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An exploration of the role of selected West African
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This class is designed to work towards an understanding of the many functions, principles, style variations, and techniques involved in the African dance genre. Dance and music are deeply embedded in the belief patterns of many African societies and what is revealed culturally provides a lens for performing several styles of African dance.
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An exploration of the role of selected West African
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This class is designed to work towards an understanding of the many functions, principles, style variations, and techniques involved in the African dance genre. Dance and music are deeply embedded in the belief patterns of many African societies and what is revealed culturally provides a lens for performing several styles of African dance.
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Examination of Korean language in social and cultural contexts from sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological points of view. Focus on construction of cultural identities, social order and interpersonal relationships through everyday language use. Honorifics and language ideology, language and gender, regional and social variations, language contact and language policy in contemporary Korea. Sociolinguistics literature introducing conceptual frameworks and empirical research on specifics of language in use and synchronic and diachronic variations. Readings and class conducted in English
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This course considers the global Chinese city as an object of cultural representation, as well as an engine of cultural representation. We will look at a variety of literary and cinematic texts, with an emphasis on themes of modernization, alienation, nostalgia, migration, labor, and processes of commoditization. Through a detailed examination of cultural representations of ÂChinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, and New York, we will attempt to rethink the very notion of Chineseness within an increasingly globalized world. Professor Carlos Rojas
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This course looks at the intersecting discourses of medicine, culture, politics, and identity in the modern period. Through a consideration of a variety of medical, political, and cultural texts from the West and Asia, we will examine how modern medical discoveries (particularly developments in germ theory, virology and genetics) have been transmuted into metaphorical discourses of society, culture, and identity. Topics will include the AIDS and SARS epidemics, discourses of genes and cultural memes, the transnational viral circulation of the Ringu/Ring series, as well as the various iterations of MathesonÂs I am Legend narrative. Professor Carlos Rojas
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Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of awareness. Awareness is a finite relationship with infinity. It is the active interaction of you as a finite individual identity with you as an infinite potential identity. Two of our three class sessions per week will be the practice of Kundalini Yoga & Meditation, with discussion of yogic lifestyle.
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Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of awareness. Awareness is a finite relationship with infinity. It is the active interaction of you as a finite individual identity with you as an infinite potential identity. Two of our three class sessions per week will be the practice of Kundalini Yoga & Meditation, with discussion of yogic lifestyle.
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Inquiry into sources of Âresonance in international cinema with emphasis on films from Asia and the Middle East. The object of the course is to attempt a description of aspects of film construction which conduce to intense experience for viewers. Readngs in indigenous aesthetics
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***Course time is 3:30-4:45 (not 2:50-4:45 as listed in ACES)***
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Broad survey of Asian dance theater performance
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Focus on Al-Qaeda, its roots, ideology, and its terrorism. Examination of Al-Qaeda¿s ideology, political culture, and development by exploring the origins and the narrative discourse of modern Islamic organizations dating back to the Salfi Movement of the nineteenth century. Presentation of the patterns and ramifications of Al-Qaeda¿s terrorist activities. Use critical thinking in order to differentiate Muslim proper narrative discourse from that of Al-Qaeda and its affiliated groups. Open only to students in the Focus Program.
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Issues of representing the Holocaust in Israel through various cultural media, such as literature, film, criticism, historiography, legal documents, and music. The limits of representation: the historical and ideological deployment of Holocaust representation in different cultural contexts.
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This course introduces students to Israeli and Palestinian culture, politics, and society and the central historical events of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Our examination follows a historical progression, beginning with early Zionist settlement in Palestine in the late nineteenth century and concluding with the Peace Process of the 1990s, the second Palestinian uprising (Intifada), the
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How did this vast region of Asia become one country called China and stay as one country? What are its origins? What do we mean when we say "Chinese culture"? Was China really as "closed" in the ancient period as the modern media will have us believe? What were the ways in which China was affected by its neighbors? Beginning with the early bronze cultures, the course will focus on the First Emperor and the formation of the imperial state system in China, and move on to the great Tang Dynasty and its achievements. Some of the other themes will be the role of philosophers in politics starting with Confucius, how the vast agrarian economy of China was organized, the coming of Buddhism to China and China's contacts with other peoples and regions of Asia up to 1400 A.D. including Korea, Japan and the peoples of the steppes like the Mongols.
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South Asian musicians and their instruments, genres, performance traditions, and contexts. Study of the relationship of music to social, religious, historical, and philosophical trends informed by listening to the musical forms themselves in recorded and live performances
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The emergence of women writers in the Arab world from nineteenth century poets to 21st century bloggers. Novels, short stories, autobiographies and poetry dealing with Arab women¿s rights in the home and in politics, war, colonialism, religion and sexuality. Writers include Syrian Idilbi and Samman, Egyptian El Saadawi and Bakr, Lebanese al-Shaykh, Palestinian Khalifa, Iraqi Riverbend, Algerian Djebar.
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Open to seniors completing the certificate in Asian and African Languages and Literature (Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean). Consent of instructor required.
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Current issues of contemporary Chinese media and popular culture within the context of globalization. Cultural politics, ideological discourse, and intellectual debates since gaige kaifang (reform and opening up); aspects of Chinese media and popular culture: cinema, television, newspapers and magazines, the Internet, popular music, comics, cell phone text messages, and fashion.
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Issues of representing the Holocaust through various cultural media, such as literature, criticism, film, art, music, and the most recent wave of memorials and museums to be built in America, Europe, and Israel. The limits of representation; the historical and ideological deployment of Holocaust representation in different cultural contexts. Same as AALL 156 but requires extra assignments
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