The Jackson School of International Studies UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

European Studies Course Descriptions Winter 2014

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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 texts and the visual arts in exploring the evolution of the city and of its significance for the Western imagination. Central issues will include ancient Rome and its legacy, Christian Rome and the medieval papacy, Renaissance and Baroque art, the European Grand Tour, the impact of the French Revolution, and Rome as capital of a united Italiy from the Risorgimento to Mussolini’s Fascism. Offered jointly with ITAL 250 and HSTEU 250.

ART H 366 MWF 1:00-2:20 Walker, S. 5 Credits PM Northern Renaissance Art An overview of Netherlandish, Franch and German art in the context of cultural developments circa 1400-1570.

ART H 373 MWF 11:30-12:50 Bunn, S. 5 Credits PM Art of the Southern Baroque Art of Italy and Spain, circa 1590 to circa 1710.

ART H 381 MWF 10:00-11:20 Wieczorek, M. 5 Credits Art Since World War II Art of Europe and the United States in the decades since World War : paibngint, sculpture, and archictecture, multiplication of new forms (video, performance pieces, land and installation pieces), changing context of patronage, publicity, and marketing.

Classics CLAS 210 MWF 10:30-11:20 Blondell, R. 5 Credits Th Quiz Section HE Greek and Roman Classics in English Introduction to classical literature through a study of the major Greek and Latin authors in modern translation. This team-taught course offers three lectures per week showcasing the interests of the entire faculty of the Department of Classics, with continuity provided by two discussion section meetings per week led by senior teaching assistants from our PhD program.

CLAS 430 MWF 9:30-10:20 TBA 5 Credits HE Greek and Roman Mythology Principal myths found in classical and later literature. This course provides an introduction to the myths of the Greeks and Romans as they are reflected in ancient literature and art. We will examine the major gods, heroes, and themes of Classical mythology, in addition to considering the roles myths played in shaping ancient societies. This course will introduce students to what the major myths and mythological figures of ancient Greece and Rome were, how these myths reflected and shaped ancient Greek and Roman culture, and how they have been variously adapted and interpreted over time. Access to these myths will come primarily from the textbook Classical Mythology and lecture material. 6 Comparative History of Ideas CHID 205 MTWThF 12:30-1:20 Searle, L. 5 Credits Method, Imagination, and Inquiry Examines ideas of method and imagination in a variety of texts, in literature, philosophy, and science. Particularly concerned with intellectual backgrounds and methods of inquiry that have shaped modern Western literature. The title of the course reflects its organizing premise: that the primary focus of Western intellectual culture is sustained inquiry, in which method and imagination are constantly intertwined. The course is also designed to open pathways to study in many other programs and departments, and its intent is to involve you directly with the examination of fundamental conceptions that are implicated in virtually everything else you think. Offered: jointly with ENGL 205.

CHID 270 TTh 9:30-10:50 Block, R. 5 Credits M 3:30-5:20 Special Topics: Holocaust and Film What does it mean to seek equal status as a citizen when the primary marker of one’s identity, that of being Jewish, is indicative of a dream to return to Zion? How does one demand of the other, the Jew, that (s)he become German when the very notion of “Germanness” is vague, uncertain, and forever changing? These are the primary questions that will structure our discussions during the term. We will also be interested in the tragic trajectory that proposed solutions to these problems assumed. In other words, we will seek to understand why for Jews the eventual solution to their predicament in Germany was to abandon dreams of assimilation and argue for the birth of a Jewish state. Conversely, we will examine how religious anti-Semitism led to racial anti-Semitism and finally to genocidal anti-Semitism. That is, how for Germans the solution to the “Jewish problem” became a final one: the extermination of all Jews from the globe. The course will also pursue a second trajectory, namely, the messianic in Jewish thought. How does the coming of the messiah or the fact that he has not yet arrived affect the disposition Jews assume toward their own lives? How do they read history? How do they conceive of truth when truth is not yet revealed save through ritual law? And finally, what does revolution have to do with the Jewish notion of messianism? Offered jointly with GERMAN 195 and JSIS C 175.

