A&HH T4060: History of Education in NYC
Weneck, B; 3 credits; R 05:10 pm-06:50 pm (LEC)

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A&HH T4070: History of Education in the United States
Erikson, A; 3 credits; T 07:20 pm-09:00 pm (LEC)

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A&HH T5010: History of Segregation in US Schools
Weneck, B; 3 credits; T 05:10 pm-06:50 pm (LEC)

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A&HW T4040: Women of the World: Issues in Teaching
Dauer, Sheila; 2-3 credits; T 03:10 pm-04:50 pm (LEC)

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A&HW T5050: Global Citizenship Education
Gaudelli, W; 2-3 credits; W05:10 pm-06:50pm (LEC)

The need to learn about the world is perhaps more pressing today than at any other point in human history. The seriousness of problems, from climate change to terrorism, pandemics to wars, suggests a need to take seriously the notion of being a global citizen, to live humanely, democratically, and justly in a fragile yet magnificent world. If education is to be worthy of its name, then it must help young people to learn about and engage with serious global problems. Global Citizenship Education explores the notion of global citizenship in light of the most current and widely read scholars and practitioners in the field.  The course explores the emergence of global citizenship discourse, particularly in the 20th Century, and considers the philosophical underpinnings of these ideals.  We consider institutions that enact an aspect of global citizenship principles while examining how the problems that give rise to global citizenship manifest in the U.S. and beyond during the early 21st Century. The course then moves to consider educational practices that are congruent with a vision of global citizenship. We conclude with stories of what it means to live globally. Students will develop a robust understanding of global citizenship education, a grasp of practices to illustrate that understanding and insights as to how those might translate into their professional practices.

AFAS C1001: Introduction to African-American Studies
Sorett, Josef; 3 credits; MW 11:00am-12:15pm (LEC)

From the arrival of enslaved Africans to the recent election of President Barack Obama, black people have been central the story of the United States, and the Americas, more broadly. African Americans have been both contributors to, and victims of, this "New World" democratic experiment. To capture the complexities of this ongoing saga, this course offers an inter-disciplinary exploration of the development of African American cultural and political life in the U.S., but also in relationship to the different African diasporic outposts of the Atlantic world. The course will be organized both chronologically and thematically, moving from the "middle passage" to the present so-called "post-racial" moment-drawing on a range of classical texts, primary sources, and more recent secondary literature-to grapple with key questions, concerns and problems (i.e. agency, resistance, culture, structure, etc.) that have preoccupied scholars of African American history, culture and politics. Students will be introduced to range of disciplinary methods and theoretical approaches (spanning the humanities and social sciences), while also attending to the critical tension between intellectual work and everyday life, which are central to the formation of African-American Studies as an academic field. This course will engage specific social formations (i.e. migration, urbanization, globalization, diaspora, etc), significant cultural/political developments (i.e. uplift ideologies, nationalism, feminism, pan-Africanism, religion/spirituality, etc), and hallmark moments/movements (i.e. Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights movement, Black Power, etc). By the end of the semester students will be expected to possess a working knowledge of major themes/figures/traditions, alongside a range of cultural/political practices and institutional arrangements, in African American Studies.

AFAS G4080: Topics in the Black Experience: Social and Political Movements African Diaspora
Matsumoto, Mio; 4 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

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AFRS BC3562: Caribbean Sexualities
Horn, Maja; 4 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

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AMST W3931: Topics in American Studies: Disability, Embodiment, and Social Justice
Adams, Rachel; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

What historical, political, and social factors have given rise to the way we understand disability in contemporary American culture? How have philosophers, policy makers, authors and artists framed the political and ethical debates surrounding the status of disability? How have imaginative representations in literature, film, and the visual arts contributed to and/or challenged those understandings? Given that nearly every one of us will be disabled at some point in life, these questions could not be more important. This course seeks to address them by considering a broad array of texts, including philosophical debates about morality and ethics, history, and literary, filmic, and visual representations.

ANHS W4177: Religion, Caste, and Culture: The Anthropological History of India
Bakhle, Janaki and E. Valentine Daniel; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

How did Western scholars/missionaries/anthropologists/colonial officials understand the strange world of India they found themselves in? The religion was unrecognizable by the terms of a Western understanding: it was not congregational, confessional, or recognizably scriptural. Culturally, Indian society was deeply hierarchical, divided by a system called "caste" which was both scriptural and not. Furthermore, religion and caste contributed centrally to the understanding of "culture" a term invoked interchangeably with "tradition." The divide between caste, religion, and culture, at the same time the difficulty of implementing that divide baffled Western scholars and missionaries of the late medieval period, but also later (19th century) colonial officials and anthropologists. Knowledge about India was centrally produced by these various gatherers and compilers of information on India, and in this course we begin with early accounts of missionary activities, and will work our way through the writings of political theorists, sociologists, anthropologists, in order to arrive at an understanding of the interdisciplinary and anthropological history of India.

ANHS W4855: Gender and Feminism in South Asia: Anthropological History
Bakhle, Janaki; 4 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

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ANHS G6050: Caste, Culture, and Tradition: An Anthropological History
Daniels, EV and Bakhle, Janaki; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

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ANTH V1002: The Interpretation of Culture
Audra, Simpson; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

The anthropological approach to the study of culture and human society. Case studies from ethnography are used in exploring the universality of cultural categories (social organization, economy, law, belief system, art, etc.) and the range of variation among human societies. Discussion Section Required.

ANTH V2009: Culture Through Film and Media
Sanborn, Keith; 3 credits; W 7:30pm-10:30pm (LEC)

Culture through Film & Media explores how cultures have been represented through visual media, from feature and documentary film to television and the internet. It also considers the ways in which communities have embraced mass media, independent and new media technologies to shape or revision portrayal. This course takes an anthropological approach to investigating media and its fundamental role in the contemporary world.

ANTH V2029: Contemporary Central Asia: States and Society
Nauruzbayeva, Zhanara; 3 credits; MW 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

This course investigates contemporary Central Asia as a specific context of post-socialist and postcolonial transition to newly independent statehood in the aftermath of global Cold War politics. Drawing on cultural artifacts and scholarly analyses, this course introduces students to Central Asian politics, economy, society, and culture from two distinct viewpoints. In the first half of the course, we will survey the processes related to macro-political and economic structure such as democratization, market reforms, and nation-building. The second part of the course addresses the everyday life of communities, families, and individual members of Central Asian societies. Besides scholarly accounts of Central Asia, course materials include films, artworks, and internet discussions forums. Enrollment limit is 30. First-come, first-served basis.

ANTH V3850: Psychoanalysis, Colonialism, and Race
Seeley, Karen; 4 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course investigates the complex relationships among colonialism, psychoanalysis, and race. The first part of the course examines the impacts of colonial ideologies of race on key Freudian theories, as well as the complicity of psychoanalysis in the colonial project. It then considers specific means by which imperial regimes shaped the subjectivities of colonizers and the colonized, including the application of theories and treatments connected to ethnopsychiatry. The second part of the course looks at racialized theories of mental illness and modes of social control in current mental health practice. After considering the global circulation of Freudian concepts, the course examines contemporary schools of psychoanalysis that revise classical understandings of mental structure, psychopathology, race, and therapeutic action. The course concludes with readings of recent case studies in cross-racial psychoanalysis.

ANTH V3887: The Anthropology of Palestine
Kanaaneh, Rhoda; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course examines the relationship between different forms of knowledge about Palestinians and the political and social history of the region. It explores the complex interplay of state, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class at both local and global levels in constructing what Palestine is and who Palestinians are. The course takes up diverse areas, from graphic novels to archaeological sites, from news reporting to hiking trails, to study how Palestine is created and recreated. Students will gain a familiarity with anthropological concepts and methodological approaches to Palestine. They will become familiar with aspects of the social organization, historical developments and political events that have shaped the region over the last century. The course is also intended to develop students’ skills in written and oral communication, analysis, ethnographic observation, and critical thinking.

ANTH V3977: Trauma
Seeley, Karen; 4 credits; T 9:00am-10:50am (SEM)

Investing trauma from interdisciplinary perspectives, explores connections between the interpersonal, social, and political events that precipitate traumatic reactions and their individual and collective ramifications. After examining the consequences of political repression and violence, the spread of trauma within and across communities, the making of memories and flashbacks, and the role of public testimony and psychotherapy in alleviating traumatic reactions.

ANTH W4042: Agent Person Subject Self
Kockelman, Paul; 3 credits; TR 11:00am-12:15pm (LEC)

Treats the interrelated notions of agent, person, subject, and self from a semiotic and social perspective.

ANTH G4114: Religion and Media
Larkin, Brian; 3 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

“Religion” approached as a dimension of “Culture” – in terms of classic and contemporary anthropological theory and ethnographic evidence. Values, cosmologies, belief systems, rituals and religious practitioners will be compared and contrasted, and the interplay of religion and societal change will be addressed.

ANTH G4118: Settler Colonialism in North America
Simpson, Audra; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This course examines the relationship between colonialism, settlement and anthropology and the specific ways in which these processes have been engaged in the broader literature and locally in North America. We aim to understand colonialism as a theory of political legitimacy, as a set of governmental practices and as a subject of inquiry. Thus we will re-imagine North America in light of the colonial project and its ?technologies of rule? such as education, law and policy that worked to transform Indigenous notions of gender, property and territory. Our case studies will dwell in several specific areas of inquiry, among them: the Indian Act in Canada and its transformations of gender relations, governance and property; the residential and boarding school systems in the US and Canada, the murdered and missing women in Juarez and Canada and the politics of allotment in the US. Although this course will be comparative in scope, it will be grounded heavily within the literature from Native North America. E

ANTH W4282: Islamic Law
Messick, Brinkley; 3 credits; F 10:00am-12:00pm (LEC)

An introductory survey of the history and contents of the Shari'a combined with a critical review of Orientalist and contemporary scholarship on Islamic law. In addition to models for the ritual life, we will examine a number of social, economic and political constructs contained in Shari`a doctrine, including the concept of an Islamic state, and we also will consider the structure of litigation in courts. Seminar paper.

ANTH G4289: Women in Post-Socialist Transformations: Ukraine in Focus
Kis, Oksana; 3 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

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ANTH G6036: Ethnography of the Nation State
Abu-Lughod, Lila; 3 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Through a close analysis of anthropological works, this seminar examines possible ways of doing ethnography in and of "the nation." Readings include ethnographies of ethnicity and race; cultural production, including media and museums; and nationalist narratives and memory. Enrollment limited to 15 and Instructor's permission.

ANTH G6170: Law, History and Anthropology
Messick; 3 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The study of legal institutions, the utilization of case materials, and the critical analysis of legal texts. Recent social historical and ethnographic work on trial procedures, evidence regimes, legal writing, interpretation, and disciplinary systems. Non-Western, premodern and colonial materials shed comparative light on Western notions of law, truth and justice.

ANTH G6430: Recognition, Espionage, Camoflage
Povinelli, Elizabeth; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course examines the politics of recognition from the perspective of the security state. Not long ago, scholars and public intellectuals were ringing the death knell of the strong nation-state and celebrating the emergence of a new multicultural, postcolonial world. We were living at the end of history. The sovereign right to kill was being replaced by the governmentalism of neoliberalism and a new kind of racism. The mobility of post-Fordist capital and the new media were thought to have created a qualitatively new mode of global cultural and social commerce fostering hybrid forms of social being and practice. Governmentality was not oriented to killing, but to constituting populations and their vitalities; to making live and letting die. Western states were busy performing shame and apologizing for past colonial practices. Suddenly things are not so clear-perhaps they never were. The post 9/11 world seems to have reorganized the logic and relations of recognition and civilization, the sovereign and neoliberal state. Pundits praised the "prescience" of Samuel Huntingtonï's Clash of Civilizations. Scholars rushed to embrace Agamben's state of exception. Politicians in democracies sought to reclaim strong executive powers, the right to designate enemies, to kill, to suspend constitutional rights, and to rely on nondemocratic regimes to torture for truth. Civilization reemerged in an unapologetic form-a mode of differentiating the world in social and historical terms. Recognition was no longer merely about tolerance but about camouflage and espionage. This course seeks to understand whether and in what way the politics of recognition has mutated within the techniques of state security. Course is restricted to graduate students only. Instructor's permission is required.

CCPX T4125: Women and Mental Health
Nereo, N; 3 credits; R 09:00 am-10:40 am (LEC)

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CESR/HRTS W4482: Indigenous Peoples: Movement Rights
Stamatopoulou, Elsa; 3 credits; TR 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

Indigenous Peoples, numbering more that 370 million in some 90 countries and about 5000 groups and representing a great part of the world’s human diversity and cultural heritage, continue to raise major controversies and to face threats to their physical and cultural existence. The main task of this interdisciplinary course is to explore the complex circumstances that, through the human rights agenda, led Indigenous local struggles into an international indigenous identity and movement- one of the most influential of our times- contesting and reshaping norms, institutions and global debates in the past 50 years. The course will examine the contributions and challenges of the Indigenous agenda to human rights, political science, ethnic studies, development studies and international law, among others. The syllabus will draw on a variety of academic literature, case studies and documentation of Indigenous organizations, the UN and other intergovernmental organizations and states from different parts of the world.

CLEN W3938: Comparative Postcolonialisms
Slaughter, Joseph; 4 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Recent theories of “World Literature” have revived the figure of a “literary marketplace” to explain the workings of a global literary system—a system that favors some authors, genres, styles, themes, plots, settings, etc. to the disadvantage of others. These neoliberal models of “World Literature” tend to treat the economic idea of literary production as simply a metaphor for free-market authorial and aesthetic competition; and yet, there are real material implications: according to the UN Development Programme, more than 97% of the world’s intellectual property is held by the (post-)industrialized countries of the Global North. This course takes the problem of a “literary market” literally—looking at the history of the idea and the functions of literature as a commodity. Most of the literary texts we’ll read come from the postcolonial or Third World, where questions about the development of culture have consistently been intertwined with questions about the development of human and natural resources—and where problems with the ownership of ideas have been acutely inflected by the historical forces of the slave trade, colonialism, neoimperialism, and globalization. Thus, we’ll also look at the underside of a global cultural and economic system by examining the place of plagiarism, parody, piracy, fraud, trafficking and other illicit textual activities in the creation and circulation of world literature. In addition to novels in which property issues are at stake (at the levels of both form and theme), we will read theories of property and commodities, the public good and the intellectual commons. Among other things, we will examine the relations between literature and other commodities and resources; and we will study how forms of literary expression are commodified as intellectual and cultural property—in terms of copyrights, patents, trademarks, and corporate secrets as well as in terms of heritage, patrimony, and “minority culture.” Likely literary authors include: Chris Abani (Nigeria/U.S.), Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina), Caryl Phillips (England-St. Kitts), Salman Rushdie (India), Yambo Ouologuem (Mali), Alice Randall (U.S.), Nuruddin Farah (Somalia), B. Wongar (Australia), Kathy Acker (U.S.), Zakes Mda (South Africa), Yann Martell (Canada), Tahar ben Jelloun (Morocco-France), Bessie Head (Botswana-South Africa), Spider Robinson (U.S.-Canada). Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Slaughter (jrs272@columbia.edu) by noon on Wednesday, November 16th, with the subject heading, "World Literature seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.

CPLS W3955: The "West" in Global Thought
Dosemeci and Hoffman; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

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CSER W1040: Critical Approaches to the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Gamber, John; 3 credits; TBD (LEC)

This course provides an introduction to central approaches and concepts animating the investigation of race and ethnicity. Special attention will be given to broadening students' understanding of racial and ethnic differentiation beyond examinations of identity. Taken together, theoretical and empirical readings, discussions and outside film screenings will prepare students for further coursework in race and ethnic studies, as well as fields such as literary studies, women's studies, history, sociology and anthropology.

CSER V3440: The Changing American City
Fennel, Cassie; 3 credits; M 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

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CSER W3701: US-Latino Cultural Production
Morales, Edward; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The course will investigate the possibility that hybrid constructions of identity among Latinos in the U.S. are the principal driving force behind the cultural production of Latinos in literature and film. There will be readings on the linguistic implications of "Spanglish" and the construction of Latino racial identity followed by examples of literature, film, music and other cultural production that provide evidence for bilingual/bicultural identity as a form of adaptation to the U.S. Examples will be drawn from different Latino ethnicities from the Caribbean, Mexico and the rest of Latin America.

CSER W3904: Rumor and Racial Conflict
Rockefeller, Stewart; 4 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This course will take a transnational look at the ways that race and mass rumors have interacted. From the judicial and popular riots in the U.S. justified by recurrent rumors of African-American insurrection, to accusations that French Jews were players in the "white slave trade," to tales of white fat-stealing monsters among indigenous people of Bolivia and Peru, rumors play a key role in constructing, enforcing and contesting regimes of racial identity and domination. In order to grasp rumor's importance for race, we will need to understand how it works, so our readings will cover both (1) instances of racialized rumor-telling, conspiracy theories and mass panics and (2) some key approaches to how rumors work as a social phenomenon. I will expect you to post a response to the reading on Courseworks each week and to engage actively in class discussion. There will be an in-class midterm exam, and you will be able to choose between writing an independent research project or doing a take-home exam.

CSER W3907: Asian American Genders/Sexualties
Hwahng, Sel J; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This course will cover such topics as Asian wartime sexual traumas, femininity and feminizations, feminist/women of color discourses, overseas and domestic sex industries and sex work, LGBTQ identities and movements, health and gender/sexuality, alternative masculinities, and intra-racial and inter-racial dating and miscegenation. This course will discuss social scientific, humanities, fiction, non-fiction, and public health literature, supplemented with film/video, in order to think about, and re-think, the racialized construction of sex, gender, erotics, and sexuality.

CSER W3911: Native American Tribal Government
Esq Press, Daniel S; 4 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

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CSER W3924: Latino/a and Latin American Social Movements
Rockefeller; 4 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

In Latin America, a wave of new popular social movements has been transforming politics and social reality. In the United States, latino/as are building on decades of organizing and demographic growth to claim a new public persona and challenge their marginal status. What are the significant areas of political action, and how can we understand them? What claims can those disenfranchised for reasons of race, class or national origin make on societies? We will discuss a number of important social movements throughout the region, while developing tools for understanding social movements and their possibilities.

CSER W3940: Comparative Study of Constitutional Challenges
Ouyang, Elizabeth; 4 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This course will examine how American legal system decided constitutional challenges affecting the empowerment of African, Latino, and Asian American communities from the 19th century to the present. Focus will be on the role that race, citizenship, capitalism/labor, property and ownership played in the court decision in the context of the historical, social and political conditions existing at the time. Topics include the denial of citizenship and naturalization to slaves and immigrants, goverment sanctioned segregation, the struggle for reparations for descendants of slavery and Japanese Americans during World War II.

EAAS W4102: Critical Approaches to East Asian Social Sciences
Yang, Goubin; 4 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Introduces students to social science research on East Asia (primarily China, Korea, and Japan) by examining, first, the role of culture and the state in East Asian development, second, the social and political soncequences of economic development.

ECON BC2010: The Economics of Gender
Mammen; 3 credits; MW 1:10p - 2:25p (SEM)

Examination of gender differences in the U.S. and other advanced industrial economies. Topics include the division of labor between home and market, the relationship between labor force participation and family structure, the gender earnings gap, occupational segregation, discrimination, and historical, racial, and ethnic group comparisons.

ECON W4438: Economics of Race in the U.S.
O'Flaherty, Brendan; 3 credits; TR 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

Prerequisites: STAT W1211, ECON W3211 and W3213. ECON W4400 is strongly recommended. What differences does race make in the U.S. economy? Why does it make these differences? Are these differences things we should be concerned about? If so, what should be done? Examines labor markets, housing markets, capital markets, crime, education, and the links among these markets. Both empirical and theoretical contributions are studied.

ECON G4527: Economic Organization and Development of China
Riskin, Carl; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

An analytical survey of the economic organization of China, with reference to population and land resources, agriculture, industries, transportation, trade, and finance. The social and cultural forces affecting economic development.

EDPA T5016: Educucation Equality: Role of Law
Heubert, J. ; 3 credits; T 05:00 pm-07:00 pm (LEC)

This survey course focuses on legal issues that arise in public and private schools. Topics include governmental regulation of public and private schools; church-state issues (prayer, vouchers, evolution); free-speech rights of students, teachers, and extracurricular groups; who controls the curriculum; the school’s authority to make and enforce rules governing student and staff conduct on and off school grounds; the duty to protect the safety of students and others; child abuse; search and seizure; and due process. The course draws on the multidisciplinary perspectives of law, policy, research, and educational practice.

EDPP T5041: Politics of Centralization and Decentralization
Hening, J; 3 credits; M 05:10 pm-06:50 pm (LEC)

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EDPP T5640: Colloqium: Politics of Education
Wholstetter, P; 3 credits; W 06:20 pm-08:10 pm (COL)

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ENGL W3711: Poor Fictions, Slum Pictures: Realism and the Culture of Reform
Hartman; 4 credits; W 2:10-4:00pm (SEM)

The seminar focuses on the representation of poverty during the Gilded Age and the Progressive era. In this interdisciplinary course, we will read fiction, political pamphlets, social surveys, economic tracts, etc., and we will examine the photographs of Jacob Riis, Thomas Askew, and Lewis Hine. Through the study of literature, visual culture, and social science, we will consider the constituents of realism as it crosses the boundaries of fiction, sociology, and photography; the formal affinities between statistical graphics and the photographic index; the documentary style and reform politics of journals like The Crisis, Charities, and Survey; and the role of the novel in extending and imploding the form of sociological investigation. The central questions of the course are: What picture of society and the individual as agent is created in realist fiction? Why and how do the poor enter the field of representation? Does history possess a story with laws of motion that can be clearly narrated, as proponents of realism would suggest? Or does the complexity of social forces elude or defeat systemic narration? How does the sociological paradigm or "statistical aesthetics" bespeak the entanglements of art, science and the police? Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Hartman (svh2102@columbia.edu) by noon on Wednesday, November 16th, with the subject heading, "Poor Fictions seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.

