| INTS 101 |
| Introduction to the Latin American and Caribbean World |
| This introductory course explores Latin American and Caribbean societies and cultures from the perspectives of various disciplines, and focuses on a wide range of themes. The course will enjoy the presence of some of the College’s experts, from historians to ethnomusicologists. The goal here is for the students to acquire a panoramic view of the Latin America and the Caribbean worlds while getting acquainted with various basic issues that are explored more deeply in 200- and 300-level courses at Trinity. We will touch on issues of demography, geography, basis historical periods processes, particular anthropological and cultural debates, fundamental political and gender, sociological approaches to daily life, aesthetic and literary movements, and the regions positions within the historic and contemporary world economy. (Also offered under Latin American and Caribbean studies.) |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 103 |
| Hugo Chávez: Oil, Revolution & Democracy in Latin America |
| In the late 1990s Latin America began to experience radical political changes reminiscent of the 1959 Cuban Revolution. A leading, controversial figure in this process has been Venezuela's democratically-elected president Hugo Chávez. Under his influence, a new generation of leaders and grass-roots activists are seeking social, racial, and gender justice, and a defense of local and Latin American regional interests. The course will explore the following questions, among others: What are the historical roots of "Chavismo" and similar movements in Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Honduras, and elsewhere? What is, or is not, revolutionary and democratic in what is happening? What explains their more independent foreign policy not just towards the USA but also Western Europe, Russia, China, and even Iran? Why was the USA seemingly caught "unawares" by these new radical movements? |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 110 |
| Introduction to Japanese Religions |
| This course is an introduction to the religions of Japan, which are surveyed from pre history to the present. The course will cover the major religious traditions (Shinto, Buddhism, Shugendo, Japanese Christianity, and new religions) and themes in the study of Japanese religions. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 111 |
| Introduction to East Asian Buddhism |
| A thematic survey of Buddhist thought, practice and social history in East Asia. The teachings and history of the major schools of Buddhism in China, Japan and Tibet will be considered alongside such themes as Buddhism and state, female bodhisattvas, and this worldly aid. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 112 |
| Introduction to the Study of Africa |
| When the ancient Romans encountered the Afri people who lived in North Africa near Carthage, they called their land "Africa." Today, the term is used to describe the 840 million diverse people who live on the continent. By the 18th century, scientific racism justified slavery and colonialism by categorizing African people as a single, inferior race. Although these theories have been discredited, the legacy of this thinking continues to shape the way the world views and relates to Africa and Africans. This course is designed to look at how we understand, study, and represent Africa. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will examine how Africa has been constructed and imagined from "dark continent" to homeland, address theories of pan-Africanism and blackness, look at how ideas of "tradition" have shaped the study of Africa, critically engage with media representations of Africa, and examine how international policy has been shaped by these images. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 120 |
| Introduction to South Asia |
| South Asia, home to 1.5 billion people, is diversity incarnate. In thousands of languages, its residents worship in most of the world's religious traditions. From Nepal's mountains to Sri Lanka's beaches, the eco-system is vast and varied. This course will take us on a journey through South Asia, to engage with its long history and its dynamic present. Caste, religion, socio-economic relations, the Indo-Islamic world, colonialism, nationalism will be the main themes. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 120 |
| South Asia to 1600 |
| A survey of South Asian history before colonial rule. Central topics include the diversity and cosmopolitanism of pre-colonial South Asia, the development of Brahmanism and Buddhism, the dynamanism of the Indo-Persian culture of early modern South Asia, the slow pace of growth of agriculture, and the magic of the Indian Ocean trading world. Lectures and discussion. Enrollment limited. (Also offered under History and Asian Studies.) |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 121 |
| South Asia 1600 to Present |
| An investigation of the social, economic, cultural, and political history of South Asia from the consolidation of British and French domination to the contemporary crises of the various South Asian states (notably India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). The main topics to be explored include: the deindustrialization of South Asia, the emergence of religion as the primary focus of Indian society, the development of South Asian feminism, and the attempt by the various nations to negotiate a dignified place in the 20th century. Lecture and discussion. Enrollment limited. (Satisfies requirements in the history major.) |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 121 |
| Modern India |
| While India has the fourth largest economy in the world, it is also home to one out of three of the world's malnourished children. India requires explanation. An exploration of India's modern history from the mid-19th century to the present will be coupled with an anthropological investigation of the contradictions of Indian social life. Readings will include historical and journalistic texts, government reports and novels. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 130 |
| Daily Life in Middle Eastern History |
