and enforcing (or not) IHRL? Does IHRL represent an encroachment on national sovereignty? Is the future of IHRL regional? What enforcement mechanisms can we use, and who can decide upon their use? Finally, what redress is there for human rights violations, and how effective is it? In this class, we will learn the law, but we will also explore tools for assessing when, where and how law matters. Developments in human rights and the environment, gender analysis, inter-sections between human rights and humanitarian action and corporate accountability will be explored. The current specific question of the US and its place in and under international human rights law will also be considered

INAF U6775: Indian Economy in Transition
Panagariya, Arvind; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

This course will be devoted to an analytic study of the transformation. The bulk of the course will be devoted to understanding the reforms that are under way or must be undertaken to accelerate growth and poverty reduction. On the macroeconomic front, we will discuss the issues related to fiscal deficit, public debt and the likelihood of a macroeconomic crisis. Special attention will be paid to the external sector reforms including trade liberalization, foreign investment liberalization, capital account convertibility, preferential trade arrangements and multilateral trade negotiations. Among domestic reforms, we will discuss the reform of the tax system, subsidies, agriculture, product and factor markets, infrastructure and social sectors. Cautionary Note: This is a new course whose content will evolve as the semester progresses. Therefore, the description should be viewed as tentative.

INAF U6798: Central Issues in American Foreign Policy
Gottlieb, Stuart; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This course examines the sources, substance, and enduring themes of American foreign policy. Part I reviews the rise of American power in world affairs from the 18th Century through the end of the Cold War. Part II provides an overview of the process and politics of American foreign policy making. Part III applies the theory and history of Part I, and the process of Part II, to examine a number of contemporary U.S. foreign policy issues and debates, including America's two wars with Iraq; America's responses to the threat of global terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; and what role the U.S. should play in the world economy, global and regional institutions, and the developing world.

INAF U6799: Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict
Long, Austin G; 3 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This course is intended to provide an understanding of two of the major components of warfare and international security since World War II. The first is special operations, defined broadly as military operations whose high risk and potential high pay-off require forces with extraordinary capabilities. The second is low-intensity conflict, defined broadly as conflict conducted by or against organizations other than conventional or nuclear forces. This includes terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and counterinsurgency, support to law enforcement against criminal organizations, and certain types of paramilitary operations. The two are grouped together in this course both because of their inherent relationship and because the U.S. government organizes itself in this way, having an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (ASD SO/LIC). The focus of the course is largely but not exclusively on U.S. special operations and low-intensity conflict. There are three principal reasons for this. First, the U.S. special operations community is larger than many countries' entire military establishment and as of 2009 it is roughly one third the size of the entire British Army. This quantity thus has a quality all its own. Second, the United States has since World War II been heavily involved in low-intensity conflict around the globe and this involvement has only intensified since 2001. Third, the instructor's personal experience and knowledge of the subject are, for idiosyncratic reasons, mostly with U.S. special operations and low-intensity conflict. That said, both Russian/Soviet and British special operations and low intensity conflict are discussed in the course, and students are further encouraged to examine non-U.S. cases in course work if they are so inclined. The basic outline of the course is that the first half will provide students with a general understanding of both special operations and low-intensity conflict. The second half will then apply that understanding to six case studies.

INAF U6800: Conceptual Foundations of International Politics
Sestanovich, Stephen; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

Introduces central concepts and approaches from a variety of social science perspectives, particularly comparative politics and international relations, used to explain, analyze, and evaluate international politics and economics. Designed to help students think theoretically and analytically about leading issues in international affairs by introducing them to social science methods and scholarship and by exposing them to the uses of such concepts in practice, through examination of contemporary problems and challenges in international affairs.

INAF U6820: Theory of International Political Economy
Lukauskas, Arvid; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This course serves as an introduction to the politics of international economic relations. We examine the history and institutions of the international political economy and the theories that seek to explain them as well as analyze several political economy issues at once classic and contemporary, such as the sources of economic growth, the origins and consequences of globalization, and causes of and appropriate policy responses to income inequality. In addition to sampling contemporary writings in the field, we read several classic works, especially on theoretical approaches. Students need not have an extensive background in international economics to complete this course satisfactorily, but those not familiar with basic economic principles will find several sections of the class very challenging.

INAF U6880: Planning U.S. Military Forces
Johnson, Stuart E; 3 credits; R 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

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INAF U6897: Writing on International Affairs
Prasso, Sheridan; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

Good writing and effective skills to communicate global issues are in high demand. Whether one is working for a media outlet or publication, an international organization, an NGO, or a media strategy/relations firm, the ability to gather and process information and present it in clear, effective written format is key to landing a dream job and getting ahead. In this course, students will learn to craft clear, precise written communications using means often employed in global careers: the Op-Ed and commentary, the press release, the newspaper and magazine story, talking points, the policy or country summary/contact brief, as well as writing for the Web. Writing topics will focus on core issues in international affairs: the global economy, environment, international business, international organizations, political analysis, and human rights/law. As the class has a heavy concentration on writing, reading will be assigned to facilitate writing styles and improve technique.

INAF U8145: Advanced Economic Development for International Affairs
Verhoogen, Eric A; 3 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

Prerequisites: SIPA U6401. This is an advanced course in development economics, designed for SIPA students concentrating in economic and political development. The treatment of the material will be rigorous, and will presume knowledge of calculus. Coursework will include extensive empirical exercises, requiring the use of Stata or similar statistical software. Topics will include the economics of growth; the relationship between growth and poverty and inequality; the role of population pressures and rural-urban migration; the interaction between agrarian institutions in land, labor, credit, and insurance markets; management of common-property resources and sustainable development; and trade and globalization from the perspective of developing countries.

INAF U8172: Theory, History, and Practice of Human Rights
Mamdani, Mahmood; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course is intended to introduce student to key debates in the field of human rights. It will require extensive reading as background to a focused discussion of key theoretical issues. Historically, we shall distinguish between two epochs in the development of human rights discourse: (a) the politically-centered articulation of human rights, an epoch that began with the French Revolution and the Rights of Man and closed with Eleanor Roosevelt's 1948 Declaration that provided the intellectual foundation for the 20th century welfare state, and (b) the ethically-centered call, 'Never Again', as the lesson of the Holocaust, which provides the foundation for a programmatic Responsibility to Protect (R2P). What has changed and what has remained the same as the focus of human rights has shifted from a call for resistance to one for rescue and intervention? We shall compare and contrast two specific contexts in which human rights discourse has become dominant: (a) survivor states: the United States (and South Africa) ; (b) victim states: Israel (and Rwanda). What was the lesson of Auschwitz (and Hiroshima)? And what is the lesson of the South African transition?

INAF U8180: Human Rights Skills & Advocacy
Becker, Jo; 3 credits; F 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The course seeks to provide students within the Human Rights Concentration with opportunities to learn and apply skills essential for human rights advocacy, analysis of human rights challenges and the development of appropriate responses; it also addresses the Human Rights. Through classroom trainings, completion of case studies and potentially, interaction with clients, students will gain hands-on experience of rights-based work and exposure to rights professionals. The course is designed to enhance both (1) the practical skills students will need as human rights professionals; and (2) the critical thinking skills they will need to assess both effective and ineffective campaigns, strategies or approaches to expanding rights protections and enjoyment.

INAF U8189: History and Reconciliation
Barkan, Elazar; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Since the end of the Cold War historical memory has come to play an increasing role in international and intranational conflicts. In addition numerous countries which are transitioning from dictatorship to democracy have focused on the gross historical violations of the previous regime. But not all. The question is how does a focus on the past facilitate present reconciliation? Societies are faced with the expectation that they will attend to the crimes of previous regimes. But what are crimes in historical perspective? And what are the standards for historical responsibility? How does historical conflict and reconciliation differ from approaches to immediate accountability for the past in newly democratic societies? The course examines these political and ethical dilemmas in a comparative historical perspective.

INAF U8221: Elections and Political Development
Mitchell, Lincoln A; 3 credits; M 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This course will begin with a review of the major issues surrounding elections and political development including: electoral systems, election fraud and the role of domestic and international monitors, political parties, and the relationship between elections and democratic breakthroughs and consolidations.

INAF U8350: Microfinance and Developing World
Ashe, Jefferey; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-10:00pm (COL)

Focuses on financial service models and institutions or "microfinance". The objectives are to increase understanding of the issues involved in the design and management of micro- and small enterprise (MSE) development, explore the institutional dynamics of microfinance institutions, and develop and put into practice analytical skills, tools, and techniques used by MSE project managers.

INAF U8415: U.S.-Latin American Relations: WWII-Present
Coatsworth, John; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

The course seeks to analyze the dynamics and issues that describe relations between the Untied States and Latin America since the end of World War II. A complete picture of the current state of affairs in the hemisphere and the reasons that led to it require an analysis in three different - but related - dimensions. To cover the first one, the course analyzes historical benchmarks that contextualize particular overt American interventions in the region, dissecting their causes, operation and consequences. In a second dimension, the course looks at topics that have permeated the relationship between the United States and Latin America over this period. Because of their typically cross-national nature, they illustrate a different set of dynamics and concerns that have fueled tensions in the relationship. A third and final dimension concerns recent developments in Latin America that affect and have been affected by American foreign policy. Their novelty suggests that these issues will remain relevant at least in the immediate future.

INAF U8507: The Security Council and Peacekeeping in Africa in the 21st Century
Lindenmayer, Elisabeth; 3 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This course will focus on the role of the Security Council (SC) as a decision making body in the establishment and conduct of peace keeping operations in Africa in the post cold war period. It will examine the multiple factors, which come into play in the authorization of peace keeping operations by the SC. It will provide an understanding of the political dynamics and practical diplomacy of the international system as it applies to Africa. The course will analyze the current political context, in which conflicts in Africa are bound to happen in the future. It will examine the reorientation of the UN's attention towards issues like terrorism, Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan and WMD. Will Africa be the poor parent and remain outside the intervention zone?

INAF U8559: Building Peace After Conflict
Salomons, Dirk; 1.5 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

This short course traces the outlines of the international community's steep learning curve in addressing the challenges of post-conflict peace building. It will examine some of the early UN and World Bank experiments in restoring nation states, follow the institutional changes meant to build capacity in the field of post-conflict recovery, look at the methodological and funding tools developed to strengthen field operations, and review some case studies illustrating the impact of this evolution.

INAF U8561: War Termination & Stability of Peace
Fortna, Virginia Pag; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

The study of war in international relations has traditionally focused on its causes, but less attention has been paid to ending wars once they begin, and to keeping peace in their aftermath. This course will address: the process by which belligerents in international and civil wars reach cease-fires and negotiate peace; why peace sometimes lasts and sometimes falls apart and what can be done to make peace more stable; as well as the longer-term prospects for reconciliation among adversaries and for rebuilding after war. We will examine both international and civil conflicts with an eye toward policy choices and dilemmas.

INAF U8562: Maritime Transportation, Law, and Public Policy
Quartaro, Neil; 3 credits; T 9:00am-10:50am (COL)

An introduction to legal and public policy issues in maritime transportation. This course covers the history of marine transportation from a legal and public policy perspective, at both an international and a domestic level, and focuses on the major strategic public policy issues currently facing the various stakeholders in the sector.

INAF U8675: Emerging Capital Markets: Theory & Practice
Wolfson, Bruce; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

The goal of this course is to teach students about the historical relationships between financial risk, capital structure and legal and policy issues in emerging markets. Our strategy will be to develop a model of how and why international capital flows to emerging market countries and to use the model to examine various topics in the history of international financing from the 1820's to the present. Students will identify patterns in investor and borrower behavior, evaluate sovereign capital structures, and analyze sovereign defaults, including the debt negotiation process during the various debt crises of the past 175 years. We will focus primarily on Latin America, emerging Asia, and Russia, although the lessons will be generalized to cover all emerging market countries.

INAF U8689: Future of Global Financial Institutions
Goldberg, Richard; 1.5 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

In today's global world, there is no aspect of business that is not directly or materially affected by the giants of the financial services sector. The study of international commerce, then, should include an understanding of the current and future role of global financial institutions, key drivers influencing the industry, and strategic challenges and opportunities facing today's financial services' CEOs. This course will provide a student, without a financial institution background, with critical fundamentals to apply to their own experiences. Course Dates: September 9 through October 21

INAF U8778: Urban Energy Systems & Policy
Hammer, Stephen; 3 credits; M 9:00am-10:50am (SEM)

This course examines the unique nature of energy use and planning in urban areas. As the home to significant and ever growing rates of energy consumption, urban areas are logical candidates for energy planning efforts. Understanding how cities use energy; the institutional, market, and regulatory environment in which urban policymakers operate; and what steps cities are taking to better manage their energy use are the core topics of this course. We also will focus on energy-related business opportunities that exist in urban areas, examining the challenges such businesses face in dealing with multiple decision-makers or opinion leaders.

INAF U8799: Reporting Conflict: Media and Policy
Lasner, Thomas; 1.5 credits; FS 9:00am-5:00pm (SEM)

Examine and understand the ongoing struggles -- and sometimes cooperation -- among media and militaries and governments to control access to and information from conflict zones and to shape reporting that reflects their positions most favorably.

INAF U8879: Technology and National Security
Wagner, Abraham; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Technology and National Security explores the evolution of modern military and related intelligence technologies as well as their application to the current national security environment. Assignments are designed for learning and applying lessons to the current political and military context. The course should be most directly relevant to those who intend to pursue careers in the national security or homeland security areas, as well as those students of international relations seeking a deeper understanding of how technology developments have influenced the evolution of national security policy, intelligence activities, and military operations.

INAF U8909: Environment, Conflict & Resolution Strategies
Levy, Marc; 3 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Environmental conflict resolution has emerged with an integrated role of research and practice within the growing field of conflict analysis and resolution. As the world faces increasing environmental problems and conflicts with growing environmental dimensions, there has also been an increasing creativity of response through different channels. The implications for the successful resolution of environmental conflict are the necessary and integrated contributions of all aspects of international affairs, including international security policy, economic policy, human rights and development.

