Anthropology:
- ANTH 105
- Human Adaptation. Monge.
An examination of the methods and techniques of physical anthropology as
applied to specific problems of biological variation in man. Emphasis
will be upon physical anthropology as a biological science.
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- ANTH 150 (WSTD 150)
- Women's Health, and Development. Huss-Ashmore.
Fulfills General Requirement: the Living World.
Introduction to the problems of international development as these affect
women in the third world. Emphasizes impact of cultural change on
women's roles in production and reproduction. Views women's health as
the outcome of interacting biological, physical, and social processes.
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- ANTH 327
- Topics in Medical Anthropology. Huss-Ashmore.
Method and theory in biocultural anthropology applied to current issues
in human health, including nutrition, growth, and reproduction. Emphasis
on structure and analysis of data.
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- ANTH 459
- Nutritional Anthropology. Johnston.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 003 and 103 or permission of instructor.
Consideration of human nutrition and nutritional status within context
of physical anthropology.
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- ANTH 483
- Witchcraft and Sorcery. Kopytoff.
An anthropological examination of witchcraft and sorcery.
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- ANTH 528
- Topics in Medical Anthropology. Staff.
Method and theory in biocultural anthropology applied to current issues
in human health, including nutrition, growth and reproduction. Emphasis
on structure and analysis of data.
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- ANTH 541
- Cross Cultural Approaches to Health. Huss-Ashmore.
The relationship between the demographic, sociocultural, and biological
structures of communities and their health problems will be examined from
an anthropological perspective. Emphasis will be given to folk concepts
of disease, etiology and their assimilation of modern health care
practices, the ecology and natural history of disease and characterizing
the health status of population aggregates.
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- ANTH 553
- Political Anthropology. Barnes.
Political systems of non-Western societies and theories about these
systems analyzed and compared from an anthropological perspective.
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- ANTH 591
- Demographic Anthropology. Huss-Ashmore.
Population issues and demographic methods from an anthropological
perspective. Processes of demographic change in modern, historic, and
prehistoric human populations.
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies:
- AMES 159
- Historic Origins of Racism. Goldenberg.
The course examines views and attitudes towards black Africans as found
in the ancient and medieval sources of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
We will attempt to discover the relationship between these views and
racism in Western civilization.
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Art History:
- ARTH 409 (AFST 409)
- African Art in the Diaspora. Nasara.
This survey of African-American art will examine the adaptation and
survival of African forms, themes and style throughout the New World, as
well as the adoption of western styles and techniques and the
African-American contributions to this tradition. Focus will be on
Brazil, Surinam, the West Indies and the United States. Both "folk" and
mainstream art will be explored. Questions of artistic hybridism, the
role of the artist romanticized imagery, and continuity and change in
aesthetics will also be addressed.
City and
Regional
Planning:
- CPLN 737 (CPLN 437)
- Housing Planning in Developing Countries. Hoek-Smit.
This course on human settlement planning in transitional and developing
economies will focus particularly on problems of shelter and
infrastructure provision, within the framework of major theories of
national economic development and development planning.
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- CPLN 738 (CPLN 438)
- Field Research Methods in Developing Countries. Hoek-Smit.
This course in field-research methods is oriented towards the process of
decision-making inherent in various planning situations. It deals with
methods used to describe and analyze social/behavioral settings as well
as organizational-institutional settings. It will explore the process of
problem definition, development of research strategies and selection of
appropriate and effective research methods.
Comparative Literature:
- COML 100
- Introduction to Literature. Farrell.
Fulfills General Requirement: Arts and Letters
Neither a course in World Literature nor a course in Great Books, this
course explores the role of texts in various
contexts, including literary tradition, art,
music, law, medicine, architecture, history, and
popular culture. Texts include the Sundiata
epic, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, blues
literature, represented this year by August
Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,
and the influence of African art on western
artists and exhibits of African art in western
museums.
Demography/Sociology:
- SOCI 006
- Race and Ethnic Relations. Kao and Anderson.
Fulfills General Requirement: Society
An analysis of dominant minority group relations in different cultures
throughout history, with special emphasis on the contemporary American
scene.