| In recent years, historians have adopted daily life as an analytical framework for historical inquiry. This course will approach the history of the Middle East from the 7th century to the 20th century through this framework. Topics such as housing, food, clothing, travel, cities, education, entertainment, trade, and ritual will shape our encounter with Middle Easterners of the past. Reading assignments will come from textbooks, monographs, and travel accounts for the pre-1900 period. Memoirs and fiction will provide our window onto the daily life of Middle Eastern men and women in the 20th century. This course defines Middle Eastern history in broad geographical and chronological terms, but its focus on daily life is intended to bring the minutiae of the lived experience of that history to life for students. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 131 |
| Modern Iran |
| This course provides an introduction to 20th-century Iranian society, culture, and politics, examining secular and religious debates over gender roles, modernity, Islamism, democracy, and the West. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 200 |
| Hippies: Asia in America |
| Asia in the American Imagination-Walt Whitman, in 1868, hoped that the wisdom and art of India might act as a foil against the functionalized personality of industrial America ("Passage to India"). From Whitman to New Age, Asia appears in the U.S. as an exotic antidote to industrial modernity, despite the fact that Asian labor participated actively in that very modernity. This class will study the ways in which North Americans have represented Asia as well as Asian Americans. We will explore immigration policy, the travels of Asian spiritual healers to the U.S., the many journeys of US hippies to Asia and the status of Asian goods in the U.S. marketplace. Readings include writings of (Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder) and about (Gita Mehta) hippies, legal documents, documents of exotica (Kung Fu, Sushi), and histories of New Age and alternative healing (Deepak Chopra, Chinese Medicine); we will also listen to music and watch movies (such as the work of Bruce Lee) that fashioned an "Asia" in the mind of Americans. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 201 |
| Gender and Globalization |
| We will examine the intersection between the social processes of globalization and gender. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will trace the role of the global political economy in relation to women's work (sweatshops, agricultural, industrial, domestic) and women's migration. We will also attend to the role of international agencies (the United Nations and non-governmental organizations), the development of transnational women's and feminist networks and of internationalist organizations. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 202 |
| Pacific Asia’s Fall and Resurgence: An Economic Response to Western Challenge |
| Although the prospect for many developing economics has been very dim, economics in East Asia have thrived since 1945. The next century is likely to be the Pacific century. The most recent evidence of this possibility comes from China, the awakening giant with enormous potential. In an era of accelerating integration and globalization, it is important to understand how and why the Pacific Asian economies have been able to respond to the modernization challenges from the West. Topics to be discussed include: East Asia’s geographical characteristics, the early experience of interaction between this region and the West, the various modernization efforts in the region from an historical perspective, the similarities and differences in the responses of the main economies in the region to Western challenges, the competition and integration among these economies, especially between China, the emerging economic power, and its neighbors including Japan, and their interaction with the rest of the world, particularly with the U.S. today. This course is designed for non-economics majors and has no economics. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 204 |
| Global Labor |
| We will examine the impact of the globalization of production on work, and on workers. We will pay close attention to the breakdown of national economies, and to the role of various international institutions (the World Trade Organization, the International Labor Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund) in the creation of the new globalized regime. In addition, this course will trace the growth of international labor movements, from cross-border organizing to the new forms of self-organization in "export-processing zones." |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 208 |
| Geography of Mexico |
| This course is a comprehensive introduction to the geography of Mexico, a country marked by great extremes: metropolitan areas and thick rainforests; stunning resorts and steaming sweatshops; a handful of billionaires and millions in extreme poverty. We will examine these contrasts by focusing on topics such as uneven development, migration, climate change, violence and security, biodiversity protection, and indigenous movements. We will pay particular attention to why geography matters in the study of political, social, and environmental change in Mexico. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 209 |
| Gender and Natural Resources |
| This course will introduce students to the factors that shape women and men’s experience of sustainable development in international contexts. The objective is to better understand how natural resources influence gender roles, opportunities, and expectations – both positively and negatively – in a variety of case studies from around the world. Primary topics will include: water resource issues; gender and land rights; participation in biodiversity protection; forestry and fishing; food security in urban and agricultural contexts; and health issues related to waste pickers and sanitation. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 210 |
| Theories of Globalization |
| Globalization is a clumsy word to describe massive social changes afoot around the planet. This course will explore various theories of globalization to give us the basis to come to grips with the processes at work. We will look at changes in the way states run their polity and their economy as well as shifts in the global political economy; in the cultures of societies and in the formation of global culture; and in the various forms of social resistance to globalization. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 212 |
