ENROLL

Serena Zabin

Introduction to some of the animating debates within American Studies from the 1930s to the present. We will study select themes, theories, and methodologies in the writings of a number of scholars and try to understand 1) the often highly contested nature of debates about how best to study American culture; and 2) how various theories and forms of analysis in American Studies have evolved and transformed themselves over the last seventy years. Not designed to be a fine-grained institutional history of American Studies, but a vigorous exploration of some of the central questions of interpretation in the field. Normally taken by majors in their junior year.

Prerequisite: American Studies 115 or instructor permission

Faress Bhuiyan

This course is the second part of a two-term winter break course sequence beginning with Economics 240. This course will focus on critically analyzing the appropriateness of modern microeconomic development models in the context of Bangladesh. Students exposed to various on-site visits and lectures in Bangladesh during the winter break will be required to research, write and present their views on the reliability of different model assumptions and implications they studied in Economics 240.

Prerequisite: Economics 110 and 111 and 240

For students who participated in winter break Economics Bangladesh program

Timothy Raylor

Laurence Cooper, Alan Rubenstein

Laurence Cooper, Alan Rubenstein

Mihaela Czobor-Lupp

Barbara Allen

Julie Neiworth

Prerequisite: Psychology 110 or Biology 126 or Psychology 216 or instructor permission

Wes Markofski

Sophomore Priority.

Waitlist for Juniors and Seniors: SOAN 111.WL0 (Synonym 49239)

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg

Prerequisite: The department strongly recommends that Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses numbered 200 or above

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg

Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 or instructor permission

Iveta Jusova

Feminism has to do with changing the world. We will explore feminist debates about changing the world using a historical framework to situate feminist and queer theories in the context of the philosophical and political thought of specific time periods and cultures. Thus, we will follow feminist and queer theories as they challenged, critiqued, subverted and revised liberalism, Marxism, existentialism, socialism, anarchism, critical race theories, multiculturalism, postmodernism and post-colonialism. We will focus on how theory emerges from and informs matters of practice. We will ask: What counts as theory? Who does it? How is it institutionalized? Who gets to ask the questions and to provide the answers?