Fall 2003 Course Offerings

In order to help students in the process of registering for courses in Fall 2003, PAWSS has compiled the following partial listing of course offerings in peace and world security studies. Please check each institution's listings and descriptions to determine if a particular course still has openings (website addresses are listed below). Please let us know any corrections or changes to this information at pawss@hampshire.edu.

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ECON 32 International Trade
Beth Yarbrough  MW 11:00-12:20

This course uses microeconomic analysis to examine economic relationships among countries. Issues addressed include why nations trade, the distributional effects of trade, economic growth, factor mobility, and protectionism. Also included are discussions of the special trade-related problems of developing countries and of the history of the international trading system. Requisite: Economics 11. Limited to 50 students.

ECON 36 Economic Development
Christopher Kingston  TTH 02:00-03:20

 An introduction to the problems and experience of less-developed countries, and survey of basic theories of growth and development. Attention is given to the role of policies pursued by LDCs in stimulating their own growth and in alleviating poverty. Topics include population, education and health, industrialization and employment, foreign investment and aid, international trade strategy and exchange rate management. Requisite: Economics 11. Limited to 50 students.

HIST 57 China in the World, 1895-1919
Jerry Dennerline MW 02:00-03:20

In 1895 the emergent Japanese empire imposed a humiliating defeat on the declining Qing empire in China, began the colonization of Korea and Taiwan, and set in motion the reformist and revolutionary trends that would shape the political culture of the Chinese nation in later times. In 1919, concessions by the Chinese warlord regime in Beijing to Japan at Versailles sparked the student movement that would further radicalize the political culture and ultimately divide the nation politically between Nationalist and Communist regimes. This course focuses on the intellectual, cultural, political, and economic issues of the era in between, when, despite the weakness of the state, the creative visions and efforts of all informed people were in line with those of progressives throughout the world. We will explore these visions and efforts, with special reference to national identities, civil society, and global integration, and we will consider their fate in wartime, Cold War, and post-Cold War Asia. Two class meetings per week.

HIST 61 History of Israel
Gordon Levin MW 02:00-03:20

The History of Israel. (ME) This course will survey the history of Israel from the origins of Zionism in the late nineteenth century to the present. Two class meetings per week.

HIST 62 Women in the Middle East
Instructor TBA TTH 11:30-12:50

(Also Asian 63 and Women’s and Gender Studies 62f.) This course examines the major developments, themes and issues in women’s history in the Middle East from the advent of Islam to the present. By tracing women’s legal status, sexual morality, family and social life, and economic and political participation, the course will shed light on the process of women’s roles in society and challenge the notion that gender divisions and roles have been static over time. The course will provide a familiarity with the major primary texts concerning the study of women in the Middle East, as well as with the debates concerning the interpretation and meaning of texts, law, religion, and history in the shaping of women’s status in the Middle East today. Two class meetings per week.

HIST 63 Africa Before the European Conquest
Sean Redding TTH 10:00-11:20

Africa has been called by one historian the social laboratory of the human species: that continent has been the birthplace of the oldest and most various civilizations on the earth. Art, trade, small-scale manufacturing, medical knowledge, religion, history, and legend all flourished before the formal political take-over of the continent by Europeans in the nineteenth century and continue to have a decisive impact on African societies today. It is the variety of social organization in Africa in the period before 1885 that this course will examine. We will discuss the establishment of the Coptic kingdom in Ethiopia, the development of state systems in black Islamic societies and in Southern Africa, and the workings of so-called stateless societies in West Africa and the Congo (Zaire) River basin. The readings will be primarily from studies written using oral traditions and histories, and there will be some discussion of the problems of studying African societies of the past which kept no written records. Two class meetings per week.

HIST 87 Seminar on Race and Nation in the U.S.-Mexican Borderland
Rick Lopez TTH 10:00-11:20

The U.S.-Mexican borderland has been the site of intense struggle and even violence over race and nation. These tensions have a long history within the region, and they have had important consequences both for the region, and for the rest of Mexico and the U.S. Most studies tend to focus on either the U.S. Southwest or northern Mexico, but in this course we will attempt to unite the study of these two regions and their people. Within this land short on ecological resources, whites, Native Americans, and mestizos (mixed bloods) competed violently over politics, economics, and culture. We will discuss the similarities and differences between U.S. and Mexican understanding of the boundaries and significance of race, particularly concerning Native Americans, and how this related to politics and economics. We also consider the emergence of the European-American as the ideal U.S. type north of the border, and the mestizo as the ideal Mexican type south of the border, and how these developments impacted indigenous politics differently within the two countries. Central themes include race, gender, violence, state and nation formation, industrialization, colonialism and imperialist expansion, popular politics, and environmental change. In addition to secondary readings, the class incorporates original documents, music, and images. Two meetings per week. Requisite: One course in either U.S. or Latin American history. Not open to first-year students. Limited to 15 students.

HIST 92 Topics in African History
Sean Redding W 02:00-04:00

This seminar will examine the development of several outbreaks of violence in Africa in the colonial and post-colonial periods. We will look at the economic, social, religious, and political roots of these disturbances, and we will discuss the problems historians face in trying to narrate and analyze these often chaotic events. The events studied will include the Zulu revolt in South Africa in 1907-08; the Watchtower movement in Central Africa over the period 1915-35; the Pondoland revolt in South Africa, 1958-63; the Biafran war in Nigeria, 1969-71; the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda; and the recent conflicts in Rwanda. Admission with consent of instructor. Limited to 20 students. First semester. Offered 2003-04. Professor Redding.

LJST 45 Law and the American War in Vietnam
David Delaney MW 12:30-01:50

The American war in Vietnam was, among other things, a watershed event in American legal history. Throughout the duration of the war there was vigorous debate about its legality in terms of international law, natural law and constitutional law. The conduct of the war and its relation to the draft and to dissent generated unprecedented public disagreement about such fundamental legal issues as authority, obligation, due process, civil liberties, crime and punishment, and the relationship between law and morality. The war was also the topic or context for a number of trials during which official legal actors endeavored to make formal legal sense of the war and of law’s relationship to it. As a historical event, the war may also be examined in light of more contemporary themes such as legal consciousness, law as violence, and governmentality. The course will explore legal aspects of the war both as a historical study and as a case study of law in extreme situations.

LJST 47 Global Legality
Nasser Hussain TTH 10:00-11:20

Traditionally, the idea of law has been associated with the legal system of a nation state, derived from a national constitution and delimited by territorial borders. Yet today, with the complex process called globalization, it is often argued that the prominence of borders, the older sovereign powers of that state, and even the idea of a national law are all in decline. Instead, we have an unprecedented flow of goods, money and people; the increasing regulation of economic and social life by supranational organizations such as the I.M.F. and World Bank; and with the institution of human rights, a new conception of rights and duties that is universal in scope. This class will examine the economic, cultural and, above all, legal dimensions of globalization. We will focus on the history of the League of Nations and the United Nations, the idea and practice of human rights, and the transfer of state powers to international agencies. We will also ask, however, if such processes are as new as they are often made out to be. Taking a larger historical perspective that includes colonialism and imperialism, we will trace older versions of a global legality, of the recurrent dream (or nightmare) of a single order of law and values to govern all of humankind.

LJST 48 Law and Historical Trauma
Nasser Hussain TTH 11:30-12:50

Certain events in political historyrevolutions, civil wars, transitions from authoritarian or totalitarian regimes to political democracy, or particular moments in the ongoing constitutional life of a nationseem unusual in the breadth and depth of the break or rupture that they make from tradition, the past, and the ongoing self-understandings of a people. Those events pose a special opportunity and challenge for law. Can law repair the traumatic ruptures associated with revolution, civil war, and recent democratic transitions? In such moments does law provide a reassuring sense of stability that serves to maintain the underlying continuity of history? Or, does it compound the crisis of dramatic historical transformation by insisting on judging the past, bringing the losers to justice, and publicly proclaiming the “crimes” of the old order? What can we learn about law by examining its responses to historical trauma? To address these questions we will first examine the idea of trauma and ask what makes particular events traumatic and others not. Is trauma constitutive of law itself? Is law always born in traumatic moments and, at the same time, continuously preoccupied with responding to its own traumatic origins? We will then proceed comparatively and historically by focusing on a series of case studies including colonial revolution in Algeria, Aboriginal rights cases in Australia, slavery and civil war in the United States, and regime changes in South Africa, Germany, and Argentina. In each we will identify the part played by law and ask what we can learn about the capacities and limits of law both to preserve national memory and, at the same time, to build new social and political practices. Admission with consent of the instructors.