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- SOCI 135
- Law & Society. Fetni.
Analysis of the emergence of laws, role of the legal profession,
organization of courts, legislatures, and administrative agencies.
Examination of problems of women and the law, divorce laws, civil
liberties, differential access to the legal system, corruption and
lawlessness in the international system. Readings include research
reports, statutes, and cases.
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- SOCI 531
- The Demography of Race.
McDaniel
This course examines the social reality of race and population dynamics.
Racial classification became routine at the same time as national
censuses. The census facilitated the counting of different
characteristics of the population, such as occupation, religion, place of
birth, citizenship, and race. These counts facilitated the development
of social statistics and demography. Both in the public debate and in
scholarly circles, demographic and statistical interpretation of racial
differences have taken on a religious quality. In this course, we will
examine how the social meaning of race dominates how we interpret
quantitative representations of racial reality. An understanding of the
impact of race relations can only be fully understood within a
comparative perspective. In attempting to do this, we will focus on race in
Brazil, South Africa, and the United States.
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- DEMG 607 (SOCI 607)
- Introduction to
Demography. Van de Walle.
A non-technical introduction to fertility, mortality, migration and
urbanization, and the interrelations of population with other social and
economic factors.
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- DEMG 621 (ECON 794, SOCI 621)
- Mortality. Elo.
Mortality as a factor of population growth. Social, economic, biological
and demographic aspects. Mortality patterns and causes of death.
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- DEMG 622 (SOCI 622)
- Fertility. Morgan.
Trends and differentials in human fertility. Biological aspects,
fertility and social structure, effectiveness of fertility regulation.
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- DEMG 777 (AFST 777, SOCI 777)
- Workshop on African Demography.
This course focuses on different debates in African demography; issues
and controversies in African historical demography, family structures,
fertility, and mortality.
Economics:
- ECON 760
- Development Economics: Basic Micro Topics. Behrman.
Prerequisites: ECON 701 and 705, or permission of instructor.
Analysis of selected topics in economic development related to
household/firm (farm) behavior, including determinants of and the impact
of human resources, contractual arrangements in land, labor and credit
markets, investment and savings. Emphasis on tractable modeling that
leads to integrated analysis given available data.
Education:
- EDUC 810
- Cultural Perspectives on Human Development. Wagner.
Seminar on cultural influences on socialization and cognitive
development. Special topics may include literacy, infancy, aging,
sex-roles, traditional pedagogies.
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- EDUC 817
- Human Development and Basic Education in Developing Countries.
Wagner.
Prerequisite: Prior graduate work in related areas.
This seminar will cover a number of topics in human development (e.g.,
pre-school interventions, literacy campaigns, non-formal education)
in the Third World that have received attention from researchers and
policy planners (e.g., UNICEF, UNESCO, World Bank, AID).
English:
- ENGL 090 (AFAM 090, WSTD 090)
- Topics in Women and Literature. Staff.
Fulfills Distribution III: Arts & Letters.
This course is a comparative study of black women writers in Africa and
the Americas.
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- ENGL 265
- Topics of the Modern British Novel. Barnard.
This course approaches the modern British novel in a variety of ways.
Offerings in the past have included: Finnegan's Wake, Lawrence and
Conrad, The Experimental Writings of Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett,
and The Development and Criticism of the Modern Novel.
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- ENGL 570
- Topics in Afro-American Literature. Baker.
This course will explore critical and theoretical issues raised by the
presence of an extensive corpus of narratives produced in the United
States by Afro-American women writers. Are such narratives coextensive
with narratives by Afro-American male authors? Are there critical and
theoretical strategies that are uniquely appropriate and productive for
the study of women's narratives?
Folklore and
Folklife:
- FOLK 203 (AFAM 203, AMCV 203)
- Introduction to Afro-American Folklore. Roberts.
Fulfills Distribution Requirement: History & Tradition.
This course is designed to provide undergraduates with an over-view of
the major forms of expressive culture developed by Afro-Americans. We
will focus on the continuous development of black cultural expression
from slavery to the present, emphasizing the socio-historical context in
which they are to be understood and interpreted. We will also examine
manifestations and interpretations of black oral traditions in the
literary works of a few selected Afro-American writers.
