Seeking to extend our analysis to immigration’s impact on the host population, we will conclude the course by discussing several social psychological issues, such as intergroup relations, discrimination, and modes of adaptation. This course will examine the historical contexts of both movements, focusing on the experiences of black women as activists and as targets of racial, gendered, and state violence. This course will examine the dynamics of revolution and counterrevolution in which contemporary Latin America emerged; study the origins of neoliberalism in Latin America and its economic and political repercussion; delve in the contradictions of the democratic transitions and its legacies; and explore the new rural, labor, feminist, and indigenous movements that challenged both neoliberalism and democracy. Over centuries, however, the ancient Greeks experienced a movement in the opposite direction: They began to prioritize reality, condemn tyranny, and experiment with broader forms of political participation. We will analyze how our preferences and selections are maintained through the contexts of our interactions. In the middle of the 20th century, only 16 percent of Europeans lived in cities. Students will not only be introduced to European history but also to the historian’s craft. Moreover, students should have some background in American political history and be open to hearing many ideological points of view. Discussions will range from influential works and innovations of mid-20th-century theatre artists like Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett, political theatre groups like The Living Theatre and El Teatro Campo of the 1960s, agitprop theatre events of the Vietnam War and Civil Rights eras, and ACT Up in the 1980s AIDS Crisis to the form-bending techniques of contemporary theatre makers and artists like Anna Deavere Smith, Young Jean Lee, Jackie Sibbles Drury, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Annie Baker, Tony Kushner, Dominque Morriseau, Quiara Alegria Hudes, and queer, female, and trans playwrights in The Kilroys List collection of plays, among many others. Modern democracy, as defended by its most progressive advocates and pursued by a succession of social movements, promised to resurrect an ancient form of popular self-rule on a newly inclusive and egalitarian foundation. Berlin, Paris, London, St. Petersburg, and Vienna all had several million citizens. Conference work, conducted in workshop mode, will serve to reinforce student understanding of the course material. Political life involves treating fellow citizens according to universal principles, because they are like family. Rather than limit ourselves to the main subdisciplines of political science, we create seminars around today’s issues—such as feminism, international justice, immigration, and poverty—and analyze those issues through the lens of past philosophies and events. What are some of the complexities that the agency faces? Needless to say, the general elections of November 2020 loom large in our collective consciousness. All are welcome. All of these issues are present in all three plays but in quite different ways. In this poetry class—a yearlong school of poetry and the living world—we will consider the great organism Gaia, of which we are a part. Students will meet regularly with the instructor to discuss an ongoing project for which they will utilize some of the statistical techniques learned throughout the course. Vocabulary building will take place through an intensive program of readings that will include the study and analysis of poems, lyrics of songs, newspaper articles, short stories, and adapted novellas. By the end of the semester, students should have completed their analyses and incorporated a report of the work completed into a final project report, be it a thesis, independent study, or other conference project. We will also explore the interrelation between Italian literature and crucial historical events such as the Great War, the rise and fall of fascism, World War II, the Resistance, the birth of the republic, the postwar economic boom, the students’ and women’s movements of the 1960s and ’70s, and the terrorism of the “Anni di Piombo.” Among the authors and intellectuals we will explore are: Sibilla Aleramo for her literary treatment of the issue of female emancipation at the beginning of the century; Luigi Pirandello and his work as a novelist and playwright; Gabriele D’Annunzio as a poet, playwright, and novelist but also a war hero and politician; F. T. Marinetti, whose futurist manifestos and literary works reflected his desire to renew Italian art, literature, and culture in general; B. Mussolini’s fascist regime, its dictates, and their influence on propaganda literature and cinema; Ignazio Silone’s novels on the fascist era; Roberto Rossellini’s neorealist cinema; Italo Calvino’s, Beppe Fenoglio’s, and Elio Vittorini’s literature of the Resistance; Primo Levi’s depiction of the Holocaust; and influential women writers such as Anna Banti, Natalia Ginzburg, Elsa Morante, and Dacia Maraini. This lecture is recommended for anybody wishing to be a better-informed consumer of data and strongly recommended for those planning to pursue graduate work and/or research in the natural sciences or social sciences. Sarah Lawrence College is a private institution that was founded in 1926. We will use modern political-economy approaches based in logic and evidence to find answers to contemporary public-policy problems and questions of polarization and leadership. This course will explore critical ethical, legal, and political questions. The number of students who will be able to take this course will vary according to the number of faculty available for any given semester. What is Eden? Theology, whether it is acknowledged or publicly noted, has often played a significant role in the political life of the United States. The goal: a deep understanding of the political forces that shape society. All students will participate in the end-of-semester poster