Course	HR / PS 203 Terror, Torture and Truth: Human Rights After 9/11
Professor	Mark Danner
CRN	95391
Schedule	Mon 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 203 Tu 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 205
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: HISTORY

Human Rights Core Course

Cross-listed: Political Studies

Related interest: Global & Int’l Studies

When it comes to human rights, there is the world before September 11 and the world after it. On that date in 2001 America entered upon "a new paradigm," in the words of then White House counsel (now Attorney General) Alberto Gonzales -- a major shift not only in the American way of war and foreign policy but in our government's attitude toward the protection of human rights at home and abroad. Henceforth Americans would "take the gloves off" in their treatment of prisoners, their policies on interrogation, and their attitude toward the laws of war. In this course we will examine these policy changes closely. We will study the decisions government officials made, the documents they wrote to advance those policies, and, most important, the actions of those who carried those policies out in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo. We will chart the path America has followed from the attacks of 9/11 to the scandal of Abu Ghraib, and to the present controversy over the use of "extreme interrogation techniques" -- what many call torture. At the heart of this course will be a running debate on the fundamental question of whether or not those human rights embodied in international law that Americans had come to take for granted must give way before the demands of the War on Terror. Put succinctly:  Do Americans live in a nation that does not torture -- or in a nation that tortures only when it needs to?

Course	HR / HIST 2124 Vietnam and Iraq: Wars of Mass Deception
Professor	Mark Lytle
CRN	95296
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 -11:50 am OLIN 205
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: HISTORY

Cross-listed: Human RightsSince World War II, the United States has fought two controversial and widely unpopular wars--Vietnam and the 2003 War in Iraq. Both wars began with presidential deception--Gulf of Tonkin and WMDs--to justify a crusade against a global enemy--Communism and terrorism. In both, US forces became bogged down in battles against an elusive enemy and inflicted serious casualties on the civilians whose hearts and minds would ultimately determine the outcome. My Lai and Abu Graib brought into doubt the legitimacy of each war. And in both domestic public opinion split between the desire to "protect our boys (and women)" and a sense that the war was both ill advised and unwinnable. The primary focus of the course will be on Vietnam, with a secondary concern to determine if that war offers "lessons” that help us understand the War in Iraq.

Course	HR / SST 229 The Ecological Crisis : Radical Perspectives
Professor	Joel Kovel
CRN	95015
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 305
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: HUMANITIES

Cross-listed: Human Rights

The crisis posed by collapsing ecosystems on a global scale is a threat of incalculable proportion; indeed it places the future at risk. As it can be shown that the driving force behind this crisis is the relentless expansion of the capitalist system, and as Karl Marx provided the most cogent understanding of capitalism, it follows that the study of the ecological crisis and that of Marxism can be usefully combined. Professor Kovel’s book will provide the central text, supplemented by the core writings of Marx, and others. The course is not merely the diagnosis of a civilizational pathology, it also is about radical pathways that can be taken to overcome the crisis, and raises the questions of an ecologically rational society, what a world beyond capitalism might be like, and how we are to get there.

Course	SOC / HR 252 The Workplace as Civic Space
Professor	Nathan Newman
CRN	95159
Schedule	Mon 10:30 –11:50 am OLIN 201 Wed 10:30 – 11:50 am ALBEE 106
Distribution	OLD:	NEW:

Cross-listed: Human Rights

This course will explore the workplace as a site for civic action in our society. Starting with the debate over Wal-Mart and criticisms of its workplace practices, we will discuss some of the strategies being debated for mobilizing workers and community allies to action, both here in the United States and around the developing world in the factories where Wal-Mart buys its products. The initial questions we will ask are what are the structural economic and cultural factors acting as a barrier to organizing in workplaces like Wal-Mart. We will than ask what is and should be the role of workplace organizations in our economic and civic life? We will look at the rise of different organizations in the workplace in history, from worker cooperatives to labor unions. The goal of the course is to give students both the theoretical and practical tools to analyze the limits on labor power and options for expanding the civic role of workplace action in our society.