ITSF T4090: Issues and Institutions in International Educational Development
Ginsberg, M.; Allaf, C. ; 3 credits; Mon 3:00pm-4:40pm (LEC)

This course explores theoretical approaches to the study of education in international development and uses these approaches to consider current topics and debates in the fields of international and comparative education. This course also introduces students to institutions involved with educational development in diverse global settings, such as the United Nations and the World Bank. This course is also offered at the doctoral level (ITSF 6581).

ITSF T4160: Human Rights in Africa
Foulds, K. ; 3 credits; Thurs 3:00 pm - 4:40 pm (LEC)

Faculty. Students examine the historical conditions that give rise to human rights violations and the efforts to protect rights through policy and education. They explore different approaches to human rights education, apply them to case studies of specific African countries, and develop human rights education curricula.

ITSF T4613: International Perspectives on Peace and Human Rights Education
Bajaj, Monisha; 3 credits; Wed 5:10pm - 6:50pm (LEC)

This course provides a grounding in the theory, pedagogy, and practice of peace education. It draws from the international literature of the field as it has been developed over the past three decades, and reviews teaching practices relevant to various cultures and learning settings.

ITSF T5015: Political anthropology: Labor, race, and belief
Bond, George; 3 credits; Wed 1:00pm - 2:40pm (SEM)

This seminar in political anthropology deals with the theories and concepts used by anthropologists and other social scientists in the analysis of political behavior, institutions and systems, and social situations. It emphasizes the comparative study of political systems, processes, and movements within the context of societies of different scales.

ITSF T5199: Issues: Youth Education and Conflict in the Middle East
Zajaroa, Zeema; 3 credits; Thurs 3:00pm- 4:40pm (SEM)

This course critically examines the dynamics between youth, education, and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa from a number of theoretical and stakeholder perspectives. Drawing on studies from various disciplines, we will critically analyze the promises and limitations of conventions, programs, and policies that seek to protect the rights of youth and improve their condition. Questions include: What is the role of youth in peace and stability in the region? How is education re-imagined in the face of direct, structural, and cultural violence? What factors encourage and undermine youth potential for peacebuilding and civic engagement? How does the development of new media generate new arenas for cultural and political engagement? Our inquiry will draw on literatures from a number of disciplines and applied fields, including education in emergencies, human rights, and peace studies, as well as web-published materials, such as youth blogs and social media. These texts will support our engagement with unfolding events in the region.

LAW L6132: American Consititutional Law
Thomas, K.; 4 credits; (LEC)

LAW L6211: African Law and Development   
Ssekandi, F. ; 3 credits; R 4:20 PM-7:10 PM (SEM)

The primary purpose of this course is to explore, by the comparative method, the basic concepts of African legal theory and practice; the structure and content of African legal systems; reception of foreign laws and their interaction with African customary law; the rules developed to resolve internal conflict of laws; and the evolution of modern African constitutions. The class will also review specific topics, such as the tension between customary law and modern constitutional standards in areas of marriage, inheritance, and succession; and land tenure, administration, and conflict resolution. The class will further evaluate the role of law in fostering social and economic development to reduce poverty, disease, and malnutrition; the role of international financial institutions in Africa; and the contribution of foreign direct investment, international trade, and transfer of technology. Specific topics will be explored, including on-going legal and judicial reforms.Major topics include (1) African legal systems: customary law and foreign law—common law, civil law, Roman-Dutch law—origins, definition and nature of applicable laws: reception of foreign law clauses, issues of integration and conflict of laws rules, (2) major topics in customary law: (a) rights issues in law of marriage, inheritance, and succession; (b) quest for justice and reconciliation in conflict resolution—Gacaca Jurisdictions in Rwanda, truth and reconciliation commissions in South Africa and Sierra Leone, and traditional healing rituals in Uganda; (c) land tenure and administration—concepts, nature, and modes of land holding; management and dispute resolution; land administration and agrarian reforms, (3) law and development: regional economic, trade institutions—African Union and its organs, the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), COMESA, ECOWAS, SADC, and EAC; international financial institutions and their role in fight against poverty, disease and malnutrition; the Millennium Development Goals, and (4) Constitutionalism in Africa: evolution of African constitutions, constitutional legality, and the scourge of the coup d'etat and human right.

LAW L6243: Employment Discrimination Law
Emens, E. ; 2-3 credits; TBA (LEC)

This course examines the law governing employment discrimination. The focus will be on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Legal readings will be supplemented with material from psychology, philosophy, economics, and literature. Topics include the following: the nature and different meanings of discrimination; the relationship between accommodation and antidiscrimination; whether employment discrimination law should focus on animus, stereotypes, subordination, or something else; the proper remedial approaches to employment discrimination; similarities and differences among the classes that seek and warrant protection under law, and whether the law should protect more or fewer classes, and on what basis; and the role of extralegal knowledge in the legal project of antidiscrimination. The course has no prerequisites and is open to LL.M.s and non-Law students. Grades will be based on class participation and performance on a final take-home exam.

LAW L6250: Immigration Law
Villazor, R.; 3 credits; MW 9:10 AM-10:30 AM (LEC)

This course surveys immigration and citizenship law in the United States. We will examine the entry, presence, expulsion, and naturalization of noncitizens, and the content and significance of U.S. citizenship and nationality, from a variety of perspectives: historical and contemporary; procedural and substantive; constitutional, statutory, and regulatory. Specific topics will include Congress's plenary power over immigration; the interaction between immigration and federalism; the constitutional rights of noncitizens; the criteria for the admission of noncitizens on a temporary or permanent basis; the grounds for exclusion and deportation; the rules governing adjustment of status; and the law governing refugees and asylum. The core issues at stake in this course--the boundaries of political membership and the systems for managing migrant populations--play a significant role in many areas of the law and present fundamental challenges to the United States in the twenty-first century.

LAW L6269: International Law
Damrosch, L, O. De Schutter; 3-4 credits; MW 10:40 AM-12:00 PM (LEC)

The focus of the course will be on the systemic features and methodologies of international law, the "operating system" rather than specific "applications" and on international lawyering skills. The methods of international law will be illustrated in two main areas: Use of Force (including terrorism, war in Iraq etc.) and international economic law (emphasis on international trade disciplines.) Not for the faint hearted but the intellectual and professional rewards are commensurate with the effort. Laptops are not allowed in the classroom with the exception of a rotating roster of three 'Designated Note Takers' whose notes will be reviewed by the Course TAs and posted online. This will enable all other students to give their entire attention to the legal materials and the class discussion surrounding these. (We are in the business of legal education, not stenography.) The principal text will be the Henkin et al casebook.

LAW L6276: Human Rights
Cleveland, S.; 3 credits; MW 2:50 PM-4:10 PM (LEC)

This course offers a trajectory through the regime of international human rights law - its rules, institutions, and processes. It does not confine itself to the international dimension, however. Although human rights have migrated to international law since the Second World War, they have their source in the liberal constitutions of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and they remain to a large extent indebted to these origins. As a result, they occupy a specific position in international law, offering a perfect illustration of the formation of a 'self-contained regime'within the international legal order. The choice of materials seeks to reflect this hybrid character of human rights. We will examine cases, diplomatic documents, briefs from non-governmental organisations, and doctrinal comments. We will replace these materials into perspective, and provide them with a robust analytical structure, which should help improve understanding of how they fit within a broader framework. A consistent effort will be made to highlight the specificity of human rights. For although human rights may have escaped the confines of the territory of domestic constitutions, they have not dissolved fully into international law and they resist, in fact, assimilation. International human rights bodies and domestic courts are in constant dialogue with each other. International human rights courts are under the permanent temptation to mutate into constitutional courts. The domestic judge in turn tends to aggrandize his or her power in the name of bringing home values that are universal and rules that are supranational - but, by invoking international law, the domestic judge also transforms it into something else, that is better suited to the regulation of the relationships between the State and the individual or between individuals, than to the relationships among States. All this combines to form a unique human rights grammar which this course seeks to bring to light. Because this grammar is best illustrated by comparing international jurisprudence with the treatment of human rights arguments before national authorities - in particular judicial authorities - we will rely extensively on comparative material to illustrate the theoretical framework proposed. Thus, while most of the cases examined originate from the Human Rights Committee, from other UN human rights treaty bodies, and from regional courts (particularly the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights), a significant proportion also originates from the United Kingdom House of Lords, the Canadian Supreme Court, the United States Supreme Court, the South African Constitutional Court, and some other domestic jurisdictions. All these courts contribute to the development of the common law of human rights, and although the focus of this course is on the international dimension, it is this common law that the course is really about.

LAW L6407: Advanced Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties - 1st Amendment
Greene, J. ; 3 credits; TR 1:20 PM-2:40 PM (LEC)

This course deals with the protection of speech, religion, and voting rights under the Constitution. Special attention is placed on the international and comparative law aspects of speech and religion. If time permits, the power of Congress to protect civil liberties is also examined

LAW L6422: Conflict of Laws and Jurisdictions: National and International Law   
Cuniberti, G. ; 3 credits; TR 2:50 PM-4:10 PM (LEC)

In this era of globalization, conflict of laws problems, frequently unperceived, arise in an ever-increasing number of cases. This course will consider critically the development of conflict of laws rules over time, with special emphasis on recent trends in the analyses of choice of law problems. Special attention will be given to the conflicts that arise from the growing tendency to apply laws extraterritorially and the need for international accommodation of conflicting rules. Conflicts of jurisdiction will also receive extended consideration.

LAW L6428: International and Comparative Criminal Law
Papa, M. ; 3 credits; TR 2:50p - 4:10p (LEC)

The course will examine the development and current problems connected with of the International dimension of Criminal Law. The first part of the course will focus on the diversity of Criminal Justice systems and on the aims and the methodology of their comparative analysis . The course will then move to explore the process of harmonisation of Criminal justice systems at the international and transnational level. The analysis will finally concentrate on International criminal justice. Among other topics, it will explore the history of international criminal justice from the aftermath of World War II to the recent establishment of the International Criminal Court, the "core crimes" of international criminal law (crimes against peace/aggression, genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes), theories of liability (joint criminal enterprise, command responsibility, superior orders), and available defenses. The Comparative law methodology developed in the first part will be an essential tool for a critical discussion of the definitions concerning offenses and theories of liability. The course will also investigate a number of topical issues in international criminal law, including the problem of terrorism and the policies towards the International Criminal Court.

LAW L6458: National Security Law
Waxman, M. ; 3 credits; MW 10:40a - 12:00p (LEC)

This course is about the balance of liberty and security in combating threats to the nation and the state. A broad survey course in U.S. national security law, it examines both substantive questions (where to strike the balance?) and institutional questions (who decides where to strike the balance, or who enforces it?) in three major areas: constitutional structure and allocation of national security powers and decision-making among the branches; state restrictions on civil liberties, including privacy rights, in combating national security threats; and issues of secrecy and political accountability. Topics include presidential and congressional war powers, detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists, electronic surveillance, and regulation of covert CIA activities. In addition to a final examination, active student participation is expected, and during class discussion students will often be asked to assume the role of different actors in our national security law system.

LAW L6459: The Law of Genocide
Rosensaft, M.; 2 credits; M 4:20 PM-6:10 PM (LEC)

In the last century, few, if any, criminal concepts have evolved as significantly as the crime of genocide. At the beginning of the 20th century, genocide was arguably an authorized manner in which to bring about state policy, both internally and externally. It had a long history of at least tacit acceptance. Going back to 146 B.C.E., Rome's complete and utter destruction of Carthage following the Third Punic War was sometimes viewed as effective and necessary vice a horrendous crime of immense proportions. Further, much of the success of Pax Romana has been attributed to genocidal responses by the Roman legions to affronts to Rome and Romans. More recently, the nineteenth century systemic elimination of the religious death cult known as the Thugee by the British Empire in India, though arguably justified, was completed in a manner that would never pass current legal muster. Now, in less than a century, genocide has mutated from acceptable State practice to the most notorious and serious crime in the modern vernacular. Though necessary, this mutation has been rocky and not without legal shortfalls. Today we are left with a crime that many allege, but few can functionally define and prosecute. Using the current positive international law on genocide contained within the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Prosecution of Genocide and the Rome Statute as well as the sparse but probative case law from Nuremburg, ICTY, ICTR and the ECHR we will analyze, from a criminal justice perspective, the strengths and weaknesses of the international crime of genocide. From the case for universal jurisdiction or capital punishment, to the debate on joint criminal enterprise vs. conspiracy, we will do a comparative analysis of prosecutorial approaches to genocidal acts. Finally we will explore State vs. individual responsibility and culpability for failing to prevent/prosecute genocidal acts.

LAW L6478: Advanced Constitutional Law: Equal Protection
Crenshaw, K., T. Shaw; 3-4 credits; TWR 1:20 PM-2:40 PM (LEC)

This course will examine the history and jurisprudence of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause. It will trace the Reconstruction era's 14th Amendment's tenuous journey toward Plessy v. Ferguson and the twentieth century effort to overturn the "separate but equal" regime that culminated with Brown v. Board of Education. It will then consider post-Brown equal protection jurisprudence in school desegregation and other cases, including contemporary affirmative action challenges. The course will also examine the application of equal protection principles to gender and other claims.

LAW L6510: Law and Education: Regulation, Religion, Free Speech
Heubert; 2 credits; TBD ()

This survey course focuses on selected legal issues that arise in public and private elementary and secondary schools. Topics include compulsory education; regulation of public and private schools; church-state issues, including voucher and choice plans; No Child Left Behind; free speech rights of students and teachers; the school's authority to make and enforce rules governing student and staff conduct, on and off school grounds; the duty to protect the safety of students and others; child abuse; search and seizure; and due process. This course is also offered through Teachers College.

