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2005-2010 Courses

In addition, the curriculum for 2005-2010 includes a selection from the following courses:

Public Intellectual Theory and Method: two courses are required from this list.

• Critical Perspectives in Social Theory
• Film, Colonialism and Globalization
• Global Cinema and Public Cultures
• Globalism and Post-Colonial Conditions
• Globalization and Its Terrors: the Political Thought and Activist Agendas of Teresa Brennan
• Mass Media and Public Discourse
• Media, Social Movements and Sexual Identities
• Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
• The Problem of Utopia
• Public Intellectuals and Their Role in Post-Communist Europe: Discourse of Democracy and Its Challenges
• Public Intellectual in France
• Technology, Environment, and Values
• State, Economy & Society in Global Context

Concentrations: in addition to the concentrations listed below, students may design their own themes with the approval of their committees.

• ART, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE(S)
  Avant-Gardes Past and Future: Concept, Histories, Theories
  Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
  Language Theory: The Construct of Structuralism
  The Culture Wars
  The Passion of the Christ: A Post-Holocaust Reflection on Anti-Semitism, Theological Absolutism, and History
  The Problem of Utopia
  The Public Intellectual in France
  Film, Colonialism and Globalization
  Global Cinema and Public Cultures
  
  
• FEMINISM, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY
  The Sexual Politics of Peace and War
  Women and Nation
  Globalization and Its Terrors: the Political Thought and Activist Agendas of Teresa Brennan
  Media, Social Movements and Sexual Identities
  
  
• GLOBAL AND LOCAL: MOVEMENTS AND TRANSFORMATIONS
  Cosmopolitanism
  Critical Perspectives in Social Theory
  Eurocentrism
  Globalism and Post-Colonial Conditions
  State, Economy & Society in Global Context
  Globalization and Its Terrors: the Political Thought and Activist Agendas of Teresa Brennan
  The Passion of the Christ: A Post-Holocaust Reflection on Anti-Semitism, Theological Absolutism, and History
  
  
• MEDIA & COMMUNICATION
  Film, Colonialism and Globalization
  Global Cinema and Public Cultures
  Mass Media and Public Discourse
  Media, Social Movements and Sexual Identities
  Television and New Mediated Communities
  Public Intellectuals and Their Role in Post-Communist Europe: Discourse of Democracy and Its Challenges
  
  
• TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, AND SOCIETY
  Environmental Philosophy: The Idea of Wilderness in the 21st Century
  State, Economy & Society in Global Context
  Technology, Environment, and Values
  Environment, Industry, and Community in the Florida Everglades
  Human Rights and the Environment
  Critical Perspectives in Social Theory

Other courses will be added as they become available.

Please be advised that this is a tentative schedule and subject to change, especially in regard to years two and three.