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- FOLK 229
- Myth in Society. Ben-Amos.
Fulfills Distribution Requirement 3: Arts and Letters
In this course we will explore the mythologies of selected peoples in the
ancient Near East, Africa, Asia, and Native North and South America and
examine how the gods function in the life and belief of each society.
The study of mythological texts will be accompanied, as much as possible,
by illustrative slides that will show the images of these deities in art
and ritual.
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- FOLK 430 (AFAM 430)
- African Diasporic Folklore. Abrahams.
Fulfills Distribution Requirement: History & Tradition.
By focusing on the dispersal of African peoples accross the Atlantic,
this course begins to account for the cultural efflorescence which occurs
as new African American communities arise and find means of elebrating
themselves. The course begins with a few case studies of the forced
enslavement and movement of specific African peoples, both within
Africa and to the New World. It then looks at the variety of places in
which African and European forms of display and performance emerge after
Emancipation, and how they become the basis of arguments for cultural
nationalism in those places. It will end with a consideration of some
of the more recent diasporic phonomena, such as the religions of Vodun
and Santeria, and performance styles and occasions such as Calypso,
Reggae, Soca, Salsa, Rap, Carnival, become reflections of new means of
projecting cultural identity, whether local, national or transnational.
Questions such as "How much of a "memory" of Africa is maintained within
these forms of celebration and display?" "is there such a complex of
characteristics that make the notion of subsaharan Africa viable? What
is the role of the African and African American intelligentsia in the
development and spread of these ideas?"
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- FOLK 531 (COML 560)
- Prose Narrative. Ben-Amos.
Fulfills Distribution Requirement: Society.
The topics of discussion in the course are the following: the nature of
narrative, narrative taxonomy and terminology, performance in
storytelling events, the transformation of historical experience into
narrative, the construction of symbolic reality, the psycho-social
interpretation of folktales, the search for the minimal units, the
historic-geographic method in folktale studies, the folktale in history
and the history of folktale research.
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- FOLK 532
- Proverb, Riddle and Speech. Yankah.
Through readings andn collaborative projects this working seminar
will explore the place of metaphor in the genres of proverb and
riddle and examine their position in oral communication in
traditional and modern societies. Critical readings of former
definitions and models of riddles and metaphors will enable
students to obtain a comprehensive perspective of these genres that
will synthesize functional, structural, metaphoric, and rhetoric
theories.
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- FOLK
629 (COML 662, RELS 605)
- Theories of Myth. Ben-Amos.
Theories of myth are the center of modern and post-modern, structural and
post-structural thought. Myth has served as a vehicle and a metaphor for
the formulation of a broad range of modern theories. In this course we
will examine the theoretical foundations of these approaches to myth
focusing on early thinkers such as Vico, and concluding with modern
twentieth century scholars in several disciplines that make myth the
central idea of their studies.
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- FOLK 680
- Public Culture of Development. Hanson.
By examining significant historical and contemporary examples of
public folklore projects, this course will begin to develop our ability
to understand, analyze, and create such forms. We will explore the
conventions that shape public representations of folklore, and critically
examine attitudes and approaches to the field. Particular attention will
be given to the politics and poetics of exhibitions, festivals, and
performances, and particular examples will be considered in terms of
their aims and goals, their impact (both on people represented and
outsiders), and their connections to larger movements (for social change,
cultural equity, conservation and preservation, etc.). Field trips and
projects will be used to involve us with local communities currently
representing their own traditions to the public.
History:
- HIST 010 (AFAM 010)
- The World 900-1750. Hudec.
Fulfills General Requirement: History & Tradition.
An introduction to world history before the industrial revolution.
Coverage varies each year, but every year the focus will be on the world
outside Europe and the U.S. Focus each semester on comparative and
connective themes, such as trade and civilization, empires, agrarian
societies and livelihoods, slavery and the slave trade, and expansion of
world religions.
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- HIST 011
- The World: History and Modernity. Staff.
Fulfills General Requirement: History & Tradition.