LAW L6510: Law and Educational Institutions: Issues of Authority
Heubert, E. Sigall; 2 credits; T 5:00 PM-7:00 PM (LEC)

This course provides interdisciplinary perspectives on issues of equal educational opportunity. Topics include desegregation and single-sex education; high-stakes testing; services for English language learners, sex discrimination; harassment based on race, sex, and sexual orientation; school-finance reform; special education; and affirmative action. Readings will include legal materials and social-science research. This course is also offered at Teachers College in the spring semester as ORLA 5016.

LAW L6511: Educational Equality: The Role of Law
Heubert, E. Sigall; 2 credits; W 5:00 PM-7:00 PM (LEC)

This survey course focuses on selected legal issues that arise in public and private elementary and secondary schools. Topics include compulsory education; regulation of public and private schools; church-state issues, including voucher and choice plans; No Child Left Behind; free speech rights of students and teachers; the school's authority to make and enforce rules governing student and staff conduct on and off school grounds; the duty to protect the safety of students and others; child abuse; search and seizure; and due process. The course also explores the non-legal policy issues (educational, political, ethical, administrative, financial) that legal conflicts often raise, as well as relevant social-science research.This course is also offered through Teachers College as ORLA 4086.

LAW L6549: Terror and Consent
Bobbitt, P. ; 3 credits; TR 9:10 AM-10:30 AM (LEC)

The world didn't change on September 11, 2001; it had already changed in 1990 and 9/11 and the ensuing wars against terror were the result. Thus the Wars against Terror are the successor conflict to the Long War of the twentieth century that ended in 1990, and they will drive further changes to the constitutional order beyond those that the end of the Long War brought about.The Wars on Terror embrace the three distinct but related struggles: to prevent market state terrorism, protect against gross diminution of humane conditions, and preempt the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The outcome of these wars will determine whether the new, emerging constitutional order of the market state will be composed of states of consent or states of terror.

LAW L6604: Immigration Law
Cassin, O. & Navarro, M.; 2-3 credits; W 4:20 PM-6:20 PM (Externship)

Since the drastic changes in the immigration laws in 1996, non-citizens are facing a completely overhauled and complicated system of deportation. The Immigration Defense Externship is designed to introduce students to U.S. immigration laws and policies through a combination of lecture, discussion, simulation and representation of immigrants facing deportation from the United States.

LAW L6921: Law and Sexuality
Thomas; 3 credits; MW 1:20 PM-2:40 PM (LEC)

This three credit course explores aspects of the legal regulation of sexuality. The course will pursue two main goals. The first goal is to read and discuss the formal "black letter" law found in judicial decisions, statutes, and administrative rules. The second, overlapping, goal is to introduce and discuss concepts from a variety of disciplines (and from other legal systems) that can be used be understand and interrogate the deeper ideological and political determinants of U.S. sex law. Among the questions on which we will focus throughout the semester are these: How has sexuality (and related notions such as sexuality and gender) been defined, posed and addressed as a problem in and for the U.S. legal system? What role do various conceptions of sexuality play in framing the terms, the argumentative strategies and resolution of legal disputes? What shaping functions do legal constructions of sexuality exert in and on broader political conversations about sex and social justice in the contemporary U.S.? Topics to be discussed include the scope and limits of the "public/private" distinction as a conceptual framework in U.S. sex law; legal efforts to define and distinguish sex, gender and sexuality, sexual acts, gender identities and expressions (male, female, transgender, transsexual, intersex), and sexual identities ("homosexuality," "heterosexuality," and "bisexuality"); law, sexuality and intimate association; sexuality, gender, and reproduction; law gender, and sexuality in the U.S. military; gender, sexuality, surveillance and citizenship; law, sexuality, kinship and family relations; gender identity, sexuality and the legal construction, and regulation, of the human body; sex, sexuality and sexual commerce; law, sexuality and violence.

LAW L8029: Comparative Constitutional Rights in the Digital Age   
Eltis, K. ; 2 credits; R 9:30 AM-11:20 AM (SEM)

The digital "revolution" and advent of new technologies impact significantly on human rights and the courts' interpretation thereof. Thus for instance, the dramatically increased availability of information of all kinds and quality shapes our understanding of fundamental rights such as privacy, but also tends to change our perspective on freedom of expression, association and even socio-economic rights. What is more, the borderless nature of the Internet increasingly prompts scholars, judges and lawmakers to look outside their own legal system. Accordingly, comparative inquiry can have important practical benefits in terms of recognizing those underlying assumptions that generate conceptual obstacles to protecting human rights in the digital age and perhaps eventually formulating more coherent trans-systemic policy. With an eye towards broader reflection on the role of comparative inquiry, the course will focus on the interplay between innovation and constitutional rights. It will seek to identify the issues that emerge from the growing use of technology transnationally, and to provide a conceptual basis for adjudicating the ongoing tension between divergent understandings of rights in a borderless digital age

LAW L8044: Human Rights and Economic Justice in the U.S.
Kaufman, R.; 2 credits; W 2:10 PM-4:00 PM (SEM)

This course will examine the operation and utility of a human rights frame, including appeals to economic and social rights and the use of human rights advocacy strategies, to inform economic justice advocacy in the United States. Specifically, this course will contextualize and explore the growing movement to incorporate international human rights strategies into domestic advocacy focused on poverty and other economic justice issues in the United States. Domestic lawyers are increasingly adopting human rights strategies, including appeals to international human rights bodies, use of international human rights and comparative law in United States courts, and broader activism such as documentation, organizing and education. By providing an arsenal of cross-cutting strategies and recognizing the interdependence and indivisibility of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights, a human rights paradigm has the potential to reframe social justice advocacy, and in particular poverty lawyering, in the United States.

LAW L8079: Jurisprudence of War
Damrosch; 1 credits; F 12:10 PM-2:10 PM (COLL)

This seminar will be organized in 7 2-hour sessions with leading experts on the law of war and war crimes, who will present scholarly work-in-progress and current projects in the field of international humanitarian law. Students will be expected to participate in discussion of the experts' papers and to write short reaction papers on several of them. Grading will be credit/fail. (By special arrangement with the instructor, students could opt to write a supervised paper for a grade and/or major writing credit.) The seminar is required for participants in the Columbia-Amsterdam Alliance on International Criminal Law and also open (subject to space limitations) to other students.

LAW L8144: The Legal and Political Economy of Hunger
De Schutter, O. ; 2 credits; R 6:20 PM-8:10 PM (SEM)

Why are over one billion people hungry in a world in which increases in agricultural production have consistently outstripped demographic growth? The objective of the seminar is to understand how governments have sought to combat hunger and malnutrition; why they have so dramatically failed ; and how law and governance are relevant to what can be done about this. The seminar shall build on the issues addressed in the mandate of the lecturer as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, and it will be closely connected to contemporary discussions at international level (see www.srfood.org). We will discuss a range of topics linked in particular to the impacts of globalization on the right to food, including international trade, investment in agriculture, the role of transnational corporations in the agrifood sector, and intellectual property rights in agriculture; we will also address the threat of climate change to food security and the debate on the shift to sustainable agriculture ; as well as the role of institutional mechanisms aimed at protecting the right to adequate food and the recent reform of global governance of food security. While the focus will be on hunger and undernourishment in developing countries, the seminar will also address the impacts on the South of policies in the North (in the areas of agriculture, intellectual property rights, trade and investment, and food aid).

LAW L8145: New Economic Order in the Post-American World
A. Bradford, A. ; 2 credits; T 4:20 PM-6:10 PM (SEM)

This seminar discusses the ongoing shift in the balance of power that reshapes the international economic order. We will examine the rise of China, India and other emerging economies and analyze their impact in the regulation of the global economy. We will focus on the opportunities and challenges that the United States faces as it transitions to a multi-polar world. We will pay particular attention to the negotiation and enforcement of international trade agreements and the future of international institutions such as the United Nations, WTO, World Bank, IMF and G-20 in the new economic order.

LAW L8152: Reproductive Health and Human Rights
Northup, N. ; 2 credits; M 4:20 PM-6:10 PM (SEM)

This seminar will examine the application of a human rights framework to issues of reproductive health and decision-making. The course will begin with the paradigm established at the landmark United Nations International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt in 1994. The Conference outcome document, the Cairo Programme of Action, was adopted by 179 governments and marked the first time that the international community explicitly recognized that reproductive health is a basic human right. The course will explore the legal foundation for recognizing reproductive rights in binding international and regional human rights treaties, the mechanisms available for holding governments accountable for rights violations, and recent efforts by human rights lawyers to obtain authoritative interpretations in individual cases. The course will also draw on national-level cases for comparison between various constitutional approaches and the human rights framework. Topics will include essential obstetrics care, contraception, coercive sterilization, family limits, abortion, assisted reproductive technologies, and sexuality education, as well as issues concerning access to information, rights relating to conscience and religion, and the special status of minors.

LAW L8271: Access to Healthcare
Trueman, D.; 2 credits; W 4:20 PM-6:10 PM (SEM)

The purpose of the course is to provide students with an understanding of issues regarding access to the health care system. The course will consider the American health care system, its structure, financing and delivery aspects, and significant questions related to access to health care within the system. There will be an examination of all aspects of access to health care, including private and governmental provision of care, health care insurance, the inception and impact of managed care, and the extant procedures available to resolve health care grievances. Access to health care will be considered in the context of conflicting forces impacting on the system, including economic and market forces, issues of entitlement, rights and privileges, social and distributive justice, and public policy issues related to rationing of care and the utilization of increasingly expensive technological advances in medicine. The course will compare the structure of the health care systems of other countries, particularly those with universal health care, with the health care system of the United States and consider how the American system can be improved.

LAW L8667: Advocacy in Theory and Practice
Goldberg, S. ; 2 credits; T 8:40 AM-10:30 AM (SEM)

This course aims to provide a theoretical, strategic, and practical framework for students interested in advocacy. Early in the semester, we will focus on the skills that are central to any type of advocacy, whether in the public or private sector and whether in law, politics, or other fora. Then, while continuing to develop relevant advocacy skills, the course will turn more specifically to the theory and practice of advocacy in contexts that are typically, though not exclusively, associated with public interest lawyering. This part of the semester will also provide an opportunity to consider critically a range of advocacy strategies and the related dilemmas regarding ethics and efficacy of multidimensional advocacy. Guest speakers will join, on occasion, to share their insights.

LAW L8677: Aging and Disability Law
Cremin, K.; 2 credits; TBA (SEM)

This seminar will examine discrimination, entitlements, ethical issues, and comparative law related to individuals who have disabilities or are elderly. The seminar will begin by introducing the concepts of "aging" and "disability" and the application of various theories of justice to individuals who are considered to be "aged" or "disabled." We will then review statutes that prohibit discrimination against individuals who have disabilities or are elderly in four specific areas: employment, housing, access to public accommodations, and access to public benefits. Following the class regarding access to public benefits, the seminar will address the major entitlements for which individuals who have disabilities or are elderly are eligible, including Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Next, the seminar will cover capacity, selective abortion, euthanasia, elder abuse, hate crimes, institutionalization, and other topics that are central to disability and elder law. The seminar will conclude by introducing relevant international law and comparing the laws and policies affecting individuals who have disabilities or are elderly in other countries with those in the United States.

LAW L8801: Race, Law and Criminal Justice
Fagan, J. ; B. Dignam; 4 credits; T 4:20 PM-7:20 PM (SEM)

This seminar explores analytic frameworks to understand and address persistent racial disparities in the administration of criminal law and criminal justice, with particular emphasis on the police. The seminar supports student research projects that will explore the social, legal and institutional frameworks contributing to racial disparity and to its solutions. A basic dimension of this work is an analysis of extant strategies to reduce disparities through the interactions of police, law and communities.

LAW L8884: Perspectives on National Security Law and Policy
Morrison, Trevor; 1 credits; T 4:20 PM-6:10 PM (COL)

This Colloquium, offered credit/fail for one credit, will be built around a series of guest presentations by leading current and former government officials and others centrally involved in issues of national security law and policy. There will be four five to seven speakers in total for the semester. Each speaker will deliver a public presentation to participants in the Colloquium and other interested members of the Law School and University community. Each presentation will include a question and answer session. Some speakers may also meet in a smaller informal session with the participants in the Colloquium. Participants in the Colloquium will attend each of the presentations (and any scheduled informal sessions), and will write short (2-3 page) reaction papers for each of the presentations.

LAW L8890: National Security Investigations and Prosecutions
Furman, P., D. Raskin; 2 credits; M 6:20 PM-8:10 PM (SEM)

This course, taught by two career federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, examines how the United States law enforcement and intelligence communities respond to the ongoing threat of terrorism, with an emphasis on the challenges involved in investigating and prosecuting terrorism cases in federal criminal court. Specific topics include: the law enforcement response to terrorism since the 1993 World Trade Center attacks, including the substantive and procedural tools available in terrorism investigations and prosecutions; the coordination of, and potential conflicts between, law enforcement and intelligence gathering; and alternative models to conventional criminal prosecution of terrorism cases, including military commissions, national security courts, and indefinite wartime detention. Course materials include not only relevant case law and statutes, but indictments and other filings in recent terrorism cases. A few classes will be devoted to discussion with outside guests from the law enforcement and intelligence communities.

