Instructor: K. Yamanaka
During the past two centuries, international migration has shaped deep and long-lasting connections among people, places and cultures. In Southeast Asia, Western colonial powers exploited migrant workers from China and India. Rising industrialization in North America and expanding agriculture in South America drew an influx of workers from China and Japan. More recently, the U. S. 1965 Immigration Law opened a new door for immigrants and refugees from Asia and Latin America. In Japan and the “Newly Industrialized Economies” (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan), economic development brought about labor shortages that were alleviated by guest workers from other parts of Asia and even South America. These intra- and inter-regional migration movements have resulted in the formation of thriving transnational communities and extensive networks of people, information and capital throughout Asia, and between Asia and the Americas. By focusing on these migration flows, this course will examine contexts, patterns and modes of transnational migration and processes of transnational community formation.
Instructor: J. Park
This course introduces Korean cultural studies, with a focus on the politics of the mass media and popular culture. We will examine the birth and contemporary development of various media/communication institutions and technologies (e.g., television and the internet). We will also address popular cultural images, forms, and practices closely associated with the evolution of these institutions and technologies (e.g., the Korean Wave). The class highlights a transnational perspective and thus thinks about these issues in the broader East Asian and global contexts. The course will introduce theories of media and popular culture in Western societies, in order to both help us theorize them in Korea and East Asia and to consider the limits of Western theory.
Instructor: G. Hart
Historical review of the development of world economic systems and the impact of these developments on less advanced countries. Course objective is to provide background against which to understand and assess theoretical interpretations of development and underdevelopment. cross listed with Geog C112, ccn: 36451
Instructor: A. Karras
Honors students are required to research and write a thesis based on the prospectus developed in International and Area Studies 102. The thesis work is reviewed by the honors instructor and a second reader to be selected based on the thesis topic. Weekly progress reports required.
Instructor: A. Karras
This course focuses on benchmarks of the history of various nations and civilizations. It begins with the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese, but emphasizes world developments since the 15th century. The purpose of the course is to gain a better understanding of the rise and decline of states, empires, and international trading systems emphasizing political and economic structures as well as military factors.
Instructor: J. Shackford-Bradley
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 is a class on macroeconomics focusing on economic growth and international economics. A sample of topics include: Long run economic growth; Flexible-Price Macroeconomics; Sticky-Price Macroeconomics; and Macroeconomic policy. A background in calculus is not required
Instructor: M. Brennan
This course melds theory and practice, centering on learning through case studies and simulations. After reviewing analytical models of decision making and logic, the class turns to case studies in which readings are largely drawn from first-hand accounts by policymakers. These are occasionally supplemented with historical background, cultural and diplomatic observations. Students are expected to move beyond "what happened" in the readings to "why did this happen and "what alternative outcomes were available?" Students will participate in simulations drawn from actual crises to experience some of the challenges a decision-maker faces in a crisis. Classes are highly interactive and all students are expected to participate.
Instructor: L. Po
China’s economic performance has impressed the world since the 1990s. However, the country’s economic development has never been homogeneous or even. Understanding regional differentiation is a crucial starting point for our understanding of China’s transition as a whole. It may well also be crucial in answering the question of whether China’s economic reforms are state-driven or market-driven. It is important to note that there are no singular or easy answers to these sorts of questions. This course does, however, explore how a variety of bottom-up economic and institutional experiments have reshaped China’s different localities and driven the transition process forward.
Instructor: C. Talwalker
This course presents a unique opportunity to explore a fascinating aspect of Californian history and global, transnational culture by putting together an audio-visual narrative of the Indian experience in Silicon Valley. Students in this course will learn and master the research methods necessary to conduct effective interviews and research in audio-visual format, and will apply these methods to the specific task of creating as a final product a documentary film that tells the narrative of pioneering Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.
Instructor: C. Talwalker
Through an anthropological lens, this course takes stock of India in this era of neoliberal reforms and globalization. Our goal is to learn about and evaluate how the current political and economic climate is shaping emerging identities, public culture and the media, forms of labor, and collective action in India. As we do so, we will consider the formative influences of British colonialism, the Congress Party in the decades following independence, the moves toward liberalization through the 1980s and 1990s, and the more recent impact of Hindu nationalism.
