| source Berkeley (X) |
level |
department Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies (X) |
Course covers introduction to the basis of common sight reducing visual disorders with major public health implications for society--e.g., myopia, cataracts, diabetic hypertensive eye disorders, developmental disorders (e.g., lazy eye), and environmentally induced disease and disorders (solar eye burns, cataracts). Major approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of common disorders will be addressed in terms of the biological and optical sciences underlying the treatment or prevention. Impact of eye care on society and health and care delivery will be reviewed. Also listed as Optometry C10.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
This innovative course taught by a scientist and a humanities professor surveys current global environmental issues; introduces students to the basic intellectual tools of environmental science; investigates ways the human relationship to nature has been imagined in literary and philosophical traditions; and examines how tools of scientific and literary analysis, scientific method, and imaginative thinking can clarify what is at stake in environmental issues and ecological citizenship. Satisfies the Biological Science and Philosophy and Values breath requirements in the College of Letters and Science. Also listed as Environ Sci, Policy, and Management C12 and English C77.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 freshmen.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
Homeric and Classical Greece, Rome in its transition from republic to empire, and the world of the Old Testament. The course will meet in small groups for discussion. Lectures, discussions, and reading assignments will involve interdisciplinary approaches with an emphasis on the development of skill in writing. Satisfies either half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
Will include the New Testament, readings in Medieval literature (St. Augustine and Dante) and the history and literature of the Renaissance. The course will meet in small groups for discussion. Lectures, discussions, and reading assignments will involve interdisciplinary approaches with an emphasis on the development of skill in writing. Satisfies either half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
This course focuses on the social and personal meaning of disability and chronic illness. We will explore definitions and conceptual models for the study of disability, the history of disabled people, bio-ethical perspectives, the depiction of disability in literature and the arts, public attitudes, and legal and social policies. The course will investigate the interaction of disability with social factors such as gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and class. The course is for students with and without disabilities, and may be of special interest to students preparing for careers in the health professions, education, law, architecture, social work, or gerontology.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
This course will explore the intersection of women's experience and disability issues, emphasizing the social and personal impact of disability and chronic illness on relationships, identity, employment, health, body image, sexuality, reproduction, motherhood, and aging. Through real stories of women's lives which reached the media in the last decade and before, students will move toward a dynamic understanding of the impact of a range of physical, emotional, and mental disabilities in the context of current social forces and public policy. We will explore historic perspectives as well as current trends in medicine, independent living, care-giving, insurance, public benefits, law, and community activism as they affect and are affected by disabled women and girls and their families. We will discuss controversial ethical issues such as prenatal screening, wrongful birth law suits, and physician-assisted suicide. Course readings will draw on the rich literature of disabled women's anthologies, biography and autobiograhpy, scholarly and popular literature of disability, feminist analyses, creative writing, women's art, film, and theatre.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
A graded service-learning internship course in disability studies. Students will draw lessons from working in collaboration with major disability rights and independent living organizations. Each student will do an internship at one of these organizations for six hours a week. In an additional one-hour a week seminar together, students will first prepare for the internships, setting objectives for skills to be learned and planning effective projects, and then analyze and reflect on the work done, both in order to create greater understanding of each intern's individual experiences and in order to think critically about how "service" and "organizing" can address the needs and goals of the disability community. Students must apply in advance for admission into this course.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
This course is an introduction to the study of language as applied to real world problems in specific situations in which people use and learn languages, e.g., language learning and teaching, language socialization, bilingualism and multilingualism, language policy and planning, computer-mediated communication, stylistics, translation, intercultural communication, language and symbolic power, political and commercial rhetoric. Fieldwork consists of observation and analysis of language-related real world problems.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
This course brings together the methods of historical analysis and the problems faced by social welfare professionals to create a new and provocative examination of children and childhood in America. Topics covered will include childbirth and infancy, children's rights, learning, and the state of the superparent. A significant research paper is required. Also listed as History C129 and Social Welfare C129.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
This course will study the end of life--dying and death--from the perspective of medicine and history. It seeks to confront the humanist with the quotidian dilemmas of modern clinical practice and medicine's deep engagement with death more generally. It invites pre-med, pre-law, and public policy students to understand these matters in light of the historical and, more broadly, literary and artistic perspectives of the humanities. Also listed as History C191 and Health and Medical Sciences C133.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
Since visual and literary studies have historically been viewed as separate disciplines, we will use theories from both to study those forms of self-representation that defy disciplinary boundaries, or what we call "visual autobiography." The course aims to help students become conversant with the elements of alphabetic literacy (reading and writing) and visual literacy (observing and making) in order to develop a third distinctive textual/visual literacy. Also listed as Visual Studies C185A, American Studies C174, and English C143V.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
The American forest will be examined in terms of its ecology, history, and representations in paintings, photographs, and literary essays. This examination seeks to understand the American forest in its scientific and economic parameters, as well as the historic, social, and ideological dimensions which have contributed to the evolution of our present attitudes toward the forest. Also listed as History of Art C189, Environ Sci, Policy, and Management C191, and American Studies C112F.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
