CS 100 Introduction to the Humanities: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Instructors: TBA
MW 9:30am-11:18am; TR 9:30am-11:18am; MW 11:30am-1:18pm; TR 11:30am-1:18pm; MW 1:30pm-3:18pm; TR 1:30pm-3:18pm; R 3:30pm-7:18pm
This course explores the role of literature and the arts in constructing, maintaining, and questioning the values and beliefs of diverse cultures and historical periods; topics vary.
GEC arts and humanities literature course.
CS 201 Literature and Society
Instructor: Theresa Delgadillo
MW 9:30am-11:18am
Study of relationships among politics, society, and literature; analysis of social and political elements of literature and film from diverse cultures and historical periods. Prerequisite: English 110 or 111 or equivalent. GEC arts and humanities literature course.
CS 202.02 Comparative Sacred Texts
Instructor: Michael Swartz (NELC)
TR 1:30pm-3:18pm
Introduction to religious views of the universe, the supernatural, social organization, ethics, etc., through sacred texts (oral and written) of diverse cultures and historical periods. Prerequisite: English 110 or equivalent. GEC arts and humanities literature course.
CS 203 Literature and the Self
Instructor: TBA
TR 11:30am-1:18pm
Study of relationships between psychology and literature; analysis of psychological concepts and processes as represented in literature and film of diverse cultures and historical periods. Prerequisite: English 110 or 111 or equivalent. GEC arts and humanities literature course.
CS 214 Introduction to Sexuality Studies
Instructor: Rita Trimble
MW 11:30am-1:18pm
This course will provide an introduction to sexuality studies through an interdisciplinary approach. To apply the knowledge learned, this course requires a fieldwork component. 2 2-hr cl. Prereq: English 110 or equiv. Not open to students with credit for Edu Paes 214. Cross-listed in Ed Paes.
CS 270 Introduction to Comparative Religion
Instructor:
MW 9:30am-11:18am, Seth Josephson
Introduction to the academic study of religion through comparison among major traditions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.) and smaller communities. Prerequisite: English 110 or equivalent. GEC arts and humanities, cultures and ideas and nonwestern/global focus course. Not open to students with credit for Religious Studies 270.
HONORS CS H270 Introduction to Comparative Religion
TR 11:30am-1:18pm, Lindsay Jones
Introduction to the academic study of religion through comparison among major traditions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.) and smaller communities. Prerequisite: English 110 or equivalent. GEC arts and humanities, cultures and ideas and nonwestern/global focus course. Not open to students with credit for Religious Studies 270.
CS 272 Science and Society
Instructor: Nancy Jesser
MW 3:30pm-5:18pm
Critical analysis of the multiple relations of science to society, with emphasis on knowledge, power, authority, values, and ethics. Prerequisite: English 110 or equivalent. GEC arts and hums cultures and ideas course.
CS 273 Introduction to World Literature
Instructor: Lucia Bortoli
MW 9:30am-11:18am
Analysis of oral and written literatures of diverse cultures and historical periods. Prerequisite: English 110 or equivalent. GEC arts and hums lit course.
CS 301 Love in World Literature
TR 9:30am-11:18am, Monika Brodnicka
MW 3:30pm-5:18pm, Michael Murphy
Representations of love in world literature; emphasis on mythological, psychological, and ideological aspects of selected representations in different cultures and time periods. GEC arts and humanities, literature and nonwestern/global focus course. Prerequisite: 5 credit hours in literature and English 110 or 111 or equivalent.
Honors 301 Love in World Literature
MW 9:30am-11:18am, Philip Armstrong
Representations of love in world literature; emphasis on mythological, psychological, and ideological aspects of selected representations in different cultures and time periods. GEC arts and humanities, literature and nonwestern/global focus course. Prerequisite: 5 credit hours in literature and English 110 or 111 or equivalent.
CS 305 Medicine and the Humanities
TR 9:30am-11:18am, Allison Fish
Humanistic, scientific, and clinical perspectives on medical issues; literary uses of medical themes, medicine as art and science. GEC arts and humanities, cultures and ideas. Prerequisite: English 110 or equivalent.