CHID 484 TTh 9:30-11:20 Bailkin, J. 5 Credits Colonial Encounters History of European colonialism, focusing on British, French, and Dutch colonial encounters from 1750s to 1950s. Units on colonial law, medicine, religion, sexuality, and commodity culture. Offered jointly with HSTEU 484.

Comparative Literature

C LIT 320 TTh 11:30-1:20 Crnkovic, G. 5 Credits RE European Literature: Post-World Wart II East European Fiction In the post-World War II period, Eastern European writers have created a wealth of dazzling and still lesser known literary works. This course introduces students to fiction by Polish, Czech, Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav, Hungarian, and Baltic writers, created during and after the communist era in the Eastern European countries themselves and in exile. The course also discusses features of the literary production in non-market socialist-era societies, with values and world views profoundly different from those in the west. Required readings consist of four novels (two of them around 100 pages-long), shorter excerpts from another two novels, and selected stories from the two collection of stories. All readings are in English, and no prior specialized knowledge of the area or its literature is required. Offered jointly with SLAV 320.

7 C LIT 423 TTh 2:30-4:20 Crnkovic, G. 5 Credits RE East European Film Offered jointly with SLAV 423.See SLAV 423 for course description.

C LIT 496 MW 12:30-2:20 West, J. 5 Credits RE Special Studies in Comparative Literature: Russia’s Silver Age Offered jointly with RUSS 420.See RUSS 420 for course description. Economics

ECON 475 MW 12:30-2:20 Turnovsky, M. 5 Credits EU Economics of the European Union This course focuses on the economic aspects of the European Union. The historical and institutional backgrounds are surveyed briefly in order to understand the special nature of the EU as an economic entity. Then the integration and trade issues are presented; the evolution from a customs union to a single market and the trade relations with the rest of the world and specially with the US (negotiations through the WTO etc. ). Next the international finance aspects are investigated, including the various efforts toward monetary integration: from the “snake” to the EMS and eventually a monetary union with a single currency, the Euro, and the European Central Bank. A number of specific issues are also raised: the common agricultural policy, unemployment, etc.

English

ENGL 205 MTWThF 12:30-1:20 Searle, L. 5 Credits Method, Imagination and Inquiry Jointly offered with CHID 205. See CHID 205 for course description.

ENGL 212 A MTWTH 1:30-2:20 Palo, C. 5 Credits Literature, 1700-1900 Introduces eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, focusing on representative works that illustrate literary and intellectual developments of the period. Topics include: exploration, empire, colonialism, slavery, revolution, and nation-building.

ENGL 213 A MTWTh 3:30-4:20 Simons, B. 5 Credits Investigating Modernism and Postmodernism Introduces twentieth-century literature and contemporary literature, focusing on representative works that illustrate literary and intellectual developments since 1900.

ENGL 225 A TTh 2:30-4:20 Butwin, J. 5 Credits PM Shakespeare Introduces Shakespeare’s career as dramatist, with study of representative comedies, tragedies, romances, and history plays

8 ENGL 324 A MW 11:30-1:20 Streitberger, W. 5 Credits PM Shakespeare After 1603 Shakespeare’s career as dramatist after 1603. Study of comedies, tragedies, and romances.

ENGL 329 A TTh 10:30-12:20 Popov, N. 5 Credits PM Rise of the English Novel Study of the development of this major and popular modern literary form in the eighteenth century. Readings of the best of the novelists who founded the form, and some minor ones, from Defoe to Fielding, Richardson, and Sterne, early Austen, and the gothic and other writers. This course will introduce you to several exemplary early novels (Lazarillo de Tormes; Don Quixote by Cervantes, The Pilgrim’s Progress by Bunyan, Joseph Andrews by Fielding, and Tristram Shandy by Sterne); in addition, you’ll read excerpts from works by Rabelais, Defoe, Richardson, and some criticism. Discussions will focus on the poetics of the novel as a literary genre and the problems associated with its emergence in England. Our main objective is to read the primary texts, understand the main literary issues, and learn the critical vocabulary related to the genre of the novel.

ENGL 330 MW 11:30-1:20 Hansen, T. 5 Credits English Literature: The Romantic Age Literary, intellectual, and historical ferment of the period from the French Revolution to the 1830s. Readings from major authors in different literary forms; discussions of critical and philosophical issues in a time of change.

