Landscapes guide their use and reveal their past. This landscape design studio asks students to consider the landscape as a location of evolving cultural and ecological patterns, processes and histories. Students work through a series of site-specific projects that engage with the narrative potential of landscape and critically consider the environment as socially and culturally constructed. A variety of media are used in the design process including drawing, model-making, collage and photography. Priority given to LSS minors and ARCH majors. Enrollment limited to 14.

Topics course.: This seminar will introduce students to the history and study of women and gender in Latin American history and to the historian’s craft. We will read books and articles that will allow us to trace change over time from before the European conquest of the Americas to the recent past, the changing ways that Latin Americanist historians have approached women and gender history, and how these historical and historiographical dynamics played out in different regions of Latin America. Students will write micro histories based on primary research.

Topics course.: A look at how American political thinkers and activists justified a war for independence, puzzled through the construction of a new political order, thought about creating a democratic nation state and argued over issues such as individual rights, the role of political parties and the capabilities of citizens for self-government. We look at specific debates between 1776 and 1800 and also an overview of the most important contributors: Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton and John Adams. Prerequisite: Some previous course on American government or permission of the instructor.

A study of major ideas and theories of justice and rights since World War II. Beginning with the work of John Rawls and his critics, we move to examine the debates raised by Rawls in the works of other authors who take seriously his idea of building a just society for all. Special attention is paid to the politics of inclusion for groups based on race, gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity as their claims for rights/justice/inclusion present challenges to our rhetorical commitment to build a just and fair society for all.

Same as CLT 330. The capstone seminar brings together a cohort of concentrators to discuss the final translation project that each student undertakes with the guidance of their adviser in the concentration and to situate the project within the framework of larger questions that the work of translation elicits. The seminar readings focus on renowned practitioners’ reflections on the difficulties and complexities of translating, the obstacles, discoveries and solutions that the translator encounters.

Same as TSX 330. The capstone seminar brings together a cohort of concentrators to discuss the final translation project that each student undertakes with the guidance of their adviser in the concentration and to situate the project within the framework of larger questions that the work of translation elicits. The seminar readings focus on renowned practitioners’ reflections on the difficulties and complexities of translating, the obstacles, discoveries and solutions that the translator encounters.

In this course we ask and answer the following questions: Just what is “United States foreign policy”? By what processes does the United States define its interests in the global arena? What instruments does the U.S. possess to further those interests? Finally, what specific foreign policy questions are generating debate today? Prerequisite: 241 or permission of the instructor.

This course explores how women’s movements emerge and sustain themselves in different global contexts with a special focus on women’s movements in the Middle East. Beginning with a brief overview of the status of women globally, the class then shifts to an investigation of how the women’s movement evolved in the U.S. and ends with a comparison of the political strategies of secular and Islamic feminists in modern-day Egypt. The course covers issues affecting women’s lives that range from securing the vote, gaining recognition as full persons and gaining reproductive rights.

This survey course examines the ever-changing political and economic landscape of the African continent. The course aims to provide students with an understanding of the unique historical, economic and social variables that shape modern African politics, and introduces students to various theoretical and analytical approaches to the study of Africa’s political development. Central themes include the ongoing processes of nation-building and democratization, the constitutional question, the international relations of Africa, issues of peace and security, and Africa’s political economy.