CS 306 The Quest in World Literature
MW 3:30pm-5:18pm
Motif of the quest in world literature; physical and mental journeys as metaphors of personal transformation and salvation. GEC arts and humanities, literature and global diversity. Prerequisite: English 110 or equivalent.
CS 308 Representations of the Experience of War
TR 3:30pm-5:18pm, Jason Payne
MW 9:30am-11:18am, Oded Nir
Representations of war in works of literature, religious texts, and film from diverse cultures and time periods. GEC arts and humanities, literature and international issues course. Prerequisite: English 110 or equivalent.
CS 324 African Religions
Instructor: Monika Brodnicka
TR 11:30am-1:18pm
Survey of African traditional religions and their interaction with Islam and Christianity in Africa and the diaspora; emphasis on cosmologies, myth, ritual, ethics, and witchcraft.rerequisite: English 110 or 111 or equivalent. GEC arts and hums VPA course.
CS 357 Introduction to Globalization and Culture
Instructor: Nina Berman
MW 1:30pm-3:18pm
This course introduces students to the broader experience of globalization by examining cultural representations in relation to the circumstances and conditions of the globalization process. The course is organized chronologically, and divided into four units: the period before European hegemony; the era of European colonialism and imperialism; the period of decolonization and modernization; and the contemporary context. These units serve to highlight continuities and changes in the globalization process. Questions of empire, migration, various types of networks, and the relationship between local lives and larger political and economic systems are central to all units. With the onset of European colonization and imperialism, however, the scale and nature of the interdependency of different areas of the world changed dramatically. The broad timeframe of the course allows a systematic discussion of these changes. The course pays particular attention to the ways in which human lives are affected by different aspects of globalization. Class discussion centers on cultural texts and other artifacts, which will be analyzed in light of various background readings. Prereq: 2nd level standing or permission of instructor.
CS 358 Film and Literature as Narrative Art
Instructor: Jason Payne
M 3:30pm-6:18pm and W 3:30pm-5:18pm
Relationships between film and literature; emergence of cinematic art as a form of representation with emphasis on diverse cultural traditions. Prerequisite: English 110 or 111 or equivalent. GEC arts and hums VPA course.
CS 367.01 American Identity in the World
Instructors: TBA
MW 9:30am-11:18am; MW 11:30am-1:18pm; TR 11:30am-1:18pm; TR 1:30pm-3:18pm; MW 1:30pm-3:18pm; TR 3:30pm-5:18pm; MW 4:30pm-6:18pm
American culture viewed from inside and from the perspective of foreign cultures, as seen in literature, film, art, music, journalism, folklore, and popular culture. Prerequisite: English 110 or equivalent and sophomore standing. GEC second writing, social diversity course.
CS 367.02 Science and Technology in American Culture
MW 9:30am-11:18am; TR 9:30-11:18
Role of science and technology in contemporary American society; their relationship to human values; sources of concern about their impact; evaluation of selected issues. Prerequisite: English 110 or equivalent and sophomore standing. GEC second writing course, social diversity course.
HONORS
CS H367.02 Science and Technology in American Culture
Instructor: Brian Rotman
TR 1:30pm-3:18pm
Role of science and technology in contemporary American society; their relationship to human values; sources of concern about their impact; evaluation of selected issues. Prerequisite: English 110 or equivalent and sophomore standing. GEC second writing course, social diversity course.
CS 367.03 Religious Diversity in America
Instructors: TBA
MW 9:30am-11:18am; TR 3:30pm-5:18pm
Exploration of the concept of religious freedom and the position of minority religious groups in American society. Prerequisite: English 110 or equivalent and sophomore standing. GEC second writing course, social diversity course.
CS 508 Utopia and Anti-Utopia
Instructor: Nancy Jesser
MW 11:30pm-3:18pm
lass # 26475
In this course we will examine first the history of utopian thinking as expressed in literature from various cultural and literary sources ranging from religious texts, the writings of political philosophers, “explorers” and novelists. Through examining the imagining of better worlds and their limits, we will explore the development of utopian projects in early modern Europe (alongside European expansionist/colonizing projects) and their critical antitheses, dystopias, as well as the anti-utopian view that any such projects are inherently flawed and dangerous. We will then look at social histories and cultural studies of utopian and intentional communities from the 19th to 20th century.
