Can empire be justified with balance sheets of imperial crimes and boons, a calculus of racism versus railroads? The political economy of empire through its intellectual history from Adam Smith to the present; the history of imperial corporations from the East India Company to Wal-mart; the role of consumerism; the formation of the global economy; and the relationship between empire and the theory and practice of development.
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Policy reform and organizational resistance. Organizations include government and other bureaucracies such as not-for-profit schools, universities, hospitals, international organizations, political parties, and agencies. Hubris and policy making, including pathologies of decision making and planning, abuse of intelligence, biased information, overselling to publics, lack of knowledge about context, and unintended consequences.
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Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, and Chile. Post-WW II political economy developments and political relations. Impacts of military rule from the 60s into the 80s. Regional and international political developments that led to MERCOSUR in 1991, and subsequent expansion.
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How the notion of decadence, initially a term of derision, shapes and underlies the positive terms of symbolism and modernism. Readings include theories of decadence and examples of symbolist and modernist texts that attempt to exorcise decadent demons, such as lust, mysticism, and the retreat into artificiality. Authors include Huysmans, Poe, Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Nordau, d¿Annunzio, Valry, Ungaretti, Marinetti, and Breton.
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May be repeated once for credit.
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How do modern Italian fiction and film reflect Italy's 19th-century unification as a nation which coincided with a radical change in the Catholic Church's power? WW I, fascism, postwar reconstruction, the economic miracle, and current disillusionment and their connections to secularization and the search for a modern Italian culture and aesthetic. Authors include d'Annunzio, Borgese, Silone, Calvino, Pasolini, Tabucchi, and Bellocchio.
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Translation lies at the heart of all intercultural exchange. This course introduces students to the specific ways in which translation has shaped the image of Japan in the West, the image of the West in Japan, and Japan's self-image in the modern period. What texts and concepts were translated by each side, how, and to what effect? No prior knowledge of Japanese language necessary.
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(Formerly JAPANLNG 8B.) Continuation of 7. http://www.stanford.edu/group/japanese/1stBjlcc.htm.
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The use of library and online resources for the study of Japanese literature, language, and culture. Prerequisite: JAPANLNG 103 or 129B, or consent of instructor.
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Materials about Korean culture and society. Proficiency in interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational communication. Vocabulary, reading, and aural/oral skills. Prerequisite: 23 or consent of instructor.
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The ecosystems of the Amazon and their human inhabitants. The biotic and abiotic factors shaping human adaptation to the region. Ethnographic literature used to explore subsistence patterns and the resource use of native Amazonians. Current changes in these economies and lifeways due to acculturation and market forces, and the implications for conservation.
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Differences in the sounds of the world's languages and how these sounds are made by the human vocal tract. Theories that account for cross-linguistic similarities in the face of differences.
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Geometry and algebra of vectors, systems of linear equations, matrices, vector valued functions and functions of several variables, partial derivatives, gradients, chain rule in several variables, vector fields, optimization. Prerequisite: 21, 42, or a score of 4 on the BC Advanced Placement exam or 5 on the AB Advanced Placement exam, or consent of instructor.
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Causes, meanings, meaningfulness, and commemoration of the Christian expeditions against Muslims, pagans, and heretics. Primary and secondary sources.
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Students pursue a special subject of investigation under supervision of a member of the committee or another faculty member. May be repeated for credit.
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Preference to sophomores. Why is it that an intimate setting for a small group of independent instruments has engendered some of the most expressive works in the history of music? Class attends chamber music concerts, seeking to comprehend the setting in projecting that meaning. Preparation for each concert includes reading, listening, and discussion of the music to be performed; performer interviews when possible. Written reports on the concerts attended.
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Preference to freshmen. Social choice theory studies the aggregation of individual preferences into a group preference, including voting procedures, auctions, and fair division procedures. Normative properties such as fairness, non-manipulability, and optimality. Central impossibility results. Student projects analyze real-life social mechanisms such as the Stanford housing draw, or voting systems of different countries. Recommended: AP mathematics or equivalent.
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Electric charges and currents, magnetism, induced currents; wave motion, interference, diffraction, geometrical optics. Prerequisite: 21.
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For thirty years or more, inequality has grown in American society as the distance between the richest and poorest segments of the population have grown substantially. What effect does this inequality have on American society? Can democracy be sustained under such circumstances? This course will examine the lives of the poorest Americans, explore the relationship of resources to political activity and power, and think through how American politics has been shaped by these forces.
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Continuation of 11A. Prerequisite: 11A, equivalent, or consent of instructor.
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Preference to freshmen. The idea that a childhood that prolongs a state of stimulus-bound helplessness beyond that of animals is the price human beings pay for the benefits of shared cognitive structures. How such structures enable social collaboration, language, and the transmission and sharing of knowledge. Sources include psychological data from animals and humans, and recent discoveries in neuroscience.
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Reviews material covered in prerequisites with applications of qualitative independent variable techniques to labor market data. Maximum likelihood estimation and qualitative dependent variable models with an application to voting models. Final papers estimate influence of quantitative and qualitative independent variables on Congressional voting probabilities. Prerequisites: ECON 102A,B.
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How the literature of science fiction and fantasy explores current conceptions about religion. Religious themes such as free will and determinism, immortality, apocalypse, and redemption. How religion figures in the contemporary imagination.
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Issues of identity, development, and security following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the emergence of independent states in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus. Topics include the impact of 9/11, the spread of radical Islamist movements in the region, its growing role as a transit route for drugs, weapons, and possibly nuclear materials, the impact of the Soviet legacy, the nature of political and economic transformations, relations with neighboring countries, security challenges, and options facing U.S. policy makers.
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