POLI 207-01 30535 |
US Civil Rights and Civil Liberties |
Days: W
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Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm
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Room: CARN 206
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Instructor: Patrick Schmidt
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Avail./Max.: 2 / 25
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*First day attendance required*
Details
An examination of civil liberties and rights in the U.S., focusing on the cases decided by the Supreme Court. Central topics include the First Amendment freedoms of speech, press, and religion; privacy and reproductive freedom; and the Fourteenth Amendment protection of equality as it affects discrimination, affirmative action, and voting rights.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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INTL 245-01 30362 |
Intro to Intl Human Rights |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: THEATR 204
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Instructor: Wendy Weber
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Avail./Max.: 6 / 25
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Details
This course offers a theoretical and practical introduction to the study and promotion of human rights. Using broad materials, it focuses on the evolution and definition of key concepts, the debate over "universal" rights, regional and international institutions, core documents, the role of states, and current topics of interest to the human rights movement.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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INTL 280-01 30735 |
Indigenous Peoples' Movements in Global Context |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: CARN 204
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Instructor: Erik Larson
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Avail./Max.: 13 / 20
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*Cross-listed with SOCI 280-01*
Details
During the last three decades, a global indigenous rights movement has taken shape within the United nations and other international bodies, challenging and reformulating international law and global cultural understandings of indigenous rights. The recognition of indigenous peoples' rights in international law invokes the tensions between sovereignty and human rights, but also challenges the dominant international understandings of both principles. In this course, we examine indigenous peoples' movements by placing them in a global context and sociologically informed theoretical framework. By beginning with a set of influential theoretical statements from social science, we will then use indigenous peoples' movements as case studies to examine the extent to which these theoretical perspectives explain and are challenged by case studies. We will then analyze various aspects of indigenous peoples' movements and the extent to which these aspects of the movement are shaped by global processes.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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SOCI 280-01 30734 |
Indigenous Peoples' Movements in Global Context |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: CARN 204
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Instructor: Erik Larson
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Avail./Max.: 13 / 20
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*Cross-listed with INTL 280-01*
Details
During the last three decades, a global indigenous rights movement has taken shape within the United nations and other international bodies, challenging and reformulating international law and global cultural understandings of indigenous rights. The recognition of indigenous peoples' rights in international law invokes the tensions between sovereignty and human rights, but also challenges the dominant international understandings of both principles. In this course, we examine indigenous peoples' movements by placing them in a global context and sociologically informed theoretical framework. By beginning with a set of influential theoretical statements from social science, we will then use indigenous peoples' movements as case studies to examine the extent to which these theoretical perspectives explain and are challenged by case studies. We will then analyze various aspects of indigenous peoples' movements and the extent to which these aspects of the movement are shaped by global processes.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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POLI 323-01 30549 |
Humanitarianism in World Politics |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: HUM 216
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Instructor: Wendy Weber
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Avail./Max.: 5 / 20
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Details
The past two decades appear to have been very successful ones for humanitarianism. Funding for humanitarianism has skyrocketed; humanitarian organizations have expanded their public support, as well as their activities; and, increasingly, humanitarian issues have found a place at the center of policy decisions. It is also generally agreed that humanitarianism is in crisis owing to the growing awareness of the sometimes harmful effects of aid; the expansion of the concept of humanitarianism to include human rights, development, and peace-building; and the increasing involvement of states in humanitarian operations. This advanced-level course explores the nature and dilemmas of contemporary humanitarianism. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore-standing or permission of instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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INTL 352-01 30739 |
Transitional Justice |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: CARN 204
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Instructor: Nadya Nedelsky
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Avail./Max.: 6 / 15
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*Cross-listed with POLI 352-01*
Details
This course explores the rapidly evolving field of transitional justice, examining how and why regimes respond to wide-scale past human rights abuses. Drawing on examples worldwide, it asks why states choose particular strategies and examines a variety of goals (truth, justice, reconciliation, democracy-building), approaches (trials, truth commissions, file access, memorialization, reparation, rewriting histories), actors (state, civil society, religious institutions), experiences, results, and controversies. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or permission of instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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POLI 352-01 30740 |
Transitional Justice |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: CARN 204
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Instructor: Nadya Nedelsky
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Avail./Max.: 6 / 15
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*Cross-listed with INTL 352-01*
Details
This course explores the rapidly evolving field of transitional justice, examining how and why regimes respond to wide-scale past human rights abuses. Drawing on examples worldwide, it asks why states choose particular strategies and examines a variety of goals (truth, justice, reconciliation, democracy-building), approaches (trials, truth commissions, file access, memorialization, reparation, rewriting histories), actors (state, civil society, religious institutions), experiences, results, and controversies. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or permission of instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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ASIA 378-01 30354 |
War Crimes and Memory in East Asia |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: MAIN 002
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Instructor: Yue Him Tam
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Avail./Max.: 2 / 15
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*Cross-listed with HIST 378-01*
Details
This course's main goal is to introduce evidence of the major crimes and atrocities during World War II in East Asia such as the Nanjing Massacre, biochemical warfare (Unit 731), the military sexual slavery ("comfort women") system, the forced labor system, and inhumane treatment of POWs. The course will also help students understand the contemporary geo-political and socio-economic forces that affect how East Asians and Westerners collectively remember and reconstruct World War II.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 378-01 30353 |
War Crimes and Memory in East Asia |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: MAIN 002
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Instructor: Yue Him Tam
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Avail./Max.: 2 / 15
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*Cross-listed with ASIA 378-01*
Details
This course's main goal is to introduce evidence of the major crimes and atrocities during World War II in East Asia such as the Nanjing Massacre, biochemical warfare (Unit 731), the military sexual slavery ("comfort women") system, the forced labor system, and inhumane treatment of POWs. The course will also help students understand the contemporary geo-political and socio-economic forces that affect how East Asians and Westerners collectively remember and reconstruct World War II. Meets global and/or comparative history requirement. Meets the post-1800 requirement, and can count towards "Colonization and Empire," or "Race and Indigeneity," or "Law and Social Justice" fields.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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