Course:

HR 105  Human Rights Advocacy: Scholars at Risk

Professor:

Ziad Abu-Rish  

CRN:

90133

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Olin 101

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Global & International Studies

(HRP core course) An introduction to human rights advocacy, with a practical component. Half of the course focuses on the history and theory of human rights advocacy: what is it to make claims for human rights, or to denounce their violation, especially on behalf of others?  How and when and why have individuals and groups spoken out, mounted campaigns, published reports and exposés?  How do they address, challenge, and sometimes work with governments and international organizations like the United Nations? We will look at human rights advocacy from the campaign to abolish the slave trade to the founding of Amnesty International. How has the human rights movement come to be defined by transnational advocacy networks - and how do they in turn define what human rights are?  This half of the course serves as an introduction to human rights work as a mode of legal and political practice. The other half of the course involves hands-on work with the human rights organization Scholars at Risk on the case of a detained Uyghur scholar in China. We will  research her case, communicate with the family and other advocates, write country and case profiles, propose strategies and tactics for pressuring governments and other powerful actors, and develop appeals to public opinion  -- all while recognizing the ethical and political risks this work may involve. Readings include texts by  Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Adam Hochschild, Stephen Hopgood, Judith Butler, Stanley Cohen, Ben Mauk, and others, including an intensive introduction to the politics of Xinjiang and the Uyghur community. Taught in conjunction with parallel seminars at Bard College Berlin and the American University of Central Asia. Information about Scholars at Risk can be found at scholarsatrisk.org.

 

Course:

HR 189  Human Rights to Civil Rights

Professor:

Kwame Holmes 

CRN:

90134

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Africana Studies; American Studies

(HRP core course) For much of the 20th century, Civil Rights activists and Human Rights advocates worked hand-in-hand. Their shared target: state actors and global systems that exploited human bodies and denied human dignity in the name of prejudice, nationalism and profit. Yet in the 1960s, a new wave of social movements representing Black, Feminist, LGBTQ, Chicano, Indigenous and Disabled perspectives shattered this consensus, demanding an identity-based approach to civil rights advocacy and pushing against notions of universal human rights. This seminar will introduce students to the history of this conflict, and allow them to explore for themselves the benefits and/or costs of advocating for social justice through the figure of "the human" or through the filter of identity. Students will be introduced to the foundational writings of identity-based movement leaders, with an eye for their applicability to contemporary struggles over immigration, anti-trans violence, mass incarceration and police violence. We will consider the relative efficacy of direct action, lawsuits, media campaigns and civil disobedience.

 

Course:

PS 207  Global Citizenship

Professor:

Michelle Murray  

CRN:

90021

Schedule:

Mon    Fri   8:30 AM - 9:50 AM Olin 203

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Global & International Studies (Core Course); Human Rights

(HRP core course) What does it mean to be a global citizen? This question has gained increasing salience as the world has become more globalized. With globalization new problems surface that cut across national borders and fall outside the jurisdiction of individual nation-states. In response new forms of political organization have emerged to address these problems, which challenge the state as the primary locus of political authority and ultimate source of individual rights. In particular, these individuals and groups have appealed to a kind of global citizenship from below to call for action on and demand redress for the harms created by globalization. This interdisciplinary course critically examines the conceptual and theoretical foundations of the concept of global citizenship and investigates how the idea might work in practice. We begin by considering the conceptual, philosophical and historical debates about citizenship. What does it mean to be a citizen of a particular state? What obligations and responsibilities accompany citizenship? How have understandings of citizenship changed and expanded over time? What is global citizenship and how does it differ from national citizenship? Next we evaluate these ideas about citizenship in the context of globalization and the new problems created by an increasingly interdependent world. Topics covered may include: migration and refugees; the environment and resources; (in)security and borders; health and infectious disease; and development and inequality. We conclude by assessing the role (if any) global citizenship can play in global governance and consider how the international system might be transformed to better address the challenges of globalization. This course will be taught concurrently at Bard's international partner institutions. Students will benefit from collaboration with peers at these institutions.

