INTL 114-01 30360 |
Intro to International Studies: International Codes of Conduct |
Days: M W F
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: CARN 404
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Instructor: James von Geldern
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Can we all live by one set of rules? This course investigates the broad field of global studies by addressing fresh and age-old issues in international law from the personal to the global, including borders, sources and enforcement of international law, law of the sea, immigration and asylum, post-national federation, colonization, world order, and global citizenship. Readings include case studies, memoirs, fiction, and other texts focusing on individuals, cultures, and states. Open to first- and second-year students, or permission of the instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
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INTL 114-02 30361 |
Intro to International Studies: International Codes of Conduct |
Days: M W F
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Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am
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Room: CARN 404
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Instructor: James von Geldern
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Can we all live by one set of rules? This course investigates the broad field of global studies by addressing fresh and age-old issues in international law from the personal to the global, including borders, sources and enforcement of international law, law of the sea, immigration and asylum, post-national federation, colonization, world order, and global citizenship. Readings include case studies, memoirs, fiction, and other texts focusing on individuals, cultures, and states. Open to first- and second-year students, or permission of the instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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INTL 225-01 30742 |
Comparative Economic Systems |
Days: M W F
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: CARN 305
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Instructor: Gary Krueger
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*Cross-listed with ECON 225-01*
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This course examines the workings of economic systems from the perspective of the incentives facing the firm and consumer. The course provides an introduction to the economics of information and organization which is used to evaluate resource allocation under the specific institutional environment of different economic systems. Our understanding of the incentive system is then used to evaluate the overall economic system. The focus of the course is primarily on the U.S., Japan and the former Soviet Union/Russia. As time permits the course may examine China, Germany and Central Europe. Counts as Group E elective for the Economics major. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119 or ECON 129. C- or higher required for all prerequisites.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
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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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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
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INTL 253-01 30363 |
Comparative Muslim Cultures |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: CARN 06A
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Instructor: Jenna Rice Rahaim
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*Cross-listed with ANTH 253-01*
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This course examines the Qur'an and hadith, and other authoritative texts that ground Islamic jurisprudence, and explores the diverse ways in which Muslims have understood and interpreted these teachings in locations across the world (i.e. Indonesia, the Middle East, South Asia, Europe and the United States) and at various points in history.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism OR U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
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INTL 265-01 30607 |
Translation as Cross-Cultural Communication |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: HUM 302
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Instructor: Julia Chadaga
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*Cross-listed with LING 265-01 and RUSS 265-01*
Details
When communication takes place across language barriers, it raises fundamental questions about meaning, style, power relationships, and traditions. This course treats literary translation as a particularly complex form of cross-cultural interaction. Students will work on their own translations of prose or poetry while considering broader questions of translation, through critiques of existing translations, close comparisons of variant translations, and readings on cultural and theoretical aspects of literary translation. Prerequisite(s): Advanced proficiency in a second language.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
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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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*Cross-listed with SOCI 280-01*
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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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INTL 288-01 30056 |
Identity, Race, and Ethnicity in Japan |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: HUM 110
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Instructor: Arthur Mitchell
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*Cross-listed with AMST 288-01 and JAPA 288-01*
Details
From notions of the "pure self" to teenage ganguro ("face-blackening"), Japanese culture is rife with instances of ideology and performance that reflect a deep complexity in its engagement with issues of identity and foreignness. This course traces the roots of this complexity back to Japan's beginnings as a modern nation and examines its cultural development into the present day. Works of fiction will be paired with readings in history and criticism to explore the meanings of identity, race, and ethnicity as they are expressed and contested in Japanese culture. The course will cover the literature of Korea and Taiwan, the experience of domestic minorities, and the contemporary cultures of cos-play ("costume-play") and hip-hop. No prior knowledge of Japanese required.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
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INTL 290-01 30366 |
World to Table: Global Food Studies |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: CARN 404
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Instructor: David Moore
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Food has been a global issue for over half a millennium. The intercontinental movement of potatoes, sugar, rice, tobacco and more has shaped populations, economies, empires, and environments, while food today inflects the worldwide experience of nationality, ethnicity, religion, health, gender, race, class, culture, rights, and indeed life. Thus this course explores global food from many disciplinary, geographical, and thematic perspectives. We will also interact with local food institutions, address in a limited way our own food practices, and cook and eat a bit too.Al
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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INTL 294-02 30368 |
Spying, Sensing, Sorting: Surveillance and Power |
Days: M W F
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: CARN 404
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Instructor: Alix Johnson
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*Cross-listed with MCST 294-03*
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This course considers surveillance as a social formation, inseparable from the theory and exercise of power. On the one hand, it takes up the pressing questions surveillance raises, from the development of cutting-edge technologies to the complex work of international regulation. On the other hand, it situates surveillance historically as central to projects of imperial conquest, state formation, and colonial rule. Engaging with theoretical works, primary sources, empirical studies and artistic renderings, students will grapple with problems of surveillance and power across contexts while developing a multi-modal research project.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
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INTL 294-03 30737 |
Infrastructuring Inequality |
Days: M W F