Course	HR / SOC 255 Rights, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship
Professor	Amy Ansell
CRN	95259
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE / RETHINKING DIFFERENCE

Human Rights Core Course

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, Human Rights, and SRE

Related interest: Global & Int’l Studies
The course is intended to introduce students to current debates and controversies about the changing boundaries of rights and citizenship in multicultural societies. It begins with an exploration of the origins and development of ideas about multiculturalism. We then move on to consider the implications of multiculturalism for contemporary political and policy agendas. Special attention is paid to problems concerning the implementation of multicultural policies and to critical evaluation of their impact. Drawing on conceptual debates as well as trends and developments in specific societies (primarily the United States, Britain, the European Union and South Africa), the course aims to increase appreciation for the divergent perspectives that have emerged in relation to issues of cultural diversity in different parts of the world. The course concludes with reflection on the question of what kind of agendas need to be developed in future to deal with the dilemmas of multiculturalism policy and practice identified throughout the semester.

Course	HR / PHIL 260 Feminist Philosophy
Professor	Daniel Berthold
CRN	95024
Schedule	Wed Fr 9:00 -10:20 am OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: HUMANITIES / RETHINKING DIFFERENCE

Cross-listed: Gender Studies, Human Rights

The course will examine a variety of feminist philosophical approaches to issues surrounding modern culture's production of images of sexuality and gender. Some background readings will provide a sketch of a diverse range of feminist theoretical frameworks -- liberal, socialist, radical, psychoanalytic, and postmodern -- with readings from Alison Jaggar, Simone de Beauvoir, Annie Leclerc, Christine Delphy, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Sarah Kofman, and Hélène Cixous. However, this is primarily an "applied" philosophy course rather than a course focusing on theory. We will explore such issues as the cultural enforcement of both feminine and masculine gender identities, the mass-marketing of popular cultural images of sexuality, gender, and race, the urban environment and women's sense of space, the intersection of feminism and environmentalism, the logic of subjection governing cultural ideals of women's bodies (dieting, exercise, clothing, bodily comportment), issues of rape, sexual violence and harassment, pornography, and feminist perspectives of different ethnic groups. We will also screen a number of films and videos, including the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, Madonna's "Truth or Dare," and documentaries on the pre-Stonewall femme-butch bar-scene culture of the 1950s and 60s, anorexia, rape on campus, the pornographic film industry, and several others.

Course	HR / SOC 260 Punishment, Politics and Culture
Professor	Daniel Karpowitz / Austin Sarat
CRN	95161
Schedule	Wed Fri 12:00 – 1:20 pm OLIN 201
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

Cross-listed: Human Rights

Other than war, punishment is the most dramatic manifestation of state power. Whom a society punishes and how it punishes are key political questions as well as indicators of its character. This course considers connections between punishment and politics in the contemporary United States. We will ask whether we punish too much and too severely, or too little and too leniently. We will consider the politicization and racialization of punishment and examine particular modalities through which the state dispenses its penal power, e.g. maximum-security prisons, torture, the death penalty. Among the questions to be discussed are: Does punishment express our noblest aspirations for justice of our basest desires for vengeance? Can it ever be an adequate expression of, or response to, the pain of the victims of crime? When is it appropriate to forgive rather than punish? We will consider these questions in the context of arguments about the right way to deal with drug offenders, sexual predators, and terrorists. In addition, we will examine the treatment of punishment in constitutional law, e.g. the prohibition of double jeopardy and of cruel and unusual punishment. Throughout we will try to understand the meaning of punishment by examining the way it is represented in politics and popular culture.