 

Course:

HR 221  Queer Subjects of Desire

Professor:

Robert Weston  

CRN:

90249

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     3:50 PM - 5:10 PM Olin 107

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Gender and Sexuality Studies

Over the past two decades, preliminary discourse-shaping debates between proponents of Gay & Lesbian Studies and proponents of Queer Theory have proliferated into a rich array of subfields in the research on gender and sexuality. This course will engage students in some of the core issues that have shaped the widening field of sexuality studies. The course is organized into a series of units, each devoted to a particular approach to the study of sexuality; units vary, but may include: Essentialism v. Constructivism; Gay Historiography/ Is There a History of Sexuality?; Trans-historical & Trans-cultural Patterns of Same-Sex Desire; Homosexualities in Global Perspective; (Homo)sexuality & Race; Desiring Colonialism; (Homo)Sexuality & Terrorism; The Homoerotics of War; Homonationalism; Desiring Capitalism

 

Course:

HR 223  Epidemics and Society

Professor:

Helen Epstein  

CRN:

90131

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    2:00 PM - 3:20 PM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Global & International Studies; Global Public Health

Epidemiologists investigate patterns in the spread of diseases, predict when and where outbreaks will occur and identify who is most at risk.   Modern epidemiology emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries when populations in the US and Europe encountered a spate of new diseases including cholera, typhus, lung cancer and lead poisoning.  These epidemics arose from new methods of industrial production, changing patterns of trade, urbanization and migration, and new personal habits and ways of life.  This course how the spread of many diseases are governed by social, political and economic forces.  We will also learn how epidemics have been addressed throughout history, in some cases through medical or technological intervention and in others through social, economic and political transformation. Today, some of our most serious public health threats are emerging not from the material realm of microbes and toxins, but from the political, social and psychological environment itself.  For example, we'll examine how epidemiologists have recently exposed the role of racism in mental illness and of "shock therapy" economic policies on soaring rates of alcoholism, drug abuse and suicide.

 

Course:

HR 226  Women's Rights, Human Rights

Professor:

Robert Weston  

CRN:

90248

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    3:50 PM - 5:10 PM Olin 101

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Gender and Sexuality Studies; Global & International Studies

(HR core course.) This course provides students with a broad overview of women's struggles for liberation from global patterns of masculine domination. Following an examination of the historical and conceptual origins of patriarchal systems, the traffic in women, and the sexual division of labor, the bulk of the course engages students with the critical appropriations and contestations of Marxism, structuralism & psychoanalysis central to post-'68 feminist theory and "second-wave feminism." Students will become familiar with topics such as classical psychoanalytic and post-structuralist theories of sexual difference, écriture feminine, The "feminist sex wars," and 70s debates surrounding the NOW & ERA movements, before turning in the final segment of the course to issues of race & class at the center of "third wave feminism." Designed as a survey of major developments in feminist discourse, the course is framed from a global human rights perspective, always mindful of issues such as suffrage, property rights & Equal Pay, forced marriage, reproductive rights & maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, sex-trafficking & prostitution. Readings include texts ranging from Xenophon, Plato & Aristotle, to Friedan, Solanas, Koedt, Dworkin, Duggan, MacKinnon, & Allison, from Lerner, Federici & Mies, to Rubin, Wittig, De Lauretis, Traub, Irigaray, Kristeva, Cixous, Butler, Moraga, Andalzà¹a, hooks, Collins and Crenshaw.

 

Course:

HR/PS 243  Constitutional Law

Professor:

Peter Rosenblum and Roger Berkowitz

CRN:

90139

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     3:50 PM - 5:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 103

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

Class cap:

40

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Philosophy

(HRP core course) This course will provide an introduction to constitutional theory and the evolution of constitutional law in the United States  The course begins with a look at the history and theory of constitutionalism with a particular focus on the writing of Aristotle, Montesquieu and Arendt.  We then explore the advent of written constitutions in the United States and the Federal Constitution, before diving into developments in US Constitutional law from the founding through the New Deal.  Finally, we will explore some key issues in emerging constitutional law that wrestle with core concepts of constitutionalism, including voting rights, campaign finance and the administrative state.  The course confronts the role of a constitution in the state and the particular challenges of a written constitution enforced by courts.  In addition to theoretical and historical materials, the course will include substantial case law readings as well as legal writing by contemporary scholars.

 

Course:

HR 253  Abolishing Prisons and the Police

Professor:

Kwame Holmes  

CRN:

90135

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     2:00 PM - 3:20 PM Olin 203

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Africana Studies; American Studies; Historical Studies

(HRP core course) This course explores what's to be gained, lost and what we can't imagine about a world without prisons. Through the figure of abolition (a phenomenon we will explore via movements to end slavery, the death penalty, abortion, gay conversion therapy and more) we will explore how and why groups of Americans have sought to bring an absolute end to sources of human suffering. In turn, we will explore a history of the punitive impulse in American social policy and seek to discern means of intervening against it. Finally, on the specific question of prison abolition, we will think through how to "sell" abolition to the masses and design a multi-media ad campaign to make prison abolition go viral.