Instructor: D. Cohen/E. Stover
In the aftermath of World War II, an era of post-colonial conflicts, civil wars and “Cold War,” transformed our understanding of war as an armed contest between nations states, carried on principally through conventional military campaigns waged by national armies. At the same time, as international lawyers struggled to adapt the norms of the laws of war to the horrors of the Second World War (in the 1948 Genocide Convention and the 1949 Geneva Conventions) and to new forms of mass violence directed largely against civilian populations. By the 1990s, the international community had turned to mechanisms of international criminal justice to restore peace and order for the first time since the Tokyo and Nuremberg tribunals. Yet, at the dawn of the 21st Century many of these international norms, especially the Geneva Conventions, are now under threat as the United States and other nations embark on a “war against terrorism.” This upper division undergraduate course will use an interdisciplinary lens to examine these transformations and our understanding of the violence of modern conflicts and its affects on survivors and communities. Drawing upon a variety of texts, as well as the visual media of film, art, and photography, we will study the ways in which writers, historians, social psychologists, anthropologists, journalists, and jurists have contributed to our understanding of wartime atrocities and their affects on society. We will examine war crimes committed in modern conflicts, ranging from WWII in Europe to Vietnam, Cambodia, the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. We will discuss the ways in which different academic disciplines and professions have tried to explain and analyze the causes and nature of war crimes (including genocide and crimes against humanity); to document and focus the world’s attention upon them through a variety of methodologies and media; and to locate responsibility for their perpetration within the complex interplay of military, political, and cultural institutions. Room share with Rhetoric 167, ccn: 77923
Instructor: C. Traeger
The course starts with a brief introduction of the scientific aspects behind climate change. Economic concepts are developed to analyze the causes and impacts of climate change. Different policy instruments addressing greenhouse gas mitigation are discussed, and international cooperation is analyzed from a game theory perspective. Particular aspects to be addressed include dealing with uncertainty and long time horizons as well as equity concerns over generations and between regions. The class will use some basic calculus (including simple equation solving) and is likely to use some differential calculus if we find that students are capable of employing differential calculus in a math review conducted in the sections. Cross listed with Envecon C175 01284
Instructor: G.M. Kondolf
Comparative study of environmental conditions and human responses thereto in California and other Mediterranean-climate regions, with intensive treatment of a topic in environmental sciences, policy, planning, management, and/or landscape architecture, with application to California, Portugal, or other Mediterranean-climate regions. Students collect and analyze relevant data, synthesize, and complete technical reports, plans and designs. Each year the course involves a specific focus. Pre-requisite: LA 222 or consent of instructor
Instructor: A. Davila-Sanchez
This course is a survey of the literatures of the Conquest of the Americas. It will be interdisciplinary, including texts, films, documentaries, and videos from different parts of the continent. We will study records of the Conquest(s) and re-conquest(s) of American culture and civilization in a synchronic and diachronic way. We will approach the pre-Hispanic, Hispanic and Modern Latin American imaginaries and historical experiences as part of a struggle to find and (re)define Latin American identity. The course will provide students with critical tools to understand the cultural discourses of hegemonic as well as subaltern groups in the history of Latin America and the U.S. Analytical readings of written and visual texts will help the students to attain a multicultural and transnational understanding of the (re)conquest and its representation. Power, class, race, ethnicity, gender, diaspora, ideology, counterculture are some of the topics that will be covered. The class will be in Spanish.
Instructor: A. Karras
Honors students are required to research and write a thesis based on the prospectus developed in International and Area Studies 102. The thesis work is reviewed by the honors instructor and a second reader to be selected based on the thesis topic. Weekly progress reports required.
Instructor: A. El-Meely
A weekly seminar concerning political and social issues relating to the contemporary Middle East, including the political economy of development in the region; questions of identity as they relate to ethnicity, gender, nationality and religious revival; and family and community affairs.
Instructor: R. Alissa/E. Gottreich
The Model Arab League is a simulation of the League of Arab States similar to the Model United Nations. Class meetings will be dedicated to gaining familiarization with relevant political positions within the context of the Arab world. Students also learn parliamentary procedure and to prepare resolutions. Each student is assigned to a committee and is responsible for participating in the development of the committee's resolution and its presentation at the Model Arab League
Instructor: E. Gottreich
In discussions of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict or other Middle Eastern conflagrations, one often hears the claim that such struggles arise from (and indeed are inevitable because of) "ancient hatreds" endemic to a region in which religious war is simply the norm. The overarching goal of this course is to evaluate such statements through the close study of Jewish life and Jewish-Muslim relations as they developed in the Middle East and North Africa from the rise of Islam in the seventh century to the present day. Room share with History 100, ccn: 39270
Instructor: A. Karras
The honors student is required to research and write a thesis based on the prospectus developed in International and Area Studies 102. The thesis work is reviewed by the honors instructor. A second reader is to be selected based on the thesis topic. Weekly reports required.
Instructor: F. Giovannini
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. Sanders
What are the ways in which violence has been constructed and reproduced and by what logic might we expect that these patterns can be transformed, by whom and how? This is the task and challenge of peace theory-and the raison de'tre of this course. Of necessity ours will be an ecumenical and interdisciplinary undertaking that reflects contemporary efforts in critical and reflexive theorizing that transcend traditional academic boundaries and cross borders between scholarship and activism. PACS 100 is a required course for PACS majors designed to prepare students for the senior/honors thesis. This will be accomplished through the writing of a two-part paper exploring your Area of Concentration as it relates to the core concepts of peace theory.
Instructor: F. Giovannini
This course seeks to examine the concept of "social vulnerability" in armed conflicts and post conflict setting by analyzing specifically the numerous roles that children, youth and women play (or are forced to) in ethnic civil conflicts. While analyzing the root-causes of this vulnerability, however, the course also unveils the present conditions of structural violence, poverty, discrimination and marginalization suffered by women and children allover the world and aims at offering a critical analysis of the role played by “local customs” and donors’ policies in perpetuating and further worsening this social vulnerability.
Instructor: J. Shackford-Bradley
This course provides opportunities for students to work with community partners here in the Bay Area while engaging them in workshops and discussions through which they examine their personal attitudes, leadership and teamwork approaches, communication and conflict resolution skills, as well as critical analysis of the issues and ethical dilemmas they encounter. The course emphasizes connections between local and global iterations of such issues as health care inequalities, environmental justice, immigration, and conflict/violence as well as cross-border efforts to address these issues and to construct viable solutions. Integrating experiential and cognitive approaches, the course guides students through a series of reflective and analytical steps toward realizing personal and institutional capacities for building peace.
Instructor: J. Shackford-Bradley
We see problems all around us, but what can we do to create positive change in the world? This course provides answers to this pressing question on both practical and theoretical levels. In the course, students study the connections between structural violence harm through neglect, a lack of services, and social and environmental injustice and paths to peace through community engagement. Students volunteer at community organizations with local and global focus while studying the concepts and praxis of service in local and global contexts. Students reflect on their experiences in community engagement at several levels, examining personal motivations, the meaning of community, structural issues, and local/global peace building. The course offers students practical techniques for addressing community needs and building peace through workshops in communication skills, leadership and community building, project development and grant writing.
Instructor: D. Zook
Northeast Asia - defined here as the region comprising the Korean Peninsula, Japan, China, and Taiwan - has become one of the most dynamic and complex areas for peace and security issues in international politics. This course will examine the many layers of peace and security in Northeast Asia, ranging from locally-based disputes to region-wide crises, and will also evaluate the multiple meanings of peace and security in a wide array of multi-layered and often overlapping contexts. Issues covered will include civic protest and civil society in domestic politics; tensions between North and South Korea and the prospects of peace and reunification; cross-strait China-Taiwan security concerns; Japan’s efforts to exert greater influence in regional politics and the response from other regional actors; territorial and resource disputes in the region; cultural understandings of peace and security in the region; the effects of international law as well as official and unofficial diplomacy on peace-building initiatives in the region; and even organized crime and trafficking. Aside from more traditional definitions of peace and security, which focus on formal military and political elements, this course will also explore other aspects that will include environmental protection, human rights, social security, and public health.
Instructor: F. Giovannini
Inspired by the changed meaning of international conflict and the expanding mission of conflict resolution in the post-cold war era, this course will study the contemporary context and issues of conflict by examining the evolution in thinking about conflict, the resolution, and their application in practice
Instructor: A. Azevedo
Nonviolence today embraces a holistic spectrum of movements for social justice, peace, environmental renewal, and more; it is beyond protest marches, boycotts, or political engagement. Perhaps, the most important under-reported news story of our time is that countless individuals and groups are using nonviolent methods in building pathways to transform our world, nations, communities, organizations & individual lives. This course will use the practices of consciousness, dialogue, research, and action; for envisioning, planning and implementing specific "dreams" of a nonviolent future. The methods of Socratic dialogue, case studies, and constructive program development will be extensively used.
Instructor: D. Zook
This seminar provides a capstone experience for PACS majors. Students will be required to prepare a paper on a subject agreed upon with the instructor, which integrates their experiences in the PACS major. They will also discuss readings, drawing from various concentrations in the PACS program.
Instructor: A. Karras
Honors students are required to research and write a thesis based on the prospectus developed in International and Area Studies 102. The thesis work is reviewed by the honors instructor and a second reader to be selected based on the thesis topic. Weekly progress reports required.
Instructor: S. Bailey
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: B. Crawford
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 more specifically, the relationship between the market and the state.
Instructor: L. Po
The course offers a comprehensive overview of China’s economic development in the wake of its economic reforms since the late 1970s. We will discuss how a market economy gradually emerged from out of a command economy, the establishment of special economic zones, the development and transformation of rural township and village enterprises, large-scale rural-urban migration, changes in the property rights system, and the resulting social and environmental challenges. This is an 8 week course
Instructor: H. Pearson
This course will be wholly devoted to the craft of original research. Its remit is as broad as the title suggests: students' choice of research topics need only fit within the parameters "social" (i.e. no test tubes or ant farms), "historical" (i.e. the topic studied must have already reached closure), and "scientific" (i.e. empirical inquiry guided by the spirit of the hypothesis test). Class meetings will be devoted to interim presentations and constructive criticisms thereof. Students will submit partial drafts throughout the semester and a final draft at the end.
Instructor: S. Bailey
This course is an in-depth study of the history of the world in the twentieth century and provides important historical context and depth. It is designed specifically for students in International and Area Studies majors, but is open to anyone in any major and would likely be of great interest/use to those in history, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, and variety of other majors. The course will focus on several topics in the history of the 20th century, including the history of globalization itself, the history of 20th-century global conflict, the history of 20th-century environmental history, American History in a global context, and contemporary globalization. There will also be a reader which will highlight excerpts from prominent thinkers and important debates on globalization. Students will emerge from the class with a firm grasp of the history of the 20th-century world and the importance of globalization.
Instructor: K. Magin
This course will focus on the theoretical foundations and policy implications of classical political economy. This course examines the economic role of the government. We analyze the effects of price controls, regulatory, monetary, tax and expenditure policy on economic outcomes. Topics include political economy of monetarism, supply-side economics, property rights, privatization, social insurance programs, Social Security, government provision of health insurance, welfare programs, price controls, political economy of deregulation. This class is approved to fulfill the Political Economy and Historical Context core requirements for the major.
Instructor: L. Freeman
This seminar examines and compares the political, economic and social impact of new information technologies (especially the internet and the mobile phone) in three Asian countries: Japan, China and South Korea. Particular emphasis will be placed on analyzing government attempts to control and regulate new technologies, and understanding the differing ways publics have sought to use them as tools for social and/or political change. We will also consider how these technologies have been used in elections (Japan/Korea) and/or by political parties, NGOs, grassroots political groups and organizations to enact political change and/or increase political participation. Finally, students will research the ways in which prior information regimes and cultures have guided and shaped the development and use of new technologies in each of these countries while at the same time considering the impact of the globalization of information and theories of convergence.
Instructor: A. Karras
Honors students are required to research and write a thesis based on the prospectus developed in International and Area Studies 102. The thesis work is reviewed by the honors instructor and a second reader to be selected based on the thesis topic. Weekly progress reports required.
IAS Courses Spring 2009
AS 150 Transnational Migration and Communities in the Asia-Pacific- Instructor: K. Yamanaka
AS 150.2 Korean Cultural Studies: Media and Popular CultureDuring the past two centuries, international migration has shaped deep and long-lasting connections among people, places and cultures. In Southeast Asia, Western colonial powers exploited migrant workers from China and India. Rising industrialization in North America and expanding agriculture in South America drew an influx of workers from China and Japan. More recently, the U. S. 1965 Immigration Law opened a new door for immigrants and refugees from Asia and Latin America. In Japan and the “Newly Industrialized Economies” (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan), economic development brought about labor shortages that were alleviated by guest workers from other parts of Asia and even South America. These intra- and inter-regional migration movements have resulted in the formation of thriving transnational communities and extensive networks of people, information and capital throughout Asia, and between Asia and the Americas. By focusing on these migration flows, this course will examine contexts, patterns and modes of transnational migration and processes of transnational community formation.