POLSC 05 Politics, Statecraft, and the Art of Ruling
Hadley Arkes MW 02:00-03:20

Politics, Statecraft, and the Art of Ruling. In the teaching of the classic philosophers, the central questions of politics are questions of justice: What are the grounds of our judgment on the things that are just or unjust, right or wrong? What is the nature of the just, or the best, political order? What measures would we be “justified” in imposing with the force of “law”? What is the nature of that regime we would seek to preserve in this countryor, on the other hand, what are the regimes that we would be justified in resisting in other places, even with the force of arms? The problem of judgment must point to the principles, or the standards, of judgment, and to an understanding that is distinctly philosophic. But political men and women also need a certain sense of the ways of the world: the things that hold people in alliance or impart a movement to events; the ways in which the character of politics is affected by the presence of bureaucracies or elections; the arts of persuasion; the strains of rendering judgments. And the knowledge of these things must depend on experience. In this style of introduction to Political Science, a central place will be given over to the study of statesmen and politicians: Lincoln, Churchill, Eisenhower, but also Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan. The course will draw us back to Aristotle and Plato, to Machiavelli and the American Founders, but then it will also encompass the study of voting and campaigns, and the more recent politics of race and gender. Limited enrollment.

POLSC 14 Ideology and Social Protest
Sayres Rudy MW 12:30-01:50

Ideology and Social Protest. Political theories of justice, equality, fairness, and morality underlie protest actions. How these theories develop, vary and persuade “foot-soldiers,” mirror “academic” political theory and inform analysis of “protest” theory (and vice-versa). This course will examine the relationship between political theory and political activism in the context of protest movements to explore how activists understand and employ political theory. Readings will include religious and secular positions, as well as justifications for diverse protest strategies. The focus here is on the structure and sources of political valuation, evaluation, and revaluation. The course then takes up political theories “in action” by the activists articulating and defending them. This exploration reveals myriad sources, interactions, and modifications of cultural views, ideological choices, and evolving ethical demands and compromises. Thus, following the readings of prominent intellectual writings from British liberalism, French socialism, Russian anarchism, Italian communism, Egyptian Islamist radicalism, Pakistani Islamist modernism, Central American liberation theology, and Indian communalism, we will turn to case studies of movements carrying those banners to discern the determining power and roots of protest ideologies.

POLSC 16 Political Islam
Sayres Rudy W 02:00-04:00

This class will examine the histories, discourses, demands, and strategies of a broad range of Muslim movements in Indonesia, the Philippines, Algeria, Chechnya, Palestine, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kashmir, and Turkey. Beginning with short readings on various Islamist groups and settings, students will devise a taxonomy of discrete Islamist tendencies that challenge the view that Islamism is a uniform entity. The course then reviews some basic elements of social explanation, using the material-ideal divide as a way to clarify the effects of how we classify Islamist movements on how we analyze them. Students evaluate influential “single-deprivation” models of fundamentalism that claim cultural resistance varies from peaceful to violent due to increases in a single kind of deprivation, such as poverty or cultural encroachment. With this foundation, we turn to in-depth studies of Islamist movements to explore complex explanatory frameworks that combine rather than choose from political-economic environments and religious beliefs. We will strive to construct and test theories that identify causal mechanisms behind violent and non-violent Islamist activism, and include the discursive, interpretive, cultural, or religious arguments and claims of Islamist activists. The course culminates in discussions, inspired by student projects, about broader cross-religious conclusions that we might draw from the course.

POLSC 19 Lawlessness: Terror & its Denial
Kristin Bumiller TTH 10:00-11:20

This course examines the reach of the law in situations of chaos, violence, and terrorism. The course pursues questions about the causes of these diverse forms of disorder and compares their consequences in the home, community, nation, and international arenas. The course will consider terror as a phenomenon of mass society as well as a form of lawlessness in the context of everyday lives. In particular, our inquiry will include the study of outlaw individuals, rogue communities and nations, and mass atrocities (i.e., women-battering; American extremist groups; the events of September 11, 2001; mass rape in Bosnia; and the Holocaust) and examine how the conditions of lawlessness violate moral boundaries, sexual norms, and responsibilities of citizenship. Questions will be raised about the processes of both individual and social denial and how this denial functions in the remembrance and forgetting of atrocities.

POLSC 30 American Politics/Foreign Policy
Pavel Machala MW 12:30-01:50

Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union one decade ago, the United States has emerged as the sole world Great Power. This change coincided with Clinton’s presidency, his impeachment, the unprecedented growth and globalization of the U.S. economy as well as increasing social inequality and the declining interest of Americans in foreign affairs. The purpose of this seminar will be to examine domestic social, cultural and political forces that have shaped America’s post-Cold War foreign policy, such as the power of corporate capitalist interests, organized labor, ethnic lobbies, mass media, public opinion, Congress, grass roots organizations as well as the role of key government individuals. Attention will be also devoted to a comparison of Bill Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s psychological profile, policy-making style and political leadership, as well as differences in their domestic policy objectives with an eye towards understanding how these differences influence(d) their administration’s foreign policy agendas.

POLSC 31 Introduction to Latin American Politics
Javier Corrales TTH 02:00-03:20

This is an introduction to the study of modern Latin American politics. The overriding question that guides the course is: why have democracy and self-sustained prosperity been so difficult to accomplish in the region? The course is divided into four parts. The first part examines historical and institutional legacies common throughout the region that might have hindered democratic and economic development. The second part focuses on similarities in how Latin American countries have responded to this legacy since the 1930s (e.g., the rise of economic nationalism, statism, corporatism and populism). The third part looks at differences across the region by focusing on Cuba, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela. Hypotheses will be formulated to explain why, for instance, some countries òemained democratic while others did not; why some countries remained stable while others did not; why some societies resisted authoritarianism more effectively than others. This part of the course also looks at the role of political figures, institutions, political parties, societal groups (such as labor, business, the military and the Catholic Church), and cultural traits (such as machismo) in shaping these responses. The final part of the course examines developments since the 1980sthe transition to democracy and to market economies, the rise of social movements, the myths of racial and sexual democracy, the rise in crime, the endurance of porous states and laws, the re-militarization of the Andes, and neopopulism.

POLSC 45 Contemporary Europe
Ronald Tiersky MW 02:00-03:20

The main subjects are European Integration and European Security. The course deals selectively with the period 1945 to the present. Central issues are the domination of European political life by outside powers after World War II; historical and political reasons for European integration; current problems and prospects of the European Union’s development, especially its institutional deepening and geographical enlargement; the question of whether Europe can insure its own security; the American challenge and contradictory European responses. Not open to first-year students.

POLSC 48 Cuba: The Politics of Extremism
Javier Corrales TTH 10:00-11:20

The study of Cuba’s politics presents opportunities to address issues of universal concern to social scientists and humanists in general, not just Latin Americanists. When is it rational to be radical? Why has Cuban politics forced so many individuals to adopt extreme positions? What are the causes of radical revolutions? Is pre-revolutionary Cuba a case of too little development, uneven development or too rapid development? What is the role of leaders: Do they make history, are they the product of history, or are they the makers of unintended histories? Was the revolution inevitable? Was it necessary? How are new (radical) states constructed? What is the role of foreign actors, existing political institutions, ethnicity, nationalism, religion and sexuality in this process? How does a small nation manage to become influential in world affairs, even altering the behavior of superpowers? What are the conditions that account for the survival of authoritarianism? To what extent is the revolution capable of self-reform? Is the current intention of state leaders of pursuing closed politics with open economics viable? What are the most effective mechanisms to effect change of regime? Why does the embargo survive? Why did Cubans (at home and abroad) care about Elián González? Although the readings will be mostly from social scientists, the course also includes selections from primary sources, literary works and films (of Cuban and non-Cuban origin). As with almost everything in politics, there are more than just two sides to the issue of Cuba. One aim of the course is to expose the students to as many different sides as possible.