ENGL W3934: Harlem Reinassaince
O'Meally, Robert; 3 credits; TR 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

This course will focus on the arts of the Harlem Renaissance as experiments in cultural modernity and as forms of incipient political empowerment. What was the Harlem Renaissance? Where and when did it take place? Who were its major players? What difference did it make to everyday Harlemites? What were its outposts beyond Harlem itself? Was there a rural HR? An international HR? As we wonder about these problems of definition, we will upset the usual literary/historical framework with considerations of music and painting of the period. How to fit Bessie Smith into a frame with W.E.B. Du Bois? Ellington with Zora Neale Hurston? Aaron Douglas with Langston Hughes? Ellison also wrote that “Harlem is Nowhere.”

ENGL W4503: 20th Century Poetry: Race, Gender, and Poetic Form
Golston, Michael; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

Intersections between discourses of race and gender physiology and the rhetoric of poetic form. Poets to include Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, Stein, H. D., Lawrence, Eliot, Hart Crane, Williams, Langston Hughes, Zukofsky read against contemporary texts from various scientific and humanistic disciplines, including psychology, physiology, musicology, dance theory, philosophy, and poetics.

ENVP U6260: Climate Change in Africa
Giannini, Alessandra; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

Anthropogenic climate change is fast becoming the pivotal issue of our time. Excessive carbon emissions in our atmosphere have begun to change the global climate and researchers predict more drastic changes in the future. Climate change is characterized not only by global warming but also by changing patterns of precipitation, temperature extremes, increased frequency of tropical storms, and rising sea level. These changes will have dramatic impacts on social development worldwide. Climate change may aggravate existing problems in the developing world, including overuse of natural resources and overpopulation. Africa in particular is projected to suffer more from anthropogenic climate change than any other region of the world, despite having contributed least to its causes. This is not so much or not only because climate change will manifest itself in more extreme form in Africa, but rather because Africa is more vulnerable. Therefore, though climate problems are inherently global in nature, they are of particular relevance to policy makers in Africa. This course will address the impact of climate change in Africa in two parts. The first half of the course will provide the global context for climate change adaptation in Africa, with readings from the 4th Assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and discussion of global mechanisms in adaptation to climate change. The 4th Assessment report of the IPCC details the climate changes researchers have already observed worldwide. The report also assesses the probable causes of these changes and offers projections of future climate change. Additionally, IPCC researchers propose strategies to mitigate climate change effects on communities and nations while pursuing sustainable development.The second half of the course will focus on the environmental policy challenges facing Africa through a case study - the long-term drought experienced in the Sahel since the late 1960's.

HBSS T4113: Human Sexuality Education
Hodes, Margot; 3 credits; R 07:20 pm-09:00 pm (LEC)

Explore human sexuality from a variety of perspectives; explore students’ own attitudes about human sexuality and how they affect them personally and professionally; examine methods of teaching and designing sexuality education programs.

HIST W3528: The Radical Tradition in America
Foner, Eric; 3 credits; MW 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

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HIST W3663: Mexico from Revolution to Democracy
Piccato, Pablo; 3 credits; MW 6:10pm-7:25pm (LEC)

Twenty-Century Mexican History, from the revolution to translation to democracy. Politics, society, culture foreign relations, urbanizantion.

HIST BC3855: Decolonization: Studies in Political Thought and Political History
Rao, Anupama; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

This course will take the historical fact of decolonization in Asia and Africa as a framework for understanding the thought of anticolonial nationalism and the political struggles that preceded it, and the trajectories of postcolonial developmentalism and the contemporary new world order.

HIST BC3865: Gender and Power in China
Ko, Dorothy; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

This course explores the power dynamics of gender relations in Chinese history and contemporary society. Specifically, we seek to understand how a range of women–rulers, mothers, teachers, workers, prostitutes, and activists–exercised power by utilizing available resources to overcome institutional constraints.

HIST W3997: World War II in History and Memory
Gluck, Carol; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

An exploration of the changes in public memory of World War Two in different countries in Asia, Europe, and North America over the past sixty-five years, with particular attention to the heightened interest in the war in recent decades and the relation of this surge of memory to what we used to call history.

HIST W4125: Censure/Freedom of Expression in Early Modern Europe
Carlebach, Elisheva; 4 credits; M 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

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HIST W4223: Personality and Society in 19th-Century Russia
Wortman, R. ; 4 credits; M 4:10p - 6:00p (SEM)

A seminar reviewing some of the major works of Russian thought, literature, and memoir literature that trace the emergence of intelligentsia ideologies in 19th- and 20th-century Russia. Focuses on discussion of specific texts and traces the adoption and influence of certain western doctrines in Russia, such as idealism, positivism, utopian socialism, Marxism, and various 20th-century currents of thought.

HIST W4225: The Future of the Soviet Union: New Approaches to the Soviet Past
Amar, T. ; 4 credits; T 11:00am - 12:50pm (SEM)

The Soviet Union ceased to exist within living memory. Its dissolution largely coincided with the end of much of the post-World-War-Two international order, whether called Cold War or Détente. We are still living through the reverberations of these two "ends of history." One consequence is that our perspective on Soviet history has been changing and will continue to change. This course will introduce its participants to what is new about the Soviet past. It will combine approaches that are mostly still new when applied to Soviet history (subaltern studies or the history of sexuality, for instance), topics that are largely new (capitalism, for instance), and topics that are traditional (revolution or Communism, for instance), which we will seek to look at in a fresh way. Focusing on what is new does not mean to exclude the "classics"; in fact, sometimes it means to return to them.

HIST W4383: European Sexual Modernities
Surkis, Judith; 4 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Explores how conceptions of desire and sexuality, gendered and raced bodies, shaped major events and processes in modern Europe: the Enlightenment and European empires; political and sexual revolutions; consumption and commodity fetishism; the metropolis and modern industry; psychoanalysis and the avant-garde; fascism and the Cold War; secularization,and post-socialism.

HIST BC4411: Race in the Making of the U.S.
Esch, Elizabeth; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Considers what role "race" plays in U.S. culture, politics, economics and foreign policy. Beginning with the origins of racial slavery, examines how, when and whether the subsequent development of racial systems - and challenges to them - shaped historical developments. Through a survey of theories about "race relations" and contemporary discussions about affirmative action, immigration, empire and rights, ponders the possibilities for a "colorblind" society in the United States.

HIST W4420: US in the Progressive Era
Ngai, Mae; 4 credits; W 9:00am-10:50am (SEM)

The period known as the "Progressive Era" in the United States witnessed major transformations in American society. We will examine currents of social change and reform in the terms of mass immigration, urbanization, and industrialization; commercialized culture; Jim Crow segregation; and U.S. projects on the world stage. The seminar will include history, historiography, and a term paper based on original research in archival and other primary materials. Closed to first-year students.

HIST W4429: Telling About the South
Fields, Barbara J.; 4 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

A remarkable array of Southern historians, novelists, and essayists have done what Shreve McCannon urges Quentin Compson to do in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom--tell about the South--producing recognized masterpieces of American literature. Taking as examples certain writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, this course explores the issues they confronted, the relationship between time during which and about they wrote, and the art of the written word as exemplified in their work.

HIST W4483: Military History and Policy
Jackson, Kenneth; 4 credits; M 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

This seminar features extensive reading, multiple written assignments, and a term paper, as well as a likely trip to Gettsyburg. It focuses on the Civil War and on World Wars I and II.

HIST W4509: Problems in International History
Stephanson, Anders; 4 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This year we will investigate how the problem of 'insurgency' and its semantic relative 'counter-insurgency' has appeared in various settings across time and space.

HIST W4597: Memory and American Narratives of Self
Wakin, Eric; 4 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

In this seminar we will use readings from the interdisciplinary study of memory (theory) to examine published and unpublished American letters, diaries, and autobiographies (practice). With regard to memory, we will be concerned with what is remembered, what is forgotten, and how this process occurs. We'll explore concepts including collective/shared memory, commemoration, documentation, trauma, nation, autobiography, nostalgia, etc., and we'll test this theory against written narratives of the self. The goals of the seminar are to explore theoretical concepts of memory, apply them to written examples of memory, and to develop proficiency in the use of these skills inside and outside an academic environment. This is a history course and many of the narratives we will read are American 19th-century texts. These will include, but not be limited to, those on the experience of the Civil War. The course requires participants to commit substantial time outside of class working with unpublished materials in Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library for assignments and as part of a final project.

HIST W4659: Crime in Latin America
Piccato, Pablo; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This seminar will focus on studies that take a historical look at crime in the Latin American context and will bring the discussion to the present. Transnational connections and comparisons will be encouraged, particularly as we explore the history and contemporary phenomenon of drug trafficking, incorporating the United States as a factor and a scene for Latin American crime. Readings, discussions and reports will try to identify commonalities across Latin American and dig deeper on some specific places and moments. In order to do this, we will devote part of the semester to the analysis of primary sources, and will require a research component in the final paper.

HIST W4755: Oil and History of Arab Gulf States
Bsheer, Rosie; 4 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This seminar focuses on how the discovery and exploitation of petroleum at the turn of the 20th century has shaped the formation and consolidation of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, permanently changing the geo-political and social landscape of the Arabian Peninsula. We will study economic, social, and political formations across the Gulf on the eve of the discovery of oil and the attendant transformations that accompanied its exploitation. We will also pay close attention to the role that imperial rivalries and foreign oil companies played in shaping the Gulf states, their economies, systems of rule, foreign relations, borders, and built environment. We also study the populist, anti-imperialist movements of the mid-twentieth century in the context of the ?Arab Cold War.? Saudi Arabia has received more academic attention than the other Gulf states and thus takes up a larger part of the course, but we will also cover Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and Oman. We will read historical, anthropological, literary and political economy studies and oil firm histories, drawing on works on Yemen, Iraq, Iran and the US, to follow transformations in political, social and economic life in this understudied region that has played a central role in world politics and economy since the 1900s

HIST BC4830: Bombay
Rao, Anupama; 4 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Explores the intersections between imagining and materiality in Bombay/Mumbai from its colonial beginnings to the present. Housing, slums, neighborhoods, streets, public culture, contestation, and riots are examined through film, architecture, fiction, history and theory. It is an introduction to the city; and to the imaginative enterprise in history.

HIST BC4870: Gender and Migration: A Global Perspective
Moya, Jose; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Explores migration as a gendered process and what factors account for migratory differences by gender across place and time; including labor markets, education demographic and family structure, gender ideologies, religion, government regulations and legal status, and intrinsic aspects of the migratory flow itself.

HIST W4928: Comparative Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World
Lightfoot, Natasha; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This seminar investigates the experiences of slavery and freedom among African-descended people living and laboring in the various parts of the Atlantic World. The course will trace critical aspects of these two major, interconnected historical phenomena with an eye to how specific cases either manifested or troubled broader trends across various slaveholding societies. The first half of the course addresses the history of slavery and the second half pertains to experiences in emancipation. However, since the abolition of slavery occurs at different moments in various areas of the Atlantic World, the course will adhere to a thematic rather than a chronological structure, in its examination of the multiple avenues to freedom available in various regions. Weekly units will approach major themes relevant to both slavery and emancipation, such as racial epistemologies among slaveowners/employers, labor regimes in slave and free societies, cultural innovations among slave and freed communities, gendered discourses and sexual relations within slave and free communities, and slaves’ and freepeople’s resistance to domination. The goal of this course is to broaden students’ comprehension of the history of slavery and freedom, and to promote an understanding of the transition from slavery to freedom in the Americas as creating both continuities and ruptures in the structure and practices of the various societies concerned.

HIST W4985: Citizen, Race, Gender, and Political Exclusion
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll; 4 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

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HIST G8235: Islam Across Eurasia
Kendirbai, Gulnar T; 4 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (COL)

This course examines interactions between Russia and Islam that in the wake of Russian imperial expansion manifested themselves in a multiplicity of ethnic and local cultures, traditions and ways of life, including political and social structures. Reflected in the imperial discourse, the ambiguities of these interactions shaped and reshaped the boundaries between the two. This course thus is designed to challenge the adopted "truths" about "colonialism", "religious fundamentalism", and "Islam". Although it gives a historical overview of the spreading of Islam and expansion of Russian rule in Central Asia and the Caucasus, the focus of this overview will be on interactions between regional Islams and colonial policies and their oftentimes unpredictable outcomes. A closer focus on the dynamics of the shifting Russian/Muslim boundaries/identities that continue to outline the major stages in Eurasian history will be a major theme of our discussions. The course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

HIST G8351: Balkan History and Historiography
Mazower, Mark; 4 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (COL)

This graduate colloquium explores recent historiography trends in Balkan history. It focuses on the close reading of outstanding new scholarly studies which are chosen for their methodological diversity and craft and for the exemplary way in which they tackle a variety of conceptual and theoretical issues. Topics covered include the environment, mountains and borderlands; peasants, merchants and other social actors; nationalism as social movement and intellectual project; the politics of memory and religion, and the role of the state as war maker and regulator of the economy.

HIST G8914: International Development in History
Immerswahr, Daniel; 3 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

In this colloquium we will examine the history of international development. We will look at how the practice of international development emerged over time. Because the historical literature on this topic is still in its infancy, we will draw heavily on scholarship from outside the field of history-from economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, and political philosophy. We will also examine related historical fields such as the history of human rights. The focus of this course will be on generating, together, a useful narrative about the history of international development. Among the topics explored in this course will be the relationship of development to empire, the creation and destruction Bretton Woods international system, the role of international institutions such as the United Nations, the Cold War, the rise of market-based development strategies, and transformations within the field of development economics. Readings will draw on scholarship from all parts of the world. Participants will write two short papers and a final essay on the history of development.

HIST G8924: Resistance and the Black Atlantic
Lightfoot; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

This course investigates in-depth the significance of resistance among African-descended communities in the Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanophone and Lusophone Atlantic World from approximately 1700-1950. We will examine the genesis of resistance as it affected key historical transformations such as slavery and abolition, labor and migration, and transatlantic political organizing. The class will explore various forms of resistance to racial epistemologies, racialized labor regimes, and gendered discourses that formed a continuum of cultural and political opposition to oppression among Black Atlantic communities. The course will also reflect on how resistance plays a central role in the formation of individual and collective identities among black historical actors. Resistance will be explored as a critical category of historical analysis, and a central aspect in the making of the "Black Atlantic.

HIST G9310: Biopolitics in the Twentieth Century
Connelly, Matthew; 4 credits; W 9:10a - 10:50a (SEM)

In the last century population trends have inspired fears of degeneration, political upheaval, global climate change and drastically reduced biodiversity. Yet the very idea of instituting policies and programs to shape reproductive behavior has aroused the religious and embroiled science, pitted governments against non-governmental organizations, and occasioned rancor within and between the feminist, environmentalist, and Third World solidarity movements. Students explore this history by reading some of the most innovative work in the field and writing a 25-35-page research paper. A particular emphasis will be placed on tapping the wealth of material available in local archives - including the United Nations Archive, the Rockefeller Archive Center, and the Ford Foundation Library - as well collaborative research and peer criticism. Field(s): INTL

HIST G9570: Seminar in American Urban History
Jackson, Kenneth; 4 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

Introduces advanced graduate students to the major debates, trends, and methodologies which have engaged urban and social historians over the past quarter century.

HIST G9763: History and Politics: The African Part
Diouf, Mamadou; 4 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course is designed as a seminar on a historiography that does not yet exist. It draws from studies of contemporary Africa, and particularly anthropological studies, to ask what a history of neo-liberal Africa would look like. The goal of the course is to consider how historians might engage with and profit from the work of anthropologists working on contemporary Africa. It also strives to situate the African present in relation to broader historical currents at work across the globe in the contemporary period.

HPMN P6508: Health Policy and the Political System
Brown, Lawrence; 3 credits; M 9:00am-11:50am (LEC)

Why does the government play such a central role in the health of its citizens? What factors unique to American politics have given us the healthcare system we currently have, and how much change can be accomplished within our philosophical and ethical confines? How do political changes yield policy shifts—or not? This course analyzes the role of major institutions—the central government, the federal system, the private sector, interest groups, and so on—in formulating and implementing health policy in the United States. We will discuss underlying normative issues and crossnational perspectives on healthcare to situate American healthcare policy along a broader global political spectrum, and attempt to forecast what changes are likely—or unlikely—to occur. Topics will include political history, policy formation and recommendations, market forces and economic influences, and more.

HPMN P8507: International Perspectives - Politics of Health Policy
Sampat; 3 credits; T 5:30pm-8:20pm (LEC)

This course provides critical perspectives on policies to promote health in developing countries. We begin with an overview of differences in burden of disease in developing countries, of discussions about priority-setting in a global context, and debates about how to evaluate the impacts of different interventions. We then consider different normative perspectives (including those from philosophy and economics) on health and international development. We will also critically evaluate the literature on how health affects development, and how development reciprocally affects health. In the second part of the course, we examine the institutional landscape, including an overview of health systems and financing in developing countries, and recent multilateral initiatives to promote health in developing countries. . In the final part of the course we bring all of these concepts together in a specific set of applications currently the topic of much policy deliberation and debate: (i) promoting access to medicines in developing countries, and (ii) designing policies to stimulate research on neglected diseases.

HPMN P8514: Governance, Law, Ethics
Regan or Butts; 1 . 5 credits; T 4:00pm-5:50pm (SEM)

This course is intended to provide students with the legal framework governing health care administration, management and policy. Students will analyze case law, and selected statutes relevant to health care administrators, providers, and consumers of care. Students will be exposed to the evolution of laws and the ethical, practical and political impact of laws in the management of health care institutions.

HPMN P8532: Mental Health Policy
Friedman, Michael; 1 . 5 credits; S 9:00am-4:50pm (SEM)

This course will provide an overview of the history of mental health policy in the United States, the nature of mental illness and effective intervention, and the elements of mental health policy. We will discuss the components of the mental health service system, mental health finance, the process of policy making, population-based mental health policies, and mental health in health policy reform. Students are expected to be able to understand the range of mental health illnesses/populations, to explain the concerns about quality, access, and cost of mental health services as well as the workings of policy mechanisms such as financing as they are applied to mental health. They are also expected to understand mental health policy considerations in current health care reform debates.

HRTS BC1025: Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Martin, J. Paul; 3 credits; TR 9:10am-10:25am (LEC)

Provides a broad overview of the rapidly expanding field of human rights. Lectures on the philosophical, historical, legal and institutional foundations are interspersed with weekly presentations by frontline advocates from the U.S. and overseas. This course is recommended prior to taking Introduction to Human Rights or choosing human rights as a major.

HRTS BC3850: Human Rights and Public Health
Sabatello, Maya; 4 credits; T 9:00am-10:50am (SEM)

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HRTS W3930: International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Cronin, Bruce; 4 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This seminar will cover various issues, debates, and concepts in the international law of armed conflict (known as international humanitarian law), particularly as it relates to the protection of non-combatants and civilians. In doing so, we will examine how international humanitarian law and human rights law intersect. Both sets of legal norms are designed to protect the lives, well-being, and dignity of individuals. However, the condition of armed conflict provides a much wider set of options for governments and individuals to engage in violent, deadly action against others, including killing, forcibly detaining, and destroying the property of those designated as combatants. At the same time, the means of waging war are not unlimited, but rather are tightly regulated by both treaty and customary law. This course will examine how these regulations operate in theory and practice, focusing on the principles of distinction, proportionality, and military necessity.

HRTS G4020: Introduction to Human Rights
Ikawa, Daniela; 3 credits; M 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

This course will provide a wide-ranging survey of conceptual foundations and issues in contemporary human rights. The class will examine the philosophical origins of human rights, their explication in the evolving series of international documents, as well as questions of enforcement through international law and treaty arrangements. The course will also examine contemporary topics that are in the forefront of concern, among them - the status of women, refugees, children, the use of torture and the horrors of genocide. Though the course emphasizes political rights, it also recognizes the evolution of the human rights culture, the growing importance of economic rights and tensions related to globalization and multiculturalism. The broad range of subjects covered in the course is intended to assist students in honing their interests and making future course selections in the human rights field.

HRTS G4404: Human Rights of Women
Dauer, Sheila; 3 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

This course will address the legal, political, and normative aspects of women's human rights and will cover thematic topics such as participation in public life, violence against women, education, health, trafficking, property, peace and security, and sexual orientation. This course will examine women’s human rights within the international human rights system through the study of several relevant UN bodies, treaties, declarations, and NGO activities. The course will also consider contestations and defenses of applications of human rights to women's issues, particularly in relation to universalism vs. relativism. Finally, this course will examine how women's human rights are negotiated and implemented. For example, how do human rights principles gain meaning and traction at the local level in dialogue with local principles, politics and ideas of justice? Registration priority given to Human Rights Studies M.A. (HRSMA) students. Non-HRSMA students should email humanrightsed@columbia.edu to be put on waitlist.

HRTS G4800: International Human Rights Law
Sabatello, Maya; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course introduces the fundamental concepts and problems of public international law. What are the origins of international law? Is international law really law? Who is governed by it? How are treaties interpreted? What is the relationship between international law and domestic law? We examine the interplay between law and international politics, in particular with reference to international human rights, humanitarian law, the use of force, and international criminal prosecutions. No prior knowledge of international law is required. While the topics are necessarily law-related, the course will assume no prior exposure to legal studies.

HRTS G4810: Religion and Human Rights
Chuman, Joseph; 3 credits; R 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

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HRTS G4820: Human Rights and International Organizations
Andreopoulos, George; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

This course examines the role of international organizations in the promotion and protection of internationally recognized human rights norms. In particular, the course surveys contending approaches on the importance of international organizations in world politics; explores the constitution, history and function of various international organizations for the promotion/protection of human rights and studies the way in which the human rights discourse has been increasingly intersecting with the peace and security and the sustainable development discourses in the work of these organizations; provides an overview of the growing interaction between international organizations and NGOs; and assesses the record of these organizations’ monitoring and enforcement mechanisms in the area of human rights. Registration priority given to Human Rights Studies M.A. (HRSMA) students. Non-HRSMA students should email humanrightsed@columbia.edu to be put on waitlist.

HRTS G8010: Human Rights Grad Res Colloq I
Martin, J. Paul; 1-2 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

Colloquium I introduces students to current research in the field and resources in print and electronic formats fundamental to advanced human rights research. Class meetings include lectures by faculty and researchers in the field and library staff on reference tools and skills. Students will complete the thesis proposal and present their proposals for peer review. Colloquium I may be taken for one or two credits.