ENGL 335 TTh 10:30-12:20 Butwin, J. 5 Credits English Literature: the Age of Victoria Literature in an era of revolution that also sought continuity, when culture faced redefinition as mass culture and found in the process new demands and creative energies, new material and forms, and transformations of old ones. Readings range from works of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Shaw, to Dickens, Eliot, Hardy. We will examine the apparent paradox of extraordinary Progress and unparalleled Poverty in mid-Victorian England through a reading of fiction, political prose writing and poetry. Readings include Hard Times by Charles Dickens (1854) and a variety of texts that help to explain the context of Dickens’ novel, including selections from Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (1843), Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848), Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (1851) along with a section on poems by Tennyson, Browning (Robert and Elizabeth Barrett), and Matthew Arnold. We will look at the art and architecture of the period. Lecture, discussion, short essays.

ENGL 338 A MW 3:30-5:20 Reed, B. 5 Credits Modern Poetry This course ponders when, how, and why US poets begin to write “modernist” verse. We will begin by looking at different kinds of “vernacular modernism” that emerge around 1910 (Imagism, the Chicago School, Robert Frost) and examine two later figures who extend and complicate this mode (Langston Hughes, Robinson Jeffers). Poetry, these various figures believed, should be written in a language as close to everyday American speech as possible. Not everyone agreed. We will look at two other kinds of 1910s modernism that questioned whether an “everyday,” “common,” and “natural” language was anything other than a populist fiction: first, Gertrude Stein’s avant-gard verse and, second, the oblique allusive ironic style pioneered by T.S. Eliot in Prufrock and Other Observations. After a survey of several of the ambitious “high modernists” who dominate the 1920s (Moore, Pound, Stevens, Williams), we will spend several days concentrating on the most famous of all US modernist texts, T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” How did this one difficult and peculiar poem end up symbolizing a generation and an era?

9 ENGL 335 A TTh 10:30-12:20 Butwin, J. 5 Credits English Literature: The Age of Victoria Literature in an era of revolution that also sought continuity, when culture faced redefinition as mass culture and found in the process new demands and creative energies, new material and forms, and transformations of old ones. The Victorians lived in a rapidly changing and modernizing world; the nineteenth century saw sweeping political, technological, industrial, social, cultural, economic and literary changes occur, in ways that cemented many of the foundations of modernity as we now know it. It will be our task and goal to closely examine some of this dynamism to get a better sense of the complexity of the period. The nature of these shifts caused many authors and thinkers to theorize, in writing, how to make sense of and understand this world. We will examine a range of writers and texts to gain a broad understanding of the anxieties and hopes which fueled these viewpoints, especially across —but not limited to—the issues of imperialism, nationalism, gender, class, race, industry, and political economy.

Germanics GERMAN 195 TTh 9:30-10:50 Block, R. 5 Credits M 3:30-5:20 Popular Film and the Holocaust Offered: jointly with JSIS C 175 and CHID 270. See CHID 270 for course description.

GERMAN 322 TTh 12:30-1:50 Prutti, B. 5 Credits Introduction to German Cultural Studies Questions addressed include: What is “German culture,” how has it been defined and contested, and how and why do we study it? Interdisciplinary methods and readings.

GERMAN 390 MWF 11:30-12:20 Wiggins, E. 5 Credits MW 10:30-12:20 Calian, N. Germanic Studies in English Topics or figures of German literature or language.

GERMAN 422 MWF 12:30-1:20 Gray, R. 5 Credits Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture This course will examine various manifestations of literary “realism” as they occur in German-language literature from the 1830s through to the final decades of the nineteenth century. We will concentrate not only on the ways in which the methods and manners of realistic portrayal change throughout the century, but also on how the actual objects that warrant literary representation (e.g. politics, social institutions, human beings as representatives of specific social classes, “everyday” life, etc.) vary at different historical junctures. We will treat diverse literary- historical epochs (such as the “Vormärz,” Poetic Realism, and Naturalism) as distinct approaches to “realistic” representation. Among the authors treated will be Heinrich Heine, Georg Büchner, Adalbert Stifter, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, and Gerhart Hauptmann, among others. Short philosophical and aesthetic essays by major figures of the period (Kant, Hegel, Marx, among others) will supplement and provide background for the readings in literature.