- Instructor: J. Park
DS C100 History of Development and Underdevelopment cross listed with Geog C112 ccn:This course introduces Korean cultural studies, with a focus on the politics of the mass media and popular culture. We will examine the birth and contemporary development of various media/communication institutions and technologies (e.g., television and the internet). We will also address popular cultural images, forms, and practices closely associated with the evolution of these institutions and technologies (e.g., the Korean Wave). The class highlights a transnational perspective and thus thinks about these issues in the broader East Asian and global contexts. The course will introduce theories of media and popular culture in Western societies, in order to both help us theorize them in Korea and East Asia and to consider the limits of Western theory.
- Instructor: G. Hart
DS H195 Honors SeminarHistorical review of the development of world economic systems and the impact of these developments on less advanced countries. Course objective is to provide background against which to understand and assess theoretical interpretations of development and underdevelopment. cross listed with Geog C112, ccn: 36451
- Instructor: A. Karras
IAS 45 Survey of World HistoryHonors students are required to research and write a thesis based on the prospectus developed in International and Area Studies 102. The thesis work is reviewed by the honors instructor and a second reader to be selected based on the thesis topic. Weekly progress reports required.
- Instructor: A. Karras
IAS 102 Scope and MethodsThis course focuses on benchmarks of the history of various nations and civilizations. It begins with the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese, but emphasizes world developments since the 15th century. The purpose of the course is to gain a better understanding of the rise and decline of states, empires, and international trading systems emphasizing political and economic structures as well as military factors.
- Instructor: J. Shackford-Bradley
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 107 Intermediate Macroeconomic 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 120 Crisis DiplomacyThis is a class on macroeconomics focusing on economic growth and international economics. A sample of topics include: Long run economic growth; Flexible-Price Macroeconomics; Sticky-Price Macroeconomics; and Macroeconomic policy. A background in calculus is not required
- Instructor: M. Brennan
IAS 150 Patterns of Regional Development in China's Reform EraThis course melds theory and practice, centering on learning through case studies and simulations. After reviewing analytical models of decision making and logic, the class turns to case studies in which readings are largely drawn from first-hand accounts by policymakers. These are occasionally supplemented with historical background, cultural and diplomatic observations. Students are expected to move beyond "what happened" in the readings to "why did this happen and "what alternative outcomes were available?" Students will participate in simulations drawn from actual crises to experience some of the challenges a decision-maker faces in a crisis. Classes are highly interactive and all students are expected to participate.
- Instructor: L. Po
IAS 150.2 The Indian Diaspora in Silicon ValleyChina’s economic performance has impressed the world since the 1990s. However, the country’s economic development has never been homogeneous or even. Understanding regional differentiation is a crucial starting point for our understanding of China’s transition as a whole. It may well also be crucial in answering the question of whether China’s economic reforms are state-driven or market-driven. It is important to note that there are no singular or easy answers to these sorts of questions. This course does, however, explore how a variety of bottom-up economic and institutional experiments have reshaped China’s different localities and driven the transition process forward.
- Instructor: C. Talwalker
IAS 150.4 Globalization in IndiaThis course presents a unique opportunity to explore a fascinating aspect of Californian history and global, transnational culture by putting together an audio-visual narrative of the Indian experience in Silicon Valley. Students in this course will learn and master the research methods necessary to conduct effective interviews and research in audio-visual format, and will apply these methods to the specific task of creating as a final product a documentary film that tells the narrative of pioneering Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.
- Instructor: C. Talwalker
IAS 150.5 Justice and Accountability in Times of War, Genocide, and Terrorism, room share with Rhetoric 167.2, ccn: 77938Through an anthropological lens, this course takes stock of India in this era of neoliberal reforms and globalization. Our goal is to learn about and evaluate how the current political and economic climate is shaping emerging identities, public culture and the media, forms of labor, and collective action in India. As we do so, we will consider the formative influences of British colonialism, the Congress Party in the decades following independence, the moves toward liberalization through the 1980s and 1990s, and the more recent impact of Hindu nationalism.
