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PSYCholoGY PsYC 001 900 W 5:30pm–8:40pm Fedotova Introduction to Experimental Psychology Fulfills Living World Sector Introduction to the basic topics of psychology, including learning, motivation, cognition, development, abnormal, physiological, social, and personality. SoCioloGY soCI 118 900 W 6:00pm–9:00pm Joyce Sociology of Bioethics This course is a study of the field of bioethics using the tools of sociology. The study of bioethics as a discipline and as a profession will be explored by addressing a series of topics that have been prominent in the field. We will use sociological concepts and theory to investigate American bioethics, rather than conduct a study of the merits of the debates themselves. This approach will consider the cultural, social, political, and symbolic meanings of these bioethical issues. We will address questions about the stakeholders in the debates, the timing of the debates, the rise and fall of certain issues, and the charismatic influence of key players. A key component in the readings will be the connections to bio-medicine and issues of treatment versus enhancement. Readings will be drawn from philosophy, bioethics, sociology, feminist studies, and sociology of medicine. SoUTh aSia STUDieS sasT 295 900 r 4:30pm–7:30pm roy Gender and Globalization in South Asia Crosslisted with: GSOC 295 900, GSOC 595 900, SAST 595 900 This is an introduction to studying gender systems and women’s situations across cultures and countries with a special emphasis on South-Asia. The class focuses on “globalization,” the flows of people and culture that are increasing around the world. The class begins with the historical background for understanding the current period of globalization. We will look at the specific case of colonization in South Asia and emphasize on its role in the rise of factories in both the colonized and colonizing nations. We then consider the role of these factories in today’s world as they employ women from the third world (sweatshops), and explore other issues related to gender and globalization and discuss scholarly responses to the changing world system. This class approach stresses that in order to understand women’s lives in the non-western world, it is important to understand the on-going connections between the “first world” and between the United States and the rest of the world. The larger objectives of the course are: 1) to learn about the history and current conditions of South Asia, particularly as they affect women and gender; 2) to be able to identify relations between the “first world” and the “third world” through an understanding of elements of globalization (such as mass media and cultural productions); 3) to understand ways that colonialism, Westernization affects gender systems and the formation of women’s social movements that respond to these forces in the South Asian context; 4) to offer through the lens of gender, a framework to understand the connected effects of globalization on national politics, economics and social issues in contemporary South Asia. 14 SUMMER SESSIOn I • MAY 24–JULY 2, 2010 SPaniSh sPan 130 900 Tr 6:00pm–8:30pm staff Intermediate Spanish I Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of Span 112, 120, 121 or 125 or a score of 450-540 on the SAT II or 384-453 on the online placement examination SPAN 130 is a first-semester intermediate-level language course that emphasizes the development of the four basic skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills) within a culturally based context. Class time will focus on communicative activities that combine grammatical concepts, relevant vocabulary, and cultural themes. Students will participate in pair, small-group, and whole-class activities to practice linguistics skills in meaningful contexts. Major course goals include: the acquisition of intermediate-level vocabulary, the controlled use of the past tense, and the development of writing skills at a paragraph level with transitions. WriTinG SeMinar WrIT 039 938 MW 5:30pm–8:40pm ross/Wehner Elements of Style Fulfills Writing Requirement Summer Session i MAY 24–JULY 2, 2010 aFriCan STUDieS ProGraM aFsT 302 910 MTWr 1:00pm–2:35pm ayoade People, Oil, and Politics in Nigeria Nigeria is a federation of three major ethnic groups and a host of minority groups. Around each of the major ethnic groups are located the minorities in a centre-periphery fashion. The ethnic minorities lack numerical clout to gain democratic control of national decisionmaking apparatus. They are therefore agitating for home rule resulting in the creation of new states in the federation. But the relative powerlessness remains. The troubling paradox of the situation is that oil wells which account for 95% of Nigeria’s export earnings are located in areas that lack decision-making power. The result is a combination of resources without power or control. The minorities feel exploited, protest the seeming colonialism, and demand resource control. anCienT hiSTorY anCh 027 910 MTWr 2:40pm–4:15pm Bernard Ancient Rome Fulfills History & Tradition Sector / Crosslisted with: HIST 027 910 The Roman Empire was one of the few great world states—one that unified a large area around the Mediterranean Sea—an area never subsequently united as part of a single state. Whereas the great achievements of the Greeks were in the realm of ideas and concepts (democracy, philosophy, art, literature, drama) those of the Romans tended to be in the pragmatic spheres of ruling and controlling subject peoples and integrating them under the aegis of an imperial state. Conquest, warfare, administration, and law making were the great