10 GERMAN 452 MTWThF 11:30-12:20 Voyles, J. 5 Credits History of the German Language This course is an introduction to historical linguistics in general and to the history of German in particular. The class is meant to provide a survey of the most significant phonological, morphological, and syntactic developments, in the history of the German language. We begin with a consideration of the Indo-European languages, proceed from there to Germanic and from Germanic into German. Offered in English.

History Ancient and Medieval History

HSTAM 402 TTh 10:30-12:20 Thomas, C. 5 Credits HE Classical Greece The broad intent of the course is to understand the emergence of what is often termed the “golden age” of ancient Greece. The roots stretch deeply into the past to, first, the Heroic Age of the Mycenaean civilization and, then, the restructuring that was entailed after the abrupt collapse of that heroic culture. During the high point of Classical Greece, the focus will be on the institutions and distinctive world view that those institutions fostered. Dramatic changes in political institutions produced circumstances in the mid fifth century that would undermine the earlier way of life by the drive for empire. History

HIST 312 MTWThF 9:30-10:20 Hevly, B. 5 Credits Science in Civilization: Science in Modern Society This class will focus on three major topics in the history of modern European science, all subjects of interpretive contention, with emphasis on both command of a working narrative and the critical skills involved in reinterpreting it. Those periods are: the Scientific Revolution of the early modern period, the production of natural knowledge in the Enlightenment, and the definition, establishment and professionalization of science in the nineteenth century, with examination of the idea of scientific discipline. We will deal with developments in the sciences of astronomy, mechanics, electricity and magnetism, geology and terrestrial science more generally, and natural history, including the creation and acceptance of Darwin’s theories particularly. Most attention will be paid to history of Britain, France, Germany, and the United States.

Modern European History HSTEU 234 TTh 9:30-11:20 Weston, N. 5 Credits Nazi Germany

HSTEU 245 MW 1:30-3:20 Campbell, E. 5 Credits RE St. Peterburg/Leningrad Introduction of political, social, and cultural history of St. Petersburg from 1703-1991. Uses St. Petersburg as a window to explore major themes in Imperial Russian and Soviet history, including westernization and questioning of Russia’s national identity, urbanization, industrialization, revolution, multinational empire, World War II, Stalinism, and socialistic reformism.

11 HSTEU 250 TTh 12:30-1:50 O’Neil, M., Sbragia, A.. 5 Credits F Quiz section Rome Offered jointly with ART H 250 and ITAL 250.See ART H 250 for course description.

HSTEU 361 MW 1:30-3:20 Schmidt, B. 5 Credits PM Spain and Its Golden Age, 1469-1700 This course explores the history and culture of Spain and its empire during the early modern period. By the sixteenth century, Hapsburg Spain had emerged as Europe’s unrivaled superpower, with an empire stretching from Madrid to Havana and allies answering from Vienna to the Philippines. Yet, following a century of meteoric economic growth and spectacular cultural production--including literary experimentation, artistic innovation, and religious reformation--Spain entered a period of perceived “decline” and stagnation. How the small Iberian kingdom of Castile rose to such prominent heights and then receded just as dramatically from the European stage will be surveyed through an examination of the political, social, and above all cultural history of Spain in its Golden Age. We will engage especially with the great literature of the Siglo de Oro and the art of the Spanish Renaissance.

HSTEU 376 MTWThF 12:30-1:20 Behlmer, G. 5 Credits Modern Irish History More than 400 years before the Arab-Israeli conflict began, there was an “Irish Problem.” This course will examine the tangled roots of conflict in Ireland--conflict that has pitted the Irish against the English and, at the same time, Irish people of one cultural tradition against Irish people of another. History 376 will emphasize the role of historical myth in shaping present political realities. The contours of the Irish past over the last three centuries will be treated, with special attention given to the origins of today’s fragile truce between “Orange” and “Green” in Northern Ireland.

HSTEU 381 MTWTh 10:30-11:20 Leiren, T. 5 Credits History of Scandinavia Since 1720 Scandinavian history from the Enlightenment to the Welfare State with emphasis on the political, social, and economic development of the modern Scandinavian nations of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. Course will examine the historical development of Modern Scandinavia (Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) from 1720, with special emphasis on the political, economic, social, and cultural developments. Offered jointly with SCAND 381.