Course	HR / ANTH 262 Colonialism, Law, and Human Rights in Africa
Professor	Jesse Shipley
CRN	95281
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 -11:50 am OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE / RETHINKING DIFFERENCE

Human Rights Core Course

Cross-listed: Global & Int’l Studies, Human Rights

This course examines the colonial and missionary legacies of contemporary discourses of human rights and development. We will take a rigorously critical eye to examining how why and to what effect Western donor agencies, states, and individuals unwittingly draw on centuries old tropes of poverty, degradation, and helplessness of non-Western peoples. Specifically we will use historical descriptions of the encounters between Europeans and Africans in West Africa and South Africa to show how Western assumptions about African societies reveal the contradictions at the root of liberal discourses of aid and development. In this way we will interrogate how “aid” implies the idea of a Western individual, rights-bearing economic subject which has implications for the development of global capitalism. We will also look at case studies from Ghana, Nigeria, and post-Apartheid South Africa to examine the real legacies of human rights and development causes for the people involved. We will look at the dual legacy of British colonial law, and the relationship between customary law and state courts as a primary site for understanding conflicts over rights, citizenship, and the role of the individual in society. We will posit complex historical and cultural ways of understanding particular cases.

Course	HR / ECON 265 Development from the Ground Up: Community-Based Development
Professor	Sanjaya DeSilva
CRN	95270
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:30 -11:50 am OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE / RETHINKING DIFFERENCE

Cross-listed: Environmental Studies, Human Rights, Asian Studies

This course critically examines the concept and practice of community-based (or community-led) development as an alternative to the widely studied top-down theories and policies of development. We begin by asking whether the end goals of “development” are universal outcomes such as income, or outcomes that vary with the values of individuals or communities. Conceptualizations of well-being in Buddhist and Gandhian thinking will be considered to highlight the cross-cultural differences in what constitutes a “good life”. We will develop a broader definition of development as economic, social and political empowerment that allows an individual or a community to achieve whatever it is that they value and desire. We will then examine several grassroots development movements that have focused on empowerment. Two examples are the micro-credit movement that began with the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement of Sri Lanka. We will also attempt to relate the concept of community-based development to the neoclassical paradigm of economics. We will critically examine the impact of market expansion and the consequent erosion of informal exchange relations from the perspective of community empowerment. Several innovative ideas such as fair trade, eco-tourism and micro-credit that attempt to combine community empowerment with market expansion will be studied. Throughout the course, the relationship of community-based development with ecological sustainability and political decentralization will be highlighted.

Prerequisites: Econ 101 or permission of instructor.

Course	HR / HIST 3103 Political Ritual in the Modern World
Professor	Robert Culp
CRN	95302
Schedule	Wed 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 301
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: HISTORY

Cross-list: Asian studies; Anthropology; Global & Int’l Studies Human RightsBastille Day, the US presidential inaugural, Japan’s celebration of victory in the Russo-Japanese War, pageants reenacting the Bolshevik Revolution, and rallies at Nuremberg and at Tian’anmen Square. In all these forms and many others, political ritual has been central to nation-building, colonialism, and political movements over the last three centuries. This course uses a global, comparative perspective to analyze the modern history of political ritual. We will explore the emergence of new forms of political ritual with the rise of the nation-state in the nineteenth century and track global transformations in the performance of politics as colonialism spread the symbols and pageantry of the nation-state. Central topics will include state ritual and the performance of power, the relationship between ritual and citizenship in the modern nation-state, the ritualization of politics in social and political movements, and the role of mass spectacle in the construction of both fascism and state socialism. Seminar meetings will focus on discussion of secondary and primary materials that allow us to analyze the intersection of ritual and politics in a variety of contexts. These will range from early-modern Europe, pre-colonial Bali, and late imperial China to revolutionary France, 19th century America, colonial India, semi-colonial China, nationalist Japan, fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, the USSR, Europe in 1968, and contemporary Syria. In addition to common readings and seminar participation, students will write a final seminar paper exploring one aspect or instance of political ritual. Moderated history students can use this course for a major conference. This course may be taken in conjunction with Anthropology 327.

