AAAS 101 – 01/VISUALST104A/ WOMENST110/ ARTHIST148
TuTh 11:40AM – 12:55PM, Sanford 04
Instructors: Lubiano, Brody
Theories and issues of representation and practice, with specific attention to culture, nation, and gender in contemporary and historic black films and filmmakers of Africa and the Diaspora.
AAAS 112S – 01/ DOCST112S/ HISTORY115E
W 11:40AM – 2:10PM, Bridges House 113
Instructor: Tyson
Documentary writing course focusing on race and storytelling in the South, using fiction, autobiography, and traditional history books. Producing narratives using documentary research, interviews, and personal memories. Focus on twentieth-century racial politics.
Days & Times: TuTh 11:40AM – 12:55PM, Freidl 107
Instructor: Thorne
The impact of colonial expansion on European economic development, political culture, and popular identity from the “age of discovery” through the present. Particular attention to the ethical implications of colonialism’s influence on Western “civilization.”
Days & Times: TuTh 1:15PM – 2:30PM, Carr Building 125
Instructor: Shapiro
Overview of South African history from the mining revolution of the 1860s and 70s through the official demise of apartheid in 1994, along with a brief consideration of the challenges facing democratic South Africa. Close attention to the rise and fall of apartheid.
Days & Times: TuTh 10:05AM – 11:20AM, Perkins 2-071
Instructor: Staff
Human variation and the historical development of concepts of race; science and scientific racism; folk-concepts of race; and the political and economic causes of racism; ethics of racism.
Days & Times: TuTh 1:15PM – 2:30PM, Freidl 107
Instructor: Gavins
African, European, and Indian interactions; the black experience of slavery and racism; the evolution of Afro-American culture, resistance, and the general emancipation; ethical concepts and issues on human justice in the course of racial oppression and freedom struggle.
AAAS 159S – 03/ GENOME158S
Days & Times: MW 11:40AM – 12:55PM, L.S.R.C. B301
Instructor: Royal
Integrated analysis of historical and contemporary aspects of `race and genetics/genomics.’ Focus on relevant applications in science, medicine, and society; develop skills required for scientific, sociopolitical, cultural, psychosocial, and ethical evaluation of issues. Topics include: introduction to population genetics/genetic variation; concepts and definitions of race; overview of bioethics; social and political history of race; genomics and health disparities; race, ancestry, and medical practice; genealogy, genetic ancestry, and identity; public perceptions of race and genetics/genomics.
AAAS 178 – 01/ CULANTH175/HISTORY176B
Days & Times: TBA, TBA
Instructor: Baker
Ideas about race, culture, and identity still shape strategies for African American empowerment and securing the ideals of democracy in the United States. ”Classic” texts from each decade of the twentieth century. Explore the location of the authors’ work within its historical and political contexts. Attention given to the texture of (debates within) the African American
intellectual community.
AMES 138 – 01/ LIT162G/ ICS122C/ CULANTH142A/ WOMENST138/ SXL138
Days & Times:
TuTh 2:50PM – 4:05PM, White Lecture 107
W 7:15PM – 9:45PM, Carr Building 103
Instructor: Rojas
Dialectic of prostitution as lived experience, and as socio-cultural metaphor. Focus on literary and cinematic texts, together with relevant theoretical works. The figure of the prostitute will be used to interrogate assumptions about gender identity, commodity value, and national discourse. Transnational traffic in women will provide context for examination of discourses of national identity in China and beyond, together with the fissures at the heart of those same discourses.BCS 125 – 001
Days & Times: MW 2:30PM – 3:45PM, Westbrook 0012
Instructor: Jennings
This course seeks to establish a theological paradigm that addresses issues of racial identity and racism. This will be done centrally by examining the formation of growth of the modern racial world. Central to this examination will be the formation of black Christian existence inside the rise of modern white Christianity.
BCS 128 – 01
Days & Times: Th 2:30PM – 5:00PM, Westbrook 0016
Instructor: Lischer
An examination of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., his theology, and his continuing influence on the church’s ministry.