session and write a 7- to 10-page paper on an aspect of their work over the semester, which brings together their reflections and experiences and readings. As in the run-up to the previous crash, conventional commentators were blindsided when the world fell off the proverbial cliff. The first two decades of the 21st century have been decades of uprisings. What about the art of persuasion; that is, do campaigns matter, or is it simply the economy? Students may pursue conference projects examining almost any aspect of life or culture in early modern Europe. The expansion of the analytical scope and tools has allowed microeconomics to provide answers to some of the most pressing social economic issues today: increasing wealth and income inequality, the challenge of artificial intelligence and robotic automation of the workplace, monopoly and monopsony power of big firms, climate change, etc. This will be a guided reading and discussion-centered seminar, with weekly reading responses. The primary objective of this course is to understand and apply various statistical analysis techniques when conducting your own independent research. An associate professor of politics at Converse College in South Carolina says he’s facing possible termination for publicly refusing to complete newly mandated diversity and antibias training. To do this, we will examine the concept of critical realignments in political science and political history that are, generally, a set of notable and trajectory shifting changes in party ideology, issues, party leaders, regional and demographic bases of power of political parties, and the structure or rules of the political system such as voter eligibility or financing. This will be a course in the episode, a flexible way of putting together content—fictional or nonfictional—in this world or another. Weekly assignments will utilize SPSS, a standard data analysis program utilized in behavioral statistics. In addition, students will learn to read secondary sources and analyze historiographical arguments. And yet, amidst those diseases, Europe became increasingly more urban and its cities produced, adopted, and promoted many of the things, both positive and negative, that we consider hallmarks of modernity. The transition to democracy and the broad-based coalitions then formed renewed the hopes and expectations of justice, equality, and freedom that had been shattered by torture, censorship, and state power. Librarian Tip: This process also allows you to find common vocabulary used in the field, which offers you keywords for your resource searching. We will draw upon literature; film and music; (auto)biography; letters, diaries, oral histories; and archival and legal texts emanating from different parts of the globe, with an emphasis on cultural productions about and from the Global South and/or diasporic communities. We will follow with studies of specific issues: technological change in food production; commercialization and industrialization of agriculture and the decline of the family farm; food and public health, culture, and family; land grabbing and food security; the role of markets and transnational corporations in transforming the environment; and the global environmental changes stemming from modern agriculture, dams, deforestation, grassland destruction, desertification, biodiversity loss, and the interrelationship with climate change. It covers the international literature in political science and public administration/policy, along with related fields. Going into a completely different direction, we will question the characteristics of a Judeo-Christian conception of the world, organized around a remote and immaterial god, in direct opposition to a more organic understanding of nature as a “motherly” and immanent figure with all of the reservations that such a figure implies. A maximum of 12 students will be able to join this course each semester. Since then, economists have sought to understand the ways in which people allocate, produce, exchange, and distribute "resources" in capitalist societies and how such activities impact people’s welfare. We’ll conclude with a look at some 20th-century literary, artistic, historical, and critical attempts to represent war with an allegedly unprecedented accuracy. Finally, the goal is to ensure that students develop the ability to critically engage scholarly work in economics. Worked in the White House (Obama Administration) and the US Senate, in philanthropy, and as a community organizer and political organizer. This course will focus on the above key themes by not only looking ahead but also by looking behind at recent history to understand the roots of our current turmoil. Queer theory emerged in the United States, in tandem with Queer Nation, at the beginning of the 1990s as the intellectual framework for a new round in ongoing contests over understandings of sexuality and gender in Western culture. But Angell was not entirely wrong. Working through the complex and vexed relation between these various scales—macro and micro, public and private—and their attendant modes of representation will allow us to complicate our understanding of both politics and representation. We are indebted to the Butler University Library's And/Or/Not box for some of the content displayed here. We will end with discussions of emergent local, regional, and transnational coalitions for food self-reliance and food sovereignty, alternative and community supported agriculture, community-based resource management systems, sustainable development, and grassroots movements for social and environmental justice. How does a nonprofit agency develop and change over time, and how does it determine the kind of community-based work it will do? When appropriate, students will be directed to specific internship opportunities in the New York area centered on Italian language and culture. We will ask questions: When did we begin to think of nature as apart from us? We will consider key cases of both intervention and nonintervention over the last three