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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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Introduction to the scientific study of linguistics and languages. Topics include the origin and nature of language, methods of historical and comparative linguistics, theories and schools of linguistics, empirical and descriptive approaches to the study of language, including phonology,
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Is globalization undermining the nation-state? Does globalization mean that different parts of the world are becoming more alike? What is globalization, anyway, and when did it start? What is the relationship between national, religious, and ethnic identity? how are they constructed? What assumptions do we bring to our nderstanding of tradition and modernity? How do the different ways in which we understand progress (economic, technological, human rights) affect our understanding
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Is globalization undermining the nation-state? Does globalization mean that different parts of the world are becoming more alike? What is globalization, anyway, and when did it start? What is the relationship between national, religious, and ethnic identity? how are they constructed? What assumptions do we bring to our nderstanding of tradition and modernity? How do the different ways in which we understand progress (economic, technological, human rights) affect our understanding
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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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If you are interested in DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION, have a DOCUMENTARY IDEA you would like to turn into a short film, or are looking to improve your non-linear editing and shooting skills, sign up for FVD 138 during summer session 2.
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A documentary approach to the study of local communities through video production projects assigned by the course instructor. Working closely with these groups, students explore issues or topics of concern to the community.
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This course is a broad-strokes introduction to the history, politics, culture, aesthetics and religion of African peoples. Through a variety of sources-scholarly works by historians and anthropologists, as well as films, journalistic accounts and literary texts-we will explore the ways in which Africans across this massive continent have creatively responded to the slave trade, colonialism, economic exploitation, and to other more recent challenges in the face of a globalized, postcolonial world. A critical component of the class will involve interrogating Euro-American assumptions and hence representations of Africa, and the ways in which these are generally at odds with African realities. The need to think critically about such representations is particularly pressing at a moment when images of "Africa as failure" - as a place of famine, AIDS, feckless states, atrocities and civil war - are so pervasive and have come to dominate popular and mass media understandings of Africa's place in the world.
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This course will focus on both MarxÂs own works and primary texts in the Marxist tradition. We will read MarxÂs work not only as presenting a political and philosophical position, but also as proposing a method of inquiry relevant to various academic disciplines and intellectual projects.
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This course will focus on both MarxÂs own works and primary texts in the Marxist tradition. We will read MarxÂs work not only as presenting a political and philosophical position, but also as proposing a method of inquiry relevant to various academic disciplines and intellectual projects.
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This course will focus on both MarxÂs own works and primary texts in the Marxist tradition. We will read MarxÂs work not only as presenting a political and philosophical position, but also as proposing a method of inquiry relevant to various academic disciplines and intellectual projects.
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Broad survey of Asian dance theater performance
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***Course time is 3:30-4:45 (not 2:50-4:45 as listed in ACES)***
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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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Guided studies culminating in a research paper. These studies will be supervised by the Resident Director of the program and will include field trips on cultural and social changes in contemporary China.
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Exploration of the visual culture(s) of medicine. Emphasis on the changing role of diagnostic visuality and medical imaging from various philosophical and historical perspectives. Interrogation of the connections between medical ways of seeing and other modes of visuality: photography, cinema, television, computer graphics.
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Americans singing ÂBiko, Biko arguably did more to keep South African state murder under the world spotlight than the inquest that followed his death in custody. This course explores the strategic embrace of the arts and human rights and the ways it complicates political, ethical, aesthetic and legal discourse. On the one hand, human rights lawyers and advocates turn to artists and the arts to Âmake a case that the lawyers and advocates themselves suggest are beyond the law to make. The movie Hotel Rwanda, for example, is specially screened in the White House to argue for intervention in Darfur, Sudan. The New York Times reports that the movie's star is able to get high-level political audiences unavailable to the legal advocacy group with which he is working. On the other hand, those who would violate human rights also enlist the power of artists and the arts in their service. A Rwandan singer currently stands indicted before the War Crimes Tribunal for his role in encouraging citizen against citizen genocide. Lawyers may ask the tribunal to scrutinize lyrics for genocidal intent or introduce music tapes into evidence.
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This seminar will explore cross-cultural understandings of the human body in health and in illness. We will examine ways in which culturally-specific conceptions of the
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This course takes as its point of departure todayÂs global proliferation of
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CULTURES OF CONFLICT: ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
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This course explores language variation in American English, including the variables of region, class, ethnicity, gender, and style. The objectives of the
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