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Winter 2006 Course Offerings
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Course Offerings
Winter 2006
111-294-200 Anthropology 98T
Multicultural Entrepreneurships in Global and Translocal
Contexts
Offered T, R 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Haines 350
Instructor Worku Nida/Karen Brodkin
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of Society and Culture – Social Analysis
Course description This seminar explores how and why individual groups become successful entrepreneurs and what it means to be a successful entrepreneur in different sociocultural and historical contexts.
Class requirements Class participation/group discussions; oral presentations; research design and final research report.
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
257-294-200 Asian Languages and Cultures 98T
The Collision of Technology and Culture in East Asia
From Late 19th to Early 20th Century
Offered T, 1:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m., Haines 110
Instructor Min Suh Son/John Duncan
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of Society and Culture – Historical and Social Analysis
Course description This course is an introduction to the discipline of the history of science and technology with a primary focus on technology in China, Korea and Japan in the late 19th & early 20th centuries during a period of technological innovation worldwide.
Class requirements Classroom discussion; weekly written assignments; final paper.
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
142-296-200 Chemistry & Biochemistry 98Tb
Oxygen: A Necessary Evil
Offered M, W 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Bunche 3169
Instructor Sadaf Sehati/Joan Valentine
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of Scientific Inquiry – Life
Science
Course description While oxygen is essential to our existence, it also produces toxic free radicals that may be responsible for aging and many age-related diseases. This class focuses on mechanisms of oxidative damage, neurodegenerative disorders linked to oxidative stress, and antioxidant defenses.
Class requirements Written assignments; oral presentations; article assessments; class participation.
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
183-299-200 Education 98T
Urban College Access: Critical Examinations of Policies
and Interventions
Offered T 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Moore Hall 1048
Instructor Erica Yamamura/Kris Gutierrez
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of Society and Culture – Social Analysis
Course description Urban underrepresented students (low-income, first-generation, undocumented, African American, Latina/Latino, and Native American) continue to be one of the least represented groups in higher education and face innumerable structural and individual barriers in gaining access to college. This seminar will examine issues that urban students face in gaining access to college.
Class requirements Class participation; presentations; weekly papers; final research paper
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
196-292-200 English 98T
Imagining China: Visions of Another State in Post-1965
Multiethnic American Literature
Offered W 12:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m., Bunche 2173
Instructor Grace I-chun Yeh/Rachel Lee
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundation of the Arts and Humanities – Literary and Cultural Analysis
Course description This course traces the figures of China and the Chinese in multiethnic
American literature to examine how the U.S. imagines not so much the
Orient but post-1965 U.S. at the intersections of race, nation, public
culture, and the marketplace. China, in these texts, is an imagined
site—and an alternate state—where the competing ideological dreams of
the post-Civil Rights era are played out.
Class requirements Five two-page response papers; class participation; oral presentations and a seminar paper
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
208-291-200 # Ethnomusicology 98T
From a Whisper to a Scream: Music, Voice, and Limits of Coherence
Offered T, R 11:00 a.m. – 12:50 p.m., Schoenberg 1402
Instructor Amy Frishkey/Anthony Seeger
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of the Arts and Humanities – Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice
Course description This course will explore the cross-cultural importance of musical vocality (primarily variations on song and chant) as an artistic means of giving voice to different manifestations of incoherence in the face of “otherness.” Theories of musical vocality commonly referenced within the humanities and social sciences will provide students with initial models for interpreting and synthesizing case studies.
Class requirements Oral presentations; journal; two essays and a final project
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
245-235-200 Law 98T
International Law, Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy:
The Case of Torture
Offered M, W 1:50-3:10 p.m., Law School 2473
Instructor Leslie Padilla/Jack Beard
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of Society and Culture – Social Analysis
Course description This course will introduce students to international law by examining the specific human rights issue of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. It will use legal tools of analysis to examine several primary sources of international law and a number of selected cases in the field.
Class requirements Class participation, team project, and final paper.
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
278-293-200 Music History 98T
Music and Machines in the 1920s
Offered T, R 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Schoenberg 1818
Instructor Erica Scheinberg/Tamara Levitz
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of the Arts and Humanities – Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice
Course description This seminar will explore the music of Europe and the United States in the 1920s, emphasizing music composed for new media, music about noise and machines, and the impact of recording and reproducing technologies on music.
Class requirements Class participation; discussion; short presentation; reading response papers; final paper
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
324-295-200 Political Science 98T
The Rights of War and Peace: History and Theory of
International Law from European Conquest to European
Union
Offered W, 10:00 a.m. – 12:50 p.m., Haines A78
Instructor Theodore Christov/Anthony Pagden
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of Society and Culture – Historical Analysis
Course description This seminar reconstructs the history and theory of international political thought from European expansion in the sixteenth century to the creation of the European Union in the twentieth by providing a conceptual geography of Europe that is relevant to current discussions in political theory, international law, and the theory of international relations.
Class requirements Class presentation; seminar discussion; final paper.
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
328-280-200 Psychology 98Ta
Narrative and Chronic Illness
Offered M, W 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Franz 1571
Instructor Nicholas Breitborde/Steve Lopez and Elinor Ochs
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Not approved for GE credit
Course description The purpose of this course is to provide students with an understanding of how narrative theory can inform our understanding of the experience of chronic illness. Students will complete readings on specific topics related to narrative theory and apply these topics to the analysis of first-person accounts of living with chronic illness.
Class requirements Class participation, response papers, and research paper. Presentation.