 

Course:

HR 261  Epidemiology of Childhood

Professor:

Helen Epstein  

CRN:

90132

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    3:50 PM - 5:10 PM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Global & International Studies; Global Public Health

This course will describe efforts past and present by governments, health agencies and foundations to promote the health of children around the world, and explore new challenges facing children today. The importance of prevailing social attitudes towards children and women, as well as the political and economic imperatives that drive government action, will be emphasized.  We will begin with efforts led by UNICEF to save children in poor countries from the scourges of pneumonia, malaria and other diseases of poverty.  We will then learn how American public health officials reduced the toll from these same diseases during the early 20th century using very different methods.  We'll also learn how children today are being affected by AIDS and new forms of mental illness.  We'll discuss America's resistance to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the special challenges face by LGBTQ children.

 

Course:

HR 267  Human Rights and Decolonization

Professor:

Alys Moody  

CRN:

90142

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    2:00 PM - 3:20 PM Reem Kayden Center 101

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Global & International Studies; Literature

(HRP core course) The "period of decolonization"—the decades after World War II, in which many former colonies achieved their independence from European colonial powers—coincides with the rise of the contemporary regime of human rights. This course asks how this shared history shaped the development of both human rights and decolonization, and what this means for the way these two concepts function today. It ranges from historical events such as the 1955 Bandung Conference, which brought together decolonial thinkers from across Africa and Asia, to contemporary movements such as Rhodes Must Fall. We will ask: is human rights an adequate or sufficient framework for approaching the demands of decolonization? Can human rights function at a collective or national (rather than just an individual) level? In what ways have human rights been mobilized to resist or support decolonization efforts? How do projects of cultural decolonization relate to human rights discourses? To what extent is decolonization a project aimed at developing a "new humanism"—and if so, how does this change what we take human rights to mean? And can human rights as a framework make room for the economic and cultural demands of decolonization? We will read widely in anti-colonial and decolonial thought and literature, as well as contemporary debates about the relationship of human rights to decolonization, with possible authors including Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Sylvia Wynter, René Ménil, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Dambudzo Marechera, Josué de Castro, Samuel Moyn, and others.

 

Course:

HR 268  Visual Storytelling for Civic Engagement

Professor:

 Adam Stepan

CRN:

90559

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    8:30 AM - 9:50 AM

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

This class introduces students to the uses of video for civic engagement and development projects, and trains students in the basics of smartphone-based documentary film techniques.  The class is built around a series of case studies in which students explore theoretical readings on the use of media in social movements, as well as the practical aspects of documentary film technique,  and culminates in a team documentary project. Guest speakers will explore documentary and media production issues, as well as their experiences in using video and other media in advocacy and reporting projects. This is a group- and project-based class, in which students will work in teams of 3-5 student on semester-long video projects, including at least 4 days of location based filming (to be done over the course of the semester). Classwork is in three parts: pre-recorded videos and tutorials, live class meetings on Zoom, and a series of small group trainings and follow-ups to support teams in their class projects. Students will learn the basics of visual storytelling, field production, interviewing techniques, and basic video editing. It is open to OSUN students across four campuses (Annandale, Berlin, Palestine, Bishkek).  All participating campuses will have smartphone stabilizers, tripods, lights and audio kits available for student use. All required gear and software will be provided.

 

Course:

HR 311  Food, Labor and Human Rights

Professor:

Peter Rosenblum 

CRN:

90578

Schedule:

Thurs    2:00 PM - 4:20 PM Olin 307

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Environmental & Urban Studies

This is a seminar that will explore the burgeoning areas of activism that link food, labor and human rights.  It will explore domestic and international efforts to understand, regulate and improve the conditions of workers who produce food.  The seminar will be built around case studies of advocacy efforts around the world. The first part of the seminar will be devoted to readings in the history of agricultural labor, the role of plantation economies, and contemporary analyses of the relationship between labor and the economics of food production through the writings of Olivier De Schutter, former UN Rapporteur on the Right to Food.  This will be followed by readings on private and public mechanisms to improve the conditions of workers in the food sector, including fair trade and social certification programs. Case studies will include: (i) migrant workers in the Hudson  Valley, (ii) tomato pickers in Florida (and the effort to apply the lessons to dairy workers in New England), (iii) child labor in the cocoa  sector the tea sector, and (iv) tea plantations in India.

