Course	HR 210 The Great Dictators
Professor	Ian Buruma
CRN	17498
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00-4:20 pm Olin 204
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: HIST

Cross-listed: Global & Int’l. Studies; PIE core courseBy the end of the 20th century, many dictators had been deposed, had stepped down, or died: Chairman Mao, the Shah of Iran, Ferdinand Marcos, 'Baby' Doc, Emperor Bokassa, General Pinochet, and more. New ones have been slow to emerge. This seminar will investigate whether we have seen the last of the great dictators, or whether they will reemerge, and if so, in what form. We will review the history of great dictators, starting with the first emperor of China, Qin Shih Huangdi, and ending with the post-colonial dictators in our own time. We will read history, as well as literature, to provide a picture of what kinds of strongmen ruled in different times and cultures, and how they have gone down in history. We would also look at the reasons why people allowed themselves to be ruled by priest-kings, Big Daddies, Fuehrers, and other types of dictator. This will be an investigation into political legitimacy: religious, nationalistic, cultural, economic, and so forth. By looking at dictators of the past, the seminar also seeks to offer a sharper sense of contemporary politics, its dangers and pitfalls. This should lead to discussions - more topical than ever now - on how to defend democratic freedoms, on the dangers of media monopolies, and on the nature of human rights in different historical and cultural contexts.

Course	HR / LIT 218 Free Speech
Professor	Thomas Keenan
CRN	17392
Schedule	Mon Wed 12:00-1:20 pm Olin 204
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: HUM

Cross-listed: Human Rights (core course)

An introduction to the intersections between literature and human rights, from the Greeks to the French Revolution, Salman Rushdie, hate speech and torture. The course will examine the ways in which rights, language, and public space have been linked together in ideas about democracy. What is 'freedom of speech'? Is there a right to say anything? We will investigate who has had this right, where it has come from, and what it has had to do with literature. Why have poetry and fiction always been privileged examples of freedom and its defense? What powers does speech have, who has the power to speak, and for what? Is an encounter with the fact of language, which belongs to no one and can be appropriated by anyone, at the heart of democracy? In asking about the status of the speaking human subject, we will ask about the ways in which the subject of rights, and indeed the thought of human rights itself, derives from a 'literary' experience. These questions will be examined, if not answered, across a variety of literary, philosophical, legal and political texts, including case studies and readings in contemporary critical and legal theory (Foucault, Derrida, Butler, Spivak, Fish, Agamben).

Course	HR 321 New Orleans after the Disaster II
Professor	TBA
CRN	17558
Schedule	TBA
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: Humanities / Rethinking Difference

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Course	ANTH 233 Problems in Human Rights
Professor	John Ryle
CRN	17465
Schedule	Mon Wed 9:00 - 10:20 am OLIN 310
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Social Science

Cross-listed: Human Rights (core course)

The global expansion of the human rights movement has been accompanied by a high degree of professionalization in research and advocacy and an expanding body of rights doctrine. But the ascendancy of human rights discourse has not gone unchallenged. The course approaches current debates about rights through an examination of the problems faced and techniques developed in specific campaigns - from the nineteenth-century anti-slavery campaign to the landmine ban campaign of the 1990s. The course has a practical bias. How are human rights reports written?  How do human rights organizations measure their success?  What is the difference in approach between different organizations, e.g. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Committee of the Red Cross?  The course considers the challenges to the western discourse of human rights posed by such issues as child soldiers and female genital cutting. When, if ever, are indigenous values more important than universal principles?  It looks at the question of genocide and the failure of international action in Rwanda and Sudan.  And it considers the current embrace of human rights discourse by the evangelical Christian movement and its relation to the original anti-slavery campaign. What is the relation of human rights to religious values?  Has human rights itself become a kind of religion?  Finally, what are the limits of rights? Do animals have rights?  Which animals?  And what rights?  

