Course |
HR 101 Introduction to Human Rights |
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Professor |
Thomas Keenan |
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CRN |
90179 |
|
Schedule |
Mon Wed 12:00 -1:20 pm ASP
302 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW:
Humanities / Rethinking Difference
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Cross-listed: GISP, SRE
An intensive introduction to contemporary
discussions of human rights in a broad context. The course mixes a basic
historical and theoretical investigation of these contested categories, 'human'
and 'right,' with some difficult examples of the political, social, cultural,
and aesthetic dimensions of claims made in these terms. What are humans and
what count as rights, if any? We will ask about the foundations of rights
claims; about legal, political, non-violent and violent ways of advancing,
defending and enforcing them; about the documents and institutions of the human
rights movement; and about the questionable 'reality' of human rights in our
world. Is there such a thing as 'our' world? The answers are not obvious. They
are most complicated when we are talking, as we will for most of the semester,
about torture (from the ancient world to Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib),
so-called humanitarian intervention (from Somalia and Bosnia to Iraq and
Darfur), truth commissions and war crimes tribunals (Milosevic, Hussein, South
Africa, Peru), testimony and information (from Shoah to the CNN effect) and the
challenges to human rights orthodoxy posed by terrorism and the wars against
it. Using The Face of Human Rights (Walter Kalin) as our primary text,
along with work in philosophy, history, literature, politics, and with the
contemporary news flow, we will examine some tricky cases and troubled places,
among them our own.
Course |
ARTH 289 Rights and the Image |
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Professor |
Susan Merriam |
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CRN |
90321 |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am Fisher Annex |
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Distribution |
OLD: A |
NEW: Analysis
of Art
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Cross-listed: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Human Rights(Core Course)
This course examines the relationship between
visual culture and human rights. It considers a wide range of visual media, as
well as aspects of visuality (surveillance, profiling). The course is taught
using case studies ranging in time from the early modern period (practices in
which the body was marked to register criminality, for example) to the present
day (the images at Abu Ghraib). Within this framework, we will study how
aspects of visual culture have been used to advocate for human rights, as well
as how images and visual regimes have been used to suppress human rights. An
important part of the course will consider the role played by reception in
shaping a discourse around human rights, visuality, and images. Subjects to be
addressed include: evidence; documentation and witness; the aestheticization of
violence; disaster pornography; censorship; surveillance; profiling; advocacy
images; signs on the body; visibility and invisibility. Requirements include
response papers, a research paper, and two exams. Prerequisite: permission of
the instructor.
Course |
HR 320 New Orleans After the Disaster |
|
Professor |
Kristina Ford / Daniel Karpowitz |
|
CRN |
90462 |
|
Schedule |
Thurs 6:00 – 8:20 pm OLIN 204 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: Humanities
/ Rethinking Difference
|
An interdisciplinary, year-long seminar focused on
some of the issues raised by the destruction of New Orleans after hurricanes
Katrina and Rita. The fall seminar will examine the transitional city and its
rebuilding through the lenses of human rights and urbanism. It will start
with the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of a city's
formation -- how land is used and why; how neighborhoods and groups of citizens
evolve into recognizable entities; how decisions about a city's future are
made; how fundamentally important factors of a city's existence are taken for
granted. We'll then consider these same dimensions in the aftermath of
destruction and rebuilding. Many of the central questions are sufficiently broad
as to lead us to other examples beyond New Orleans. Who are the subjects and
agents of the process? How do cities come into existence and how do they
evolve? What areas in a city are vulnerable to catastrophe and why do
citizens live there? How does a natural (or not-so natural) disaster redefine
notions of community, belonging, and property? What are the politics of
rebuilding? Is there a right to return, and if so, what happens when it
meets the demand for environmental sustainability? What roles can history and
memory play in recovering from a catastrophe? What frames of reference do
we have for New Orleans, what are the dominant images and narratives to have
emerged in the last year, and what political force do they have? The
course meets for ten weeks in Annandale and includes a three-week workshop in
New Orleans during the January intersession.
Course |
ANTH 256 Race and Ethnicity in Brazil |
|
Professor |
Mario Bick |
|
CRN |
90010 |
|
Schedule |
Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN
303 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: Social
Science
|
See Anthropology section for description.
Course |
ANTH 343 Middle Eastern Modernities |
|
Professor |
Jeffrey Jurgens |
|
CRN |
90013 |
|
Schedule |
Mon 4:00 -6:20 pm OLIN 203 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: A |
NEW: Social
Science
|
See Anthropology section for description.
Course |
HIST 2112 The Invention of Politics |
|
Professor |
Tabetha Ewing |
|
CRN |
90436 |
|
Schedule |
Tu Th
6:00 -7:20 pm OLIN 201 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
|
See History section for description.