 

Course:

HR 3206  Evidence

Professor:

Thomas Keenan  

CRN:

90140

Schedule:

Mon       2:00 PM - 4:20 PM Center for Curatorial Studies SEM

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Literature; Philosophy

What can culture and the arts teach us about evidence? Evidence would seem to be a matter of facts, far from the realm of literary or artistic invention. But, whether as fact or fiction, we are regularly confronted by all sorts of signs. When we read the traces of things left behind at this or that scene, of a crime for instance, questions of interpretation, presentation, even rhetoric, arise immediately.  Confronted with evidence, we need to make decisions, form conclusions, reach judgments. This seminar examines various forms of evidence presented in the context of claims made for human rights and justice. On the basis of the traces of what is no longer present—whether in the form of statistics, stains, rubble, graves, documents, photos, videos, social media postings, or testimony—we have to decide, and risk making claims about the truth of, what happened. This is necessary because evidence can mislead, or even lie, and is often ignored or suppressed or denied. The complexities of a 'post-truth' world, and new modes of political defiance in relation to evidence, make this even more urgent.  Through many case studies (from the Shoah to police violence to war crimes to Mediterranean migrant shipwrecks), as well as historical and theoretical accounts, we will examine the centrality of evidence in political and ethical disputes today. Readings include texts and projects by Forensic Architecture, Kate Doyle, Kimberle Crenshaw and Gary Peller,  Lawrence Weschler, Shoshana Felman, Judith Butler, Bruno Latour, Eric Stover, Patrick Ball, Ariella Azoulay, Georges Didi-Huberman, and others.

 

Course:

HR 321 A Advocacy Video Clemency: Production

Professor:

Thomas Keenan and Brent Green

CRN:

90136

Schedule:

  Wed     2:00 PM - 4:20 PM Avery 217

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

State governors (and the President) in the United States possess a strange remnant of royal sovereignty: the power of executive clemency, by which they can pardon offenses or commute the sentences of people convicted of crimes. They can do this to correct injustices, show mercy, or undo disproportionate punishments. Clemency doesn't just happen -- it requires a lot of work on the part of the incarcerated person and his or her advocates. But there are almost no rules governing what a clemency appeal looks like, so there is significant room for creativity in how applicants present their cases. In this practical seminar we will join forces with a team of students at CUNY Law School and the human rights organization WITNESS to prepare short video presentations that will accompany a number of New York State clemency applications this fall. Proficiency with video shooting, editing, and an independent work ethic are important. Meetings with clemency applicants in prison are a central element of the class. This is an opportunity to work collaboratively with law students and faculty, to do hands-on human rights research and advocacy, and to create work that has real-life impact. The class will alternate between video production and the study of clemency and pardons, emotion and human rights, first-person narrative, and persuasion by visual means. Please submit a short statement describing your abilities in shooting and editing video, and your interest in criminal justice, by May 6th. There are no prerequisites, but we seek a class that includes filmmakers, analysts, and activists.  This is an Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences (ELAS) class.

 

Course:

HR 321 B Advocacy Video Clemency: Literature

Professor:

Thomas Keenan and Brent Green

CRN:

90137

Schedule:

Mon       10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Avery 217

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

15

Credits:

2

In this 2-credit class, which is linked to the production-oriented HR 321A, we will explore historical, legal, philosophical, political, journalistic, and activist writing and film on clemency. Students who take HR 321A are very strongly encouraged to sign up for this class as well. Depending on enrollment, it may also be open to students not taking the production class.

 

Course:

HR 343  Photography and Human Rights

Professor:

Gilles Peress  

CRN:

90138

Schedule:

   Thurs    10:20 AM - 12:40 PM Olin 306

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Photography

The course starts with two questions. Can human rights avoid becoming simply one more ideological form, and a dangerous one at that, given its reliance on self-confidently mythic images of suffering and rescue, not to mention the grand figure of Man that looms over everything else? And how can photography help find a way out, given that mediation and representation have always been central to the human rights enterprise? Starting with influential historical accounts by Lynn Hunt and others, we will explore the ways in which visual appeals have played a defining role in the establishment of human rights, both as consciousness and as constitutional and international law. Human rights today is unthinkable apart from photography. And along the way, both have come in for a lot of criticism. This creates a conundrum of representation at the heart of both. For without photography -- which is to say, the vector by which NGOs generate knowledge, evidence, and funding, based on a sense of empathy and urgency -- there would probably be fewer human rights and no humanitarian movement.

