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| Selected Topics in Sociology: Language, Power, & Identity - 50944 - SOC 2130 - 001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This course focuses on recent research by leading scholars in linguistic anthropology, examining the crucial role of language in issues of power, representation, and identity. The primary goal is to cultivate critical thinking about the complex relationships among language, society, and culture.
Visit the Bookstore site to view course materials Associated Term: 2023 Spring Registration Dates: Oct 31, 2022 to Jan 23, 2023 Registration Levels: Graduate, NonDegree Continuing Undergrad, Undergraduate Main Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Classroom In-Person Instructional Method Credit Hours: 3.000 Seats Available: 4 View Catalog Entry and Course Description
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| Selected Topics in Sociology: The Anthropology of Modern China - 50948 - SOC 2130 - 002 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This course offers an introduction to the culture and society of the contemporary People's Republic of China. The first half of the course provides a historically and ethnographically contextualized examination of the dramatic transformations undergone by Chinese society over the last century, juxtaposing the pre-1949 Republican period against the tumultuous sociocultural and political economic changes in China in the decades immediately following the 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution, and, in particular, examining the impact of Maoist period and post-Mao period political-economic and sociocultural movements on the everyday lives of Chinese people in both rural and urban contexts. During the second half of the course, we will focus on recent ethnographic writings published by China anthropologists which, taken together, encompass such key issues as the contours of China's distinctive narrative of socialist modernity, the profound significance of the rural/ urban divide in the post-1949 PRC; shifting PRC constructions of gender and sexuality and the impact of Maoist and post-Mao transformations on women's status, the statuses and representations of the more than 55 minority peoples who reside in China alongside Han Chinese and the emergence of ethnic tourism, the politics of rural health care, the nature of the relationship between Traditional Chinese Medicine and biomedicine, and the politics of HIV/ AIDS in the PRC. We will also utilize a number of excellent ethnographic films throughout the course.
Visit the Bookstore site to view course materials Associated Term: 2023 Spring Registration Dates: Oct 31, 2022 to Jan 23, 2023 Registration Levels: Graduate, NonDegree Continuing Undergrad, Undergraduate Main Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Classroom In-Person Instructional Method Credit Hours: 3.000 Seats Available: 4 View Catalog Entry and Course Description
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| Immigration, Race, and Identity in Contemporary Italy - 49706 - 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. Context 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 influenced immigration as well as definitions of Italian nationality and European belonging. Employing cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary approaches, we 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. Mandatory Academic Excursion for POLS 2000/2910/SOC 2130 three days in an Italian City leaving THURSDAY March 16, 17. And 18, 2023. For risk Management purposes, all students must travel with the group. This is a shared excursion with POLS 2211, students in both classes only pay one course fee.
Additional course fee: $385.00 Visit the Bookstore site to view course materials Associated Term: 2023 Spring Registration Dates: Jan 10, 2023 to Jan 20, 2023 Registration Levels: Graduate, NonDegree Continuing Undergrad, Undergraduate Rome Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Classroom In-Person Instructional Method Credit Hours: 3.000 Seats Available: 1 View Catalog Entry and Course Description
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| Risk Culture: The Politics of Pandemics, Natural Disasters and Nuclear Energy - 49616 - 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: 2023 Spring Registration Dates: Oct 30, 2022 to Jan 19, 2023 Registration Levels: Graduate, NonDegree Continuing Undergrad, Undergraduate Japan Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Classroom In-Person Instructional Method Credit Hours: 3.000 Seats Available: 29 View Catalog Entry and Course Description
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| Japanese Education - 49809 - SOC 2130 - 802 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CL: ASST 2000 (802). Topical Course Description: A key aspect of the country’s Post-War economic miracle, Japan’s education system has served as a model for emerging economies not only in Asia but also globally. Japan’s learners regularly score high on international measures of math and science literacy. However, in recent years the education system has withered criticism for pedagogic and systemic failings that have led to declines in quality. Like many countries, growing income inequality and insufficient public financing have affected education opportunity and outcomes. Education policymaking has also been slow to respond to changes in labor demand. Finally, the system has been accused of producing apathetic adults with little sense of community or national pride. This course examines the historical circumstances that gave rise to modern education practice in Japan as well as current practice. The course explores related issues as way to reflect not only on solutions but also on the role that education plays in all societies. A mixture of lecture and discussion, the course will also provide practical opportunities for students to research topics on their own.
Visit the Bookstore site to view course materials Associated Term: 2023 Spring Registration Dates: Oct 30, 2022 to Jan 19, 2023 Registration Levels: Graduate, NonDegree Continuing Undergrad, Undergraduate Japan Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Classroom In-Person Instructional Method Credit Hours: 3.000 Seats Available: 27 View Catalog Entry and Course Description
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