This is the first course in a four-course sequence in the history of Jewish culture and civilization. It covers the biblical period and the period up to the destruction of the second temple. This course will explore the current state of our knowledge, including the legacy of ancient Near Eastern myth and religion, the history of Israelite religion, the literary features of biblical narrative, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Also listed as Near Eastern Studies C135 and Religious Studies C132.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
This class will examine the emergence and development of classical Judaism, its piety, institutions, thought, and literature. Also listed as Religious Studies C133 and Near Eastern Studies C133.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
This is the fourth course in a four-course sequence in the history of Jewish culture and civilization. It explores the major themes in Jewish history from 1750 to the present, with special attention paid to the transformation of Jewish communal and individual identity in the modern world. Topics to be treated include the breakdown of traditional society, enlightenment and emancipation, assimilation, Hasidism, racial anti-Semitism, colonialism, Zionism, and contemporary Jewish life in Europe, North America, and Israel. The multicultural nature of Jewish history will be highlighted throughout the course through the treatment of non-European Jewish narratives alongside the more familiar Ashkenazi perspective. Also listed as History C175B and Religious Studies C135.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
As the international community seeks to define the "post Cold War era," and more recently, the "post 9-11 era," increasing attention focuses on the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). NGOs appear to be playing an increasingly critical role in affecting international political and economic outcomes. NGOs act as knowledge providers for national governments and international organizations. They act as watchdogs and lobbyists for policy change. They act as critical intermediaries that can provide cross-national linkages between governmental players, or between governments and local populations. This course examines both conceptual and practical issues surrounding NGOs and international relations.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
This course explores issues in political science including legislative and executive processes, voting and elections, international affairs, political communication, and the values of power, democracy, and accountability.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
As history has shown, there is no bully pulpit in the world like the American presidency. Whether it was Roosevelt declaring war on the Japanese or Regan declaring war on government bureaucracy, they, like all presidents, understood the power of their words to make history and to change it. This course will study the history of the presidency through their speeches. We will read and analyze remarks delivered from the podium in economic booms and busts, in times of social unrest, and even in moments of humor. By reading others and drafting our own, we will also learn the elements of an effective speech and how to craft and deliver one. A few former and current presidential speechwriters will be featured as guests throughout the semester. Course requirements include the 750-word op-ed, preparation and delivery of a 10-minute speech, writing a mid-term paper based on course materials and sitting for a final exam.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
This course focuses on American policy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is neither a comprehensive history of the conflict nor of US policy. Instead, it focuses on key issues that shape and define Americas approach to the conflict, its management, and resolution. The course is very much Washington-centric, taught from the blended perspective of a practitioner but with an analytical and historical bent. It will examine core issues, such as the problem of bias and objectivity, the US-Isreal relationship, the American approach to negotiations, the role of domestic politics in shaping US policy, and the international dynamics involved in the formulation of US policy.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
This course will center on the high-minded aspirations (and continuing challenges) of the resident theater companies who program contemporary, politically-engaged, theatrical fare. We will explore different definitions of what makes a piece political, and we will also ask why the theater is compelled to try and be political in a town where politicans and lobbyists and interest groups work on politics in such microscopic detail every day. In particular, we will focus on the wide range of material presently being offered by Washington's leading theater companies. Part theater appreciation course--with an emphasis on viewing plays in performance--and part theater practicum with a thrust towards reading and evaluating new scripts submitted to Theater J--the host theater for this course--we will use our field trips and our readings and evaluations of brand new work to make written recommendations as to what Theater J (as well as our own newly conceived "pretend" theater companies) should produce next season.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
This course explores museums as dynamic sites of intellectual and cultural debate. Now more than ever, as the process of globaliztion raises questions about the fluidity, preservation, and "authenticity" of culture, museums of all kinds are attracting great interest both as places to visit and as a subject of critical analysis in their own right. As places defined by the collection, display, and interpretation of objects, museums are bound up in questions of permanence and transience, difference and identity, equity and privilege--issues shaping both popular and scholarly discourse on the politics of culture today. Historically, museums have been vested with the authority to construct partiuclar ways of knowing and seeing the world. How, why, and to what ends? Focusing on the exhibition as the primary site of representation--of art, science, culture, or history--this course will explore the interpretive practice of museums--how they tell stories with objects--and what is at stake in the narratives they create about the past, others, and ourselves.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
The federal government effects policy (e.g., enhancing public safety, protecting the environment, promoting a viable and growing economy, etc.) primarily in three ways: taxing, spending, and regulating. This course will explore how regulations -- an important instrument of government and one of the easiest ways for a President to make his/her mark -- are developed, amended, or repealed, with an emphasis on how the various institutions of the federal government are involved in the process and how they interact with the other interested entities.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page
Since the end of the Cold War, the phrase "new world order" has become ubiquitous. For some, this phrase points to the United States' dominant role as the most powerful state in the international arena, with a special opportunity and obligation to establish a new pax Americana. For others, the driving force is more spontaneous, linked to the much broader process of globalization, featuring transnational flows of capital, corporations, information, people, and lifestyles in an increasingly "borderless" world. For still others, it is the emergence of meaningful forms of governance beyond the nation-state. On the other hand, some scholars and actors see very little that is actually new, treating the post-Cold War order is simply the most recent iteration of traditional realpolitik, or merely the latest attempt of the West to impose its values, economic interests, and political systems upon others without consideration of the diversity of cultures worldwide or the economic vulnerability of poorer regions. This seminar aims to understand the theoretical assumptions and historical interpretations that inform these different understandings of the post-Cold War world.
Score: 11.562896 Details | Listing | Web page