 

Course:

HR 377  World War Two in the Cinema

Professor:

Ian Buruma  

CRN:

90340

Schedule:

Mon       5:30 PM - 8:30 PM Avery Film Center 217

  Tue       2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Avery Film Center 217

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Film and Electronic Arts

The purpose of this course is to show views of the same war from different sides. We will watch and discuss films made during World War 2 in Britain, the US, France, Germany, China and Japan. Movies made during the war will give an idea of the different ideologies and methods of propaganda, but also an impression of what life was like in the various countries at war.  This will allow a discussion of the role of resistance and collaboration in occupied countries, but also of what was at stake for the Allies as well as Germany and Japan. The focus will be less on famous battles than on the image various countries had of themselves at a time of crisis. This will allow for a wider look at cultural and political differences. Part of the course will be about films made after the war as well. We will explore how people in various countries have looked at their own histories; how the Germans and Japanese came to terms (or not) with their catastrophic past, and how the war affected politics and society in the victorious nations. Since the Holocaust has become an increasingly important theme in wartime memories, this too will be discussed in depth. Films to be screened include:  In Which We Serve, dir. David Lean. 1942; Jud Süss, dir. Veit Harlan. 1940; Army, dir. Kinoshita Keisuke. 1944; Le Courbeau, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot. 1943; Iwo Jima, dir. Clint Eastwood. 2006; Fateless, dir.Lajos Koltai. 2005

 

Cross-listed courses:

 

Course:

ANTH 218  The Rift and the Nile

Professor:

John Ryle  

CRN:

90189

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Bard Chapel

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

20

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Africana Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Historical Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

ANTH 275  Post-Apartheid Imaginaries

Professor:

Yuka Suzuki  

CRN:

90191

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    12:10 PM - 1:30 PM Olin 101

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Africana Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

ANTH 280  The Edge of Anthropology

Professor:

John Ryle  

CRN:

90192

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     3:50 PM - 5:10 PM Olin 305

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Africana Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

ANTH 350  Contemporary Cultural Theory

Professor:

Yuka Suzuki  

CRN:

90193

Schedule:

    Fri   10:20 AM - 12:40 PM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights

 

Course:

ARCH 311  Contagiousness, Vulnerable Environments: Architecture as Research

Professor:

Ivan Lopez Munuera

CRN:

90562

Schedule:

 Wed    2:00 PM - 4:20 PM Garcia-Renart House

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights

 

Course:

ARTH 227  Visualizing Freedom; Revolution, Emancipation, Rights

Professor:

Julia Rosenbaum  

CRN:

90243

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    12:10 PM - 1:30 PM Bard Chapel

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

ASIA 205  Representations of Tibet

Professor:

Li-Hua Ying  

CRN:

90200

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     2:00 PM - 3:20 PM Olin Languages Center 210

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

19

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Chinese; Human Rights; Literature

 

Course:

BGIA 301  The Core Seminar: Non-State Actors in International Affairs

Professor:

TBA  

CRN:

90010

Schedule:

        -  

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

Class cap:

15

Credits:

8

Cross-listed:  Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

BGIA 313  Health, Justice and Epidemiology in a Connected World

Professor:

Gabriel Perron  

CRN:

90141

Schedule:

        -  

Distributional Area:

MC Mathematics and Computing

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

BGIA 330  Writing on International Affairs

Professor:

TBA  

CRN:

90011

Schedule:

        -  

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights

 

Course:

BGIA 331  National Security and Human Rights

Professor:

Jamil Dakwar  

CRN:

90012

Schedule:

        -  

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights

 

Course:

BGIA 335  Foreign Policy in the Age of the Internet

Professor:

Elmira Bayrasli  

CRN:

90013

Schedule:

        -  

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

CC 102 A  Citizenship as Exclusion

Professor:

Michelle Murray  

CRN:

90508

Schedule:

Mon    Fri   12:10 PM - 1:30 AM Olin 205

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaing, Being, Value

SA Social Analysis

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed: Human Rights; Political Studies