Course	ANTH 261 Anthropology of Violence and Suffering
Professor	Laura Kunreuther
CRN	17013
Schedule	Tu Th 4:00 -5:20 pm OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: Humanities / Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Human Rights (core course)

Why do acts of violence continue to grow in the ‘modern’ world? In what ways has violence become naturalized in the contemporary world? In this course, we will consider how acts of violence challenge and support modern ideas of humanity, raising important questions about what it means to be human today. These questions lie at the heart of anthropological thinking and also structure contemporary discussions of human rights. Anthropology’s commitment to “local culture” and cultural diversity has meant that anthropologists often position themselves in critical opposition to “universal values,” which have been used to address various forms of violence in the contemporary world. The course will approach different forms of violence, including ethnic and communal conflicts, colonial education, torture and its individualizing effects, acts of terror and institutionalized fear, and rituals of bodily pain that mark individuals’ inclusion or exclusion from a social group. The course is organized around three central concerns. First, we will discuss violence as a means of producing and consolidating social and political power, and exerting political control. Second, we will look at forms of violence that have generated questions about “universal rights” of humanity versus culturally specific practices, such as widow burning in India and female genital mutilation in postcolonial Africa. In these examples, we explore gendered dimensions in the experience of violence among perpetrators, victims, and survivors. Finally, we will look at the ways human rights institutions have sought to address the profundity of human suffering and pain, and ask in what ways have they succeeded and/or failed. Readings will range from theoretical texts, anthropological ethnographies, as well as popular representations of violence in the media and film. This course fulfills a core class requirement for the Human Rights program. On-line registration

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Course	ANTH 213 Anthropology of Medicine
Professor	Diana Brown
CRN	17225
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 107
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: Social Science

Course	ANTH 270 Gender and Feminism in Anthropology
Professor	Megan Callaghan
CRN	17010
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Social Science

Course	ANTH 278 The State in Sub-Saharan Africa
Professor	Mario Bick
CRN	17009
Schedule	Tu Th 9:00 - 10:20 am OLIN 107
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Social Science

Course	ANTH 279 Islam and Europe
Professor	Jeffrey Jurgens
CRN	17012
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 305
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: Social Science / Rethinking Difference

Course	ANTH 280 The Edge of Anthropology
Professor	John Ryle
CRN	17466
Schedule	Mon Wed 12:00 - 1:20 pm OLIN 310
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Social Science

Course	ARTH 235 Tale of Two Cities
Professor	Noah Chasin / Ivan Sablin (Smolny)
CRN	17368
Schedule	Tu Th 10:00 - 11:20 am HDR 302
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Art

Course	ARTH 247 Photography 1950-Present From “Human Documents” to the Image World
Professor	Laurie Dahlberg
CRN	17371
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:30 - 11:50 am Fisher Annex
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Art

Cross listed: Human Rights, Photography, Science, Technology & Society

In the decades after World War II, photography’s social and artistic roles changed in many ways. The 1950s saw the dominance of magazine photography in Life and Look and witnessed the birth of a more personal photographic culture, exemplified by Robert Frank’s book The Americans. In the 1960s and 1970s, photographers such as Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and Lee Friedlander created a new view of contemporary life from moments gathered in the streets and from private lives. Beginning in the late 70s, artists trained outside of traditional photography began to employ the camera for wholly different purposes, using photography to pose ideological questions about images and image-making in a media-saturated culture. Today, the transformation of photography through digital technology has again thrown the meaning(s) of photographically-derived images into question. This lecture/discussion class will cover the historical context of this period and tease out fundamental issues of photography and its ostensible “nature” and the politics of representation. Student performance will be evaluated in class discussion, exams, and papers. No prerequisites, but preference ill be given to moderated photography and moderated art history students. On-line registration

Course	ANTH 348 Discipline, Punishment, and the Embodied Self in China
Professor	Angela Zito
CRN	17182
Schedule	Mon 3:00 – 5:20 pm OLIN 101
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Social Science / Rethinking Difference

Course	CEP 308 Tools for Analysis: Geographic Information Systems
Professor	Mark Becker
CRN	17190
Schedule	Wed 12:00 -2:30 pm ALBEE / HDR
Distribution	OLD: E	NEW: Social Science

Cross-listed: Science, Technology & Society

2 credits.This course, offered in cooperation with the Bard Center for Environmental Policy (BCEP) is designed to provide students with a comprehensive review of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and remote sensing technologies as they apply to many environmental fields. Students will learn the fundamental theory underlying the structure and use of GIS. Through a mixture of lectures, readings and hands-on exercises, students will acquire an understanding of the structure of spatial data and databases, basic cartographic principles, how to conduct spatial analysis and the methods for developing sound practices for GIS project design and management. The course will focus on examples of how GIS and related geo-technologies are used in conservation planning, environmental management, and urban/regional planning. Open to Upper College (moderated) students; permission of the director of BCEP ([email protected]) is required.