- Instructor: D. Cohen/E. Stover
IAS C175 The Economics of Climate ChangeIn the aftermath of World War II, an era of post-colonial conflicts, civil wars and “Cold War,” transformed our understanding of war as an armed contest between nations states, carried on principally through conventional military campaigns waged by national armies. At the same time, as international lawyers struggled to adapt the norms of the laws of war to the horrors of the Second World War (in the 1948 Genocide Convention and the 1949 Geneva Conventions) and to new forms of mass violence directed largely against civilian populations. By the 1990s, the international community had turned to mechanisms of international criminal justice to restore peace and order for the first time since the Tokyo and Nuremberg tribunals. Yet, at the dawn of the 21st Century many of these international norms, especially the Geneva Conventions, are now under threat as the United States and other nations embark on a “war against terrorism.” This upper division undergraduate course will use an interdisciplinary lens to examine these transformations and our understanding of the violence of modern conflicts and its affects on survivors and communities. Drawing upon a variety of texts, as well as the visual media of film, art, and photography, we will study the ways in which writers, historians, social psychologists, anthropologists, journalists, and jurists have contributed to our understanding of wartime atrocities and their affects on society. We will examine war crimes committed in modern conflicts, ranging from WWII in Europe to Vietnam, Cambodia, the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. We will discuss the ways in which different academic disciplines and professions have tried to explain and analyze the causes and nature of war crimes (including genocide and crimes against humanity); to document and focus the world’s attention upon them through a variety of methodologies and media; and to locate responsibility for their perpetration within the complex interplay of military, political, and cultural institutions. Room share with Rhetoric 167, ccn: 77923
- Instructor: C. Traeger
IAS C229 Mediterranean-climate Landscape Reforming Water Management: Lessons from Europe for CaliforniaThe course starts with a brief introduction of the scientific aspects behind climate change. Economic concepts are developed to analyze the causes and impacts of climate change. Different policy instruments addressing greenhouse gas mitigation are discussed, and international cooperation is analyzed from a game theory perspective. Particular aspects to be addressed include dealing with uncertainty and long time horizons as well as equity concerns over generations and between regions. The class will use some basic calculus (including simple equation solving) and is likely to use some differential calculus if we find that students are capable of employing differential calculus in a math review conducted in the sections. Cross listed with Envecon C175 01284
- Instructor: G.M. Kondolf
LAS 150 Literature of the ConquestComparative study of environmental conditions and human responses thereto in California and other Mediterranean-climate regions, with intensive treatment of a topic in environmental sciences, policy, planning, management, and/or landscape architecture, with application to California, Portugal, or other Mediterranean-climate regions. Students collect and analyze relevant data, synthesize, and complete technical reports, plans and designs. Each year the course involves a specific focus. Pre-requisite: LA 222 or consent of instructor
- Instructor: A. Davila-Sanchez
LAS H195 Honors SeminarThis course is a survey of the literatures of the Conquest of the Americas. It will be interdisciplinary, including texts, films, documentaries, and videos from different parts of the continent. We will study records of the Conquest(s) and re-conquest(s) of American culture and civilization in a synchronic and diachronic way. We will approach the pre-Hispanic, Hispanic and Modern Latin American imaginaries and historical experiences as part of a struggle to find and (re)define Latin American identity. The course will provide students with critical tools to understand the cultural discourses of hegemonic as well as subaltern groups in the history of Latin America and the U.S. Analytical readings of written and visual texts will help the students to attain a multicultural and transnational understanding of the (re)conquest and its representation. Power, class, race, ethnicity, gender, diaspora, ideology, counterculture are some of the topics that will be covered. The class will be in Spanish.
- Instructor: A. Karras
MES 20 Perspectives on the Middle EastHonors students are required to research and write a thesis based on the prospectus developed in International and Area Studies 102. The thesis work is reviewed by the honors instructor and a second reader to be selected based on the thesis topic. Weekly progress reports required.
- Instructor: A. El-Meely
MES 109 Model Arab LeagueA weekly seminar concerning political and social issues relating to the contemporary Middle East, including the political economy of development in the region; questions of identity as they relate to ethnicity, gender, nationality and religious revival; and family and community affairs.
- Instructor: R. Alissa/E. Gottreich
MES 130 Jews and MuslimsThe Model Arab League is a simulation of the League of Arab States similar to the Model United Nations. Class meetings will be dedicated to gaining familiarization with relevant political positions within the context of the Arab world. Students also learn parliamentary procedure and to prepare resolutions. Each student is assigned to a committee and is responsible for participating in the development of the committee's resolution and its presentation at the Model Arab League
- Instructor: E. Gottreich
MES 190 Senior ThesisIn discussions of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict or other Middle Eastern conflagrations, one often hears the claim that such struggles arise from (and indeed are inevitable because of) "ancient hatreds" endemic to a region in which religious war is simply the norm. The overarching goal of this course is to evaluate such statements through the close study of Jewish life and Jewish-Muslim relations as they developed in the Middle East and North Africa from the rise of Islam in the seventh century to the present day. Room share with History 100, ccn: 39270
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MES H195B Honors SeminarStudents must submit a course enrollment form to Nan Hara in 101 Stephens in order to register for this class.
