Instructor: K. Yamanaka
This course covers the period from the earliest origins to around 1600 for South, Southwest, and East Asia. Emphasis is on the humanities and traditional history, although political and social history are also introduced, and the approach is interdisciplinary. Religious traditions and geographic factors are considered in agrarian societies and urban centers.
Instructor: C. Trist
This course is an introduction to comparative development. It is a general service course, as well as a prerequisite for the upper division 100 series. It is assumed that students know little about life in the Third World countries and are unfamiliar with the relevant theory in political economy of development and underdevelopment. The course is structured around three critical concepts: land, labor, and work. cross listed with GEOG C32, ccn: 36442
Instructor: S. Bailey
IAS 45 begins with a survey of the ancient and medieval worlds, exploring the ways empires were formed and operated. It examines the processes through which people from divergent cultural backgrounds interacted in the political and economic spheres during the modern era.
Instructor: J. Lough
IAS 45 begins with a survey of the ancient and medieval worlds, exploring the ways empires were formed and operated. It examines the processes through which people from divergent cultural backgrounds interacted in the political and economic spheres during the modern era.
Instructor: L. Nathan
Introduction to interdisciplinary research strategies for the collection, interpretation, and analysis of data. Course integrates the study of the fundamental theories of social science with the practical techniques of social science research methods.
Instructor: A. Karras
Introduction to interdisciplinary research strategies for the collection, interpretation, and analysis of data. Course integrates the study of the fundamental theories of social science with the practical techniques of social science research methods. For students pursuing Honors only
Instructor: J. Lough
Introduction to interdisciplinary research strategies for the collection, interpretation, and analysis of data. Course integrates the study of the fundamental theories of social science with the practical techniques of social science research methods.
Instructor: C. Talwalker
This course is one of the two core courses for the Global Poverty and Practice Minor, and is restricted to students who have already declared the Minor. The goal of the class is to prepare students in the Minor for the required Practice Experience. In a seminar setting, this class invites reflection on the institutional settings and socio-political/historical contexts in which existing practices and methods aimed at alleviating global poverty and/or addressing inequalities actually unfold.
Instructor: M. Auffhammer
This course is designed as a comprehensive overview of intermediate Microeconomic Theory. It covers a number of topics including consumer and demand theory, firm, production and cost theory, the theory of competitive markets, imperfect competition, welfare economics, choice under uncertainty and information. A background in calculus is not required.
Instructor: A. Roy
The start of the 21st century has been marked by a new millennial imagination to make poverty history. This course analyzes the various global campaigns, development practices, and social movements that are concerned with poverty alleviation. In doing so, it situates the millennial imagination in the longer history of 20th century development. Course themes include The Institutions, Paradigms & Critiques of Development; Global Poverty Campaigns & Millennium Development Goals; Agriculture: Land Security & Food Security; The Global Structure of Work; Infrastructure: Water, Sanitation, and Housing; Environmental Justice & Public Health: Human Rights; The Promise of Technology; Political Empowerment & Social Movements; The Ethics of Global Citizenship. Graduate students are welcome and will be able to get graduate-level credit for the course. The course is cross-listed with CP 115 (CCN 13442). Students who have previously taken CP 115 can register for the course as IAS 115.
Instructor: E. Sadoulet
Economectrics is the application of statistical techniques to economic problems. In laymen’s terms, it means that this course will use real world examples and data to give you some powerful insights into economic, environmental, and development issues. It is meant to be useful and hands-on. Cross-listed with EEP C118, ccn: 01245
Instructor: S. Ballenger
This lower division, interdisciplinary course fulfills the International Studies requirement in L & S and is well suited for any student with an interest in Latin America or for students planning to pursue the Latin American Studies major. It provides a broad introduction to the politics, culture, history, and economies of Latin America by integrating concepts and ideas from various disciplines. Attention is given to the dicussion of the relationship between cultural expression and the politics, economy, and history of the region.
Instructor: E. Gottreich
Required for all students majoring in Middle Eastern Studies, open to all students in International and Area Studies Teaching Program focusing on the Middle East interdisciplinary research strategies for the collection, interpretation, and analysis of data. Course integrates the study of the fundamental theories of social science, with the practical techniques of social science research methods.
Instructor: D. Zook
This course will explore the political and social causes of violence and war and the processes that lead to justice and peace. This course is required for majors but non-majors are welcome.
Instructor: A. Azevedo
"A practicum using a modern method for systematically reducing random activity in the mind, with comparative studies of relevant texts from monastic and householder traditions, East and West."
Instructor: J. Shackford-Bradley
This course will explore the historical development of the field through analysis of the operative assumptions, logic, and differing approaches of the seminal schools and thinkers that have shaped the field. Students will become familiar with the body of literature and major debates in peace studies and research.
Instructor: J. Shackford-Bradley
This class offers students the opportunity to do service for credit at multiple sites around the Bay Area. Students may select from a range of sites that address global advocacy, immigration, homelessness, food justice and harm reduction. In a seminar setting, students reflect on the connections between service and peace. They also develop analytical skills through which to theorize their service experiences. The class provides specific tools for better engagement, including workshops on communication skills, conflict resolution, action research, and grant proposal writing. At the end of the semester, students develop project proposals to submit for a competition through which winning projects will be funded.
Instructor: M. Brennan
We connect globally as never before but while distances have disappeared, cultural divides remain. PACS 119.3 aims to bridge these divides. We will explore ommonalities across religions, myths, proverbs and symbols as well as differences in communication, time/space and relationships. Our inquiry will include national identities and the forces that shaped them as we explore, for example, the differences between U.S. and Chinese cultures. Simulation exercises based on travel, business and conflict negotiations will give students an opportunity to experience other perspectives. Active student participation is essential. The course will be co-taught by a former ambassador and an intercultural specialist who will be joined by guest lecturers.
Instructor: D. Zook
This course is designed as a survey of international human rights; providing students with an overview to the historical, theoretical, political and legal underpinnings that have shaped and continue to shape the development of human rights in both the international and domestic arenas.
Instructor: J. Shackford-Bradley
In this course, students explore the dynamics of ethnic and identity conflict in the world today, and local/global efforts to "restore the face of the other" during and after such conflicts. The class presents a range of approaches to conflict resolution, from transformative western mediation to localized restorative justice models, which students actively engage through role plays. The course stresses the importance of social change (social justice, gender equality, global distribution of resources, diversity), transitional justice processes, and the role of media and historical narratives in the movement from violent conflict to tolerance and peaceful coexistence.
Instructor: A. Karras
This course introduces students to the classical theoretical works of political economy in their historical context. It focuses on the historical conditions that gave rise to liberal theory, capitalism, as well as the theoretical changes wrought by the industrial revolution. Finally, it explores both the challenges to liberalism and its responses.
Instructor: S. Bailey
This course looks at the modern theoretical works and intellectual debates in the study of political economy both in its comparative and international contexts. It examines contending perspectives on the relationship between power and wealth, and the relationship between the market and the state. We will cover both the theoretical perspectives on these relationships and the post-war historical factors that have shaped them.
Instructor: K. Magin
The purpose of this course is to study major developments in economic theory from 1723 to the present, focusing on contributions of “great masters” of economics from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman who have had enormous impact on economic theory and on economic policies around the world. It is a well-known fact that a good knowledge of the past is a necessary condition for a successful future.
IAS Courses Fall 2009
AS 10 Introduction Asian Studies- Instructor: K. Yamanaka
DS C10 Introduction to Development StudiesThis course covers the period from the earliest origins to around 1600 for South, Southwest, and East Asia. Emphasis is on the humanities and traditional history, although political and social history are also introduced, and the approach is interdisciplinary. Religious traditions and geographic factors are considered in agrarian societies and urban centers.
- Instructor: C. Trist
IAS 45 Survey of World HistoryThis course is an introduction to comparative development. It is a general service course, as well as a prerequisite for the upper division 100 series. It is assumed that students know little about life in the Third World countries and are unfamiliar with the relevant theory in political economy of development and underdevelopment. The course is structured around three critical concepts: land, labor, and work. cross listed with GEOG C32, ccn: 36442
- Instructor: S. Bailey
IAS 45.2 Survey of World HistoryIAS 45 begins with a survey of the ancient and medieval worlds, exploring the ways empires were formed and operated. It examines the processes through which people from divergent cultural backgrounds interacted in the political and economic spheres during the modern era.