HRTS G8020: Human Rights Grad Res Colloq II
Martin, J. Paul; 2-3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

Colloquium II is designed for Human Rights Studies students writing the thesis and other graduate students completing similar research projects on human rights. The colloquium provides a structured opportunity to research and write in stages. Students review and discuss current research in human rights, review research resources and develop skills required for a successful thesis, present their own and discuss others’ work, and receive constructive advice on their work and the thesis process. Colloquium II is taken for two or three credits.

HRTS  V3190: International Human Rights Law
Cooper, Belinda; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

This course provides an introduction to the legal aspects of international human rights. We will cover the major international human rights documents and treaties, the substance of the laws they create, and the international procedures and mechanisms for implementing them. We will consider some of today’s most significant human rights issues and controversies, such as the prohibition of hate speech, the treatment of Guantanamo detainees, the use of torture, and the legality of humanitarian intervention to prevent genocide. Required for all undergraduate human rights majors.

HRTS  W3996: Human Rights Senior Seminar 
Slaughter, Joseph; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Required for all human rights majors

HSPS G8445: Legacies of Empire and Soviet Union
Motyl, Alexander; 4 credits; M 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

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INAF U4420: Oil, Rights, Development
Barkan; 1 credits; Sat 8:00am-8:00pm (LEC)

This multi-layered role-playing simulation, based on a fictitious country, allows exploration of the challenges associated with initiation of a major industrial venture in a developing country as regards any or all of the following: macro-economic and political factors; identification of priorities; environmental management; complications arising from ethnic and religious conflicts; health management (including HIV/AIDS); community development aspects; reconciliation of the interests of a wide variety of stakeholders; media management; achievement of the largest possible Circle of Consensus. The simulation is conducted over two consecutive days and some 50 to 80 participants role-play up to twenty separate entities, including an international industrial company and its competitor, government factions, opposition groups, a local community and wide varieties of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and of media. As in real life, some more general knowledge of the situation is available to all entities, but each one has sole access to information (which may overlap with that of others) which is unique to its own perspective. The emphasis is therefore on sharing and on cooperation to make progress against tight deadlines, on managing information of various degrees of reliability and of balancing conflicting demands. There is no "single right answer" but through the process participants have an opportunity to explore the interplay of a very wide range of factors and develop strategies which are based on a holistic appreciation of the problems involved and on creation of alliances which are by no means obvious at the beginning of the simulation. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: E&E- IEMP. SIPA: Human Rights.

INAF U4722: Introduction to Environmental Law
Weinberg; 3 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

his course provides an overview of environmental law and regulation for students without a legal background. The course will examine existing U.S. statutes and regulations, including those enacted to control pollution, regulate risk, and manage public resources, and will explore the major concepts and regulatory approaches embodied in these laws. The course will also provide an introduction to the U.S. legal system and the role of law and the lawyer in protecting our environment. Although the course will focus largely on federal law, there will be some discussion of international and state law as well.

INAF U4727: Environmental Politics/Policy Managememt
Macbride; 3 credits; W 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

Government, citizens, corporations, and community groups alike are increasingly aware of the shared environmental challenges our planet faces, and these parties have undertaken substantial efforts directed toward finding solutions to some of the most intractable and complex problems of sustaining life on this planet. The majority of these solutions rely on collective action and the establishment of government policies and regulations to address the inherent market failures and externalities associated with environmental pollution and natural resource degradation. These policies and institutions, and the processes that establish them, are by no means straightforward or simple. Even if we are able to identify and create environmental policies, we still face the challenge of implementing them and ensuring that they work. The course is therefore designed to give students interested in careers in environmental policy and management an understanding of the following: What are the politics of the environment policymaking? What types of environmental policy tools are available to address environmental problems? What are some of the key management issues we face in implementing environmental policies? The goal of this course is to take a system-level approach to environmental policy problems. Issues presented include: defining the environmental problem, the politics of the environment, environmental agenda setting, pollution prevention, U.S. pollution control through regulation, public works and market incentives, cross-media and cross national environmental problems, and the response of societies, economies and political systems to environmental issues. The course will also discuss international environmental regime development, conflict resolution and citizen participation in environmental decision-making.

INAF U4759: Human Rights Practicum I
Barkan, Elazar; 1 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (PRC)

The Human Rights Practicum is a forum where human rights practitioners and academics share with students their professional experiences and insights on the modern development of international human rights law, policy and practice. It plays an important role in the Human Rights Concentration as a means by which students are able to examine current trends in the human rights field and remain informed about the different roles that human rights actors play in a variety of contexts. The Practicum is designed, therefore, to enhance students' abilities to think critically and analytically about current problems and challenges confronting the field, and to do so in the context of a vibrant community of their peers. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs.

INAF U4890: Topics on Contemporary Turkey
Cuthell, David; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This course proposes to examine in depth some of the major debates and issues faced by the citizens of the Turkish Republic at the present time. In doing so this course will briefly examine the origins of the modern Turkish State with a focus on how the founding realities and myths have aided or hindered contemporary Turkish society. This course will give particular emphasis to the interplay of domestic and international agendas in the larger framework of the current Turkish debates on such topics as accession negotiations to join the European Union, the PKK, civil society and the rights of women and ethnic minorities. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Middle East.

INAF U6042: Energy Business and Economic Development
Morris, Ellen; 3 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

Energy is a key input and a key business in economic development. The course first develops the current understanding of the economic development process, with a focus on the role of energy, and energy businesses and markets. Then we examine development problems and policies in resource dependent economies, middle income reforming economies, low income economies and conclude with a look at the interface between economic development and environmental protection.

INAF U6139: International Organizations
Salomons; 3 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

The way we see the world is determined by the mental maps we make of it. In international affairs, the nation state is still seen as the essential building block of political and social organization, which defines how the world interacts globally. Yet, this perception is to some extent an illusion: people function at many levels simultaneously, in their family, in their community, in their nation, in their region, and globally -- and the scope of the issues addressed varies accordingly, from the choice of a family physician, the selection of a school board or the establishment of fair taxation rates, all the way to the broadest concerns about nuclear threats and the implications of climate change. And at each functional level, there are matching institutions that allow for joint decision making.
This course intends to provide students with a mental map of the international organizations that shape public policy and determine global action at a level beyond the nation state. Such a mapping exercise is useful for all SIPA students, as each of the concentrations and regional specializations requires clarity about the institutions that influence the developments in their area of study, be it the large global structures of the United Nations system or the Bretton Woods framework, regional actors such as the African Union, non-governmental behemoths like World Vision International, or specialized public-private partnerships, exemplified by GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. Insight into the nature and scope of such international organizations is key to understanding the decision making processes affecting economic development, human rights, the environment, international security and social policy.

INAF U6149: Energy, Corporate Responsibility, and Human Rights
Radon; 3 credits; TR 4:10pm-5:25pm (SEM)

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INAF U6166: African Institutions in a Changing Regional and Global Security Environment
Hirsch; 1.5 credits; T 9:00am-10:50am (LEC)

The course seeks to give you the perspective and analytical capability to deal with in-depth consideration of the complex challenges facing Africa's regional and sub-regional institutions. In particular, the course aims to enable you: a) to acquire knowledge and understanding of the recent history and contemporary developments of selected African organizations; and b) to examine the context and consequences of current and emerging global political and economic challenges for African institutions. The course will seek to challenge you to approach these issues through the prism of African and international decision-makers, and to be able to offer them policy relevant recommendations.

INAF U6188: Institutions and Development: Theoretical foundations and empirical evidence
Alonso, Jose; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

The objective of the course is to analyze the relationship between a country´s institutional framework and its process of economic development. The course adopts a critical and eclectic approach taking into account contributions from different theoretical traditions (such as New Institutional Economics, Evolutional Economics, Sociological Institutionalism and Historical Institutionalism), combining theoretical approaches with empirical and historical analysis. The course aims at familiarizing students with the specialized literature that explore the role that institutions play in explaining social and economic changes.

INAF U6211: ICTs and New Media for Development and Social Change
Mechael, Patricia; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

The aim of this course is to provide a theoretical and practical framework for students to understand participatory approaches to new media and information and communication technologies to address the advancement of the Millennium Development Goals and social change, with a special focus on low and middle income countries. Each session will include an introduction to basic theories that provide a critical lens through which mobile phone and computer-based applications and tools can be designed to solve problems in health, education, agriculture, small business development, and environmental sustainability. Cross-cutting themes that will be explored include gender, public-private partnerships, and policy dimensions of information and communication for development (ICTD) as well as the newly emerging fields of mHealth, mLearning, mBanking, etc. Through the use of case studies and a term-long project, the technology project life-cycle will be explored in an applied setting. Specifically students will be guided through the process of conducting needs assessments; applying ethnographic research methods to understanding work, communication, and information flows; participatory program and application design; systems development and local adaptation; testing and usability assessments; implementation; and evaluation. Applications that will be reviewed in more detail during the course include: RapidSMS (Project Mwana and others) and ChildCount+, Mangrove, Ushahidi, EpiSurveyor, FrontlinSMS, Open Data Kit and many others.

INAF U6217: Social Media
Angwin, Julia; 3 credits; T 9:00am-10:50am (SEM)

Facebook and Twitter are not just places to hang out with your friends. They are also serious tools for journalists - and for advocacy. This class will present a history of social media, from the early Internet days on The Well to the current generation of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. We will also discuss the issues of how to verify online identity, how to use these sites for reporting, how to raise awareness of issues and even how to use them to find a job in journalism. We will also tackle privacy issues, particularly related to protecting anonymous sources. The class will aim to give students an intellectual framework for understanding social media, as well as hands-on experiece using social media tools. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U6221: Navigating by Starlight
Gaouette, Michael; 3 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

Prerequisites: U6807 What brings adversaries to the negotiating table? Who can actually end a conflict? How important are mediation tactics to resolving a conflict? Has international advocacy changed the way conflict resolution is approached? This course will develop students understanding of key aspects of international conflict resolution by examining these and other fundamental questions, through discussion of different case studies. Conflicts in Algeria, Angola, Bosnia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan will be among those discussed. Students will draw generic lessons or observations from each case while also developing an appreciation for the unique nature of different conflicts. Supplementary case studies will also be integrated through lecture and targeted readings. Priority for this course will be given to second-year students.

INAF U6228: Role of Government-ADV Corporate Sustainable Development
Potent; 3 credits; F 1:00pm-3:00pm (LEC)

Corporate sustainable development, as compared to more traditional approaches to environmental management, optimizes environmental and social performance to improve the long term competitiveness and asset value of the corporation. For companies focusing on sustainability, regulatory compliance is not viewed as an endpoint, but merely as one of many performance measures. The prime drivers for such companies are product differentiation, cost and risk reduction and efforts to enhance environmental and social conditions through its operations and the goods and services that it provides. Governments at all levels are beginning to play important roles in informing and engaging industry to advance sustainable development. Agencies are: changing procurement policies; providing technical support and incentives; facilitating environmental markets; and engaging in partnerships to conduct research and demonstration projects that test and establish best practices. This course will present the underpinnings and provide an introduction to the emerging field of corporate sustainable development. It will provide an historical perspective on its emergence and the expanding role of governments in fostering its widespread application. Finally, the course will address the challenges that our society faces in moving toward a truly sustainable economy, focusing on the need to further refine and scale-up the role of government as an important stimulus toward this transition. However, governmental agencies face numerous constraints in providing leadership on sustainable development, including limited financial and human resources and reactive legislative mandates that restrict the expenditure of large sums of public funding for the environment to the administration of command and control regulatory programs.

INAF U6235: Climate Change, Rights and Development
Mutter; 3 credits; W 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

The fundamental behavior of the Earth's climate system is now very well understood including, in a first order way, the spatial and temporal scales of natural variability that occur, from the rhythmic change of seasons to irregular El Nino cycles, longer period changes and the distribution and frequency of extreme events like cyclones. From this basis it is possible to predict what form of human activity can cause perturbations to the climate system in terms of climate zone spatial distribution and variability, including extremes. Where there is little or no consensus is in the consequences for human development and human rights that climate changes will bring about. Throughout the world the outcomes of climate change will be very uneven with some no doubt benefiting and others suffering, even in the same regions. The potential for vast global inequities in direct and indirect effects (resulting from mitigation and adaptation programs) of global climate change appears very real. The course will explore the critical nexus between climate change, economic and political development and human rights.

INAF U6243: International Relations of the Environment
Ginsberg, Joshua; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

This course examines issues central to the theory and practice of international environmental politics. It provides a foundation of conceptual frameworks and factual knowledge for individuals planning work in this or related fields. Readings, lectures and discussion address many issues but we focus on factors that contribute to or impede the creation and implementation of effective international environmental policy. The course consists of three interrelated sections: (1) The Process and Difficulty of Creating and Implementing Effective International Environmental Policy; (2) The Setting for International Environmental Politics: Actors, Issues, Trends, and Law; and (3) Causal Factors in Creating Effective International Environmental Policy and Regimes. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: E&E- IEMP. SIPA: E&E- Environment Policy.

INAF U6355: Globalization
O'Halloran, Sharyn; 3 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Prerequisites: INAF U4596 or INAF U4601 or PUAF U8216 Globalization has become something of a fad, being credited for everything from the collapse of communism to El Nino to distress in the capital markets. But what is generally agreed upon is that the integration of markets for goods, services, and capital has created both new opportunities and challenges for firms, governments and international organizations. The tremendous opportunities lie in the potential to grow new markets, transfer ideas and technology, and foster cooperation across the disparate corners of the globe. The challenges lie in how to manage the conflicts that inevitably arise over the distribution of costs and benefits that a global economy entails. The objective of this course is to highlight how U.S. domestic interests and institutions have met the demands of globalization. While globalization by definition is multi-faceted, this course focuses on one key dimension of globalization, international trade policy. Moreover, the course is inter-disciplinary, as it draws on analytical frameworks developed in economics, political science, and business to illustrate the linkages and tensions that firms and governments face in the new global context. The course is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the basics of globalization: what is it? what are the benefits? and what are its costs? The second part of the course focuses on how the U.S. trade policy making process works, and how domestic interests and institutions respond to the demands of globalization: who wins and loses, how do firms formulate effective market and non-market strategies, and how do the institutions of governance aggregate these demands? The third section of the course applies this logic of policy making to recent and ongoing issues in globalization and international trade. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: APEA. SIPA: IFEP- Economic Policy. SIPA: Intl Org

INAF U6370: Women and Global Leadership
Wolfe, Melinda and Rashid, Ripa; 1.5 credits; R 4:10pm-6:00pm (LEC)

This practicum will explore the progress of women's leadership on a global scale. We will look at women's leadership in both the public and the private sphere. In addition to understanding the current status of women's leadership around the globe, we will examine the competitive advantages successful integration of women brings about for a country or a company. Finally, we will look to understand the obstacles which have inhibited women's further progress in both of these arenas. The course will be taught in an interactive seminar format. Course dates: 1/19/2012 - 3/1/2012SIPA: EPD. SIPA: USP- Social Policy Track. SIPA: Gender Policy. SIPA: Short Courses.

INAF U6387: Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Gottlieb; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This course examines the origins and evolution of modern terrorism, challenges posed by terrorist groups to states and to the international system, and strategies employed to confront and combat terrorism. We assess a wide variety of terrorist organizations, and explore the psychological, socioeconomic, political, and religious causes of terrorist violence past and present. We also analyze the strengths and weaknesses of various counterterrorism strategies, from the point of view of efficacy as well as ethics, and look into ways in which the new threat of global terrorism might impact the healthy functioning of democratic states. The course is divided into two parts. Part I focuses on the terrorist threat, including the nature, roots, objectives, tactics, and organization of terrorism and terrorist groups. Part II addresses the issue of counterterrorism, including recent American efforts to combat terrorism, the strengths and weaknesses of counterterrorist tools and instruments, the issue of civil liberties and democratic values in confronting terrorism, and international strategies and tactics.

INAF U6396: Mediation of Armed Conflict
Coleman, Christopher; 3 credits; M 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

This course is divided into three parts. The first will be devoted to the dynamics that shape the mediation of armed conflicts and will also introduce a range of tools and techniques at a mediator's disposal. The second part of the semester will consist of case studies that highlight some of the dilemmas faced by mediators. This segment will enable students to live key moments vicariously, to struggle with the dilemmas, to appreciate the real trade-offs that were entailed in each of the roads that could have been taken, to understand how the situation looked to decision-makers before the decisions were made and before the results of those decisions were known. Students will explore options for addressing these dilemmas in the formulation of mediation strategies. In the third part of the course, students will engage their peers in the simulated mediation of an intra-state armed conflict

INAF U6406: International Responses to Landmine Challenges
Kirkey, Christopher; 1.5 credits; Two day short course (LEC)

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction effectively seeks to permanently eliminate landmines. The origins, negotiation, and implementation of this December 1997 international agreement forms the substantive core of this course. The course will continue by examining the operationalization of the Convention. What programs have been implemented and which have proved to be successful? What is the geographic scope of the humanitarian threat posed by landmines in October 2004? What roles are states, international organizations and nongovernmental organizations playing? As a practical example of global humanitarian intervention by the international community, what challenges remain and how best can they be tackled? Finally, how "successful" has the Ottawa Convention been? Dates: October 29th and 30th

INAF U6411: Global Food Systems
Denning; 3 credits; T 9:00am-10:50am (LEC)

Introduces and explores systems of producing and ensuring equitable access to food. The course begins with an overview of the core bio-physical elements of food production: land and soil, water and biodiversity. The course then surveys a selection of important smallholder farming systems that provide food and livelihoods for more than two billion people on the planet. Building on this understanding, students will examine the underlying history, science and impact of the Asian Green Revolution that doubled global food supplies between 1970 and 1995. Country case studies from Asia and Africa will be examined to understand the roles of science, policies, politics, institutions and economics in advancing agriculture and food security.

INAF U6413: Global Health Practice
Pronyk ; 3 credits; M 9:00am-10:50am (LEC)

The aim of this course is to provide non-health experts with a basic understanding of global public health issues. The course will focus on the Millennium Development Goals 4 (child health), 5 (maternal health) and 6 (malaria, HIV, TB and other important diseases) alongside the interdependence of the MDGs and health outcomes. In addition, challenges to health systems and barriers to access are addressed. All students are required to complete the Introduction to Global Health (HGH 6810) course offered in the fall prior to registering for this course.

INAF U6440: Peace Operations in Fragile States
Guehenno, Jean-Marie; 3 credits; M 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

This course will focus on peace operations and the stabilization of fragile states. It will assess the various tools used by the International community and the evolution in their use: the deployment of military forces, transitional authorities, multidimensional operations, security sector reform, rule of law and transitional justice, support to political processes. It will conclude with an examination of the evolving broader political context and the growing challenge it poses to effective stabilization strategies: an increasingly divided international community, limited consent of host countries, obstacles to effective reform of the United Nations. The course will be entirely based on case studies drawn from operations of the last 20 years.

INAF U6490: International Humanitarian Law
Fischer; 1 credits; F 9:00am-5:00pm (SEM)

The overall aim of the course is to help students to understand the system of international humanitarian law and to obtain the professional skills and insight to use that knowledge in the context of complex humanitarian operations. Upon completing the course, students should understand the historical development and system of international law applicable in armed conflict situations, be familiar with the basic principles of international humanitarian law applicable to all armed conflicts including the basic rights of those who support victims in wars and conflicts, be able to analyze specifically the law guiding humanitarian operations, understand the rapid development of the law in responding to changes in warfare strategies in tactics and understand basic responses to serious violations of the law. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs. SIPA: UN Studies. SIPA: Short Courses.

INAF U6497: Humanitarian Crises in East Congo
Dijkzeul; 1 credits; F 1:00pm-5:00pm & Sat 9:00am-5:00pm (SEM)

The overall aim of the course is to help students to understand the situation in Eastern Congo and how humanitarian organizations intervene. Upon completing this course students should: 1. Understand the historical development and current status of the conflict in Eastern Congo. 2. Be familiar with the basic operations, dilemmas, as well as achievements and shortcomings of several humanitarian NGOs active in Eastern Congo. 3. Understand the breakdown of state or better administrative institutions, in particular the education and health systems. SIPA: Africa. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs. SIPA: UN Studies. SIPA: Short Courses.

INAF U6556: UN: Challenges and Alternatives
Lindenmayer; 3 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

Does the United Nations matter? The course will offer a broad assessment and analysis of the place, performance and potential of the United Nations within the nation-state system. It will assess the world body based on a range of distinct expectations through the prism of global threats, global norms and global responsibilities. Increasingly the world is confronted with phenomena - related to both security and development - which require global responses; the question this course seeks to answer is to what extent can we rely on the UN to act as a global instrument for constructive change? The United Nations does not exist in isolation. It is shaped by the broad political context in which it operates. The course will first examine the changing nature of world politics and the new challenges it poses to the world organization in the 21st century, both the end of the Cold War and the impact of 9/11 having profoundly shaped the framework within which policy and action must take place. In particular the course will examine the emergence of new threats (the unprecedented role of non-state actors, the emergence of a single hyper-power and the reformulation of state sovereignty) which go beyond borders and the reach of individual states - no matter how powerful they may be - and which require a global response. Will the United Nations be up to the challenge? And, we must also ask, who exactly is the United Nations?

INAF U6568: Strategy and U.S. Foreign Policy
Gelb, Leslie; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The single hardest task in foreign policy is formulating a strategy. It entails identifying problems and opportunities, prioritizing interests, deciding which objectives are achievable, understanding which instruments of power can be used, and sequencing moves to ensure that power is applied so that it can succeed. This course is designed to provide an appreciation of strategy making in general and specific contexts. Specifically, the course will examine the following issues and areas in detail: Afghanistan and Pakistan, Mexico, China, Iran, the European Union, and climate change. The seminar will proceed with intensive discussion, and students will be required to write three strategy papers. The emphasis is on current events, but successful students will take away a timeless set of skills: the analytical discipline necessary to confront any problem, from the battlefield to the boardroom.

INAF U6575: Foreign Policy Challenges in the Americas in the 20th Century
Sabatini, Christopher; 3 credits; R 4:10p - 6:00p (LEC)

This course will be taught as a seminar to collectively explore changes in inter-state relations in Latin America and the foreign policy implications of those changes, for the U.S., for larger powers such as Brazil and multilaterally.

