Course Descriptions Spring 2010


AS.360.255 The Politics of Sexual Empowerment
Gottbreht
Limit 15
T/TH 3:00-4:15PM
This course will survey a range of political problems regarding sexual empowerment and disempowerment, in particular concerning feminism(s), rights within the family, sexual orientation, sex work, pornography, sex trafficking, and related topics. No previous political theory experience required.
Cross-list with Humanities Center

AS.360.256 The Gendered Life of 'The People"
Wong
Limit 15
M 1:30-3:50PM
This course focuses on the relationship between gender and conceptions of ‘the people’. It aims to make discernible the heteronormative narrative of the family in the political traditions of conceiving ‘the people’ by tracing this narrative from its foundations in Greek thought to the contemporary field of liberalism and its alternatives. Texts include Sophocles’ Antigone and Plato’s Republic, Rousseau’s Social Contract, Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and Wendy Brown’s States of Injury.

AS.360.258 Topics in Health, Gender and Sexuality
Goodfellow
Limit 15
T/TH 10:30-11:45AM
Cross-list with Anthropology

AS.360.534 Directed Readings - WGS
Goodfellow
0.00-3.00 Credits TBA
Perm Req'd. Directed readings and independent study

AS.360.536 Directed Writing - WGS
Goodfellow
0.00-4.00 Credits TBA

Cross list courses

Anthropology
AS.070.132 Invitation to Anthropology
Khan/Obarrio
Limit 80
WF 3-4:15
Is every crime forgivable?  Does faith have to be sincere and spontaneous?  Is money real?  Is it possible to plan for a catastrophe?  With these questions in mind we invite you to an exploration of anthropology. We will draw upon the archives of the discipline to provide you historical, ethnographic and comparative perspectives on law, religion, money and the environment.
Cross-listing: Anthropology, WGS, PLAS

AS.070.326 Bodies in Anthropology
Han
Limit 25
Th 1:30-3:50
From embodiment, inscription, affect, and efficacy, the body has had multiple lives within anthropological thought.  This seminar will consider how the body has been explored in anthropological texts and social theory.   We will consider the relationships between body and language; embodiment, care, and ethics; and try to delineate together an unconventional genealogy of the body in anthropological accounts.
Cross-listing: WGS, Public Health Studies

AS.070.676 The Gift of Justice
Obarrio
Limit 25
Th 2:00-4:00
For/giving? Anthropologies (Mauss, Sahlins) and philosophies (Derrida, Marion, Nancy) of the gift. Theories of justice: Rawls and the debates on community, liberal rights and utilitarianism.
Cross-listing: Political Science, Anthropology, WGS, PLAS

Behavioral Biology
AS.290.420 Human Sexual Orientation (W)
Kraft
Limit 18
T 3:00-5:50
Pre-registration only.  Limited to Juniors & Seniors with PBS, Neuroscience, Public Health Behavioral Biology, and Biology majors, or Juniors and Seniors with PBS or Women’s Studies minors.
Perm. Req’d. Pre-registration will be held on 11/9/09 at 9:00am in Ames 140.

This course will examine the historical and current theories of sexual orientation and sexual variation development by examining the biological, psychological and social contributing factors that influence the development of sexual orientations and variations along with treatment and modification of problematic sexual behaviors.
Cross-listed with: Psychological & Brain Sciences and Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality

Economics
AS.180.252 Economics of Discriminations
Morgan
Limit 30
MW 10:00-10:50
Prereq: 180.102

German & Romance Languages & Literatures
AS.213.362 Sigmund Freud
Strowick
Limit 20
T/TH 3:00-4:15
History of Science and Technology; Humanities Center; Jewish Studies; The course will examine Freud's writings from a two-fold perspective: On the one hand, we will analyze the contributions of psychoanalysis to modern thought. Lining himself up with Copernicus and Darwin, Freud considers his concept of the "unconscious" a further insult to mankind's narcissism and revolution of thought. In this respect, psychoanalysis affects a vast array of concepts of modern thought such as subject, language, sexuality, morality, culture, history, religion and art which we will discuss alongside with key terms of psychoanalysis (unconscious, repetition, transference etc.). On the other hand, the course will address the specific relation between psychoanalysis and literature.  Throughout Freud's writings, literature enjoys vivid interest. Not only are psychoanalytic concepts (e.g. Oedipus complex, narcissism, the uncanny) crucially informed by literary texts, but also Freud's Interpretation of Dreams proves to be a theory of representation and reading. We will investigate the ways in which literature and psychoanalysis are involved with each other considering narrative forms, performative aspects and aspects of the genre (novel, novella). Readings and discussions in English.

AS.211.414 Body as Vehicle: Antonin Artaud and the French 20th century approach to theatrical Performance
Vaou

AS.212.305 Introduction to Francophone Caribbean Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Saliot

AS.212.318 Women in French Literature of the 17th and 18th Centuries (W)
Anderson

History
AS.100.210 Sexuality, Marriage, and Celibacy from Late Antiquity to the Modern Era
Cage 

AS.140.304 01 HS W Medicine for and by Women in Early Modern Europe (W)
Pomata

AS.100.424 Women & Modern Chinese History (W)
Meyer-Fong

AS.100.498 Hist-Family & Gender-US (W)
Ditz
Limit 18
MW 12-1:15
Continuing themes include history of emotions; varieties of family life as conditioned by race, ethnicity, and class; gender equality/inequality; politics of sexuality. Two special topics are: intermarriage (aka, social regulation of love and race/ethnicity) and 20th century consumer culture. Course focuses on early America through the mid-19th century, but we also discuss contemporary debates about gay marriage and new technologies of reproduction.

History of Science and Technology
AS.140.161 Thinking and Living with Animals: Human-Animal Relationships in History
Petrozzi

AS.140.385 A Patient's History of Health and Healing (W)
Weisser
Dean's Teaching Fellowship

AS.140.418 Medicine for and by Women in Early Modern Europe
Pomata
T/TH 12-1:15
This course will examine women's role in early modern European medicine through the reading of early modern medical texts written for or by women. The course is meant for students interested in women's history, the history of medicine, European history.

Sociology
AS.230.316 African American Family
McDonald

                            

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