HSTEU 484 TTh 9:30-11:20 Bailkin, J. 5 Credits Colonial Encounters History of European colonialism from the 1750s to the present, with an emphasis on British and French colonial encounters. From Columbus’ voyages to the New World in the late fifteenth century to the era of decolonization in the 1960s, Europeans and the peoples they colonized were engaged in a vast project – often an extremely violent one – of trying and failing to make sense of one another. This course offers an opportunity to study the history of encounters between Europe and its colonies in a variety of geographical contexts. We will focus on a comparative analysis of British and French colonial encounters from the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, but will refer to Spanish, Dutch, and German colonial histories as well as to earlier incarnations of colonial encounters. The course will proceed chronologically and thematically, considering the impact of colonial science, law, sexuality, education, and economy on European identity and politics and, more broadly, on the trajectory of global history. Offered jointly with CHID 484.

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JSIS 427 TTh 1:30-3:20 Bilaniuk, L. 5 Credits RE Anthropology of the Post-Soviet States Offered jointly with ANTH 425.See ANTH 425 for course description.

JSIS 489 MW 1:30-3:20 Jones, C. 5 Credits RE Special Topics: Security Dilemas of the Russian Federation Collapse of the USSR 1989-1991, creation of the Russian Federation, security policies of the Russian Federation vis-a-vis the US, Europe, China and zones south of the Russian Federation.

JSIS A 224 MW 2:30-3:50 Turnovsky, G. 5 Credits F Quiz Section Culture and Media Forms Offered jointly with FRENCH 224. See FRENCH 224 for course description.

JSIS A 416 TTh 1:30-3:20 Jones, C. 5 Credits NATO Explores the history of NATO since 1949. Case studies include German unification; evolving security relationship between NATO, the USSR, and its successor states; process of NATO enlargement; emergence of human rights as a priority in NATO’s security interactions with non-member states; and NATO’s role in ethno-nationalist- religious conflicts in the Balkans. The course will cover the following issues: the argument that NATO had its conceptual origins in the security concepts written into the 1787 U.S. Constitution; the transformation of NATO members into democracies/market economies during the Cold War; NATO’s evolving partnership with the EU; NATO enlargement as one instrument of democratization of former Warsaw Pact members; NATO’s unexpected transformation into a military alliance concerned with issues of human rights in the former Yugoslavia and other zones of ethnic/religious conflict; NATO’s dilemmas in Afghanistan, Libya and conflict zones in the Middle East.

JSIS A 427 TTh 1:30-3:20 Bilaniuk, L. 5 Credits RE Anthropology of the Post-Soviet States Offered jointly with ANTH 425. See ANTH 425 for course description.

JSIS B 426 TTh 12:30-2:20 TBA 5 Credits GL only World Politics Nation-state system and its alternatives; world distributions of preferences and power; structures of international authority; historical world societies and their politics. Offered: jointly with POL S 426.

JSIS B 407 TTh 1:30-3:20 Robinson, C. 5 Credits GL only Poltical Islam abnd Contemporary Islamic Movements Examines Islamist movements (which seek to reform Muslim society through the capture and the modern state and the establishment of Islamic law) to understand how they impact regional politic and global political Islam.

13 JSIS B 441 MW 1:30-3:20 Friedman, K. 5 Credits GL only Forced Migrations Provides an interdisciplinary understanding of the causes, characteristics, and consequences of forced migration experiences across the global system. Explores how international policy makers, humanitarian workers, and scholars have constructed forced migration as a problem for analysis and action, including some of the ethical dilemmas involved.

JSIS C 175 TTh 9:30-10:50 Block, R. 5 Credits M 3:30-5:20 Popular Film and the Holocaust Offered jointly with GERMAN 195 and CHID 270. See CHID 270 for course description.

JSIS D 317 TTh 1:30-3:20 Nestingen, A. 5 Credits Scandinavian Crime Fiction Offered jointly with SCAND 315. See SCAND 315 for course description.

JSIS C 489 TTh 3:30-4:50 Bunis, D. 3 Credits Special Topics in Spanish Literature: Ladino for Beginners Offered jointly with SPAN 394. See SPAN 394 for course description.