LAW L9001: United Nations Peacekeeping
Lee, R.; 2 credits; T 4:20 PM-6:10 PM (SEM)

The United Nations Charter outlawed the use of force and envisaged the setting up of a collective security system under the Security Council to counter any breach or threats to peace. This scheme was never implemented as the onset of the Cold War quickly demonstrated that the permanent members were not prepared to commit their soldiers and equipment to such an international force. On a case by case basis, the concept of peacekeeping was introduced and over time has become the principal tool of the United Nations for controlling conflict and for maintaining peace and security. Peacekeeping missions rely usually on civilian or military personnel contributed voluntarily from Member States under the operational command of the Secretary-General. Peacekeeping missions have performed many different functions, including supervising truce, monitoring ceasefires, demobilizing former combatants and reintegrating them into normal life, upholding human rights, carrying out disarmament, providing humanitarian assistance, assisting elections, training and policing local police, clearing mines and cooperating with regional organizations. This seminar will discuss and analyze legal, policy and institutional issues arising from peacekeeping missions. Concrete cases will be used to illustrate the issues, the decision-making process and the interaction between law, politics and diplomacy. Experts will be invited to speak on specific topics. Students will participate in simulation exercises to argue issues involved in peacekeeping. Arrangements will also be made to observe meetings at the United Nations.

LAW L9015: Child, Family and the State
Levine, C.; 2 credits; R 6:20 PM-8:10 PM (SEM)

This seminar is designed to explore the treatment of youth and families under the federal constitution and numerous federal and state statutes, and the law's regard for the unique relationships among children, their families and the state. The course will help students to understand the forces that shape family law, modern child welfare policy, juvenile justice, and related subjects. Students will use legal, economic, and sociological tools to examine such issues as the interests of institutionalized minors and their families; the exercise of youth liberty in the schoolhouse and in school-related activities; student privacy; the interests of children, families and the state in cases of alleged child abuse or neglect; state-sanctioned restrictions on the rights of minors; the state's responses to youth criminality; medical autonomy and decision-making; and the constitutionality of the juvenile death penalty. These subjects will be addressed from both doctrinal and public policy perspectives. Also addressed will be the pros and cons of litigatory efforts to improve public child-serving systems, and the challenges faced by Family Court judges in handling child-related individual cases.

LAW L9122: Islamic Law and Middle Eastern Legal Institutions
Hassan, S.; 2 credits; M 4:20 PM-6:10 PM (SEM)

This seminar deals with the origins and sources of Islamic law; the various schools of jurisprudence and the elaboration of an Islamic legal theory. It considers the practical application of that theory in the law of the family, the Islamic law of nations and Islamic constitutional theory. The seminar further considers the movement of reform and secularization in Muslim countries and the role of Islamic law in the contemporary legal systems of the Middle East with particular reference to the law of obligations and contracts.

LAW L9151: Intersectionalities: Theorizing Multiple Discrimination, Identity, and Power   
Crenshaw, K.; 3 credits; W 6:20 PM-9:10 PM (SEM)

This seminar examines the development, articulation, and application of "Intersectionality" as both a theoretical frame and a discursive practice in law, human rights, and social justice advocacy. Emerging as a theory to articulate the multiple axis of discrimination encountered by women of color in employment, the family, and elsewhere, Intersectionality has found broader application in efforts to move beyond single-issue and identity-based approaches to societal marginalization. Taking note of the 20th year anniversary of the intersectional framework, the seminar features feminist and critical race scholars, social justice practitioners, and others who will engage, critique, and expand the intersectional prism through exploring its relationship to their own work. Key questions explored include the legal erasure of intersectional discrimination; the circulation of intersectionality in human rights and international discourses; the contested interface between intersectional and anti-essentialist critiques of identity politics; the utility of intersectionality as a prism for understanding coalition failures (i.e. Proposition 8; immigration reform; affirmative action); and the role of intersectionality as a conceptual building block for cross-movement building strategies.

LAW L9165: Transitional Justice
Simpson, G.; 2 credits; W 6:20 PM-8:10 PM (SEM)

This seminar will examine the legal, ethical, conceptual and policy issues confronting societies and successor governments in dealing with past violations of human rights committed during the tenure of undemocratic and repressive regimes. It will review various sources of international law regarding state obligations in dealing with past violations and will consider a number of case studies to determine how and why emerging democracies (and in some cases, established democracies) have succeeded or failed in fulfilling these duties and in dealing with the past. The course will expose students to complex transitional justice debates in domestic and international law (such as the permissibility of amnesties and the rights of victims) and will tease out the dilemmas presented in the delicate balance between legal obligations and the realities of political governance and fragile peace processes. This seminar is designed to test and debate the relationship between politics and law and between peace and justice ? nowhere more complex than in the way in which societies seek to come to terms with past violations in the context of fragile states and delicate peace processes. The seminar will examine the range of transitional justice mechanisms that may enhance accountability and counteract impunity for past violations of human rights. It will pay special attention to the work of recent Truth Commissions and their growing impact on both law and policy. The course will also focus on the role of the International Criminal Tribunals and will examine the particular position and role of the International Criminal Court. The seminar will examine reparations programs for victims (including symbolic measures associated with memory and memorialization), as well as the critical issues associated with not only individual responsibility for past violations, but institutional complicity and the challenges this presents for institutional reform measures and the rebuilding of civic trust in emerging democracies. The seminar will also engage with the gender dimensions of transitional justice and will navigate the complex relationship between peace-building and justice in the context of fragile peace processes. The course will aim to combine an analysis of relevant international and domestic law with a factual scrutiny of a number of case studies which might include: South Africa, Uganda, Liberia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Nepal, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, East Timor and Indonesia, as well as several others. In fact, students will be encouraged to help structure the class by bringing cases and examples that interest them to the seminar table, to stimulate debate and discussion. The seminar will be structured around the key contemporary legal and political debates in the field and students will be required to write a graded paper which selects a key thematic issue or which analyzes a selected country case study involving ongoing conflict or a situation in which there has recently been a transition from conflict and/or human rights abuse to a more stable or democratic government. Based on a survey of applicable international law and cognizant of political and other constraints, students must analyze or propose a set of legal and institutional initiatives designed to deal with both victims and perpetrators of massive and systematic human rights abuse which took place in the past. Students may also propose their own research topics, for which they must obtain prior approval. Examination for this seminar will be on the basis of submission of this written paper. There are no strict prerequisites, but a prior familiarity with international law or human rights law is an asset. As this course is structured around the relationship between 'law and politics' in the international arena, an interdisciplinary approach is encouraged, as is participation of both students from the School of Law and from SIPA. A specific commitment will be made to sustaining some balance in the participation of Law School and other students (particularly but not exclusively from SIPA). Preference will be given to students at Masters degree level (and L3 students will be given preference over L2 students who apply), in order to maximize the opportunity for students in their final year of study to take the seminar.

LAW L9252: Human Rights, Law, and Development Workshop
Rekosh, E.; 2-4 credits; W 4:20 PM-6:10 PM (SEM)

Discredited in the 1970s when it took the form of the "law and development movement," international assistance in the area of reforming laws and legal institutions has flourished anew in the last two decades under the rubric of "building the rule of law." As a result, legal institutions have found an increasingly important place on the development agenda of international organizations (e.g., World Bank, UNDP), governmental development agencies (e.g, USAID, DFID, EC) and private philanthropy (e.g., Ford Foundation, Open Society Institute). This workshop will examine, in particular, how civil society engagement in governance (variously described as "legal empowerment," "public interest law" and "human rights advocacy") contributes to development goals through influencing the evolution of legal systems, legal institutions and legal culture. The course will emphasize hands-on work designing public interest/human rights projects intended for implementation in the field. Project teams will be formed around participating Public Interest Law Fellows (PILI Fellows) nominated by advocacy organizations abroad. (See http://www.pili.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=255&Itemid=206.) In the 2010-2011academic year, Fellows are expected from China, Indonesia, Nepal, Russia, Serbia and West Africa.

LAW L9408: Housing Discrimination
Freiberg, F. & Houk, D.; 2 credits; M 4:20 PM-7:10 PM (LEC)

The Housing Discrimination Seminar will examine legal and public policy issues related to housing discrimination and residential segregation. The seminar will explore the origin, nature, scope, and impact of contemporary housing discrimination and offer a critical analysis of the operative public and private fair housing enforcement schemes. A review of case law, case-specific complaints, briefs, and other pleadings, and housing policy articles will facilitate class discussions about theories of liability, litigation strategy, remedies, and housing policy. Specifically, the course will provide (1) a historical overview of government and housing industry policies and practices, the fair housing movement, and fair housing legislation; (2) a review of existing research and other empirical evidence regarding the nature and extent of illegal housing discrimination; (3) hypothetical examples and class exercises which illustrate the individual and societal impact of housing discrimination, and (4) an exploration of fair housing issues by examining and discussing selected case law. The course will explore discrimination in the sale, rental, financing and construction of housing, as well as land use and zoning practices that serve as discriminatory barriers to affordable housing opportunities. While a considerable emphasis will be place on race and national origin discrimination, sexual harassment, disability rights and accessibility, and other fair housing issues are also included as topics for discussion.

LAW L9563: Mental Health Law
Levy, R.; 2 credits; M 9:10 AM-11:00 AM (SEM)

This seminar will focus on some of the major issues in mental health law, both civil and criminal. Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding the historical development of mental health law, given the impact of temporally contingent factors on the current shape of the law. Empirical studies of the law in action will be used to illustrate the consequences of various approaches to the problems that mental health law is meant to address. Attention will be paid to the ever-present tension between impulses to act beneficently toward persons with mental disorders on one hand, and to respect their autonomy on the other. Students will be offered an opportunity to visit a psychiatric hospital and to interact with psychiatrists and with persons with mental disorders who have experienced aspects of mental health law (e.g., civil commitment, outpatient commitment) that will be discussed in the seminar.

LAW L9816: Meanings of Motherhood: Legal and Historical Perspectiv
Kessler-Harris, A., C. Sanger; 3 credits; T 4:20 PM-6:10 PM (SEM)

This course will explore the shifting and contested meanings of motherhood as individual experience and in its institutional context at different historical moments and in contemporary United States. The materials focus on the complex relationships between motherhood and such topics as work, citizenship, sexuality, poverty, reproductive technologies and the fetus itself. We will also look at categories of mothers (birth mothers, grandmothers, immigrant mothers, unwed mothers, welfare mothers, slave mothers, to name a few). Materials will be drawn from historical sources, legal texts and selected fictional works.

LAW L9832: Human Rights Reparations Under Domestic and International Law
Bush, J.; 2 credits; W 6:20 PM-8:10 PM (SEM)

The seminar explores the legal process of responding to historical crimes and other injustices by providing monetary compensation. No international law background is required. Primary attention will be given to the history and development of the Alien Tort Claims Act from 1789 to the present. Specific topics include (1) the international law background of the 18th century, (2) the evolution of the ATS in appellate decisions prior to 2004, beginning with its revival in the surprising Filartiga case (2d Circuit,1980), (3) the proper reading and interpretation of Supreme Court's decision in Alvarez-Marchain v. Sosa, (4) the predictable application of the Sosa decision in current cases ranging from the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam to the legal implications of the Iraq war, (5) the relevance of tort theory to the ATS, (6) systematic reparations, in particular, after World War I, after the Holocaust, and after the Japanese internment in the United States. To put the ATCA suits in context, the seminar will also examine some of the other ways in which reparations and restitution have been awarded in recent decades in the US and other countries as part of the settlement of major wars, as well as for human rights violations. Many of the modern cases originate with Germany, and so the course will examine the legacies of both the Versailles Treaty (1919) and the reparations and compensation arrangements that followed World War II. Reparations have been sought in dozens of settings since then. The violators range widely from post-Nazi Germany and Austria, Castro's Cuba, the Soviet Union and South Africa, to former colonial powers for looting from their colonies, post-colonial regimes for nationalizing the property of Europeans, divided and reuinited Germany, and dictators around the world. Another country that has paid for its offenses is the United States, most importantly for the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans. As for the forms of looted property or wrongdoing or loss which have been litigated, they include improperly seized real estate, artwork, and Swiss bank accounts, interrupted education and careers, forcible detention, torture and slave labor, unconsented medical experimentation, forced prostitution and sterilization, and illegal occupation (by Iraq, of Kuwait). The seminar will examine both the theory and applications of this new, broad area of litigation and statutory programs, and its intersection with the uniquely American ATCA and related lawsuits.

MDES W3000: Theories of Culture: Middle East/South Asia
Diouf, Mamadou; 4 credits; TR 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

Critical introduction to theories of culture as they are related to the Middle East and South Asia. Enables students to articulate their emerging knowledge of these two regions and cultures in a theoretically informed language.

MDES W3923: Central Question in Islamic Law
Hallaq, Wael; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

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MDES W3942: Introduction to Modern African History
Diouf, Mamadou; 3 credits; MW 9:10am-10:25am (LEC)

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MDES G4000: Theory and Methods- Middle East & Asia
Kaviraj, Sudipta; 3 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Explores recent studies on the Middle East with explicitly stated theoretical orientations that may be grouped under three broad catagories of nationalism, discipline, and power and resistance. Methodologies as diverse as comparative method, post-structuralism, narrative, and ethnography are not investigated in the abstract but in the context of rich empirical case studies.

MDES G4062: Global Political Thought
Kaviraj, Sudipta; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

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MDES G6020: Colonialism and the Intellectual
Mitchell, Timothy; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

The purpose of this seminar is to investigate the theoretical and historical dimension of Colonialism as one of the most vociferous forces of change in modernity. The seminar is intended primarily for graduate students. Advanced undergraduate students will be considered only after interview. In this course, we will follow two simultaneous tracks: As we explore various theoretical issues concerning colonialism, we will equally navigate the historical manifestations of this force in various continental contexts. The course is heavily investigative, research-based, and bibliography-oriented. We are primarily after an investigation of the economic and social changes that preceded and followed colonialism.

PEPM U4612: Microeconomics & Public Pollicy
Jehle, Geoffrey; 3 credits; M 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

To design and manage successful economic policy professionals need a sophisticated command of modern microeconomics. This course strengthens and extends understanding of microeconomic theory, and gives practice applying it. We study the relationship between market structure and market performance, exploring conditions under which policy intervention can improve market performance, and when it can be counter-productive. Both distributional and efficiency aspects of intervention are stressed. An introduction to formal strategic analysis is included, along with its application in the modern theory of auctions.