decades, from Rwanda to Libya, and consider a range of responses to those actions. As we evaluate the present, we will consider a range of popular responses to these challenges, as well as alternative frameworks for the future. This course may also be taken as a semester-long component. Who are the other organisms? What about institutions—such as electoral rules, various debates and the Electoral College? We will look at past American examples that are universally accepted as realignments—such as the 1896 presidential election, when the issues of the Civil War political system were replaced with those of the populist and progressive eras, and the 1932 election, when the populist and progressive eras were replaced by the New Deal issues of liberalism and modern conservatism. The study of politics at Sarah Lawrence College encompasses past and present thinking, political and interdisciplinary influences, and theoretical and hands-on learning. Or should we reject them all and, instead, embrace a new, postmodern political epoch? In addition to conference projects each semester, students are regularly required to submit critical essays and participate fully in the discussion. Some of the topics to be explored are the religious justifications used for owning slaves and creating barriers to citizenship, the religious/nationalist ideologies of black Muslims and white supremacists, the phenomenon of apocalyptic reasoning, American religious positions on the state of Israel, and white evangelical support for President Trump. Because we see an important connection between political thought and political action, we encourage students to participate in service learning. The act of looking will be primary for us, as seeing the face accurately, as it truly exists, is a constant challenge for artists. Where possible and feasible, you will be encouraged to do primary research during fall study days and winter and spring breaks. Students will read, in English translation, Herodotus’ Histories and Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, as well as selected works by Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristotle, and Ps.-Xenophon. We will also explore the increase in both populist leaders and popular uprisings. Use the pages on this guide to learn about: You can also visit these related guides for more research help: 2. Currently chief deputy national political director at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Once the violence has subsided, what actions should the international community take to support peace and justice? In the metropole, particularly British cities, orphan boys were funneled into the military and merchant navy, while children of both sexes were shipped across the globe to boost white settler populations, provide free labor, and relieve English poorhouses of the responsibility of taking care of them. This shows the search engine that you want the terms to be found together. Can it be argued that the subprime mortgage crash of 2007/2008 and the pandemic crash of 2020 have the same roots; and, if so, what are they? All students enrolled in the FYS in Theatre join the theatre program community, attend theatre meetings, and complete technical-support hours (tech credits). He concluded: “The end of history will be a very sad time. This course will examine the development of the Enlightenment from its origins in the age of the Baroque to its demise in the era of the French Revolution and Romanticism. There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. We will study these works in the context of the important historical events and intellectual movements that galvanized Russian artists: the desire to find the appropriate expression of Russian identity, the ambivalence toward the achievements of Western Europe, the ideals of civic responsibility, the aestheticism of the later 19th century, the Russian Revolution, and the repressions of Soviet society. This course will be offered based on student need and interest. It is often said that all politics is economics. Making use of online archives and tools, we will work with a variety of primary sources—from government documents to literature, from movies to propaganda speeches, from city maps to diary entries. This will allow us to understand public and private domains as co-constituted—an insight that feminist and sexuality studies have long remarked upon—and to move beyond the limitations of disciplinary thinking and dominant constructions of power. Conference topics may include the study of a particular author, literary text, or topic relevant to the course and that might be of interest to the student. Many of Ariyoshi’s works also expose social issues, such as The Twilight Years, her immensely popular novel on the challenges of caring for aging parents, and Compound Pollution, her environmental novel that brought greater public attention to the harmful effects of chemical fertilizers and insecticides. By studying their work, we will be better positioned to answer the following range of questions. So keep in mind - picking your topic is research! Are we unwittingly reliving the past? Each student will research an aspect of the living world and teach the rest of us what they have learned. This course provides an intensive introduction to Latin grammar, syntax, and vocabulary with a view toward reading the language as soon as possible. Group conference (held once a week) aims at enriching the students’ knowledge of Italian culture and developing their ability to communicate, which will be achieved through readings that deal with current events and topics relative to today’s Italian culture. In this class, we will look at a series of uprisings that have taken the early 21st century by storm. The Great War, as it was called then, lasted from 1914 until 1918 and would change the course of the 20th century. Sarah Lawrence College was established by real-estate mogul William Van Duzer Lawrence (1842–1927) on the grounds of his estate in Westchester County and was named in honor of his wife, Sarah Bates