| Global Politics |
| This discussion course, taking the entire globe and all its peoples as unit of study, will examine the unifying elements of the contemporary world system. Emphasis on struggles for justice, democracy, and basic human needs and rights in our global age. Particular attention to global crises originating in the Middle East. |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 213 |
| Worldly Islam, The Sacred and the Secular |
| This course explores the diverse domestic, regional, and international politics of the Islamic world. A rich historical perspective illuminates contemporary political struggles for justice, democracy, and basic human rights and needs. (Also offered under Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies.) |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 215 |
| Central Asia in Transition |
| This course investigates contemporary Central Asia as a specific context of postsocialist and postcolonial transition to independent statehood in the aftermath of global Cold War politics. Until 1990, Central Asia was considered a remote part of the Soviet Union and was little known to the outside world. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan emerged as modern, independent nation-states and were promptly integrated into global processes through Western initiatives for democratization and market reforms, oil and gas exploitation, and the American-led war on terrorism. Our major goal is to understand Central Asian societies and postsocialist changes from the perspective of communities themselves and see how these refract through the lenses of age, gender, ethnicity, and religion. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 217 |
| Global Postsocialisms |
| This course explores the subject of postsocialism as a global phenomenon. Although the term has been traditionally associated with Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, our inquiry will include a much broader range of countries from the regions of Latin America (Cuba, Venezuela), the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia (China, Vietnam, Laos, Mongolia). In light of the socialist project overlapping with the postcolonial movements around the world, it is expedient to understand postsocialism as a series of interconnections and solidarities. This course will be of particular interest to students interested in globalization, transnationalism, international relations, and postsocialism. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 218 |
| Women, Gender, and Family in the Middle East |
| As an introduction to the lives of women in the ‘men’s world’ of the Middle East, this course examines the impact of global sociopolitical and economic transformations on gender relations, sexuality, adolescence, family structure, local culture, and feminist movements across the Middle East and North Africa. Case studies survey male and female perspectives in a variety of ethnic/religious communities (Muslim, Jewish, Christian) and types of societies (Bedouin, agricultural, urban). |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 224 |
| Anthropology of Poverty |
| Is "poverty" self-evident? Can we create universal statistical indices of "poverty"? Are the poor in Calcutta different from the poor in Hartford? This course offers a wide-ranging investigation of the representation of poverty, of the different notions of poverty across cultures, of the quest for universal justice through such documents as the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights, and of the various struggles against poverty. Readings include the work of George Orwell (on poverty in Europe), Jacob Riis (on poverty in NewYork), Gunter Grass (on poverty in Calcutta), Agnes Smedley and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (on growing up poor), David Arnold (on famine), Malthus and Paul Harrison (on population) and finally, texts on the multiple causes of poverty. Enrollment limited. (Satisfies requirements in the Religion major). |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 226 |
| Gandhi, King & Nonviolence |
| Drawing on the romantic critique of industrialism (Ruskin, Thoreau, Tolstoy), M. K. Gandhi (1869-1948) developed a social theory of protest (Satyagraha) as well as a notion of an alternative civilization, a non-violent world. His views have had a global impact, not the least of which in the United States where they became the foundation for Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) and the Civil Rights Movement. We will explore the translation of Gandhi’s concepts into the King movement, and study carefully the grammar of non-violent resistance as developed by Gandhi and King, and by the tradition they have engendered. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 233 |
| Political Geography |
| Despite our common-sense notions about geography and nature, the spatial arrangement of our world is not the result of natural processes but the outcome of human struggles about the position of borders, the extent of territory, and authority over territories. In this course, we will investigate these struggles and their impact on today's global relations. Special attention will be given to the spatial nature of the state, the role geography has played in the power politics of major states, and future scenarios in a world in which the territorial aspirations of political communities clash with the globalizing flows of economic and cultural activities. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 234 |
| Gender and Education |
| What is gender equity in schooling and what impact does this have on gender equity more broadly? Different disciplinary perspectives on the impact of gender in learning, school experience, performance and achievement will be explored in elementary, secondary, post-secondary, and informal educational settings. The legal and public policy implications of these findings (such as gender-segregated schooling, men’s and women’s studies programs, curriculum reform, Title IX, affirmative action and other proposed remedies) will be explored. Findings on socialization and schooling in the U.S. will be contrasted with those from other cultures. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 235 |
