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THE NEW SCHOOL I Global Studies Fall 2014 Course Packet FALL 2014 Global Studies Course Descriptions Contact: Global Studies Program, The New School 66 W. 12th St., Room 905 / New York, NY 10011 / (212) 229-8590 Email: [email protected] Web: http://nsglobal.info NOTE: This document is provided for your convenience and is being updated on a daily basis. It is subject to change. The official university online registration version is definitive. I. Core Courses II. Electives offered through Global Studies III. Collaborative Research Seminars (Junior-level) IV. Directed Research Seminar V. Global Engagement VI. Relevant electives offered elsewhere at the University (selected list) I. CORE COURSES UGLB 2110A (DislOrder and iIn]Justice: Introduction to Global Studies Gustav Peebles Wednesday 9:00 - 11:40 AM This class serves as an introduction to Global Studies. The focus is on the tension between order and justice as it plays out across the contemporary world, from war to migration, to the changing roles of the state, international institutions, transnational actors, and citizens. A governing metaphor for the class is the "border" and the ways in which it creates order and disorder in the modern system of states. We will examine the creation of the borders of countries, but also the borders between the local and the global, the legal and illegal, the licit and the illicit, self and other. These borders have intertwined histories, structures, and logics that we shall explore together. In particular we will seek to understand order as a dynamic relationship between territory, identity and belonging, and justice as a question of responsibility and ethics at the collective and personal level in an intimate relationship to (onus of order. In other words, how did we get to where we are today, and what should—and can—we do about it? We will explore these topics through "global" perspective with an interdisciplinary focus, emphasizing the interconnectedness between global and local spaces and the impact of global issues on the real human lives that are inevitably at the center of our investigations. (3 credits) CRN 4146 UGLB 2111 Global Economies Jonathan Bach Tuesday 12:10 - 2:50 PM 1 EFTA01197295 THE NEW SCHOOL I Global Studies Fall 2014 Course Packet This class explores the circulation of money, goods, bodies, and ideas that make up the global economy as it is experienced and lived today. This core course introduces students to key global areas where economic dynamics intersects with politics, society, and culture. It explores essential and contested concepts such as value, money, labor, trade, and debt, "licit" and "illicit" economies, and moral economy. We will examine changing trends in the global political economy as well as emerging areas such as the sharing economy (e.g. AirBnB) or technologies such as automated trading. Readings will be drawn from classic texts, contemporary commentary, and case studies from a variety of disciplines that seek to understand the "economic" and relate its logics and workings to our contemporary realities of unparalleled inequality, interconnectivity, and interdependence. (3 credits) CRN 7587 NOTE: This course is the same as UGLB 2111 Understanding Global Capitalism, and counts towards the core requirement in Global Studies. It cannot be taken by students who have already taken 'Understanding Global Capitalism'. II. ELECTIVES NOTE: These electives are offered through the Global Studies Program. Students may also take courses through other departments at the University and count these courses towards their elective requirements. See section PI below. Knowledge Base Electives: UGLB 3233 Global Migration Alexandra Delano Tuesday and Thursday 1:50 PM - 3:30 PM With over 215 million international migrants, migration is a top priority on national and international agendas. States, international organizations, NGOs and businesses face a global challenge in terms of minimizing the human costs and maximizing the benefits of migration, making it a choice rather than a necessity. At the same time, the migration experience reveals different ways in which migrants navigate transborder identities that challenge traditional definitions of citizenship and constructions of national belonging. This course will give students the ability to understand and analyze contemporary global migration flows, their causes and effects, the various ways in which migrants experience these processes, and the policies and institutions that respond to these flows across countries and regions. Our discussions will be informed by interdisciplinary academic sources, documentaries, films, news media, photographs, music, and site visits. (4 credits) CRN 7789 Cluster 1 Electives: People, Places, Encounters (PPE) UGLB 4304 (same as NINT 5381) Global Soccer, Global Politics 2 EFTA01197296 THE NEW SCHOOL I Global Studies Fall 2014 Course Packet Sean Jacobs and Tony Karon Thursday 6:00 - 7:50 PM NOTE: This is a graduate-level course offered in collaboration with the Graduate Program in International Affairs. Students should have completed at least 60 credits with a B or better to register for this course. Contact your Global Studies faculty advisor or the Global Studies academic advisor, Van Lee, at leev@newschooLedu for permission to register or if you have any questions. This course will explore the connections between soccer -- particularly in its most "globalized" form through the World Cup and also the European professional leagues that are watched every week by hundreds of millions of TV viewers (and fans) on every continent -- and global political, economic and cultural power relations. It will explore the game's