DEAN’S TEACHING FELLOWSHIP COURSES

ECONOMICS

180.248 (S)

ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVES ON IMMIGRATION IN AMERICA (3) Thom Limit 25 Course added 12/10/07

Sec. 01

WF 1:30-2:45

ENGLISH

060.350 (H)
(W)

BLACK, WHITE AND READ ALL OVER: THE AMERICAN SLAVE NARRATIVE RECONSIDERED (1830s-1850s) (3) Bynum  Limit 18 This course seeks to reconsider the American slave narrative by addressing the social and political concerns of African American authors alongside those of the American Renaissance rather than separately. Those larger social concerns will include: race, gender, manhood and womanhood and American identity. 

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

GERMAN AND ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

212.330 (H) (W)

LE ROMAN NOIR FRANCOPHONE (3) Giraud   Limit 15   Prereq: 210-301-302 210.201 or Perm. Req’d.     The significance of the “roman noir” in francophone literature of the twentieth century starting with an overview of its evolution. Authors: Manchette, Dutrizac, Mad, Ndione, and Ngoye.  Taught in French

Sec. 01

M 2-4:30

HISTORY

100.215 (H,S)
 (W)

RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION AS EMPIRE (3) Babiracki   Limit 15
This seminar based course will familiarize students with the political, social, and cultural mechanisms of  Russian and Soviet imperial rule in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Sec. 01

MW 1:30-2:45

100.218 (H,S)
(W)

THIS ALMOST CHOSEN PEOPLE: POPULAR RELIGION IN U.S. HISTORY (3) Matsui  Limit 25  What role has religion played in American history? This course investigates the influence of popular religious beliefs on politics, race, and gender in the United States from the 17th through the 20th century. 

Sec. 01

TTh 1:30-2:45

HISTORY OF ART

010.220 (H)

ARTISTS AND WARFARE IN THE RENAISSANCE: A MEETING OF ART AND SCIENCE (3) Gregg  Limit 25   Covers fortifications, military maps, artists as soldiers and spies, and battle images. Themes will include the debate between art and science, and what art can reveal about war in society.

Sec. 01

F 12-3

010.342 (H)

PREACHING THE AVANT-GRADE: MENDICANT ART IN RENIASSANCE ITALY (3) Vusich   Limit 25  Preaching friars – particularly the Dominicans and Franciscans – produced or commissioned some of the most cutting edge art of the Italian Renaissance. By examining the friars’ contributions to the Renaissance, both as patrons and as painters, this course problematizes the notion that piousness and artistic innovation are mutually exclusive categories. Readings include contemporary sermons as well as secondary literature from art history, philosophy, cultural studies, and theology.

Sec. 01

MF 10:30-11:45

HUMANITIES

300.316 (H)

SURREALISM (3) Warnock   Limit 15
Course will explore the vagaries of surrealist thinking about art, with an emphasis on specific case studies. Artists include: Ernst, Miro, Masson, Picasso, Giacometti; texts by Breton, Bataille, Leiris, Einstein. Cross-listed with History of Art and German & Romance Lang. & Lit.
Course added 10/31/07

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

300.328 (H) (W)

SURREALIST NARRATIVES(3) Khatib   Limit 20 This course will explore the novels and films of key surrealists and their fellow travelers, and discuss the development of specifically surrealist critique of gender, race, and power in narrative form. Authors include: Appollinaire, Aragon, Breton, Carrington, Svankmajerova, Rosemont, Peret, Lautreamont, Ernst, Crevel, Benjamin, Marker, and Cesaire. An intensive reading and discussion seminar devoted to the examination of several key surrealist texts, with a specific focus on the underlying social, ethical, political, and historical themes at stake . Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality and Film & Media Studies Course added 10/31/07

Sec. 01

W 1:30-4

PROGRAM IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

361.354 (H,S)

TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND RECONCILIATION IN LATIN AMERICA (3) Rojas-Perez    
This course uses the cases of Peru, Chile and Guatemala to examine critically the origins, experience and impact of truth commissions for achieving reconciliation and peace in Latin American post-war settings.

Sec. 01

M 1:30-4

NEAR EASTERN STUDIES

130.339 (H)

READING EGYPTIAN TEMPLES: STONEWALL AS MYTHOLOGY, THEOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY (3) Ismail   Limit 25  Using the ancient Egyptian temples, this class will question how we construct the Egyptian religion and the history of the Egyptian state.

Sec. 01

MW 12-1:15

PHILOSOPHY

150.478 (H)
(W)

EPISTEMOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF  (3) McGill  Limit 15    Is it rational to believe that God exists?  What can we know about God?  We will analyze both traditional arguments for God’s existence and contemporary arguments about the rationality of theistic belief.

Sec.01

TTh 1:30-2:45

150.479 (H)

PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION FROM KANT TO NIETZSCHE (3) Leland   Limit 15  Is belief in god rationally justified?  What is the relation between faith and reason?  Is religion “the opium of the people,” as Marx claimed?  What did Nietzsche mean when he wrote, “God is dead”?  This course examines influential ideas about religion and religious belief from Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.

Sec. 01

MW 4:30-5:45pm

POLITICAL SCIENCE

191.328 (H,S)
(W)

HERMENEUTICS AND POLITICS (3) Suk   Limit 25   Sophomores, Juniors, & Seniors only Prereq: one course in PT, Philosophy, or Humanities Theories of interpretation particularly with reference to Christian biblical hermeneutics and fundamentalist literalism.  Readings from St. Augustine, Luther, Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, et al.

Sec. 01

W 3-5:30pm

191.411 (S)

INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION (3)  Pugh  Limit 25  Course is intended for Juniors, Seniors and graduate students   An introduction to the theory and practice of international conflict resolution, which will examine how issues of power and identity affect conflict and peacemaking in the international system.

Sec. 01

T 3-5:30pm

PUBLIC HEALTH STUDIES

280.305 (S)
(W)

CORPORATIONS AND THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH (3) Rutkow   Limit 20 This course examines the impact, both positive and negative, that corporations can have on public health domestically and internationally. The role of regulation, social movements, and globalization will be considered.

Sec. 01

MW 1:30-2:45