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Biogeography: An Ecosystems Approach
Instructor: Prof. Erika Marin-Spiotta
Geography 338; 3 cr; call number: 51821
Class meets: TR 1:00 - 2:15 pm
There is no discussion section.
This course will take an ecosystems approach to understand how physical (climate, geology, soils…), ecological (competition, dispersal, migration…), and human factors affect the distribution of terrestrial biomes, ecosystem types, and biodiversity. Attention will be focused on the relative importance of these factors at different spatial scales and levels of organization. Importance will be given to the role of disturbance, and in particular to recent anthropogenic climatic and land-use change, as well as biological invasions, on differences in past and present day species distribution (official course title: Vegetation: Stability & Change).
China in World Politics
Instructor: Ed Friedman
Poli Sci 346; 3 cr; call number: 43060
Class meets: MW 4:00 - 5:15 pm
There is no discussion section.
The causes and consequences of China's rise all around the world.
Cities and Development
Instructor: Kris Olds
Geography/Urban & Regional Planning 505; 3 cr; call number: 51811
Class meets: W 7:45 - 9:40 am
There is no discussion section.
This course examines the relationship between cities and the “development” process. Global scale assessments of urbanization processes lay the context for detailed analyses of issues such as the role of the state in the development process, the relationship between cities and citizenship, postcolonial urbanism, transnational urbanism, and city futures. While these are long-standing issues of debate in various disciplines, and in inter-disciplinary networks, our interest will be in recent work that addresses new theoretical, methodological and empirical questions, or else select “classics” that have had lasting impact. Please note that this is a truly interdisciplinary course, and I am happily open to students registering in it from virtually any discipline. The key thing is that you love cities in all their glories and horrors. Web: http://geogurpl505.wordpress.com/
Economic Problems of Developing Areas
Instructor: Jennifer Alix-Garcia
Agricultural and Applied Economics 474 section 001; 3 cr; call number: 53187
Class meets: TR 9:30 - 10:45 am
There is no discussion section.
Analyzes aggregate growth, income distribution and poverty in lower income economies. Uses microeconomics of imperfect labor, capital and insurance markets to explore why some individuals advance economically as their economies grow and others fall behind. Considers implications of aggregate and micro analysis for national and international economic policy.
From Human Rights to Human Security
Instructor: Steven Smith
International Studies 601 section 001; 3 cr; call number: 42188
Class meets: TR 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
There is no discussion section.
Some concept of “human rights” has been around for centuries, but an internationally recognized consensus on what that term means is much more recent. First-generation (primarily political) human rights have the longest history, but even so were only codified on a global scale after World War II. Second-generation (primarily economic and social) human rights have been recognized for less than a century. Third-generation rights, which include environmental and cultural aspects, have only been discussed for a matter of decades and have yet to be set down in legally binding agreements in any significant way. In recent years, the concept of “human rights” has been rolled together with “national security,” “development,” and even “globalization” in the emerging paradigm of “human security.” This class will trace this evolution over time and also with regard to specific topic areas such as child soldiers, genocide, food security, global health, environmental protection, and development.
Globalization, Poverty and Development
Instructor: Brad Barham
Agricultural and Applied Economics 373 section 001; 3 cr; call number: 31587
Class meets: MW 8:00 - 9:15 am
There is no discussion section.
What are the links between globalization, economic development, and poverty in low-income economies? How do these links operate, and how are they mediated or altered by global and national policies and institutions? In this course we review issues and debates on globalization, develop a theoretical framework within which to examine the effects of global economic interactions on developing economies, and in a set of empirical units and case studies, focus on some of the main forces of globalization: international trade, investment and capital flows, international migration, and development assistance. Our goal is that students gain an understanding of the broad context of the economic dimensions of globalization as they affect development and poverty, acquire analytical tools for identifying relevant economic mechanisms and their effects, and bring these to bear on contemporary issues in which the economic welfare of poor countries and low-income households is affected by, and in some cases impacts upon, the evolving web of international economic relations.
Globalization, Teaching and Curriculum Planning
Instructor: Thomas Popkewitz
Curriculum and Instruction 675 section 2; 3 cr; call number: 53434
Class meets: M 4:30 - 7:00 pm
There is no discussion section.
