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Winter 2001 Course Offerings

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  Anthropology 98T
Home and Away: Contemporary Immigrant Experience in the United States
 
  Comparitive Literature 98T
King Arthur in Medieval Literature and Film
 
  East Asian Languages and Culture
Constructing Womanhood in Modern East Asia: New Women in New Times
 
  English 98T
Gay and Lesbian History in American Literature
 
  Ethnomusicology 98T
"The Global," "The National," and "The Local" in Music
 
  Film and Television 98T
Film and Politics: The Hollywood-Washington Connection
 
  History 98T
A History of Health and Healing in Africa
 
  Law 98T
Punishment in America
 


#111-280-200

Anthropology 98T
Home and Away: Contemporary Immigrant Experience in the United States

Offered

W 1:00 - 3:50 p.m.

Location

MS 3915A

Instructor

Joseph Timothy Sundeen

Grade

Letter grade

L&S GE Credi

Social Science/Social Analysis

Course Description

This course examines theoretical and ethnographic perspectives on contemporary immigration to the United States. Part one will focus on immigrant settlement experience. Part two looks at flows between host and source countries, and the consequent effects on citizenship, culture and national identity.

Class Requirements

Class discussion, class presentation, midterm and term paper.

Prerequisite

Satisfaction of Subject A


#152-291-200

Comparative Literature 98T
King Arthur in Medieval Literature and Film

Offered

TR 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

Location

Dodd 67

Instructor

Kristen Lee Over

Grade

Letter grade

L&S GE Credit

Humanities/The Arts

Course Description

This seminar will investigate the legend of King Arthur and his court by focusing on a broad range of medieval texts as well as modern film representations. Texts are translated from Middle Welsh, Latin, and Old French.

Class Requirements

Class discussion, class presentation, midterm paper and term paper.

Prerequisite

Satisfaction of Subject A


#179-291-200

East Asian Languages and Cultures 98T
Constructing Womanhood in Modern East Asia: New Women in New Times

Offered

W 1:00 - 3:50 p.m.

Location

Public Policy 1329

Instructor

Jennifer Jung-Kim

Grade

Letter Grade

L&S GE Credit

Social Science/Social Analysis

Course Description

This course will examine key issues in women's roles using a critical and comparative approach to study the interrelated processes by which gender is continuously redefined vis-୶is tradition vs. modernity, patriarchy vs. feminism, and local vs. global communities.

Class Requirements

Class discussion, class presentation and term paper.

Prerequisite

Satisfaction of Subject A


#196-293-200

English 98T
Gay and Lesbian History in American Literature

Offered

T 12:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Location

Dodd 67

Instructor

Norman W. Jones

Grade

Letter Grade

L&S GE Credit

Humanities/Social Analysis

Course Description

Gay and lesbian history is composed mostly of silence. This class will explore some 20th-century American voices who have tried to imagine what that silence might speak if it could, and what it might tell us about ourselves.

Class Requirements

Class discussion, class presentationand term paper.

Prerequisite

Satisfaction of Subject A


#208-291-200

Ethnomusicology 98T
"The Global," "The National," and "The Local" in Music

Offered

R 3:00 - 5:50 p.m.

Location

SMB 1354

Instructor

Sonia Tamar Seeman

Grade

Letter Grade

L&S GE Credit

Humanities/The Arts

Course Description

This course will examine the impact that globalization has had on musical performance and production in all areas of the world. Using these area-grounded studies students will pose questions of the theoretical frameworks explored. Using team-oriented research, and annotated bibliography projects, and their own guided research projects students will address these questions.

Class Requirements

Class discussion, class presentation, midterm and term paper.

Prerequisite

Satisfaction of Subject A


#206-294-200

Film and Television 98T
Film and Politics: The Hollywood-Washington Connection

Offered

M 9:00 - 12:00 p.m.
W 9:00 - 12:00 p.m. (screening)

Location

Melnitz 2410
Melnitz 2534

Instructor

Jennifer Holt

Grade

Letter Grade

L&S GE Credit

Humanities/Social Analysis

Course Description

In-depth exploration of the Hollywood film industry's relationship to the American federal government from the Depression through the present, via readings, screenings, and discussion.

Class Requirements

Class discussion, class presentation, midterm papers and final paper.

Prerequisite

Satisfaction of Subject A


#221-270-200

History 98T
A History of Health and Healing in Africa

Offered

T 10:00 - 12:50 p.m.

Location

Bunche 2150

Instructor

Karen Flint

Grade

Letter Grade

L&S GE Credit

Social Science/Social Analysis

Course Description

This course provides a historical context for some of the major health challenges facing Africa today. Special attention will be paid to changes in African medical practices, biomedicine's use as a tool of empire, colonialism's impact on health care, the challenge of AIDS, and cooperation between various health providers.

Class Requirements

Class discussion, class presentation, weekly written assignments and research paper.

Prerequisite

Satisfaction of Subject A


#245-236-200

Law 98T
Punishment in America

Offered

WF 3:30 - 4:50 p.m.

Location

Public Policy 1278

Instructor

Blanca Fromm

Grade

Letter Grade

L&S GE Credit

Social Science/Social Analysis

Course Description

Last year in the U.S., ninety-eight death row inmates were executed. Why do we punish? How do we punish? How should we punish? This seminar examines punishment in America, from the treatment of juvenile offenders to the death penalty.

Class Requirements

Class discussion, weekly reading responses, midterm paper and term paper.

Prerequisite

Satisfaction of Subject A


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