Authors may include Francis Bacon, William Morris, Samuel Butler, Yvgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley and Margaret Atwood. The remainder of the course will be spent critically examining contemporary 21st utopian/dystopian enactments ranging from movies, on-line communities, virtual world gaming, and other expressions of the utopian impulse, e.g. Freegans, Off-the-Grid communities, sustainable communities, urban re-development projects, nature preserves, virtual realities, GLBT communities, festivals, etc. to discover the implicit critiques of society and desires for a better world. These enactments will be analyzed for their implicit or explicit dystopian or anti-utopian aspects. Additional possible readings/films include: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Matrix, (Wachowski Bros), Real Utopias by Chris Spanos, The Gleaners (Agnés Varda).
CS 520 Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
Instructor: Michael McVicar
MW 11:30am-1:18pm
Class # 12488
Survey of contemporary theories and methods used in the academic study of religion. Prereq: CompStd or RelStds 270 or equiv. course.
CS 525 Contemporary Religious Movements in Global Context
Instructor: Hugh Urban, MW 11:30am-1:18pm
Class # 26476
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many sociologists had predicted that religion would gradually wane in importance as our world became increasingly scientific, rational and technological. And yet today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, it would seem that exactly the opposite has happened: new religious movements have proliferated wildly throughout the world in the last hundred years, and have become intimately tied to larger political and cultural forces of globalization.
This course will examine a series of new religious movements that have emerged within the last 150 years, placing them within the larger contexts of globalization and transnationalism. These will include: The Native American Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, the Nation of Islam, Bahai, the Raelians, neo-Hindu Gurus like Sathya Sai Baba, Japanese new religions and various forms of religious terrorism (al Qaeda, Aum Shinrikyo, and Christian Identity).
In the course of our discussion, we will ask: why is it that religion has not in fact waned as a global force but instead become even more powerful? How are new religious movements related to larger transnational flows of people, goods and information? Why do religious movements so often become linked to political violence and terrorism?
In addition to lecture, discussion and films, the class will involve several field trips to new religious groups in the Columbus area. Students will be required to write several short papers, two field observation papers and give one in-class group presentation. Not open to students with credit for IntStds 525. Cross-listed in International Studies.ntroduces comparative studies majors to theoretical tools, methods of investigation, and key concepts in comparative studies research and scholarship. Prereq: English 110 or equiv, and comp st major; or permission of dept.
CS 545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
Instructor: Theresa Delgadillo, MW 3:30pm-5:18pm
Class # 27165
This course, Intersections, builds an understanding of the interrelated nature of various axes of social classification as a useful rubric for theorizing difference. Rather than imagining race, gender, class and sexuality as separate and at times additive modes of social experience, this course assumes and asks us to investigate how these categories work in conjunction with one another in very profound ways. This comparative and interdisciplinary course examines specific intersections while also emphasizing broad understandings of the social, political and cultural processes that shape lived experiences of difference. Not open to students with credit for AAAS or WGSST 545.
CS 573/573E World Literature: Theory and Practice
Instructor: Louisa Shea
MW 3:30pm-5:18pm
Class # 12489/ 25052
What does it mean to think about literature in a global context? Is it simply a matter of reading more and more diversely, of opening our horizons to what lies beyond American and English-language fiction? Or does this “reading more,” as the literary critic Franco Moretti has suggested, also mean “reading differently”? And if so, how? In this course, we will examine various attempts to define “world literature,” looking back to its earliest theoreticians in the eighteenth century and reflecting on the increasing relevance and urgency of the idea in our contemporary world. We will consider topics such as the rise of postcolonial literatures, the role of institutions such as the Nobel prize for literature and the Booker prizes, the global literary marketplace, and questions of translation. Readings will include novels and critical essays from around the world. Prereq: 273 or 373.
CS 597.01 Global Studies of Science and Technology
Instructor: Brian Murphy
MW 11:30am-1:18pm
Explores relations among culture, science, and technology in changing global contexts. GEC capstone course. Prereq: Jr standing or permission of instructor. GEC Issues of the Contemporary World class.
