Courses for 2013 - 2014 academic year to be announced soon.
Spring 2010 Schedule of Courses
The following courses are open to doctoral students in the Ph.D. in Comparative Studies. Advanced MA students and doctoral students in other programs may enroll only with permission of instructor.
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CST 7931-001 (19227) Relig 9/11: Abrahamic Trialogue
Tuesday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., TBA
(561) 297-2979 |
Amidst world-wide concern about terrorism committed in the name of religion, it is appropriate to discuss how religion can be a compelling voice for peace-building. Jonathan Swift's satirical observation: "We have just enough religion to make us hate one another but not enough to love one another" was the leitmotif of pre-Holocaust interfaith relations. Following the horrific revelation unleashed by the Shoah, there has been a turn away from religious arrogance and theological triumphalism as seen especially in the Second Vatican Council's issuance of "Nostra Aetate" [1965]. More recently, there has been increased awareness of the need for a trialogue involving the Abrahamic faiths. However, there is also a turn to fanaticism which threatens to derail a meaningful trialogue. We discuss both possibilities and problems attending interfaith conversation after 9/11. |
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AML 6934-003 (19522) 20th Cent Africn Amer Lit/The Wednesday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., FL 101 D r. Sika Dagbovie, English(561) 297-1083 |
This course provides an overview of twentieth century African American literature, criticism, and theory. Our study of the texts will focus on the ongoing debates about black literature: What is black writing? What should it be? What is the role of the African American writer? What is the function of African American literary art? How does one define a black aesthetic? We will also consider how the politics and rhetoric of black literary art have changed over time and the ways in which historical political, and literary movements (including the Harlem Renaissance, the Protest Period, the Black Arts Movement, the New Black Aesthetic/Post-Soul Aesthetic) affect literary aesthetics. Texts will likely include Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman and The Slave, Trey Ellis’ Platitudes, Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada, Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Sapphire’s Push, and Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist. |
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AML 6934-004 (19523) Postwar American Poetry Thursday, 7:10 – 10 p.m., AH 104 Dr. Mark Scroggins, English(561) 297-3561 |
No course description on file. |
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ANG 6930-002 (19238)
Women Writing Culture
Dr. Susan Love Brown, Anthropology
(561) 297-2325
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When Clifford and Marcus in the introduction to their book, Writing Culture (1986) charged that feminist ethnography had not “produced either unconventional forms of writing or a developed reflection on ethnographic textuality as such,” they launched a salvo that was met by the publication of the volume, Women Writing Culture (1995) edited by Ruth Behar and Deborah A. Gordon, which re-examined and called into question this charge. Using this text as a foundation, this course will explore the ethnographic texts of female anthropologists and their contributions to both anthropological theory and ethnographic form and style. We will also look at important works by non-anthropologists that contribute to our understanding of culture. The course will emphasize the use of standard ethnographic evaluation along with evaluative tools from feminist theory with an eye toward identifying both textual and theoretical innovations.
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ENG 6049-003 (19524)
Studies in Queer Theory
Dr. Barclay Barrios, English (561) 297-3838bbarrios@fau.edu |
In this course we'll be reading foundational works in Queer Theory by critics such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Michael Warner. In order to contextualize these complex theoretical works we will read short primary works of fiction and nonfiction. Assignments include a short presentation, a bibliography, and a final seminar paper. Please be forewarned: readings in this course are particularly dense and some readings will contain explicit erotic material. |
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ENL 6305-003 (19525)
Virginia Woolf
Dr. Eric Berlatsky, English
(561) 297-2103
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Writing primarily between the World Wars, Virginia Woolf (1882-1940) was one of the most distinctive and insightful voices of her generation and remains a writer for all time. In addition to her groundbreaking work in short experimental fiction and the stream-of-consciousness novel, Woolf was one of the earliest practitioners of a feminist literary theory (avant la lettre), and a cunning, witty, and ironic essayist on matters of culture, society, and art. In her own way, she also transformed the genres of history, political essay, and biography, combining each of them with the novelistic genre that was her primary mode of aesthetic expression. Woolf’s life was also, by turns, comic and tragic. She suffered several nervous breakdowns, lost her mother, father, brother, and stepsister at a young age, was sexually molested by her stepbrother, had at least one lesbian affair while married to Leonard Woolf, and committed suicide just as England was being drawn into World War II. In short, she was an intensely interesting writer and person, more than worthy of a semester’s study and conversation. Over the course of the semester, we will read all or most of Woolf’s major novels, a selection of her essays, and some of the bountiful supply of Woolf criticism. We may also read some of the following: diary selections, selections of letters, Roger Fry, Freshwater (her only play), excerpts of Hermione Lee’s Woolf biography, work by a Woolf contemporary or two (Mansfield, Joyce, or both), and perhaps an exemplar or two of Woolf’s influence and legacy (Jeanette Winterson, Michael Cunningham). There will simply not be enough time to read and discuss everything that is worthy of study, but you can count on reading: The Voyage Out, Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, The Waves, A Room of One’s Own, Three Guineas, Orlando, The Years, and Between the Acts all in the standard Harcourt editions. Requirements will include one “close reading” paper (5-6 pp.), a research paper (15-20 pp.) and perhaps one additional brief assignment.
