IN350 Global Studies Learning Outcome Goals
The learning outcome goals for students taking IN350 are that students will able to:
- compare cultural and social structures beyond those found in the United States,
- reflect on how the diversity of the world affects their everyday lives, and
- explore culturally diverse points of view through substantive research, including examination of primary sources.
IN 350 - Course Descriptions - Fall 2008
IN350. Global Studies (3) Junior year. Global studies courses explore the fundamental diversity and interconnectedness of the world. There is a substantial dimension of cultural comparison in the course. Students will gain substantive understanding of how the diversity of the world affects their everyday lives. There should be a significant component to the course that reaches beyond the United States. Students are exposed to primary sources (texts, music, artifacts) from multiple cultures. There is a significant research component that pushes students to explore culturally diverse points of view. Each discipline is expected to approach this course with its own perspective on the unit of analysis: individual, group, culture, world or specific issue.
The learning outcome goals for students taking IN350 are that students will able to:
1. compare cultural and social structures by examining primary sources from multiple cultures beyond the United States,
2. gain substantive understanding of how the diversity of the world affects their everyday lives, and
3. further develop their abilities to conduct research, which encourages students to explore culturally diverse points of view.
11902 IN 350 01 Global Issues W 02:00 pm-04:45 pm
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11904 IN 350 02 International Literature M 5pm-7:30pm AND W 5pm-6:15 pm
Purna Banerjee KIRK 128 Gender Studies and Literature
Indian writing in English or the “Indo-Anglian” tradition in literature is not a contemporary phenomenon. Its origins can be traced to the infamous "Minute of 2 February 1835 on Indian Education," authored by Lord Macaulay. In it Macaulay expressed a desire to create "a class of interpreters between us [the English] and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect" (359). However, Macaulay did not anticipate that this class of interpreters would, put the master's tools to subversive use. For decades Indian writers have used the colonizer's language, English, to produce an Indian reality that is very different from anything Macaulay might have envisioned. Thus, the twentieth century witnessed the rapid development of what is the "Indo-Anglian" tradition. In this class we will read a series of well-known novels, essays, and plays (and their filmic adaptations) by Indian authors who are central to Indo-Anglian literature. We will begin this course with E.M. Forster’s “A Passage to India.” Forster’s novel serves as a backdrop of Orientalized consciousness that not only epitomized western response to India/ns, but also partially influenced in India’s self-construction. As we explore the development of this tradition, we will pay particular attention to the important social and cultural developments in Imperial and Post-Independence India, as well as to the diversity of contemporary Indian writing.
10952 IN 350 03 Literature of the Holocaust TR 02:00 pm-03:15 pm
David A. Matthews Gender Studies and Literature
We will consider representations of the Holocaust from various perspectives: survivors (and their children), bystanders, and perpetrators, from Germany and German-occupied Europe.. Among the questions we will consider are the following: What motivated the genocide? How was it possible to carry it out? How are the horrors of the Holocaust best represented? How did some victims survive the camps? What effects did the experience have on survivors and their children? What motivated the perpetrators, and how did ordinary people become killers? What uses has the Holocaust been put to? What lessons does it have for us?
13977 IN 350 04 Sociology of Globalization W 05:30 pm-08:30 pm
Larry Troy
Sociology is the social scientific study of social structures and cultures. This course will be a sociological study of globalization. At its most general level, globalization is simply the shrinking of geographic space and the permeability of politically defined borders that accelerate and magnify flows of money, goods, people, and culture around the world. But more specifically, globalization covers many things, including the international flow of ideas and knowledge, the sharing and destruction of cultures, the merging and dissolving of global political structures, economic globalization, global environmental degradation, and the national and trans-national resistances to globalization. This course will provide a framework for studying all of these.
13978 IN 350 05 Modern Japan TR 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Kevin C. Murphy
This course is a survey of modern Vietnamese history with special emphasis on the American War, waged between 1965 and 1973. It examines the background to that conflict, including the French occupation of Vietnam, the division of the country into north and south, the civil war, the rise of the NLF, the war with the U.S., the period of Doi Moi (restructuring) after the war, and contemporary developments. This course emphasizes the Vietnamese point of view. Fulfills MPSL Global Studies requirement.
13979 IN 350 06 Vietnam & American War W 02:00 pm-04:45 pm
Kevin C. Murphy
A survey of the development of modern Japan from the Tokugawa period to the present. The first half is a fairly rapid survey of survey of Japanese development from 1600 to 1945, with emphasis on politics and culture in the Tokugawa period (1603-1868), the coming of the west, state building and culture in the Meiji period (1868-1912), the 1920s, the rise of militarism, and the Pacific War. The second half deals with the Japanese economic miracle after 1945 and its attendant economic, social and cultural consequences.
13980 IN 350 07 Modern China TR 09:30 am-10:45 am
William G. Grieve
This course exposes students to a culture that is ten times older than their own and vastly different in its approach to religion, philosophy, ethics, society, and economics. It deals with a nation rich with intellectual and scientific thought. Main topics examined include the transformation of China from Manchu (foreign) control through revolutions, western encroachment, warlords, and internal upheaval to communism and then to government controlled capitalism. The Chinese are one-fifth of mankind, and the course significantly increases students’ understanding of the significant role China will play as a primary world force in the 21st century.
13981 IN 350 08 Islamic World TR 09:30 am-10:45 am
13982 IN 350 09 Islamic World TR 12:30 pm-01:45 pm
Roger D. Monroe
Television coverage of terrorist bombings, war, and sectarian violence prompts the question: what are the origins of the continuing crisis in the Middle East? The course examines the intersection between Islam and politics, specifically arguments within the Islamic world over the nature of the Islamic faith. Should Islam evolve as a religion with modernist trends or does the very nature of reform threaten the integrity of the faith? The struggle, often violent, between those conflicting perspectives is the main theme of our lectures and discussions.
13983 IN 350 10 Genocide in Film MWF 01:00 pm-01:50 pm
Timothy M. Kovalcik
This course is an exercise in critical thought, a study of how history is shaped by culture and memory. The content of this study is the genocide of the twentieth century including the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Uganda, Cambodia, Rwanda and the Serb-Croat conflict. These genocides are examined through their representation in film and documentaries. The examination of these cultural artifacts will raise critical questions surrounding the issue of humanity’s brutality, the modern emergence of genocide and common apathy in relation to mass murder.
13984 IN 350 11 Jesus of Hist/Christ of Faith MWF 12:00 pm-12:50 pm
13985 IN 350 12 Jesus of Hist/Christ of Faith MWF 02:00 pm-02:50 pm
William R. Keagle
Who is Jesus? What can we say about the historical Jesus who walked the earth? What can we say about the Jesus of Faith - the Christ? The course will deal with the tension between these two, the convergences and divergences, in the different historical/ culture settings since the first century. The course should enable students to decide for themselves the answer to the question, “Who is Jesus for me?”
13986 IN 350 13 Comparative Religions TR 09:30 am-10:45 am
Mary Jessup
This course will provide an introduction to the historical and philosophical foundations of the major living religions of the world: Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shinto, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Bahai. Selected reading from source material will supplement the reading from a primary textbook. Historical and cultural factors, the lives of the founders, and the basic teachings of each religion will be explored. An attempt will be made to identify the current status of each tradition.
13992 IN 350 14 Global Issues TR 02:00 pm-03:15 pm
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