relationship with issues ranging from political power and resistance, globalization, identity politics, migration, economic and social inequality, and transnational commerce, among others. Case studies include the World Cup as spectacle, migration and African football, identity politics and imagining the "national", the business economics of European football, Spain's La Liga and the English Premiership as global cultural performance, as well as the significance and potentials of soccer in the United States. We will also explore soccer in world film and literature. Class discussions will be complemented by visiting speakers and film screenings, and where passible, field trips. (3 credits) CRN 7838 UGLB 3314 Global Gender & Sexuality Geeti Das Tuesday and Thursday 10:00 - 11:40 AM This course explores issues of gender and sexuality in comparative and transnational perspective. Incorporating readings front political science, anthropology, sociology, history, theory, and journalism, we pay special attention to the ways in which colonialism and global flows of labor and discourse determine or limit the ways in which gender roles and sexual hierarchies are produced, reinforced, and challenged. We will explore the tension between universal claims about gender and sexuality and local understandings across regions and cultures, with a particular focus on South and Southeast Asia, and the Americas. Specific topics covered will include: how gender and sexual norms structure interventions into development and the management of conflict; love and globalization; sex work, HIV/AIDS, and questions of autonomy and agency; queer and transgender politics in different cultural contexts; gender, migration, and domestic or reproductive labor; constructs of masculinity and their relationship to nation; the politicization of trauma and recovery; sexuality and tourism; and the use of scientific discourses to enforce the gender binary. (4 credits) CRN 4148 UGLB 4415 Education, Human Rights, and the Promise of Development Jaskiran Dhillon Wednesday 4:00 - 5:50 Within the context of global justice and international aid, the salvation narrative of education reigns. In nations characterized as "developing", education is widely positioned as the key to social and political stability, the strengthening of civil society, and the fostering of a vibrant and growing economy. This seminar explores the discourse of 'education as a human right' within this broader salvation narrative and investigates how new categories of meaning and universal standards about education become produced and contested through this major approach to global social justice. The course raises important questions about the localization of human rights by problematizing how these rights become translated into local contexts of power and culture. The 3 EFTA01197297 THE NEW SCHOOL I Global Studies Fall 2014 Course Packet readings draw from across the social sciences (primarily anthropology, sociology, and political science) and are not intended to convince of us one way or another about a 'right approach' but to stimulate us to think about the contradictions and tensions inherent in this paradigm of justice, equality, and freedom from a range of perspectives. (3 credits) CRN 7581 UGLB 4313 (same as NINT 5379) Non-Western Approaches to the World Lily Ling Wednesday 4:00 - 5:50 PM NOTE: This is a graduate-level course offered in collaboration with the Graduate Program in International Affairs. Students should have completed at least 60 credits with a B or better to register for this course. Contact your Global Studies faculty advisor or the Global Studies academic advisor, Van Lee, at leev@newschooLedu for permission to register or if you have any questions. Scholars of international relations increasingly recognize the need to take into account non-Western, non-Westphalian understandings of the world and its version of world politics. Yet they are usually at a loss as to how to do so. Few IR scholars in the West (including many from the non-West) are trained in how so-called Others think about, relate to, and act in the world. This course aims to amend this gap, albeit in a limited way. We will cover three world traditions and how they see/treat politics: Confucianism, Hinduism, and Islam. This course, however, will not be a comparative religion/philosophy course. We will not study these world traditions just for the sake of it. Rather, we will examine specifically how we can aspire towards an integrated yet democratic global politics where all voices, not just the Westphalian one, is both heard and hided. (3 credits) CRN 5244 Cluster 2 Electives: Markets and States (MS) UGLB 3435 Duck & Cover: The Cold War Si The Bomb John VanderLippe Tuesday and Thursday 10:00 - 11:40 AM The atomic bombs that American planes dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not the last shots of World War II, but the first shots of the Cold War. The threat of nuclear annihilation not only molded the Cold War and revolutionized the conduct of international affairs; it also changed relations between states and their citizens, transformed the global economy, and altered culture and everyday existence. As the threat of nuclear war developed, so did opposition, from film makers, novelists, scientists, activists and citizens of countries around the world. But 68 years after the first bombs killed more than 200,000 people, the threat posed by nuclear weapons is a stark and real as ever. Focusing on the development, use, and spread of nuclear weapons, and on efforts to control, reduce and eliminate them, this course utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to explore the politics, economics and culture of the Cold War from a global