BIOLOGY 194FCS – 01
Days & Times: MW 2:50PM – 4:05PM, CIEMAS 2240
Instructor: Willard
Implications of Human Genome Project for understanding biology of molecules, cells, organs, organisms and populations. Topics include: genome and evolution, infectious disease, sex, aging, behavior, impact on the practice of medicine and society’s
perception of health and disease. Examination of case studies based on primary scientific literature. Open only to students in the Focus Program. Prerequisite: BIO 19 or the equivalent.
CULANTH 104 – 01/ ICS101/ VISUALST110A
Days & Times: TuTh 2:50PM – 4:05PM, Friedl Bdg 107
Instructor: Allison, Jackson, or Litzinger
The study of feature films and documentaries on issues of colonialism, imperialism, war and peace, and cultural interaction. An introduction to critical film theory and film production in non-Western countries.
CULANTH191P – 01/ ICS101H
Days & Times: TBA, TBA
Instructor: Litzinger
The politics and process of globalization in light of the responses, ideologies, and practices of the anti-globalization movement. Focus on the interrelationship between the analysis of globalization and policy formulation on such topics as
social justice, labor, migration, poverty, natural resource management, and citizenship. Case studies from the United States, Latin America, South and East Asia, Africa, and Europe.
CULANTH 279S – 01
Days & Times: TBA TBA
Instructor: Baker
The paradox of racial inequality in societies that articulate principles of equality, democratic freedom, and justice for all.
Days & Times: M 8:30AM – 11:20AM, Social Sciences 327
Instructor: Kuran
Introduction to political history of Middle East from the advent of Islam to modern era. Examine institutions responsible for characteristics of political development in the region; consider selected cases relating to mechanisms of political development, including democratization; investigate religion’s role in shaping the region’s political trajectory; identify social forces, especially economic, driving contemporary rediscovery and reinterpretation of Islam’s political organization and requirements, by both Islamists and secular political actors.
ECON 185 – 01/ GLBLHLTH185
Days & Times: TuTh 8:30AM – 9:45AM, Social Sciences 111
Instructor: Thomas
Application of economic methods to examine key emerging issues in global health, with focus on health disparities. Emphasis on using economic models to better understand global health challenges and using econometric methods to empirically test hypotheses that seek to explain global health disparities. Discuss measurement of health and data quality. Explores individual, family and society-level determinants of health; impact of health on economic and social prosperity; demand and supply of health care. Discuss policy implications in each case.
Prerequisites: Economics 105D and 139D; or Public Policy 128D and Statistics 103 or 114; or consent of the instructor.
ENVIRON 238 – 01/ GLBLHLTH238/ PUBPOL237
Days & Times: TuTh 11:40AM – 12:55PM, L.S.R.C. A156
Instructor: Pattanayak
Social science perspective on global environmental health. Students will learn to identify primary environmental causes of high burden diseases such as malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory infections; describe how to measure socio-economic impacts of global environmental health diseases; discuss key policies to control global environmental health problems based on private prevention and therapeutic behaviors; and propose frameworks to empirically monitor and evaluate global environmental health policies. A sub-module will focus on climate change and water-borne diseases. Prerequisites: Introductory course in statistics.
GLHLTH 150 – 01/ PUBPOL154
Days & Times: MW 8:30AM – 9:45AM, Sanford 04
Th 4:25PM – 5:40PM, Sanford 04
Instructor: Whetten
Introduction to multidisciplinary theories and techniques for assessing and addressing global, infectious, chronic, and behavioral health problems. Global health issues addressed from perspectives such as: epidemiology, biology, engineering, environment, business, human rights, nursing, psychology, law, public policy, and economics.
Origins, evolution, and consequences. Attention to economic, social, and geographical questions, as well as military, political, and moral issues.
Days & Times: MWF 3:05PM – 3:55PM, Trent 040
The social, economic, and cultural aspects of the Civil War’s origins and outcomes as well as the resulting military, political, and legal conflicts. Focus on the contested and changing meanings of “freedom” in all sections of the country.
Days & Times: MF 11:40AM – 12:55PM, Carr Building 240
The upheavals of recent United States history, including the New Deal, World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, and other movements for social change, the Vietnam War, the development of a global economy, the political realignments of the 1980s, and the nation’s new role on the world stage.
