Directed research or writing for qualified students.

Directed research or writing for qualified students.

This interdisciplinary course, designed for students in both Political Science and History, will concentrate on approaches to the study of the history of U.S. public policy aimed at addressing social and political inequalities. We will explore the methods, findings, and controversies in research about public policy in American politics, history, and political science from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives and approaches.

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Directed reading, research or writing for qualified students.

Directed reading, research or writing for qualified students.

Directed reading, research or writing for qualified students.

In the 1950s and 1960s, as civil rights activists challenged Jim Crow, a system that was as much gendered as it was raced, they wrestled with historic assumptions about race and gender in American society. This course explores this and seeks to answer several major questions: What was the "gendered geography of Jim Crow?" How did race and gender shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement? What was the interplay between race, gender, and sexuality in this struggle? How did the mid-twentieth century Black Freedom Movement reinforce and challenge traditional notions of womanhood and manhood?

This course offers an in-depth study of the Classical Arabic textual tradition, with a philological and historical approach. Students will gain familiarity with various important genres of Classical Arabic, from Religious texts, to Historiographical and Philosophical, and will learn to analyze the text in both grammatical and semantic terms to gain a deeper understanding of the text and the tradition. Open to advanced graduate students with a solid background in Arabic.

In this class, students will cover the structure of various types of historical writing, the sorts of research that support a convincing argument, the audiences writing must attract, and the common writing errors that weaken prose. During the semester, students will practice the craft of writing as they spend time with successful writers, develop their own writing projects, and comment on the projects of classmates.