 

Course:

CC 102 B Citizenship in the Contemporary United States

Professor:

Simon Gilhooley  

CRN:

90511

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     2:00 PM - 3:20 PM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaing, Being, Value

SA Social Analysis

Class cap:

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights; Political Studies

 

Course:

CC 102 C  Political Animals: Citizenship in Greece, Rome, and the Ancient Mediterranean

Professor:

Robert Cioffi  

CRN:

90512

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     2:00 PM - 3:20 PM Hegeman 106

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value

FL Foreign Languages and Lit

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Classical Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

CC 102 D  Citizen Poet / Poet Citizen

Professor:

Erica Kaufman  

CRN:

90533

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     3:50 PM - 5:10 PM Hegeman 106

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value

PA Practicing Arts

Class cap:

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights

 

Course:

CC 107  Disability and Difference

Professor:

Liz Bowen, Erin Brasselmann, Jack Ferver, Kathryn Tabb, and Dumaine Williams  

CRN:

90550

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     2:00 PM – 3:20 PM Campus Center MPR

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value

PA Practicing Arts

Class cap:

60

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights

 

Course:

ECON 214  Labor Economics

Professor:

Michael Martell  

CRN:

90179

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     5:40 PM - 7:00 PM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

ECON 221  Economic Development

Professor:

Sanjaya DeSilva  

CRN:

90180

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     5:40 PM - 7:00 PM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

Class cap

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Africana Studies; Asian Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies; Science, Technology, Society

 

Course:

ECON 350  Economic Growth and Income Distribution

Professor:

Liudmila Malyshava  

CRN:

90185

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     3:50 PM - 5:10 PM Olin Language Center 120

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

EUS/AS 309  Environmental Justice: Art, Science, and Radical Cartography

Professor:

Elias Dueker and Krista Caballero

CRN:

90169

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    12:10 PM - 1:30 PM New Annandale House

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

 

Course:

EUS 321  GIS for Environmental Justice

Professor:

Susan Winchell-Sweeney  

CRN:

90170

Schedule:

  Mon Wed   10:20 AM - 12:40 AM Henderson Comp. Center 101A

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

12

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Historical Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

FREN 336  The French Novel and the Poetics of Memory

Professor:

Eric Trudel  

CRN:

90213

Schedule:

Mon       2:00 PM - 4:20 PM Reem Kayden Center 102

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit

Class cap

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights; Literature

 

Course:

HIST 160  Latin-American Histories

Professor:

Miles Rodriguez  

CRN:

90149

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    12:10 PM - 1:30 PM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies

 

Course:

HIST 180  Technology, Labor, Capitalism

Professor:

Jeannette Estruth  

CRN:

90150

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    7:30 PM - 8:50 PM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights; Science, Technology, Society

 

Course:

HIST 225  Migrants and Refugees in the Americas

Professor:

Miles Rodriguez  

CRN:

90155

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies

 

Course:

HIST 2701  The Holocaust, 1933-1945

Professor:

Cecile Kuznitz  

CRN:

90159

Schedule:

 Mon  Wed     2:00 PM - 3:20 PM  Campus Center Weis Cinema

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  German  Studies; Human Rights; Jewish Studies; Russian Studies

 

Course:

HIST 3103  Political Ritual in the Modern World

Professor:

Robert Culp  

CRN:

90162

Schedule:

   Thurs    10:20 AM - 12:40 PM Olin 303

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Anthropology; Asian Studies; Experimental Humanities; Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

HIST 331  Latin America: Race, Religion and Revolution

Professor:

Miles Rodriguez  

CRN:

90161

Schedule:

  Wed     9:20 AM - 11:40 AM Olin 303

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies; Study of Religions

 

Course:

LIT 138  Writing While Black

Professor:

Peter L'Official  

CRN:

90258

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    12:10 PM - 1:30 PM Olin 305

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Africana Studies; American Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

LIT 148  Labor and Migration in Arabic Literature

Professor:

Dina Ramadan 

CRN:

90742

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Aspinwall 302

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit

Class cap

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

LIT 2054  Sympathy for the Devil

Professor:

Francine Prose  

CRN:

90262

Schedule:

    Fri   2:00 PM - 4:20 PM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English

Class cap

12

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights

 

Course:

LIT 240  Literary Journalism

Professor:

Ian Buruma  

CRN:

90266

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Olin 204

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English

Class cap

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights

 

Course:

LIT 245  Palestinian Literature in Translation

Professor:

Elizabeth Holt  

CRN:

90552

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     2:00 PM - 3:20 PM Olin Languages Center 118

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English

Class cap:

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

LIT 3048  Extraordinary Bodies: Disability in American Literature and Culture

Professor:

Jaime Alves  

CRN:

90280

Schedule:

 Tue      6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Olin 302

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

10

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights

 

Course:

LIT 3151  "Country of Imagination": Contemporary Writers in Conversation

Professor:

Thomas Bartscherer and Nuruddin Farah

CRN:

90274

Schedule:

  Tues     2:00 PM - 4:20 PM RKC 122

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Africana Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

LIT 3152  Jeanne Lee's Total Environment

Professor:

Alex Benson  

CRN:

90275

Schedule:

  Wed     2:00 PM - 4:20 PM Olin 309

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

 

Course:

MES 2030  Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The History of Black-Palestinian Solidarity

Professor:

Dina Ramadan 

CRN:

90743

Schedule:

Mon  Wed    3:50 PM - 5:10 PM Olin 101

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

19

Credits:

2

Cross-listed:  Africana Studies; Human Rights; Literature

This two-credit course will meet for the first seven weeks of the semester.

 

Course:

PHIL 234  Philosophy, Art, and the Culture of Democracy

Professor:

Norton Batkin  

CRN:

90035

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    2:00 PM - 3:20 PM Olin 303

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value

Class cap

12

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Art History; Human Rights

 

Course:

PS 109  Political Economy

Professor:

Sanjib Baruah  

CRN:

90019

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     8:30 AM - 9:50 AM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

Class cap

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

PS 214  United States Latin American Relations

Professor:

Omar Encarnacion  

CRN:

90551

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    3:50 PM - 5:10 PM Olin Language Center 210

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:   American Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American / Iberian Studies

 

Course:

PS 2251  Dissent! Politics, Justice, Dignity

Professor:

Pinar Kemerli 

CRN:

90576

Schedule:

Mon   Fri  12:10 PM – 1:30 PM Olin 204

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:   Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

PS 323  Migration Citizenship and Work

Professor:

Sanjib Baruah  

CRN:

90026

Schedule:

Mon       2:00 PM - 4:20 PM Olin 310

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

Class cap

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights

 

Course:

PS 352  Political Violence and Terrorism

Professor:

Christopher McIntosh  

CRN:

90027

Schedule:

Mon       10:20 AM - 12:40 PM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

Class cap

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

PS 392  The Political Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois

Professor:

Mie Inouye 

CRN:

90572

Schedule:

 Thurs      10:20 AM - 12:40 PM

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value

Class cap:

12

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Africana Studies; American Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

SOC 205 A Introduction to Research Methods

Professor:

Yuval Elmelech  

CRN:

90005

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Henderson Comp. Center 106

Distributional Area:

MC Mathematics and Computing

Class cap

12

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

SOC 205 B Introduction to Research Methods

Professor:

Yuval Elmelech  

CRN:

90006

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    2:00 PM - 3:20 PM Henderson Comp. Center 106

Distributional Area:

MC Mathematics and Computing

Class cap

12

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

SOC 262  Sexualities

Professor:

Allison McKim  

CRN:

90007

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    12:10 PM - 1:30 PM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Anthropology; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

SOC 269  Global Inequality and Development

Professor:

Peter Klein  

CRN:

90008

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Olin 101

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

SOC 306  Law, Jurisprudence & Social Theory

Professor:

Laura Ford  

CRN:

90016

Schedule:

Mon       2:00 PM - 4:20 PM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

Class cap

12

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights; Philosophy

 

Course:

SOC 332  Social Problems

Professor:

Yuval Elmelech  

CRN:

90009

Schedule:

  Wed     2:00 PM - 4:20 PM Olin 303

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

15

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

WRIT 354  Plundering the Americas: On Violence Against Land and Bodies

Professor:

Valeria Luiselli  

CRN:

90293

Schedule:

Mon       2:00 PM - 4:20 PM Olin 304

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts

Class cap

14

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Architecture; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

 

Course:

WRIT 357  Problems of Perspective

Professor:

Dinaw Mengestu  

CRN:

90554

Schedule:

  Wed     2:00 PM - 4:20 PM Olin 304

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap:

12

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights