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MusC 050 910 Tr 5:30pm–8:40pm rommen World Music and Cultures Fulfills Arts & Letters Sector This course examines how we as consumers in the “Western” world engage with musical difference largely through the products of the global entertainment industry. We examine music cultures in contact in a variety of ways—particularly as traditions in transformation. Students gain an understanding of traditional music as live, meaningful person-to-person music making, by examining the music in its original site of production, and then considering its transformation once it is removed, and re-contextualized in a variety of ways. The purpose of the course is to enable students to become informed and critical consumers of “World Music” by telling a series of stories about particular recordings made with, or using the music of, peoples culturally and geographically distant from the U.S. Students come to understand that not all music downloads containing music from unfamiliar places are the same, and that particular recordings may be embedded in intriguing and controversial narratives of production and consumption. At the very least, students should emerge from the class with a clear understanding that the production, distribution, and consumption of world music is rarely a neutral process. MusC 053 936 TBa Muller African Music This course is delivered in a fully online format in order to allow more flexibility for LPS students. Class sessions are offered through a course website and include live lectures and interactive discussions through both direct messaging and voice over internet. Between classes, the learning experience is extended through assignments, threaded discussions and office hours. For additional information, please visit www.sas.upenn.edu/ lps/online. Online course fee: $60. near eaSTern lanGUaGeS anD CiViliZaTionS nelC 048 910 MTW 9:00am–10:35am Jones Out of the Abyss: Rediscovering the Ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians Fulfills History & Tradition Sector In ancient Iraq, the Sumerians, Babylonians,and Assyrians, created one of the world’s great civilizations. By the beginning of the common era, however, their cities and culture lay lost beneath the sands. This class focuses on how they were rediscovered and what we now know about them. We discuss the excavation of ancient cities and the decipherment of the Sumerian and Akkadian languages, along with, for example: the history of ancient Iraq; the invention of writing; and the Epic of Gilgamesh. We use both material artifacts and primary texts in translation. The collections of the Penn Museum, including the magnificent finds from the Royal Tombs of Ur and the largest collection of Sumerian literature in the world, will be used to bring the class in direct physical contact with the world we are exploring. Finally, we analyze how the Iternet is revolutionizing the study of these ancient societies. 22 SUMMER SESSIOn I • MAY 24–JULY 2, 2010 nelC 119 910 MW 10:40am–1:50pm Minuchehr Middle Eastern Cinema Fulfills Cross-Cultural Analysis Course / Crosslisted with: CINE 119 910, COML 119 910 In the past two decades, films from the Middle East have gained exceptional international reception. This course is designed to explore the reasons behind this reception through a study of the prevalent social, political, and historical themes and issues in Middle Eastern cinema. Questions such as women’s laws, literature and its function, familial issues and gender roles, historical legacies and political tensions, and religion, will be discussed. This course assumes no previous knowledge of film studies or languages of the region. Films from Israel, the Arab World, Turkey, and Iran will be shown in subtitled versions. nelC 382 910 TW 1:00pm–4:10pm haq Islam and the West Crosslisted with: HIST 302 910 Surveys in some detail the images of Islam in the West, as well as premodern Muslim perceptions of Europe and the changing character of these perceptions in modern times, now including the larger western world. Particular attention is paid to the medieval period, extending from the rise of Islam in the 7th century to the Muslim conquest of Constantinople and the end of Muslim rule in Spain in the 15th century. Lying at the core of the course is a deep historical irony: the massive process of the transmission of knowledge and of intellectual and cultural attitudes from the Greek world into Islam and from Islam into the Latin West on the one hand, and the phenomenon of “Orientalism” on the other, the latter embodying a doctrine of an essential Islam-West dichotomy. Readings include Dante’s Divine Comedy, selections from the Arabian Nights, as well as modern Iranian polemics against the western world. PhiloSoPhY PhIl 003 910 MTWr 12:00pm–1:35pm staff History of Ancient Philosophy Fulfills History & Tradition Sector A survey of classical Greek approaches to questions about knowledge, the nature of the world, the soul, ethics, and politics. Will focus on Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. PhIl 008 910 MTWr 12:00pm–1:35pm staff The Social Contract Fulfills Society Sector This course examines the role of social contract doctrines in Western thought and culture. We will focus on the political writings of the major modern proponents of social contract theory: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Rawls. We will contrast their views with the utilitarian tradition, as represented by the political and economic philosophy of David Hume, Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill.We will also study Karl Marx, regarded as a critic of liberal constitutionalism. The course is designed to provide an introduction to some of the main issues in modern political philosophy.
