Course	HR 101 Introduction to Human Rights
Professor	Thomas Keenan
CRN	97483
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 – 4:20 RKC 102
Distribution	Humanities / Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: GISP, SRE

Human Rights Core Course

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	HR 230 Dreaming Utopia: The Theory and Practice of Ideal Worlds
Professor	Mark Danner
CRN	97540
Schedule	Mon 1:30 – 2:50 pm OLIN 310 Tu 1:00 – 2:20 pm OLIN 107
Distribution	Social Science

Since Plato and before, writers and thinkers have conjured pictures of ideal society and contrasted these glittering dreams with the reality they found around them. Such "utopias" - or "no places," to use the word coined by Sir Thomas More nearly two millenia after Plato - served as a philosophical critique of the present and millenarian aspiration for the future, and, in the hands of some more ambitious, charismatic and sometimes ruthless dreamers, as a model for radical social experiments in the here and now. In this class we will study some of the landmark works in the history of utopia and dystopia, including writing by More, Owen, Fourier, Marx, Bellamy, Welles, London and Orwell, and examine the provocative and sometimes catastrophic embodiment of the utopian ideal in the so-called "real world" (from the Oneida Community and Jonestown to the Soviet Gulags, the reeducation camps of Pol Pot and the New Caliphate of the Islamists).

Course	ANTH 262 Colonialism, Law, and Human Rights in Africa
Professor	Jesse Shipley
CRN	97129
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm OLIN 204
Distribution	Social Science /Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; GISP; Human Rights (core course)

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	ARTH 240 Beyond Sovereignty: Topics in Human Rights & Urbanism
Professor	Noah Chasin
CRN	97354
Schedule	Tu Th 4:00 -5:20 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Human Rights (core course)

The course will explore the often-contested terrain of urban contexts, looking at cities from architectural, sociological, historical, and political positions. What do rights have to do with the city? Can the ancient idea of a "right to the city" tell us something fundamental about both rights and cities? Our notion of citizenship is based in the understanding of a city as a community, and yet today why do millions of people live in cities without citizenship? The course will be organized thematically in order to discuss such issues as the consequences of cities' developments in relation to their peripheries (beginning with the normative idea of urban boundaries deriving from fortifying walls), debates around the public sphere, nomadic architecture and urbanism, informal settlements such as slums and shantytowns, surveillance and control in urban centers, refugees and the places they live, catastrophes (natural and man-made) and reconstruction, and sovereign areas within cities (the United Nations, War Crimes Tribunals). Students will do two position papers and one research paper. Admittance is at the professor’s discretion.

Course	HR / LIT 325 Roguery, Debauchery and War: A Thieves’ Journey through the Picaresque
Professor	Mark Danner
CRN	97539
Schedule	Tues 9:30 – 11:50 am OLIN 102
Distribution	Literature in English

The novel is a motley form and in its modern incarnation was spawned in thievery and disrepute: rogues spinning tall tales of roguery; hapless, cunning heroes conniving their way through the most violent, war-torn landscapes as they contrive the most preposterous adventures. We will trace these tales - to which we have given the broad name picaresque - back to their start in the late sixteenth century on the Iberian peninsula, in the hands of the anonymous author of Lazarillo de Tormes. We will follow their spread, in the first great popular publishing phenomenon, northward through Europe. Finally, we will have a look at the picaresque in its modern form, peculiarly adapted as it is to telling the fragmented story of the war-torn twentieth century. Readings will include works by Petronius, Cervantes, Quevedo, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, Celine, Grass, Bellow and Kosinski, among others.

(Descriptions of courses cross-listed in Human Rights are found in the primary course section.)