INAF U6653: Higher Education, Policy and Development in Asia
Lefebure, A. ; 3 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

The course has been designed to enable students to understand and discuss major evolutions and trends in Higher Education policies across several Asian countries. Through an interdisciplinary and comparative approach the semester will be dedicated to the investigation of the origin, design, implementation, and effects of different policy responses to development problems and challenges. In particular the course will examine how the Higher Education choices reflect development goals of states and nations. Combining lectures with the intervention of outside speakers (expert analysts, journalists, diplomats, public figures), current education policy problems and debates will be related to political, economic, social and historical context, with particular concern for issues such as skilled migrations, human resources development, R&D, modernity, democracy. The course will focus on the major cases of China, India, Singapore, Japan and Korea, but students will be encouraged to bring a comparative perspective with other regions of the world.

INAF U6712: Political Islam
Kane, Ousmane; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

The aim of this course, which assumes no prior knowledge of Islam, is to survey the politics of Islam, with particular reference to Political Islam. Attention will be devoted to the patterns of interaction between the Muslim World and the West because it is our assumption that these patterns contribute to influence ideological formations and modes of religious/political mobilizations in the Muslim World. The course starts with the discussion of the formation of Muslim civilization. The study of Islamic expansion and the many forms it took, will add to an understanding of Muslim diversity. One form of diversity is that Muslim differ in nationality, ethnicity, language, and, race. Another form of diversity is the fragmentation of sacred authority. Both forms of diversity will be addressed. SIPA: Middle East.

INAF U6760: Managing Risks-National and Other Disasters
Jacob; 3 credits; MW 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Natural and technological disasters occur when natural and technological processes inflict harm on a vulnerable society during extreme events. Natural disasters include draughts, floods, storms, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other natural processes. They are normal, albeit extreme events of the Earth's dynamics. Technological disasters are caused by "normal" failures of technical systems. "Normal" is used here in the sense that generally the occurrence rates and magnitudes of failures and related events can be statistically quantified in advance but are highly uncertain (and sometimes actuarially impractical, e.g. for terrorist attacks). The natural and man-made events become disasters only when they affect exposed vulnerable societies. Vulnerability, or lack of resilience, can be caused by many factors such as concentration of population and assets when placed in harms way. Vulnerability differs fundamentally between more developed countries (MDCs) and less developed countries (LDCs). In LDCs, vulnerability is often associated with poverty, inequity, lack of information, or greed that may place people or entire populations into harm's predictable way. Public and private institutions may lack the political capacity, the will, or the resources to build sufficient disaster resilience by persistent assessment, planning and sustained risk mitigating actions. Are disasters the result of an unresolved dichotomy between long-term persistence of natural and cultural processes, vs. the short-term horizon of political perceptions and decisions? Are disasters scientifically "predictable"? How do urbanization and industrialization increase human vulnerability to natural and technological hazards or even create new hazards? How do the effects of disasters differ in less vs. more developed countries? How can the risks be managed? We assess science, technical, policy and humanitarian needs and opportunities for pre-event mitigation and preparedness and post-event relief and recovery. We explore the role of global economic development to the rapidly increasing risk exposure. Some of this development is unsustainable. Some development is promoted via loans to developing countries for large infrastructure projects. Many of these projects are not properly assessed for the existing hazards to which they will be exposed, or for the new risks they generate. How can external disaster relief best serve indigenous needs and help to build the locally needed resilience and coping capacity? Under what conditions can disaster mitigation become a local and global cultural value with equitable burdens and effects? Can disasters be managed without first solving all other societal ills? Can science and engineering make a unique contribution to reduce risk exposure and directly build local capacity and disaster resilience, without having to submit to sometimes oppressive or uncivil political norms? Students are challenged to find their own answers to some of these questions based on introductory information provided, and their own research and reasoning

INAF U6801: Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Freeman; 3 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

There are two purposes to this course: 1. to develop your ability to negotiate in a purposeful, principled and effective way; and 2. to teach you how to build consensus and broker wise agreements with others. Negotiation is a social skill, and like all social skills you have to practice it if you want to get better at it. To give you the chance to practice, we'll do a number of simulated negotiations in and out of class. We'll also use lectures, case studies, exercises, games, videos, and demonstrations to help you develop your understanding. As we advance in the course, our focus will shift from simple one-on-one negotiations to more complex ones involving many parties, agents, coalitions, and organizations.

INAF U6802: International Law
Ergas; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This course introduces students to the basic doctrines of public international law and considers their relationship to both international relations theory and a range of problems in current international politics. The aim of the course is to provide a framework to understand the normative dimensions of international relations. Students are asked to consider the theoretical arguments, processes and frameworks that provide the structure of international law, and to analyze their practical application to world issues of current concern. A problem-oriented approach to various case studies will be used in both lectures and discussion sessions, including situations in the former Yugoslavia, East Timor, Africa and Iraq. In this way, the course attempts to integrate method, substance, concepts and domestic application of the international legal system. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Intl Org. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6805: Limited War-Low Intensity Conflict
Wilson; 3 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course is about two oxymora. To those caught in the crossfire, war is not limited and conflict is not low intensity. However, states must make policies and part of making policy is defining terms, establishing categories, and setting parameters. Scholars who study war in its many forms do the same. In general, limited wars are those somehow limited in scope, aims, and/or means. Low intensity conflict is often the term applied to those actions of violence beyond diplomacy that fall short of total war.

INAF U6819: Economics of Group Inequality
Sethi; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course examines the determinants of persistent group inequality, with particular emphasis on segregation, stereotypes, and intergenerational transfers of knowledge. We shall also discuss disparities across social groups in crime and incarceration rates, group identity, and the salience of identifying markers. The methods used are those of applied microeconomic theory. Although the main motivation comes from the historical experience of racial inequality in the United States and caste inequality in India, we shall also consider applications to other societies in which inequality and group identity are highly correlated.

INAF U8094: Labor Rights in a Global Economy
Warren, Dorain; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

The present period is marked by increasing cross-border flows of goods, services, and capital; transformations in corporate organization; transitions in political regimes and social systems; and new patterns of labor migration and trafficking. These changes raise many pressing questions about the regulation of workplaces and labor markets from the local to the global levels. Major themes in the seminar include: Which regions and social groups are the winners and losers in the global economy? What is the relationship between labor rights and economic development? Can we design regulatory institutions to enhance democracy, equality, and compliance with labor rights at the domestic, regional and international levels? What is the relationship between public and private enforcement of labor rights and standards? Topics include: comparative models of labor law in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia; core international labor rights; linkage of labor rights with trading systems; enforcement of cross-border labor rights by U.S. courts and executive officials; multinational corporations and codes of conduct; the "living wage" movement; transnational union organizing; cross-border networks of labor migration and trafficking; and household labor and the informal sector.

INAF U8136: US Foreign Policy: the Persian Gulf
Sick, Gary; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

Instructor Permission Required This course will focus on the process by which U.S. foreign policy is formulated and executed, using the Persian Gulf region as case material. Readings and lectures will examine the relationship between U.S. government agencies (White House, State, Defense, CIA, Congress, etc.) and instrumentalities (declaratory policy, diplomacy, military presence, arms transfers, covert action, etc.) in the pursuit of national goals. Special attention will be devoted to the analysis of U.S. regional policy and international relations from the Iranian revolution through the two gulf wars to the present. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: E&E- IEMP. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Middle East. SIPA: United States.

INAF U8150: Economic Transformations in New Democracies
Stark, D. ; 3 credits; W 2:10pm - 4:00pm (LEC)

This course examines the relationship between democratization and economic transformation. It adopts a comparative perspective to examine efforts at democratization in Eastern Europe in 1989 and, most recently, in North Africa. Topics include: patterns of social mobilization (including communication technologies), forms of accountability, property transformation, transnational organizations, and the role of international contexts.

INAF U8178: Rethinking Human Rights
Barkan; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The course is aimed at graduate students in all Columbia schools and programs who have substantial expertise or experience in human rights. It seeks to discuss problematic, troubling, or controversial topics within human rights theory, discourse and practice, as a way of forging new understandings, new ideas, and new practices. The course is built around discussion of selected writings that bring to the surface contested and controversial issues. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights.

INAF U8183: Tools for Advocacy
Silber, Laura and Vachon, Michael; 3 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Tools for Advocacy: Understanding How the Media Works and How to Use it to Promote a Cause or Institution provides students of international affairs and public policy with a set of practical communications skills for use in their everyday work. Students will learn how to function effectively in our fast-changing contemporary media environment. Students will learn how to craft powerful messages, create compelling material for the media and refine their presentations techniques for interviews. They learn how to use the media to deliver messages to key audiences and how to conceive and execute an advocacy campaign as part of an organizational mission. Communications professionals from a variety of fields visit the class during the course of the semester. Students produce advocacy materials including an a press release, an op-ed and some form Internet content SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U8201: Developing Civic Support for Public Education
Belzberg, Lisa; 1.5 credits; T 9:00am-10:50am (SEM)

In this course, we will examine - through readings, class discussion and guest speakers - the role of the "public" in public education, offering a broad perspective of where public education lies in the consciousness of the American body politic and how politics, the media, the non-profit sector, foundations, parents, the unions and the business world perceive and impact public education. Following an examination of the historical development of public engagement and how it has transformed over time, we will discuss what civic involvement looks like today. Who are the participants and what are their roles? And, does civic involvement actually have an impact on school leadership and on students? We will attempt to answer the question: How can the broad civic community most effectively participate in the public school system in a manner that makes a difference on school improvement? Students will also explore their own experiences as members of the public --- incorporating all international students and their experiences --- for insight in answering these questions. Issues will be tackled while ever-mindful of the major contextual variables and outside players and their impact on the relationship between civic support and public education (Country by Country: Race, Class, Ethnicity, Media, Courts, Federal government, Non-Educator Superintendents).

INAF U8246: Comparative Development: East Asia and Its Lessons
Noman, Akbar; 3 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course will first, examine the nature, ingredients and gradations of the extraordinary success of several East Asian economies. The lessons of their experience have been the subject of an extensive literature. The course will introduce students to the main controversies. The second part will illuminate the debate by contrasting the experience and policies of East Asia with stylized trends and overviews of developments in each of the regions of Latin America, South Asia (Indian subcontinent), Sub-Saharan Africa and the transition economies of Europe and Central Asia. These comparisons will be informed by the question of what the lessons of East Asian success are for these other regions.

INAF U8270: Progressive Alternatives: Institutional Reconstruction Today
Sachs and Tubiana; 3 credits; T 8:10pm-10:00pm (SEM)

An exploration of the past and future agenda of progressives, whether selfdescribed as liberals or as leftists. What should they propose, now that they no longer believe in the usefulness of governmental direction of the economy or in the sufficiency of redistributive social programs? A basic concern is the relation of programmatic thought to the understanding of change and constraint. The course will draw on many disciplines and consider examples from many settings. It will try to develop ways of thinking as well as proposals for change. Readings from classic and contemporary social and political theory. For 2011-2012, a major theme will be innovation, education, capabilities, and creativity and the policies and institutions that their development requires.

INAF U8404: Politics in West Africa
Kane, Ousmane; 3 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

The aim of this seminar is to explore major aspects of state formation and transformation in West Africa during the precolonial (17th-19th centuries), colonial (19th-20th centuries) and postcolonial (20th-21st century) periods. The seminar will first address trade patterns linking different parts of West Africa to North Africa through the Sahara and how they contributed to the formation and transformation of political communities in precolonial West Africa.

INAF U8537: Climate Change Policy
Barrett, Scott; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

Climate change is the most challenging international policy problem that exists today. The course will primarily focus on two questions. First, what should be done about climate change? Second, what can be done about it? The first question requires an understanding of the science, impacts, technological options, economics, and ethics of climate change policy. The second question requires an understanding of the politics, international law, and international relations aspects of climate change policy. The course will not provide firm answers to these questions. It aims instead to provide a framework and the knowledge required for students to come to their own conclusions. Indeed, every student taking this course is required to answer these questions, and to defend their conclusions rigorously.

INAF U8560: Managing the UN System
Salomons; 3 credits; M 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

this course, the participants will examine the governance structure and decision-making processes in the UN organizations. They will review the rules and regulations whereby the organizations handle people, money and tangible assets, and see how they manage their human and financial resources. Special attention will be paid to the way in which cultural and political factors influence management practices. Key issues such as decentralization, coordination and the management of change will recur throughout the course. The interaction of the UN system with donors, the private sector and with civil society as partners in the provision of services will be closely studied.

INAF U8675: Emerging Capital Markets: Theory & Practice
Wolfson, Bruce; 3 credits; R 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

The goal of this course is to teach students about the historical relationships between financial risk, capital structure and legal and policy issues in emerging markets. Our strategy will be to develop a model of how and why international capital flows to emerging market countries and to use the model to examine various topics in the history of international financing from the 1820's to the present. Students will identify patterns in investor and borrower behavior, evaluate sovereign capital structures, and analyze sovereign defaults, including the debt negotiation process during the various debt crises of the past 175 years. We will focus primarily on Latin America, emerging Asia, and Russia, although the lessons will be generalized to cover all emerging market countries.

INAF U8690: Managing Complex Emergencies
Dunn; 3 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course focuses on the actual management problems of humanitarian interventions and helps students obtain the professional skills and insight needed to work in complex humanitarian emergencies, and to provide oversight and guidance to humanitarian operations from a policy perspective. It is a follow-up to the fall course that studied the broader context, root causes, actors, policy issues, and debates in humanitarian emergencies. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Management.

INAF U8738: Peacemaking/Peacekeeping
Hirsch; 3 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

The course will explore the major conceptual and operational transitions which have occurred in the character and responsibilities of UN Peacekeeping over the past 16 years. United Nations Peace Operations have evolved significantly since the end of the Cold War. In 2006 over 90,000 peacekeepers were deployed in 16 missions mostly in Africa and the Middle East. The UN Summit of world leaders in December 2005 adopted the concept of The Responsibility to Protect - a new global norm placing human rights over traditional concepts of sovereignty. Yet the humanitarian and political crisis in Darfur underscores the profound gap between principle and implementation. The Summit also established the UN Peacebuilding Commission reflecting a growing awareness that rebuilding collapsed states will require significant civilian as well as military engagement over a longer timeframe than heretofore envisaged for UN operations. There is also a new willingness to work in partnership with regional organizations. We will conclude the course by assessing the capacity and political will of UN member states to meet these challenges as well as to develop a strengthened response to the nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea and the threat of international terrorism.

INAF U8785: Gender, Politics, and Development
Weisgrau; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This course explores the multiple constructions of gender in development and political discourse, and how these constructions in state policy. The emphasis in the readings and discussion will be on understanding how differentiated gender roles inform international politics of development, through economic and political strategy, institutional structure, civil society and state-based institutions. We will interrogate feminisms and their sociocultural contexts, and examine various forms of development theory, institutions, economic segments, and case studies.

INAF U8818: International Ethics
Doyle; 3 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (COL)

Instructor Permission Required The seminar begins with an examination of how moral philosophers have considered the problem of the ethics of policy choice. In the next part of the seminar we explore human rights and the role of ethics in international politics. We then focus on problems in contemporary international ethics, wars, massacres and terrorism; international intervention; and global economic justice. We conclude with a discussion of the debate between the proponents of cosmopolitan justice, on the one hand, and the defenders of national self-determination, on the other, over the conditions of world order. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: UN Studies.

INAF U8867: International Enforcement and UN (SEC?) Countries
Lindenmayer, Elisabeth; 3 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

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INAF U8882: Education in Emergency, Crisis, Reconstruction
Anderson; 1.5 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course will focus on preparing students to understand the importance of education in the "emergency" settings; to reflect on the ways in which education interfaces with protective or non-protective forces in these settings; and to articulate the best practices and minimum standards for implementing education programming across these settings.

INAF U8885: Conflict Assessment
Mancini; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

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INAF U9240: Human Ecology and Sustainable Development
Sachs; 3 credits; MW 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This course describes the interactions between physical ecology and economic development, and stresses the two-way interactions between the physical environment and economic development. Ecological constraints (climate, disease ecology, physical resources such as soils and energy sources, topography and transport conditions) significantly shape the patterns of economic development, demography, and wealth and poverty. At the same time, anthropogenic activities (farming, resource depletion, demographic stresses, energy use) change the physical environment. The course aims to give a rigorous treatment of this two-way interaction, building on a rigorous foundation of earth systems processes to understand the ecological bases of human settlement.

ITSF T4018: Antrhopology and Development in Africa
Cristillo, L; 3 credits; W 01:00 pm-02:40 pm (LEC)

This seminar considers issues and problems of development in sub-Saharan Africa. It examines specific development projects from different theoretical and empirical perspectives.

ITSF T4090: Issues and Institutions in International Educational Development
Ginsberg, M.; Allaf, C. ; 3 credits; W 03:00 pm-04:40 pm (LEC)

This course explores theoretical approaches to the study of education in international development and uses these approaches to consider current topics and debates in the fields of international and comparative education. This course also introduces students to institutions involved with educational development in diverse global settings, such as the United Nations and the World Bank. This course is also offered at the doctoral level (ITSF 6581).

ITSF T4199: Issues in Inclusion and Quality of Education in Emergencies
Mendenhall, M; 3 credits; R 03:00 pm-04:40 pm (LEC)

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ITSF T4199: Issues: Women and Education in the Middle East
Allaf, C; 3 credits; T 07:20 pm-09:00 pm (LEC)

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ITSF T4613: International Perspectives on Peace and Human Rights Education
Bajaj, Monisha; 3 credits; W 05:10 pm-06:50 pm (LEC)

This course provides a grounding in the theory, pedagogy, and practice of peace education. It draws from the international literature of the field as it has been developed over the past three decades, and reviews teaching practices relevant to various cultures and learning settings.

ITSF T5012: Culture and Society in the Caribbean
Comitas, L; 3 credits; T 01:00 pm-02:40 pm (LEC)

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ITSF T5199: EduPlan IED: Policy, Education, and Conflict
Allaf, C; 3 credits; W 03:00 pm-04:40 pm (LEC)

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JOUR J6030: Social Impact of Mass Media
Tucher, Andie; 3 credits; W 6:00pm-8:00pm (LEC)

In this course we explore the social consequences of what journalists do and the complex relationships between the press and the public. Through readings, class discussions, and close observations of media past and present, we locate the work of journalism in its social, historical, and theoretical context, focusing on such topics as the media’s obligation to society; relationships between the press and the theory and practice of democracy; the media and storytelling; social ramifications of new technologies and new economic structures; and how the media are implicated in our perceptions of time, space, memory, and identity. This is a 13-week course that begins the first week of the semester.

LAW L9410: Law and Policy of Homelessness
Hopper; 2 credits; T 6:20p-8:10p (SEM)

Drawing upon contemporary experts and front-line protagonists in litigation, policy-making, service delivery and research, this seminar explores the contested realities of homelessness in New York City. Reading is varied -- court papers, social science studies, research reports and policy statements -- supplemented by video documentaries and real-time events (like the annual street count). Active participation in weekly discussions, preparation of questions for guest speakers, and one supervised field assignment (often associated with the City's annual street count) are expected. Areas of concentration in syllabus shift to track prevailing issues and conflicts regarding homelessness policy/litigation as well as particular student interests.

LAW/POLS L8829: International Human Rights Advocacy
Shamsi, Hina; 2-3 credits; W 6:20p - 8:10p (SEM)

This seminar considers major issues in contemporary international human rights from the perspective of the advocate. The initial class sessions will familiarize participants with key human rights standards and their implementation and enforcement through international, regional and national institutions and by non-governmental organizations. The remainder of the seminar will evaluate human rights advocacy tools and strategies applied in current political and social contexts and through case studies. We will critically examine the role of institutions and non-governmental organizations in upholding, advocating or failing to uphold international human rights standards. Topics are wide-ranging and include the challenges and opportunities presented to human rights advocates by: developments in national security and counterterrorism laws and policies; the intersection of international human rights and humanitarian law; and, how "positive" economic and social rights can and should be enforced in market economies and resource-challenged developing countries. We will have several human rights activists as guests. There are no course prerequisites. This is not a course solely for human rights lawyers and advocates or even only for law students. In prior years, students from a variety of educational, professional and regional backgrounds have participated in the seminar, including experienced human rights advocates and lawyers, graduate students in international affairs and business, journalists and diplomats. This diversity of perspectives has facilitated lively and productive discussion. A paper is required and brief oral presentations on assigned topics also may be required.

LAW L6071: Law and Development
Pistor, K.; 3 credits; TBD (LEC)

This course will examine the various roles that law and legal institutions play in economic, social, and political development in both theory and practice. Its goal is to introduce students to some of the canonical writings on the subject and to critically examine ongoing debates in policy circles and academia by questioning their theoretical foundations and practical implications. The first part of the course will be devoted to general theories about the relation between law and economic development. The second part will examine different methods for assessing the relationship between law and economic development by critically reviewing recent empirical studies and index constructions. The third part takes a closer look on the state in economic development - as an agent of development, as a hindrance to development and as an absentee in even the most basic forms of social ordering. The fourth part examines the role of individuals and society, or social groups and the differentiated impact law may have on different parts of society. The fifth part, finally, is devoted to examining law and economic development in a broader international and geopolitical context. This part will highlight the role of multilateral organizations, the different kinds of legal regimes the international community has created for human rights on one hand, and investors on the other; and will use climate change to rethink the normative foundations of legal governance.

LAW L6116: Property
Scott; Lieberman; 4 credits; TBD (LEC)

Property, along with Contract and Torts, are foundational courses grounded in the common law. Contract deals with the exchange of property, and torts (in significant part) with the protection of property against harms. Property deals with the things that are subject to exchange or protection. Questions considered include: How are property rights originally established? What are the basic rights of ownership and the limits on these rights? How can ownership be divided over time and among multiple persons? What sorts of mechanisms exist for coordinating the interests of neigboring property owners? How far should government forebear from frustrating expectations about property rights, specifically, when should government compensate for "taking" property? The focus will be on traditional property rights in land and movables.

LAW L6133: Constitutional Law
Thomas; Greene; Barenberg; Metzger; 4 credits; TBD (LEC)

This is the basic course in constitutional law, a foundation for more specialized courses on the Constitution, and for public law courses generally. The course explores the basic architecture of the Constitution; the American tradition of constitutional review by the judicial branch and by other institutional actors; and the constitutional limitations on state and federal power. The course is divided roughly into "structure" and "individual rights." The first half of the course proceeds historically and provides an introduction to the basic instruments of modern-day constitutional analysis: the text and structure of the document, the American constitutional narrative, the canonical precedents, and the forms of constitutional argument. The second half of the course focuses primarily on the theory and doctrine behind individual constitutional rights.