HISTORY 114A – 01/ RUSSIAN150A
Days & Times: WF 11:40AM – 12:55PM, Biddle 101
Instructor: Krylova
History of the fall of the Soviet Union as interplay between Russia’s economic legacy, a sequence of economic and political decisions undertaken by Gorbachev’s government in the 1980s, and international forces that influenced Russia’s decision to reform; includes exploration of principles and aspirations that informed Soviet socialist economy in theory and practice; traces the restructuring of Soviet economic system into its present-day capitalism a la Russe.
DOCST 190S.04/ AAAS 199S-01/CULANTH180S
Days & Times: Tu 2:50-5:20, CDS Bridges Room 001
Instructor: Barbara Lau
Documentary fieldwork course exploring the legacy of civil and human rights activism in Durham and the American South through the life and work of noted historian, lawyer, poet, activist and priest Pauli Murray. Students will utilize scholarship, primary source archival materials and contemporary documentary projects to set a context for their fieldwork in Durham. Working with the instructor and local social change leadership engaged in work related to the Pauli Murray community history and reconciliation project at the Duke Human Rights Center students will deepen fieldwork skills – photography, writing, audio or filmmaking – and develop documentary projects in collaboration with culturally diverse community groups. Requires fieldtrips to communities in Durham.
Days & Times: W and F, 1:15-2:30 pm, Franklin 23-/232
Instructor: Robin Kirk
Students will begin with the basic texts that human rights activists use to ground and coordinate their efforts to promote human rights. We will examine the histories and contexts of these documents, and how early proponents of human rights used them, successfully and unsuccessfully. Continuing the focus on how activists made practical use of the law, politics, the media, events and public opinion, we will look at examples from a variety of periods, disciplines and cultures. In the first half of the course, we will focus on case examples drawn from the formation of the modern human rights movement, including Europe’s attitude toward Latin America’s indigenous populations, the British-based campaign to end slavery, the impact on human rights of the Holocaust, the death penalty, the development of human rights in the context of the American civil rights movement and the effect on human rights of the Cold War and its end. During the second half of the course, we will examine contemporary and future human rights issues, including women’s rights, the challenges facing refugees and the internally displaced, applying human rights law to new weapons and technology, the laws of war in a changing world, humanitarian interventions, truth commissions and human welfare issues, among other things. Most weeks, we will spend some time discussing a “person of the week,” an individual who has worked on or is working on human rights issues. In this way, we will explore how histories, theories and the tools available to activists have been or are being put into play to further human rights protection. These individuals may be lawyers, writers, poets or ne’er-do-wells, yet they are joined by a passion to ensure that the rights of their fellow humans are respected. We also have several guests who will be visiting class and outside events that students are required to attend. There is a 20-hour per semester service-learning component that is required. Students will intern at selected groups doing human rights-related work in the Triangle.
AAAS 112S
CULANTH 155
Instructor: Stein
Introduction to Israeli and Palestinian culture, politics, and society and the central historical events of the Israel/Palestinian conflict. From early Zionist settlement in Palestine in the late nineteenth century and concluding with the ‘Peace Process’ of the 1990s, the second Palestinian uprising (Intifada), and the Israeli military reoccupation of the Palestinian territories. Ethics of both the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian resistance struggles against occupation. Instructor: Stein
GENOME 48
Instructor: Haga and Hill
Introduction to the foundation of genomic sciences with an emphasis on recent advances and their social, ethical and policy implications. Foundational topics including DNA, proteins, genome organization, gene expression, and genetic variation will be interwoven with contemporary issues emanating from the genome revolution such as pharmacogenetics, genetic discrimination, genomics of race, genetically modified crops, and genomic testing. Genomic sciences and policy science applied to present and future societal, and particularly ethical, concerns related to genomics. Intended for non-Biology majors. Not open to students who have taken Biology 118.