An explanation of major themes, milestones, and debates in the history of
the global community since 1300. Using examples from around the world,
the course will explore such issues as the causes of war and revolution;
the impact of religion, science and technology on human communities; the
development of global systems of slavery, colonialism, and labor
migration; the rise of nationalisms; and perceived differences between
"East" and "West," and "tradition" and "modernity." The course will also
introduce students to the art and science of historical inquiry using
primary sources, maps, pictures, and material culture.
- HIST 615 (COML 615)
- Colonialism, Culture and Power. Farriss.
Colonialism as symbolization. Explores the relationship between power
and our ways of organizing experiences or making sense of the world.
Emphasis is on language and its uses, under such labels as discourse,
interpretation, and narrative.
History and
Sociology of
Science:
- HSSC 145
- Feierman.
This course focuses on health and healing in the colonial and
post-colonial world. We give special attention to local healing
under condition of domination, the definition of the body and the
person in biomedicine and in non-European healing traditions, and
to the political and cultural place of medicine in regions which
have experienced colonial rule.
- HSSC 325
- In Search of Origins. Kuklick.
Fulfills Distribution Requirement: History & Tradition.
The impact of contact with non-Western peoples on Western social thought, from
the era of European imperialist expansion to the present. The
interpretation of the behavior of "primitive" peoples as manifestation of
basic human nature, with implications for economic, political, and
psychological theory.
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- HSSC 539
- Science & Colonialism. Kuklick.
The colonial expansion of European powers all over the globe was linked
to all manner of scientific developments. The geological,
geographical, botanical, zoological, and human characteristics of subject
territories were new subjects for scientific inquiries, undertaken
largely but not exclusively to assess the resources colonialists might
exploit either in the metropoles or in settlements abroad.
Music:
- MUSC 022 (ANTH 022, FOLK 022)
- World Music and Cultures. Muller.
Fulfills General Requirement: Arts & Letters.
Draws on repertories of various societies from Asia, Africa, Europe and
the Americas to examine relations between aesthetic productions and social
processes.
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- MUSC 105 (ANTH 111, FOLK 105)
- Anthropology of Music. Staff.
Fulfills General Requirement: Arts & Letters.
Introduction to anthropological approaches to music, with study of
musical theories, cultural life and performance contexts in selected
non-western and western repertories.
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- MUSC 605 (ANTH 605, COML 605, FOLK 605)
- Anthropology of Music. Staff.
Theories and methods of the ethnomusicological approach to the study of
music in culture, applied to selected western and non-western performance
contexts.
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- MUSC 705 (AFST 705, ANTH 705, COML 715, FOLK
715)
- Reading Women in Jazz. Muller
This seminar will take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of
women in jazz performance. We will define "jazz" quite broadly to
include contemporary musicians in the world music market, and consider
the works of and about women from Africa, Europe, and the United States.
Students will be required to read materials written by and about women in
jazz, as well as listen to recordings made by the women studied. There
are three interconnected parts to the seminar. In the first, we will
develop a framework for listening to, and analyzing jazz as a musical and
cultural text; in the second, we will read texts written by and about
women in jazz; and in the third, we will listen to jazz perfomances by
the women we read about. The seminar does not require in-depth technical
knowledge of musical analysis.
Nursing:
- NURS 516
- International Nutrition: Political Economy of World Health.
Sharman-Bader.
The nutritional problems of the less developed countries are discussed in
the context of basic human needs. The major forms of malnutrition
related to poverty and their underlying causes are covered.
Political
Science:
- PSCI 116
- Political Change in the Third World. Sil.
Fulfills Distribution Requirement: Society.
A survey of the political structures and processes of the countries of the
Third World. It will focus on contending theoretical perspectives about
modernization and development, dependency and underdevelopment, and
state-centric; colonial rule and its legacy; Third World societies and
economics; authoritarian and democratic statecraft; the military; culture
and politics; external actors; and protest and revolution.
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- PSCI 118
- The Military Politics of the Third World. Smith.
Fulfills Distribution Requirement I: Society
Analysis of the intervention of the military in the political systems of
Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Particular attention is devoted to the
questions of whether military regimes can modernize their societies more
effectively than civilian governments, and how military regimes get
replaced by democratically elected governments.
