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

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.

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.

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

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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 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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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 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 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.

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

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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: 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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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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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 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.

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.

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

l with the permission of the instructor.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

l with the permission of the instructor.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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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 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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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 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 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  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

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 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 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: First Amendment
Amdur, Robert; 4 credits; M 4:10pm-6:00pm (SEM)

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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: 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 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.

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.

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

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

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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 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.

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 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 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.

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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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 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 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.

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

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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 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.

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.”

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 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.

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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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: 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 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 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.

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 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 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 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: 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 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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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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 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 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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