perspective. (4 credits) CRN 7588 UGLB 4413 (same as NINT 5398) Europe in Crisis and the World Economy Richard Wolff Monday 4:00 - 5:50 PM 4 EFTA01197298 THE NEW SCHOOL I Global Studies Fall 2014 Course Packet NOTE: This is a graduate-level course offered in collaboration with the Graduate Program in International Affairs. Students should have completed at least 60 credits with a B or better to register for this course. Contact your Global Studies faculty advisor or the Global Studies academic advisor, Van Lee, at leev@newschooLedu for permission to register or if you have any questions. This global economic crisis develops - as capitalist crises usually do - unevenly across the globe. The early years (2008-2010) damaged the US economy more than most others. Since then the center of crisis moved to Europe (and especially to Greece, Ireland, United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Hungary, among other countries). There are profound economic effects of crisis — on production, employment, foreign trade, capital movements and especially government policies (financial and corporate bailouts followed by austerity programs). These have been matched by profound impacts on European politics and culture. As Europe's social democracies have been challenged, a changing Europe alters its relationships with the rest of the world. This course will explore how the crisis is changing Europe and the consequences for the United States as well as the rest of the world economy. (3 credits) CRN 5957 Cluster 3 Electives: Rights, Justice, Governance (12.1GI UGLB 3519 Global Outlaws: Las and International Crimes Emma Lindsay Wednesday 6:00 - 7:50 PM In a world of conflict and catastrophe, is there such a thing as global justice? This course is an introduction to international criminal law (ICL) and its role in responding to concerns such as war, terrorism, the environment and the global financial crisis. The course explores the potential for courts and tribunals to deter international crimes and promote international peace, security and reconciliation. Students will consider philosophical and practical aspects of the prosecution, trial and punishment of individuals alleged to have committed crimes considered to be among the most serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. We will study the origins and evolution of ICL, the elements of international crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and the fundamentals of international criminal responsibility. Special reference will be made to the creation, development and work of international criminal courts and tribunals including those for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia and Lebanon as well as the International Criminal Court (ICC). We will examine the advantages and disadvantages of international, transnational and national approaches to dealing with past atrocities through litigation. As this is designed to be an introductory course, no prior knowledge of international law is required. The course assumes no prior exposure to legal studies. (3 credits) CRN 5783 UGLB 3509 War, Conflict and Security in the 21st Century Andr€ Simonyi Thursday 12:10 - 2:50 PM In a world of drones, terrorism, and nuclear proliferation, has the very nature of war itself changed since the fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War a mere twenty years ago? If so, how? In our age of digital technology and post-Fordist organization of labor can we still follow the linear evolution of warfare and humanity once calmly traced by military and strategic historians? This class explores the multiple facets of conflict and security, situating these discussions in contemporary political, social and cultural realms. Topics to be explored include whether pre-emptive wars are compatible with democracy, the increasing reliance on private military companies as public budgets shrink, conflict resolution through peacekeeping and peacebuilding, and the question of moral obligation for military intervention in countries such as Sudan and Syria. We will also discuss phenomena such 5 EFTA01197299 THE NEW SCHOOL I Global Studies Fall 2014 Course Packet as asymmetric warfare, cyber war, infrastructure and financial systems, and unconventional forms of coercion. As a whole the class will undertake a thorough examination of the changing nature of war and conflict in the 21st Century. (3 credits) CRN 6250 UGLB 4513 (same as NINT 5346) Displacement, Asylum, Migration Alfonso Gonzales Thursday 4:00 - 5:50 PM NOTE: This is a graduate-level course offered in collaboration with the Graduate Program in International Affairs. Students should have completed at least 60 credits with a B or better to register for this course. Contact your Global Studies faculty advisor or the Global Studies academic advisor, Van Lee, at leev@newschooLedu for permission to register or if you have any questions. In essence, this course explores how attempts to distinguish between forced and voluntary migration have shaped international norms, standards and institutions, as well as state-level practices and localised strategies and tactics. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective that draws insight from international law, anthropology, history and political economy, we engage fundamental questions related to belonging, identity and the politics of being out-of-place. Major themes include: refugees and the limits of asylum; internal displacement and human rights; the protection of "irregular" migrants; the trafficking and smuggling of persons; development-related resettlement and persons displaced by natural disasters. The course will be of specific value to students with a critical research or professional interest in the governance and management of populations-at-risk, emergency assistance and humanitarian aid, international development work and advocacy related to protection from displacement. (3 credits) CRN 5958 UGLB 3512 Present Pasts: Global Memory Politics Benjamin Nienass Monday 3:50 - 6:30 PM The past is both a resource for and the subject of political struggles. Attempts to do justice to the past and to create commonly shared narratives of past events are at the heart of politics. Memory politics was part of the agenda of building the nation-state. From the 19th century on, historians busied themselves writing stories of the travails and triumphs of their nation, while at the same time states created rituals and monuments celebrating largely imaginary pasts (Hobsbawnt called this 'the invention of tradition'). The creation of memory was the conscious policy of almost all states. A common historical narrative was not merely an instrument of social control; it was also a source of solidarity and legitimacy. The nation-state remains an important arena for memory politics. However, in the globalized world of the 21st century, new memory dynamics are coming into play. Diasporic communities maintain the memories of their past homeland, whilst emerging transnational bodies such as the European Union attempt to discover or create memories, appropriate to new political agendas. At the same time, globalized media turn certain events (9/11, the assassination of JFK, the invasion of Iraq) into near universal memories. This course will begin with an introduction to the key theoretical debates. It will then trace these transnational processes front post-war Europe, through the Cold War to the 'memory boom' of the 90s with its focus on transitional justice, and finally to current debates on human rights, extradition, and reparations. We will also look at specific memory debates pertaining to New York (e.g. the WTC memorial) and how these are embedded in transnational processes. How do all of these developments challenge the earlier symbiosis between memory and the nation-state? How does the politics of memory contribute to notions of international justice and human rights? 6 EFTA01197300 THE NEW SCHOOL I Global Studies Fall 2014 Course Packet How does an emerging common symbolism link polities across the globe? Students are encouraged to do an independent research project on the politics of memory. (3 credits) CRN 7551 III. Collaborative Research Seminar (CRS) UGLB 3731 CRS: Prisons, Punishment, and Global (1O.1ustice Gema Santamaria Balmaceda Tuesday 3:50 - 6:30 PM The aim of this collaborative research seminar is to examine the politics and policies behind the sharp increase in incarceration rates globally, with particular attention given to cases across the United States and Latin America. The focus will be on the local, transnational and global dynamics of control and punishment that have led to the transformation of prisons into spaces characterized by violence, overcrowding, disorder, corruption and disease. We will examine how questions of race, ethnicity, class, and gender inform the configuration of contemporary penal and security systems. We will further explore what are the challenges that mass incarceration, prolonged preventative detention, as well as long sentencing have for justice, democracy and human rights worldwide. The class will include guest speakers, site visits and will be informed by students' own research interests and projects. (3 credits) CRN 7784 UGLB 3715 CRS: Seeking Refuge: Cambodian Diaspora and the Politics of (Re)Settlement in America Jaskiran Dhillon Wednesday 12:10 - 2:50 PM Population displacement has biome increasingly visible worldwide—images of poverty-stricken and war-tom families living in makeshift camps waiting to cross national borders are commonplace in mainstream media. This course will provide a critical entry into displacement processes and the complex causes, characteristics, and consequences of forced migration experiences through the lens of the Cambodian diaspora in the United States. Students gain an understanding of how local, social, and larger geo-political forces interact to produce refugees, the way "refugees" have been historically constructed as a problem within the context of international humanitarianism, and the related problematics of the Refugee Act of 1980 which created America's Federal Refugee Resettlement Program. Particular attention will be paid to the human technologies that produce certain categories of citizen-subjects, and the tensions emerging from the contradictory space of "resettlement" encountered by Cambodian refugees as they make their way through the institutional contexts (welfare, education, and legal systems) that signal the values and technical competence expected in America. An exploration of the politics surrounding the recent deportation of Cambodians from the United States will also be integrated into our readings and seminar discussions. (4 credits) CRN 7580 UGLB 3712 CRS: International Human Rights Naomi Kikoler Monday 3:50 - 6:30 PM This collaborative research seminar provides students with an insider's understanding of the world of international human rights 7 EFTA01197301 THE NEW SCHOOL I Global Studies Fall 2014 Course Packet advocacy. Using the responsibility to protect (R2P) as a case study, students will explore how international moral commitments are translated into legal and social norms and state action in a political world. Through group discussions, guest presentations by leading human rights practitioners, government and UN officials, and field visits, students will learn the essential skills of human rights advocacy: the identification of advocacy targets, the development of advocacy strategies from grassroots campaigns to elite level engagement and the fundamentals of tactical implementation, from drafting reports to using social media. Through case studies, including the Save Darfur movement, students will grapple with the difficult ethical considerations and tactical challenges arising from conducting human rights advocacy in an ever-changing world. The course will explore who are relevant human rights actors; how factors such as funding, branding, and personal relationships influence the setting of advocacy priorities; the impact emerging powers have on the way human rights advocates do their "business"; and what it means to do "no harm" when speaking for others. Students will each be responsible for compiling a case study describing and analyzing the strategies employed and efficacy of an organization or campaign's human rights advocacy efforts, either in the context of a crisis, such as Syria, or in advancing an agenda, such as the landmine treaty ban. (4 credits) CRN 5012 IV. Directed Research UGLB 4710 Directed Research Alexandra Delano Wednesday 3:50 - 6:30 PM The main goal of this course is to prepare senior students for their final research project or thesis required for the major in Global Studies. The senior work is a major independent project that requires the best application of students' analytical, writing, and research skills. To this end the course will help you clearly formulate your research design, plan the writing of your project/thesis, and allow you to learn from your colleagues. The course is heavily interactive—we will work primarily with materials provided by you, the students. Using secondary texts and your own work we will cover issues such as formulating a research problem, defining your concepts, situating yourself in the literature, finding, using and presenting data, and the writing process. The senior project may take slightly different forms for each person, but for all students must reflect the ability to synthesize complex information, present ideas clearly and creatively, situate your ideas in a larger context, and convincingly make an argument that is relevant to this field of inquiry. It is a scholarly endeavor that creatively reflects knowledge and experience obtained both inside and outside the classroom. By the end of the fall semester, students graduating in May 2015 will produce a prospectus and be ready to start writing their thesis. These students will take part in a follow-up writing workshop during the spring semester that will follow the writing process and will use the same model of student presentations and peer review. Students graduating in December 2014, will need to work at an accelerated pace and actually complete the thesis by the end of the Fall semester. Accordingly, assignments will differ somewhat for students seeking to graduate in December. (3 credits) CRN 4153 V. Global Engagement 8 EFTA01197302 THE NEW SCHOOL I Global Studies Fall 2014 Course Packet UGLB 3903 Global Engagement Jonathan Bach Internship / Externship All majors in the Global Studies program must complete an experiential component relevant to the field in consultation with an advisor. These experiences include, but are not limited to, study abroad, intemships, collaborative studios, or other fieldwork projects in New York or across the globe. Global Studies majors who are planning to complete their global engagement requirement during the Fall semester must register for this course. All seniors who have completed this requirement but have not registered for this course should register this semester. After successful completion of the experience or at the end of the semester, students will be asked to submit a brief reflection form. Please contact the Global Studies academic advisor, Van Lee, at [email protected] if you have any questions. (0 credits) CRN 5245 VI. Relevant electives offered through other departments Knowledge Base Electives: NPOL 3310 Global Justice Karsten Struhl Thursday 8:00 - 9:50 PM From Plato to John Rawls, classical political theory regards arguments concerning justice as moral disagreements about the internal organization of a nation- or city-state. In the age of globalization, however, there is an increasing recognition that decisions made within one national entity often have effects that transcend its boundaries and that the actions of transnational agents like corporations and international financial and trade institutions significantly affect the living conditions of people around the world. There is an emerging global institutional order whose rules are coming under increasing scrutiny and moral criticism. After a brief introduction to the classical problem of justice, this course focuses on contemporary interpretations of the concept of global justice. We examine the relation of these interpretations to different assessments and theories of globalization. We also look at the debates about global justice from the perspective of the struggles for alternative forms of globalization. (3 credits) CRN 7529 NSOC 3102 Modern Social Theory Faculty TBA Monday 4:00 - 5:50 PM What holds societies together? When do they break down into conflict? What drives social change? Are there rules that govern human interaction? This course examines some of the Big Ideas about society, how those ideas came about, and how we can use them to understand concrete social problems. In the first part of the course, we look at how the classical thinkers Adam Smith, Auguste Comte, and Herbert Spencer grappled with ideas about progress and social change. In the second pan, we focus on efforts by four seminal writers--Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Georg Simmel—to understand the