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ENL 6934-002 (19527) Thursday, 4 - 6:50 p.m., GS 108
Dr. Julieann Ulin, English |
In the introduction to his recent collection of short fiction, The Deportees and Other Stories (2008), Irish author Roddy Doyle writes that sometime in the 1990s, “I went to bed in one country and woke up in a different one.” This graduate course focuses on the dynamics of conflict in 20th century British and Irish literature from Yeats and Gregory’s 1902 dramatic collaboration Cathleen ni Houlihan through the peace talks which resulted in the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. This course will consider Ireland’s transition from a colonial subject seeking independence to a postcolonial nation and EU member through literature, political writings, film, music and art. We will explore the centrality of colonialism, emigration and exile in the work of writers such as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney. Along with active weekly seminar participation, two research papers (6-8 pages, 8-10 pages), several guided response papers, and an in-class conference presentation are required.
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ENL 6455-002 (19526)
Shakespeare and Co.
Dr. Jennifer Low, English (561) 297-2552 |
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FIL 6807-002 (19432)
Film Theory and Criticism
Dr. Christopher Robe, Communication and Multimedia Studies (561) 297-1306 |
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GLS 6111-002 (19431)
Masterpieces in Human Thought
Dr. Richard Shusterman, Eminent Scholar in the Humanities (561) 297-0851 shuster1@fau.edu |
The title of this seminar suggests an exploration not of one masterpiece or even a selection of several great works from one particular tradition. Instead, “masterpieces in human thought” evokes the idea of masterly and highly influential products of thinking that have emerged in different human cultures and have achieved classic status not only in their home cultures but also far more widely, because of their transcultural humanistic appeal. Such works can be considered treasures of our global human heritage.
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LIT 6932-002 (19528)
Fiction & Fantasy
Dr. Thomas Martin, English (561) 297-2726 tmartin@fau.edu |
Is The Lord of the Rings the greatest work of fiction of the twentieth century? It appears on several lists as the most important or favorite of many readers. On the Modern Library list of the 100 Best Novels, on the other hand, it doesn’t appear at all. Let the debates begin! Tolkien’s great fictional romance will be the centerpiece of this course. Other fantasy authors we will tuck in around the edges include MacDonald, Lewis, LeGuin, and King. |
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LIT 6934-002 (19529)
Global Indigenous Lit
Dr. Quentin Youngberg, English (561) 297-2907 qyoungbe@fau.edu |
Global Indigenous Literature will explore the effects of globalization on indigenous societies. This exploration will take on several aspects. First, we will explore the transnational character of certain American Indian writers, such as Gerald Vizenor and Carter Revard, who practice a kind of literary nomadism. Second, we will explore some significant political struggles in indigenous Latin America that have been globalized through mass media. Finally, we will explore the impact of global concerns about indigenous rights (in the wake of the last few centuries' colonial enterprises) on indigenous people worldwide. While our primary focus, at least in the beginning, will be on transnationalism and globalization in the indigenous Americas, in the process of our discussions students will be invited to think of indigenous literatures across the planet. (These include the expected places, such as South African or Australian indigenous literature; but also some more unfamiliar places such as Berber literature in Morocco.)