successes of the Roman state. We will look at this process from its inception and trace the formation of Rome’s Mediterranean empire over the last three centuries BC; we shall then consider the social, economic and political consequences of this great achievement, especially the great political transition from the Republic (rule by the Senate) to the Principate (rule by emperors). We shall also consider limitations to Roman power and various types of challenges, military, cultural, and religious, to the hegemony of the Roman state. Finally, we shall try to understand the process of the development of a distinctive Roman culture from the emergence new forms of literature, like satire, to the gladiatorial arena as typical elements that contributed to a Roman social order. anThroPoloGY anTh 001 910 MW 5:30pm–8:40pm schweitzer Introduction to Archaeology Fulfills History & Tradition Sector An introduction to the history, concepts, and methods of the anthropological study of ancient peoples using archaeological illustrations to indicate the relationships of archaeological interpretations with cultural and physical anthropology. anTh 002 910 MW 6:00pm–9:10pm hammarberg Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Fulfills Society Sector An introduction to the study of culture and human institutions, how they change, and their role in both literate and nonliterate societies. anTh 003 910 Tr 6:00pm–9:10pm renschler Introduction to Human Evolution Fulfills Living World Sector How did humans evolve? When did humans start to walk on two legs? How are humans related to non-human primates? This course focuses on the scientific study of human evolution describing the emergence, development, and diversification of our species, Homo sapiens. First we cover the fundamental principles of evolutionary theory and some of the basics of genetics and heredity as they relate to human morphological, physiological, and genetic variation. We then examine what studies of nonhuman primates (monkeys and apes) can reveal about our own evolutionary past, reviewing the behavioral and ecological diversity seen among living primates. We conclude the course examining the “hard” evidence of human evolution—the fossil and material culture record of human history from our earliest primate ancestors to the emergence of modern Homo sapiens. You will also have the opportunity, during recitations, to conduct hands-on exercises collecting and analyzing behavioral, morphological, and genetic data on both humans and nonhuman primates and working with the Department of Anthropology’s extensive collection of fossil casts. anTh 102 910 MW 10:00am–1:10pm hammarberg American Civilization in the 20th Century Fulfills History & Tradition Sector / Crosslisted with: ANTH 692 910 This course covers the changing society and culture of the United States during the 20th century. It begins with American regionalism in 1900 and traces the rise of mass culture and economic depression in the period from WWI through WWII, followed by the changing conflicts of idealism, realism, and popular culture to the end of the Cold War, the rise of the Internet, and the new problems posed by 21st-century globalism. The course will emphasize the discussion and analysis of primary source materials, employing material culture, texts, and film as forms of evidence. The concept of culture enables us to treat the changing cultural context as the “natural” environment of Americans during the 20th century. anTh 184 910 Tr 6:00pm–9:00pm Chrzan Medical Anthropology of Alcohol Use Crosslisted with: HSOC 154 910 The morality, rights, and responsibilities of alcohol use are hotly debated in the United States. The rhetoric of appropriate use ranges from Puritan-inspired abstinence campaigns, through health-promoting moderation arguments, to discourses legitimizing hedonism. The result of a lack of clear cultural paradigms for intoxicant use is clearly seen on college campuses, where movements for zero-tolerance alcohol bans coexist with social rituals that include binge drinking. This course will utilize medical anthropology theory to: 1) contextualize the phenomenon historically and cross-culturally; 2) encourage students to critically analyze existing paradigms which determine acceptable usage and treatment modalities; 3) use the University of Pennsylvania campus as a local case study/field site to investigate alcohol use. Students will move from theory to action through creation of a feasible proposal addressing alcohol-use education on Penn’s campus, or will participate in the modification and implementation of existing proposals to promote rational and low-risk use of alcohol in the college community. arT hiSTorY arTh 101 910 TBa staff European Art and Civilization Before 1400 Fulfills Arts & Letters Sector This is a double introduction: to looking at the visual arts; and, to the ancient and medieval cities and empires of three continents—ancient Egypt, the Middle East and Iran, the Minoan and Mycenaean Bronze Age, the Greek and Roman Mediterranean, and the early Islamic, early Byzantine and western Medieval world. Using images, contemporary texts, and art in our city, we examine the changing forms of art, architecture and landscape architecture, and the roles of visual culture for political, social, and religious activity. arTh 209 910 Tr 9:00am–12:00pm Toure African Art Fulfills Cross-Cultural Analysis Course / Crosslisted with: AFRC 209 910, AFST 209 910 This intensive 6-week course will introduce sub-Saharan African cinema(s) in their diversity, their originality, and their importance on and outside of the African continent. Themes will consider historical and socio-political issues, colonial and postcolonial representations of African arts and cultures, cultural identity, orality, aesthetics, anthropology and ethnography, immigration and work challenges, gender and sexuality. Film theories and methodologies will be discussed. Class time will include film screenings, lectures, and discussions. Movies produced by Soulemane Cisse, Cheick Oumar Sissoko, Adama Drabo, Halime Gerima, Sembene Ousmane, Alain Resnais, Manthia Diawara, and Zola Mazeko among others will be featured. SUMMER SESSIOn I • MAY 24–JULY 2, 2010 15
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