POLSC 54 Seminar in War and Peace
Ronald Tiersky T 02:00-04:00

This seminar is a conceptual and theoretical discussion of war and peace. It is not a history or policy study. What are the causes of war? Is war distinctly human, or is it an atavism of man’s animal nature? What are the causes of peace? If it were possible, should war be abolished? Or is war an awful but necessary, even positive, human behavior? Are there distinctively new forms of war, such as “virtual war” and “catastrophic terrorism?” The syllabus ranges widely, from classical sources to contemporary debates and new questions. Ideas discussed range from the premise that war is inevitable, an unavoidable aspect of human culture, to assertions that nonviolence, a warless world, is possible. Readings include Euripides’s The Trojan Women; Simone Weil’s The Iliad: A Poem Of Force; Thucydides; Quintus Curtius Rufus’s The Life Of Alexander; Hobbes; Kant’s Perpetual Peace; Clausewitz’s On War; Gandhi; Margaret Mead’s “War Is Just an Invention”; Martin Luther King’s “Letter from the Birmingham Jail”; Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong; Kenneth Waltz’s Man, The State, and War; and Raymond Aron’s Peace and War. Students should have some background in international relations study; in morality, law, and politics; and/or international law. This course fulfills the requirement for an advanced seminar in Political Science. Limited enrollment. Not open to first-year students.

POLSC 57 Problems of International Politics
William Taubman M 02:00-04:00

The topic varies from year to year. The current topic is: “Rethinking the Cold War.” During the last several years, the collapse of Communism has led to the opening of long-secret archives and the availability of former high-ranking officials in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. On the basis of such newly available sources, it is becoming possible to study the cold war from “the other side,” as well as on the basis of Western sources. This course will ask how these new sources have changed, or should change, our understanding of the cold war. It will use both new and old sources to examine such issues as: the cold war’s origins, the Korean war, the German question, the role of nuclear weapons, the Berlin and Cuban crises, the rise and fall of detente, the role of leaders and institutions, and the impact of misperceptions and miscalculations. This course fulfills the requirement for an advanced seminar in Political Science. Requisite: One of Political Science 21, 26, 27, 30, 45, 48, 54, 62, History 31, 50, 51 or their equivalents. Limited enrollment. Admission with consent of instructor.

NS 0132 Disease, Famine and War
Ventura Perez TTH 10:30-11:50AM

This course will review various theories regarding how the human body adapts to biological change (reproduction growth and development and disease) environmental change (pollution climate altitude and malnutrition) and social change (cultural and political processes of exploitation violence and domination). Students will examine the complexities and interconnections between biological adaptability and sociopolitical systems. Students will also explore the adaptive flexibility that allows humans to adjust to changing conditions in the course of their lifetimes. The emphasis of this course will be on the non-genetic processes of human adaptation upon which humans primarily rely such as morphological and physiological acclimation learned behavior technological innovations and social coping strategies. This perspective on human adaptability will be critically evaluated to understand how people attempt to adjust to adverse environmental and social conditions.

NS 0276 Elements of Sustainability
Lawrence Winship TTH 2:00-3:20PM

Even if we have answers for the basic questions raised by the problem of sustainability (What are we trying to sustain for whom for how long and at what cost?) how do we choose among the many available technical and social options? We actually know painfully little about the interconnected web of the physical chemical and biological processes that make up our environment and modulate its responses to our activities. And both the human systems we create and the natural environment are inherently complex and chaotic. Nevertheless we need to choose and choose well if we are to enhance the survivability of our species and to design and present new ideas and methods in ways that people will understand and adopt. In this course we will use case studies to examine these difficult issues. Teams of students will take apart each system assess the available evidence and develop evaluations or proposed solutions. This semester we have a chance to significantly influence the design of a new living area that the College will build to replace some or all of the Greenwich donuts. Where will food come from and waste go? Is organic farming really sustainable? What energy sources for light heat and cooking are most sustainable? What constitutes sustainable green building? Emphasis will be placed on understanding underlying scientific principles evaluating evidence available from the technical and scientific literature and developing innovative approaches and solutions that embody our chosen principles of sustainability.

NS 195T Pollution and our Environment
Dulasiri Amarasiriwardena WF  W10:30-11:50AM F 1:00-4:00PM

This course will explore environmental pollution problems covering four major areas: the atmosphere the hydrosphere the biosphere and energy issues. Several controversial topics including acid rain automobile emission ozone layer depletion mercury lead and cadmium poisoning pesticides solid waste disposal and problems of noise and thermal pollution will be addressed. We will emphasize some of the environmental issues affecting our immediate community as well as those in developing nations. We will also do several project-based labs gain understanding of scientific methodology and learn how to write scientific research reports. Students are expected to engage in scientific inquiry and to view their investigations in broader context gain a clear sense of scientific process and to develop quantitative oral and written communication skills. Class participation satisfactory work on the required class projects literature critiques and laboratory/field reports are required for evaluation.

OPRA 0205 Social Justice Outdoors
Karen Warren TH 1:00-5:00PM

This course will address issues of diversity and social justice in the outdoors. Current theories of social justice education racial identity development gender studies and adaptive recreation will be applied to contemporary outdoor programming. Using experiential activities readings field visits individual projects and discussion we will explore the importance of race gender ability and class awareness in outdoor education work.

SS 0109 Gender & Ethnicity
Lili M. Kim WF 9:00-10:20AM

This is a comparative history of Chinese Japanese Korean Filipino Pacific Islander South Asian Southeast Asian immigrant women and their descendants in Hawai'i and the continental United States from the mid-19th century to the present. This course takes the approach that learning about the lives and experiences of Asian American women is an important and integral part of understanding modern American history and we will pay particular attention to major economic social and political events in American history such as the immigration reform laws, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean war, the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War which shaped the demographic changes as well as socio-economic conditions for Asian American women in American society. Course materials represent a variety of disciplines (history anthropology ethnography literature) and sources (oral histories memoirs films) that contribute to the field of Asian American women's history.

SS 0112 Migration & Effects on Health
Fatemeh Giahi TTH 10:30-11:50AM

This course will examine migration in various parts of the world and its effects on the health, nutrition and general well being of individuals communities and nations. It will consider world population trends especially with respect to the impact of migration. Special attention will be paid to the causes and consequences of rural-to-urban migration in developing nations. The course will also explore the question of whether migration is a cause or consequence of poor socioeconomic conditions of populations and it will investigate the nutrition and health problems of migrants in times of war famine and political crisis. The course will consist of lectures discussion and films. Students will be expected to complete a series of writing assignments and a final research project on migration-related health problems of a population in one country.

SS 0144 African Development
Frank W. Holmquist TTH 2:00-3:20PM

This course is centered on four major issues: 1) History: what did precolonial African politics and economics look like? How and why was European colonial rule imposed? How did Africans respond? What was the origin and nature of nationalist ideology organization and leadership in the struggle for independence? 2) Current difficulties: How should we understand and explain the gathering crises in African politics and economics? 3) Development policy reform and recovery: What are current development policies in different policy arenas (such as agriculture, industry and education)? How successful are they and what changes may be needed to put Africa on the road to economic recovery? There will be an emphasis on writing through regular submission of short essays as well as a research paper. Particular attention will be paid to framing papers, crafting arguments and marshaling evidence. The topic of the research paper will be formulated in consultations with the student and the instructor.

SS 0164 Environmental Policy
Stephanie A. Levin MW 1:00-2:20PM

SS 0211 Social Movement Social Change
Margaret Cerullo W 10:30-11:50AM  F 10:30-11:50AM

On January 1 1994 the day that NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) was signed between Canada, the US and Mexico an armed uprising of indigenous campesinos of Chiapas Mexico announced a different vision of Mexico's present and future. The Zapatista Army of National Liberation fought with arms for only 12 days. For the subsequent nine years they have been conducting a different kind of radical political struggle--a revolution to make a revolution possible--that has captured the interest imagination and solidarity not only of large segments of Mexico but throughout the world, contributing to creating what today is called international civil society. In this course we will examine the formation, practices, discourse and goals of Zapatismo. We will at the same time consider directly the question of how to understand a social movement. We will look at a variety of different narrations and images that have been produced by participants, scholars, journalists and imagemakers and ask about their impact on our understanding of zapatismo. During the semester students will have the opportunity to examine primary documents and engage in the kind of thinking that scholars who chronicle social movements do. This course (or an equivalent) is a prerequisite for a possible January Term trip to Mexico in which we will spend time in Chiapas in Zapatista communities continuing to elaborate our understanding and our questions about Zapatismo. At least a semester's Spanish is also a prerequisite for the trip (can be taken simultaneously).

