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This course seeks to examine how people experience gender - what it means to be a man or a woman - and sexuality in a variety of historical and cultural contexts. We will explore how gender and sexuality relate to other categories of social identity and difference, such as race and ethnicity, economic and social standing, urban or rural lif
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- anthropology
- gender
- sexuality
- marriage
- nationalism
- race
- class
- sex
- globalization
- professionalization
- agency
- appetite
- identity
- transvestite
- transgender
- intersexuality
- motherhood
- fetus
- sexism
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This class examines frameworks for making and sharing visual artifacts using a trans-cultural, trans-historical, constructionist approach. It explores the relationship between perceived reality and the narrative imagination, how an author's choice of medium and method of construction constrains the work, how desire is integrated into the st
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- comparative media studies
- media
- video
- student work
- identity
- documentary films
- portrait
- photography
- imagination
- narrative
- screenplay
- comics
- cultural expression
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International Women’s Voices has several objectives. It introduces students to a variety of works by contemporary women writers from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and North America. The emphasis is on non-western writers. The readings are chosen to encourage students to think about how each author’s work reflects a distinct c
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- foreign languages and literatures
- women
- international
- global
- contemporary literature
- writers
- asia
- africa
- middle east
- latin america
- north america
- non-western
- gender roles
- culture
- heritage
- female
- history
- colonialism
- religion
- nationalism
- socialization
- language
- patriarchal
- sex
- marriage
- politics
- love
- work
- identity
- fiction
- literature
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This course considers reggae, or Jamaican popular music more generally—in its various forms (ska, rocksteady, roots, dancehall)—as constituted by international movements and exchanges and as a product that circulates globally in complex ways. By reading across the reggae literature, as well as considering reggae texts themselves (songs, fil
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- foreign languages and literatures
- reggae
- world culture
- globalization
- rastafari
- jamaica
- caribbean music
- african diaspora
- hip-hop
- identity
- race
- ethnicity
- nationalism
- gender
- sexuality
- religion
- bob marley
- dancehall
- reggaeton
- roots
- ska
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Spanish IV aims at developing and improving student's oral and written communication through the continued study of the language, literature and culture of Spain, Latin America and Hispanic communities in the United States. It also seeks to improve students' ability to read and appreciate literary and non-literary texts in Spanish, deepenin
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- foreign languages and literatures
- spanish
- foreign language
- conversation
- writing
- literature
- culture
- history
- society
- hispanic
- latin america
- western europe
- spain
- central america
- south america
- identity
- politics
- family
- economy
- tradition
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En este curso el estudiante perfeccionará su comunicación oral y escrita mediante el estudio y la discusión de temas relacionados al impacto social y cultural de la ciencia y la tecnología en ciertas sociedades hispanas. Algunos de los temas que se considerarán son los efectos de los cambios tecnológicos en la estructura familiar y comunita
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- foreign languages and literatures
- spanish
- foreign language
- conversation
- writing
- literature
- culture
- technological change
- society
- hispanic
- gender relations
- identity
- religion education
- community
- media
- ethics
- latin america
- western europe
- spain
- central america
- south america
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This course elaborates the history of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander. It covers major social, economic, political, and religious trends. It also includes discussions on Homer, heroism, and the Greek identity; the hoplite revolution and the rise of the city-state; Herodotus, Persia, and the (re)birth of history;
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- history
- history
- ancient
- greece
- bronze age
- death
- alexander
- social
- economic
- political
- religious
- trends
- homer
- heroism
- greek
- identity
- hoplite revolution
- city-state
- herodotus
- persia
- empire
- thucydidean rationalism
- peloponnesian war
- platonic constructs
- aristotle
- macedonia
- hellenism
- primary sources
- translation.