CS 597.02 Global Culture
Instructor: Joshua Kurz
TR 3:30pm-5:18pm
Examines contemporary global culture flows, the concepts useful in analyzing them, and the questions they raise about power and cultural change. Prereq: Jr standing or permission of instructor. GEC Issues of the Contemporary World class.
CS 598 Senior Seminae
Instructor: Julia Watson, MW 11:30am-1:18pm, Class number 12492
Instructor: David Horn, TR 11:30am-1:18pm, Class number 26482
Writing seminar based on students’ independent research. Prereq. 398 and sr. standing.
CS 651 Religion and Media
Instructor: Michael McVicar
MW 3:30pm-6:18pm
Class# 23983
In the 21st century, it is impossible to detach religion from the dizzying array of media that amplify and circulate its ideas and practices. This course aims to provide students with a theoretical and historical perspective on the complex and shifting relationship between media and religion. Throughout the course we will work to understand how these two categories are increasingly understood in terms of one another.
The course will use a range of diverse religious expressions drawn from U.S. popular culture and history to explore not only the relationship between the mass media and religion, but also the problem of mediums and mediation as they relate to bodies, texts, images, and spirits. By focusing on mass culture, consumption, and the problem of mediation, we will explore methodological and theoretical issues in the study of religion related to questions of the autonomous subject, the methodological tension between belief and practice, and the relationships between modernization, secularization, and religion. We will cover a variety of media, ranging from the printed word and illustrations, cartoons and comics, radio and television, rituals and bodies.
Among other readings, the class will utilize a number of recent books in the field:
Jason Bivins, Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism (2008)
Heather Hendershot, What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest (2011)
Kathryn Lofton, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon (2011)
W. Scott Poole, Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting (2011)
CS 651 The Talmud
Instructor: Michael Swartz (NELC)
T 2:30pm-5:18pm
Class # 26491
Understanding the Talmud is essential to understanding Judaism and, indeed, ancient Mediterranean and Western religion. An ancient, diverse compilation of Jewish law, theology, interpretation, folklore, and dialectic, the Talmud has been the object of study and devotion for a millennium and a half. Compiled in the fifth and sixth centuries CE from sources going back to the first century, it is an ongoing conversation among sages, storytellers, legislators, and preachers on everything from the proper times for prayer to the nature of divine justice to whether magical charms are effective. This course will explore the historical, literary, and religious background of the Talmud from a multidisciplinary perspective. To understand the world of the Talmud we will use methods from religious studies, history, legal theory, and gender theory. Please note that all materials will be studied in English translation, although students are welcome to bring their language and disciplinary skills into the class.
CS 677.02 Studies in World Folklore: Travelers, Tourists, and Tricksters
Instructor: Sabra Webber
M 5:30pm-8:18pm
Class number: 26477
This seminar takes a critical look at different sorts of travel and travelers—explorers, ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, NGO and government officials and workers, missionaries, and tourists. We will look at a wide range of travel narratives and their relation to “tricksters” and trickster stories as they arise in different cultural and historical contexts. It is to be hoped that students will produce papers that circle around these themes and that their projects will intersect in ways that will enhance the work of fellow students in the seminar and in turn will be enhanced by theirs.
We will start with works that address the trickster and, at least indirectly, the trickiness of travel. The book, Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa, by Johannes Fabian, attends mostly to travel and exploration. The article, “’A Tolerated Margin of Mess’: The Trickster and His Tales Reconsidered,” by Barbara Babcock-Abrahams provides something of a check-list of trickster characteristics. We will then move from past to present travel and from explorers to travelers to tourists in the readings for the next few weeks.
CS 677.03 Studies in World Folklore: Textiles and Material Culture
Instructor: Willow Mullins (English)
MW 11:30am-1:18pm
Class number: 26478
Things are so much a part of our lives that we often don’t think about them at all, but they help us define who we are, personally and culturally, and literally shape how we live. This course is about things in general. Throughout the term, we will tackle a series of questions: What makes an object an object, especially in a virtual world? How do objects represent, what happens when they are on display? How do objects make meaning and become signs? We will begin by looking at what we mean by “things” – from gravestones to clothing, handmade chairs to tattoos, we’ll explore how objects function and help us to make meaning in everyday life. We’ll see how objects are crucially interwoven with other folk forms, including verbal art, ritual, and festival. From the things around us, we move to the display of things, in our homes, on our bodies, and in the museum. Bringing these discussions together, we will end in the marketplace, where things become signs to be exchanged for other things. Along the way, we’ll pursue some object studies of our own.