The seminar focuses on reforms of curriculum, teacher education and pedagogical research in and outside Europe. Fabrication is used to explore the politics of construing/constructing an imaginary unity and difference among people through schooling. The readings draw from a variety of historical, social science and educational studies. Three intellectual concerns organize the class: First, discourses about Europe are considered as generating cultural theses about the child in school curricula and teacher education. Research about children's problem solving, "learning communities", and the psychologies of instruction are examined to understand the scaling of different cultural and social spaces about the European dimension and identity. Second, the fabrications of European identity embody comparative systems of recognition, difference, and abjection. Third, Europe is also the "Other" in other regional contexts, such as in Turkey, Russia, Pakistan, among others. Europe in the narratives and images of other nations and regions is discussed.
International Development and Gender
Instructor: Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel
Urban & Regional Planning, Women's Studies 644; 3 cr; call number: 44479
Class meets: MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
There no discussion section.
International development scholarship and practice has increasingly recognized the importance of the role of gender in development processes and the need to integrate gender analysis in development research and programs. After a historical review of development theories and trends and of the perspective of gender within development theory and practice, this course will examine specific current gender topics including social actors’ status and roles, productive and reproductive work, access to resources, identity and citizenship, empowerment opportunities and constraints, and the intersection of race, class, and ethnicity with gender. The role of international development agencies’ policies and programs in influencing, if not determining, local development and gender policies and programs is also explored.
International Development, Environment & Sustainability
Instructor: Jane Collins
Community and Environmental Sociology 375; 3 cr; call number: 31787
Class meets: TR 2:30 - 3:45 pm
There is no discussion section.
Sociological analysis of relationships among economic growth, environmental sustainability and social justice in the developing world. Considers frameworks for understanding poverty, hunger, educational and technological inequality, and the impact of globalization on prospects for socially and ecologically sustainable development.
Making of Modern Science (The)
Instructor: Richard Staley
History of Science & Integrated Liberal Studies 202; 3 cr; call number: 37180, 39858, 37181-2
Class meets: MW 1:20 - 2:10 pm
There is a required discussion section.
This course offers an introduction to the history of the sciences between the work of Isaac Newton in the late seventeenth century and Albert Einstein in the early twentieth, with the aim of understanding how science came to be so important in modern culture. Investigating the historical significance of such fundamental scientific concepts as gravity, energy, and evolution, and the complex interrelations between theory and experiment, we study the diverse ways that scientific and social values have been interwoven in Western culture. We explore the changing relations among science and technology, science and religion and science and the state, and cross both disciplinary and national boundaries to investigate the rise of the laboratory-based sciences, the changing cultural status of the scientist, and the professionalization of the scientific disciplines.
Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust
Instructor: Claudia Card
Philosophy & Jewish Studies 442; 3 cr; call number: 52771
Class meets: TR 1:00 - 2:15 pm
There is no discussion section.
This course addresses five or six kinds of philosophical ethical issues presented during and following the Holocaust: the nature of evil; complicity in evil; whom to save; use of data from Nazi medical atrocities; trials and punishments (focus on Eichmann); reparations. A short paper is assigned for each unit. A midterm essay is required of everyone. A final essay exam is required only of those who did not complete the other work on time and with a "B" average. This is a Writing Intensive course that also participates in the Writing Fellow program.
Post-Colonial Perspectives on World Language Education
Instructor: Francois Victor Tochon
Curriculum & Instruction 975, section 3; 3 cr; call number: 53438
Class meets: R 1:00 pm - 3:45 pm
There no discussion section.
Seminar intended to help graduate students develop and further research projects with post-colonial and international perspectives on language learning, teaching, language planning and policy, and teacher education. OVERVIEW - Despite advances in post-colonial rhetoric in many states, numerous language policies keep repeating the litanies of market economy. Dominant perspectives on the role of international languages vis-à-vis local languages still divide and subject many societies to an official language apparently stripped of its colonial baggage but which perpetuates obedience systems and values that may be detrimental to the host countries. The seminar will address developments in language-in-education planning and policy research around the world, and support to conceptualizing, contextualizing, and solving language education-related problems using established procedures or procedures emerging during the current era of renewal in social science methodology. Learning will take place following a flexible formula that unites theory and practice, description and critique, and the conceptual and the empirical in a dialectical fashion.
Public Finance in Less Developed Countries
Instructor: Andrew Reschovsky
Agricultural and Applied Economics/Public Affairs 567; 3 cr; call number: 31775
Class meets: WR 3:30 - 4:20 pm
There is no discussion section.
Potential and limitations of fiscal policy as a development instrument in low-income countries; tax harmonization in economic integration; case studies in tax reform; budgeting and planning.
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