Course	ECON 115 Economic Dimensions of World Issues
Professor	Sanjaya DeSilva
CRN	17022
Schedule	Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 101 Fr 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Social Science

Course	ECON 252 Law and Economics
Professor	Tsu-Yu Tsao
CRN	17185
Schedule	Mon Wed 7:00 -8:20 pm OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: A/E	NEW: Social Science

Course	FILM 235 Video Installation
Professor	Les LeVeque
CRN	17489
Schedule	Wed 9:00 - 12:00 pm AVERY 116 / 333
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

This production course will investigate the historical and critical practice known as video installation as a vehicle for activating student composed projects. Since the beginning of video art artists have experimented with installation. Wolf Vostell and Nam June Paik’s use of multiple monitors in the 1960’s, Joan Jonas’ incorporation of video with live performance, Juan Downey and Steina’s experiments with interactive laser discs, the use of live feeds, large and small video projections on walls and objects, imply complex shifts of narrative composition as well as temporal and spatial relationships. Through readings and screenings our discussions will examine this diffuse practice. Students will be encouraged to explore high and low tech solutions to their audio visual desires and should be prepared to imagine the campus as their canvas. Prerequisite: Introduction to the Moving Image: Video/Film.

Course	FILM 253 Political Video
Professor	Les LeVeque
CRN	17490
Schedule	Wed 1:30 – 4:40 pm AVERY 217
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

This video production class will investigate the work of film and video artists who have found it necessary to produce work that is critical of a specific social or political situation.  Whether didactic, subversive, agit-prop, rant, provocation or documentation these works employ inventive solutions to visual aesthetics and narrative structure that rephrase normalized notions of communication and spectatorship. Throughout the semester we will engage in an examination of these practices, past and present, through the screenings of a wide range of experimental film and video art including Guy Debord, Jonas Mekas, Carolee Schneemann, Martha Rosler, Antonio Muntadas, Yvonne Rainer, Harun Farocki, Not Channel Zero, Craig Baldwin, The Atlas Group, Byran Boyce, Critical Art Ensemble, Tony Cokes, and Speculative Archive.  Assigned readings of historical and theoretical texts will augment the screenings and class discussions.  Students will be expected to apply these investigations to the production of three video projects. Prerequisite: Introduction to the Moving Image: Video.

Course	HIST 1001 Revolution
Professor	Robert Culp / Gregory Moynahan
CRN	17032
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 205
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Course	HIST 141 A Haunted Union: Twentieth Century Germany and the Unification of Europe
Professor	Gregory Moynahan
CRN	17042
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 305
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Course	HIST 2301 China in the Eyes of the West
Professor	Robert Culp
CRN	17221
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 205
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History / Rethinking Difference

Course	HIST 3105 Migration & Identity in the Modern World
Professor	Lia Paradis
CRN	17226
Schedule	Wed 9:30 -11:50 am OLIN 301
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Course	HIST 3142 Violence in Colonial America
Professor	Christian Crouch
CRN	17220
Schedule	Th 4:00 – 6:20 pm OLIN 310
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Course	HIST 3143 Perspectives of War: The Pacific War Through Japanese and American Eyes
Professor	Ian Buruma
CRN	17503
Schedule	Tu 1:30 – 3:50 pm OLIN 307
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Course	HIST 3235 War, Old Media & Performance
Professor	Tabetha Ewing
CRN	17223
Schedule	Fr 9:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 310
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Course	HIST/ SOC 3335 America, its Jews & Israel
Professor	Joel Perlmann
CRN	17246
Schedule	Th 4:00 -6:20 pm OLIN 203
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History / Rethinking Difference

Course	LIT 2159 Into the Whirlwind: Literary Greatness and Gambles under Soviet Rule
Professor	Jonathan Brent
CRN	17382
Schedule	Tu 7:00-9:20 pm Olin 202
Distribution	OLD: B	NEW: Literature in English

Course	LIT 2192 Queer Theory
Professor	Nancy Leonard
CRN	17506
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 – 2:20 pm Olin 310
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: Humanities / Rethinking Difference

Course	CLAS / LIT 230 “Like Strangers in Our Own City": Life and Literature in the Late Roman Republic, 78-43 BC
Professor	Benjamin Stevens
CRN	17044
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30-3:50 pm Olin 202
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature & Culture