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MUS 6933 002
The Life & Works of Mozart
Dr. Kenneth Keaton, Music (561) 297-2310 keaton@fau.edu |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the most naturally talented musician who ever existed. That he was cut down in the 35 th year of his life, after he commented "I am only now learning to compose" is an immense tragedy. This tragedy is offset by a very large body of music that survives him and gives all lovers of art and humanity hope. Mozart was a child of the Enlightenment; he changed not only music but the relationship of music and humankind, and the very place of the musician in society. |
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PHI 6930-003 (19413)
Biomedical Ethics
Dr. Robin Fiore, Philosophy (561) 297-3869 rfiore@fau.edu |
Bioethics is an interdisciplinary field of study that is directed to the ethical analysis of the professional practice of medicine and nursing and of public policy issues in health care. In the first part of this course, the analysis focuses primarily on the ethical dimensions of clinical practice; in the latter part, we will consider ethical issues in biotechnology: stem cells, genetics, reproductive technologies and neuroethics. The objectives of this course are to provide broad introduction to ethical issues in health care and to provide familiarity with the philosophical literature of bioethics that addresses these issues. |
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PHI 6930-004 (19431)
Justice and Health Care
Dr. Robin Fiore, Philosophy (561) 297-3869 rfiore@fau.edu |
What is justice in health care? In this course we examine several competing philosophical conceptions of justice and their implications for debates about health care. We will examine the question of whether some goods and services ought to be subject to allocation by the market – specifically: health care, organs for transplantation, and embryos. We will consider the moral arguments for distributing or rationing scarce resources in pandemic flu emergency planning - who will be saved when not everyone can be saved and who decides? We will consider the connection between certain distributive paradigms and racial and ethnic health disparities and the consequences of global markets for patented pharmaceuticals for life saving treatments such as for HIV/AIDS. Throughout we will be critically examining approaches to non-ideal moral reasoning and critically assessing moral ideals connected to health care. |
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PHP 6810-002 (19418)
Marx and Freud
Dr. Simon Glynn, Philosophy (561) 297-3879 glynn@fau.edu |
The economic and Psychological analyses of these two thinkers have profoundly affected the ways we interpret, understand, explain and predict individual, social, cultural and political experience, behavior and interactions, as well as artistic and literary creativity, production and products. Indeed such is the impact of these two thinkers upon the arts and humanities, as well as the human and social sciences, that it is surely no exageration to suggest that without some familiarity with their claims, and the ability to apply their analyses, one cannot truly be considered an intellectual. In light of this the twin aims of this combined lecture and seminar course will be to provide a critical understanding of the more significant claims made and frameworks developed by these two thinkers, and to show how Marxist and Freudian methodology may be employed in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. |
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SPD 6934-004 (20005)
Seminar: Social Control
Dr. Lynn Appleton, Sociology (561) 297-3813 |
No course description on file. |
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SPD 6934-006 (20008)
Seminar: Global City
Dr. Marina Karides, Sociology (954) 236-1145 |
No course description on file. |
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SPD 6934-007 (20012)
Sem: Critical Soc. Psychology
Dr. Ryan Moore, Sociology (561) 297-0816 rmoore43@fau.edu |
No course description on file. |
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SPY 6035-002 (20003)
Seminar in Microsociology
Dr. Ann Branaman, Sociology (561) 297-3278 branaman@fau.edu |
No course description on file. |
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WST 6936-003 (19340)
Sem in Global Perspect on Gndr
Dr. Josephine Beoku-Betts, Philosophy (561) 297-2057 beockubet@fau.edu |
This course will be interdisciplinary in focus and combine advanced readings and analyses of original and scholarly texts on global perspectives on gender, focusing on societies in the global South. A wide range of materials and case studies on Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Arab world, and the Caribbean will be used, drawing on original materials by scholars from these regions wherever possible. A main objective of the course will be to examine the application and relevance of various conceptual and theoretical approaches to analyzing gender relations in the global South. We will explore the impact of internal and globalization processes on gender, locating their manifestations in a historical, cultural, social, economic, and political context. Throughout the course a special effort will be made to understand some universal features and differences in gender related experiences, including local and transnational women¹s activism. Topics covered include women and environment, sex trafficking, sex tourism and sex work, men and masculinities, violence against women, women and agriculture, and transnational women¹s movements. |
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CST 7905-001 / 002 / 003
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CST 7940-001 (10334)
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CST 7980-001 (10335)
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