PHIL V2101: History of Philosophy: Pre-Socratics-Augutine
Mann, Wolfgang; 4 credits; MW 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

Exposition and analysis of the positions of the major philosophers from the pre-Socratics through Augustine. Discussion Section Required.

PHIL V2110: Philosophy and Feminism
Mercer, Christia; 3 credits; MW 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

Is there an essential difference between women and men? How do questions about race conflict or overlap with those about gender? Is there a "normal" way of being "queer"? Introduction to philosophy and feminism through a critical discussion of these and other questions using historical and contemporary texts, art, and public lectures. Focus includes essentialism, difference, identity, knowledge, objectivity, and queerness.

PHIL V2702: Contemporary Moral Problems
Bell, Macalester; 3 credits; TR 1:10pm-2:25pm (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 V3301: Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Sidorsky, David; 3 credits; MW 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

A survey of the precursors and founders of the three movements of 20th century analytical philosophy: Pragmatism, Logical Positivism and Linguistic Analysis, through selected texts of pragmatism including James, Peirce and Dewey; and the texts of logical positivism including Russell, Carnap and Ayer as well as the texts of linguistic analysis that include Moore, Ryle, Austin and Wittenstein. This survey is followed by an exposition of the continental movements of phenomenology and existentialism with readings from Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre. A concluding review of some postmodernist tendencies that focuses on selected texts of Foucault and Berlin.

PHIL V3353: European Social Thought
Honneth, Axel; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

Historical survey of European social philosophy, 18 to 20th century, with special attention to theories of capitalism and the normative concepts (freedom, alienation, human flourishing) that inform them. Further topic is the relations between society and the state. Readings from Smith, Hegel, Marx, and Weber.

PHIL V3653: Ethics: Mind and Morals
Beardman, Stephanie; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

Examines theories of normative ethics against the background of studies in cognitive and social psychology. How important are empathy, self-knowledge, and cultural norms to determining what is the right thing to do? Topics include moral cognition, the rationality of certain ethical intuitions, and the possibility of altruism.

PHIL V3701: Ethics
Vogt, Katja; 4 credits; MW 11:00am-12:15pm (LEC)

Introduction to the three central theories of normative ethics: consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics; introduction to selected topics in meta-ethics.

PHIL V3751: Political Philosophy
Sidorsky, David; 3 credits; TR 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

This course is organized around six fundamental concepts of political philosophy: “Authority,” “Rights,” “Equality,” “Justice,” “Liberty,” and “Democracy.” In the case of each of these concepts, three different approaches are used.

PHIL G9121: Skepticism
Vogt, Katja; 3 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Detailed analysis of selected texts, including Pre-Socratic philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophy.

PHIL G9567: Theories of Personal Autonomy
Bilgrami And Elster; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

Theories of personal autonomy will be pursued by a study of a range of different topics such as individual rationality, the nature of motivation, weakness of will, self-deception, and the nature of human values and their relation to desires, beliefs, and human action.

PHIL G9755: Problems of Social Philosphy
Neuhouser, Frederick; 3 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Focus on theories of modernity. Authors discussed will include Weber, Blumberg, Habermas, Lyotard, Taylor.

POLS V1601: International Politics
Marten, Kimberly; 3 credits; MW 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

Lecture and discussion. The basic setting and dynamics of global politics, with emphasis on contemporary problems and processes.

POLS V3001: Introduction to Human Rights
Nathan, Andrew J; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (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.

POLS BC3118: Coll: Problems in International Security
TBD; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

Readings, discussions, and presentations on "Secession in Domestic and International Perspective."

POLS W3180: Liberty and Empire
Hornqvist, Mikael; 3 credits; TBD (LEC)

Recent geopolitical developments have brought the notions of empire and liberal imperialism to the fore. This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of Western imperialism, including the ancient empires of Athens and Rome, the Respublica Christiana, Europe's overseas expansion during the Early Modern period, Western colonialism and twentieth-century totalitarianism. Our focus will be on how these developments are reflected and conceptualized in the works of leading political theorists like Aristotle, Machiavelli, Tocqueville and Arendt. Particular emphasis will be placed on the dual theme of liberty and empire, and the classical republican idea of liberty at home and empire abroad. In a contemporary context, the course will touch on questions concerning national sovereignty, religious universalism, identitarian politics, the doctrine of human rights, and American exceptionalism. From a normative perspective, we will addresses a series of interrelated questions of great current import: Is empire compatible with liberal and democratic values broadly defined? What, if any, are the alternatives to empire and Western hegemony? And what is the price – political, economic, military, and social – of empire? To gain a more in-depth understanding of how these theoretical issues are played out and experienced on a more personal level, we will turn to literary and cinematographic works of fiction.

POLS W3202: Labor and American Politics
Warren, Dorian; 3 credits; MW 11:00am-12:15pm (LEC)

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POLS W3208: State Politics
Phillips, J. ; 3 credits; TuTh 9:10a - 10:25a (LEC)

his course is intended to provide students with a detailed understanding of politics in the American states. The topics covered are divided into four broad sections. The first explores the role of the states in America's federal system of government. Attention is given to the basic features of intergovernmental relations as well as the historic evolution of American federalism. The second part of the course focuses on state-level political institutions. The organization and processes associated with the legislative, executive, and judicial branches are discussed in depth. The third part examines state elections, political parties, and interest groups. Finally, the fourth section looks closely at various policy areas. Budgeting, welfare, education, gay marriage, and environmental policy are each considered.

POLS W3210: Judicial Politics
Lax, Jeffrey; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

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POLS W3215: Workshop in Media & Politics
Knight, Kathleen; 2 credits; TBD (WKSHP)

2-credit workshop.  Permission of the instructor is required before signing up for this course. Interested should contact instructor by email. The Workshop in Media and Politics is the academic component of a media internship, and is available to both Barnard and Columbia students. Through it the student receives two units of academic credit while working in a media-related job. The internships themselves must be pre-arranged independently or through the Office of Career Services. Any kind of media-related internship (radio, television, magazines, the music industry, public relations firms, government agencies, political campaigns, and so on) is potentially acceptable, but only if the student can relate the internship to larger issues of the role/impact of the mass media in contemporary politics. It is advised that students download the application form, fill it out, and bring it with them to the first meeting with the professor. An appointment for the first meeting should be arranged with the professor via email, or during office hours.

POLS W3220: Logic of Collective Choice
Lax, Jeffrey; 3 credits; TR 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

Much (most?) of politics is about combining individual preferences or actions into collective choices. We will make use of two theoretical approaches. Our primary approach will be social choice theory, which studies how we aggregate what individuals want into what the collective �wants.� The second approach, game theory, covers how we aggregate what individuals want into what the group gets, given that social, economic, and political outcomes usually depend on the interaction of individual choices. The aggregation of preferences or choices is usually governed by some set of institutional rules, formal or informal. Our main themes include the rationality of individual and group preferences, the underpinnings and implications of using majority rule, tradeoffs between aggregation methods, the fairness of group choice, the effects of institutional constraints on choice (e.g., agenda control), and the implications for democratic choice. Most of the course material is highly abstract, but these abstract issues turn up in many real-world problems, from bargaining between the branches of government to campus elections to judicial decisions on multi-member courts to the allocation of relief funds among victims of natural disasters to the scoring of Olympic events. The collective choice problem is one faced by society as a whole and by the smallest group alike.

POLS BC3331: American Political Decision Making
Pious, Richard M; 4 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

Readings on decisionmaking, policy analysis, and the political setting of the administrative process. Students will simulate an ad hoc Cabinet Committee assigned to prepare a presidential program to deal with aspects of the foreign aid program involving hunger and malnutrition.

POLS V3401: Democracy and Dictatorship Europe
Berman, Sheri; 3 credits; MW 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

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POLS BC3507: Colloquium: Gender, Politics, Markets
Ullman, Claire F; 4 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

Considers why men more than women control political and economic resources in advanced industrial states of the world. Examines how labor markets, welfare states, and political institutions have a different impact on women than men. Evaluates attempts at increasing gender equality in political representation, labor market participation, and household work.

POLS BC3521: Civil Rights & Civil Liberties
Franzese; 3 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (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 W3631: American Foreign Policy
Cronin, Bruce L; 3 credits; TBD (LEC)

Introduction to American foreign policy since 1945 with an emphasis on post-cold war topics. Will cover major schools of American thought, the policy making process, and key policies and issues.

POLS W3673: Power and Progress in International Relations
Snyder, Jack L; 3 credits; MW 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

To understand the current geopolitical competition between liberal democratic states and other global forces, we will try to integrate the insights from the realist logic of struggle for domination and security—the logic of power—with the logic of political development and modernization —the logic of progress. Historical and contemporary themes will include the origins of the modern states system, the rise of nationalism and democratization, the management of the global market economy, decolonization, human rights activism, changing norms for the use of force, and multiple paths to modernity.  Prerequisite:  Students should have taken (or be simultaneously taking) POLS V1601, Introduction to International Politics, or have the permission of the instructor.

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

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 W3911: Political Theory Seminar: Religion and Democracy
Cohen, Jean; 4 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The class will be organized as a close reading of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.

POLS W3921: Terrorism & Counterterrorism
Nacos, Brigitte; 4 credits; Location W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

The seminar is designed to illuminate students' understanding of the most important aspects of domestic and international terrorism with an emphasis on the United States as target of and responder to this sort of political violence.

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

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POLS W3921: Quantitative Analysis/American Politics
Hirano, Shiego; 4 credits; T 9:00am-10:50am (SEM)

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

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POLS W3921: 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 W3921: 20th Century African-American Thought
Harris, Fredrick; 4 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course surveys the political and social thought of African-Americans during the 20th century.  It will consider the social, political, and historical context of political ideologies in black communities, from the standpoint of early thinkers and activists such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett to post-World War II thinkers such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, bell hooks, Cornel West, among others.  The course will critically assess such perspectives as liberalism, nationalism, feminism, conservatism, and Marxism as considered by important black thinkers of the era.  The course approaches the study of African Americans political and social thought from theoretical and historical perspectives.

POLS W3921: Gays & Lesbians in American Politics
Phillips, Justin; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

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POLS W3921: Media and American Politics
Knight, Kathleen; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Both conventional wisdom and scholarly research about the role of the mass media in American politics have changed rapidly in a very short period of time. This course explores the influence of the mass media on politics with attention to changes in the relationship between the media and government. We will start with consideration of the historical role of the mass media and how it has changed. Then we will focus on the question of how much real influence the media have, and how it is exercised. This will involve examination of media treatment of substantive topics of current interest. These will include the fall political campaigns, the war, and additional topics chosen on the basis of student interest. This is a research seminar in American politics. Students are expected to engage in original empirical research on one of several topics in mass media and politics and to contribute to group efforts on data collection, coding, fact checking, cross-verification and review. In the event of excess demand, an application process with take place at the first class meeting. 

POLS W3930: Constitutional Law
Rosdeitcher, Sidney; 4 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (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 W3951: Size of Government
Goodhart, Lucy; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

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POLS W3951: Comparative Politics of Inequality
Ullman, Claire F; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This seminar uses some of the major analytical perspectives in comparative politics to understand the issue of persistent gender inequality in the advanced industrial states.   In doing so, it provides an overview of some of the issues in the study of political representation and participation, political culture, political economy and varieties of capitalism, the historical development of welfare states, electoral systems and electoral quotas, supranational and international organizations, and public policy.  Students are welcome to extend the focus of the seminar in their own research papers either to other geographic areas or to other types of inequality."

POLS W3951: Democracy and Regime Change
Kasara, Kimuli; 4 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

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POLS W3961: Ending Wars/Keeping Peace
Fortna, Virginia Pag; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The study of war in international relations has traditionally focused on its causes, but less attention has been paid to ending wars once they begin, and to keeping peace in their aftermath.  This course will address: the process by which belligerents in international and cicil wars reach cease-fires and negotiate peace; why peace sometimes lasts and sometimes falls apart; and the prospects for reconciliation among adversaries and for rebuilding after war.  We will examine both international and civil conflicts.  Students write a research paper and present their research to the class.

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

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POLS W3961: National Security Policy
Betts, Richard K; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

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POLS W3961: Globalization and International Politics
Pinto, Pablo M; 4 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Globalization involves the increasing integration of economic, social and political processes across international borders.  Workers in Bangalore man telephones in the middle of the night to provide technical support to customers in the US and Europe.  Farmers in Chiapas and college students in Nice demonstrate against the World Bank.  Multinational corporations and backyard business clamor for greater access to markets.  Governments in Asia find that they are beholden to panic by investors a world away. To some degree, these processes (or ones like them) have always been with us.  However, international politics, which has traditionally been organized around the physical control of geography by sovereign governments, increasingly poses tensions or contradictions as the scope of the world that defies boundaries increases.  While globalization means many things to many different people, this course will begin to map some of the most obvious examples where sovereignty and the global society collide.  Globalization defies easy definition in part because these processes are dynamic and ongoing.  We will explore the economics, politics and conflict processes  associated with a globalizing world.

POLS W3961: Seminar in Foreign Policy/Decisionmaking
Farnham, Barbara; 4 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

How can we account for the foreign policies of states in the international system? Why do they behave the way they do? This seminar focuses on a critical examination of the major explanations for foreign policy outcomes. Our main emphasis is on decision-making. However, we will begin with explanations operating at other levels of analysis, such as the international system and domestic politics. We then explore decision-making explanations, including those derived from cognitive and social psychology, theories of motivation and personality, the impact of the political context, and the role of group dynamics. Throughout, we will be looking at these different approaches in the light of actual episodes taken largely, but not exclusively, from American foreign policy. 