- Instructor: A. Karras
PACS 10 Introduction to Peace and Conflict StudiesThe honors student is required to research and write a thesis based on the prospectus developed in International and Area Studies 102. The thesis work is reviewed by the honors instructor. A second reader is to be selected based on the thesis topic. Weekly reports required.
- Instructor: F. Giovannini
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. Sanders
PACS 119 Vulnerability and Resilience in Armed Conflicts and Post-Conflict Settings: The Role of Children, youth and women in the 21st century warfareWhat are the ways in which violence has been constructed and reproduced and by what logic might we expect that these patterns can be transformed, by whom and how? This is the task and challenge of peace theory-and the raison de'tre of this course. Of necessity ours will be an ecumenical and interdisciplinary undertaking that reflects contemporary efforts in critical and reflexive theorizing that transcend traditional academic boundaries and cross borders between scholarship and activism. PACS 100 is a required course for PACS majors designed to prepare students for the senior/honors thesis. This will be accomplished through the writing of a two-part paper exploring your Area of Concentration as it relates to the core concepts of peace theory.
- Instructor: F. Giovannini
PACS 119.2 Building Peace Through Engaged Scholarship: Service Learning in Local/Global ContextsThis course seeks to examine the concept of "social vulnerability" in armed conflicts and post conflict setting by analyzing specifically the numerous roles that children, youth and women play (or are forced to) in ethnic civil conflicts. While analyzing the root-causes of this vulnerability, however, the course also unveils the present conditions of structural violence, poverty, discrimination and marginalization suffered by women and children allover the world and aims at offering a critical analysis of the role played by “local customs” and donors’ policies in perpetuating and further worsening this social vulnerability.
- Instructor: J. Shackford-Bradley
PACS 127 Building Peace Through Engaged Scholarship: Service Learning in Local/Global ContextsThis course provides opportunities for students to work with community partners here in the Bay Area while engaging them in workshops and discussions through which they examine their personal attitudes, leadership and teamwork approaches, communication and conflict resolution skills, as well as critical analysis of the issues and ethical dilemmas they encounter. The course emphasizes connections between local and global iterations of such issues as health care inequalities, environmental justice, immigration, and conflict/violence as well as cross-border efforts to address these issues and to construct viable solutions. Integrating experiential and cognitive approaches, the course guides students through a series of reflective and analytical steps toward realizing personal and institutional capacities for building peace.
- Instructor: J. Shackford-Bradley
PACS 135 Peace and Security in Northeast AsiaWe see problems all around us, but what can we do to create positive change in the world? This course provides answers to this pressing question on both practical and theoretical levels. In the course, students study the connections between structural violence harm through neglect, a lack of services, and social and environmental injustice and paths to peace through community engagement. Students volunteer at community organizations with local and global focus while studying the concepts and praxis of service in local and global contexts. Students reflect on their experiences in community engagement at several levels, examining personal motivations, the meaning of community, structural issues, and local/global peace building. The course offers students practical techniques for addressing community needs and building peace through workshops in communication skills, leadership and community building, project development and grant writing.
- Instructor: D. Zook
PACS 151 International Conflict: Analysis and ResolutionNortheast Asia - defined here as the region comprising the Korean Peninsula, Japan, China, and Taiwan - has become one of the most dynamic and complex areas for peace and security issues in international politics. This course will examine the many layers of peace and security in Northeast Asia, ranging from locally-based disputes to region-wide crises, and will also evaluate the multiple meanings of peace and security in a wide array of multi-layered and often overlapping contexts. Issues covered will include civic protest and civil society in domestic politics; tensions between North and South Korea and the prospects of peace and reunification; cross-strait China-Taiwan security concerns; Japan’s efforts to exert greater influence in regional politics and the response from other regional actors; territorial and resource disputes in the region; cultural understandings of peace and security in the region; the effects of international law as well as official and unofficial diplomacy on peace-building initiatives in the region; and even organized crime and trafficking. Aside from more traditional definitions of peace and security, which focus on formal military and political elements, this course will also explore other aspects that will include environmental protection, human rights, social security, and public health.