CS 725 Theorizing Religion
Instructor: Hugh Urban
TR 9:30am-11:18am
Class number: 26479
Far from waning in significance in our increasingly globalized, technological and interconnected modern world, religion has reemerged as a powerful force with tremendous social, economic, and political implications. This course is an intensive seminar devoted to the close critical reading of a series of key theories in the contemporary study of religion. Students are expected to have some background in religious studies, such as Comparative Studies 520 or 620 or equivalent course work (or permission of the instructor). The approaches covered in the course will include: Neo-Marxism and critical theory, postmodernism and deconstruction, feminism and gender-theory, evolutionary theory and cognitive science. The authors we read will include: Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Grace Jantzen, Pamela Sue Anderson, Pascal Boyer, and others. Students will be expected to lead class discussions, write one original research paper and give an oral presentation based on their final project
CS 770.02 Intro to Graduate Study in Folklore: Field Research
Instructor: Amy Shuman
MW 1:30pm-3:18pm
Cross-listed in English
Class numbers: Comparative Studies 26744; English 26295
Second of a two-course sequence in current scholarship and methods necessary for advanced study in folklore.Introduction to ethnographic research design, participant observation and interview methods, ethics in human subject research, archiving of research materials, and ethnographic writing. Prereq: Grad standing or permission of instructor. 770.01 or English 770.01 recommended.
CS 792 Genealogies of Networks
Instructor: Philip Armstrong, M 1:30pm-4:18pm
Class# 22868
This course addresses the ways in which networks have become a decisive feature of modernity, embracing at once information and communication technologies, the “network society,” new forms of community and belonging, and the tendencies defining contemporary globalization. The course also addresses the ways in which the discourse of networks has constituted a critical challenge to both disciplinary and epistemological thinking, transforming networks from their more specialized fields of origin to new assemblages of political, social and anthropological research, new materialist historiographies, and new languages and articulations of critical thinking. Opening toward different genealogies of networks, the course is organized around four terms—language, epistemology, ontology, and political anthropology.
Readings include texts by Daniel Ciborra, Marcel Detienne and Jean-Pierre Vernant, Arturo Escobar, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Edouard Glissant, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri, Martin Heidegger, Bruno Latour, Walter Mignolo Jean-Luc Nancy, Annelise Riles, John Scheid and Jesper Svenbro, and Cecilia Vicuna.
CS 792 Translation Studiesn
Instructor: Dick Davis
MW 3:30pm-5:18pmn
Cross-listed in English and NELC
Class numbers: Comparative Studies792, 26704; English 792, 23662; NELC 792 23659
Although wide reading from texts about translation is expected and will be discussed in class, the emphasis in this class will be on practice. Students will identify specific non-English literary texts they wish to translate, discuss the specific (cultural, linguistic, temporal, and so on) problems involved in translating such texts, and produce translations that attempt to solve these problems and that “work” in English. Each week we will read and discuss a text by an author represented in Theories of Translation (ed. Schulte and Biguenet), as well as discuss translations or a presentation of problems provided by members of the class. Students should be fluent in English, have a good working knowledge of at least one other language, and have a strong interest in literature. Each student will complete several short translations and discussions of the particular problems of translation they encountered. Translation of one longer text may be an alternative for some students.
CS 792 Seminar on Medicine, Science, and Technology Studies (MSTS)
Instructor: Allison Fish
R 12:30pm-3:18pm
Class number: 27078
The historical development of the medical humanities as well as science and technology studies has been shaped by a series of questions regarding health and illness, scientific inquiry, and technological development. How can critical scholarship contribute to an understanding of disparities in access to health care, as well as differences in health outcomes based on social characteristics? How might new digital media and social networking technologies transform not just health care institutions and practices, but understandings of “health” itself? Why is it crucial to understand social and cultural specificity when considering questions of technology design? How has social science and humanities research contributed to the fields of medicine and technology, broadly conceived?