development of capitalism and its implications for modern societies. Throughout the course, different theoretical traditions are presented as tool kits with which to examine historical and contemporary social issues. (3 credits) CRN 7665 9 EFTA01197303 THE NEW SCHOOL I Global Studies Fall 2014 Course Packet LCST 2120 Introduction to Cultural Studies Jasmine Rault Tuesday and Thursday 8:30 - 9:45 AM This course examines the pivotal role of culture in the modem world, including the ideas, values, artifacts, and practices of people in their collective lives. Cultural Studies focuses on the importance of studying the material processes through which culture is constructed. It highlights process over product and rupture over continuity. In particular, it presents culture as a dynamic arena of social struggle and utopian possibility. Students read key thinkers and examine critical frameworks from a historical and a theoretical approach, such as Raymond Williams, Stuart hall and the Birmingham School; the work on popular culture, identity politics, and postmodernism in America; and the emergence of a 'global cultural studies' in which transnational cultural flows are examined and assessed. Class sessions are set up as dialogic encounters between cultural theory and concrete analysis. (3 credits) CRN 5146 LSOC 2001 Sociological Imagination Melissa Amezcua Tuesday and Thursday 10:00 - 11:40 AM In this course, students begin to think about how society works. The course examines relationships among individual identity and experience, social groups and organizations, and social structures. They examine the economic, political, and cultural dimensions of social life and question social arrangements that seem natural or unchangeable. Topics covered include social inequality, politics and power, culture, race and ethnic relations, gender, interaction, and socialization. The course also introduces students to major sociological theorists and sociological research methods. (4 credits) CRN 2775 UENV 2000 Environment and Society Faculty TBA Monday and Wednesday 3:50 - 5:30 PM The state of the air, water, and soil climate change, habitat conversion, invasive species, biodiversity decline, deforestation, overfishing, and many other environmental issues are at the core of most of our pressing economic, social, political and human health concerns. This course examines the roots of the modern environmental crisis, reviewing the most current environmental issues and the underlying science for a critical look at how societies have interacted with the natural environment past and present and requirements for a sustainable future. The course consists of small group discussions, readings and case studies. (4 credits) CRN 7460 LSOC 2053 Sex, Gender & Sexuality in Society Faculty TBA Tuesday and Thursday 8:00 - 9:40 AM In this course, we will closely examine the ways in which sociologists and other scholars have conceptualized and studied sex, gender and sexuality in society, while we try to bring conceptual clarity to these terms and to understand the complex relationships among them. Through this broad survey of the field, our goal is to gain a critical perspective on the ways in which gender and sexuality affect many spheres of social life (at work, in the family, in politics, in the production of scientific knowledge, etc.), drawing real or perceived boundaries of difference that shape the opportunities available to, and the day-to-day 10 EFTA01197304 THE NEW SCHOOL I Global Studies Fall 2014 Course Packet experiences and interactions of social subjects. As we will see, we cannot study gender and sexuality without thinking about power. (4 credits) CRN 7406 NSOS 3800 Foundations of Gender Studies Faculty TBA Monday 6:00 - 7:50 PM What does it mean to think critically about gender and sexuality in a time of cultural instability? We compare the broad topics and controversies in the social sciences and humanities that historically defined women's studies with those that have contributed to the recent shift to the broader designation of gender studies. Important factors contributing to this shift are the influx of gay, lesbian, and transgender subjects; multicultural feminist thought; the rise of postmodernism and its critique of identity politics; and the emergence of men's studies. In the process, students are introduced to a critical framework within which to think about gender. Central to the course is the examination of personal narratives--memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories, photographs--in relation to gender experiences and identities, politics, and social change. (3 credits) CRN 5933 NLIT 3392 Masculine Identities Herbert Sussman Friday 12:00 - 1:50 PM This course examines the variety of masculine identities, the long history of changing definitions of what it means "to be a man." We trace the warrior ideal from the Ilomeric epics through Arthurian tales to current antiheroic representations of men at war. We also examine the complex history of same-sex relations from Plato to 19th-century passionate friendships to the varied styles of modern gay identities. Ilemingways writing evokes a powerful masculine ideal as well as its discontents. Since masculinity is shaped by ethnicity, the course considers the construction of masculine identities in African-American, Jewish, and Asian men. We also look at the changing constructions of the male body, examine visual artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe, consider the notion of female masculinity, read current gender theory about masculinities, and discuss such film genres as the buddy film, the western, and the muscle film. Students present oral reports on styles of contemporary masculinity. (3 