Lawrence (1846–1926). Our courses often draw from other disciplines or texts, especially when looking at complex situations. Why was it the case that so many believed that the country was headed in the wrong direction? The media portrays America’s students as overwhelmingly ‘woke’ activists obsessed with social justice protests. And it has had, predictably, unpredictable effects on subsequent intellectual and political projects. In this reading seminar, we will focus on two of Michael Foucault’s books: Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975) and The History of Sexuality, Vol. This course will survey the great contributions of Russian composers to Western music, from the first half of the 19th century to the end of the Soviet era and beyond. How do we understand the role of political power and the “rule of law” with regard to market outcomes? librarian AND “active learning” AND “information literacy”. We will start with the Colour Revolutions, move on to the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement, and end with more recent uprisings—including the Yellow Vests in France, independence movements in Catalonia and Hong Kong, and anti-austerity protests in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. Representation will thus be considered in terms of concrete representation (presence) in electoral politics of particular social actors and in terms of an embodied representational politics that exceeds the normatively political field. Yet, since the 1980s, the theoretical and policy world of mainstream economics took a great U-turn and, once again, embraced the free market. Precisely because European economies were so interconnected, the war and its aftermath were particularly devastating. We will read them with a view to understanding the importance of those differences. Although the number of Americans identifying themselves as having a religious affiliation has been dropping steadily over the last decade, the influence of religion on American politics has not. Adria Lawrence | Political Science | Johns Hopkins University What else can be done short of military intervention? This course will situate the current crisis in a theoretical and historical context by drawing on insights from different schools of thought in economics, as well as from other disciplines such as law, politics, sociology, and history. In fact, it will be argued that the nature of political institutions, including any society’s legal foundations, cannot be divorced from economic outcomes. Looking at images of protesters filling the streets of Paris, France, or Santiago, Chile, it’s hard to believe that, in 1989, Frances Fukuyama famously proclaimed the end of history, delivered by the final victory of liberalism over competing ideologies. This course will explore the following fundamental issue: the relationship between development and the environment, focusing in particular on agriculture and the production and consumption of food. media external hard drive. The questions above often hinge on the contentious debate concerning population, natural resources, and the environment. On top of that, we will examine multiple theoretical and empirical perspectives on money, credit and financial markets, investment, governmental spending, unemployment, growth and distribution, crisis, technological change, and long swings of capitalist economies. Finally, this course will also pose the issue of the worth and legitimacy of European modernity; that is, the historical process that produced capitalism, representative democracy, religious pluralism, the modern sciences, ethical individualism, secularism, fascism, communism, new forms of racism and sexism, and many “new social movements.” Which of the ideas that jostle for prominence within this tradition are worth defending? The college was originally intended to provide instruction in the arts and humanities for women. In light of recent national—as well as international—calls for racial justice, which have propelled several movements, this course will analyze the chronology of the various theories and research in both cultural and social psychology, highlighting the need to re-examine intolerance not only in the heads of people but also in the world. Political philosophy consists of: a discourse of thinking about the nature of political power; the conditions for its just and unjust use; the rights of individuals, minorities and majorities; the nature and bounds of political community; the relations between politics and the truth or the good; etc. The “Roaring 20s” or the student movements of 1968 were fundamentally urban phenomena. Religious arguments and positions have provided the theoretical underpinnings for institutions such as slavery and incarceration and policies in the areas of immigration, foreign relations, and military interventions. In this course, we will examine experimental documentary form as political/social/personal discourse and practice. The challenging world requires every one of us to act as more responsible citizens. And how did the nation end up in a place of seemingly endless fighting about numerous topics, including gun control, immigration, the environment, and global engagement? They are different from chapters or short stories. We will watch movies and investigate (pop)cultural memory of the period. In the post-historical period there will be neither art nor philosophy, just the perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history.” The 1990s, indeed, seemed to confirm Fukuyama’s predictions. The course will conclude by considering proposals to strengthen, reform, or refound modern democracy as we move into the middle of the 21st century. Given that these biases are often defined as individual prejudice, even though their persistence is systemic, we will see how they crystallize in ways that are marked in the cultural fabric, the various artifacts, the ideological discourse, and most institutional realities that all work in synchronicity with individual biases. We will read books and articles