- Instructor: J. Lough
IAS 102 Scope and MethodsIAS 45 begins with a survey of the ancient and medieval worlds, exploring the ways empires were formed and operated. It examines the processes through which people from divergent cultural backgrounds interacted in the political and economic spheres during the modern era.
- Instructor: L. Nathan
IAS H102 Scope and Methods - Honors SectionIntroduction to interdisciplinary research strategies for the collection, interpretation, and analysis of data. Course integrates the study of the fundamental theories of social science with the practical techniques of social science research methods.
- Instructor: A. Karras
IAS 102.2 Scope and MethodsIntroduction to interdisciplinary research strategies for the collection, interpretation, and analysis of data. Course integrates the study of the fundamental theories of social science with the practical techniques of social science research methods. For students pursuing Honors only
- Instructor: J. Lough
IAS 105 The Ethics, Methods, and Pragmatics of Global PracticeIntroduction to interdisciplinary research strategies for the collection, interpretation, and analysis of data. Course integrates the study of the fundamental theories of social science with the practical techniques of social science research methods.
- Instructor: C. Talwalker
IAS 106 Intermediate Microeconomic TheoryThis course is one of the two core courses for the Global Poverty and Practice Minor, and is restricted to students who have already declared the Minor. The goal of the class is to prepare students in the Minor for the required Practice Experience. In a seminar setting, this class invites reflection on the institutional settings and socio-political/historical contexts in which existing practices and methods aimed at alleviating global poverty and/or addressing inequalities actually unfold.
- Instructor: M. Auffhammer
IAS 115 Global Poverty: Theories and PracticesThis course is designed as a comprehensive overview of intermediate Microeconomic Theory. It covers a number of topics including consumer and demand theory, firm, production and cost theory, the theory of competitive markets, imperfect competition, welfare economics, choice under uncertainty and information. A background in calculus is not required.
- Instructor: A. Roy
IAS C118 Introductory Applied EconometricsThe start of the 21st century has been marked by a new millennial imagination to make poverty history. This course analyzes the various global campaigns, development practices, and social movements that are concerned with poverty alleviation. In doing so, it situates the millennial imagination in the longer history of 20th century development. Course themes include The Institutions, Paradigms & Critiques of Development; Global Poverty Campaigns & Millennium Development Goals; Agriculture: Land Security & Food Security; The Global Structure of Work; Infrastructure: Water, Sanitation, and Housing; Environmental Justice & Public Health: Human Rights; The Promise of Technology; Political Empowerment & Social Movements; The Ethics of Global Citizenship. Graduate students are welcome and will be able to get graduate-level credit for the course. The course is cross-listed with CP 115 (CCN 13442). Students who have previously taken CP 115 can register for the course as IAS 115.
- Instructor: E. Sadoulet
IAS 150 The Indian Entrepreneur in Silicon ValleyEconomectrics is the application of statistical techniques to economic problems. In laymen’s terms, it means that this course will use real world examples and data to give you some powerful insights into economic, environmental, and development issues. It is meant to be useful and hands-on. Cross-listed with EEP C118, ccn: 01245
- Instructor: C. Talwalker
LAS 10 Introduction to Latin American Studies- Instructor: S. Ballenger
LAS 250This lower division, interdisciplinary course fulfills the International Studies requirement in L & S and is well suited for any student with an interest in Latin America or for students planning to pursue the Latin American Studies major. It provides a broad introduction to the politics, culture, history, and economies of Latin America by integrating concepts and ideas from various disciplines. Attention is given to the dicussion of the relationship between cultural expression and the politics, economy, and history of the region.
- Instructor: A. Saragoza
MES 102 Scope and Methods in Middle Eastern Studies- Instructor: E. Gottreich
MES 150Required for all students majoring in Middle Eastern Studies, open to all students in International and Area Studies Teaching Program focusing on the Middle East interdisciplinary research strategies for the collection, interpretation, and analysis of data. Course integrates the study of the fundamental theories of social science, with the practical techniques of social science research methods.