POLS W4210: Research Topics in Game Theory
Ting, Michael; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

Advanced topics in game theory will cover the study of repeated games, games of incomplete information and principal-agent models with applications in the fields of voting, bargaining, lobbying and violent conflict. Results from the study of social choice theory, mechanism design and auction theory will also be treated. The course will concentrate on mathematical techniques for constructing and solving games. Students will be required to develop a topic relating political science and game theory and to write a formal research paper. Prerequisite: W4209 or instructor's permission.

POLS W4226: American Politics and Social Welfare Policy
Lieberman, Robert; 3 credits; MW 9:10am-10:25am (LEC)

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POLS W4454: Politics Systems of South Asia
Oldenburg, Phillip; 3 credits; TR 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

This course first compares the post-independence political histories of South Asian countries, particularly India and Pakistan.  It then explores selected topics across countries: social and cultural dimensions of politics; structures of power; and political behavior.  The underlying theme is to explain the development and durability of the particular political regimes – democratic or authoritarian – in each country. 

POLS W4471: Chinese Politics
TBD; 3 credits; TBD (LEC)

Selected aspects of contemporary Chinese politics, including the causes and character of the Chinese revolution, the transformation worked in Chinese society by the revolutionary government, political conflict, and the goals of government policies and the policies of carrying them out.

POLS G4472: Japanese Politics
Shimizu, Kay; 3 credits; Location T 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

Surveys key features of the Japanese political system, with focus on political institutions and processes. Themes include party politics, bureaucratic power, the role of the Diet, voting behavior, the role of the state in the economy, and the domestic politics of foreign policy

POLS G4491: Post-Soviet States and Markets
Frye, Timothy; 3 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (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; MW 10:35am-11:50am (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 G4610: Recent Continental Political Thought
Cohen, Jean; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

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POLS W4895: War, Peace & Strategy
Betts, Richard K; 3 credits; MW 11:00am-12:15pm (LEC)

Survey of the causes of war and peace, functions of military strategy, interaction of political ends and military means. Emphasis on 20th-century conflicts; nuclear deterrence; economic, technological, and moral aspects of strategy; crisis management; and institutional norms and mechanisms for promoting stability.

POLS W4910: Quantitative Political Research
Shapiro, Robert; 3 credits; TR 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

Introduction to the use of quantitative techniques in political science and public policy. Topics include descriptive statistics and principles of statistical inference and probability through analysis of variance and ordinary least-squares regression. Computer applications are emphasized.

POLS G6411: Comparative Politics Survey I
Huber, John; 3 credits; F 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

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POLS G6601: Issues in Political Theory
TBD; 3 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

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 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 G8223: Legislative Behavior and Institutions
O'Halloran, Sharyn; 3 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

Surveys key features of the Japanese political system, with focus on political institutions and processes. Themes include party politics, bureaucratic power, the role of the Diet, voting behavior, the role of the state in the economy, and the domestic politics of foreign policy

POLS G8493: Topics in Comparative Politics: Political Development
Berman, Sheri; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

This is a graduate course in political development. It will focus on the development of, and relationship among, the three constituent features of the modern political world: states, nations and democracy. The course will analyze both historical and contemporary cases, tracing how causal processes unfold over time and space and what past conditions and experiences lie behind today's political dynamics and problems. Along the way, the course will introduce students to the main approaches and schools of thought in the political development literature. The course will encourage rigorous comparative thinking and writing and prepare students for general exams and dissertation work.

POLS G8659: Collective Decisionmaking
Elster, Jon; 3 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

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POLS G8674: Contemporary Republicanism
Urbinati, Nadia; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

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POLS G8804: International Political Economy
Margalit, Yotam; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

Analysis of theories in international political economy, examining the relationship between politics of economics globally and the causes of the rise and decline of states.  Instructor permission required before registration.

POLS G8811: Civil Wars
Fazal, Tanisha; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

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POLS G8844: Nationalism
Snyder, Jack L; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

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POLS G8867: International Cooperation & 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 G8870: Colloquium: US Relations with East Asia
Curtis, Gerald L; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

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

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POPF P8605: Public Health Aspects of Reproductive Health
Bell, David; Chavkin, Wendy; 3 credits; Tue 9:00am - 11:50am (LEC)

The interventions and programs to improve the reproductive health of women and men are generally well described and their efficacy well known. And yet reproductive health conditions – including HIV/AIDS - are the leading cause of death and illness in women worldwide (15-44 years of age), and the second leading cause of death and illness when both men and women of reproductive age are taken into account. Globally, an estimated 250 million years of productive life are lost every year as a result of reproductive health problems. The poor disproportionately bear the consequences of poor reproductive health, especially impoverished women and young people and there are glaring disparities in access to reproductive health care between rich and poor, within and among countries The purpose of this course is to examine the drivers of these inequities in reproductive health status and to provide students with an opportunity to engage with current debates and critiques of key reproductive health issues. Students will examine the intersections between reproductive health and health systems and health sector reforms, public health practice and programs, monitoring and measurement, policy and politics, and reproductive and sexual rights. These issues will be explored in the context of specific reproductive health issues including abortion, pregnancy, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, maternal mortality and the reproductive health issues facing men. The course will draw from both domestic and international experience.

POPF P8620: Protection of Children in Disaster and War: A Global Classroom Linked to Practitioners in Northern Uganda - Pilot Project
Boothby, Neil; 1.5 credits; Thu 9:00am - 11:50am (LEC)

This seven-week course explores operational ways of addressing child protection concerns in natural disaster and war. It examines child protection from both a reduction of physical risk and a promotion of developmental well-being perspectives. Students will develop a practical understanding of effective interventions for preventing and responding to specific child protection concerns, including child-family separations; child recruitment and use as armed combatants; and sexual violence, abuse and psychosocial survival. Students will explore systemic approaches to promoting a "protective environment" for children in emergencies and post conflict-reintegration transitions. Students will review strategies for incorporating critical elements of child protection into broader humanitarian response operations; coordination among humanitarian agencies; evidence-based programming; community participation in child protection; and advocacy and policy change.

POPF P8643: Maternal and Child Health in International Primary Health Care
Brown, Roy; Cunningham, Nicholas; 3 credits; Wed 10:00am - 12:50pm (LEC)

International Maternal and Child Health is a survey course designed to introduce students to major health issues in the life stages of women and children and to present public health responses to these issues. The course provides a broad view of the priority health problems of mothers and children, identifies primary health care interventions, and addresses the barriers to care. Interventions include UNICEF’s GOBI-FFF, (growth monitoring, oral rehydration, and breastfeeding, immunizations, along with food provision, female literacy, and family planning) but also women’s nutritional, reproductive and mental health, birth spacing, female literacy, development, and the impact of HIV, TBC, malaria and other endemic conditions. The second half of the course addresses salient aspects of health care delivery both in times of emergency and in its longer term, aspects: community empowerment, politics, the media, violence, war and refugee issues, design and organization, training, equity & corruption and monitoring & evaluation. Sustainable primary MCH care is presented as a function of permanent partnerships: community ownership with professional oversight and money/power support. Students (who come from many disciplines: medicine, public health, Peace Corps, international relations, nutrition, etc) make group presentations based on a rich reading list while the instructors mentor their presentations, react to them, and present a focused summary of the main issues involved. They are evaluated on each of their presentations, their finding and presenting of data from all sources but including at least one new published article, and their ability to pick out the salient issues, their success in engaging colleagues in the learning process and, when not presenting, on their contributions in the class; this requires their regular attendance since the entire class participates at each session. In the context of an integrated primary care strategy for addressing international M.C.H. problems, students learn the basics of organizing a presentation, team work, training and evaluation according to the principles of Paulo Freire. There is no written examination or paper.

POPF P8648: Food and Nutrition in Complex Emergencies
Csete, Joanne; 1.5 credits; Fri 9:00am-11:50am (LEC)

The goal of this course is that those having completed it will have the skills and tools needed to make a useful contribution to nutrition programs and/or nutritional assessment in emergency situations. Each session has a specific learning objective, as noted below. Every attempt will be made to ground course materials in real-life situations and examples. Also, since food and nutrition emergencies do not happen in a vacuum, the course also deals to some degree with the larger context of the politics of under-nutrition in non-emergency situations and how the continued neglect of under-nutrition globally and in many countries poses challenges for addressing food and nutrition emergencies.

POPF P8651: Water and Sanitation in Complex Emergencies
Roberts, Leslie; 1.5 credits; Thu 9:00am-11:50am (LEC)

This course will focus on the public health role of water and sanitation services for those people who are displaced, impacted by war, or in settings of extreme poverty. Most classes will be comprised of case-studies with special emphasis on controlling enteric diseases. Participants are expected to develop the epidemiological skills needed to estimate populations, and estimate water consumption and sanitation coverage of specific populations. Basic engineering principles that promote the protection of human health will be covered.

POPF P8671: Globalization of Motherhood
Chavkin, Wendy; 1.5 credits; Wed 1:00pm - 3:50pm (LEC)

The convergence of dramatic declines in birth rates worldwide (aside from sub-Saharan Africa), the rise of untrammeled global movement of capital, people and information, and the rapid-fire dissemination of a host of new medical technologies has led to the "globalization of motherhood". We use this term to highlight the transnational causes and consequences of the disaggregation of the biologic and care giving components of motherhood, specifically adoption, migration of nannies, and use of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). We focus here on the resulting transnational movements of people to perform or obtain childcare work (nannies), to relinquish or obtain babies (adoption) or to use ARTs ("reproductive tourism" for treatment, gametes or uteri). Progress towards gender equity in both employment and domestic responsibilities for women from the developed world relies, in part, on economic and gendered inequities confronting other groups of women. This interaction perpetuates gender- associated limitations for both, although neither equally, nor similarly. These transnational dynamics regarding biologic and social reproduction have consequences for public health, human rights, the construct of family, and labor.

POPF P8676: Epidemiological Methods for Measuring Human Rights Abuses
Roberts, Leslie; 1.5 credits; Wed 5:30pm - 8:20pm (LEC)

The occurrence of murder, disappearances, and rape are common during complex emergencies and yet the rate of these events is rarely measured while the conflict is ongoing. In some cases, groups are denied life-sustaining services because of race, politics, or HIV status. Public health practitioners are uniquely situated and qualified to advocate for populations whose human rights and survival are threatened by the intentional actions of organized groups. This class will teach students techniques for detecting and estimating the rates of these major abuses of human rights in order to better advocate for the abused, and to permit the evaluation of programs designed to prevent such events. At the end of the course, students will be expected to be able to evaluate the sensitivity of surveillance systems, and undertake surveys, designed to measure the rates of violent deaths and rape. Classes will involve a combination of lectures, case studies, and a research project ending with a debate. Students will be evaluated based on class participation and a paper

POPF P8687: Public Health and Humanitarian Action
Boothby, Neil; 3 credits; Tue 9:00am - 11:50am (LEC)

Humanitarian action has come to occupy a central place in world politics and a theory of rights rather than charity is now driving international assistance and protection in wars and disasters. Global events over the past two decades indeed suggest that the world needs a humanitarian system capable of responding reliably, effectively and efficiently across a full range of emergencies. Whether people are suffering as a result of an earthquake in China or organized violence in Darfur, the humanitarian response system is expected to reach them in a timely and informed manner. Global wealth suggests that it can; and, global morality says that it should. Success of humanitarian action depends upon political, technical and organizational factors. The practice of public health focuses on improving the technical and organizational capacities, but this course will display that political forces are equally essential for alleviating human suffering. Deep problems of political distortion and perennial problems of agency performance and practice continue to compromise global, impartial and effective humanitarian action. This course examines efforts to provide humanitarian assistance and protection in war and disaster crises. It combines the theoretical with the possible, highlighting constraints to action from the perspective of the humanitarian agency and professional worker in the field. Key public health priorities—including the major causes of disease and death and how best to detect, prevent and treat them--are examined. Particular attention is paid to human rights and humanitarian protection, including their nature, content, and linkages with public health assistance. Students will be exposed to current trends and debates, sides will be taken and defended, and the class will be enriched by the participation, contributions and challenges of the students

POPF P8688: Forced Migration Practicum
Boothby, Neil; 0-1 credits; Tue 12:00pm - 1:50pm (SEM)

This course offers a forum for students to reflect upon and discuss their experiences in the practicum environment. Through discussion and presentation, students have the opportunity to integrate their practicum experience into the public health curriculum, as well as to incorporate input and perspectives from other students’ experiences. Students who have previously completed their required practicum will deliver a professional presentation of findings from the research conducted or programmatic input provided during the internship. Through this mode of presentation and analysis, students hone their analytic skills, develop leadership capacity, and apply strategic communication techniques. This course forms a fundamental building block in the master’s degree curriculum as students synthesize field-based learning with their classroom instruction and gain training for future leadership in public health.

POPF P8691: Public Health Advocacy for Reproductive Health
Chavkin, Wendy; 1.5 credits; Wed 9:00am - 11:50am (LEC)

Reproductive health has been so mired in controversy that evidence and scientifically based rational arguments often go unheeded. This course offers public health students entrée to analytic tools and concrete skills needed to intervene in this logjam. While reproductive health is particularly fraught, other public health issues are similarly held captive by political contention. This course will explore the role of the public health professional in advocacy, with a specific focus on advocacy related to reproductive health. We will examine the various strategies that public health professionals employ to achieve their advocacy goals as well as specific methods and skills vital to effective advocacy. Students will develop an understanding of the varied contributions different actors can make to effective advocacy, with an ongoing emphasis on the role of the public health professional as evidence based expert, skilled technician, policy analyst, leader, and collaborator in advocacy movements.

