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The Jackson School of International Studies UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON European Studies Course Descriptions Winter 2014 NOTE: For complete information and advising, please contact Student Services, 111 Thomson Hall. European Studies Program Course Offerings Winter Quarter, 2014 The information below is intended to be helpful in choosing courses. Because the instructor may further develop his/her plans for this course, its characteristics are subject to change without notice. In most cases, the official course syllabus will be distributed on the first day of class. Major Requirement Codes PM = Fulfills pre-modern course requirement ES = Fulfills modern European survey course requirement GL = Fullfills global elective requirement (applies only to students declaring the major Autumn 2012 or after) Codes for Options within the Major EU = Courses listed under Certificate in European Union Studies HE = Courses required for Hellenic Studies RE = Russia, East European & Central Asia Track Updated October 2012 2 European Survey Courses (ES) POL S 310 MW 2:30-4:20 Chamberlain, A. 5 Credits ES Western Tradition of Political Thought, Modern Continuation of POL S 308 and POL S 309, focusing on material from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, from Rousseau through Lenin. Required Course JSIS 201 MWF 11:30-12:20 Migdal, J. 5 Credits TTh Quiz section Req. The Making of the 21st Century Provides a historical understanding of the twentieth century and major global issues today. Focuses on interdisciplinary social science theories, methods, and information relating to global processes and on developing analytical and writing skills to engage complex questions of causation and effects of global events and forces.This course is about the institutions that have shaped the world in which we live–a world that is at once interdependent, fragmented, and fractious. Students will learn about the two most important institutions, the world economy and the world system of states, and how they developed in the 20th century. Special attention will be given to the reshaping of these institutions in the 21st century, with a focus on the aftermath of the “Battle for Seattle” (WTO) and the attack of 9/11. Senior Seminar JSIS A 494 B MW 3:30-5:20 Cirtautas, A. 5 Credits EU Europe’s Muslim Populations: The Challenges of Integration from East to West This survey course will introduce the diversity and complexity of Europe’s Muslim populations from the long established communities in eastern Europe to the more recent immigrant communities in western Europe. Although these communities have been shaped by very different historical trajectories, which we will examine in the first part of the course, common themes do emerge, including the legacies of empire, the role of various transnational and supranational actors influencing identity construction at the local level and policy making at the national level, and the increasing pan-European nature of debates over the compatibility of Islamic symbols, practices and political-cultural agendas with what are commonly considered European traditions, landscapes and public spheres. In very significant ways, events and processes in one part of Europe increasingly inform outcomes in the other part of the continent as, for example, the considerable impact that the wars in Chechnya and Bosnia had on Muslim consciousness in western Europe. In turn, a more assertive Muslim identity in countries like Denmark has produced an anti-Islamic backlash, not only in western Europe, but also increasingly in east European countries, like Poland, that have long accommodated their Muslim minorities. With the end of the Cold War and the rise of global networks of communication, immigration and transnational Islamist activism, Europe’s Muslim populations, even in the context of distinct national and community settings, are now increasingly subject to similar dynamics of internal diversification (as Muslim communities are increasingly varied internally along religious, generational and ethnic fault lines) and external contestation (as these very heterogeneous communities increasingly seek cultural/religious recognition from, and political and socio-economic access to the states and societies they live in). The first part of the course will cover the geographical range and historical context of Europe’s Muslim populations with emphasis on how the legacies of empire (e.g., Russian, Ottoman, French and British) have produced different settlement outcomes and different patterns of accommodation, integration and resistance between Muslim and Christian populations that resonate to this day. In the second part, we will 3 address the contemporary challenges and debates that increasingly revolve around the urgency of attaining a viable reconciliation between “Europe” and “Islam,” as the largely constructed and hotly debated conceptual markers for the perceived differences that need to be addressed and overcome. We will then see how these challenges and debates have played out in four country case studies: France, Germany, Russia and Turkey. In this context, Turkey is an especially important case study given the extent to which the “Europe-Islam” debate is carried out both in Europe and within Turkey itself, particularly with regard to the desirability and viability of European Union membership for this large, Muslim country. Whatever Europeans may feel at the national level about the challenges posed by the Muslim minorities in their midst, at the supranational level of the European Union, the challenge is one of integrating states with mainly Muslim populations (Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Turkey – all of which have either the promise of EU membership or, in Turkey’s case, actual candidacy status for EU membership) into the complex structures that comprise the single market and the other multiple arenas of coordination and consultation. Consequently, actors representing the European Union have an important and growing stake in fostering Muslim-Christian integration at both the inter-state and intra-society levels. The course will, therefore, conclude with a closer examination of the role of the European Union and other important non- state actors such as the Council of Europe and the Catholic Church in promoting or hindering the pursuit of viable forms of integration that majorities on all sides can support. 4 Electives ANTHROPOLOGY ANTH 425 TTh 1:30-3:20 Bilaniuk, L. 5 Credits RE Anthropology of the Post-Soviet States Analysis of Soviet and post-Soviet culture and identity. Historical transformations in Soviet approaches to ethnicity and nationality; contemporary processes of nationbuilding and interethnic conflict. Examination of culture through the intersection of social ritual, government policies, language, economic practices, and daily life. Regional focus varies. Students learn anthropological perspectives on Soviet and post-Soviet life from readings of studies based on ethnographic fieldwork. We will explore what “Sovietness” was, how it was experienced in everyday life, and the particularities of post-Sovietness in comparative cross-cultural perspective. We will examine how politics impinged on people’s sense of culture, language, and identity; the role of economics in interpersonal relations and social power; how history has been variously reinterpreted and used to define and justify the present. We will examine how people experience and participate in the construction of social divisions such as class, gender, language, and ethnicity, and how these have been transformed with the formation and demise of the Soviet system. Offered jointly with JSIS A 427. ARCHITECTURE (COLLEGE OF BUILT ENVIRONMENTS) ARCH 457 TTh 10:30-11:50 Clausen, M. 3 Credits Twentieth-Century Architecture Architecture in the twentieth century, mainly in Europe and the United States. Traces roots of Modernism in Europe in the 1920s, its demise (largely in the United States) in the 1960s and recent trends such as Post-Modernism and Deconstructivism. The main course objective is to familiarize students with the major developments in architecture and urbanism throughout the world in the 20th c. Students will learn who were the key figures, their theories as well as built work, as well as about the rise of new building types, the impact of new technology (especially and most recently computer technology), and the globalization of architecture. Emphasis will be on understanding buildings within their original historical and cultural context, rather than on the memorization of names and dates. Offered jointly with ART H 491. ARCH 498 MWF 10:30-11:50 Huppert, A. 3 Credits PM Special Projects: Architecture of Mediterranean Cities, 1300-1600 Cultural encounters across the Mediterranean and interactions between the Christian and Islamic worlds defined the built environment of the cities of Rome, Istanbul, Venice, Cairo, and Florence in the early modern period. The course will provide an opportunity to explore these cities and their building in the Renaissance era. Ann Huppert’s preparations for the course have included research and documentation work in Istanbul last fall and participation in the recent conference “Early Modern Cities in Comparative Perspective” at the Folger Institute in Washington, D.C. 5 ART HISTORY ART H 250 TTh 12:30-1:50 O’Neil, M., Sbragia, A. 5 Credits F Quiz Section Rome This course explores the history, culture, and myth of Rome from the city’s archaic origins to the present day. Special emphasis is given to the analysis of historical documents, literary
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