Course	LIT 238 Modern African Fiction
Professor	Chinua Achebe
CRN	17381
Schedule	Wed 1:30-3:50 pm Olin 101
Distribution	OLD: B	NEW: Literature in English

Course	LIT 2882 Different Voices, Different Views
Professor	Justus Rosenberg
CRN	17396
Schedule	Mon Wed 9:00- 10:20 am Olin 203
Distribution	OLD: B	NEW: Literature in English

Course	LIT 328 Ideology and Politics in Modern Literature
Professor	Justus Rosenberg
CRN	17397
Schedule	Wed 1:30-3:50 pm Aspinwall 302
Distribution	OLD: B/C	NEW: Literature in English

Course	LIT 3310 Middle Eastern Literature and Post-Colonial Theory
Professor	Youssef Yacoubi
CRN	17404
Schedule	Tu Th 9:00- 10:20 am Olin 308
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Literature in English/ Rethinking Difference

Course	LIT 3364 The Slave Narrative
Professor	Mathew Johnson
CRN	17391
Schedule	Tu 4:00-6:20 pm Olin 202
Distribution	OLD: B	NEW: Literature in English/ Rethinking Difference

Course	LIT 3209 Media and Conflict
Professor	Thomas Keenan
CRN	17393
Schedule	Tu 4:00-6:20 pm Olin 309
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: HUM

Course	PHIL 220 Relativism
Professor	David Shein
CRN	17216
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 303
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

Course	PHIL 255 Medical Ethics
Professor	Daniel Berthold
CRN	17214
Schedule	Mon Wed 9:00 - 10:20 am ASP 302
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

Course	PS 104 International Relations
Professor	Jonathan Cristol
CRN	17517
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 - 4:20 pm HEG 201
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: Social Science

Course	PS 130 Introduction to Chinese Politics
Professor	Nara Dillon
CRN	17051
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: Social Science / Rethinking Difference

Course	PS 218 Theories of the Self, Gender Politics and Anti-Racism
Professor	Elaine Thomas
CRN	17227
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 101
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Social Science / Rethinking Difference

Course	PS 266 Holy War and Sacred Peace: Religious Conflict in the 21st Century
Professor	Walter Mead
CRN	17228
Schedule	Th 7:00 – 9:20 pm OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: Social Science

Course	PS 267 Foundations of Law
Professor	Roger Berkowitz
CRN	17468
Schedule	Mon Wed 12:00 -1:20 pm OLIN 205
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: Social Science

Course	PS 329 Popular Protest in the Modern World
Professor	Nara Dillon
CRN	17052
Schedule	Th 4:00 -6:20 pm OLIN 107
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: Social Science

Course	PS 380 Advanced Topics in Political and Legal Thinking
Professor	Roger Berkowitz
CRN	17230
Schedule	Tu 4:00 -6:20 pm OLIN 304
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: Social Science

Course	PSY 215 Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Professor	Matt Newman
CRN	17233
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: C/E	NEW: Social Science/ Rethinking Difference

Course	REL 321 Seminar in Islamic Law: Jihad
Professor	Ismail Acar
CRN	17176
Schedule	Wed 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 205
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: Humanities / Rethinking Difference

Course	SOC 120 Inequality in America
Professor	Yuval Elmelech
CRN	17239
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 203
Distribution	OLD: C/E	NEW: Social Science/ Rethinking Difference

Course	SOC 203 The History of Sociological Thought
Professor	Michael Donnelly
CRN	17240
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am PRE 128
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: Social Science

Course	SOC 205 Introduction to Research Methods
Professor	Yuval Elmelech
CRN	17241
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 203
Distribution	OLD: E/G/Q	NEW: Mathematics and Computing

Course	SOC 246 Race & Ethnicity: The Key Concepts
Professor	Amy Ansell
CRN	17242
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 301
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: Social Science/ Rethinking Difference

Course	SOC 332 Seminar on Social Problems
Professor	Yuval Elmelech
CRN	17243
Schedule	Wed 9:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 305
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: Social Science

Course	SOC 338 Welfare States in Comparative Perspective
Professor	Michael Donnelly
CRN	17244
Schedule	Wed 1:30 -3:50 pm PRE 101
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: Social Science