Course	ANTH 201A Gender and Social Inequalities in Latin America
Professor	Diana Brown
CRN	97457
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 201
Distribution	Social Science / Rethinking Difference

Course	ANTH 267 Middle Eastern Diasporas
Professor	Jeffrey Jurgens
CRN	97128
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 305
Distribution	Social Science / Rethinking Difference

Course	ANTH 350 Contemporary Cultural Theory
Professor	Yuka Suzuki
CRN	97133
Schedule	Wed 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 305
Distribution	Humanities /Rethinking Difference

Course	ARTH 269 Revolution, Social Change, and Art in Latin America
Professor	Susan Aberth
CRN	97166
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm PRE 110
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

Course	ECON 221 Economics of Developing Countries
Professor	Sanjaya DeSilva
CRN	97119
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 204
Distribution	Social Science

Course	GER 410 Revolution in German Literature
Professor	Florian Becker
CRN	97088
Schedule	Tu Th 4:00 -5:20 pm OLINLC 118
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature & Culture

Course	HIST 130 Origins of American Citizen
Professor	Christian Crouch
CRN	97011
Schedule	Mon Wed 12 noon-1:20 pm OLIN 205
Distribution	History

Course	HIST 2124 Wars of Mass Deception: Vietnam and Iraq
Professor	Mark Lytle
CRN	97017
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 204
Distribution	History

Course	HIST / SOC 214 American Immigration
Professor	Joel Perlmann
CRN	97020
Schedule	Tu Th 4:00 -5:20 pm OLIN 203
Distribution	Social Science /Rethinking Difference

Course	HIST 245 History of East Central Europe since WWII
Professor	Gennady Shkliarevsky
CRN	97023
Schedule	Tu Th 4:00 -5:20 pm OLIN 205
Distribution	History

Course	HIST 280A American Environmental History I
Professor	Mark Lytle
CRN	97016
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 201
Distribution	History

Course	HIST 3121 The Case for Liberties
Professor	Alice Stroup
CRN	97027
Schedule	Mon 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 308
Distribution	History

Course	HIST 3123 The Law & Theory of War: From Agincourt to the Global War on Terror
Professor	Peter Maguire
CRN	97018
Schedule	Th 9:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 307
Distribution	History

Course	HIST 371 The Civil Rights Movement
Professor	Myra Armstead
CRN	97010
Schedule	Mon 9:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 204
Distribution	History / Rethinking Difference

Course	LIT 2015 American Indian Fictions
Professor	Geoffrey Sanborn
CRN	97064
Schedule	Wed Fr 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 203
Distribution	Literature in English

Course	LIT 2270 Political Theologies
Professor	Nancy Leonard
CRN	97052
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 310
Distribution	Humanities

Course	PHIL 251 Ethical Theory
Professor	William Griffith
CRN	97160
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am ASP 302
Distribution	Humanities

Course	PS 104 International Relations
Professor	Augustine Hungwe
CRN	97169
Schedule	Mon Wed 9:00 – 10:20 am ASP 302
Distribution	Social Science

Course	PS 104 B International Relations
Professor	Sanjib Baruah
CRN	97170
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am RKC 200
Distribution	Social Science

Course	PS 239 United Nations and Model UN
Professor	Jonathan Becker
CRN	97177
Schedule	Wed 4:30 -5:50 pm OLIN 201
Distribution	N/A

Course	PS 247 American Foreign Policy Tradition
Professor	Walter Mead
CRN	97009
Schedule	Th 7:00 -9:20 pm OLIN 202
Distribution	History

Course	PS 268 Revenge and the Law
Professor	Roger Berkowitz
CRN	97176
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 201
Distribution	Social Science

Course	PS 274 Politics of Globalization
Professor	Sanjib Baruah
CRN	97175
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm OLIN 304
Distribution	Social Science

Course	SOC 205 Introduction to Research Methods
Professor	Yuval Elmelech
CRN	97208
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 301 HDRANX 106
Distribution	Mathematics & Computing

Course	SOC 242 Historical Sociology of Punishment
Professor	Michael Donnelly
CRN	97209
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 101
Distribution	Social Science / Rethinking Difference

Course	SOC 304 Modern Sociological Theory
Professor	Michael Donnelly
CRN	97210
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm OLIN 306
Distribution	Social Science

Course	SPAN 240 Testimonies of Latin America: Perspectives from the Margins
Professor	Nicole Caso
CRN	97034
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 203
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature & Culture /Rethinking Difference

Course	SPAN 340 Cervantes' Don Quixote
Professor	Gabriela Carrion
CRN	97033
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 – 2:50 pm OLIN 303
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature & Culture

Course	SPAN 357 Writing Toward Hope: The Literature of Human Rights in Latin America
Professor	Nicole Caso
CRN	97107
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -3:50 pm OLINLC 206
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature & Culture /Rethinking Difference