- Instructor: F. Giovannini
PACS 164.B Nonviolence TodayInspired by the changed meaning of international conflict and the expanding mission of conflict resolution in the post-cold war era, this course will study the contemporary context and issues of conflict by examining the evolution in thinking about conflict, the resolution, and their application in practice
- Instructor: A. Azevedo
PACS 190 Eternal Questions of Peace and ConflictNonviolence today embraces a holistic spectrum of movements for social justice, peace, environmental renewal, and more; it is beyond protest marches, boycotts, or political engagement. Perhaps, the most important under-reported news story of our time is that countless individuals and groups are using nonviolent methods in building pathways to transform our world, nations, communities, organizations & individual lives. This course will use the practices of consciousness, dialogue, research, and action; for envisioning, planning and implementing specific "dreams" of a nonviolent future. The methods of Socratic dialogue, case studies, and constructive program development will be extensively used.
- Instructor: D. Zook
PACS H195 Honors SeminarThis seminar provides a capstone experience for PACS majors. Students will be required to prepare a paper on a subject agreed upon with the instructor, which integrates their experiences in the PACS major. They will also discuss readings, drawing from various concentrations in the PACS program.
- Instructor: A. Karras
PEIS 100 Classical Theories of Political EconomyHonors students are required to research and write a thesis based on the prospectus developed in International and Area Studies 102. The thesis work is reviewed by the honors instructor and a second reader to be selected based on the thesis topic. Weekly progress reports required.
- Instructor: S. Bailey
PEIS 101 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: B. Crawford
PEIS 140 Economic Models for China’s DevelopmentThis 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 more specifically, the relationship between the market and the state.
- Instructor: L. Po
PEIS 150 Research Seminar in Historical Social ScienceThe course offers a comprehensive overview of China’s economic development in the wake of its economic reforms since the late 1970s. We will discuss how a market economy gradually emerged from out of a command economy, the establishment of special economic zones, the development and transformation of rural township and village enterprises, large-scale rural-urban migration, changes in the property rights system, and the resulting social and environmental challenges. This is an 8 week course
- Instructor: H. Pearson
PEIS 150.2 History of Twentieth-Century GlobalizationThis course will be wholly devoted to the craft of original research. Its remit is as broad as the title suggests: students' choice of research topics need only fit within the parameters "social" (i.e. no test tubes or ant farms), "historical" (i.e. the topic studied must have already reached closure), and "scientific" (i.e. empirical inquiry guided by the spirit of the hypothesis test). Class meetings will be devoted to interim presentations and constructive criticisms thereof. Students will submit partial drafts throughout the semester and a final draft at the end.
- Instructor: S. Bailey
PEIS 150.3 The Post-WWII Revival of Classical Political Economy: A Sympathetic Look at the Chicago SchoolThis course is an in-depth study of the history of the world in the twentieth century and provides important historical context and depth. It is designed specifically for students in International and Area Studies majors, but is open to anyone in any major and would likely be of great interest/use to those in history, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, and variety of other majors. The course will focus on several topics in the history of the 20th century, including the history of globalization itself, the history of 20th-century global conflict, the history of 20th-century environmental history, American History in a global context, and contemporary globalization. There will also be a reader which will highlight excerpts from prominent thinkers and important debates on globalization. Students will emerge from the class with a firm grasp of the history of the 20th-century world and the importance of globalization.
- Instructor: K. Magin
PEIS 150.4 Information Technology, Politics and Society in East AsiaThis course will focus on the theoretical foundations and policy implications of classical political economy. This course examines the economic role of the government. We analyze the effects of price controls, regulatory, monetary, tax and expenditure policy on economic outcomes. Topics include political economy of monetarism, supply-side economics, property rights, privatization, social insurance programs, Social Security, government provision of health insurance, welfare programs, price controls, political economy of deregulation. This class is approved to fulfill the Political Economy and Historical Context core requirements for the major.
- Instructor: L. Freeman
PEIS H195 Honors SeminarThis seminar examines and compares the political, economic and social impact of new information technologies (especially the internet and the mobile phone) in three Asian countries: Japan, China and South Korea. Particular emphasis will be placed on analyzing government attempts to control and regulate new technologies, and understanding the differing ways publics have sought to use them as tools for social and/or political change. We will also consider how these technologies have been used in elections (Japan/Korea) and/or by political parties, NGOs, grassroots political groups and organizations to enact political change and/or increase political participation. Finally, students will research the ways in which prior information regimes and cultures have guided and shaped the development and use of new technologies in each of these countries while at the same time considering the impact of the globalization of information and theories of convergence.
Honors students are required to research and write a thesis based on the prospectus developed in International and Area Studies 102. The thesis work is reviewed by the honors instructor and a second reader to be selected based on the thesis topic. Weekly progress reports required.