Class Schedule Listing - 2021 Fall (May 05, 2024) |
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| Immigration, Race, and Identity in Contemporary Italy - 48600 - SOC 2130 - 551 | ||||||||||||||
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As immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees move “within” and across Italian urban borders, they impact the familiar, inciting an array of responses in different contexts and forms. This course assumes that in order to talk about contemporary Italian society, it is necessary to understand Italy’s colonial past and the past emigrations of Italians elsewhere. This historical and cultural foundation is crucial when discussing contemporary politics of migration control, with regards to Northern Africa and the international relations between Italy and Libya at the opposite shores of the Mediterranean.
The course explores how changes in laws regulating citizenship have influences immigration as well as definitions of Italian nationality and European belonging. Employing cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary approaches to the subject of how identity is formed, challenged and defended in an ever more globalized world, learners investigate the pressing issues of immigration, race and ethnicity that have sparked such controversy and passion both in contemporary Italy, Europe and the U.S.
Visit the Bookstore site to view course materials Associated Term: 2021 Fall Registration Dates: Apr 23, 2021 to Sep 10, 2021 Registration Levels: Graduate, NonDegree Continuing Undergrad, Undergraduate Rome Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Classroom In-Person Instructional Method Credit Hours: 3.000 Seats Available: 0 View Catalog Entry and Course Description
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| Risk Culture: The Politics of Pandemics, Natural Disasters and Nuclear Energy - 47294 - SOC 2130 - 801 | ||||||||||||||
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CL: ASST 2000 (801). Topical Course Description: As a global viral pandemic is transforming the world, the ways in which cultures institutionalize what constitutes acceptable parameters of risk has become increasingly evident. The COVID-19 pandemic is a transformative crisis, but it is only one instance of a larger process of how we calibrate perceived threat and attempt to impose a sense of normalcy in an increasingly precarious world. In Japan this was especially evident in the Tohoku disasters of 2011, when the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan, a tsunami that took almost 20,000 lives and 3 nuclear reactors in meltdown in the Fukushima nuclear crisis grew to become the most expensive conjoined disasters in world history. This course examines major disasters such as the Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima nuclear accidents, global climate change and its associated effects (the Katrina Hurricane in New Orleans, flooding, wildfires, impact on vulnerable populations) and episodic but impactful disasters such as the Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion and the British Petroleum Deep Water Horizon oil spill as case studies to illustrate how risk is socially constructed and politically contended, and makes its way through public policy into institutional structures to profoundly affect our lives.
Visit the Bookstore site to view course materials Associated Term: 2021 Fall Registration Dates: Mar 31, 2021 to Sep 02, 2021 Registration Levels: Graduate, NonDegree Continuing Undergrad, Undergraduate Japan Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Online w/ req virtual meetings Instructional Method Credit Hours: 3.000 Seats Available: 33 View Catalog Entry and Course Description
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