LAW L6243: Employment Discrimination Law
Emens, E. ; 2-3 credits; TBD (LEC)

This course examines the law governing employment discrimination. The focus will be on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Legal readings will be supplemented with material from psychology, philosophy, economics, and literature. Topics include the following: the nature and different meanings of discrimination; the relationship between accommodation and antidiscrimination; whether employment discrimination law should focus on animus, stereotypes, subordination, or something else; the proper remedial approaches to employment discrimination; similarities and differences among the classes that seek and warrant protection under law, and whether the law should protect more or fewer classes, and on what basis; and the role of extralegal knowledge in the legal project of antidiscrimination. The course has no prerequisites and is open to LL.M.s and non-Law students. Grades will be based on class participation and performance on a final take-home exam.

LAW L6252: Family Law
Dubler, Ariela; 4 credits; TBD (LEC)

This basic offering will focus on the legal regulation of marriage, parenthood, and other intimate relationships and will examine how and why the law defines what counts as a family. Examination required.

LAW L6269: International Law
Damrosch, L, O. De Schutter; 3-4 credits; TBD (LEC)

The focus of the course will be on the systemic features and methodologies of international law, the "operating system" rather than specific "applications" and on international lawyering skills. The methods of international law will be illustrated in two main areas: Use of Force (including terrorism, war in Iraq etc.) and international economic law (emphasis on international trade disciplines.) Not for the faint hearted but the intellectual and professional rewards are commensurate with the effort. Laptops are not allowed in the classroom with the exception of a rotating roster of three 'Designated Note Takers' whose notes will be reviewed by the Course TAs and posted online. This will enable all other students to give their entire attention to the legal materials and the class discussion surrounding these. (We are in the business of legal education, not stenography.) The principal text will be the Henkin et al casebook.

LAW L6355: Health Law
Trueman, D.; 3 credits; TBD (LEC)

This is a survey course covering legal issues in health care delivery, financing, and the responsibilities of health care professionals to patients. The course offers students an introduction to a subject that constitutes one-seventh of the U.S. economy and is crucial to all citizens. The course will include traditional areas of interest including quality of care, liability of health care professionals and institutions, state and federal regulation of the health care industry, insurance and managed care, access to health care, medical malpractice and tort reform, and fraud and abuse, as well as more emerging legal areas pertaining to rights to care and to refuse care, and life and death decision-making. There will also be an analysis of the new health care enactment, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as well as legal and Constitutional challenges to the law.

LAW L6357: Public Health Law
Goldman; 2 credits; TBD (LEC)

This course will explore the legal framework in which public health operates, at the global, federal, state and local levels, examining the constitutional foundation for public health's broad police powers and the limits of its authority. We will study the interplay of public health's mission to safeguard the health of the populace and the rights of individuals to be free from unreasonable coercion. The movement over the past decade - spearheaded by the late Jonathan Mann - to posit as inextricable public health and human rights will be studied and evaluated through current cases in the United States and globally. Our goal will be to learn how to apply public health law and theory in practice through a range of existing and hypothetical cases.

LAW L6473: Labor Law
Barenberg; 3 credits; TBD (LEC)

Take-home exam. The course examines federal regulation of labor-management conflict and cooperation, with particular focus on the National Labor Relations Act. The course examines the legal doctrine in light of two broad questions: To what extent does or should labor law encourage worker participation and economic redistribution? Should labor law be reformed to address ongoing transformations in corporate organization, economic globalization, and shifting conceptions of class identity in the political culture? Specific topics include: the protection of employee rights to organize unions; the process of collective bargaining; the scope of union and employer direct action, including strikes, boycotts, picketing, and lockouts; the administration of the collective bargaining agreement and the role of labor arbitration; the relationship between unions and workers; new modes of collective action among workers outside the scope of federal regulation; and emerging regulatory systems designed to address the liberalization of international markets in goods, services, and capital.

LAW L6474: Law and the Political Process
Persily, N; 3 credits; TBD (LEC)

This course examines the constitutional and statutory framework that governs the American electoral process. Specific topics include: the right to vote; legislative apportionment, including the role of population, race, and partisanship in districting; access to the ballot and the regulation of political parties; and campaign finance regulation. We will examine the relevant constitutional law, primarily under the First, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, as well as key statutes, such as the Voting Rights Act, the Federal Election Campaign Act, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, and the Help America Vote Act.

LAW L6476: Advanced Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers and Other Problems
Monaghan, H.; 3 credits; TBD (LEC)

An in-depth look at the role of the federal courts in the constitutional order in the context of separation of powers. Matters such as case or controversy, the power of congress to control the jurisdiction of the federal courts (including habeas corpus) will be addressed. The second part of the course will deal with the role of the federal courts ordering congressional and executive relations, including matters such as the president's role as a "legislator," as chief executive, and in foreign affairs. Proctored examination. Hart & Wechsler, The Federal Courts in the Federal System (6th ed.). Other materials to be announced.

LAW L6478: Advanced Constitutional Law: Equal Protection
Crenshaw, K., T. Shaw; 3-4 credits; TBD (LEC)

This course will examine the history and jurisprudence of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause. It will trace the Reconstruction era's 14th Amendment's tenuous journey toward Plessy v. Ferguson and the twentieth century effort to overturn the "separate but equal" regime that culminated with Brown v. Board of Education. It will then consider post-Brown equal protection jurisprudence in school desegregation and other cases, including contemporary affirmative action challenges. The course will also examine the application of equal protection principles to gender and other claims.

LAW L6510: Law and Educational Institutions: Issues of Authority
Heubert, E. Sigall; 2 credits; TBD (LEC)

This course provides interdisciplinary perspectives on issues of equal educational opportunity. Topics include desegregation and single-sex education; high-stakes testing; services for English language learners, sex discrimination; harassment based on race, sex, and sexual orientation; school-finance reform; special education; and affirmative action. Readings will include legal materials and social-science research. This course is also offered at Teachers College in the spring semester as ORLA 5016.

LAW L6511: Educational Equality: The Role of Law
Heubert, E. Sigall; 2 credits; TBD (LEC)

This survey course focuses on selected legal issues that arise in public and private elementary and secondary schools. Topics include compulsory education; regulation of public and private schools; church-state issues, including voucher and choice plans; No Child Left Behind; free speech rights of students and teachers; the school's authority to make and enforce rules governing student and staff conduct on and off school grounds; the duty to protect the safety of students and others; child abuse; search and seizure; and due process. The course also explores the non-legal policy issues (educational, political, ethical, administrative, financial) that legal conflicts often raise, as well as relevant social-science research.This course is also offered through Teachers College as ORLA 4086.

LAW L6546: Global Constitutionalism
Doyle; 3 credits; TBD (LEC)

The course compares a variety of proposals that have been advanced to promote world order. We begin with traditional conceptions of the balance of power among independent states and then explore arrangements designed to produce increasing forms of international and world order. These include liberal internationalism, collective security through the League Covenant and the United Nations Charter, John Rawls's Law of Peoples and various other contemporary models of compliance with international law, including WTO dispute settlement, regional integration, global governance networks and global democratization. In addition to assessing the particular merits and limitations of these visions of world order, we will examine the underlying principles of international ethics and institutional design that characterize these efforts to establish rules for the globe.

LAW L8006: Domestic Violence and the Law
Leidholdt; 2 credits; TBD (SEM)

This seminar provides an in-depth examination of domestic violence from a legal perspective. It explores a wide range of topics, including police and prosecutorial responses, expert witness testimony, battered women as criminal defendants, domestic violence and child custody, legal remedies for battered immigrants, and domestic violence as a human rights concern. Each subject area brings together doctrinal issues with those of practice and of theory. Readings are drawn from case law, state and federal statutes, and legal and social science commentary. A number of the topics are approached using case studies drawn from actual cases handled by attorneys at the Center for Battered Women's Legal Services, where Professor Leidholdt serves as director.

LAW L8020: Global Poverty and Human Rights      
Perelman ; 2 credits; TBD (SEM)

This weekly seminar will explore the linkages between global poverty, human rights and development from a historical, theoretical, institutional and policy-making perspective. Its departure point is the emergence of a recent "human rights and development" trend, both in academia and policy, as a result of the combined failure of development economics and the human rights movement to effectively address the challenge of global poverty and inequality. A number of questions have both shaped and risen from the emergence of this field: is development too often conducive to human rights violations, or is it a means to realize human rights? Can the realization of human rights help generate more, and better, development? Is poverty a violation of human rights? Is development a human right? If so, what are the consequences of framing poverty or development in human rights terms? What are the consequences of developmentalizing human rights? The seminar will seek to answer some of these questions by offering a multidisciplinary lens to engage with the normative foundations, historical policy formations, ideological forces and institutional frameworks at play in the human rights & development field, and by introducing some of the key policy debates in the field. The seminar is articulated in three parts. The first part draws on foundational readings from law, development economics, political science, moral philosophy and social anthropology to introduce historically and normatively situated approaches to development and human rights. This inquiry will start with the post-World War II emergence of both movements, and will highlight the major historical stages of the human rights-development relationship, up to the current rights-based approach to human development. The second part of the seminar will explore some of the key themes and current policy debates in the field, as they play out respectively at the level of an international financial institution, national level development strategies, and the private sector. The selected themes include: an in-depth appraisal of the place of human rights and rights-based approaches to development at the World Bank; an analysis of recent legal and judicial "rule of law" policy reforms and their relationship to human rights; and a foray into some of the human rights dimensions of globalization, through an analysis of the labor and human rights dimension of transnational corporate activity in the developing world. The third part focuses on how social and economic rights and second generation human rights to food, health, housing and a decent livelihood can operate in the context of developing countries. This section of the seminar will dynamically bring the first two together, by involving students in workshop-format sessions around case studies. These case studies will place students at the ground level of advocacy and policy-making around socio-economic rights and development strategies, and provide a concrete opportunity to explore some of the practical implications of our inquiry into the human rights/development interface. The seminar is designed for students interested in social and economic development, global poverty, inequality, globalization and human rights issues. Prior or concurrent course in human rights and/or international law is required, although other background can qualify upon discussion with instructor (e.g. academic or professional background in international/development studies).

LAW L8081: Seminar on the History of International Legal Thought
Koskenniemi; 2 credits; TBD (SEM)

This is a part-term Spring 2012 course that will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning on Thursday, March 1. The course will offer a history of the role of legal thought in international politics from the late middle ages (1300) to the present. It examines legal thought in its context, as part of religious, economic and ideological projects that often coincide with efforts to strengthen the power of particular (European) nations vis-a-vis each other but also in the colonies. From the debates over the power of the church vs. the emperor in the late middle ages the course will move to the views of the Spanish scholastics in the 16th and early 17th centuries concerning empire and lawful forms of economic and State power (dominium). These views of the Dutchman Hugo Grotius will be linked to his efforts to defend and strengthen Dutch commercial power in the East Indies. Catholic and Protestant views on international lawfulness are located in their theological context. The emergence of a university discipline called "natural law and the law of nations" will be read as an offshoot of debates over the nature of the Holy Roman Empire in the middle of the 17th century. This will be compared with the rise of a "Public law of Europe" in 18th century in the context of Francophone ideologies of the enlightenment. The course will then follow the transformation of "the law of nature and of nations" in late-18th century Germany and Scotland into the discipline of political economy. There will be a discussion of the birth of "modern" international law through professionalization in the last third of the 19th century. This will be followed by a discussion of the principal streams of inter-war legal thought in Britain, France, and Germany. The course will end with a brief discussion of the changes in international law's role from the cold war to "globalization." Prof. Koskenniemi will distribute a handout that contains a number of articles plus extracts of texts from many thinkers. Apart from that, required reading includes his The gentle Civilizer of Nations: the Rise and Fall of International law 1870-1960 (Cambridge University Press 2002).

LAW L8174: The Anatomy of Autonomy: From Personhood to Personification
Williams, J. Patricia; 2 credits; TBD (SEM)

This course will examine what it means to be a person in the eyes of the law. We will examine the rhetorical framing that infuses our conceptions of living subjects, legal persons, non-persons and things. The line between human and subhuman, or person and thing, is given new urgency in an era when the limits of incarceration, torture, human trafficking, medical experimentation, and the right to due process often turn on newly minted meanings of words like "enemy combatant," "IQ," "underclass," "market choice," "race," "terror" or "illegal immigration."

LAW L8193: School Desegregation: U.S. and East European Roma (Gypsies) Compared
Greenberg & Shaw ; 2 credits; TBD (SEM)

This seminar will focus on the school segregation of Roma ("Gypsies") in Eastern Europe. We will look at the current state of segregation in Eastern European schools and society; the history and causes of segregation; present attempts at integrating schools; and the difficulties of achieving successful integration. In examining these issues, we will study relevant EU and domestic laws, the mechanisms for enforcing these laws, and cases involving segregation. We will also explore the similarities and differences between Roma segregation and segregation in the United States. In particular, we will look at the differing cultural, historical, and political backgrounds of the US civil rights movement and the Roma rights movement; the role and efficacy of courts in furnishing remedies for school segregation; and how the US experience can inform the development of integration policies in Eastern Europe. During the semester, we will have several visits from speakers involved in both the Roma rights movement and the US Civil Rights Movement. Readings will be drawn from literature on Roma segregation and the US segregation experience. Course evaluation will be based on a paper. Minor writing credit is also available.

LAW L8677: Aging and Disability Law
Cremin, K.; 2 credits; T 6:20p - 8:10p (SEM)

This seminar will examine discrimination, entitlements, ethical issues, and comparative law related to individuals who have disabilities or are elderly. The seminar will begin by introducing the concepts of "aging" and "disability" and the application of various theories of justice to individuals who are considered to be "aged" or "disabled." We will then review statutes that prohibit discrimination against individuals who have disabilities or are elderly in four specific areas: employment, housing, access to public accommodations, and access to public benefits. Following the class regarding access to public benefits, the seminar will address the major entitlements for which individuals who have disabilities or are elderly are eligible, including Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Next, the seminar will cover capacity, selective abortion, euthanasia, elder abuse, hate crimes, institutionalization, and other topics that are central to disability and elder law. The seminar will conclude by introducing relevant international law and comparing the laws and policies affecting individuals who have disabilities or are elderly in other countries with those in the United States.

LAW L8678: Justice and Human Nature in an Era of Scientific Revolution
Williams, J. Patricia; 2 credits; TBD (SEM)

This course is a multi-disciplinary course offered under the auspices of the Earth Institute and the Ford Foundation's series on Difficult Dialogues. It will be open to a select number of students from Columbia Law School; seniors and graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences; and students from both New York and Union Theological Seminaries. This course builds upon not only Contemporary Civilizations and the Humanities courses of Columbia College's vaunted Core Curriculum, but also the Major Cultures requirement and the new science core course, Frontiers of Science.

LAW L8680: Reconstruction from the Right
Graetz, J. Michael; 3 credits; R 4:20p - 6:10p (SEM)

In 1978, Time magazine declared the 1970s "elusive, unfocused, a patchwork of dramatics awaiting a drama" - in all, a historical pause "not worth remembering." This course is built on the premise that the Seventies are indeed worth remembering, not least because much that transpired during the decade set the main agenda for the United States for the rest of the century and even beyond. Topics to be considered will include such topics as the struggle of and backlash against the women?s and the civil rights movements, the constitutional status of economic inequality, deregulation, tax, and economic policies, the rise of the religious right, the federalization of crime, the new immigration and regional migrations, the emergence of the personal computer, biotechnology, and reproductive technologies industries, energy and the environment.

LAW L8814: Cuba: Law Policy and Transition
Freyre and Maxwell ; 2 credits; R 6:20p - 8:10p (SEM)

This seminar seeks to provide students with a grounding in four areas of enduring legal controversy related to Cuba and its unique relationship to the United States. First the course will compare Cuba's Spanish colonial legacy with that of the English colonies, review the U.S. intervention and the island's ensuing legal and economic developments prior to the 1959 Castro revolution. Second, it will examine the island's communist revolution and the subsequent U.S. embargo. Study of the latter will include the legal authorities for establishing U.S. foreign policy, the development of the Cuban embargo into this country's most comprehensive sanctions regime, and an understanding of its practical operation. Third the course will focus on Cuba's experience with human rights throughout its history, including debates on how these rights should be defined. Fourth, the course will explore how Cuba might transition from its current legal and economic model by considering the transition experiences in other countries as well as several proposals specific to Cuba. Finally, a brief overview will place these specific inquiries into a broader contexts of Latin America as well as the exercise of U.S. foreign policy throughout the world.

LAW L8816: Transnational Business and Human Rights
Ewing; 2 credits; W 6:20p - 8:10p (SEM)

Today, alongside governments, companies often are viewed both as non-state sources of human rights abuse and as international actors with the capacity and resources to promote human rights. Over the last 20 years, human rights advocates have shined a spotlight on human rights conditions in a wide range of transnational industries including oil and mining; the manufacturing of apparel, carpets, footwear, sporting goods, and toys; the agricultural production of coffee, tea, cocoa and bananas for global markets; and the pharmaceutical and other high technology sectors. The abuses at issue include complicity with governments that violate human rights, child and forced labor, limits on freedom of association, and dangerous and unhealthy conditions for workers and communities. During the same period, business and human rights has emerged as a distinct field within the broader corporate responsibility movement. In response to growing pressure to address human rights issues, transnational companies have undertaken human rights initiatives that seek to manage human rights risks, and in some cases, promote human rights as a source of competitive advantage in the marketplace. Human rights are now a concern of business, management and their advisers. Drawing on industry case studies, legal proceedings and a growing academic literature, this seminar analyzes the challenges and opportunities that arise for advocates and business managers at the intersection of business operations and efforts to promote international human rights. This seminar is designed to help students understand the human rights standards that affect business and the remedies available to human rights advocates seeking to influence corporate policies and practices. It also encourages participants to consider how human rights can guide corporate decision-making by exploring current best practices among corporate human rights initiatives.

LAW L8887: September 11 and the Rights of Non-Citizens
Gelernt; 2 credits; T 6:20p - 8:10p (SEM)

The primary focus of the course will be a straight academic assessment of the legality of the government's post-September 11 policies. The class, however, will also explore the issues from a variety of other perspectives, including whether the government has curtailed the rights of non-citizens to a greater extent than in previous periods in which the country's national security was threatened, and whether the role of the courts, lawyers and the media during such periods has changed over time. Because many of the issues are ongoing, the class will also examine the issues from the strategic perspective of the lawyers and litigants involved in the major September 11 cases. We will read the briefs in a number of these cases, and invite guest speakers where appropriate. Among the specific areas covered are: (1) the legality of holding secret immigration hearings and withholding the names of non-citizens arrested and detained in connection with the September 11 investigation; (2) the lawfulness of the various means used by the Justice Department in the wake of September 11 to detain non-citizens charged with immigration offenses; (3) whether the government has selectively applied its post-September 11 policies to non-citizens on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity or nationality, and if so, whether such selective application is unlawful; and (4) the legality of the government's designation of non-citizens as enemy combatants inside the United States.

LAW L8888: Topics in Civil Rights
Greenburg, Jack; 2 credits; R 4:20p - 6:10p (SEM)

Learning rules governing discrimination based on race and ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, disability, age. Differing standards and reasons for differences; effectiveness of rules and remedies.

LAW L8997: Civil Liberties and the Response to Terrorism
Shapiro; 2 credits; TBD (SEM)

This seminar will address a series of interrelated issues that have arisen from America's response to 9/11, including: torture, detention, surveillance, profiling, and dissent. Each of these issues raises a discrete set of legal and policy questions. However, each also offers the chance to explore how the system of checks and balances can and should work during periods of national crisis, the relevance of traditional constitutional constraints on executive power in a national security context, and the enforceability of international legal norms in domestic courts.

LAW L9164: Labor Rights in a Global Economy
Barenberg; 3 credits; T 4:20p - 6:10p (SEM)

The present period is marked by increasing cross-border flows of goods, services, and capital; transformations in corporate organization; transitions in political regimes and social systems; and new patterns of labor migration and trafficking. These changes raise many pressing questions about the regulation of workplaces and labor markets from the local to the global levels. Major themes in the seminar include: Which regions and social groups are the winners and losers in the global economy? What is the relationship between labor rights and economic development? Can we design regulatory institutions to enhance democracy, equality, and compliance with labor rights at the domestic, regional and international levels? What is the relationship between public and private enforcement of labor rights and standards? Topics include: comparative models of labor law in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia; core international labor rights; linkage of labor rights with trading systems; enforcement of cross-border labor rights by U.S. courts and executive officials; multinational corporations and codes of conduct; the "living wage" movement; transnational union organizing; cross-border networks of labor migration and trafficking; and household labor and the informal sector.

LAW L9181: Asian-Americans and the Law
Eng; 2 credits; M 4:20p - 6:10p (SEM)

Discourse on American law traditionally has marginalized Asian Americans. This course disrupts the traditional view by placing Asian Americans at the center. Since the nineteenth century, American law has profoundly shaped the demographics, experiences, and possibilities of Asian Americans. At the same time, Asian Americans have had a tremendous impact on the shaping of American law. The course will consider the role of Asian Americans in legal history as well as the past and present effects of law on Asian immigrants and Asian Americans. Among the topics to be addressed are the Chinese Exclusion Act; the Japanese American Internment; 1965 immigration reforms; hate crimes; racial profiling; transnational adoption; the mixed-race movement; bilingual education and language rights. Other topics may be added based on student interest. While the course will challenge a black-white paradigm of race relations, it also will include substantial material on African Americans, Latino/as, Native Americans, White Americans, and other individuals and groups. The course will focus on legal cases and other aspects of the legal system, but it will be multi-disciplinary in approach. Instructor will work with students to seek publishing opportunities. Although this course focuses on the Asian American experience, it is not meant for Asian Americans alone. It may be taken by anyone who has an interest in race relations and who is intellectually drawn to an unconventional inquiry.