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The course has two goals. First, to give you a sense of what philosophers think about and why. Here we look at a number of perennial philosophical problems, including some or all of: how knowledge differs from "mere opinion," the objectivity (or not) of moral judgment, logical paradoxes, mind/body relations, the nature and possibility of fr
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- existence
- god
- reason
- faith
- mind-body
- free will
- identity
- deontology
- morality
- moral responsibility
- materialism
- functionalism
- argument
- pascal's wager
- compatibilism
- determinism
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The Creole languages spoken in the Caribbean are linguistic by-products of the historical events triggered by colonization and the slave trade in Africa and the "New World". In a nutshell, these languages are the results of language acquisition in the specific social settings defined by the history of contact between African and European pe
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- linguistics and philosophy
- socio-linguistic
- creole
- caribbean
- spoken language acquisition
- identity
- africa
- europe
- seventeenth century
- eighteenth century
- haitian
- colony
- colonial
- dialect
- grench
- new world
- slavery
- lexicon
- pidgin
- culture
- religion
- music
- literature
- ethnicity
- text
- syntax
- morphology
- uniformity
- ebonics
- africal-american english
- gullah
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Introduction to Media Studies is designed for students who have grown up in a rapidly changing global multimedia environment and want to become more literate and critical consumers and producers of culture. Through an interdisciplinary comparative and historical lens, the course defines "media" broadly as including oral, print, theatrical,
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- literature
- literature
- comparative mass media
- communication
- modern culture
- social values
- politics
- radio
- television
- film
- digital techonology
- history
- storytelling
- advertising
- oral
- culture
- photography
- oral culture
- cultural forms
- political beliefs
- economics
- mediated communication
- class politics
- gender
- race
- identity
- behavior
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This course will serve as both an introduction to contemporary political philosophy and a way to explore issues of pluralism and multiculturalism. Racial and ethnic groups, national minorities, aboriginals, women, sexual minorities, and other groups have organized to highlight injustice and demand recognition and accommodation on the basis
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- political science
- citizenship
- ethnicity
- identity
- democracy
- nations
- politics
- class differentiation
- pluralism
- national unity
- contemporary
- political
- philosophy
- multiculturalism
- racial
- ethnic
- groups
- national
- minorities
- aboriginals
- women
- sexual
- injustice
- recognition
- accommodation
- democratic
- states
- group-differentiated
- rights
- exemptions
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This seminar provides an overview of the field of international relations. Each week, a different approach to explaining international relations will be examined. By surveying major concepts and theories in the field, the seminar will also assist graduate students in preparing for the comprehensive examination and further study in the depar
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- political science
- international relations
- security
- anarchy
- power
- identity
- domestic policy
- war
- conflict
- military
- peace
- cooperation
- compliance
- democracy
- politics
- unipolarity
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This course is designed mainly for political science graduate students conducting or considering conducting research on identity politics. While 17.504 Ethnic Politics I is designed as a primarily theoretical course, Ethnic Politics II switches the focus to methods. It aims to familiarize the student with the current conventional approaches
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- political science
- measurement
- ethnic diversity
- fluidity
- identity
- social identity theory
- mechanisms of group comparison
- memory
- death
- stigma
- prejudice
- contact hypothesis
- cascade models
- identity simulation
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This course provides a broad overview of the theories of and approaches to the study of nationalist thought and practice. It also explores the related phenomena termed nationalism: national consciousness and identity, nations, nation-states, and nationalist ideologies and nationalist movements. The course analyzes nationalism's emergence an
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- political science
- nationalist thought
- nationalist practice
- nationalism
- political science
- national consciousness
- identity
- nations
- nation-states
- nationalist ideologies
- nationalist movements
- modern politics
- state-building
- economic modernization
- democratization
- religious conflict
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The course provides the students a basic understanding of modern Israeli history, politics, culture and identity through lectures, discussions and projects. Among the topics to be explored are: ideational, institutional and material foundations of the state of Israel; Israeli national identity, Israeli society, economy, and foreign and secu
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- political science
- israel
- history
- politics
- culture
- identity
- zionism
- arab-israeli conflict
- west bank
- gaza
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This course surveys the social science literature on civil war. Students will study the origins of civil war, discuss variables that affect the duration of civil war, and examine the termination of conflict. This course is highly interdisciplinary and covers a wide variety of cases.
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- political science
- political science
- social science
- civil war
- origins
- duration
- termination
- conflict
- world bank
- identity
- fear
- greed
- death
- intervention
- peace
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