This seminar is predicated on the idea that the social phenomena studied by the “medical humanities” and “science and technology studies” (taken together as MSTS) are in fact inextricably connected, and understanding these linked formations requires moving between disparate fields of inquiry. In doing this, we will approach MSTS 1) as an emergent or (merging) discipline(s) with hardly settled genealogies; 2) as a growing emphasis within the humanities and social sciences; and 3) as a mode of thinking and moving through social theory. In exploring this, we will ask: Is MSTS a "case study" of larger social phenomena that exist to be theorized? Or has “medicine, science, and technology” become a constitutive component of emergent social phenomena in ways that increasingly force social theory to take account of "science studies,” however broadly construed?
CS 890 Japanese Philosophies of Languages
Instructor: Tom Kasulis
T 12:30pm-3:18pms
Cross-listed in Japanese and Philosophys
Class numbers: CompSt 890, 26081; Japanese 899, 26135; Philosophy 899, 26125
Japanese culture includes such unusual linguistic practices as mantras and koans; it has a rich poetic tradition written in both Chinese and Japanese; it adapted a writing system from a language (Chinese) with which it was linguistically totally unrelated; its syntactical structures reflect the changing relations between speaker and audience; it has interacted with Chinese, Korean, and (since the late nineteenth century) western philosophies. Therefore, Japan presents a particularly interesting cultural context for developing theories of language, a context quite different from that of the western tradition. In the seminar we will study how a range of major Japanese philosophical thinkers have addressed these issues from the early ninth century up to the present. The thinkers studied will include Kūkai (esoteric Buddhism), Dōgen (Zen Buddhism), Ogyū Sorai (Confucianism), Motoori Norinaga (Shinto and classical poetics), Kuki Shūzō (modern aesthetic philosophy), Yosano Akiko (feminist philosophy), Ueda Shizuteru (modern epistemological and religious philosophy), Karatani Kōjin (literary criticism and critical theory),and Kimura Bin (psychology and philosophy). In addition there will be readings from a variety of secondary critical essays and articles.
Because the course will include students from different departments, it will assume no particular prerequisite training in western philosophy of language, Japanese studies, linguistics, or rhetoric. Instead, students will be expected to share their expertise with other students of different backgrounds. A goal of such an interdepartmental seminar is to help us find ways of speaking that make the insights of our respective disciplines available to those from other disciplines. Besides active participation in the seminar meetings, the major requirement is a term paper.
CS 890 Transnationalism and Literatures
Instructor: Nina Berman
R 3:30pm-6:18pms
Crosslisted in English, German, and NELCs
Class numbers: CompSt 890, 26323; English 890, 26322; German 899 26095; NELC 25575
This seminar explores the relevance of the concept of “transnationalism” for the study of literature. Drawing on a wide range of critics and literary texts, we will discuss aspects of transnationalism in four different units. The first unit explores historical dimensions of the term, such as its relationship to colonialism and postcolonialism and to ideas of the “nation” and “nationalism.” The second unit focuses on transnational and intercultural aspects of the colonial period. The third unit takes a comparative approach to modernist literature, and challenges the eurocentric understanding of modernist literature by highlighting modernism’s transnational scope. The last unit explores transnationalism in the context of the contemporary phase of globalization, particularly with regard to the effects of migration on individuals and multicultural societies.
Literary texts will include “Songs of the Aztec Nobility”; Daniel Kehlmann, Measuring the World; Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise; Kajii Motojiro, “Feelings Atop a Cliff”; The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance; Orhan Pamuk, Snow; Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Theoretical readings include texts by, among others, Dipesh Chakrabarty; Paul Gilroy; Adrienne Johnson Gosselin; Salah Hassan; Franco Moretti; Aihwa Ong; Shu-mei Shih and Francoise Lionnet; Arjun Appadurai; Saskia Sassen; Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan; Thomas Faist; and Wolfgang Welsch.
Assignments and grading: Participation (20%); oral presentation (20%); term paper (60 %)