Course	HR / LIT 3207 Responsibility and Cultural Memory
Professor	Nancy Leonard
CRN	95012
Schedule	Mon 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 310
Distribution	OLD: A/B	NEW: HUM

Cross listed: Human Rights and Integrated Arts

A seminar that explores how personal narrative, monuments and memorials, and photography document and produce the memory of trauma, at once vividly present and inevitably dependent on our ethical response for its very existence. War, torture, suffering, violence: the memory of trauma is cultural memory, so that struggles over testimony, memorials and sites of suffering articulate the haunting of the present by what is not visible, not yet expressed about the past. We will talk through some issues of human rights, drawing on the discourses of politics, the media, aesthetics and psychoanalysis. We will read theoretical texts by Benjamin, Agamben, Blanchot, Caruth, Felman, Alcava, Baer, and LaCapra. Case studies will include narratives by Holocaust survivors such as Szpilman (author of the novel on which The Pianist was based) and Levi; and from survivors of the “desaparecidos” of Latin America. We will explore the complexities of response and representation to a variety of visually powerful material, from photographs of Civil War battlegrounds and Holocaust sites, to public monuments and films. Upper College standing is assumed.

Course	HR / SOC 335 Law and Society: The Impact of Law and Legal Institutions on the Economy, Social Organization and Social Movements
Professor	Nathan Newman
CRN	95162
Schedule	Mon 1:30 – 3:50 pm OLIN 303
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

Cross-listed: Human Rights

Many analysts treat the law as an outgrowth of existing institutions, whether reflecting existing class power in Marxist formulations or the balance of interest groups in pluralistic conceptions of government. This course, however, will reverse the causal arrow to understand how the existence of particular legal structures reshape economic institutions and limit the options for peaceful social change. Starting with core texts on the sociology of law, including Max Weber and Jurgen Habermas, the class will ask what law is and what law’s role in society should be, including the nature of bureaucracy created under those legal structures. We will then turn to writers who detail competing conceptions of why and whether courts should be given independent power separate from democratic institutions, both at common law and through constitutional review. The course will then examine three major themes of the effect of law on society: the structure of the economy, race and racism, and the role of women in society. A strong emphasis in the course will be understanding not just the static effects of the law but also the constraints put on the ability of social movements to effect democratic change to contest those legal structures.

Course	HR / PS 337 Bowling Leagues and NGO’s: Civil Society in World Politics
Professor	Omar Encarnacion
CRN	95457
Schedule	Tu 9:30 – 11:50 am OLIN 203
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

Cross-listed: Global & Int’l Studies, Human Rights

PIE Core Course

This seminar examines the politics of civil society at home and abroad. It explores, first, debates over the meaning of civil society and related terminology such as "social capital" and "civic engagement," and the importance of civil society organizations, from civic associations to protest groups, to democratic performance and stability. The seminar then looks at the configuration of civil society across a wide range of states, from the United States to Western Europe to Latin America to the post-Communist world. The aim is to compare and contrast how civil society affects the nature and quality of democracy in different countries. The final part of the seminar examines the economic and political effects of what has been termed "global civil society,” from the Internet to the rise of international NGOs. Readings include Omar G. Encarnación, The Myth of Civil Society: Social Capital and Democratic Consolidation in Spain and Brazil (2003), Bob Edwards and Michael W. Foley, ed., Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate in Comparative Perspective (2001), Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (1992), Grzegotz Ekiert and Jan Kubik, Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland (1999), and Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikking, Activists Without Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (1998).

Course	HR / ARTH 357 Documentary Photography
Professor	Luc Sante
CRN	95387
Schedule	Th 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 301
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS

Cross-listed: Human Rights

Photography may not always tell the truth, but a photograph is helpless not to give away certain truths about the time it records. This course will, first of all, trace the evolution of documentary photography from 1839 to the present--photojournalism, travel and exploration photography, evidentiary photography, street photography, and the subjective hybrids practiced by artists such as Robert Frank and Diane Arbus. It will consider how formal conventions have affected content in various photographic practices that present themselves as documentary, and ask whether many former hallmarks of verity have not been fatally compromised. Throughout we will engage in reading photographs, less like critics than like detectives. One paper or presentation will be required halfway through, and a take-home exam at the end of the term.