Philosophy PHIL 320 MWF 2:00-3:20 Weller, C, 5 Credits F Quiz section HE Ancient Philosophy This course will be a survey of ancient Greek philosophy, beginning with the Presocratics and proceeding on through Socrates and Plato to Aristotle. Approximately equal attention will be given to metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical or political questions.

PHIL 322 MWF 9:00-10:20 Franco, P. 5 Credits PM Modern Philosophy In this course, we will read and interpret some of the major philosophical works of the modern period (approximately the 16th-18th centuries) including writings by Rene Descartes, George Berkeley, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant. Our readings emphasize these authors’ views on metaphysics and epistemology. In metaphysics, we’ll look at these authors’ theories about the types of substances the natural world is made up of, the relationship between the mind and the body, and the nature of God. An important assumption of the authors we’ll read is that their metaphysical theories are constrained by our epistemological theories. We must first determine the limits and scope of human knowledge and find the best methods for finding truth before forming any grand metaphysical theories. The aim of this course is not necessarily to provide a sweeping survey of the entirety of the Early Modern period. Instead, we will focus on a few seminal and representative texts in especially appropriate to the metaphysical and epistemological themes noted above. We will also explore how these authors helped shape views about the relationship between science, religion, and philosophy. Moreover, we will have the opportunity to consider how the arguments, ideas, and concerns of Modern Philosophy have helped set the contours of the philosophical landscape for years to come.

14 PHIL 422 MWF 2:00-3:20 Franco, P. 5 Credits PM Studies in Continental Rationalism In this course, we will closely read and interpret Rene Descartes’ Meditations, Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics, and representative writings from Gottfried Leibniz. Our readings emphasize these authors’ metaphysical theories, their epistemologies, and their views about the relationship between metaphysics and epistemology. In particular, we’ll focus on each author’s metaphysical views about the notion of substance. We’ll examine how their respective views commit them to differing views about the possibility of a causal relationship between the mind and the body and the nature of material bodies. Another metaphysical topic we’ll consider deals with the relationship between God’s will, God’s understanding, and his role in establishing eternal truths. Like other figures in the Early Modern period, we can’t tackle these metaphysical topics without also examining each author’s epistemologies. Epistemological topics we’ll cover include the role of the principle of sufficient reason in rationalist philosophy, the nature and extent of empirical knowledge, and the attempt to import the geometrical method into philosophy. This may seem like a disparate, grab-bag of topics, but rest assured it’s not: our investigations will uncover just how interrelated all these topics are within the different Rationalist systems.

Romance Languages and Literature French FRENCH 224 MW 2:30-3:50 Turnovsky, G. 5 Credits F Quiz Section PM Culture and Media Forms Explores French, Francophone, and European culture in history through a focus on varied and evolving media forms: manuscripts, printed books, digital media, visual forms, etc. Taught in English. Offered jointly with JSIS A 224.

FRENCH 305 TTh 12:30-2:20 Mackenzie, L. 5 Credits PM Survey of French Literature: 1600-1789 Emphasis on literary movements and texts in relation to cultural background. Survey of French literature in the so-called “classical” and “Enlightenment” periods. We will learn the basics of social and political change in France during this time, and read sample texts as products of and as reactions to the processes of history. The relevance of these texts to modern French ideas of citizenship and pedagogy will be addressed. We will also work on composition skills in French.

FRENCH 378 MW 12:30-2:20 Collins, D. 5 Credits The Making of Contemporary France Study of the historical origins and subsequent development of contemporary problems and characteristics of French government and politics, economy, and society. Lectures in English, readings in French.

Italian

ITAL 250 TTh 12:30-1:50 O’Neil, M., Sbragia, A. 5 Credits F Quiz section Rome Offered jointly with ART H 250 and HSTEU 250. See ART H 250 for course description 15 ITAL 403 TTh 2:30-4:20 Arduni, B. 5 Credits Early Modern Italian Readings Readings in Italian Sei/Settecento, covering the periods of Baroque and Enlightenment literature.