that teach us about the other animals and living entities that we call plants and trees and planets and galaxies. Why and how did the social and political world become so deeply divided and full of anger. In addition, through in-class practices, discussions, assignments, conference meetings, and conference work, we will work together to prepare you for academic achievement. And what is the link to the history of taxation policies in the United States? If we don't have an item here at Sarah Lawrence you can request it through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). As such, it is a useful companion to the completion of an independent research project as part of a senior thesis, independent study, or research seminar course. All students should take the placement test prior to registration. Are there cases in which military humanitarian intervention is warranted? This course may be taken for either two or three credits. We will cover a lot of ground—from America’s founding to today. A search for information literacy yields 147,695 results, A search for "information literacy" yields 13,038 results. We’ll begin the first semester with readings from the Iliad, Thucydides, Plato, and Augustine and go on to study the Aeneid, Machiavelli, Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy, and Hobbes. What is death? As the Athenians were experimenting with the world’s first-ever democratic political institutions, the historians Herodotus and Thucydides distinguished history from myth and offered examples of behaviors to emulate or to avoid. The texts that we will read mark a transition in Foucault’s conception of power, from seeing it as a mechanism of control (incarceration and punishment but also disciplining, education, and surveillance) to seeing it as a mechanism of producing pleasure (through practices, regulation, and inhibitions of sexuality, as well as its transgressions). How do notions of cultural authenticity and autonomy figure in the discourse of indigenous rights? Regular postings of short essays will be made there, as well as followup commentaries with your colleagues. To address these questions, this course surveys the development and defense of modern conceptions of democracy through the history of political thought; examines mature democracy by looking at its practice, successes, and failures from the mid-20th century to the present; and contemplates proposals for reform that seek to eliminate deformations while realizing the normative potential of modern democracy. What is the content of social justice? In class, we will explore issues related to the media, social movements, realignments, leadership, political and social institutions and ideologies with a particular focus on populism, and polarization and will examine why so many Americans feel disillusioned about the economic and political scene. The Sarah Lawrence Political Review is now currently accepting applications for the Fall 2020 general staff positions. With the permission of the instructor, qualified students may opt to take this course as Intermediate Greek and read selected portions of the text in Greek. We will focus on the role of power in the international system and international law, as well as the ways in which seemingly less powerful groups have engaged and challenged prominent international actors. Rising Autocrats and Democracy in Decline? There will be two sections of this course. Three black women—Alica Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors—created #BlackLivesMatter (#BLM) in 2012 to protest George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Our initial readings, which will include Raymond Williams, Edward Said, Aime Cesaire, and John Berger, will set the conceptual framework for what follows. We will deconstruct the measures of development through a thematic exploration of population, resource use, poverty, access to food, the environment, agricultural productivity, and different development strategies adopted by Third World nation-states. These will be some of the questions that we will be tackling throughout the course of the year, thereby ensuring that students develop a solid foundation for the fundamental debates in economic theory and policy and understand the key role of methodology in the study of political economy phenomena. These case studies will help us assess the varied legacies of colonialism apparent in the emergence of new nations through the fitful and uneven process of decolonization that followed. By cultural norms regarding sexuality and reproduction? For the conference component of the class—unless you have a well-defined and executable alternative in mind, which we agree upon in advance—each student will conduct an independent study with me of one philosophical text of their choice from a list of options. The text for spring 2021 will be Plato’s Protagoras. We will read all three plays: Aeschylus’ Libation Bearers, Sophocles’ Electra, and Euripides’ Electra—with special attention to the relation between Electra and Orestes as co-conspirators in the plot against Clytemnestra. A major component of the college's early curriculum was "productive … We will start by introducing each other to our favorites. Conversation classes (in small groups) will be held twice a week with the language assistant, during which students will have the opportunity to reinforce what they have learned in class and hone their ability to communicate in Italian. Reading these together will allow us to examine political speech within, and external to, normatively constituted “politics,” re-envisioning politics as a practice simultaneously productive of citizenship and its deferral. The first semester concentrates on the history of modern democracy, looking both to develop a strong, critical account of democracy as a normative ideal—by studying its theoretic roots in seminal texts of modern political thought from Locke to Tocqueville—and to gain a critical historical overview of its cultural and institutional genesis, evolution, and decay (Fukuyama and Habermas).