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: CARN 404
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Instructor: Alix Johnson
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Infrastructure is infamously boring – as sociologist Susan Leigh Star once put it, infrastructure is “the forgotten, the backgrounded, the frozen in place.” But as events of recent years have demonstrated – from the pipeline protests at Standing Rock, to Russian hacks on U.S. power grids, to concerns over Chinese construction in Africa – infrastructure is a political project of vital importance. Infrastructure is a site where hopes and dreams are invested. It is also a place where unequal influence is laid bare. In this course we will consider infrastructure’s technical politics, tracing water pipes and railway networks; interstate highways and fiber-optic lines. Through close attention to the making, maintenance, and end user experience of these systems, we will practice reading the politics built into our built environments. Students in this course will complete a portfolio project using different research methods to closely examine an infrastructure of their choice.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
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INTL 294-04 30827 |
Media, War and Conflict |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: HUM 401
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Instructor: Michael Griffin
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*First day attendance required; cross-listed with MCST 294-02*
Details
Conflict is a familiar component of narrative structure and a regularly applied criterion of newsworthiness for journalism. Representations of extreme forms of conflict, including warfare, are frequently found in both fiction and non-fiction. And the ways in which violent conflict is represented in the media has significant implications for conceptualizing world affairs and politics, whether it involves warfare between nations, religious conflict, civil war among ethnic or kinship groups, political conflict or terrorist activities. This class focuses on the analysis of media representations of wars and conflicts in various cultures and regions of the world (including patterns of visual representation found in photography, film, television and online) and the ways in which these representations are shaped by the structures and practices of media industry production and transnational circulation across media systems and cultures. Students will study and analyze historical patterns of representation in war reporting and news broadcasts, literature, photojournalism, fiction film and non-fiction documentary, and relate those patterns of representation to contemporary descriptions and depictions of national and international war and conflict. In the second half of the term, each class member will choose a particular case study to research, resulting in a final course project that can take several possible forms: a term paper, multimedia presentation, video, etc. The goal of the course is to deepen awareness of culturally specific, and media specific, approaches to representation, and how the manner of representing conflicts reflects particular cultural perspectives, national or regional interests, specific media practices, the economic and political motivations of institutionalized media, and historical relationships of power across nations and social groups.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
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INTL 301-01 30369 |
Power and Development in Africa |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: CARN 411
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Instructor: Ahmed Samatar
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*Cross-listed with POLI 333-01*
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In a notable turn around, a significant number of African societies, in recent years, have experienced both economic growth and renewal of the spirit of women and men acting as citizens. These are commendable achievements. Yet, old quotidian urgencies such as precarious personal safety, hunger, poor health, and political disorder are still prevalent. This is the dialectic of development. This course explores these contradictions. Most of the attention will be given to the concepts of power, politics, and development in contemporary Africa. The course concludes with each student submitting a research paper on a specific problem (e.g. environment, economic, social, cultural, political) confronting one country of the student’s choice. No prerequisites or restrictions.
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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*Cross-listed with POLI 352-01*
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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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INTL 487-01 30372 |
Senior Seminar: Globalization and its Discontents |
Days: M W F
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: CARN 411
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Instructor: James von Geldern
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Globalization has helped the international community to come together with an unprecedented immediacy. It has also enabled individuals and on-state actors to assume powers and duties formerly exclusive to state. The dispersion of state prerogatives can be liberating, as when oppressed people use new communication technologies to overthrow their masters. It can also provide opportunities for criminal enterprises and other agents of disorder to act with impunity. Our senior seminar will explore the tensions between the centripedal forces that bring us together, and the centrifugal forces that tear the global community apart. The state will most often be the law. The Westphalian sovereign state has often been declared vanquished by globalization, yet it is still very much alive, and has proven creative in deriving new means to control its subjects. It must do so because those subjects have proven equally creative in resisting state control; and globalization, in both its modern and older forms, has provided those subjects with many tools of resistance. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or permission of instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
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INTL 488-01 30373 |
Senior Seminar: Thinking on a World Scale |
Days: M
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Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm
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Room: CARN 404
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Instructor: David Moore
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For more than a century, many fine minds - St. Lucian poets, Russian linguists, Mexican mystics, German forest historians, American sociologists, Bengali novelists, and Macalester International Studies students among them - have been drawn to thinking on a world scale. This senior seminar begins by reading some of them at essay length, then tackles current world-scale books the instructor himself has not yet read. Finally we generate some world-scale writing of our own. Open to all geographies and disciplinary specialties. Corequisite(s): Senior standing or permission of instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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INTL 489-01 30770 |
Senior Seminar: Capitalism and World (Dis)Order |
Days: W
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Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm
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Room: CARN 411
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Instructor: Ahmed Samatar
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Capitalism, for many, is synonymous with the "natural" exchange of goods and services through "the free market." But fuller examination shows capitalism to be neither natural, free, nor limited to economic transactions. Capitalism more precisely is a historical social system and a way of being which now penetrates all forms of life: cultural, ecological, civic and more. This senior seminar aims to identify capitalism's origins and development, and interrogate its contemporary status. Thinkers such as Smith, Marx, and Braudel will loom, but readings will focus on works by Beaud, Weber, Tawney, Kotz, Wallerstein, and others. The course concludes with a significant research paper on a topic, relevant to the theme, of a student's choice. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or permission of instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
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