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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with CCST Encounters · returned 21 results
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ENGL 238 African Literature in English 6 credits
This is a course on texts drawn from English-speaking Africa since the 1950’s. Authors to be read include Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ayi Kwei Armah, Buchi Emecheta, Bessie Head, Benjamin Kwakye, and Wole Soyinka.
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 251 Contemporary Indian Fiction 6 credits
Contemporary Indian writers, based either in India or abroad, have become significant figures in the global literary landscape. This can be traced to the publication of Salman Rushdie’s second novel, Midnight’s Children in 1981. We will begin with that novel and read some of the other notable works of fiction of the following decades. The class will provide both a thorough grounding in the contemporary Indian literary scene as well as an introduction to some concepts in post-colonial studies.
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ENGL 251.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Arnab Chakladar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLibrary 344 2:20pm-3:20pm
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FREN 206 Contemporary French and Francophone Culture 6 credits
Through texts, images and films coming from different continents, this class will present Francophone cultures and discuss the connections and tensions that have emerged between France and other French speaking countries. Focused on oral and written expression this class aims to strengthen students’ linguistic skills while introducing them to the academic discipline of French and Francophone studies. The theme will be school and education in the Francophone world.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or equivalent
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FREN 206.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 243 Food in French Fiction 6 credits
What does “eating together” mean in France–and for whom? Through works of fiction, we will investigate cultural representations of food from the Middles Ages to the present day and address the following topics: the construction of a so-called “national gastronomy”; the social significance of food for Caribbean and African communities in France; the link between food and collective memory; women’s writings’ relationship with food in colonial and postcolonial masculinist contexts; the Rabelaisian disruptive potential of bodily pleasures; and contemporary ethical issues, such as the rise of veganism and animal rights activism.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or equivalent
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FREN 243.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 1:10pm-2:10pm
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FREN 244 Contemporary France and Humor 6 credits
This class is an overview of France’s social, cultural, and political history from 1939 onwards. The core units of this class (WWII, decolonization, May 1968, the Women’s liberation movement, the rise of the National Front, globalization, and immigration) will be studied through their comic representations. Sources for this class will include historical, political, literary and journalistic texts as well as photographs, paintings, videos, blogs, and music. The contrast between comical and non-comical texts and objects will highlight the uses and functions of humor in communicating about history, and illustrate the impact of comic discourses in everyday culture. In French.
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or equivalent
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FREN 244.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤 · Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 255 French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: Islam in France: Historical Approaches and Current Debates 6 credits
In this course, students will explore the historical, cultural, social, and religious traces of Islam as they have been woven over time into the modern fabric of French society. Through images drawn from film, photography, television, and museum displays, they will discover the important role this cultural contact zone has played in the French experience. The course will take advantage of the resources of the city of Paris and will include excursions to museums as well as cultural and religious centers.
Requires participation in OCS Program: French and Francophone Studies in Paris
- Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or the equivalent and participation in Paris OCS program
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FREN 259 French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: Hybrid Paris 6 credits
Through literature, cultural texts, and experiential learning in the city, this course will explore the development of both the “Frenchness” and the hybridity that constitute contemporary Paris. Immigrant cultures, notably North African, will also be highlighted. Plays, music, and visits to cultural sites will complement the readings.
Requires participation in OCS Program: French and Francophone Studies in Paris
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or the equivalent and participation in OCS Paris program
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FREN 359 French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: Hybrid Paris 6 credits
Through literature, cultural texts, and experiential learning in the city, this course will explore the development of both the “Frenchness” and the hybridity that constitute contemporary Paris. Immigrant cultures, notably North African, will also be highlighted. Plays, music, and visits to cultural sites will complement the readings.
Requires participation in OCS Program: French and Francophone Studies in Paris
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 230 or beyond and participation in OCS Paris program
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FREN 360 The Algerian War of Liberation and Its Representations 6 credits
Over fifty years after Algeria’s independence from France, discourses and representations about the cause, the violence, and the political and social consequences of that conflict still animate public life in both France and Algeria. This class aims at presenting the Algerian war through its various representations. Starting with discussions about the origins of French colonialism in North Africa, it will develop into an analysis of the war of liberation and the ways it has been recorded in history books, pop culture, and canonical texts. We will reflect on the conflict and on its meanings in the twenty-first century, and analyze how different media become memorial artifacts.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One French course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 360.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 165 A Cultural History of the Modern Middle East 6 credits
This course provides a basic introduction to the modern history of the Middle East from the late eighteenth century to the present. We will focus on the enormous transformations the region has witnessed in this period, as a world of empires gave way one of nation-states and new political and cultural ideas reshaped the lives of its inhabitants. We will discuss the cultural and religious diversity of the region and its varied interactions with modernity. We will find that the history of Middle East is inextricably linked to that of its neighbors and broader currents of modern history. We will read both the works of historians and literary and political texts from the region itself.
- Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 260 The Making of the Modern Middle East 6 credits
A survey of major political and social developments from the fifteenth century to the beginning of World War I. Topics include: state and society, the military and bureaucracy, religious minorities (Jews and Christians), and women in premodern Muslim societies; the encounter with modernity.
- Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 260.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 264 A History of India Through Food 6 credits
Indian cuisine is today famed worldwide and known for its complex diversity. This course will explore food as a gateway through which to understand a broader history of society, economy and politics in the Indian subcontinent. An analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of food and spices, beginning in the ancient era and ending in contemporary times, will allow us to examine community formation, patterns of wealth distribution, and state-building strategies. We will look at topics including farming and the environment, medical and religious systems, culture, caste, and colonialism.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 264.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Brendan LaRocque 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 238 Sport and Globalization in London and Seville Program: Globalization and Development: Lessons from Int’l Football 6 credits
This course uses international football (soccer) as a lens to analyze topics in globalization, such as immigration and labor, inequality, foreign investment, trade in services, and intellectual property. Students will be presented with key debates in these areas and then use cases from international football as illustrations. Focusing on the two wealthiest leagues in Europe, the English Premier League and the Spanish Liga, students will address key issues in the study of globalization and development, and in doing so enhance their understanding of the world, sports, and sport’s place in the world.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Sport and Globalization in London and Seville
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 265 Public Policy and Global Capitalism 6 credits
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to comparative and international public policy. It examines major theories and approaches to public policy design and implementation in several major areas: international policy economy (including the study of international trade and monetary policy, financial regulation, and comparative welfare policy), global public health and comparative healthcare policy, institutional development (including democratic governance, accountability systems, and judicial reform), and environmental public policy.
- Fall 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Statistics 120 strongly recommended, or instructor permission
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POSC 265.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:40am
- FHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:30am
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POSC 268 Global Environmental Politics and Policy 6 credits
Global environmental politics and policy is the most prominent field that challenges traditional state-centric ways of thinking about international problems and solutions. This course examines local-global dynamics of environmental problems. The course will cover five arenas crucial to understanding the nature and origin of global environmental politics and policymaking mechanisms: (1) international environmental law; (2) world political orders; (3) human-environment interactions through politics and markets; (4) paradigms of sustainable development; and (5) dynamics of human values and rules.
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POSC 268.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 002 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 100 Christianity and Colonialism 6 credits
From its beginnings, Christianity has been concerned with the making of new persons and worlds: the creation of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. It has also maintained a tight relationship to power, empire, and the making of modernity. In this course we will investigate this relationship within the context of colonial projects in the Americas, Africa, India, and the Pacific. We will trace the making of modern selves from Columbus to the abolition (and remainders) of slavery, and from the arrival of Cook in the Sandwich Islands to the journals of missionaries and the contemporary fight for Hawaiian sovereignty.
Held for new first year students
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RELG 100.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 301 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 110 Understanding Religion 6 credits
How can we best understand the role of religion in the world today, and how should we interpret the meaning of religious traditions–their texts and practices–in history and culture? This class takes an exciting tour through selected themes and puzzles related to the fascinating and diverse expressions of religion throughout the world. From politics and pop culture, to religious philosophies and spiritual practices, to rituals, scriptures, gender, religious authority, and more, students will explore how these issues emerge in a variety of religions, places, and historical moments in the U.S. and across the globe.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 110.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 110.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 110.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 222 Trauma, Loss, Memory: Holocaust and Genocide 6 credits
Building on the legacy of Holocaust memory and commemoration, this course considers how different losses touch and, in the process, illuminate each other in their similarities and in their differences. It asks questions about what it means to do justice to these legacies. Students will read works by James Young on monuments and memorials, Marianne Hirsch on postmemory, Michael Rothberg on multidirectional memory, and Svetlana Boym on diasporic intimacy and the possibility of connection after traumatic loss. Students will be encouraged to consider a range of texts and legacies of trauma and loss placing them in conversation with course readings.
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RELG 222.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 301 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 234 Angels, Demons, and Evil 6 credits
Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do bad things happen, period? Could angels and demons have something to do with it? This course asks how cosmology—an account of how the universe is put together and the different entities that inhabit it—can be an answer to the problem of evil and injustice. We will start with a historical investigation of the demonology and angelology of ancient pagan, Jewish, and Christian texts and then move into modern practices such as exorcism and magical realist literature. Along the way, we will keep asking how these systems justify the existence of evil and provide programs for dealing with it.
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RELG 234.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 237 Yoga: Religion, History, Practice 6 credits
Historically, yoga’s roots can be traced as far back as 1500 BCE. As for “religion,” in the modern period, yoga has largely been unyoked from it. But the Sanskrit root yuj means to “add,” “join,” or “unite”—and in Indian philosophy and practice it has long been: a method of devotion; a way to “yoke” the body/mind; a means to unite with Ultimate Reality; a form of concentration and meditation. Over time, it has been medicalized into a form of public health. This course will concentrate on texts, images, and cultures old and new. Come prepared to wear loose clothing!
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 136 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 289 Global Religions in Minnesota 6 credits
Somali Muslims in Rice County? Hindus in Maple Grove? Hmong shamans in St. Paul hospitals? Sun Dances in Pipestone? In light of globalization, the religious landscape of Minnesota, like America more broadly, has become more visibly diverse. Lake Wobegon stereotypes aside, Minnesota has always been characterized by some diversity but the realities of immigration, dispossession, dislocation, economics, and technology have made religious diversity more pressing in its implications for every arena of civic and cultural life. This course bridges theoretical knowledge with engaged field research focused on how Midwestern contexts shape global religious communities and how these communities challenge and transform Minnesota.
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RELG 289.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
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