PhIl 072 910 MTWr 10:30am–12:05pm staff Biomedical Ethics Fulfills Society Sector A survey of moral problems in medicine and biomedical research. Problems discussed include: genetic manipulation, informed consent, infanticide, abortion, euthanasia, and the allocation of medical resources. Moral theory is presented with the aim of enabling students to think critically and analytically about moral issues. The need for setting biomedical issues in broader humanistic perspective is stressed. PhIl 225 910 MTWr 3:00pm–4:35pm akhundov Philosophy of Science Crosslisted with: COML 224 910 An introductory course in history and philosophy of science focused on the development of the modern scientific view of the world. Starting with ancient Greek science and philosophy, the course surveys the history of physics, astronomy and cosmology, examining the origin of concepts such as substance, cosmos, atom, space, time, evolution, and law of nature. The course also covers key issues in the Philosophy of Science, including the relationship between induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis, theory and evidence, the nature of scientific explanation. Readings will be drawn from the writings of Aristotle, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, and Einstein, as well as secondary sources. PhiloSoPhY, PoliTiCS, eConoMiCS PPe 110 910 Tr 6:00pm–9:10pm sen Introduction to Decision Theory Fulfills Formal Reasoning Course This course will provide an introduction to models of human decision making. One of the primary purposes of the course is to provide a set of basic tools that will help the student translate uncertainty into numbers. Rational choice under uncertainty is by far the most used theory of decision making, and its applications are widespread in economics, finance, political science, law, managerial decision making, the economics of health care, and artificial intelligence. The course will use examples from each of these fields (and also fun “paradoxes” such as the Monty Hall Puzzle) in providing an introduction to the basic foundations of decision making. We will also look at the shortcomings of the rational choice theory: both from intuitive and empirical perspectives. No mathematical prerequisites are necessary beyond high school algebra and arithmetic. PhYSiCS* PhYs 101 910 MTWrF 10:00am–12:45pm heiney General Physics: Mechanics, Heat, and Sound Fulfills Physical World Sector, Quantitative Data Analysis Requirement / Prerequisite(s): Entrance credit in algebra and trigonometry, and a background in calculus. / Co-requisite(s): PHYS 101 LAB / Credit is awarded for only one of This courses: PHYS 101, PHYS 150, or PHYS 170. Students with AP or Transfer Credit for PHYS 91 or PHYS 93 who complete PHYS 101 will thereby surrender the AP or Transfer Credit. An introduction to the classical laws of motion requiring a background in calculus. Suggested for students in a pre-health program. *Limited space Available lAb SectionS: PHYs 101 911 MW 1:30pm–4:00pm staff PHYs 101 912 MW 1:30pm–4:00pm staff PHYs 101 913 Tr 1:30pm–4:00pm staff PHYs 101 915 TbA staff PoliTiCal SCienCe PsCI 130 910 MTWr 10:30am–12:15pm doherty-sil Introduction to American Politics Fulfills Society Sector This course is intended to introduce students to the national institutions and political processes of American government. What are the historical and philosophical foundations of the American Republic? How does American public policy get made, who makes it, and who benefits? Is a constitutional fabric woven in 1787 good enough for today? How, if at all, should American government be changed, and why? What is politics and why bother to study it? If these sorts of questions interest you, then this course will be a congenial home. It is designed to explore such questions while teaching students the basics of American politics and government. PsCI 139 910 Tr 1:00pm–4:10pm Funke Perspectives on Urban Poverty This course will explore the causes and consequences of inequality in the United States and beyond. We will use interdisciplinary tools and a variety of lenses to examine changing experiences and understandings of poverty. The course begins with social history, to trace the different forms that poverty has taken, the connections between poverty and the economy writ large, and the shifting ideologies that have explained and distorted what it means to be poor The course is primarily concerned with the ways in which historical, cultural, political, racial, social, spatial/geographical, and economic forces have either shaped or been left out of contemporary debates on urban poverty. We will critically analyze a wide body of literature seeking to theorize urban poverty. Primacy will be granted to critical analysis of course readings, particularly with regard to the ways in which various knowledge systems—or regimes of truth—create, sustain, and constrict meaning in reference to urban poverty. PsCI 181 910 Tr 1:00pm–4:30pm Kennedy Modern Political Thought Fulfills History & Tradition Sector This course surveys themes and concepts in modern thought about politics. Among the topics covered are rights, sovereignty, law, and war. Theorists will include Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Marx. This is an introductory course. It fulfills a core requirement for the Political Science and PPE majors. SUMMER SESSIOn I • MAY 24–JULY 2, 2010 23
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