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- PSCI 532
- The Political Economy of North-South Relations. Callaghy.
Fulfills Distribution Requirement: Society.
An analysis of the politics of the Third World debt crises and efforts at
economic reform; the New International Economic Order of the 1970's; nature
of the international political economy, including the rise and fall of
"hegemons," the international state system and international organizations.
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- PSCI 533
- Comparative Political and Economic Change. Callaghy.
Fulfills Distribution Requirement: Society.
A comparative exploration of the politics and economics of the formation
of states and the development of capitalism, both historical and
contemporary, and an examination of contending theoretical perspectives
about them.
Public Policy
and
Management:
- PPMT 288
- International Industrial Develpment Strategies. Staff.
The topics to be covered include the following: the deindustrialization
of the developed countries; the challenge posed by newly
industrialized countries; the industrial policy debate in the U.S.,
Europe, and Japan; agricultural and industrial problems of the
developing countries; the role of multinational technology
corporations in technology transfer and exporting; foreign debt
and crisis management.
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- PPMT 789
- State, Politics, and Markets in Less Developed Countries. Pack.
(Prerequisite: A course in microeconomics. Upper level undergraduates
admitted by permission of the instructor).
This course will analyze the interaction of political and economic policy
in less developed countries. Among the questions considered are the
policies that are responsible for slow economic growth in many LDCs and
the political institutions that make reform difficult. Attention will be
given to both microeconomic policies and macroeconomic policies that have
an important impact on economic performance. Obstacles to changing these
policies and the understanding derived from successful countries will be
analyzed. Much of the course will be devoted to case studies of
individual countries drawn from the following: Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
and Mexico in Latin America, Ghana and Kenya in Africa, and India, Korea,
and Taiwan in Asia. Students will be required to write three ten page
papers which will be presented in class.
Religious
Studies:
- RELS 117 (AFAM 117)
- Black Religion in America. Washington.
The meaning of black religion, its social ideas and ideals, its impact in
the public arena and its leadership in politics will be examined from
historical, sociological and religious perspectives.
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- RELS 118 (AFAM 118)
- Black Sects and Cults. Washington.
Examination of selected non-traditional Black American religious and
secular movements, their founders and leaders.
Romance
Languages:
- FREN 390
- Litterature Francophone. Moudileno.
A brief introduction about the stages of French colonialism and its
continuing political and cultural consequences, and then reading in
various major works -- novels, plays, poems -- in French by authors from
Quebec, the Caribbean, Africa (including the Maghreb), etc. Of interest
to majors in International Relations, Anthropology and African Studies as
well as French majors.
Social Work:
- SWRK 750
- Comparative Studies Social Welfare. Estes.
The content of the course includes the nature and organization of welfare
services within this country and in various countries throughout the
world, such as the major industrial countries of North America and Europe
and the emerging countries of the "Third World." The major objective of
the course is to acquire an ability to use the comparative method of
analysis needed to assess the role of welfare programs in the development
of social work and social welfare programs as they are planned to meet
the identified common welfare needs in modern societies.
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- FRSM 106
- Freshman Seminar (School of Social Work). Estes.
In this seminar students will be exposed to interplay of international
forces that inhibit developing nation progress and which, in
some cases, actually add to their mal-development. During the
course of the seminar, students will undertake an original
piece of research on an international development topic of
special interest to them. They will also be invited to meet
with prominent professionals in the international development
community.
Women's Studies:
- WSTD 294
- Third World Feminism. Arondekar.
Resistance to local and global patriarchies, imperialism and capitalism
constitute the historical context of Third World feminisms. Women's
struggles against these practices constitute their identity in such a way
that the very category of women becomes determined in terms of the
intersection of class, race, nation and culture specific politics and
histories. In this course we shall focus on the historical development
of women's liberation movements in South Asia, Middle-East and certain
parts of Africa. We shall examine the ways in which women's movements in
these parts of the world have led to a necessary convergence of
anti-racist, anti-imperialist struggles along with oppositions to
patriarchy and capitalism. We shall also examine the political and
philosophical implications of Third World feminisms for some specific
feminist trends developed by women of the First World.
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