Close readings of major writers in the context of cultural history. I) Literature and folk culture in the slavery period: Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Omar Ibn Said, Victor Sejour, Lydia Maria Child, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, Frank Webb, Martin Robison Delany, and Harriet Jacobs. II) "Post-bellum, pre-Harlem": Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and James Weldon Johnson. We examine diverse genres-from slave narratives, novels and poems to plays, speeches and song lyrics.
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This course explores French colonialism in Africa from Napoleon's campaign in Egypt to the Algerian War. It examines the transformation of ideas of race, gender, science, governance, and development in a Francophone African context. North Africa, French West and French Equatorial Africa and these regions' experiences with market capitalism, medical technology, cultural imperialism, and military intervention are discussed. An analysis of the legacies of French imperial republicanism will close the course.
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This course surveys the convergences between Asian and Black communities that bridge the histories of the Atlantic and the Pacific. Though often regarded as separate entities, these oceanic passages have well worn parallel routes that connect the histories of racialization, labor, militarism, social movements, and intercultural contact.
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Major movements in German literature and thought from the mid-18th to early 19th century: Enlightenment, Sentimentalism, Storm and Stress, Classicism, Romanticism. Readings include Mendelssohn, Kant, Klopstock, Lessing, Goethe, Lenz, Schiller, Holderlin, Kleist, Schlegel, Novalis.
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This course is interested in understanding how and why Congress pays attention to certain issues rather than others. The intent is to provide a comprehensive look at the roles of institutional design, citizen participation, political entrepreneurism, and media coverage in placing issues onto the congressional agenda. Students will be encouraged to integrate knowledge from a variety of subfields in American politics to offer a broader view of how issues are placed onto the congressional agenda - and ultimately - shift public policy.
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Research seminar on classic and modern studies of various agrarian political economies. Focus on premodern and postmodern agricultural systems, globalization of agrarian polities, ancient and modern water control systems, and field research methods in agrarian settings.
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An exploration of Aime Cesaire's work, focused on thre seminal texts: Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, Discours sur le colonialisme, and La tragedie du roi Christophe. We will consider the historical background of Cesaire's writings, and the evolving context of their inspiration and development. The course will be conducted as a seminar, involving intensive reading of texts and projections of films related to Cesaire's life and work.
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Readings and analysis of a variety of literary texts.
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Examination of selected Assyrian and Babylonian myths and epics from the latter second and first millennia B.C. Topic for 2009-10: TBA.
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A study of Camus's writings as a journalist, playwright, novelist and political thinker, and of the controversies in which he was involved (the fate of Algeria, the occupation and liberation of France, relations with Catholics, Camus's anticommunism, the Camus-Sartre clash). The tension between his art and his commitments, as well as his influence during and after his life will be examined.
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Examines the uses and meanings of alcohol in precolonial and rural Africa, its place in European-African trading contacts, and its role in the process of colonization. The course ends with a review of alcohol in nationalist politics, the place of the alcohol industry in the economies of independent African states and addiction in contemporary Africa.
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Groups and group actions, vector spaces and their linear transformations, bilinear forms and linear representations of finite groups.
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Rings and modules. Polynomial rings. Field extensions and the basic theorems of Galois theory. Structure theorems for modules.
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Introduction to linear algebra, including vectors, matrices, and applications. Calculus of functions of several variables, including partial derivatives, constrained and unconstrained optimization, and applications. Covers the topics from Mathematics 21a,b which are most important in applications to economics, the social sciences, and some other fields.
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Introduction to linear algebra, including vectors, matrices, and applications. Calculus of functions of several variables, including partial derivatives, constrained and unconstrained optimization, and applications. Covers the topics from Mathematics 21a,b which are most important in applications to economics, the social sciences, and some other fields.
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Affine and projective spaces, plane curves, Bezout's theorem, singularities and genus of a plane curve, Riemann-Roch theorem.
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Continuation of Mathematics 223a. Topics: adeles, global class field theory, duality, cyclotomic fields. Other topics may include: Tate's thesis or Euler systems.
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A graduate introduction to algebraic number theory. Topics: the structure of ideal class groups, groups of units, a study of zeta functions and L-functions, local fields, Galois cohomology, local class field theory, and local duality.
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