SS 0221 Israel and Palestine
Aaron Berman MW 09:00AM-10:20AM

In this class we will study the history and relationship of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism. We will examine the origins of both movements and the history of their conflict. Significant attention will be given to the conflict over Palestine which culminated in the establishment of Israel in 1948 as well as the half-century of war protest and occupation which followed. We will read primary and secondary sources from many perspectives and will view films and other materials.

SS 0262 Conflict Resolution & Historical Analysis
John Ungerleider M 7-9:30 PM

This course explores the dynamics of inter-group conflict and the potential for positive transformation of conflicts through interventions at the political, institutional, and personal levels. The focus of this class will be on case studies of conflict, in particular intercommunal and identity-based conflict. Participants will explore the political sources and social-psychological dynamics of conflict, the significance of cultural identity in relation to issues of violence and conflict, and potential strategies for responding to various levels of conflict.  The class will employ simulations based on intercommunal conflicts, employing mock multi-party negotiations to illustrate course themes. Defining themes stem from contemporary cases including Cyprus, Northern Ireland and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The course will assess the impact of citizen dialogue, peacekeeping, peacemaking, peacebuilding, and peace activism on violent conflicts. Students will seek to connect personal to theoretical material and work in teams to design a simulation addressing a specific case study.

SS 0285 Globalization & Subjectivity
Kimberly Chang TTH 02:00PM-03:20PM

Globalization is fast becoming a new paradigm for how we think about ourselves our identities and relations to others and to the communities in which we live. But what does globalization mean and to whom? Who are the subjects of globalization? How does the subjective experience of living and working in a globalizing world differ across geographies nationalities ethnicities classes and genders? What kinds of moral conflicts and choices-over migration work family sexuality home-does globalization pose for individuals in their everyday lives? And how do people respond to participate in or resist these daily demands and contradictions of global life? We will explore these questions through ethnography film and the study of local-global connections in our own communities. This course is strongly recommended for students who intend to enroll in the possible new Pacific Rim January Term 2004 program.

SS 0291 State and Politics in Africa
Frank W. Holmquist TTH 09:00AM-10:20AM

Sub-Saharan Africa is facing a severe multi-faceted crisis including a crisis of the state. The state loomed large in all post-colonial scenarios of African development as the major agency of economic growth and of popular participation. The 1960s and 1970s brought mixed returns on those expectations but the 1980s dashed prior hopes with international debt structural adjustment economic policies and repressive regimes. The turn of the past decade found angry people in the streets demanding democracy while the end of the Cold War meant that major Western countries were willing to let go of some very unpopular leaders the West used to support. But despite democratic openings an unleashing of political voices and economic reforms in the 1990s several states are marked by their failure to function as well as they did two decades ago and a few have all but collapsed. Meanwhile economies are growing slowly and poverty is spreading. The way out of the general crisis will require state reform and that will require an understanding of the forces that created the current situation. This is the central issue that the course will address. Some prior study of Africa Asia or Latin America is expected.

SS 113T Religious Fundamentalism
Abraham M. ZablockiMW 10:30-11:50AM

This course investigates the nature of religious Fundamentalism in the world today. We seek to understand how specific forms of Fundamentalist practice ideology and institutions have emerged from particular historical encounters especially with modernity science liberalism and colonialism. At the same time we will explore the idea of Fundamentalism as a general category of religion with validity across cultural contexts in order to examine and interrogate the tension between the study of particular cultures and the generation of cross-cultural categories of knowledge arising out of those particulars. Case studies will be drawn from contemporary studies of Jewish Christian Muslim Buddhist and Hindu Fundamentalists.

SS 119T Third World, Second Sex
Laurie Nisonoff MW 10:30-11:50AM

What happens to women when societies modernize and industrialize their economies? Is capitalist economic development a step forward or a step backward for women in industrialized and developing countries? In this seminar we look at debates about how some trends in worldwide capitalist development affect women's status roles and access to resources and locate the debates in historical context. In the global assembly line debate we look at women's changing work roles. We ask whether women workers in textile and electronics factories gain valuable skills power and resources though these jobs or whether they are super-exploited by multinational corporations. In the population control debate we ask whether population policies improve the health and living standards of women and their families or whether the main effect of these policies is to control women reinforcing their subordinate positions in society. Other topics include the effects of economic change on family forms the nature of women's work in the so-called informal sector and what's happening to women in the current worldwide economic crisis. We will use journal articles short fiction videos and The Women Gender & Development Reader to explore these issues. Evaluation is based on participation short essays and a research project.

SS 142T Anthropology of Human Rights
Susan Darlington  MW 10:30-11:50AM

People throughout the world face tragic situations of human rights abuse. Focusing on the rights of indigenous and minority peoples this course will explore questions such as: What is the role (and history) of anthropology in human rights work? What are cross-cultural ideas of human rights? The theoretical concept of human rights will be examined with emphasis on the importance and process of understanding the cultures and histories of specific peoples whose rights are being violated. Case studies (e.g. Guatemala Tibet and Burma) provide insight into the theoretical methodological and ethical issues involved in human rights work. Students will undertake research projects that will be shared with a larger audience through a student-designed public forum at the end of the semester.

SS 156T Culture and Imperialism
Vivek Bhandari TTH 9:00-10:20AM

More then three-quarters of the world's population have had their lives shaped by imperialism and the experience of colonialism. It is easy to see the impact this has had on the political and economic transformations of the past two centuries but the degree to which these have effected the perceptual frameworks of the world's population is less evident. This course will address the ways in which modern perceptions and attitudes are connected to their history of imperialism. Combining the study of empire with the concept of culture helps us to introduce the issue of power and in turn forces us to address the ways in which empire is not only a political ideology of domination but also a cultural formation. Chosen with a comparative framework in mind readings will study the ideas images representations and history of imperialism in different parts of the world. Students will critically examine and write about personal narratives films as well as journal articles and academic monographs-all of which will be used to relate contemporary life with the past.

SS 175T Global Politics
Michael Klare  MW 10:30-11:50AM

This course provides an introduction to the dynamics of contemporary international politics with an emphasis on the role of international regimes in addressing global problems. The course will provide an overview of the contemporary international system, looking at the role of such key actors as: nation-states, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and trans-national corporations. Particular emphasis will be placed on: (a) the dominant international role played by the United States; and (b) the role played by NGOs and international civil society in setting the global agenda. Several problem areas will be the subject of particular attention: proliferation human rights and environmental degradation. Students will be asked to write a number of short papers on the global political arena and to work in a team that will study one particular problem area and present its findings in a written paper and an oral presentation to the class.

SS 180T Perspective US-Mexico Border
Flavio Risech-Ozeguera  TTH 9:00-10:20AM

Anzaldua describes the U.S.-Mexico border as a thin edge of barbwire una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. Nowhere else in the world is there such a close physical juxtaposition of a post-industrial nation with a developing one. While capital and goods are now freely traded with Mexico the movement of people northward into the U.S. is strictly regulated and deeply held notions of racial ethnic and cultural boundaries--and their policy implications--are challenged by the growth of transnational communities on both sides of the line. Emphasizing historical and contemporary processes of nation-state formation and deterritorialization globalization and identity construction the course will challenge students to investigate a range of political and legal controversies of the border area including labor immigration drugs environmental and cultural issues.

Anthro 316 Special Topics in Anthropology- Globalization and Transnationalism
J. Roth Tu 1-3:50

A shift in economic, political, and cultural processes is pushing anthropology to extend the scope of its research beyond the local community and situate it within the world system. In this course, we will consider both the empirical changes in the world system as well as the paradigm shift in anthropological theory. We will search for elements in early anthropological theory on diffusion, exchange, and culture areas that foreshadowed some of the recent theory on globalization and transnationalism, and in so doing, determine more precisely what is new about new theory. We will explore issues related to migration, culture contact, creolization, indigenization, and more.