credits) CRN 7061 LCST 2450 Introduction to Media Studies Pooj a Rangan Tuesday and Thursday 2:00 - 3:15 PM This course introduces the student to basic concepts and approaches in the critical analysis of communications media. Drawing on contemporary critiques and historical studies, it seeks to build an understanding of different forms of media, such as photography and cinema, television and video, the intentet and hypermedia, in order to assess their role and impact in society. Since media are at once technology, art and entertainment, and business enterprises, they need to be studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The readings for the course reflect this multi-pronged approach and draw attention to the work of key thinkers and theorists in the field. Moreover, the readings build awareness of the international dimensions of media activity, range, and power. (3 credits) CRN 1830 NCOM 3000 Introduction to Media Studies Peter Haratonik Tuesday 6:00 - 7:50 PM 11 EFTA01197305 THE NEW SCHOOL I Global Studies Fall 2014 Course Packet Students explore media history and the basic concepts employed in media analysis, spanning the history of technologies from the magic lantern to multimedia and stressing the relationship between media and their social, political, and economic contexts. Since media are at once technology, art, entertainment, and business enterprises, they need to be studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The readings for this course reflect this multifaceted approach and draw attention to the work of key thinkers and theorists in the field. Examples are drawn primarily from the visual media of commercial film, television, advertising, video, and the Internet, although alternative media practices are also noted. Students gain an understanding of how media texts are constructed, how they convey meaning, and how they shape one another in significant ways. (3 credits) CRN 1612 LECO 3101 History of Economic Thought Faculty TBA Tuesday and Thursday 11:55 AM - 1:35 PM The aim of the course is to read the classics, the Great Economists, or as IIeilbroner calls them, the Worldly Philosophers. We will begin in the middle of the 18th C with Quesnay and the Physiocrats; this is the first instance of a model being used to study and recommend policy. Their approach will be compared to that of Adam Smith. Smith in turn is criticized and developed by Ricardo, who presents an analytically superior treatment of value, and extends the argument to long-run growth. Malthus adds another dimension to this, While J S Mill clarifies many points and adds a sophisticated discussion of money and credit. Then the entire project is criticized and taken in another direction by Marx. The next stage will be to study the rise of 'marginalism'. We will read Alfred Marshall. The final stage will be Keynes and aggregate demand. (4 credits) CRN 5156 Cluster 1 Electives: People, Places, Encounters (PPE) LHIS 2221 Power and Biology: The Global South and the History of Science Laura Palermo Monday and Wednesday 1:50 - 3:30 PM This seminar approaches the history of science from the perspective of the global margins. We will study the contextual connections between biological research, imperialism and postcolonial societies. We will analyze case studies from the history of Eugenics and racism, military research, sexually transmitted diseases and the social and environmental impact of science in the Global South. The course places special emphasis on historical case studies from Latin America and Africa. (4 credits) CRN 5866 NHIS 3470 The II istory of Poverty Fiore Sireci Online The concept of poverty has alternated between a virtue, as in the early Christian and monastic traditions, and a sign of personal weakness, as in the individualist doctrines more familiar today. This course examines both the historical reality and the image of poverty. We investigate the living conditions and the laws and institutions affecting the poor at selected points in British, French, and U.S. history, as well as the role played by the lower" social classes in making that history. We study poverty as it came into public consciousness in early modern Britain through powerful texts and visual art. We examine institutional responses, both private and governmental, such as debtor's prisons, foundling hospitals, and "philanthropy." We then look at the role of the 12 EFTA01197306 THE NEW SCHOOL I Global Studies Fall 2014 Course Packet disenfranchised in France during the 1789 Revolution and beyond and their fictional representation in Les Miserables and later in La Boheme. We devote the second half of the course to policies and perceptions of poverty in the United States from the Great Depression to the present. (3 credits) CRN 7534 NCST 2103 Debates in Race and Ethnicity Ricardo Montez Thursday 4:00 - 5:50 PM Through an interdisciplinary engagement with contemporary literature and scholarship on race and ethnicity, this course considers the following questions: How do race and ethnicity organize the social world? What are the historical conditions under which the various definitions of racial and ethnic difference emerge? What is at stake in the institutional recognition of race and ethnicity, particularly as these categories come to be defined in relation to other nodes of difference such as gender and class? How do individuals utilize labels of racial and ethnic difference to develop an understanding of the self in relation to the social and political worlds they inhabit? As an introductory course to the curricular area in Race and Ethnicity Studies, the class provides an overview of different areas within this complex field, including Latino Studies, African-American Studies, Asian- American