Course |
HIST 2122 The Arab-Israel Conflict |
|
Professor |
Joel Perlmann |
|
CRN |
90023 |
|
Schedule |
Tu Th 4:30 -5:50 pm OLIN 205 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
|
See History section for description.
Course |
HIST 229 Confucianism: Humanity, Rites, and Rights |
|
Professor |
Robert Culp |
|
CRN |
90421 |
|
Schedule |
Mon Wed 12:00
-1:20 pm OLIN 203 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History /
Rethinking Difference
|
See History section for description.
Course |
HIST / CLAS 263 Slavery |
|
Professor |
Myra Armstead / Carolyn Dewald |
|
CRN |
90016 |
|
Schedule |
Mon Wed 10:30
- 11:50 am OLIN 201 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
|
See History section for description.
Course |
HIST 2701 The Holocaust, 1933-1945 |
|
Professor |
Cecile Kuznitz |
|
CRN |
90458 |
|
Schedule |
Tu Th 9:00 – 10:20 am OLIN 205 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
|
See History section for description.
Course |
HIST 3112 PLAGUE! |
|
Professor |
Alice Stroup |
|
CRN |
90028 |
|
Schedule |
Mon
1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 308 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
|
See History section for description.
Course |
HIST / SOC 3125 Immigration and American Society: Racializing and De-racializing the Immigrant, 1880-1940 |
|
Professor |
Joel Perlmann |
|
CRN |
90024 |
|
Schedule |
Wed 7:30 -9:50 pm OLIN 202 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
|
See History section for description.
Course |
HIST 340 The Politics of History |
|
Professor |
Robert Culp |
|
CRN |
90018 |
|
Schedule |
Th 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 303 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
|
See History section for description.
Course |
PS 104 International Relations |
|
Professor |
Sanjib Baruah |
|
CRN |
90086 |
|
Schedule |
Wed Fr 3:00
-4:20 pm OLIN 202 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: Social
Science
|
See Political Studies section for description.
Course |
PS 222 Dependency, Development and Democracy: Latin American Political Economy |
|
Professor |
Omar Encarnacion |
|
CRN |
90054 |
|
Schedule |
Mon Wed
3:00 -4:20 pm OLIN 201 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
|
See Political Studies section for description.
Course |
PS 247 American Foreign Policy Traditions |
|
Professor |
Walter Mead |
|
CRN |
90101 |
|
Schedule |
Th
7:00 -9:20 pm OLIN 202 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
|
See Political Studies section for description.
Course |
PS 258 Strategies of Radical Political and Social Change |
|
Professor |
Pierre Ostiguy |
|
CRN |
90092 |
|
Schedule |
Mon Wed
8:00 -9:20 pm ASP 302 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: Social
Science
|
See Political Studies section for description.
Course |
PS 268 Revenge and the Law |
|
Professor |
Roger Berkowitz |
|
CRN |
90119 |
|
Schedule |
Tu Th
1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 101 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: Social
Science
|
See Political Studies section for description.
Course |
PS 311 Immigration & Citizenship |
|
Professor |
Elaine Thomas |
|
CRN |
90098 |
|
Schedule |
Tu 1:00 -3:20 pm OLIN 303 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW:
|
See Political Studies section for description.
Course |
PS 330 Politics of Democratization |
|
Professor |
Omar Encarnacion |
|
CRN |
90057 |
|
Schedule |
Tu 4:00 – 6:20 pm OLIN 310 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: A/C |
NEW: Social
Science
|
See Political Studies section for description.
Course |
PS 347 Civil Society and Democracy in Africa |
|
Professor |
Geoffrey Nyarota |
|
CRN |
90449 |
|
Schedule |
Th 1:30 – 3:50 pm OLIN 306 |
|
Distribution |
OLD:
C |
NEW: Social
Science
|
See Political Studies section for description.
Course |
SOC 120 Inequality in America |
|
Professor |
Yuval Elmelech |
|
CRN |
90046 |
|
Schedule |
Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN
203 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C/E |
NEW: Social
Science / Rethinking Difference
|
See Sociology section for description.
Course |
SOC 234 Science and Society: Debates on Race and Genetics |
|
Professor |
Amy Ansell |
|
CRN |
90048 |
|
Schedule |
Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 203 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: Social Science
|
See Sociology section for description.
Course |
SOC 242 Historical Sociology of Punishment |
|
Professor |
Michael Donnelly |
|
CRN |
90047 |
|
Schedule |
Mon Wed 12:00 -1:20 pm OLIN
205 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: Social
Science / Rethinking Difference
|
See Sociology section for description.