Course	HR / PHIL 357 Law and Ethics
Professor	William Griffith / Alan Sussman
CRN	95019
Schedule	Tu 1:30 -3:50 pm ASP 302
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: HUMANITIES

Cross-listed: Human Rights

This course will combine elements of two disciplines, law and philosophy, and will be taught jointly by a member of the philosophy program and a constitutional lawyer. Issues to be studied, broadly conceived, include justice, equality, liberty, and responsibility. More specifically, these will include affirmative action, sexuality, the death penalty, the right to die, and the insanity defense. We shall study opinions of the United States Supreme Court, and judges on Circuit Courts, as well as works by philosophers, including Aristotle, J. S. Mill, John Rawls, H. L. A. Hart, Lon Fuller, Isaiah Berlin, and Ronald Dworkin. Enrollment limited to 15. Permission of instructor required. Priority for admission will be given to students with upper-college standing and/or a previous course in philosophy.

Course	HR / PS 358 Radical American Democracy from Emerson to Arendt
Professor	Roger Berkowitz
CRN	95407
Schedule	Tu 4:00 – 6:20 pm OLIN 303
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

This seminar is an exploration of radical American democracy. While most characterizations of democracy see it as a form of government, this course explores the essence of democracy as a specifically modern way of life. To do so, it turns to some great thinkers of American democracy such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Ralph Ellison, W. E. B. DuBois, and Hannah Arendt. What unites these radical democrats is the conviction that democracy is a practice of individuals rather than an institutional form of governance. As an ideal of radical individualism, American democratic thought offers, perhaps surprisingly, an aristocratic critique of the limits of democratic government even as it, seen from another side, makes possible our culture of narcissistic consumerism. Out aim is to understand the democratic spirit of radical individualism that has proven so seductive and powerful since its modern birth in the American revolution. Texts will include Emerson’s essays The American Scholar and Experience, Thoreau’s Walden, Ellison’s Invisible Man and Arendt’s On Revolution.

Additional courses cross-listed in Human Rights:

Course	HR / PS 104 Introduction to International Relations
Professor	TBA
CRN	95460
Schedule	Wed Fr 3:00 – 4:20 pm HEG 300
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

See Political Studies section for description.

Course	HR / HIST 167 The History of Sexuality
Professor	George Robb
CRN	95449
Schedule	Wed 1:30 – 4:20 pm ALBEE 106
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: HISTORY

See History section for description.

Course	HR / HIST 2032 Indochine
Professor	Tabetha Ewing
CRN	95399
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 203
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: HISTORY

See History section for description.

Course	HR / HIST 237 The Sixties
Professor	Mark Lytle
CRN	95297
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 203
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: HISTORY

See History section for description.

Course	HIST 2500 From Sun-Tzu to Suicide Bombing: The Evolution and Practice of Military Strategy, Tactics, and Ethics from Ancient Times to the Present
Professor	Caleb Carr
CRN	95484
Schedule	Mon Wed 7:00 – 8:20 pm OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: HISTORY

See History section for description.

Course	HR / HIST 280A American Environmental History I
Professor	Andrew Needham
CRN	95299
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: HISTORY

See History section for description.

Course	HR / PS 115 Introduction to Political Thinking
Professor	Roger Berkowitz
CRN	95193
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:30 -11:50 am OLIN 101
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

See Political Studies section for description.

Course	HR / PS 258 Strategies of Political and Social Change
Professor	Pierre Ostiguy
CRN	95459
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 – 4:20 pm OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

See Political Studies section for description.

Course	REL / HIST 160 Narrating Modern Middle East
Professor	Nerina Rustomji
CRN	95290
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 -11:50 am OLIN 301
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: HUMANITIES

See Religion section for description.

Course	HR / SOC 203 The History of Sociological Thought
Professor	Michael Donnelly
CRN	95157
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 -11:50 am OLIN 205
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

See Sociology section for description.

Course	HR / SOC 304 Contemporary Sociological Theory
Professor	Michael Donnelly
CRN	95160
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm OLIN 307
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

See Sociology section for description.

Course	HR / ANTH 350 Contemporary Cultural Theory
Professor	Yuka Suzuki
CRN	95284
Schedule	Th 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 101
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: HUMANITIES / RETHINKING DIFFERENCE

See Anthropology section for description.