LAW L9192: Welfare Law
Cohan & Mannix; 2 credits; W 4:20p - 6:10p (SEM)

This seminar will examine the complex legal issues concerning the entitlement to and administration of major public benefits programs (primarily cash assistance, but also Food Stamps, and Medicaid). The course will begin with a history and overview of the federal cash assistance programs which are intended to meet the needs of this nation's economically disadvantaged. The course will then examine the difficult legal issues concerning the operation of these programs and the intersection of critical constitutional rights. Particular attention will be paid to procedural due process, property rights, and entitlement; equal protection analyses as well as family dignity, the right to privacy, race and gender, immigrants' rights, and the role of state constitutions. Additional discussion will examine the obligation to work and the rights of welfare recipients as workers, the rights of persons with disabilities, and the obligation to ensure language access. The course will also examine recent trends to limit access to the Courts and restrictions on enforceability of federal statutes and regulations, including an overview of leading Supreme Court cases. Throughout the course, particular attention will also be paid to strategic, tactical, and ethical questions that arise in bringing and prosecuting impact litigation, including, but not limited to: choice of forum, whether to seek class certification, whether to forego an appeal, issue identification, the role of a press strategy, the inter-relationship of litigation and legislative advocacy, and relationships with community organizers. In addition, opportunities will arise to discuss whether litigation is an effective means to address poverty and to what extent a legal duty to alleviate poverty ought exist.

LAW L9219: Critical Race Theory
Thomas; 2 credits; T 4:20p - 6:10p (SEM)

This seminar explores the body of theoretical work on the law and politics of race which has come to be known as Critical Race Theory (CRT). The seminar will pursue two main, overlapping goals. The first is to introduce key concepts associated with CRT, and to examine the specific analytic strategies and forms of argument critical race theorists have deployed to investigate the uses and meanings of "race" in U.S. legal institutions and ideology. The second is to map the connections between CRT and broader national and transnational debates about race, racism and racial justice. Weekly seminar meetings will focus on close reading, viewing and discussion of a wide range of materials: case law, statutes and administrative regulations; scholarly writing in law, history, politics, and social and cultural theory; the performance arts, film, video and new media. By the end of the semester, seminar members may expect to have a working grasp of the genealogy and development of CRT as a scholarly movement; to understand the main points of convergence and divergence between CRT and conservative, liberal and left discourses on race and rights in the "post-civil rights" era; and to appreciate the possible uses and limits of CRT as a theoretical framework for studying questions of race, racism and law in a critical comparative and global perspective.

LAW L9325: Seminar on Computers, Privacy, and the Law
Moglen, E.; 2 credits; R 4:20p - 6:10p (SEM)

This seminar will consider some of the issues defining the relationship between our constitutional order and the technological revolution through which we are living. Among the problems we will discuss are: encryption and communications privacy in relation to law enforcement and government intelligence gathering; the constitutional basis of "intellectual property" in the context of novel technological structures; the "new media" and the First Amendment; and constitutional sexual privacy in cyberspace. Some familiarity with the basic technology of the network, including use of a Web browser, will be necessary in order to participate effectively.

The website for this course can be found at http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/wiki/CompPrivConst

LAW L9377: Enforcing International Law
Damrosch; 2 credits; M 4:20p - 6:10p (SEM)

How can international law be effectively enforced? Difficulties in enforcement have caused many to question whether international law is really "law"; yet the techniques for enforcing international law are more diverse and sophisticated than is generally appreciated. Among the issues to be addressed are decentralized enforcement through reciprocity and counter-measures, economic sanctions, enforcement through national and international tribunals, multilateral enforcement through the United Nations Security Council and other international organs, and police and military capabilities. The seminar will examine these issues in their application to contemporary problems, which can include: measures against international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (case studies including Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea); recent and pending cases in the U.S. Supreme Court involving enforcement of international human rights norms and implementation of treaty obligations; developments involving the theory of universal criminal jurisdiction; the establishment of specialized international criminal tribunals and the International Criminal Court; responses to the disclosures of abuses of detainees in Iraq and elsewhere; and tensions between unilateral (U.S.) and multilateral approaches to enforcement. A research paper is required.

LAW L9383: International Humanitarian Law
Rona; 2 credits; R 4:10 to 6 pm (SEM)

This seminar will introduce students to the fundamentals of international humanitarian law (IHL, the laws of armed conflict, the laws of war), with a focus on contemporary issues such as the global war on terror, asymmetrical conflicts, international justice, and the protections of human rights law. It will be taught by Gabor Rona, former legal advisor in the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross and now International Legal Director at Human Rights First. Traditionally, the study of IHL has focused on technical mastery of the Geneva Conventions and other IHL treaties by armed forces. There is increasing recognition, however, of the importance of IHL to political leaders and policy makers, international human rights lawyers, humanitarian workers, lawyers involved in international criminal justice, journalists and the general public. Thus a contemporary course on IHL needs not only to expose students to the technical requirements of that law, but also to examine the dynamic relationships between IHL and other bodies of law, including human rights law, refugee law, international criminal law, and U.S. constitutional law. We will first address the sources, historical development, fundamental principles and fields of application of IHL. We will next study IHL rules governing methods and means of warfare and treatment of persons in the power of the enemy. We will then explore the application of these principles and rules to contemporary issues, including humanitarian intervention, pre-emption and prevention, IHL during civil wars, asymmetrical and counterinsurgency conflicts, the growth of international justice mechanisms, and the role of IHL in connection with terrorism and counterterrorism. Readings will be drawn from international treaties and their commentaries, jurisprudence, critical scholarly literature and contemporary journalistic and human rights reporting. The basic required text from which many readings are drawn is Sassoli and Bouvier, How Does Law Protect in War? Vols. 1 and 2, (2nd ed., 2006), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Students will also be provided with copies of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, courtesy of the ICRC. Additional materials will be provided and suggested.

LAW L9551: Feminist Legal Theory Workshop
Sells, M., Thomas, K., P. Williams; 2 credits; M 4:20p - 6:10p (SEM)

As it has in the past, the Spring 2012 Feminism & Legal Theory Workshop will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of manuscripts by a distinguished interdisciplinary group of academic and independent scholars, with faculty commentary. This workshop will offer students and faculty from the Columbia and the Greater New York area communities who are writing, advocating and thinking about feminism and its impact on the law a structured opportunity to discuss and debate pressing issues of law and policy in contemporary feminism.

The central question around which this semester’s workshop sessions are organized is how critical feminist work on gender can be used to “color” or configure the “field of vision” in which apprehend and address legal and policy issues across a range of discrete legal subject areas. Who defines when and how questions of gender will play a role in framing legal and policy debate and decision-making? How do questions of gender change the cognitive and conceptual maps by which particular area of law finds its normative orientation or field of vision? To what extent do gendered responses to legal questions lead to more supportive, inclusive legal regimes than those which exclude gender from their concern? How does gender affect the way we see and understand the uses and limits of law as an elaboration of principle, or as an exercise of power? These are only a few of the questions and issues on which this year’s workshop will focus.

Throughout the semester, the instructors will place selected readings on the course web. There will also be additional reference material distributed to provide students who take the workshop for credit tools for deeper analysis and discussion in meetings before and after the public workshop sessions with invited presenters.

LAW L9563: Mental Health Law
Levy, R.; 2 credits; M 4:20p - 6:10p (SEM)

This seminar will focus on some of the major issues in mental health law, both civil and criminal. Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding the historical development of mental health law, given the impact of temporally contingent factors on the current shape of the law. Empirical studies of the law in action will be used to illustrate the consequences of various approaches to the problems that mental health law is meant to address. Attention will be paid to the ever-present tension between impulses to act beneficently toward persons with mental disorders on one hand, and to respect their autonomy on the other. Students will be offered an opportunity to visit a psychiatric hospital and to interact with psychiatrists and with persons with mental disorders who have experienced aspects of mental health law (e.g., civil commitment, outpatient commitment) that will be discussed in the seminar.

LAW L9823: Human Rights and the Question of Culture
Thomas and Keenan; 3 credits; R 4:20p - 7:10p (SEM)

What makes culture a question for international human rights discourse? This interdisciplinary seminar explores the diverse uses of culture as a concept in contemporary human rights theory and practice. Members of the seminar will be given an opportunity to examine the universalizing methods and aspirations of traditional -- and some not-so-traditional -- human rights programs and to measure these against another style of argument and analysis whose genealogy is thought or asserted to be more specifically cultural.

The seminar will introduce and discuss concepts from a variety of disciplines which might be used to understand and interrogate the categories that underwrite the opposition between human rights and culture. We will then examine the specific strategies of rhetoric and representation that construct and sustain the relationship between human rights and culture as a real or imagined problem, in academic debate and in the world of international law and power politics. Weekly seminar meetings will focus on close reading and discussion of a broad range of materials: transcripts of legal proceedings, international treaties, conventions and declarations, commission reports, and court judgments; scholarly work in law, history, literary and cultural studies, as well as political science and theory; journalism; literature, film and video.

LAW L9827: Seminar on Educational Policy Making and Courts
Rebell, M.; 2 credits; W 5:10p - 7:00p (SEM)

Beginning with the school desegregation decrees issued by the federal courts in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, the federal and state courts have been called upon to consider a range of asserted educational rights and to oversee far-reaching institutional reforms that bear little relationship to traditional judicial remedies. This course examines the legal and political justifications for the courts' role in making educational policy and reforming public education institutions, as well as the courts' capacity to undertake these functions.

In the spring semester, 2012, the course will review the role of the federal courts in such areas as school desegregation and special education and will also focus on the role of the state courts in enforcing students' rights under education clauses that exist in virtually all state constitutions that guarantee students an "adequate" education. Over the past 20 years, litigation alleging violations of these rights have been filed in over 30 states, and plaintiffs have prevailed in about two-thirds of the resulting decisions. We will examine in particular the crafting and implementation of remedies in these cases and, in that regard, we will consider in depth two major cases, Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) v. State of New York, and Coalition for Justice in Education Funding, Inc v. Rell. Among other things, we will analyze the legal and policy implications of the fact that the CFE remedy now been "put on hold" because of the recession, and the strategic decisions that plaintiffs in the Rell case in Connecticut, which is at an early pre-trial stage, might consider with the benefit of hindsight from developments in CFE and other litigations.

MDES W3620: Language, History, Catastrophe: Tamil Worlds
Bate, Bernard; 3 credits; MW 9:10am-10:25am (LEC)

Though Tamil has been sung, spoken, and written since at least the first centuries of the Common Era the Tamil People are only about one hundred years old. We will interrogate this seeming paradox by exploring 1) Tamils deep literary tradition and history; 2) the politicization of a language and the creation of the Tamil People as a modern political community; and 3) how language and history themselves were deployed in the catastrophic clash of modern peoples the Tamils and the Sinhalese in contemporary Sri Lanka.

MDES W3911: Politics of Identity in Africa
Smith, Etienne; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

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MDES G6600: Postcolonial Theory
Diouf and Dabashi; 3 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This course will go over some philosophical and interpretative problems raised by recent works in a field described as 'postcolonial theory'. It will start with the original debates about 'Orientalism' - particularly its critical arguments about the question of representation of the Orient in art and literature, the question of the writing of history, and the logic of basic concepts in the social sciences. The course will analyse some 'Orientalist' texts in detail, assess the criticisms offered by postcolonial writers, and take up these three problems - of representation, history and conceptualization for detailed, rigorous critical discussion.

ORLA T4086: Law and Education: Regulation, Religion, Free Speech, and Safety
Sigall; 3 credits; W 05:00 pm-07:00 pm (LEC)

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PHIL V3251: Kant
Stevenson, Michael; 3 credits; TR 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

Explores the connections between theoretical and practical reason in Kant's thinking with special attention to the Critique of Pure Reason and the project of "transcendental" philosophy.

PHIL V3716: Topics in Ethics
Bell, Macalester; 3 credits; TR 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

Classic justtifications of normative ethical positions through appeals to Nature in Aristotle, Reason in Kant, Sentiment in Hume, and History in Hegel. Twentieth-Century Analyses of ethical statements from G.E. Moore's intuitionism through A.J. Ayer and C.L. Stevenson on Logical Positivism, J.P. Sarte's Existentialism, John Dewey's Progmatism, and cognitive rationality in Stuart Hampshire and Philippa Foot. This course will be capped at 40 students.

PHIL C3912: Political Philosophy
Neuhouser, Frederick; 3 credits; T 9:00am-10:50am (SEM)

A conceptual analysis of major concepts of political philosophy such as authority, rights, equality, justice, liberty and democracy are examined in three different ways. First the conceptual issues are analyzed through contemporary essays on these topics by authors like Peters, Hart, Williams, Berlin, Rawls and Schumpeter. Second the classical sources on these topics are discussed through readings from Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Marx, Plato, Mill, Rousseau. Third some attention is paid to relevant contexts of application of these concepts in political society.

PHIL C3912: Seminar in Ethics
Bell, Macalester; 3 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This seminar will focus on the connections between emotions and value. What are emotions? What does it mean for an emotion to be justified or unjustified? Under what conditions, if any, are our emotions rational? Are we responsible for our emotions? What role should emotions have in our moral lives? What role do emotions play in aesthetic appreciation? We will address these and related questions through readings drawn from contemporary and historical sources.

PHIL W4950: Economics and Philosophy
Helzner, Jeffrey; 4 credits; R 9:00am-10:50am (SEM)

Explores topics in the philosophy of economics such as welfare, social choice, and the history of political economy. Sometimes the emphasis is primarily historical and sometimes on analysis of contemporary economic concepts and theories.

PHIL G9180: Topics in Moral Philosophy
Vogt; 3 credits; W 4:10p - 6:00p (SEM)

We shall discuss some fundamental questions about values. Some of these questions are: What kind of
property is ‘good’? How should we understand evaluative judgments? What is the role of evaluative
judgments in motivation? Is the good relative (and what would that mean)? Is the good relational? Are
goods ends? Is the good that which is desired? Is truth a kind of goodness? In which ways are the good and
the true ends or aims (of action and of belief-formation)? What is the difference (if any) between the good
and the valuable? What is it to value something? Can we formulate an account of values that takes care of
the special case of the value of human beings? Is it misleading to study the notion ‘good,’ because in
ordinary discourse we use thicker evaluative concepts (such as fun, cruel, kind, etc.)? How should we
understand such thick concepts?
The class is loosely organized around the research topics of advanced Ph.D. students, but it is open to all
graduate students who want to do advanced work in meta-ethics.

PHIL G9645: Persons
Rovane, Carol; 3 credits; W 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

An exploration of the issue of personal identity as it was articulated by Locke and then pursued in the twentieth century by Shoemaker, Parfit, Lewis, Perry, and many others. Particular attention will be paid to how the issue intersects with issues in philosophy of mind and action, such as the unity of consciousness, the first person, rational agency, dissociative identity disorder, analogies between intra-and inter- personal relations, the idea of group will. Various ethical dimensions of personhood will be explored in tandem, including most especially prudence, responsibility, rights, and respect for persons.

POLS W1201: Introduction to American Politics
Russell, Judith; 3 credits; MW 11:00am-12:15pm (LEC)

Lecture and discussion. Dynamics of political institutions and processes, chiefly of the national government. Emphasis on the actual exercise of political power by interest groups, elites, political parties, and public opinion.

POLS V1501: Introduction to Comparative Politics
Tamas, Bernard; 3 credits; MW 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

Lecture and discussion. Introduction to some of the major approaches and issues in the contemporary study of politics within nations, including the causes of revolution, the roots of democracy, and the nature of nationalism, through systematic study of politics in selected countries.

POLS V1601: International Politics
Marten, Kimberly; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

Lecture and discussion. The basic setting and dynamics of global politics, with emphasis on contemporary problems and processes.

POLS BC3055: Colloquium on Political Violence and Terrorism
Marten, Kimberly; 4 credits; M 2:10p - 4:00p (COL)

What causes political violence and terrorism? How should we define "terrorism"--is it true, as the old saw goes, that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter? What is the role of religious belief, as opposed to more immediate political goals, in fomenting terrorist action? Are al Qaeda and those linked to it different from terrorists we've seen in various places around the world in the past, or does all terrorism and political violence stem from the same variety of goals and purposes? Can governments take effective action to prevent or counter terrorism, or are we all doomed to live in insecurity? What is the proper balance between protection against terrorism and protection of civil liberties? This course examines these questions through weekly assigned readings, analysis and discussion. - K. Marten

POLS W3125: Citizenship and Exclusion
Isiksel, Turkuler ; 3 credits; TR 11:00am-12:15pm (LEC)

Citizenship has always been a battleground in struggles for inclusion and exclusion. This course aims to familiarize students with contemporary theories of citizenship from the lens of boundaries. What kind of ‗good' is citizenship, and why is it denied to some? How do politically, socially or culturally marginalized groups use the discourse of citizenship to claim equal participation and recognition? How is access to citizenship status and rights regulated in contemporary democracies?

POLS W3165: Secularism and Its Critics
Tombus, Ertug ; 3 credits; TR 5:40pm-6:55pm (LEC)

In recent years, the role of religion in the social and political life has increasingly become a subject of debate and controversy. As an important dimension of this debate, the idea of secularism and the main assumptions behind the secularization thesis have been questioned. Sharing the fate of many other dualities of modernity, the distinction between the secular and the sacred has also been challenged. The aim of this course is to study the main arguments behind secularism and secularization thesis and those behind its contemporary critics. In the first part of the course, we will explore the meaning of the secular and the main arguments behind secularism and the secularization thesis. The aim is to understand the role of the distinction between the secular and the sacred in the emergence of the idea of modern self, modern society and modern state. These debates would set the background for the analysis of contemporary debates on and critics of secularism, which will be the subject of the second part of the course. Readings include Kant, Marx, Weber, Blumenberg, Gauchet, Chadwick, Casanova, Keddie, Asad, Connolly, Taylor and Habermas

POLS W3170: Nationalism, Republicanism and Cosmpolitanism
Kimpell, Jessica; 3 credits; MW 11-12:15 (LEC)

Do we have obligations to our co-nationals that we do not owe to others? Might our loyalties or obligations to our fellow citizens be based on a commitment to shared political principles and common public life rather than national identity? Do we have basic duties that are owed equally to human beings everywhere, regardless of national or political affiliation? Do our commitments to co-nationals or compatriots conflict with those duties we might owe to others, and if so, to what extent? Is cosmopolitanism based on rationality and patriotism based on passion? This course will explore these questions from the perspectives of nationalism, republicanism and cosmopolitanism. We will consider historical works from Herder, Rousseau, Kant, Fichte, Mill, Mazzini and Renan; and more contemporary contributions from Berlin, Miller, Canovan, MacIntyre, Viroli, Sandel, Pettit, Habermas, Nussbaum, Appiah, and Pogge, among others.

POLS W3208: State Politics
Phillips, Justin; 3 credits; TR 9:10am-10:25am (LEC)

This course is intended to provide students with a detailed understanding of politics in the American states. The topics covered are divided into four broad sections. The first explores the role of the states in America's federal system of government. Attention is given to the basic features of intergovernmental relations as well as the historic evolution of American federalism. The second part of the course focuses on state-level political institutions. The organization and processes associated with the legislative, executive, and judicial branches are discussed in depth. The third part examines state elections, political parties, and interest groups. Finally, the fourth section looks closely at various policy areas. Budgeting, welfare, education, gay marriage, and environmental policy are each considered.

POLS W3218: Mass Media and American Democracy
Knight, Kathleen; 3 credits; TR 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

The course considers the development and current practices of the mass media in the United States in terms of the expectations of democratic government.

POLS W3245: Race and Ethnicity in American Politics
Smith, Raymond; 3 credits; TR 5:40pm-6:55pm (LEC)

Historical and contemporary roles of various racial and ethnic groups; initiation, demands, leadership and organizational styles, orientation, benefits, and impact on the structures and outputs of governance in the United States.

POLS W3260: Latino Politics: Immigration/Immigrant
Vargas-Ramos, Carlos; 3 credits; MW 5:40pm-6:55pm (LEC)

This course focuses on the political incorporation of Latinos into the American polity. Among the topics to be discussed are patterns of historical exclusion, the impact of the Voting Rights Act, organizational and electoral behavior, and the effects of immigration on the Latino national political agenda.

POLS W3280: 20th Century American Politics
Katznelson, Ira; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

In what sense was the New Deal/Fair Deal era led by Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman a 'watershed' and a 'defining time'? What policy choices were made, and which were not? What has been their enduring impact? Probing these issues at the crossroads of political science and history, the class aims both to explore key themes in American politics and to examine how approaches scholars use in each of the major subfields of political science-Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, and American Politics-can clarify important historical subjects.

POLS BC3500: Colloquium on Political Economy of Corruption and Its Control
Lu, X.; 4 credits; W 4:10p - 6:00p (COL)

Comparative political economy course which addresses some important questions concerning corruption and its control: the concept, causes, patterns, consequences, and control of corruption. Introduces students to and engages them in several key social science debates on the causes and effects of political corruption.

POLS W3616: Global Order: Civilizations and Society in Internatioanl Relations
Blanchard, Eric; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

“Global Order” is a course designed to help students make sense of one of the fundamental questions we can ask about international relations and politics in general: how is order established, maintained, or destroyed? In an important sense, order is what the “study of politics seeks to discern and the practice of politics seeks to achieve” (Zartman 2009: 3). A focus on order in world politics can help us answer several interesting questions: Are we seeing the modern era of world politics ending and a new postmodern era beginning? What do these changes mean for the current period of American international political dominance?

POLS W3619: Nationalism and Contemporary World Politics
Snyder, Jack; 3 credits; MW 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

Nationalism as a cause of conflict in contemporary world politics. Strategies for mitigating nationalist and ethnic conflict.

POLS W3626: Gender and International Relations
Blanchard, Eric; 3 credits; TR 11:00am-12:15pm (LEC)

This course is designed as a comprehensive introduction to a way of analyzing and researching global politics and international relations that takes gender seriously as a category of analysis. The course is particularly concerned with the ways in which gender is implicated in the construction of international relations, how this impacts the foreign policies of states, and what this means for the actions of other actors in world politics, such as non- governmental organizations (NGOs), international organizations (IOs), and social movements.

POLS W3659: International Cooperation and Institutions
Urpelainen, Johannes; 3 credits; TR 5:40pm-6:55pm (LEC)

Why do governments and leaders cooperate? What is the role of international institutions in world politics? This course is an introduction to the systematic study of international cooperation and institutions. The course emphasizes recent empirical and theoretical research across issue areas.