Studies, and Whiteness Studies. (4 credits) CRN 7653 NPSY 2345 Cross Cultural Psychology 'liana Goldwert Monday 6:00 - 7:50 PM NOTE: This course was formerly listed as NPSY 3341 Do not take this course if you have previously taken NPSY 3345; it is the same course and cannot be taken twicefor credit. Traditional theories of psychology, developed primarily by Western Europeans and North Americans, are based on the unexamined assumption that all human behavior can be explained by a single worldview. Ilowever, recent research has demonstrated that despite certain universals in human societies, norms in non-Western societies may differ from those in Western Europe and North America. In this course, students learn to make distinctions between behaviors exhibited by all humans (like use of language) and culturally determined behaviors. To that end, we explore the influence of culture on perception, cognition, education, individual and social behavior, expressions of physical and mental illnesses, and self-perception. (3 credits) CRN 6101 NFLM 3492 Vamps, Virgins, and Goddesses: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationhood in Popular Indian Cinema Rebecca Qidwai Online This course introduces the genre of popular Indian films known as Bollywood, with a focus on constructions of gender, sexuality, and national identity in the film narratives. We begin by exploring the Indian cinema of the period immediately preceding the birth of the Indian nation-state. We analyze articulations of gender and sexuality in the colonial context and then trace them discursively through the decades that follow. We treat popular cinema as a social text that illuminates changing ideas about gender roles and sexual behavior in modern India. The course is divided into four historical sections: the colonial period (1930s), the era ofNehm nationalism (1950s), the social justice era (1970s), and the commodity fetish period (2000s). (3 credits) CRN 7377 13 EFTA01197307 THE NEW SCHOOL I Global Studies Fall 2014 Course Packet NANT 3213 Race and Biology Jennifer Scott Online What do we learn about ourselves through genetics and genealogy? Flow does DNA connect with what we know about our identities, family ancestry and cultural heritage? This course explores the intersection between biology, culture and history. In particular, we examine the evolving scientific and social classifications of race and human difference. Students will learn how certain racial distinctions emerged historically, such as: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid and mulatto, quadroon, octoroon or creole. They will critically examine the ways in which we dissect and quantify lineage - why we speak about our backgrounds, bloodlines, ethnic, racial and national make-ups in terms of percentages, fractions or measurable terms, why we use cultural tools, such as the census to "count" heritage, why we operated by "the one drop rule." Using anthropological, sociological, historical, biological and literary works, we will also explore the "social narratives" or "social life of DNA," the various ways in which genetics is used culturally and racially - as evidence to make legal claims or seek social justice, to anticipate wellness or disease, to determine social membership, pedigree or purity, or to re-construct identities. We will analyze the recent expansion, commercialization, and popularization of genetic analysis, most prominently exhibited in increased public DNA testing, as well as, in the widely-watched televisions programs, such as the American documentary series, Who Do You Think You Are? Examining these trends, students will investigate the ways in which genetics is used to constitute family history, construct individual and group identities, and create community. (3 credits) CRN 7530 LVIS 2015 Photography in Latin America 'liana Cepero-Amador Monday and Wednesday 10:00 - 11:40 AM This course examines the history of Latin American photography, from early photography of the nineteenth century to contemporary conceptual tendencies. We begin with photographic representations of the local landscape and its inhabitants, continue with the establishment of the first photographic studios, and follow with the advent of modernist trends, such as surrealism and abstraction. We approach the strong documentary practice that swings from registering everyday life and autochthonous rituals, to chronicling political upheavals—as exemplified in the Mexican and Cuban revolutions— and cataloguing the "disappeared" under the military juntas of Argentina and Chile. We also explore the treatment of labor in 1970's Cuban and Brazilian photo essays, the incorporation of postmodern concepts by Latin American photographers in the 1990s, and photographic representations of narco-culture in Colombia and Mexico. We discuss critical problems such as: realism, indigenism, social commentary, propaganda, nationalism, violence, and ethics. (4 credits) CRN 7384 LLSL 3052 Literature & Revolution in Latin America Juan De Castro Tuesday and Thursday 11:55 AM - 1:35 PM This course studies the discrepant visions and revisions of revolution in Spanish American literature from the 19th century until the present. Given the social and economic inequality prevalent in the region, Spanish American writers have frequently grappled with the need for radical political change. In particular, the belief in revolution as a modernizing and democratizing process became widespread after the Cuban Revolution in 1959, which for many exemplified the possibility of achieving equality and freedom in the region. Among the authors studied are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Jose Marti, Jose Carlos Mariategui, Ernesto "Che" Guevara,