Econ 213 Economic Development: A Survey
Instructor TBA TUTH 8:35-9:50

Analysis of the reasons for underdevelopment and the challenges of economic development in developing countries. Students will learn how different theoretical approaches lead to different analyses and policy proposals. We will study key issues in the development process: the unequal distribution of income and wealth, the determinants of economic growth, the role of agriculture and industry in the development process, and the implications of increasing globalization. Course makes intensive use of the Internet.

Econ 217 International Finance
P. Schneider MW 2:40-3:55 F 3:15-4:05

This course looks at competing theories of balance of payments and channels of adjustment under fixed and flexible exchange rates. It also investigates the origins of the current international monetary system, as well as recent developments (the European Monetary Union, the Asian Financial Crisis, dollarization). See http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/pschneid/econ217 for a more detailed description.

Econ 321 Comparative Economic Systems
S. Gabriel TU 1-3:50

A seminar course in the comparative analysis of variant types of capitalist and noncapitalist social formations and the transition of social formations from one set of prevalent characteristics to a new and radically different set. See http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/sgabriel/321.htm for a more detailed description.

Econ 340 Comparative Economic Performance of the G-7
J. Christiansen M 1-3:50

This course will look at employment, equality, productivity, and real wages as measures to judge economic performance in the G-7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, U.K., U.S.). In our attempts to explain differences among these countries, we will focus primarily (but not exclusively) on labor relations and their institutional structure. The course will emphasize policy analysis: What can be done to improve economic performance?

Geog 319 Africa: Problems and Prospects
G. Kebbede M 1-3:50

The course studies major spatial patterns and socioeconomic changes in contemporary Africa. Important themes include: population growth and resource accessibility, agricultural systems, urbanization, migration, internal and external trade, inter-country economic cooperation and integration, and environmental quality.

Hist 131 East Asian Civilization: Modern China
J. Lipman MW 2:40-3:55

Studies the transformation of traditional China into a revolutionary society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics include rural control and peasant rebellion, the synthesis of Chinese political systems with ideas and institutions from the West, development of capitalism and its fate, and the changing role of foreign powers in Asia.

Hist 140 Identity and Community in Early Africa
H. Hanson MW 8:35-9:50

What made communities cohere and how did people understand their place in society in the African past? This class introduces African patterns and principles of social organization from limited associations such as clans or drums of affliction to the encompassing community of medieval Islam. Activities designed to give participants confidence in oral presentations begin with retelling oral narratives and culminate with a debate concerning the causes and consequences of the slave trade. This seminar will be taught in coordination with English 101 "Into Africa."

Hist 214 History of Global Inequality
H. Hanson MW 1:15-2:30

Why are some nations so much richer and more powerful than others? This course demonstrates that global inequality is not natural; it has a history. Exploring patterns of exchange that developed among regions of the world over the past 600 years, we will ask about the role of power in the establishment of practices of production and exchange. We will explore how cross-regional productive systems benefited some participants at the expense of others. Having traced the consequences of unequal exchange over several centuries, we will ask how global trade and production would have to change for all participants to benefit equally. The course includes a community-based learning component.

Hist 264 German History in the Modern World
J. King TUTH 11-12:15

This course pushes beyond cliches and simplistic images about Germans, into the world-shaping and humanity-stretching German past. Beginning with the Napoleonic Wars and the emergence of German nationalism, students will follow developments up to the present--using primary sources that range from sublime to depraved and that concern politics, literature, music, and more. Themes include the roots of Nazism and of German democracy and the responsibility of individuals for social outcomes.

Hist 283 Topics in the Recent History of the United States-The United States Since 1945: We Didn't Start the Fire
D. Czitrom TUTH 1:15-2:30

America emerged from the Second World War as the most powerful nation on earth. This course explores the political, cultural, and social life of Americans in the most recent historical period. Topics include the birth of the national security state, cold war at home and abroad, popular culture and the consumer society of the fifties, political conflict and cultural rebellion of the sixties, the civil rights struggle, and the decline of American empire.

Intrel 311 Problems of International Peace and Security
M. Klare TU 1-3:50

The course will examine a wide spectrum of threats to international peace and security, including the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, international arms trafficking, regional conflict, terrorism, environmental security, gender violence, and international crime. In 2003, the course will focus on security affairs in Asia, with a particular emphasis on U.S.-China relations. Students will be expected to write a major research paper on one aspect of Asian security affairs and to present the results of their research to the class.

Latam 386 Central America: Reform, Reaction, Revolution
L.Gudmundson M 7-10:00 PM

This seminar explores the diverse experiences of Central American nations in the twentieth century. From a common basis in an export-oriented agriculture, social and political alternatives ranging from social democracy to recurrent military rule, neofascist regimes, and revolutionary socialism have emerged in the isthmus. The course uses materials ranging from autobiography and literature to historical and anthropological studies to understand how this came to be. In addition to national cases, we consider the unique experiences of the area's indigenous and Atlantic-coast peoples within and outside the nation-state framework.

Polit 116 World Politics
K. Khory, R. Darst

This course is a survey of contending approaches to the study of conflict and cooperation in world politics. Examines key concepts--including balance of power, imperialism, collective security, deterrence, and interdependence--with historical examples ranging from the Peloponnesian War to the post-cold war world. Analyzes the emerging world order.

Polit 117 Globalization and its Discontents (INFO)
Instructor TBA

What is the world coming to? Is globalization expanding global trade, new information technology, an emerging global culture, and spreading democratization, as its supporters claim? Or is it a new form of first-world imperialism deepening inequality, undermining genuine democratic politics, and escalating the environmental crisis? Intensive writing and discussion.

Polit 213 African Political Systems
W. Stewart MW 8:35-9:50

Offers a comparative study of selected political systems, emphasizing political conflict in southern Africa. Examines African participation in regional and universal international organizations.

Polit 228 East Asian Politics
C. Chen TuTh 1:15-2:30

This course examines the dramatic rise of East Asia in the post-World War II period in comparative perspective. The focus will be on understanding the process and consequences of rapid development in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China. Assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the "East Asian model of development" and explores how different developmental experiences and policies affect state-society relations, social and political identities, and prospects for peace and cooperation throughout the region.

Polit 237 European Politics
TBA

This course explores domestic, regional, and international political issues in contemporary Europe, including an introduction to political institutions, political participation, and public policy in several European states. Special attention to the European and democratic transformation in Central Europe.

Polit 247 International Law
TBA

This course presents international norms and institutions for regulating conflict, including civil strife, promoting economic well-being, protecting human rights, exploring and using outer space, and controlling exploitation and pollution of the oceans. International agreements, problems of lawmaking, interpretation, and compliance; nationality and the status of foreigners and their investments; the principle of self-determination. Interests of postcolonial states as they impinge on the international legal order.

Polit 266 Environmental Politics in America
D. Amy MW 8:35-9:50

This course offers a critical investigation of the questions of power, politics, and principles surrounding environmental issues in the United States. Topics include a history of U.S. environmental policy and an analysis of the workings of our major environmental policy-making institutions: Congress, the executive branch, the courts, and private corporations. A variety of approaches to environmental activism are also examined, including mainstream environmentalism, grassroots activism, and deep ecology.

Polit 331 Impacts of War
C. Pleshakov TH 1-3:50

Russian history traditionally has been war-plagued. Sometimes the object of aggression, sometimes itself the aggressor, Russia has been party to all the major military conflicts of the last two centuries - Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War, World War One, and World War Two. Russia's army has also fought in several regional wars, notably in Afghanistan in 1979-1989 and currently in Chechnya. We will study the impacts of war on society. What generates support for a government's decision to go to war? When does war make a nation stronger, when weaker? How does the notion of "acceptable losses" change over time? How do "victory" and "defeat" affect a nation?

Polit 385 International Security
K. Khory W 1-3:50

This course focuses on the recasting of global security concerns after the end of the cold war. It pays special attention to the problems of economic and ecological security; the relationship between security and democracy; ethnic, nationalist, and regional conflicts; weapons proliferation; and the role of nuclear weapons in the post-cold war world. The course concludes with an examination of specific initiatives for achieving both common and comprehensive security.

Polit 391 Contemporary Political Ideas
Instructor TBA

This course explores such contested political concepts as liberalism, democracy, power, freedom, identity, alienation, civil society, and the public sphere - as those concepts have been interpreted by diverse currents of twentieth-century thought. Each year the course is taught, we will highlight a different conceptual theme. This year we will examine the ideas of the citizen and the foreigner.