- Instructor: TBD
MES 150 TBD- Instructor: TBD
PACS 10 Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies- Instructor: D. Zook
PACS 94 Theory and Practice of MeditationThis course will explore the political and social causes of violence and war and the processes that lead to justice and peace. This course is required for majors but non-majors are welcome.
- Instructor: A. Azevedo
PACS 100 Peace Theory: Approaches and Analyses"A practicum using a modern method for systematically reducing random activity in the mind, with comparative studies of relevant texts from monastic and householder traditions, East and West."
- Instructor: J. Shackford-Bradley
PACS 119.2 Engaged Scholarship in Local/Global ContextsThis course will explore the historical development of the field through analysis of the operative assumptions, logic, and differing approaches of the seminal schools and thinkers that have shaped the field. Students will become familiar with the body of literature and major debates in peace studies and research.
- Instructor: J. Shackford-Bradley
PACS 119.3 Navigating Culture in the Global AgeThis class offers students the opportunity to do service for credit at multiple sites around the Bay Area. Students may select from a range of sites that address global advocacy, immigration, homelessness, food justice and harm reduction. In a seminar setting, students reflect on the connections between service and peace. They also develop analytical skills through which to theorize their service experiences. The class provides specific tools for better engagement, including workshops on communication skills, conflict resolution, action research, and grant proposal writing. At the end of the semester, students develop project proposals to submit for a competition through which winning projects will be funded.
- Instructor: M. Brennan
PACS 126 International Human RightsWe connect globally as never before but while distances have disappeared, cultural divides remain. PACS 119.3 aims to bridge these divides. We will explore ommonalities across religions, myths, proverbs and symbols as well as differences in communication, time/space and relationships. Our inquiry will include national identities and the forces that shaped them as we explore, for example, the differences between U.S. and Chinese cultures. Simulation exercises based on travel, business and conflict negotiations will give students an opportunity to experience other perspectives. Active student participation is essential. The course will be co-taught by a former ambassador and an intercultural specialist who will be joined by guest lecturers.
- Instructor: D. Zook
PACS 164A Introduction to NonviolenceThis course is designed as a survey of international human rights; providing students with an overview to the historical, theoretical, political and legal underpinnings that have shaped and continue to shape the development of human rights in both the international and domestic arenas.
- Instructor: A. Azevedo
PACS 170 Conflict Resolution, Social Change, and the Cultures of Peace- Instructor: J. Shackford-Bradley
PEIS 100 Classical Theories of Political EconomyIn this course, students explore the dynamics of ethnic and identity conflict in the world today, and local/global efforts to "restore the face of the other" during and after such conflicts. The class presents a range of approaches to conflict resolution, from transformative western mediation to localized restorative justice models, which students actively engage through role plays. The course stresses the importance of social change (social justice, gender equality, global distribution of resources, diversity), transitional justice processes, and the role of media and historical narratives in the movement from violent conflict to tolerance and peaceful coexistence.
- Instructor: A. Karras
PEIS 101.2 Contemporary Theories of Political EconomyThis course introduces students to the classical theoretical works of political economy in their historical context. It focuses on the historical conditions that gave rise to liberal theory, capitalism, as well as the theoretical changes wrought by the industrial revolution. Finally, it explores both the challenges to liberalism and its responses.
- Instructor: S. Bailey
PEIS 150 Political Economy of GlobalizationThis course looks at the modern theoretical works and intellectual debates in the study of political economy both in its comparative and international contexts. It examines contending perspectives on the relationship between power and wealth, and the relationship between the market and the state. We will cover both the theoretical perspectives on these relationships and the post-war historical factors that have shaped them.
- Instructor: S. Bailey
PEIS 150.3 Media and Politics in Comparative and Historical Perspective- Instructor: L. Freeman
PEIS 150.4 History of Economic ThoughtThe purpose of this course is to study major developments in economic theory from 1723 to the present, focusing on contributions of “great masters” of economics from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman who have had enormous impact on economic theory and on economic policies around the world. It is a well-known fact that a good knowledge of the past is a necessary condition for a successful future.