POLS BC3812: Colloquium on State Failure, Warlords, and Pirates
Marten, Kimberly; 4 credits; Tu 2:10p - 4:00p (COL)

What are sovereign states, why do they fail, does their failure matter, and can the international community help? This course examines these questions using social science theories and historical case studies. It focuses on the political economy and security consequences of two current forms of state failure: warlordism and piracy

POLS W3912: Political Theory Seminar: Classical and Modern Theories of Justice
Hewitt, Anne S ; 4 credits; T 9:00am-10:50am (SEM)

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POLS W3922: American Politics Seminar: African American Politics
Harris, Fredrick; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The course considers the struggle of African Americans for inclusion in the American political system. Primary topics will include the historical development of black activism, the role of black leadership, the transformation from protest to mainstream politics since the civil rights movement, and the consequences of blacks' incorporation into the channels of mainstream political institutions

POLS W3922: American Politics Seminar: Issues that Divide America
Gertzog, Irwin; 4 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Seminar focuses on four political issues so contentious that they have produced enduring cultural, socio-economic, and political divisions throughout the United States. The four issues are slavery and efforts to end it; the use of alcoholic beverages and the struggle to curtail it; abortion and attempts to prohibit it; and lesbian and gay rights and the battle to impede them.

POLS W3922: American Politics Seminar: Political Psychology
Knight, Kathleen; 4 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The seminar is designed to examine some major psychological concept useful in politics. These include: rationality & emotion, socialization, ideology, persuasion, tolerance, authoritarianism, racism & terrorism.

POLS W3922: American Politics Seminar: Community Organizing
Warren, Dorian; 4 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

With the election of Barack Obama as President in November 2008, Americans also voted for the first-ever "Community-Organizer-in-Chief". "Community organizing"—as a vocation, philosophy, strategy, technique and set of tactics for social change—has been both praised and vilified in the media and popular culture.
This course examines the theory, art and practice of community organizing in American politics. We begin with a brief introduction and overview of community organizing, and then examine what community organizing purports to be a solution to: contemporary political, economic, racial and gender inequalities in American society. Next, we take up the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of community organizing (democratic participation and social justice), followed by examining the contemporary empirical research on unequal power and participation in the political system. Starting with Saul Alinsky, we turn to the roots of modern community organizing in the early 20th century. We then take a critical look at different "models" of community organizing, from secular to faith-based, and examine how and under what conditions they are able to bridge differences across race, ethnicity, gender, class, geography and religion.

POLS W3922: American Politics Seminar: First Amendment
Amdur, Robert; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

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POLS W3952: Religion and Politics
Kasara, Kimuli; 4 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This course examines the link between religion and politics drawing on research from a wide range of countries. The first part of the course examines how religious beliefs, practices, and institutions areaffected by social and economic and political factors. The main part of the course examines the effect of religion on political outcomes, including regime type, social protest, political parties, political violence,political attitudes, and voting behavior.

POLS W3962: Left-Right Divide-Global Economy
Margalit, Yotam; 4 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Most voters share similar goals of wanting the economy to grow and their country’s citizenry to prosper. Why then do we often see such heated policy disagreements between politicians on the left and the right? Are these disagreements about what policies “work” best to achieve these agreed goals, or are they a result of moral differences regarding the goals that should be pursued? Furthermore, how have these disagreements been affected by the pressures stemming from an increasingly integrated international economy? This course will review some of the major normative and positive issues dividing the left and right on social-economic policy. Students will learn about the ideological foundations of the debates and engage the empirical literature on key political issues currently contested in advanced economies worldwide.

POLS W3962: Global Environment Politics
Urpelainen, Johannes; 4 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Global environmental deterioration is a major threat to human wellbeing. How do governments cooperate to address international environmental problems? Why is the global environmental regime structured as it is? Can international agreements and organizations solve global environmental problems? This seminar introduces students to the study of global environmental politics and provides an opportunity for original research. In addition to weakly readings and discussion, the students participate in a collaborative research project on a common topic.

POLS W3962: Political Development and International Relations
Snyder, Jack L; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

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POLS U6295: Democracy and World Religions
Stepan; 3 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

In the first generation of democratization theory the two most neglected areas were nationalism and religion. From the mid-1990s, this vacant space has been dominated largely by a discourse generated by Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and by policy activists concerned with terrorism and intrigued by the possibility of the United States and some of the other large powers installing democracy from above. Democratic theorists, comparativists and policy activists must attempt to re-examine the terms of this debate and to provide new conceptual and policy alternatives where appropriate. Unfortunately, though the role of religion in world affairs is one of the most important and difficult issue areas of our era, it has also been one of the least studied themes in political science. This course is designed to help address this shortcoming. The course is divided into four units, each devoted to a set of questions and problems that are now central to modern political debates about the role of religion in modern politics, especially to questions of democracy, and intolerance and tolerance within, and between, the major religions of the world. Unit 1 will feature Western Europe from the view-point of the core received theories about Christianity and democracy and actual practice. Unit 2 will test Huntington's theories about the negative role of Confucianism and Orthodox Christianity. Unit 3 will explore and explain the very different patterns of religious conflict and tolerance in South Asia, with special attention to India's equal respect, equal distancing style of secularism. In Unit 4 we will integrate what we have learned so far to see if we can rethink some of the fundamental puzzles about Islam and politics.

POLS G8211: Political Economy of Institutions
Ting; 3 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This course will prepare graduate students in political science and economics who have completed their basic formal and quantitative training for the challenges and appeals of interdisciplinary research in political economy. Substantively, the course will focus on interest groups and political influence, which remains one of the broad areas of interest within the field. The main activities of special interest groups include lobbying, campaign contributions, direct mobilization of citizens, and providing information to the public. Clearly all of them have political significance, and we will study both theoretically and empirically the most significant channels of influence on policies, sometimes through the influence on elected officials (before or after the election) and sometimes through influence on bureaucrats. The topic should be of clear relevance for graduate students in American politics, comparative politics, political economy and public economics, and should complement well the other courses available in those four fields.

POLS G8234: Urban Politics
Phillips, Justin; 3 credits; TBD (LEC)

Instructor permission required before registration. This seminar is designed as an overview of the major debates in Urban Politics. The primary goals of the course are to familiarize students with the principal questions being asked by scholars in this subfield, the methodological approaches employed, and the avenues available for future research. Methodological diversity will be emphasized.

POLS G8247: Mass Mediated American and Global Politics
Nacos, Brigitte; 3 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

Readings and class discussions explore the domestic and global news media at the beginning of the 21st century as they relate to and impact on mass-mediated domestic and international politics. The focus is on post-World War II and post-9/11 conditions and changes in terms of ownership, audience, technology, organizational and individual values and imperatives, and, especiall, on the media's role during conflicts--in particular the ongoing "war on terrorism."

POLS G8432: Comparative Secularism and Democracy
Stepan, Alfred; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

Instructor permission required before registration. Empirical predictions and normative prescriptions about secularism once dominated many of the foundational works in social science, particularly in modernization theory. However, recently scholars as diverse as Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor in political theory, Peter Katzenstein in international relations, and Stathis Kalyvas, Ronald Inglehart, and José Casanova in their comparative work have been engaged in a fundamental rethinking of religion, secularism, and desecularization. Some of the issues we will explore in the seminar are the following. In a lecture series, five scholars over the course of the semester will argue that some of the fundamental categories used in IR theory and in comparative politics make religion almost impossible to study. Are they right? If so, what new approaches might be called for? How can social science survey analysis help us explore issues of religion and politics? Most religions have been at times restrictive of full women's rights. What can we learn from successful patterns of contestation in this area? Can we identify, from the perspective of democratic theory, what the minimal degree of freedom democracy needs from religion to function, and the minimal degree of freedom that religion must be allowed if the polity is to be a democracy. If so, what do these "twin tolerations" say about secularism? Finally, just as we now understand that there are "multiple modernities" does it make more analytic sense to speak of the "multiple secularisms of modern democracies"? We will explore this last question by exploring at least four different patterns of state-society relations that actually exist in contemporary democracies; "freedom of the state from religion separatism " (France and Turkey), "freedom of religion from the state separatism" (USA), " a state with an established religion" (most of the Scandinavian countries, UK, and Greece), and the under-theorizedpattern that Rajeev Bhargava (who will participate in the seminar) calls the" respect -all, support-all, principled distance" model for India. Are two of the more successful new democracies in Islamic majority states, Indonesia and Senegal, close to this model? For any given polity can we say anything about what conditions are most, and least, supportive for each model if the goal is democracy and relative peace in a specific polity? Do Holland, Germany, and Switzerland have more in common with the Indian model than they do with "separatist" or one "established religion": model?

POLS G8434: Latin American Politics in Comparative Perspective
Kaufman, Robert; 3 credits; F 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

Political structures, conflict and change in the region including discussion of selected countries, patterns of regime change and the involvement of the U.S.

POLS G8526: Comparative Democratic Processes
Kasara, Kimuli; 3 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

Attempts to integrate examination of presidential government in the U.S. and examination of parliamentary democracies in order to make a unified approach to the study of democratic institutions. Focuses on a common set of issues that are faced by individuals in all democratic systems: coordination, cooperation, commitment, aggregation and delegation.

POLS G8615: Themes in International Political Theory
Isiksel, Turkuler ; 3 credits; R 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

This graduate seminar in political theory highlights a series of themes that are fundamental to contemporary normative debates about international and transnational politics. Taking seriously the proposition that public power is no longer solely exercised within the framework of the nation-state, the seminar surveys a number of critical perspectives on institutions beyond the state. The course is organized into seven themes, treating sovereignty, imperialism, commerce, cosmopolitanism, justice, human rights, and democracy, in that order.

POLS G8833: Law of War
Fazal, Tanisha; 3 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

This course focuses on issues surrounding the conduct of warfare. It is centered around a series of questions relating to jus in bello, or the international law governing use of force once hostilities have commenced. Why, for example, have some laws of war been created but not others? Under what conditions should we expect belligerents to observe the laws of war? Why even try to govern the conduct of war? Few of these questions have received systematic treatment from political scientists. Yet, as the law of war has become increasingly salient both domestically and internationally, it is critical to sharpen our understanding of this topic.

POLS G8839: The Causes and Consequences of Terrorism
Fortna, Page; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

This course examines the politics of terrorism, with a focus on theoretical and empirical studies of its causes and consequences. We will look at both domestic and transnational forms of terrorism. We begin with issues of definition, and theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of terrorism. We then turn to the causes of terrorism, considering questions such as when, where, and why terrorism occurs, which individuals and which groups resort to terror and why, and who are the targets of terrorist attacks. We then turn to the consequences of terrorism, both for the outcome of conflicts, and for domestic politics.

POLS G8865: United States Foreign Policy
Betts, Richard K; 3 credits; M 9:00a - 10:50a (LEC)

Survey of post-Cold War U.S. policy, relations with Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East, military and economic policy, political intervention (human rights policy and covert action), and environmental diplomacy.

POLS G8866: International Signaling and Communication
Jervis, Robert L; 4 credits; T 10:00am-11:50am (COLL)

This course will delve into how states infer what others are likely to do in the future and how they try to project desired images of how they will behave. This involves both purposeful or intended communication, as in diplomacy, and the ways in which perceivers try to discern others' capabilities and intentions from attributes and behaviors that the senders cannot readily manipulate. Substantive areas to be covered--or at least touched on--include how states try to open negotiations without appearing weak, how promises and threats can be orchestrated, and the use of peace feelers.

POPF P8610: SRH and HIV/AIDS: Clinics, Politics, and Programs
Collins, Lynn; 3 credits; R 5:30pm-8:20pm (LEC)

This course provides an overview of HIV epidemic, including the basics of HIV and AIDS, key trends in international and country responses, emerging and human rights issues, the political environment, and lessons learned from HIV prevention and treatment policies and programmes. Recognizing that the AIDS epidemic is a development and human rights concern, gender, socio-cultural, human rights, and political perspectives are applied throughout. Lessons learned globally in HIV programming are analyzed and skills enhanced to design and implement effective programmes and influence policies in response to the AIDS epidemic.

POPF P8615: Current Issues in Sexual Health
Namerow & Kalm; 3 credits; W 5:30pm-8:20pm (LEC)

Students critically examine sexual health and specific sexual health issues within a global context. The first part of the course examines sexual health as a concept the different frames of sexual health (medical, public health, feminist, human rights); the macro and micro factors that enable and/or impede sexual health and our efforts to improve sexual health in communities. The focus is particularly on key social factors including culture, gender-based norms that constrain the sexual expression and health of women and men, racism, and poverty. The second part focuses on selected sexual health issues including sexual pleasure/desire and well-being; unintended pregnancy; non-volitional sex; and stigmatization and discrimination against sexual minorities.

POPF P8616: Adolescent Health: Public Health Perspective
Armstrong, Bruce; 3 credits; T 9:00am-11:50am (LEC)

Who are adolescents? Who are young adults? What is “health” for adolescents and young adults? How “healthy” are they? Why is it important to invest in efforts to improve their health? What is public health’s role in improving the health of young people? Adolescents and young adults comprise a large and growing segment of the world's population. An estimated 1.7 billion young people, more than a quarter of the world's population, are between 10-24 years old. Approximately 80% of these youth live in developing countries. This is the largest generation of young people ever recorded and for the first time, there is growing evidence that their life span will be shorter than their parents’ generation. Understanding the needs of young people who are neither children nor adults is critical to the development of responsive public health policies and “youth friendly” public health programs. Adolescence is uniquely experienced in different societies throughout the world. Economic, gender, and other social determinants contribute to the adolescent's passage from childhood to adulthood. Adolescence and young adulthood ("the odyssey years") are critical periods during the life cycle when significant physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes occur. Young people must navigate through a wide array of new experiences in novel settings, and their journey presents both risks and opportunities. Most young people manage this journey successfully. In fact, traditional indicators of health (e.g. mortality) suggest that the vast majority are "healthy". Other indicators such as involvement in health compromising behaviors, high rates of "school failure", and underutilization of preventive health services however, suggest that there is much room for improvement. Young people do best when they receive support from parents, non-parental adults, peers, service providers, and communities. Neighborhood and community environments, peers, public policies, and access to "youth friendly" services- to name just a few- influence the health and well-being of young people. Health is also affected by behavior. For example, 80% of deaths among 16-24 year olds in the U.S. are due to preventable causes: unintentional injury, homicide, and suicide. This course provides an overview of the health status of adolescents and young adults from both a national and global perspective. "Health", as defined by the World Health Organization, is viewed as a positive construct that goes beyond prevention of disease. This course will focus rather, on a holistic conception of health that includes promotion of emotional, cognitive, and social wellbeing such as feeling happy; feeling hopeful about one's future; being connected to peers, school and family; having confidence about social skills; feeling academically competent and experiencing success in school. Students will explore adolescents' and young adults' sexual and reproductive health, obesity and overweight associated with physical activity & eating behaviors, interpersonal relationships (that are sometimes violent), substance use, and mental health. School dropout, involvement in juvenile and criminal justice systems, and youth unemployment will be reframed as public health issues. Development, behavior, and "health" will be examined from an ecological perspective, i.e. within the contexts of physical and social environments in which young people are embedded. A "youth development" paradigm will be emphasized. Young people will be viewed as resources to be developed, not problems to be fixed. Participation of public health practitioners in developing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and advocating for evidence-based and human rights-based "youth friendly" services will be illustrated. Students will increase their substantive knowledge of adolescent and young adult health through assigned readings, class activities, and written assignments, and will apply this knowledge through visits to "youth friendly" programs and discussions with invited "guest faculty" who will share their expertise working with young people.

POPF P8639: Gender Based Violence in Complex Emergencies
Lehmann; 1 . 5 credits; T 5:30pm-8:20pm (LEC)

This seven-week course explores the socio-cultural and political factors that contribute to the existence of gender-based violence and which lead to an increased occurrence of acts of gender-based violence in complex emergencies, with an emphasis on conflict zones. Students will develop a practical understanding of effective interventions for preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in different phases of complex emergencies. Specifically, students learn the conceptual framework for preventing and responding to gender-based violence and the practical framework for developing gender-based violence programming. Furthermore, students review strategies for incorporating critical elements of gender-based violence programming: coordination among humanitarian agencies; evidence-based programming; and engaging communities in programming.

POPF P8673: Reproductive Health in Crisis Situations
Kodindo; 1.5 credits; Location T 9:00am-11:50am (LEC)

In this 7 week course, students analyze the policy and program factors influencing the provision of reproductive health services (or lack thereof) for people affected by armed conflict and natural disasters. Specifically students will study the history of reproductive health service delivery in conflict-affected settings, review internationally-established guidelines for meeting the RH needs of refugees and war-affected populations, assess enabling and impeding factors in selected global trouble- spots, describe a reasoned programmatic approach to a particular situation, discuss the current situation of the field and future directions for RH services in complex emergency settings.

POPF P8675: Health Systems Approach to Maternal Mortality
de Pinho, Helen; 1. 5 credits; R 2:00pm-4:50pm (LEC)

This course teaches students about maternal health, employing a systems approach to explore maternal health issues and analyze programs focused on maternal mortality reduction. The complexity of maternal mortality makes a systems approach particularly useful for gaining insight on and addressing maternal deaths, and systems approaches are increasingly being employed as a tool for maternal health planning and programs in the field. Students will gain substantive knowledge of issues related to maternal health – in particular the reduction of maternal morbidity and mortality – including epidemiological and programmatic aspects as well as current discussions of related policies and politics. Students will learn to adopt a systems-thinking approach as they examine the intersections between maternal health globally and health systems and health sector reforms, including public health practice and programs, monitoring/measurement, policy/politics, and rights based approaches. This course is intended for MPH students and is an elective in the Population and Family Health department.

POPF P8685: Migration, Health: Global/Local Perspective
Findley; 3 credits; R 2:00pm-4:50pm (LEC)

Globally, and here in NYC and the US, there is a resurgence of interest in the relation between migration and health. Whether migrants are able to become more healthy, or whether they become more at risk for illness, depends on a multitude of factors. This course examines the ways that migration and health intersect, both in general and for specific categories of migrants. Because part of the difficulty of understanding migration and health relations stems from problems in tracking health for migrants, many of whom are undocumented, forced, or otherwise not “visible” to the system, the course will also examine how we find out about migration-health relations.

PSYC G4615: Psychology of Culture and Diversity
Purdie-Vaughns; 4 credits; M 10:10am-12:00pm (SEM)

A comprehensive examination of how culture and diversity shape psychological processes. The class will explore psychological and political underpinnings of culture and diversity, emphasizing social psychological approaches. Topics include culture and self, cuture and social cognition, group and identity formation, science of diversity, stereotyping, prejudice, and gender. Applications to real-world phenomena discussed.

PUAF U6150: "Statistical Races" & Public Policy
Prewitt, K.; 3 credits; W 6:10p - 8:00p (LEC)

Most public policies are based on counts of different population groups and their characteristics. The statistical base of policies starts less with counting than by selecting the categories needed for policy making. In the U.S. and many other nations, policies have been designed with reference to the size, distribution, and characteristics of population groups labeled "races." The U.S. constitution, for example, incorporated a racial classification in procedures for allocating congressional seats in the newly established 13 states - initiating a policy debate that stretches from the 18th to the 21st century. This course inquires into the origin of the racial classification adopted by the U.S., and how the categories have accommodated demographic, scientific, and policy shifts across U.S. history, with emphasis on the last half-century. There is also attention to the design and application of racial classification in a select number of other nation-states. The course includes attention to how multiculturalism, diversity agendas, multi-racial identities, color-blind liberalism, and the human genome project have introduced unprecedented instability in today's politics surrounding racial classification.

PUAF U6187: Education for Sustainable Practice
Hursh, David; 3 credits; M 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

In this course we will aim to problematize both education and sustainability and to connect theory and practice. We will begin with a simple question, what is education and then expand it to: what is education for sustainable practices? As I will note, conflicting views of education have persisted throughout the last century and continue to today. We will then turn to examining what is meant by sustainable development. What concepts are included and excluded from the notion of sustainable development? What are its strengths and weaknesses? Given the above, what do we mean by education for sustainable development? How is it similar and different from concepts such as environmental education and environmental health? Consequently, please note that while in the text below I repeatedly refer to education for sustainable development and practices, what these terms mean remains problematic and contested.

PUAF U8237: Housing Policy and Equitable Development
Perine; 1.5 credits; F 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

The class is designed to introduce students to housing policy and programs and their impact on communities and cities. Utilizing case studies, lectures, and readings, the class will focus on the problems of housing affordability; the loss, maintenance and/or creation of mixed income housing and communities; and the loss, maintenance and/or creation of segregated housing and geographically segregated communities based on race, ethnicity and/or religion. With New York City as a laboratory for housing policies and programs which have addressed all of these issues in some way over time, the class will compare and discuss other cities which have experienced one or more of these issues and examine how well their policy and program responses successfully addressed them. Other cities to be discussed include New Orleans, Liverpool, Belfast and Leipzig. Students will examine how public policies and programs can both create these problems in cities and also how they can work to resolve them; what tools are most effective; what constraints must be considered; and the impact of unintended consequences.

PUAF U8250: Governing the 21st Century City
Fuchs, Ester; 3 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

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REGN U6100: Rule of Law Reform and Transitional Justice in War-Torn Societies
Trenkov-Wermuth, C. ; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm ( LEC)

This course provides students with an introduction to the key challenges the international community faces in its attempts to establish the rule of law and to address transitional justice issues in societies that have been torn by violent conflict. We will investigate different approaches international actors have applied in order to promote justice and the rule of law in such societies. The course will focus on issue areas which present complex challenges to international actors: filling a legal vacuum, constitutional development, and the reform of legal codes; judicial reform; addressing past atrocities through international criminal tribunals, hybrid courts and customary justice mechanisms; police reform; detainee management and prison reform; local ownership of judicial administration; contending with legal pluralism and with customary, informal and/or parallel justice structures; addressing property, land and housing disputes; and fighting serious crimes. These issues will be analyzed by focusing on the international community's approach to such challenges in various war torn societies, including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Cambodia, East Timor, Haiti, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone. Students will thus study the nature of the specific challenges mentioned above, the tools, methods, and strategies devised in order to address these challenges, and the shortcomings of the current approaches. SIPA: East Central Europe. SIPA: ICR.