Polit 398 The Rwanda Genocide in Comparative Perspective
C. Newbury  W 1-3:50

The 1994 genocide in Rwanda caused untold human suffering, left more than half a million dead, and reverberated throughout the Central African region. This course explores parallels and contrasts between Rwanda and other cases of genocide and mass murder in the 20th century. Topics include the nature, causes, and consequences of genocide in Rwanda, regional dynamics, the failure of the international community to intervene, and efforts to promote justice in the aftermath of conflict. Consideration of theories of genocide, and comparisons with other cases such as the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the destruction of the Herero, and war in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Womst 250 Global Feminism
A. Bandarage Time TBA

What is globalization? What are its positive and negative effects on different regions, cultures, social classes, ethnic groups, the sexes, and the environment? How are women resisting against poverty, militarism, and the environmental and cultural destruction accompanying globalization? What alternative visions and models of development are offered by women's movements working for peace, justice, and environmental stability?

Womst 333 Interdisciplinary Seminar Globalization and Fundamentalism
A. Bandarage Time TBA

The worsening problems of global environmental and social destruction, including the oppression of women, are frequently attributed either to economic and cultural globalization or ethnoreligious fundamentalism. However, in what ways do globalization and fundamentalism reinforce each other? What theories and social movements provide more balanced alternatives to the extreme models of psychological and social development represented by both these forces? This course will seek answers to these questions in relation to case studies of ethnoreligious as well as gender, race, and class struggles from both the Northern industrialized and impoverished Southern countries.

AAS 218 History of Southern Africa
Louis Wilson, T R 9-10:20 AM

The course will focus on the history of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho. Particular attention will be given to: the pre-colonial history of the region, the colonial systems imposed by the Dutch, and the Portuguese, followed by the British; the decline of African political power in the nineteenth century and the rise and fall of white minority governments in the region.

ANT 231 Postcolonial Africa: Contemporary Priorities and Challenges
Elizabeth Hopkins, M W 2:40-4 PM

Africa in the postcolonial period has become emblematic of the challenges that currently face all developing nations. The course will examine the social, political, and economic ramifications of such issues as urbanization, changing gender relations, ethnicity, sectarianism, elite politics, conflict, dependency, and AIDS. We will explore their genesis in the values and expectations of traditional African societies, in the claims of the colonial period, and in the intensifying global pressures of the contemporary world.

ANT 241 Anthropology of Development
Elliot Fratkin, T R 9-10:20 AM

The Anthropology of Development compares three explanatory models -- modernization theory, dependency theory, and indigenous or alternative development -- to understand social change in the 20th century. Who sponsors development programs and why? How are power, ethnicity, and gender relations affected? How do anthropologists contribute to and critique programs of social and economic development? The course will discuss issues of gender, health care, population growth, and economic empowerment with readings from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Latin America.

ANT 340 Seminar: Postcolonial Politics: Identity, Power and Conflict in the Developing World
Elizabeth Hopkins, T 3-4:50 PM

What common features define national political interests, privilege, and personal security in the developing world? The seminar will explore the contemporary logic that sustains individual strategies for survival, the power of the elites, and the prominence of armed conflict as a national and regional agenda. Topics include: ethnicity and sectarianism as political identity; Islam and Christianity as ideologies of engagement and resistance; the unprecedented human cost of postcolonial conflicts: refugees, child soldiers, and ethnic genocide.

ANT 349 Borderlands
Ravina Aggarwal, T 3-4:50 PM

In the wake of recent world events and under the impact of globalization, immigration and war, the subject of international borders and boundaries has become all the more relevant today. Rather than viewing borders as fixed spaces that determine national and social identity, this seminar locates the making and unmaking of borderlands in cultural histories and practices. Through ethnographic cases drawn from India, Israel, the United States, Mexico, and Germany, students learn how borders are imagined and produced, how they shape societies that live in these areas, how border communities in turn influence and subvert cultural knowledge, state policies, and social identity. Readings and films focus on the analysis of social and symbolic boundaries, hybrid cultural formations, transborder economies including sex and drug trafficking, the regulation of immigration and travel by acts of surveillance and security, religious, ethnic, and territorial conflicts, as well as resistance movements and creative works that challenge border controls.

EAS 219 Modern Korea
Jonathan Lipman, T R 10:30-11:50 PM

An introduction to Korean history since the 17th century including a survey of social, intellectual, political, and economic structures. Korea’s interactions with East Asian neighbors, Britain, France, the U.S.A., and Russia. The devastating effects of imperialism, colonialism, civil war, invasion, and long-term division.

ECO 211 Economic Development
Nola Reinhardt, M W 2:40-4 PM

An overview of major economic issues in the Third World (Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East). Examines theory, institutions, and development policy. Topics include trade, industrial and agricultural development, multinational investment, employment and technology, women in development, fiscal policy, and international financial issues (lending, balance of payments deficits, the debt crisis). Prerequisites: 150 and 153.

ECO 213 The World Food System
Nola Reinhardt, MWF 11-12:10 PM

Examination of international patterns of food production and distribution. Consideration given to major current issues, such as concentration in agricultural production and marketing, causes of world hunger, food dependency in Third World nations, technology transfer to the Third World, causes and consequences of multinational investment in Third World agriculture, and environmental considerations of modern agricultural technology. Prerequisites: 150 and 153.

ECO 214 Economies of the Middle East and North Africa
Karen Pfeifer, M W 2:40-4 PM

An economic survey of the MENA region, applying development concepts such as the "rentier state," the "watchmaker" economy, mineral-export-led industrialization, and import-substitution industrialization. Examples from many countries across the region illustrate the themes of interaction with Western capitalism and the global economy, variations among patterns of economic transformation and growth, the role of the government, the importance of oil, the impact of Islamism, and concomitant patterns of industrial and agrarian development, socio?economic change, the export of labor, and human development. Prerequisites: 150 and 153.

ECO 224 Environmental Economics
Mark Aldrich, T R 9-10:20 AM

The causes of environmental degradation and the role that markets can play in both causing and solving pollution problems. The efficiency, equity, and impact on economic growth of current and proposed future environmental legislation. Prerequisite: 150.

ECO 295 International Trade and Commercial Policy
Charles Staelin, M W 1:10-2:30 PM

An examination of the trading relationships among countries and of the flow of production factors throughout the world economy. Topics include the theories of international trade, issues of commercial policy and the rise of protectionism, multilateral trade negotiations, preferential trade agreements, the impact of multinational firms, and trade and economic development. Prerequisite: 250.

GOV 215 The Clinton Years
Marc Lendler, M W 1:10-2:30 PM

This is a course about the eight years of the Clinton Presidency. It will cover the elections, policy debates, foreign policy, battles with the Republican Congress and impeachment. The purpose is to begin the task of bringing perspective to those years. Prerequisites: One American Government course and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20.

GOV 221 European Politics
Mlada Bukovansky, W F 9-10:20 AM

This course focuses on the development of European democratic institutions in the context of military and economic conflict and cooperation. Includes an introduction to the process of European integration.

GOV 227 Contemporary African Politics
Tandeka Nkiwane, T R 10:30-11:50 AM

This survey course examines the ever-changing political and economic landscape of the African continent. The course aims to provide students with an understanding of the unique historical, economic and social variables that shape modern African politics, and will introduce students to various theoretical and analytical approaches to the study of Africa's political development. Central themes will include the ongoing processes of nation-building and democratization, the constitutional question, the international relations of Africa, issues of peace and security, and Africa's political economy.

GOV 228 Government and Politics of Japan
Dennis Yasutomo, T R 9-10:20 AM

An introductory survey and analysis of the development of postwar Japanese politics. Emphasis on Japanese political culture and on formal and informal political institutions and processes, including political parties, the bureaucracy, interest groups and electoral and factional politics.

GOV 229 Government and Politics of Israel
Donna Robinson Divine, T R 10:30-11:50 AM

A historical analysis of the establishment of the State of Israel and the formation of its economy, society, and culture. Discussions will focus on the Zionist movement in Europe and the United States, the growth and development of Jewish economic and political institutions in the land of Israel, and the revival of the Hebrew language.