POPF P8692: Law Policy & Human RIghts
Freedman, Lynn P. ; 3 credits; Thu 10:00am - 12:50pm (LEC)

The class explores the way that law, policy, and rights function to shape public health, with particular emphasis on the implications of this interaction for rights-based approaches in health. After introducing the principles, practices, and underlying assumptions of law, policy, and rights, the class offers students the opportunity to use human rights tools in documentation of health-related human rights violations and formulating program and policy responses to violations. A wide range of issues - sexual and reproductive rights, HIV/AIDS, health problems of criminalized populations, and others - are explored to illustrate the importance of sustained human rights inquiry and analysis in public health

PUAF U4260: Critical Issues in Urban Public Policy
Dinkins, David; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

This course is designed to prepare future policymakers to critically analyze and evaluate key urban policy issues in New York. It is unique in offering exposure to both practical leadership experience and urban affairs scholarship that will equip students to meet the challenges that face urban areas. Students will read academic articles and chapters from books dealing with urban politics and policy, and will hear from an exciting array of guest lecturers from the governmental, not-for-profit, and private sectors. Drawing from my experiences as former Mayor of New York City, I will lay out the basic elements of urban government and policymaking, emphasizing the most important demographic, economic, and political trends facing urban areas.

PUAF U6110: Politics of Policymaking I
Lieberman, Robert; 4 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

This course is an introduction to practical political analysis for public-sector and non-profit managers and analysts. Professionals in these sectors operate within a political environment. This is an inescapable fact about the nature of public affairs; it is intrinsic to the enterprise. Managers and analysts who understand the political environment within which they operate and who can integrate political, managerial, and policy analysis are likely to prove far more effective than those who do not and cannot. This is not primarily a course in American politics, and we do not presume any particular knowledge of the American political system.

PUAF U8232: Seminar in Urban Politics
Fuchs, Ester; 3 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

All public policy occurs within a political context. The purpose of this seminar is to examine the politics of America's large cities. While we rely on case material from American cities the theoretical and applied problems we consider are relevant to understanding public policy in any global city. Cities are not legal entities defined in the American Constitution. Yet, historically they have developed a politics and policymaking process that at once seems archetypically American and strangely foreign We will consider whether America's traditional institutions of representation "work" for urban America; how the city functions within our federal system; and whether neighborhood democracy is a meaningful construct. We will also consider the impact of politics on urban policymaking. Can cities solve the myriad problems of their populations under existing institutional arrangements? Are cities really rebounding economically or does a crisis remain in communities beyond the resurgence in many downtown business districts? Do the economic and social factors which impact urban politics and policy delimit the city's capacity to find and implement solutions to their problems? Finally, can urban politics be structured to make cities places where working and middle class people choose to live and work and businesses choose to locate; the ultimate test of their viability in the twenty first century.

PUAF U8360: Social Movements and Social Change
Vasi, Bogdan; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

This graduate seminar examines social change mainly as a product of social movements, or the collective efforts to promote social change by people who lack access to institutionalized power. We will engage with some of the main debates in the study of social movements, reading both theoretical analyses of key issues and empirical research on various movements and social change case studies. The seminar will focus on social change as an outcome of social movements at the local community level, the national level, and the transnational level. The main goal is to help students understand different processes of social change and, in particular, "how social movements matter" -or how movements affect social and political change.

PUAF U8510: Women and Power: the Impact of Public & Private Sector Policy
Buck-Luce, Carolyn; 1.5 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This practicum takes a hard look at the gains of the "women's revolution" and the gains across a range of sectors. A group of prominent individuals (business and civic leaders, scholars, policymakers), all pioneers in the own right, will assess how far women have come in a variety of fields -- Business, Philanthropy, Government, Non Profit and Entrepreneurship -- and describe what they see as the unfinished agenda. Particular attention will be paid to exploring policy proposals that encompass both public and private sector initiatives. Course Dates: October 21 - December 9.

REGN U4567: Current Developments in Russia
Beliaev, Edward; 4 credits; MWF 9:35am-11:35am (LEC)

This course is designed for those students who, due to their career goals, need to keep a finger on the pulse of Russian domestic developments and at the same time want to maintain their high level of Russian language. The course will explore the current situation in the spheres of politics and the economy as a result of complex interplay of many domestic and international factors. Considerable time will be devoted to the issues of the CIS and Russian foreign affairs. The course is mainly based on current Russian periodicals but sometimes, if necessary, texts in English will be offered as a background or an explanation for the issues to be discussed. The course is conducted in Russian.

REGN U4690: Palestinian and Israeli Security Dilemmas
Weinberger, Naomi; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

Competing Palestinian and Israeli national aspirations have generated security dilemmas for each, with broad regional reverberations. The partition formula which failed to heal the conflicts of the Palestine mandate era still dominates the discourse on conflict resolution, but domestic and regional opponents stymie its implementation. This course examines the evolution of Palestinian resistance, Israeli foreign policy debates, Egypt�s early leadership in war and peacemaking, Iran�s rising influence, and the credibility of mediatory efforts by the US and other third parties. We will consider whether the international community can help remedy the absence of human security in the West Bank and Gaza and ongoing Israeli security dilemmas by facilitating realization of a two-state solution.

REGN U6423: Problems of Economic Growth in Latin America
Trebat, Thomas; 3 credits; M 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

The course is organized around the most important question in Latin America today: Why have the lives of most people in Latin America failed to improve economically despite the region's adoption of the most ambitious reforms in its history? We will examine this growth puzzle from as many points of view as possible, drawing insights from various disciplines and calling upon expert practitioners in various fields of finance and business. We will do this in an attempt to learn the key strengths that sustained economic growth in Latin America for decades, the factors that led to a weakening of this growth after 1980, and the rationale for and results of the great economic reforms of the 1990s. Most importantly of all, we will focus on what lies ahead - on case studies of successful and failed strategies, on what seems to be working in terms of economic policies and what needs to be changed.

REGN U6639: Gender and Development in Southeast Asia
Kelly, Kristy; 3 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

This course is designed to introduce students to issues of gender and development in Southeast Asia in comparative context. Development debates are currently in flux with important implications for the practice and analysis of gender and development. Some argue for market-driven, neo-liberal solutions to gender equality, while others believe that equitable gender relations will only come when women (and men) are empowered to understand their predicaments and work together to find local solutions to improve their lives. Empowerment and human rights approaches are popular among development practitioners, particularly those concerned with gender equity. This course uses the context of development in Southeast Asia to critically engage with issues important to development planners, national leaders and women�s groups throughout Southeast Asia. We begin with a general overview of the historical context of development and the role and relationship of gender relations to development planning. We also consider the role of international development organizations (such as the World Bank, United Nations, Asian Development Bank, other governments and international non-government organizations), as well as local governments and civil society actors in the Southeast Asian context. The course then examines ongoing gender and development debates in and between countries specifically focusing on issues of labor and migration, education, health and HIV/AIDS, and political participation and leadership of women as they relate to issues of poverty alleviation and gender equity for women and men. The course draws from theoretical and empirical research and aims to provide insight into both regional and global challenges of linking theory with practice in gender equity and development.

REGN U8090: The Transatlantic Economy
O'Cleireacain, Seamus ; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

A course on economic relations in an era of regionalism and the formation of rival economic blocs. This course examines the changing architecture of contemporary US-EU relations, placing this relationship within wider multilateral obligations. Topics to be discussed include conceptual frameworks within which the relationship may be analyzed; the economic dimension to common security; causes and consequences of past and present trade disputes; the development and implementation of the Transatlantic Agenda and related programs such as the Transatlantic Business Dialogue; implications for the dollar of European Monetary Union; and the impact on the relationship of each side's ties to other regional arrangements such as APEC, Mercosur and EU enlargement to Eastern and Central Europe. Course requirements: A term paper and classroom presentations.

REGN U8595: Persian Gulf in the 20th Century
Potter, Lawrence; 3 credits; W 2:00pm-3:50pm (SEM)

Focus on maritime society in the Gulf, the Gulf and its oil states, tribes and state formation, British paramountcy, border problems, oil and social change, the Iranian Revolution, Islamic resurgence in the Persian Gulf, the Gulf wars, Iraq, the role of women, and the Gulf states today

REGN U8600: China's New Marketplace
Rosen, Daniel; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

This seminar is for students anticipating China-focused careers, shaping and responding to economic development. It is relevant both to those interested in international business and those interested in economic policy. This is an application class for 20 students, including those pursuing non-SIPA degrees. Second year students who have completed the first year economic sequence are encouraged to apply, as the course will require a strong conversance in topical economics (not econometrics).

REGN U8730: Reforming Legal Systems after Communism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Koroteyeva, Victoria; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course analyzes legal reforms in Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union which are members of the Council of Europe from legal, political and sociological perspectives. It considers common problems that these societies faced at the end of communist regimes and examines their uneven success in introducing the rule of law. The course starts with working definitions of the "rule of law." It then focuses on developments in three areas of public law - constitutional, criminal, civil rights and liberties. Did countries in transition simply amend existing constitutions or did they create a completely new legal order? How distinct are new constitutions in Eastern Europe and Eurasia from West European counterparts or constitutional models elsewhere? Could nascent legal systems judge the communist past without violating basic principles of the rule of law? Choices made at the start of legal reforms continue to shape these countries' internal political dynamics and their relations with the international community. Assessing successes and failures of legal reforms, the course examines their driving forces - among others, aspirations to join European institutions, internal political pressures, importation of western legal models, and demands for legal reform by civil society. The study of formal legal institutions such as independent judiciaries is combined with an attempt to measure more elusive social phenomena such as legal cultures. Formal training in law is not required - rather, the course helps non-lawyers to acquire skills necessary to read and interpret legislation and the case law of domestic and international tribunals.

REGN U8757: Ukranian Foreign Policy: Russia, Europe & the U.S.
Kuchynskyi, Valerii; 3 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

The course will provide historical perspectives on Ukraine's foreign relations and examine the trajectory of its foreign policy since Independence in 1991 till the Orange Revolution in 2004 and beyond. While providing an assessment of political, social and economic transformations and their impact on foreign policy, the course will focus on Ukraine's relationship with its major partners: Russia, Europe and the US, and its role at the United Nations. The class will be able to analyze Ukraine's renunciation of its nuclear arsenal, its quest for Euroatlantic integration and the obstacles thereto, its participation in regional structures and its attitude towards the Commonwealth of Independent States. The course delivers first-hand insights by a career diplomat who has been actively involved in the implementation of Ukrainian foreign policy. The format of the course will encourage active dialogue and analytical reflection on the part of the students. Each student will prepare a 10-15 page paper exploring the prospect of Ukraine's joining NATO and the EU or staying in the zone of Russia's influence, and the consequences thereof.

RELI V3311: Islam in Post-Colonial World
Haider, Najam I; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

This course focuses on the multiple manifestations of the Islamic vision in the modern world. It begins with a survey of core Muslim beliefs before shifting to an examination of the impact of colonization and secular modernity on contemporary formulations of Islam.

RELI V3602: Religion in America I
Balmer, Randall; 3 credits; TR 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

Survey of American religion from the Civil War to the present, with the emphasis on the ways religion has shaped American history, culture, identity.

RELI W4322: Exploring Sharia: Islamic Law
Haider, Najam; 4 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (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 Gods 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, womens 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

RELI W4612: Religion and Humanitarianism
Kenny, Gale; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This seminar examines the role of religion in the antislavery movement, foreign missions, and women's rights in the nineteenth century, and its relevance to contemporary humanitarian activism

RELI W4620: Religious Worlds of New York
Bender And Hawley; 4 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Exploration of religious diversity in New York City with emphasis on the current historical moment. Meetings will focus on the impact of immigrant and migrant cultures on New York's religious landscape and on texts that explore the experiences and histories of religious communities in New York. Students conduct supervised research on and observation of a particular religious site or community.

RELI G6210: Issues- Study of South Asian Religions
Mcdermott, Rachel; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Consideration of critical themes or major issues in the study of South Asian religions, especially those having major methodological implications. Themes vary from year to year. May be repeated for credit.

SOCI W1000: The Social World
Bearman, Peter; 3 credits; TR 9:10am-10:25am (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 V2420: Race and Place in Urban America
Carla L Shedd; 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 W3243: China Today: Change, Inequality, Social Life
Lu, Yao; 3 credits; TR 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

Comprehensive introduction to the major social issues in contemporary China. Not a survey in general Chinese history, but a discussion of important thematic issues, we will read and discuss with an emphasis on changes in the post-Mao era. Meant to be interdisciplinary, incorporating readings in anthropology, history, economics, political science, a number of important subjects will be discussed: state politics in pre-reform China since the 1949 revolution, shift to market reforms since 1978, rural China, and various population issues.

SOCI W3264: The Changing American Family
Aidala, Angela; 3 credits; MW 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

Examines social forces contributing to changes in U.S. family formation including declines in marriage, increases in nonmarital childbearing, and women's labor force participation. Analyzes forces affecting growth of "non-traditional" families including lesbian/gay, multigenerational families. Particular attention given to urban, suburban, rural contexts of poverty.

SOCI W3277: Post Racial America?
Nelson, Alondra R; 3 credits; MW 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

What is race? Is the US a post-racial society? Is such a society desirable? Is a post-racial society necessarily a just and egalitarian one? We consider these questions from ethnographic, historical, and theoretical perspectives. Topics discussed include intersectionality, multiracial identity, colorism, genetics, and the race and/or class debate.

SOCI V3285: Israeli Society
Cohen, Yinon; 3 credits; TR 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

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SOCI W3324: Global Urbanism
Sassen, Saskia J; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

Using classical texts about cities (do they still work for us?) and on the diverse new literatures on cities and larger subjects with direct urban implications, we will use a variety of data sets to get at detailed empirical information, and draw on two large ongoing research projects involving major and minor global cities around the world (a total of over 60 cities are covered in detail as of 2008).

SOCI V3324: Poverty, Inequality, Policy
Olvera, Jacqueline; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Examination of poverty, the "underclass," and inequality in the United States. Part 1: The moral premises, social theories, and political interests shaping current debates about the poor. Part 2: A more concrete analysis of the lives of the poor and the causes of family breakdown, the drug economy, welfare, employment, and homelessness.