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
Course Offerings
Winter 2006
111-294-200 Anthropology 98T
Multicultural Entrepreneurships in Global and Translocal
Contexts
Offered T, R 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Haines 350
Instructor Worku Nida/Karen Brodkin
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of Society and Culture – Social Analysis
Course description This seminar explores how and why individual groups become successful entrepreneurs and what it means to be a successful entrepreneur in different sociocultural and historical contexts.
Class requirements Class participation/group discussions; oral presentations; research design and final research report.
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
257-294-200 Asian Languages and Cultures 98T
The Collision of Technology and Culture in East Asia
From Late 19th to Early 20th Century
Offered T, 1:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m., Haines 110
Instructor Min Suh Son/John Duncan
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of Society and Culture – Historical and Social Analysis
Course description This course is an introduction to the discipline of the history of science and technology with a primary focus on technology in China, Korea and Japan in the late 19th & early 20th centuries during a period of technological innovation worldwide.
Class requirements Classroom discussion; weekly written assignments; final paper.
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
142-296-200 Chemistry & Biochemistry 98Tb
Oxygen: A Necessary Evil
Offered M, W 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Bunche 3169
Instructor Sadaf Sehati/Joan Valentine
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of Scientific Inquiry – Life
Science
Course description While oxygen is essential to our existence, it also produces toxic free radicals that may be responsible for aging and many age-related diseases. This class focuses on mechanisms of oxidative damage, neurodegenerative disorders linked to oxidative stress, and antioxidant defenses.
Class requirements Written assignments; oral presentations; article assessments; class participation.
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
183-299-200 Education 98T
Urban College Access: Critical Examinations of Policies
and Interventions
Offered T 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Moore Hall 1048
Instructor Erica Yamamura/Kris Gutierrez
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of Society and Culture – Social Analysis
Course description Urban underrepresented students (low-income, first-generation, undocumented, African American, Latina/Latino, and Native American) continue to be one of the least represented groups in higher education and face innumerable structural and individual barriers in gaining access to college. This seminar will examine issues that urban students face in gaining access to college.
Class requirements Class participation; presentations; weekly papers; final research paper
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
196-292-200 English 98T
Imagining China: Visions of Another State in Post-1965
Multiethnic American Literature
Offered W 12:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m., Bunche 2173
Instructor Grace I-chun Yeh/Rachel Lee
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundation of the Arts and Humanities – Literary and Cultural Analysis
Course description This course traces the figures of China and the Chinese in multiethnic
American literature to examine how the U.S. imagines not so much the
Orient but post-1965 U.S. at the intersections of race, nation, public
culture, and the marketplace. China, in these texts, is an imagined
site—and an alternate state—where the competing ideological dreams of
the post-Civil Rights era are played out.
Class requirements Five two-page response papers; class participation; oral presentations and a seminar paper
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
208-291-200 # Ethnomusicology 98T
From a Whisper to a Scream: Music, Voice, and Limits of Coherence
Offered T, R 11:00 a.m. – 12:50 p.m., Schoenberg 1402
Instructor Amy Frishkey/Anthony Seeger
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of the Arts and Humanities – Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice
Course description This course will explore the cross-cultural importance of musical vocality (primarily variations on song and chant) as an artistic means of giving voice to different manifestations of incoherence in the face of “otherness.” Theories of musical vocality commonly referenced within the humanities and social sciences will provide students with initial models for interpreting and synthesizing case studies.
Class requirements Oral presentations; journal; two essays and a final project
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
245-235-200 Law 98T
International Law, Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy:
The Case of Torture
Offered M, W 1:50-3:10 p.m., Law School 2473
Instructor Leslie Padilla/Jack Beard
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of Society and Culture – Social Analysis
Course description This course will introduce students to international law by examining the specific human rights issue of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. It will use legal tools of analysis to examine several primary sources of international law and a number of selected cases in the field.
Class requirements Class participation, team project, and final paper.
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
278-293-200 Music History 98T
Music and Machines in the 1920s
Offered T, R 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Schoenberg 1818
Instructor Erica Scheinberg/Tamara Levitz
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of the Arts and Humanities – Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice
Course description This seminar will explore the music of Europe and the United States in the 1920s, emphasizing music composed for new media, music about noise and machines, and the impact of recording and reproducing technologies on music.
Class requirements Class participation; discussion; short presentation; reading response papers; final paper
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
324-295-200 Political Science 98T
The Rights of War and Peace: History and Theory of
International Law from European Conquest to European
Union
Offered W, 10:00 a.m. – 12:50 p.m., Haines A78
Instructor Theodore Christov/Anthony Pagden
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Foundations of Society and Culture – Historical Analysis
Course description This seminar reconstructs the history and theory of international political thought from European expansion in the sixteenth century to the creation of the European Union in the twentieth by providing a conceptual geography of Europe that is relevant to current discussions in political theory, international law, and the theory of international relations.
Class requirements Class presentation; seminar discussion; final paper.
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
328-280-200 Psychology 98Ta
Narrative and Chronic Illness
Offered M, W 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Franz 1571
Instructor Nicholas Breitborde/Steve Lopez and Elinor Ochs
Grade Letter grade
General Education Credit Not approved for GE credit
Course description The purpose of this course is to provide students with an understanding of how narrative theory can inform our understanding of the experience of chronic illness. Students will complete readings on specific topics related to narrative theory and apply these topics to the analysis of first-person accounts of living with chronic illness.
Class requirements Class participation, response papers, and research paper. Presentation.
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