REGN U6120: Crime, Corruption and Transition in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
Glenny, M. ; 3 credits; M 9:00a - 10:50a (LEC)

Organized crime and corruption represent one of the central challenges facing all governments in transition from the planned to the market economy. Over two decades after the fall of Communism, they still form a considerable barrier to economic growth and the consolidation of democratic institutions. Dramatic real-life narrative will enhance the solid theoretical foundations of the course.

REGN U6638: National, State, and Global Society in Southeast Asia
Kelly, Kristy; 3 credits; M 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

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REGN U6643: Political Economy of South Asia
Zaidi, Akbar; 3 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

This is an advanced undergraduate/graduate seminar course over fifteen weeks, designed to introduce upper level students to the study of South Asia as a region as a whole, as well as to countries which constitute it. We will examine the political economy of different countries, as well as the nature of their state, how society has evolved over the last six decades, and how the economy behaves and develops in a globalised world. The focus will be on trying to understand key themes which affect each of the main countries which constitute South Asia - themes such as politics and democracy, economic development, the state and society, and so on - as well as how the region has been affected as a whole.

REGN U6725: Modern Afghanistan: Historical, Cultural, and Political
Potter, Lawrence; 3 credits; W 2:00pm-3:50pm (COL)

This course will be a weekly seminar, limited to 20 students. It will be a historically-oriented introduction to culture, politics and international relations of Afghanistan; themes to be addressed include state-society relations, ethnic and tribal diversity, modernization and development, nationalism and political identity, the position of women and religion and the state, as well as Afghan relations with outside world. Sources include materials from many disciplines including history, anthropology, political science, literature and film

REGN U8480: Politics and Society in Post-Revolutionary East Central Europe
Micgiel; 3 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (COL)

The purpose of this colloquium is to examine contemporary political, social, and intellectual issues in the countries of East Central Europe.

REGN U8745: Politics in Russia
Giuliano, Elise; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (LEC)

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REGN U8750: Political Transitions in the Former Soviet Union
Mitchell, Lincoln A; 3 credits; M 11:00am-12:50pm (LEC)

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REGN U8755: Ukraine: Power, Politics, and Diplomacy
Kuchynskyi, Valerii; 3 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

The course provides historical perspectives on the development of modern Ukraine and analyses the evolution of its politics since Independence in 1991 till the Presidential elections due next January. While providing an assessment of political, social and economic transformations and their impact on domestic and foreign policy, the course will examine major causes of ongoing turmoil in the country, specifically the remaining legacy of the Soviet Union. The results of the forthcoming Presidential elections will be thoroughly discussed.
The class will also be able to analyze Ukraine�s relationship with its major partners: Russia, Europe and the US, its membership in the United Nations, its quest for Euro-Atlantic integration and the renunciation of its nuclear arsenal .The issues of national security will be dealt with extensively. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Russia.

RELI V3307: Muslisms in Diaspora
Ewing, Katherine; 3 credits; TR 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

Consideration of controversies surrounding mosque-building, headscarves, honor killing, and other publicized issues that expose tensions surrounding citizenship and belonging for Muslims in North America and Europe. Exploration of film and other media representations of Muslims in the West. There will be additional meeting times for film screenings

RELI V3860: Sociology of Religion
Bender, Courtney; 3 credits; MW 9:10am-10:25am (LEC)

This course introduces classical and contemporary theoretical and empirical approaches to the sociological study of religion, including secularization and secularity, religious identity formation, and sociological approaches to religious practice and meaning. Special focus will be on contemporary American topics, including religion and transnationalism, the role of religious actors and discourses in American politics, law and economics, and everyday religious practice. Prior coursework in Religion or Sociology is highly encouraged.

SDEV W3310: Ethics of Sustainable Development
Gondek, Adela J; 3 credits; TR 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

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SDEV U6260: Disasters and Development
Mutter; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (LEC)

SDEV U9220: Global Goverannce for Sustanable Development
Tubiana, Laurence; 3 credits; TR 11:00am-12:50p (SEM)

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SOCI W1000: The Social World
Eyal, Gil; 3 credits; TR 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

Identification of the distinctive elements of sociological perspectives on society. Readings confront classical and contemporary approaches with key social issues that include power and authority, culture and communication, poverty and discrimination, social change, and popular uses of sociological concepts.

SOCI V2230: Food and the Social Order
Ferguson, Robert; 3 credits; MW 1:10p - 2:25p (LEC)

Instrumental in the formation and transformation of the social order, food is an indicator of collective as well as individual aspirations and assumptions. We shall look at the production and consumption of food, both material and symbolic, from the eating in the Bible to globalization in the 21st century.

SOCI V2440: American Society
DiPrete, Thomas ; 3 credits; TR 4:10pm-5:25pm (LEC)

This course addresses the character of inequality, religion, family, and immigration in contemporary America from a comparative perspective. Our goal is to understand better the nature of American distinctiveness within the broader industrialized world. Through such comparisons, the course will also clarify the potential role that social science evidence can play in policy debates around these issues.

SOCI W3000: Social Theory
Becher/Eyal, Gil; 3 credits; MW 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

Required for all sociology majors. Prerequisite: at least one sociology course or the instructor's permission. Theoretical accounts of the rise and transformations of modern society in the 19th and 20th centuries. Theories studied include those of Adam Smith, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Max Weber, Roberto Michels. Selected topics: individual, society, and polity; economy, class, and status; organization and ideology; religion and society; moral and instrumental action.

SOCI BC3215: Sociology of Crime and Punishment
Kaye, Kerwin; 3 credits; TR 2:40pm-3:55pm (LEC)

This course provides an overview of both crime and its control within the US. Beginning with an examination of mass incarceration, the course details issues of race, class, and gender in relation to crime, policing, and representations of criminality. Is there justice within the criminal justice system?

SOCI V3247: Immigrant Experiences, Old/New
Olvera; 3 credits; TR 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

The immigrant experience in the United States. Topics include ideologies of the melting pot; social, cultural, and economic life of earlier immigrants; the distinctiveness of the African-American experience; recent surge of "new" immigrants (Asians, Latinos, West Indians); and changing American views of immigration.

SOCI W3288: Indian Society
Kumar, Vivek; 3 credits; MW 10:35am-11:50am (LEC)

The course provides an overview of existing structures and processes in Indian society, and of modernization and globalization from the South Asian perspective. It will analyze the specificities of exclusion and inclusion of India's ex-untouchables or Scheduled Castes who are now popularly known as Dalits. It will examine Dalit politics, including the roles of Ambedkar and Gandhi, and examine the full spectrum of Dalit movements: socio-religious reform, literary, women's, NGOs, and the Dalit diaspora.

SOCI W3355: Religion and Politics
Barkey, Karen; 3 credits; TR 9:10am-10:25am (LEC)

Exploring the major themes of religion and politics in the contemporary world: how did the major thinkers conceptualize the role of religion in society, the relationship between religion and politics, and state and church? How do different religions conceptualize and give life to these arrangements? After a mix of theoretical and historical readings, we study various substantive examples of the relationship between religion and politics, within differing contexts, different religions as well as different nation-states.

SOCI W3900: Societal Adaptations to Terrorism
Spilerman, Seymour; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Examines how countries have adjusted to the threat of terrorism. How the adaptation reflects the pattern of terrorist attacks, as well as structural and cultural features of the society. Adaptations by individuals, families, and organizational actors.

SOCI BC3907: Communities and Social Change
Olvera ; 4 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

Examines how social transformations have altered the ways in which people go about creating, losing, and recreating community. The primary focus is on how changes in the economy, the state, immigration, racial dynamics, and class inequality inhibit and promote the maintenance of communities in contemporary American society.

SOCI BC3909: Ethnic Conflict and Unrest
Olvera; 4 credits; W 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Post-1965 immigration in the U.S. has prompted conflicts between new immigrant groups and established racial and ethnic groups. This seminar explores ethnic conflict and unrest that takes place in the streets, workplace, and everyday social life. Focus is on sociological theories that explain the tensions associated with the arrival of new immigrants.

SOCI BC3913: Inequalities: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Law and Society
Salyer, John; 4 credits; R 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This class will examine the historical roots and ongoing persistence of social, economic, and political inequality and the continuing role that it plays in U.S. society by examing how such issues have been addressed both in social science and in law.

SOCI W3923: Adolescent Society
Shedd, Carla; 4 credits; Th 11:00a - 12:50p (SEM)

This seminar will explore the social and cultural construction of adolescence in contemporary American society. Adolescence is an important life-stage where experiences and decision-making have both individual and group consequences. Major themes will include: cultural and legal socialization of youth, crime and deviance, health and sexuality, employment and educational outcomes, and political behavior/civic engagement.

SOCI W3960: Seminar: Problems of Law and Society - Law, Science and Society
Cole, Jonathan; 4 credits; M 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

This course addresses basic contemporary social issues from several angles of vision: from the perspective of scientists, social scientists, legal scholars, and judges. Through the use of case studies, students will examine the nature of theories, evidence, "facts," proof, and argument as found in the work of scientists and scholars who have engaged the substantive issues presented in the course.

SOCI G4032: Sociology of Labor Markets
Cohen, Yinon; 3 credits; T 11:00am-12:50pm (SEM)

We will discuss the main concepts and processes necessary for understanding the functioning of labor markets in rich countries. The main topics to be discussed are: changes in the employment relationships, trends in labor force participation, the dynamics of occupations and industries, unemployment and underemployment, human capital and formal education, wage determination and earnings inequality, information and social networks in the labor markets, segmented labor markets, labor unions, labor market discrimination, ethnic and gender inequalities, and immigrants in the labor market. At the end of the course students are expected to be familiar with the main debates and developments in the field of sociology of labor markets.

SOCI G4121: Racial and Ethnic Inequality
Shedd, Carla; 3 credits; M 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

This seminar critically examines how racial/ethnic inequality is generated and maintained in contemporary American society. We will explore the merits and limitations of various paradigms that aim to explain racial inequalities and the concomitant social policies that have been implemented and/or proposed. Major topics include: residential segregation, wealth inequality, educational achievement, employment outcomes, crime & punishment, and culture.

SOCI G4338: Welfare Regimes/Inequality-Europe
Shauvel, Louis; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

Prerequisites: A course in Introduction in Applied Social Statistics (or equivalent) is required. Intermediate level command of STATA could help even if SAS, R, SPSS could make it. The comparative welfare regime dynamics is an important field of the contemporary applied sociology, particularly in Europe. The now classic book of Esping-Andersen (1990): "Three world of welfare capitalism" has been an important debated milestone of the comparative sociology, in public policy, inequality/stratification, work, social change. In connection with birth-cohort analysis (Age-Period-Cohort APC), this course covers an important field of macrosociological research and comparative microdata survey analysis.

SOCI G4530: European Construction
Miszlivetz, Ferenc; 3 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

The European integration and its institutional result, the European Union, is one of the most outstanding political constructions of modern history. But geopolitical, social, ecological, conditions have changed dramatically. The aim of the course is to make students familiar with the construction process, exploring internal and external obstacles and deficiencies as well as unutilized potentials.

SOCI G4540: Civil Society, Democracy, and Trust: Eastern Europe
Miszlivetz, Ferenc; 3 credits; W 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEm)

The course will focus on intertwining processes of transformation and the construction and de-construction of social trust in East Central Europe before and after 1989. The introduction to the course clarifies the conceptual and theoretical framework of analysis with special regard to theories of civil society, democracy and social trust and provides a historical background of social and political change in East Central Europe from 1968 through the fermenting decade of the '80s to the present.

SOCI G6600: The Social Life of DNA
Nelson, Alondra R; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-8:00pm (SEM)

Exploring how social scientists have come to take account of the commercialization and popularization of genetic science and its applications, from the Human Genome Project to direct-­‐to-­‐consumer DNA testing. While both forensics and biomedicine will be discussed, we will also consider genetic technologies and "the DNA mystique" beyond these traditional domains. Topics examined include genealogy and the family; the "molecularization" of race and ethnicity; "biocapital;" DNA and historical controversy; and "biomedicalization." Prerequisites: None.

SOCM P6712: Introduction to Health Advocacy
Goldman; 3 credits; R 10:00am-11:50am (LEC)

This course will focus on the relationship of public health policy to practice, with an emphasis on learning how to become effective advocates. The course will focus on how public health policies, practices and ethics are developed, with particular attention to the wide range of constituencies, perspectives, and tools that impact policies. Using case studies, students will examine a number of early public health challenges that shaped our current policies and institutional structures (i.e. typhoid, lead paint, HIPAA privacy, HIV/AIDS), and then explore a range of emerging issues (i.e. genetics, local smoking bans/nutritional regulations, drug-resistant TB, HPV, bioterrorism) confronting both the U.S. and the global community. The goal is to understand the wide range of voices and factors that influence policy, and translate that knowledge into practice. Students will participate in a mock legislative hearing at the end of the semester, develop testimony and "testify" as part of a final project. The class will create and implement a public health campaign, with the goal of impacting policy in New York City. The topic will be assigned the first day of class, and we will work as a team throughout the semester to conduct research, develop communications materials, meet with city officials and local groups, and recommend and advocate a change in policy/practice that impacts the health of city residents.

SPAN W3300: Advanced Language through Content
Multiple; 3 credits; TR 4:10pm-5:25pm (LAN)

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SPAN G6110: Crime and Culture in Modern Spain
Rios-Font, Wadda; 3 credits; T 1:10pm-3:55pm (LEC)

The period of bourgeois revolution framed by the 1812 Cortes de Cádiz and the 1868 Gloriosa uprising lays down the ideological foundations later crystallized in the Spanish First Republic and subsequent Bourbon Restoration--two periods of relative continuity which can be considered the advent of the modern Spanish state. A new concept of the individual as citizen and a complex process of civil and criminal codification produce novel conceptions of crime, criminals, and state power that find their way into the public imagination through the rise of the press and many works of high and popular literature. This course combines the study of cultural theory and criticism with that of primary sources (legal discourse, journalism, fiction), to examine the way in which crime becomes a veritable discursive formation that permeates and grounds modern Spanish culture.

SPAN G6255: Marxists and Race Rebels: Intellectuals, Activists, and Ideologies in Brazil, Spanish America, and the U.S.
Hertzman, Marc; 3 credits; R 1:10pm-3:55pm (SEM)

During the last four decades, left-leaning scholars of Latin America have experienced a series of related crises and dilemmas, many linked to the fall of heroic revolutionary movements and narratives. The rise and fall of Salvador Allende in Chile and then of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua took place amid mounting (internal and external) critiques of the Cuban Revolution. In 1994, one historian commented simply, “This is not an easy time for scholars who work on Latin America.” This course explores the challenges (and companion debates) of the last forty years within two larger historical contexts: the spread and adaptation of Marxist ideology in the Americas and the particular trajectory of leftist movements in Brazil. An initial hypothesis, to be tested over the course of the semester, is that many of today’s dilemmas are linked, at least in part, to historical tensions that have arisen through collaboration and conflict between, on the one hand, white and mestizo self-styled vanguards and, on the other, Native and Black intellectuals and activists. While Brazil is the major case study, the course also includes important works and ideas from and about Spanish America and the United States. We will analyze and discuss scholarly monographs and a range of primary sources, including manifestos, novels, films, and music.

WMST BC1050: Women and Health
Young, R. ; 3 credits; TR 1:10pm-2:25pm (LEC)

Interdisciplinary introduction emphasizing interaction of biological and sociocultural influences on women's health, and exploring health disparities among women as well as between women and men. Current biomedical knowledge presented with empirical critiques of research and medical practice in specific areas such as occupational health, cardiology, sexuality, infectious diseases, reproduction, etc.

WMST V3112: Feminist Texts II
Kessler-Harris, Alice; 4 credits; T 2:10pm-4:00pm (COL)

Contemporary issues in feminist thought. A review of the theoretical debates on sex roles, feminism and socialism, psychoanalysis, language, and cultural representations. Authors include Simone de Beauvoir, J. S. Mill, A. Kollantai, Zora Neale Hurston, and others.

WMST BC3117: Film and Feminism: Transnational Perspectives
Joseph, M. ; 3 credits; T 6:10pm-9:00pm ( LEC)

Because cinematic visuality is an increasingly powerful tool for influencing public opinion across international borders, this course will train students in essential skills in visual literacy and reading, and provide fluency in the theoretical vocabularies of Diaspora Studies and feminist film theory and analysis. The Lab will use films by and about women in the quotidian conditions of the African Diaspora to teach students how gender and racial formation are lived in diaspora, and to engage the diasporic visual practices women mobilize to represent themselves. The course is structured around a Tuesday evening film series featuring African women filmmakers and presentations by filmmakers, curators, and visual artists and seminar discussion on Thursday mornings. Students may enroll by registering for either AFRS BC3110 or WMST BC3117. - M. Joseph

WMST BC3509: Gender, Knowledge and Science in Modern European History
Coen, D.; 4 credits; M 11:00am - 12:50pm (SEM)

Develops historical strategies for uncovering the significance of gender for the cultures and contents of Western science. We will consider how knowledge is produced by particular bodies in particular spaces and times

WMST BC3514: Historical Approaches to Feminist Questions
Asaka, Ikuko; 4 credits; W 2:10pm - 4:00pm (SEM)

This course will provide students with a comparative perspective on gender, race, and sexuality by illuminating historically specific and culturally distinct conditions in which these systems of power have operated across time and space. In particular, the course seeks to show how gender has not always been a binary or primary category system. Such approach is also useful in understanding the workings of race and sexuality as mechanisms of differentiation. In making these inquiries, the course will pay attention to the intersectional nature of race, gender, and sexuality and to strategic performances of identity by marginalized groups.

WMST BC3519: Sex Work and Sex Trafficking
Kaye, Kerwin; 4 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

This course explores the history, politics, and social meaning of sex work. Focusing particularly but not exclusively upon prostitution, we will pay careful attention to the diverse range of social experiences which form sex work, as well as the way in which prostitution is utilized as a governing metaphor within sexual relations more generally. Some questions the course will consider: How has sex work changed over time, and what do these changes tell us about both the nature of sex work and about the broader society? In what ways is sex work similar to or different from other forms of service labor or other types of intimate relationship? How do questions of race, class, sexuality and gender alter the meaning and experience of sex work? What sorts of desires and expectations do clients bring to interactions with sex workers, and in what ways have these shifted over time? Recent controversies concerning sex trafficking and underage prostitution will also be addressed, as will the effects of various regulatory schemes which have been developed around the world

WMST V3813: Colloqium on Feminst Inquiry
TBA; 4 credits; M 4:10pm - 6:00pm (COL)

This course focuses on those conceptualizations that often are assumed in the practices of feminist inquiry. We will read a number of feminist authors whose works will help us address these conceptualizations and how they are presently contributing to contemporary feminist and critical thinking. We will consider the genealogy of these conceptualizations: the way they have changed or not and why. Then we will consider how these changes affect the practices of feminist inquiry. Some of the conceptualizations to be considered will be: the body, the autobiographic, affect, race/racism, ethnicity, war, debt, governmentality, empiricism, social construction, method, code and measure. Some of the authors to be read are: Richard Dienst, Karen Barad, Judith Butler, Rey Chow, Melinda Cooper, Gilles Deleuze, Saidiya Hartman, Jamaica Kincaid, Brian Massumi, Angela Mitropoulos, Luciana Parisi, Jasbir Puar, and Tiziana Terranova.

WMST G4000: Genealogies of Feminism: The Subject of Rights
Abu-Lughod, Lila; 3 credits; W 2:10pm-4:00pm (SEM)

The rights of women and sexual minorities have been central to feminist theory and activism. What is the genealogy of “rights talk”? What is its feminist genealogy? As the liberal language of rights has become hegemonic, in particular through international instruments that have linked women’s and sexual rights to human rights and as liberal reform goes global, what is hidden from view? What understandings are foreclosed? What politics are blocked? This course will examine these key questions by exploring feminist and other critiques of liberal paradigms; considering alternative languages and practices for emancipation, for example, Marxist thought, socialist practice, or Islamic law and its local practices; and reflecting on assumptions about the human embedded in liberalism, including the idea of human development and capability. Readings include T. Asad., J. Butler, W. Brown, S. Hartman, J. Massad, M. Nussbaum, E. Povinelli, L. Rofel, C. Walley, M.Wollestonecraft and others.

WMST W4300: Advanced Topics in Women/Gender Studies: Expressive Bodies
Robinson-Appels, Jonathan; 4 credits; F 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

Bodies appear to defy methods of categorization across nationality, race, and sexuality (and even within subcultures and localities). While bodies remain agile, normative theories of how bodies are construed, and how and why they act, are often rigid and formulaic. This course examines how phenomenological work on bodies and expression clarifies distinctions between varying "bodily world views." We consider research on race and sexuality of the last few decades, working with texts by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Charles R. Johnson, Laura Doyle, Gail Weiss, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., as well as essays by Foucault, Butler, and French feminists. Their work shows how geography, in conjunction with a specific socio-cultural nexus of lived experience, creates distinct expressive capacity. By examining their theories, in conjunction with the artistic representation of bodies (in literary works, and in the performing and visual arts), the course will critique the parameters of categories of African American race and sexuality. We will see how art contributes to the philosophical and cultural constitution of bodily forms and bodily analysis. In particular we consider choreographers and artistic directors Alvin Ailey, Arthur Mitchell, Ron Brown, Katherine Dunham, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, playwrights Soyinka, Baldwin, Hansberry, and Suzan-Lori Parks, literary authors Lorde, Dove, Brooks, Alexander, Hurston, and Morrison, and visual artists Kara Walker and Glenn Ligon. When possible we will make use of the cultural resources of NYC by visiting museums, galleries, and performances.

WMST W4310: Contemporary American Jewish Women's Literature
Klepfisz; 4 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

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WMST W4320: Thinking Sexuality
Pflugfelder, Gregory; 4 credits; T 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

The course will cover a range of (mostly U.S. and mostly 20th-Century) materials that thematize gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender experience and identity. We will study fiction and autobiographical texts, historical, psychoanalytic, and sociological materials, queer theory, and films, focusing on modes of representing sexuality and on the intersections between sexuality and race, ethnicity, class, gender, and nationality. We will also investigate connections between the history of LGBT activism and current events. Authors will include Foucault, Freud, Butler, Sedgwick, Anzaldua, Moraga, Smith. Students will present, and then write up, research projects of their own choosing.