GENOME 158S
Instructor: Royal
Integrated analysis of historical and contemporary aspects of `race and genetics/genomics¿. Focus on relevant applications in science, medicine, and society; develop skills required for scientific, sociopolitical, cultural, psychosocial, and ethical evaluation of issues. Topics include: introduction to population genetics/genetic variation; concepts and definitions of race; overview of bioethics; social and political history of race; genomics and health disparities; race, ancestry, and medical practice; genealogy, genetic ancestry, and identity; public perceptions of race and genetics/genomics.
GLHLTH 112
Instructor: Blankenship
Examines interconnections among gender, poverty, and health. Adopts global perspective with focus on US and resource poor countries. Discusses frameworks for understanding health as well as in depth case studies of particular health areas. Major focus on HIV/AIDS.
GLHLTH 151
Instructors: Broverman, Buchanan, and Whetten
marginalized/stigmatized populations, using theoretical frameworks and case studies. Investigations of ethical choices made by multinational, national and local policymakers, clinicians, and researchers and their impact on individuals, families and communities. Emphasis on working with community partners in developing needs assessment programs. Topics include: differential standards of care; protection of human subjects; access to essential medicines; genetic information and confidentiality; pharmaceutical development; health information technology; placebo controlled trials; best outcomes vs. distributive justice.
GLHLTH 211S
Instructor: Walmer
Issues related to health and healing in underserved populations examined through an integrated lens of medicine, health, and theology. Students from Medicine, Nursing, Divinity, undergraduate, etc. critically examine the process of providing culturally relevant assistance to underserved communities. Issues of moral discernment inherent to the study of health of both individuals and communities. Examination of societal and ethical issues relevant to cultural dimensions of healing. Students spend one week in Haiti.
GLHLTH 238
Instructor: Pattanayak
Social science perspective on global environmental health. Students will learn to identify primary environmental causes of high burden diseases such as malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory infections; describe how to measure socio-economic impacts of global environmental health diseases; discuss key policies to control global environmental health problems based on private prevention and therapeutic behaviors; and propose frameworks to empirically monitor and evaluate global environmental health policies. A sub-module will focus on climate change and water-borne diseases. Prerequisites: Introductory course in statistics.
Instructor: Gheith
Readings from various sources, such as recently published diaries and literary works; film and other critical and historical material. The ‘era of the great terror’ (1934-39) seen through cultural production, its reception through everyday life narratives and contemporary ideology critique. Taught in English.
HISTORY 125D
Instructor: Reddy
The period’s intellectual trends (the rise of modern science, modern social and political theory, philosophy, and individualism) studied in their original context. Subjects examined include modes of production; political authority; empire; literature, art, and music; fashion and leisure; news, gossip, and scandal; outbreak of revolution.
Major developments in Jewish history from the early modern period to today. The Kehillah, the Spanish-Jewish Diaspora, the rise of Polish Jewry, the Safed Kabbalah, Sabbatianism, the emergence of the Chassidut, the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment), Emancipation and the nation state, Reform Judaism, economic modernization, racial antisemitism, Zionism, the Holocaust, the State of Israel, flourishing Jewish pluralism in the United States, the future: nation and Diaspora?
Instructor: Koonz
The impact of World War I on German morale, the emergence of an exciting avant garde culture in Berlin, the establishment of a multiparty parliamentary government, women’s emancipation, and economic crisis in the hyperinflation of 1922 and the Great Depression. Against this progressive background, Hitler’s mobilization of masses of followers, seizure of power, and establishment of the first racial society. The killing fields and concentration camps on the Eastern Front.
HISTORY 166A
Instructor: Korstad
Social movements in the South from Reconstruction to the present. Includes Populism, Women’s Suffrage, the Interracial Movement, labor, civil rights, and post-1960s conservatism. Attention to public policy positions espoused by social movement organizations and activists. Lecture/discussion. Weekly writing assignments.
HISTORY 188A
Instructor: Koonz
Focus on four cases in which soldiers have launched murderous attacks against civilians: Turks against Armenians, Nazis against Jews and other racial enemies, Khmer Rouge against their Cambodian enemies, and “ethnic cleansing” in Yugoslavia. Examines responsibility of both perpetrators and bystanders.
HISTORY 228S
Instructor: Chafe
Focus on the emergence of the women’s movement and the civil rights movement, both concerned with issues of equality and justice, in the United States during the post-New Deal period.