GOV 230 Government and Politics of China
Steven Goldstein, W F 9-10:20 AM

Treatment of traditional and transitional China, followed by analysis of the political system of the Chinese People's Republic. Discussion centers on such topics as problems of economic and social change, policy formulation, and patterns of party and state power.

GOV 241 International Politics
Tandeka Nkiwane, T R 9-10:20 AM

An introduction to the theoretical and empirical analysis of states in the international system. Emphasis is given to the role of international institutions, the influence of the world economy on international relations, and the increasing prominence of global issues such as the environment, human rights, and humanitarian aid. Enrollment limited to 70.

GOV 244 Foreign Policy of the United States
Jacques Hymans, T R 1-2:30 PM

This course analyzes the domestic and international sources of U.S. foreign policy. The substantive focus of the course is on the past-WWII era, and includes the following case studies: the Cuban Missile Crisis, Somalia, Tiananmen Square and Lebanon. The foreign policy process, the instruments of U.S. foreign policy or the international context of U.S. foreign policy will be examined for each case. Prerequisite: 241 or permission of the instructor.

GOV 254 Politics of the Global Environment
Gregory White, T R 9-10:20 PM

An introductory survey of the environmental implications of the international political economy. The focus is on the changing role of the state and the politics of industrial development. Special emphasis is devoted to the controversies and issues that have emerged since the 1950s, including the tragedy of the commons, sustainable development, global warming, and environmental security. Special attention is also accorded to North-South relations and the politics of indigenous peoples. Prerequisite: 241 or permission of the instructor.

GOV 305 Seminar in American Government: Technology Policy in the Information Age
Sally Dyk, M 7-9 PM

This seminar will examine the challenges posed by the “Information Revolution” that has been brought about by increasingly powerful computers, the global Internet, and the digital economy. Issues to be addressed include: how is policy made, and what are the respective roles of government and the private sector in policy-making? How important are privacy, security and authenticity, and how can these be reconciled with the legitimate needs of law enforcement (particularly after 9/11)? And what are the implications of a growing digital economy for economic and social inequality?

GOV 322 Seminar in Comparative Government: Mexican Politics from 1910-Present
Velma Garcia, T 1-2:50 PM

An in-depth examination of contemporary political and social issues in Mexico. The country, once described as the "perfect dictatorship," is in the process of undergoing a series of deep political and economic changes. This seminar provides an examination of the historical foundations of modern Mexican politics, beginning with the Revolution. In addition, it examines a series of current challenges, including the transition from one-party rule, the neo liberal economic experiment and NAFTA, border issues, the impact of drug trafficking, and rebellion in Chiapas.

GOV 348 Seminar in International Politics: Conflict and Cooperation in Asia
Dennis Yasutomo, T 3-4:50 PM

The seminar will identify and analyze the sources and patterns of conflict and cooperation among Asian states and between Asian and Western countries in the contemporary period. The course will conclude by evaluating prospects for current efforts to create a new "Asia Pacific Community." Permission of the instructor is required.

HST 210 Modern India
Rama Mantena, 1) M 7:30-9:10PM 2) W 7:30-8:20 PM 3) W 8:30-9:20 PM

An introduction to the history of the Indian subcontinent from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. We will explore ways in which British colonial intervention and domination transformed local social, cultural and political institutions. In particular, the course will focus on social reform, nationalism, feminism, the partitioning of British India, as well as the ever-present theme of modernity and tradition that continues to shape our understanding of the modern nation-states of India and Pakistan.

HST 293 Decolonization in Africa
Joan Afferica, Time TBA

This course examines the complex histories of decolonization in Africa. We will first look at the structures of colonial power and the writings of early nationalists, including Blyden, Padmore, Thuku, and Plaatje. To understand the crisis of imperialism after World War II, we will follow decolonization on the Indian subcontinent. Five case studies will then be examined from British, French, and Belgian colonies in Africa: Algeria, Ghana, Kenya, the Congo, and Zimbabwe. We will conclude by inquiring into the legacy of decolonization in Africa, and ask of its larger meaning for today’s world.

SOC 232 World Population
Leslie King, T R 9-10:20AM

This course will introduce students to environmental, economic, feminist, and nationalist perspectives on population growth and decline. We will examine current population trends and processes (fertility, mortality, and migration) and consider the social, political, economic, and environmental implications of those trends. The course will also provide an overview of various sources of demographic data as well as basic demographic methods.

SOC 332 Environment and Society
Leslie King, R 1-2:50 PM

This seminar will explore the relationship between people and their natural environments. Using sociological theories, we will examine how environmental issues are constructed and how they are contested. In examining a series of particular environmental problems, we will consider how social, political and economic structures are related to environmental degradation.

WST 240 Global Women, Feminized Work
Elisabeth Armstrong, T R 9-10:20AM

Advertisements for Madison Avenue fashions gloss over the necessary labor of picking cotton and sewing cloth. Similarly, the women who wear the clothes have scant knowledge of the people who make them. This course pulls the thread of profit that connects disparate places and far-flung people in the global assembly line. As women take the frontlines of cheapened work, they develop new methods of resistance and hone old means of survival. This course relies upon intensive research projects alongside historical, sociological, oral, and written narratives to examine gender and work in economies of slavery, colonialism and multinational capitalism. Prerequisite: WST 150.  

AfroAm 254 Introduction to African Studies
Instructor TBA M 7-9 PM

Introduction to Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective. The chronological sequence from pre-history to contemporary times. Political development and processes, the arts, ethnography, social structures, and economies.

Comm 397C ST-Global Communication I
Geddes, Henry TH 11:15-12:30 PM

An introduction to the field of global communication. The course assesses the evolution and current status of worldwide information networks (print, audiovisual, computers) and their political, economic and cultural significance. Topics to be covered include: models of the world system, models of global communication, regulatory and policy frameworks, technology, economic organization, national sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Comm 397E  ST-Comparative Telecommunication and New Media Systems Instructor TBA TH 1-2:15 PM

This course critically examines how telecommunications infrastructure, information and communications technologies and new media content are governed in a global economy. Looking at case studies from both 'developed' and 'developing' economies, we will consider the tensions between national and global forces, public and private interests, and examine the role of civil society and how it shapes the politics of new media policy.

Comm 497L ST-International News
Geddes, Henry TH 4-5:15 PM

This course covers the institutions, journalistic practices and content of international news and their implications for an informed citizenry, particularly regarding U.S. foreign policy.  Key regions to be considered include: Central and South  America, Africa, Asia , and the Middle East.  Students should have some background in international studies or communication courses in telecommunication policy, popular culture, social impact of the media, or advertising.

Journal 395W ST: Conflict and War Online
Clifford, Arthur S T H 2:30-3:45 PM

[Generic Description: Contact Instructor] What is the state of the art, and the future of online journalism? As the Web merges sound and image, text and television, database and delivery -- how is the news morphing? If millions are creating their own "news content," what distinguishes journalist from source, audience, and community?

Legal 375 -- Human Rights & Wrongs
Mednicoff T H 1-2:15 PM

Introduction to humanitarian law. Topics include theory and history of international human rights law, growth and nature of human rights organizations, regional human rights schemes, cross-cultural contexts and meanings for human rights, the politics and law of immigration and refugees, international criminal law and other mechanisms for humanitarian intervention. Prerequisite: course in Legal Studies or international politics.

Legal 397V Civil Liberties in Wartime
Holmes T H 2:30 3:45 PM

Civil liberties are one of the casualties of war. This course will begin by looking at the loss of civil liberties during World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. With the benefit of hindsight, we will analyze the current conditions including USA Patriot Act, military commissions, and secret deportation hearings. Prerequisites: Legal Studies major; Legal 250; seniors, then juniors. Will be taught again Spring 2004

Legal 497R Racial Conflict, Mediation and Social Justice
Wing T 4-6:30

Key writings from Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Critical Legal Studies (CLS) will inform our analysis of racial conflicts and the use of mediation for their resolution. Students will be exposed to new research on how CRT and CLS can inform new methods of conflict intervention in racial conflicts. Prerequisite: Legal Studies 397I or permission of the instructor

Polisci 245 Government and Politics of English Speaking Caribbean
Edie T H 11:15-12:30 PM

Focus on the English-speaking Caribbean, formerly the British West Indies: Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Grenada. Analysis of the political institutions, processes and movements, which give expression to, the forces at work in these societies, especially those of class, ethnicity, and relations of production. Regional economic integration and political federation examined: the utility or otherwise of CARICOM, failure of West Indies Federation, etc.