ITAL 402 TTh 2:30-4:20 Gaylard, S. 5 Credits PM Early Modern Italian Readings I Readings in Italian Quattro/Cinquecento, covering the period of the Renaissance. Spanish

SPAN 351 MWF 11:30-12:20 O’Hara, E. 3 Credits Poetry Generic study of Spanish poetry.

SPAN 394 TTh 3:30-4:50 Bunis, D. 3 Credits Special Topics in Spanish Literature: Ladino for Beginners An introduction to the fundamental elements of Modern Ladino—the traditional language of the Sephardic Jews of the Balkans, North Africa and the Middle East. Through the reading of simple folkloric and literary texts in the traditional Hebrew-based alphabet and in romanization, participants acquire the basics of Modern Ladino grammar, syntax and lexicon, as well as an acquaintance with the history, and social and cultural life of Ladino speakers in the modern era. No prior knowledge of Spanish or Hebrew is necessary. Offered jointly with JSIS C 489.

SPAN 449 TTh 1:30-3:20 Witte, A. 5 Credits Spanish Drama and Play Production

Scandinavian Languages and Literature Danish

DANISH 310 MW 12:30-2:20 Ohrbeck, D. 5 Credits Topics in Danish Short Prose Focuses on the fairy tale and story, with selections by Bicher, H.C. Andersen, Bang, Blixen, and others. FINNISH

FINN 310 TTh 11:30-1:20 Nestingen, A. 5 Credits Topics in Finnish language and Culture Focuses on the fairy tale and story, with selections by Bicher, H.C. Andersen, Bang, Blixen, and others.

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NORW 312 MW 12:30-2:20 Leiren, T. 5 Credits Topics in Norwegian Literature and Culture Topics related to Norwegian literature, life, and civilization. Scandinavian

SCAND 100 MW 1:30-3:20 Korynta, K. 5 Credits Norwegian Literary and Cultural History The Scandinavian experience from the Viking Age to the present day; the background for contemporary Scandinavian democracy, with major emphasis on the cultural, political, and religious development of the Scandinavian countries.

SCAND 153 MW 12:30-2:20 Valanciauskiene, K. 5 Credits RE Introduction to Lithuanian Literary and Cultural History Surveys Lithuanian literary and cultural history from the Medieval period to the present. Authors include Dauksa, Maironis, Biliunas, Ciurloinis, Boruta, Granauskas, Aputis, Vilimaite, Milosz, and others.

SCAND 312 MTWTh 10:30-11:20 Stecher, M. 5 Credits Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature This course offers the opportunity to study some of the great works of Scandinavian literature. The reading consists of literary texts by Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish writers in English translation. The reading list includes tales by Hans Christian Andersen, Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) and Aino Kallas, plays by Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, as well as a novel by Knut Hamsun. The lectures will offer the literary, historical and cultural context for the selected works. Students will be encouraged to develop their own readings of texts based on class discussions and short writing assignments.

SCAND 315 TTh 1:30-3:20 Nestingen, A. 5 Credits Scandinavian Crime Fiction Studies Scandinavian crime-fiction literature and cinema since 1965, approaching crime fiction as a changing cultural artifact. Analyzes major issues and texts in the genre and its public status, while also training students in critical approaches to study of popular literature and culture. We survey the Scandinavian crime novel, covering Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, which is most famous for its social criticism. We move from the 1970s to the present. Offered jointly with JSIS D 317.

SCAND 335 MW 1:30-3:20 Gavel Adams, A. 5 Credits Scandinavian Children’s Literature The history, forms, and themes of Scandinavian children’s literature from H. C. Andersen to the present. Exploration of the dominant concerns of authors, adult and non-adult audiences, and the uses to which juvenile and adolescent literature are put. Film adaptations and Scandinavian-American materials included.

17 SCAND 381 MTWTh 10:30-11:20 Leiren, T. 5 Credits History of Scandinavia Since 1720 Offered jointly with HSTEU 381. See HSTEU 381 for description.

SCAN 490 MW 12:30-2:20 Ingebritsen, C. 5 Credits EU Special Topics Special topics in Scandinavian art, literature, culture, and history. Course offerings based on instructor’s specialty. SWEDISH

SWED 301 MTWTh 10:30-11:20 Gavel Adams, A. 5 Credits Topics in Swedish Literature and Culture Topics related to Swedish literature, life, and civilization.

