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Approved Courses

Course Term (Y=Summer Session 1, Z=Session 2):  

Winter Quarter (W22)

Dept/Description Course No., Title  Instructor
AFAM (W22)152  AFRICAN AMER POLTCSPHOENIX, D.
AFAM (W22)128  AFRICAN FEMINISMSWILLOUGHBY-HER, T.
HISTORY (W22)154  AMER URBAN HISTHIGHSMITH, A.

This class explores the history of urban and metropolitan development in the United States, particularly during the twentieth century. The course focuses carefully (though not exclusively) on the ways in which public policies have reshaped the built and lived landscapes of metropolitan America while probing the complex, often hostile relationships among residents of cities, suburbs, and rural areas. Over the past three-quarters of a century, the United States has experienced a major shift from cities and the countryside to suburbs—a mass migration of government resources, jobs, capital, housing, people, and political power as significant as any other in American history. Together, these shifts have transformed the United States into a predominantly suburban nation. Our primary task in this course is to understand the causes and consequences of these developments. Because the fates of cities and suburbs are deeply intertwined, this course addresses urban history, policies, and politics from a metropolitan spatial perspective. Moreover, it seeks to explain and contextualize the impact of suburbanization on both central cities and rural hinterlands. How have public policies at the federal, state, and local levels contributed to suburban migrations and the deindustrialization of central cities? How have race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality evolved within and shaped the development of metropolitan regions? Given the growing diversity of American suburbs, is it useful to think of cities and suburbs as fundamentally different? How can ordinary people and policy makers create better tools to ameliorate sprawl, racial and class segregation, and the so-called urban crisis? These are only a few of the central questions that this course addresses.
Days: TU TH  11:00-12:20 PM

AFAM (W22)157  CRITICAL RACE THRYMURILLO, J.
PHILOS (W22)124  FEM EPISTEMOLOGYBONCOMPAGNI, A.

Feminist epistemologies study knowledge from a feminist perspective, emphasizing the relevance of gender and of the knower’s social situatedness in shaping knowledge practices. Among the themes investigated in this perspective are the relationship between knowledge and power, the role of  embodied experience in knowledge, the place of values in epistemology, and feminist views on epistemic oppression and injustice. This course examines some historical influences and key figures of this approach such as, among others, Wollstonecraft and de Beauvoir. Topics include the relationship between feminist epistemologies and Marxism, phenomenology, pragmatism, philosophy of science, postmodernism, and postcolonial studies.

Days: TU TH  11:00-12:20 PM

PHILOS (W22)102W  INTRO TO KNOWLEDGECOLIVA, A.

***This online course will introduce students to skepticism and to its connections with epistemic relativism.

In particular, we will look at Descartes' and Hume's formulations of relativism and to some prominent anti-skeptical strategies, put forward by contemporary philosophers like Moore, Wittgenstein, Putnam, Strawson, McDowell, and DeRose. We will also look at varieties of epistemic relativism with special reference to Wittgenstein and Rorty.

Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Overlaps with PHILOS 102, LPS 102.

(Ib)

Days: WE FR  09:30-10:50 AM

ENGLISH (W22)100  INTRO TO LIT THEORYMCCLANAHAN, A.

If this thing we call “Theory” is to have not just an afterlife but a life—to continue to be urgent, illuminating, necessary—it will have to be in constant critical conversation with the present. For this class, then, each week we’ll read an excerpt from a “classic” theory text (Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, Marx, Fanon, Judith Butler, Foucault, Jose Munoz, Wendy Brown) alongside a more recent intervention written in a accessible style, from pop culture criticism to personal essays. In your own writing for the course, you’ll learn not just to cite theory but also to write it, and will produce a theoretical essay of your own modeled after one we’ve read. Succeeding in this class will require patience with demanding texts and an abiding curiosity about how to describe and reimagine the world around you.
Days: TU TH  03:30-04:50 PM

LIT JRN (W22)103  LEGAL NARRATIVESGOFFARD, C.

Legal Narratives is a class that explores how journalists mine the legal system, from murder trials to the civil system, for material with which to build stories. Readings will include a wide variety of newspaper and magazine stories which rely on courtroom access and/or legal documents, such as Anne Hull’s series “Metal to Bone” in the St. Petersburg Times and Pamela Colloff’s work in Texas Monthly. We will also read the book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin. We will explore the choices that writers make in building their narratives, and how they reflect the writers’ preoccupations with larger themes, such as the nature of justice, its elusiveness, and the endless gray areas with which the law grapples. The cases under scrutiny often become windows into social and psychological questions, and we will explore how legal narratives—a subset of the “true crime” genre—reflect the zeitgeist.
Days: Tu Th  05:00-06:20 PM

HISTORY (W22)114  LIBERTY EQUAL FRAJEAN-LOUIS, F.

The curriculum for "Liberté Egalité, Fraternité et Négritude" is designed for students of the African Diaspora as well as students studying French or European history. The course will begin with French constructions of race from the wars against the Moors of Spain, into the enslavement of Africans on the plantations of the Caribbean beginning in the 17th century, through the colonization of Africa in the 19th century, into the interwar period of the twentieth century that witnessed the reunion of the Afro-descended people in the metropole, into Négritude and decolonization, and into Créolité and current realities.
Days: MO WE  11:00-11:50 AM

PHILOS (W22)121A  MED EPISTEMOLOGYBERNECKER, S.

This course provides an overview of the exciting field of medical epistemology. Based on case-studies drawn from contemporary medical practice, the course will be themed around the following key topics: Disease classification. Hierarchies of evidence in evidence based medicine. The role of trust in the medical context. Expert disagreement in the medical context. Vaccine skepticism. Informed consent. Testimonial and hermeneutical injustice in the medical context. Alternative medicines. Diagnostics and epistemic value. Placebo effect.

Days: TH  01:00-03:50 PM

ASIANAM (W22)144  POLITICS OF PROTESTKIM, C.
AFAM (W22)159  PRISONS AND PUB EDSOJOYNER, D.
REL STD (W22)115  RELIGION & POLITICSLYNCH, C.

Emphasis/Category: Thematic Approaches to Religion (Category 3)

Examines the relationship between religion and world politics historically and today, focusing on connections with peace/war, democracy, human rights, secularism(s), and globalization. Covers major debates, scholarship, concepts, and theories through class exercises, exams, and essays.

Prerequisite: POL SCI 41A or INTL ST 11 or INTL ST 12 or REL STD 5A or REL STD 5B or REL STD 5C
Days: TU TH  12:30-01:50 PM