Polisci 249 Government and Politics of Canada
Sulzner T H 9:30-10:45 AM

Lecture, discussion.  A broad comparative "North American" perspective.  Geographical, cultural and governmental features of Canadian political life; persistent contentious issues in Canada:  national unity, Québéc secession, regionalism, and Canadian-American relations.  Two hour exams, analytical issue paper.

Polisci 255 American Foreign Policy
Einhorn Various Times

Issues and politics of contemporary U.S. foreign relations with an emphasis on the historical, political, and administrative sources. Analysis of foreign policy-making with specific reference to illustrative historical and current case studies. Equivalent of POLSCI 101 or 121 recommended.  Midterm and final exams, book review essay, discussion sections. Optional honors colloquium available.

Polisci 295G Globalization & World Order
Haas T H 2:30-3:45

This course will look at the multiple dimensions of globalization and their impacts on international politics and on human life, as well as at various efforts to accelerate, slow, or control globalization to enhance the pursuit of security, prosperity, justice, and ecological integrity.  This course will look at the roles of governments, international institutions, non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations in the quest for world order in such areas as human rights, arms control, peace making and humanitarian intervention, migration and refugees, environmental protection, and international economic relations.

Polisci332 Government & Politics Scandinavia
Einhorn MWF 11:15-12:05 PM

This course focuses on the contemporary history, government and politics of the Scandinavian or Nordic countries. Specifically we shall look at Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden and to a lesser extent Iceland.  These small countries present alternative and successful examples of democratic politics in advanced industrial societies. Their small scale and openness allow detailed investigation of the dynamics of pluralist politics and policy. Scandinavian history and politics has attracted foreign attention because of three main characteristics: the establishment of political democracy without revolution (Finland being a partial exception), the construction of an elaborate "welfare state" which assures a high degree of economic and social equality but which demands very heavy taxation, and the evolution of a complex and multifaceted party and interest group system. Although dominated by Social Democratic (Labor) parties for most of the past sixty years, Scandinavian politics have in recent years become volatile.  Some observers suggest that the Scandinavian experience demonstrates the possibilities of combining pragmatically the "best" aspects of democracy and efficient administration, capitalism and socialism, and social security and opportunity: an ideal "middle way."  Others argue that Scandinavian achievements have been exaggerated and that future problems will be formidable.

Polisci 343 Government and Politics in East Africa:  Kenya and Tanzania
Edie T H 11:15-12:30 PM

Understanding of the essential patterns of political phenomena in contemporary East Africa. Primary emphasis given to Kenya and Tanzania. After independence, these two countries chose substantially different paths of development.  Kenya chose a capitalistic approach, and for that reason has sometimes been viewed as a "neocolonial" state.  Tanzania chose a socialist path of development, and has often been referred to as "less dependent" upon the West.Examination of approaches in depth, assessing their merits and shortcomings. Strategies adopted reflect problems faced by developing nations, so review has broader relevance for study of many states in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.  No purchased textbooks; packet of readings available.  No previous coursework on Africa presumed or required; introductory coursework in Political Science desirable.

Polisci 353 Representations of War and Peace
Der Derian T H 11:15-12:30 PM

Understanding of war and peace, identity and difference in historic and contemporary political thought.  How war is represented in the works of writers, artists, and the media.  Peace movements, strategies, and theories; war theory and war fighting doctrines.  Historic images of the male soldier-citizen and warrior and the female embodying anti-militarist values. Diversity of perspective.

Polisci 354 International Relations
Der Derian T H 1-2:15 PM

Advanced topics in international relations.  Possible topics: historical and philosophical foundations of the state-system; key concepts of international relations theory; post-1945 transformations of the state-system; alternative levels of political analysis; recurring sources of  conflict; instruments of national power; the role of international institutions.

Polisci 356 International Law
Peterson M W F 10:10-11 AM

Development of the basic rules of public international law.  Topics include sources of evidence for law, international legal personality, jurisdiction, treatment of individuals, law of treaties, law of the sea, resort to force, and peaceful settlement of disputes.  POLSCI 121 or equivalent helpful.  Open to juniors and seniors only.

Polisci 359 International Political Economy
Haas T H 1-2:15 PM

This course will introduce students to the study of international political economy; the political management of international economic relations.  It introduces a variety of theoretical approaches to the study of international political economy, stressing the role of power, institutions, knowledge and domestic politics in shaping international economic relations.  It covers a variety of contemporary issues in international political economy, including the emergence of a global economy, the management of trade and monetary issues, North-South relations, oil politics, multinational corporations, and environmental management.

Polisci 373 Contemporary Political Theory
Cruikshank T H 9:30-10:45

This course is designed to survey some of the central texts and themes in contemporary political theory.  Students will read primary texts in contemporary political theory and write a series of critical essays. In the first part of the course we will investigate a central question in contemporary political theory: How is it possible for politics to be everywhere and nowhere at once? We will address this question through several themes: modernity/postmodernity, power and liberation, humanism and post-humanism.   In the second part of the course we will focus on the post-1960 period of political reinvention through the following themes: fascism, identity politics, civil rights, sexual politics, representation, post-colonialism, deterritorialization, multiculturalism, revolution and change.

Polisci 382 Environmental Policy
Thomas MWF 10:10-11 AM

Analysis of U.S. environmental policies shaping the human relationship with nature. First half of the course is historical, covering Native American nomadic subsistence; transition to a European lifestyle based upon private property, a fenced landscape, and capital accumulation; disposal of public lands; creation of federal land management agencies; and Progressive conservationism.  Second half of the course covers contemporary environmental policies, with specific attention to biological diversity issues; implementation of major legislation, such as the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act; environmental group strategies; and currently evolving professional practices, such as ecosystem management.

Polisci 393 Nationalism, Ethnicity & Identity in Politics
Roy T H 1-2:15 PM

A comparative exploration of nations and nationalism, ethnic conflict, and identity-based politics in various parts of the world.  Students learn about different theoretical approaches through historical and contemporary case-studies of the relationship between identity and politics.  A discussion of relevant films and novels supplements the course readings.

ResrcEcon121 World Food: Opportunities and Constraints
Caswell  MWF 9:05-9:55 AM

Examination of pressures on the world food supply (particularly population and income growth) and the potential of world resources to meet these demands. Focus on the causes of hunger and the roles of increased food production, economic development, and foreign aid in efforts to alleviate it. (course web site: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~resec121/)

Socio 261 - Population Studies (D)
Anderton TH 9:30-10:45 AM

Introduction to Demography. Topics covered include an overview of population history, population growth and the environment, changing age and sex composition of the population and both current and historical trends in mortality, health, fertility, marriage, migration, urbanization and diversity. Readings for the course include Yaukey and Anderton, Demography: A Study of Human Population 2nd Edition and additional selected weekly materials.

Socio 325 - Political Sociology
Sonntag TH 9:30-10:45 AM

Lecture, discussion. An introduction to the sociological study of conflict in a modern comparative-historical context. Ideological legitimation of repression; political violence, propaganda, political systems, and "globization."

Socio 391A - World Religions and Worldly Politics
Demerath, Thompson 606 TH 2:30-3:45 PM

Lecture. The social dimensions of religion and the religious dimensions of the social. Topics include changing and contested theories of religion and society, and especially the volatile and often violent relations between church and state and between religion and politics. This course will examine countries around the world and religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. It will devote special attention to the causes and consequences of the terrorism of 9/11/01.

Socio 394F -Underdevelopment and the State in Latin America and Elsewhere
Sonntag W 2:30-5 PM

Historically, the modern state has been a by-product of the evolution of capitalism since the "large 16th century" (F. Baudel) in the societies in which it developed endogenously. On the contrary, in the countries to which the capitalist relations came as "imposed" ones, i.e. where capitalism is an exogenous product, the state is from the very beginning of their capitalist evolution one of the most important actors. This implies that the state in underdeveloped and dependent societies plays a much more active role in the economic and social processes than in developed societies. This course examines these differences and emphasizes the Latin American and Caribbean region, but takes into account also some other underdeveloped countries as examples.

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