SOCI W3355: Religion and Politics
Barkey, Karen; 3 credits; MW 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

Exploring the major themes of religion and politics in the contemporary world: how did the major thinkers conceptualize the role of religion in society, the relationship between religion and politics, and state and church? How do different religions conceptualize and give life to these arrangements? After a mix of theoretical and historical readings, we study various substantive examples of the relationship between religion and politics, within differing contexts, different religions as well as different nation-states.

SOCI W3490: Mistake, Misconduction, Disaster
Vaughan, Diane; 3 credits; MW 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

How Organizations Fail - the fundamental principles of organizations, examining how and why organizations fail, producing harmful outcomes. Studying failures opens up parts of organizations for public view that are seldom seen; studying the dark side is especially revealing. Students will examine cases to identify the causes of failures and think about what kind of strategies can be developed that prevent failure.

SOCI BC3911: Social Contexts Immigration Law
Salyer, John; 4 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (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; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (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 W3945: Inequality and Public Policy
Spilerman, Seymour; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Economic inequality in the United States; the roles of labor market processes and inheritance with respect to wealth assimilation; assets and the poor; public policies in regard to income redistribution; taxation of income, wealth, and bequests; issues in poverty policy.

SOCI G4042: Economic Sociology Meets Economic Geography
Whitford, Joshua; 3 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

For students interested in economic and organizational sociology, in the interplay of local and global forces, in political economy, and in the intersection of business and policy studies, the course is to be a graduate level seminar tracing the development and future direction of the conversation between the fields of economic sociology and economic geography.

SOCI G4370: Processes of Stratification and Inequality
Spilerman, Seymour; 3 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (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 G6320: Immigration, Cities, States
Sassen, Saskia J; 3 credits; F 11:00am-12:50pm (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.

SOCI G8200: Economic Sociology
Stark, David; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (COLL)

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SOSC P8701: Social Dimensions of Aging
Nathanson, Constance; 3 credits; Tue 10:00am - 11:50am (LEC)

This course examines social theories of aging, using a life-course framework and focusing on developmental changes, social structural and cultural perspectives, and intergenerational relationships. Specific policy and practice topics include opportunities and services related to employment, education, housing, civic engagement, health, disability and rehabilitation. The social construction of the aging experience, including discrimination, is explored through models of psychosocial health in old age and critical review of current research investigations focusing on bereavement, health status, long-term care needs, dependency relationships, and volunteerism.

SOSC P8709: Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights
Vance, Carole; 3 credits; Mon 3:00pm - 4:50pm (LEC)

This seminar uses the new scholarship on sexuality to engage with ongoing theoretical conversations and activism in human rights, gender, and health. Pressed by the increasing recognition of the importance of sexuality in a wide range of rights and advocacy work (for example, HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, and sexual violence), theorists and advocates alike have struggled with complex, sometimes fluid and elusive nature of sexuality. What is this "sexuality" in need of rights and health? How does it manifest itself across a range of persons and cultures? And how can culturally and historically situated work about sexuality inform and improve legal and advocacy interventions? The seminar also turns a critical eye on recent scholarship, in light of current issues raised by policy interventions and advocacy in many countries and cultures. Finally, the seminar aims to promote dialogue and exchange between academic, activist, and advocacy work.

SOSC P8736: Theories and Perspectives on Sexuality and Health
Vance, Carole; 3 credits; Tue 3:00pm - 4:50pm (LEC)

This course will provide an overview of theoretical perspectives and concepts relevant to the study of sexuality, particularly as they relate to public health. This entails exploring perspectives from across the social sciences, with an emphasis on sociology, anthropology, and histroy, and somewhat more limited reference to work in psychology and political science. Drawing upon assigned readings, lectures, discussions and individual assignments, students will develop the capacity to identify the strengths and limitations of perspectives used to frame research and interventions related to sexuality. Although the substantive focus of this course is the theorization of sexuality, over the course of the semester we will address a more fundamental question in public health – namely, what shapes ‘health behaviors’? Developing a sophisticated conceptualization of why people engage in behaviors that have detrimental health consequences, or conversely why they fail to take health-enhancing actions, lays the foundation for effective health promotion policies and programs. Because a great deal of sexual health promotion programming draws implicitly on behavioral science and interpersonal-level determinants of health practices, a goal of this course is to counter-balance that through an emphasis on the broader structural and institutional determinants of sexual practices. This is a required course for the MPH track 'Sexuality and Health.'

SOSC P8737: Emerging Topics in Urbanism and Community Health
Hernandez-Cordero, Lourdes; 1 credits; Tue 9:30am - 10:50am (SEM)

Seminar intended as an introduction to the study of the ecology of cities. Topics include concepts utilized in the study of the ecology of cities, case studies, and emerging issues related to urbanism. Urbanism students are required to take the one-point seminar. Students can enroll up to three times for the seminar, in which case the 3 points would count toward their urbanism selective requirements.

SOSC P8745: Social and Economic Determinants of Health
Hopper, Kim; 3 credits; Thu 3:00pm - 4:50pm (LEC)

This course will confer upon students some familiarity with the ways in which health and illness are determined by social and economic determinants, broadly stated. Our goal is to focus on several salient factors, centering in on some core questions, including: How should we conceptualize health and risk factors? What do people need to have or do to be healthy? What processes, structures and situations are likely to be inimical to health? What are the social and economic conditions that influence all of the above? In so doing, we will try to make visible the ways in which seemingly everyday aspects of life are shaped by and reproduce social and economic pathways, and thereby have fundamental bearing on health. We will pay special attention to how these issues play out for African Americans, particularly because social and economic constructs in the United States are strongly linked to race.

SOSC P8747: The Ethics of Public Health
Bayer, Ronald; 3 credits; Mon 9:00am - 10:50am (LEC)

Public health policy is always the product of controversy. Most typically such conflicts are played out in terms of a clash among scientific considerations. But even when not explicit, the controversies entail political tensions and ethical concerns. In this course we will examine the political and ethical dimensions of public health policy, focusing on issues of justice and liberty. Four domains of public health will be examined: the prevention of diseases associated with personal behavior, protection against occupational hazard, epidemic control, and access to health care. Students will write one short paper based on the readings in Part I and a final term paper of 20-25 pages based on a subject of your own choosing and a conference with Professor Bayer. This course will provide students with an opportunity to examine the underlying ethical tensions in public health. Students will be able to identify the conflicting values at stake and will have the opportunity to learn about how ethical debates unfold and are (sometimes) resolved. Critical reading, lectures, in class analysis and debate and a final paper will be used by students to achieve the above learning objectives (competencies).

SOSC P8750: Race and Health
Fullilove, Robert E. ; 3 credits; Wed 12:00pm - 1:50pm (LEC)

Over the 17 years that I have taught this course, I have tried to present students with articles that would provide an exposure to the growing body of research, commentaries, and critiques that discuss the relationships between race, ethnicity, and health. The premise upon which our work is based is rather simple: race is highly correlated with health status, but after many years of investigating this association, researchers are not entirely clear what this association means, nor are they clear how to use their research to improve the lot of people of color who are at risk for a wide variety of health conditions. Put more precisely, we don’t know what it is about someone’s race that causes the excess morbidity and mortality that is observed among members of so many ethnic minority groups. Typically, in the first class of the semester, students find this to be a puzzling way of defining the key issues in race and health. Given the dynamics of last year’s presidential elections where race played a huge role, it seems all the more bizarre to suggest that race is a concept of limited value to the science of public health. To students born in this country or who have lived here for an extended period of time, nothing could be more obvious than the fact that race matters. Racism is a fact of American life, and that its victims should suffer poorer health status than mainstream Americans seems almost self-evident. As the semester progresses and as the critique of current health research about race becomes more pronounced in the readings, students [of all races, I hasten to add] often feel compelled to say: “I don’t care what the articles say, race MATTERS!!!!!” Agreed. Race does matter, and it often matters in ways that are intensely personal, painful, and gut-wrenching. But the point of this course is not to deny the student’s personal experience of race, but rather to ask you to look beyond such experiences to develop a science of public health that specifies how and in what way race “acts” to cause the excess morbidity and mortality we observe in so many communities of color.

SOSC P8755: Introduction to Medical Anthropology
Colon, Edgar Rivera; 3 credits; Thu 5:30pm - 7:20pm (LEC)

Overview of medical anthropology, the examination of health, disease, and medicine in the context of human culture. Examine the relationship between culture, structural factors, and health gain ways to utilize ethnographic, anthropological, and qualitative data in health interventions, policy, and evaluation gain critical skills in evaluating the adequacy and validity of formulations about 'culture' and 'tradition' in health programs and research become familiar with range of work on culture and health, domestically and internationally acquire skill in utilizing data about culture and health at macro and micro levels.

SOSC P8771: Community-based Participatory Research
Hernandez-Cordero, Lourdes; 3 credits; Mon 2:00pm - 3:50pm (LEC)

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has received growing attention over the past several decades as international, domestic, funding agencies and researchers have renewed a focus on an approach to health that recognizes the importance of social, political and economic systems to health behaviors and outcomes. The importance of this approach is reflected in the 1988 Institute Of Medicine’s (IOM) landmark report The Future of Public Health. The report indicates that communities and community-based organizations are one of six potential partners in the public health system and that building community-based partnerships is a priority area for improving public health. CBPR is not a method but a system of investigation that involves the active collaboration of the potential beneficiaries and recognizes and values the contributions that community-based participatory research can make to new knowledge and to the translation of research findings into public health practice and policy. CBPR as it is often referred is a collaborative approach to research that recognizes the value of equitably involving the intended beneficiaries throughout all phases of program planning, implementation and evaluation. This course will provide an examination of the relevant literature in CBPR with a focus on the history, theoretical framework and application of CBPR within public health programs and research.

SOSC P8773: A Social History of American Public Health
Colgrove, James; 3 credits; Tue & Thu 9:10am - 10:25am (SEM)

How does the health status of Americans reflect and shape our history? How do ideas about health reflect broader attitudes and values in American history and culture? How does the American experience with pain, disability and disease affect our actions and lives? What are the responsibilities of the state and of the individual in preserving health and how have they changed over time? How have American institutions -- from hospitals to unions to insurance companies -- been shaped by changing longevity, experience with disability and death? These questions are central to this class. The course will look at the ways social values are shaped by, and help shape, definitions of disease, ideas about prevention, and social responsibility for care for those made dependent by illness. The purpose of this course is to provide students with a historical understanding of the role public health has played in American history. The underlying assumptions are that disease, and the ways we define disease, are simultaneously reflections of social and cultural values, as well as important factors in shaping those values. Also, it is maintained that the environments that we build determine the ways we live and die. The dread infectious and acute diseases in the nineteenth century, the chronic, degenerative conditions of the twentieth and the new, vaguely understood conditions rooted in a changing chemical and human-made environment are emblematic of the societies we created. As topics indicate, the course will emphasize that public health is intimately related to broader social, political, as well as scientific, changes overtaking the country and will incorporate a very broad range of subjects from changes in urban living and culture, through the transformation of the industrial work place.

SPAN W3300: Advanced Language through Content
Multiple; 3 credits; Multiple sections (LEC)

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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 V1001: Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
Ciolkowski, Laura; 3 credits; TR 11:00am-12:15pm (SEM)

Starting with the lives and experiences of women in the West, historical, comparative, and global perspectives are incorporated to introduce the commonalities and differences that mark women's lives. Also, investigates how gender intersects with such categories as race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, age, and religion.

WMST BC2140: Critical Approaches
Tadiar, Neferti; 3 credits; M 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

Introduction to key concepts from social theory as they are appropriated in critical studies of gender, race, sexuality, class and nation. We will explore how these concepts are taken up from different perspectives to address particular social problems, and the effects of these appropriations in the world.

WMST V3112: Feminist Texts II
Kessler-Harris; 4 credits; TBD (COLL)

Contemporary issues in feminist thought. A review of the theoretical debates on sex roles, feminism and socialism, psychoanalysis, language, and cultural representations. Authors include Simone de Beauvoir, J. S. Mill, A. Kollantai, Zora Neale Hurston, and others.

WMST W4300: Feminism and Diaspora
Hirsch, Marianne; 4 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The losses suffered in the last century, the atrocities that have dominated it, and the displacement of peoples across the globe continue to preoccupy our current imagination, calling for justice and acts of repair. This course will explore contemporary theories of diaspora and transnational feminism from the perspective of the ethics and politics of return.  Through a cross-disciplinary analysis of new and old media of return to past places (memoir and fiction, ritual and performance, visual and digital media, tourism, museums and memorials, as well as the science of genealogy), we will focus on a number of sites where contested histories collide and lost stories are waiting to be recovered (the aftermath of the slavery in Africa and the new world; anti-semitism, the Holocaust and the Nakbah in Europe and Israel/Palestine; racism, poverty and Katrina in New Orleans; queer diaspora and transnational adoption; and the claims of indigenous peoples to restitution and redress). The personal, the familial, the affective, and the intimate have offered constitutive structures of thinking in feminist theory, trauma theory, and psychoanalysis. We will bring these same emphases to bear on the paradigms of diaspora, place and displacement.

WMST G6001: Theoretical Paradigm Feminist Scholar: Meanings of Motherhood
Kessler-Harris And Sanger; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course will explore the shifting and contested meanings of motherhood as individual experience and in its institutional context at different historical moments and in contemporary United States. The materials focus on the complex relationships between motherhood and such topics as work, citizenship, sexuality, poverty, reproductive technologies, and the fetus itself. We will also look at categories of mothers (birth mothers, grandmothers, immigrant mothers, unwed mothers, welfare mothers, slave mothers, to name a few). Materials will be drawn from historical sources, legal text, and selected fictional works. The course is open to ten law students and ten graduate students selected on the basis of written statements of interest. Please do not register until your application has been approved.