Slavic Languages and Literature

Czech

CZECH 420 MW 9:30-11:20 Alaniz, J 5 Credits RE Modern Czech Literature in English Representative works of Czech literature from the 1920s to the present in the context of earlier Czech and general European literary trends. Emphasis on prose and drama of major writers, including Hasek, Capek, Vancura, Skvorecky, Kundera, Vaculik, and Havel. We will pay special attention to the role 20th-century history and national tragedy have played in Czech culture, as well as how authors deploy humor and sex as a strategy of resistance, survival and celebration.

RUSSIAN RUSS 120 MTWTh 11:30-12:20 Henry, B. 5 Credits RE Topics in Russian Literary and Cultural History: Underworlds Introduces important trends and movements in Russian literary and cultural history. Offered in English.

RUSS 223 TBA TBA 5 Credits RE Silent Russian Film

RUSS 322 MTWTh 10:30-11:20 Diment, G. 5 Credits RE Russian Literature and Culture 1700-1900 Literature as an element in Russian culture. Art, architecture, music, and philosophy also treated. Periods covered

18 include the age of Peter the Great, romanticism, realism, and impressionism. This course will focus primarily on the “big” works by the “big” authors of the Nineteenth Century Russian Literature -- Goncharov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov -- dealing with “big” themes. A more comprehensive background will be provided as well both through more readings in the “Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader” and lectures and presentations on culture, history, politics, and art.

RUSS 420 MTWTh 12:30-2:20 West, J. 5 Credits RE Topics in Russian Literary and Cultural History Sex, saints, satanism, savagery and synaesthesia: the seamy side of the silver age in russian culture.

Slavic

SLAV 320 TTh 3:30-5:20 Crnkovic, G. 5 Credits RE The Other Europe: Post-World War II East European Fiction Jointly offered with C LIT 320 B. See C LIT 320 B for course description.

SLAV 423 TTh 2:30-4:20 Crnkovic, G. 5 Credits RE East European Film This course focuses on East European directors who moved to the West (e.g., Milos Forman, Roman Polanski, Dusan Makavejev, Agnieszka Holland), on the comparison between their East European production and their American or Western European one, and on the things we can learn about these authors’ work in particular and Eastern European cinema in general from this comparative perspective. We will examine in more depth the cinema of filmmakers such as Milos Forman, who did outstanding films in his native Czechoslovakia at the time of the so-called Czech New Wave of the late sixties, and then proceeded to make some of the most American Hollywood films, such as and , Roman Polanski, director of the Hollywood classic and the 2003 Academy Award winner , Agnieszka Holland, who worked in her native Poland but also in Germany, France, Great Britain, and the USA, Hungarian Istvan Szabo, and Yugoslav Dusan Makavejev. This course will also offer a basic survey of Eastern European film production in the post-World War II period, examining issues of film making in a non- market society, the strong presence of women directors and gender-related themes in East European cinema, the vibrant tradition of experimental and animated films, and East European film in the socialist and post-socialist eras. Jointly offered with C LIT 423.

SLAV 426 MW 2:30-4:20 Dziwirek, K. 5 Credits RE Ways of Feeling Universal and culture specific aspects of linguistic expression of emotion.Are there feelings that all people share independent of language, culture, gender, and race? Examination of the meaning and form of emotion words in different languages, facial expressions, cultural attitudes to emotion and emotional behavior, and gender-specific emotional expressions.

SLAV 490 WF 12:30-4:20 Angelov, A. 5 Credits RE Studies in Slavic Literatures Taught by a Bulgarian Fulbright Scholar.

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UKR 420 MW 2:30-4:20 Rewakowicz, M. 5 Credits RE Literature, Film, and Culture of Ukraine Representative prose works by leading Ukrainian authors. Shows originality of Ukrainian literature through acquaintance with the peculiar historical and political situation of Ukraine. Focus on literature of the Ukrainian diaspora. Offered in English. Sociology

SOC 316 TTh 11:30-1:20 Quinn, S. 5 Credits F Quiz section Introduction to Sociological Theory Introduction to sociological theory. Includes classical theorists Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber and their influence on contemporary theoretical debate.

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