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IAS Courses Summer 2008

IAS 45 Survey of World History

  • Session C: Eight Week Session June 23 - August 15

  • MTWT: 3:00-5:00 - 213 Wheeler

  • Lecture, 4 Units, CCN: 55305

  • Instructor: TBA
    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.
IAS 120

  • Session A: First Six Week Session May 21 - June 29

  • MTWT: 5:00-7:00 - 210 Wheeler

  • Lecture, Units, CCN: 53308

  • Instructor: M. Padilla
    Room share with LAS 130, ccn: 57503
IAS 160 The Berkeley Summer Institute for the Global Generation

  • Session E: Three Week Session July 28 - August 15

  • MTWTF: 8:00-5:00 - 179 Dwinelle

  • Lecture, Units, CCN: 55310

  • Instructor: TBA
IAS C170 Portugal-Language & Culture

  • Session D: Second Six Week Session July 7 - August 15

  • unscheduled - no facility

  • Lecture, Units, CCN: 53315

  • Instructor: D.M. Adao
LAS 130

  • Session A: First Six Week Session May 21 - June 29

  • MTWT: 5:00-7:00 -

  • Lecture, Units, CCN: 57503

  • Instructor: M. Padilla
    Room share with IAS 120, ccn: 53308
LAS 150 Latin America through Film

  • Session D: Second Six Week Session July 7 - August 15

  • TWT: 3:00-5:30 - 174 Barrows

  • Lecture, 4 Units, CCN: 57505

  • Instructor: L. Segal
    Latin America's history is full of enormous drama; so, too, is its cinema. This course will be an intensive immersion into the world of Latin America in film. We will view films from Mexico, Cuba, Martinique, Colombia, Brazil, and Chile. We will see films about Latin America made in the United States and other countries. In addition to viewing these films, we will talk and write about them.
PACS 10 Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies

  • Session C: Eight Week Session June 23 - August 15

  • 12:00-2:30 - 3106 Etcheverry

  • Lecture, 4 Units, CCN: 69705

  • 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.
PACS 126 International Human Rights

  • Session D: Second Six Week Session July 7 - August 15

  • MTWT: 10:00-12;00 - 106 Moffitt

  • Lecture, 4 Units, CCN: 69725

  • Instructor: J. Drabble
    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.
PACS 127 Human Rights and Global Politics

  • Session A: First Six Week Session May 21 - June 29

  • MTWT: 2:00-4:00 - 2312 Tolman

  • Lecture, 4 Units, CCN: 69730

  • Instructor: J. Shackford-Bradley
    This course will ask what post-World War II conceptions of human rights mean for a number of specific issues. Looking in-depth at issues such as humanitarian intervention, international criminal justice, economic rights, immigration, and US foreign policy we will ask how ideas and laws about human rights and institutions to protect human rights have impacted these or similar human rights issues.
PACS 159 Conflict Resolution Intensive Training

  • Session E: Three Week Session July 28 - August 15

  • MTTF: 9:00-430 - 220 Wheeler

  • Workshop, 3 Units, CCN: 69735

  • Instructor: B. Roy
    This course provides intensive experiential training in conflict resolution and mediation techniques. Students will apply, analyze, and evaluate the results of applying conflict resolution mediation theory and models presented in other conflict resolution course work, as well as, develop and refine mediation techniques and skills through participation and observation of exercises and case studies.
PEIS 100 Classical Theories of Political Economy

  • Session A: First Six Week Session May 21 - June 29

  • MTWTF: 2:00-4:00 - 160 Dwinelle

  • Lecture, 4 Units, CCN: 73505

  • 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.
PEIS 101 Contemporary Theories of Political Economy

  • Session D: Second Six Week Session July 7 - August 15

  • MTWTF: 10:00-12:00 - 160 Dwinelle

  • Lecture, 4 Units, CCN: 73510

  • Instructor: S. Naidu
    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. We will cover both the theoretical perspectives of these relationships and the post-war historical factors that have shaped them. For more information: www.santafe.edu/~snaidu/peis