ICS 103A
Instructor: Staff
An examination of ethnic conflict and discrimination in the United States, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Theories of ethnic identify formation, ethnic conflict, the role of ethnicity in politics, and the economics of discrimination. How ethnic conflict is likely to change in the next few decades. The impact of a freer trade environment and the increasing integration of the world economy on ethnic conflict. The effectiveness of international institutions like the United Nations and NATO in preventing the reoccurrence of tragedies like Rwanda.
JEWISHST 160S
Instructor: Donahue
Literary, cinematic, and cultural representations of the Holocaust in German-speaking countries. Core issues of the Holocaust haunting subsequent cultural and national politics and cultural works: fanatical nationalism, racisms, genocide, technological efficiency, extreme and arbitrary suffering, the quality of German resistance, contested postwar interpretations, globalization of Holocaust memories.
JEWISHST 118 – 01/ RELIGION 118
Days & Times: WF 11:40AM – 12:55PM, Gray 220
Instructor: Lieber
Survey of Jewish ethics from antiquity to modern times, with focus on both general methods and specific case studies. How different traditional Jewish sources and communities respond to ethical challenges such as the death penalty, abortion, cloning, the environment, and economic justice, especially in the U.S. Responses from a variety of Jewish perspectives (Reform, Orthodox, and Conservative.)
JEWISHST 132 / AMES/ JEWISHST 132-01/ LIT 163Q-01
Days & Times: TuTh 2:50PM – 4:05PM, Franklin Center 230/232
Instructor: Cooke and Ginsburg
A cultural study of the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and failure of Israeli and Palestinian doves to transform their respective communities and to change conditions on the ground. Focus on self-criticism as manifested in Israeli and Palestinian literature and cinema and on its limits.
JEWISHST 146 – 01/ HISTORY 134/ MEDREN 134
Days & Times: MF 1:15PM – 2:30PM, TBA
Instructor: Shatzmiller
The period between the year A.D. 1000 and A.D. 1500. Jewish activity in western Europe; the church’s attitude toward the Jews; their monetary activity and the history of their families and their private lives.
JEWISHST 147 – 01/ HISTORY 134C
Days & Times: WF 11:40AM – 12:55PM, TBA
Instructor: Hacohen
Major developments in Jewish history from the early modern period to today. The Kehillah, the Spanish-Jewish Diaspora, the rise of Polish Jewry, the Safed Kabbalah, Sabbatianism, the emergence of the Chassidut, the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment), Emancipation and the nation state, Reform Judaism, economic modernization, racial antisemitism, Zionism, the Holocaust, the State of Israel, flourishing Jewish pluralism in the United States, the future: nation and Diaspora?
PHIL 95FCS – 01
Days & Times: TuTh 2:50PM – 4:05PM, West Duke 108A
Instructor: Buchanan
Exploration of controversial applications of genome science-based technologies to human beings, focusing on debate about the use of such technologies to enhance human capacities and characteristics. Overview of current and anticipated prospects for biomedical enhancement of humans, eugenics movements of late 19th to mid-20th centuries, critical examination of chief arguments in favor of and against `the enhancement project¿, critical exploration of policy options for controlling development and employment of enhancement biotechnologies.
PHIL 162 – 01/ POLISCI162/ PUBPOL162
Days & Times: TuTh 1:15PM – 2:30PM, Sanford 04
Instructor: Staff
The nature and value of human rights; examining some major debates over their status and meaning and assessing the role which the idea of human rights has played in changing lives, practices, and institutions. Questions considered include: whether commitments to human rights depend on a belief in moral truth; whether the idea of universal human rights makes sense in a culturally diverse world; and what forms of social action are most likely to achieve respect for human rights.
POLSCI 85KFCS – 01
Days & Times: M 4:25PM – 6:55PM, Social Sciences 107
Instructor: Hull
The theoretical meanings and practical consequences of historical views of rights; their philosophical resuppositions in relation to a view of human nature and of reason. Open only to students in the Focus Program. Instructor consent required.
PUBPOL 111 – 01/ HLTHPOL111
Days & Times: TuTh 2:50PM – 4:05PM, W 4:40PM – 5:30PM, Sanford 05
Instructor: Taylor
Overview of the key health policy issues in the United States. Topics include: (1) sources of morbidity and mortality; (2) access to health care; (3) financing of health care including an overview of how health insurance works, Medicare and Medicaid and why there are uninsured persons and to what effect; (4) quality of health care; (5) the role of innovation in both treating disease and influencing costs; (6) mental health, including why drug and alcohol treatment is generally considered to be a mental health service; (7) the role of non-profit versus for-profit ownership of health care facilities and to what effect; (8) long term care; and (9) the impact of social phenomenon such as income inequality, social class and culture on health care.
PUBPOL 112 – 01/ DOCST167/ CULANTH168
Days & Times: Th 2:50PM – 5:20PM, Bridges House 007
Instructor: Thompson
Explores the food system through fieldwork, study, and guest lectures that include farmers, nutritionists, sustainable agriculture advocates, rural organizers, and farmworker activists. Examines how food is produced, seeks to identify and understand its workers and working conditions in fields and factories, and, using documentary research conducted in the field and other means, unpacks the major current issues in the food justice arena globally and locally. Fieldwork required, but no advanced technological experience necessary. At least one group field trip, perhaps to a local farm or farmers market, required.
PUBPOL 167S – 01/ ENVIRON152/ POLISCI152
Days & Times: TuTh 2:50PM – 4:05PM, Perkins 2-088
Instructor: Weinthal
Environmental and natural resources as a source of conflict and/or peacebuilding between and within nations and states. Analysis of the role of the environment in the conflict cycle and international security. Topics include refugees, climate change, water, and infectious disease. Particular focus on post-conflict and rebuilding in war-torn societies. Examination of the role of international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and emerging standards for environmental management. Examples drawn from conflicts such as Rwanda, Israel/Palestine, Nepal, Sierra Leone and others.
PUBPOL 229S – 01/ AAAS229
Days & Times: W 10:05AM – 12:35PM, Rubenstein Hall 151
Instructor: James
Impact of poverty and socioeconomic inequality on the health of individuals and populations. Attention given to both United States and non-United States populations. Topics include the conceptualization and measurement of poverty and socioeconomic inequality; socioeconomic gradients in health; globalization and health; socioeconomic deprivation across the life-course and health in adulthood; and public policy responses in the United States and elsewhere to growing health inequities in the age of globalization. Prerequisite: An introductory course in statistics. Seniors and graduate students only.
Days & Times: TuTh 10:05AM – 11:20AM, Gray 319
Instructor: Moosa
Premodern judicial arrangements and the contestations surrounding their modern incarnations. Topics include bioethics, gender and family law, war and peace, environmental issues, and political ethics.
Days & Times: MW 2:50PM – 4:05PM, Soc Psy 130
Instructor: George and Leary
Effects of social interaction and social processes on a wide range of individual attitudes and behaviors (for example, conformity, leadership, prejudice, aggression, altruism). Emphasis on the logic, reasoning, research designs, and methods by which knowledge is generated. Equal attention to experimental and non-experimental research.
Formerly Psychology 116. Prerequisite: Psychology 11 highly recommended.
Days & Times: Tu 4:25PM – 6:55PM, Soc Psy 331
Instructor: Hovsepian
Construction of gender influences, the incorporation of women into the global workforce, relocation of production under globalization influence, interconnections between work and gender.
WOMENST 109S – 01/ SXL115S
Days & Times: TuTh 1:15PM – 2:30PM, Carr Building 103
Instructor: Staff
Topics include homosexuality and theory, history, law, religion, education, the arts and literature, the military, and the health sciences.
Days & Times: Tu 2:50PM – 5:20PM, White Lecture 201
Instructor: Staff
Comprehensive introduction to feminist theoretical conceptions of the social, political, economic, and the human. Explores the rise of gender based discourses and social movements in the context of broader considerations of modernity, democracy, and liberal humanism and the value of rights discourse for feminist agendas. Includes a comparative dimension that emphasizes cross cultural and historical analysis.