| Youth Culture in the Muslim World |
| Increasingly much of the Muslim world is young and with the expansion of media and cyberspace technologies, the circulation of globalized youth culture increasingly challenges taken-for-granted notions in local societies. This course examines the impact of youth and youth culture on personal, social, and political expression in a variety of Muslim communities around the world. We will examine intergenerational struggles over marriage, gender, and sexuality, the renegotiation of religion and morality, and the often 'revolutionary' disputes over conventional politics as conveyed through music, texts, fashion, personal memoirs, and cyberspace blogging. |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 236 |
| Japanese Crime Literature and Film |
| This course examines major works of Japanese crime literature and film from the works of Edogawa Rampo, known as the father of crime fiction in Japan, to those of contemporary writers to explore social and moral issues reflected in them. While Japanese writers and filmmakers of this genre readily acknowledge Western influences, the literary and cinematic explorations of crime in Japan have also developed ona trajectory of their own, producing works that are easily distinguishable from those of other cultures. The course will also consider the mixing of the crime genre with others, such as ghost and science fiction genres. Works studied in this course include those of Edogawa Rampo, Akira Kurosawa, Miyuki Miyabe, Seicho Matsumoto, and Kobo Abe, as well as yakuza movies. Readings and discussion in English. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 237 |
| 20th-Century Chinese Literature |
| A survey of modern Chinese literature, 1918-2000. We will study the three major periods of the 20th century: 1918-1949, 1949-1976, and 1976 to the present. The course will concentrate on the work of writers such as Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing), Xu Zhimo, Mao Dun, Shen Congwen, Bei Dao, Yu Hua, Su Tong, and Wang Anyi. Students will be introduced to the basic developmental trajectory of 20th-century Chinese literature, and will explore interactions between social-historical conditions and the production of modern Chinese literary works. Readings and discussion in English. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 238 |
| Contemporary Africa: Resource Wars and Human Rights |
Human civilizations and communities have been shaped by the ability and desire to gain access to critical resources for survival. Economic globalization has created competition for resources—ranging from oil to diamonds to water—that has influenced social and political structures in the contemporary world. This course looks at the impact of modern globalization on the continent of Africa. Situating Africa historically in its relationship to “the West” through the Atlantic slave trade and European colonialism, we will explore the consequences of Africa’s unequal role in this system. We will be investigating the links between civil conflict, resource control, social justice, poverty, and international movements that attempt to address these issues.
Prerequisite: at least one college-level course that addresses the history of Africa before or during the colonial era, including HIST 252, 253, or 331 |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 240 |
| Theories of Race and Modernity in Latin America |
| Taking as a point of departure Enrique Dusell’s assertion that European modernity depended (and depends) on the invention of an American otherness, this course will look at the intersection of race and discourses on/projects of modernity in the Americas and Europe. Specifically, we will examine how 20th - and 21st- century Latin American intellectuals have theorized race and its relationship to nation-building and modernizing efforts from 19th century to the present. Rather than tracing the historical development of the concept of race, we will read deeply major texts that theorize the relationship between race and modernity. The course, thus, will look to understand not only the theories, but how these Latin American intellectuals think through problems, develop arguments, converse with peers, and articulate ideas. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 241 |
| Popular Politics and Revolution in Latin American and Caribbean History |
| This class examines popular politics, insurgency, and revolution in colonial and modern Latin America and the Caribbean. It focuses on the historical role of slaves, peasants, popular intellectuals, and workers from indigenous, African-American, and ethnically mixed backgrounds in their relations with elites and the state in different regional contexts. We will read landmark texts and primary sources on indigenous insurgencies in the central Andean region in the 1780s, the Haitian Revolution, the revolutions of independence in Spanish America, the Mexican Revolution, and other topics that illustrate the evolution of the historiography of this field. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 248 |
| Global Radicalisms |
| This course examines the participation of intellectuals, peasants, and workers in revolutions and anti-colonial movements from 1900. It explores ideas about revolution, colonialism, national emancipation, internationalism, capitalist modernity, and socialism in a variety of regional contexts and periods. We will pay particular attention to how seemingly disparate activists from across the globe understood systems of oppression and how they connected local, national, and international struggles for liberation. The class will be especially useful for students interested in the history of ideas, social movements, globalization, colonialism, and radical history. Readings include Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age of Revolution alongside a host of primary materials that stretch from Fanon to Guevara, from Bao Ninh to M. N. Roy. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 249 |
| Immigrants and Refugees: Strangers in Strange Lands |
| The post-cold war world is one of changing national boundaries and governments, environmental devastation and internal conflicts, resulting in an apparently unprecedented flow of people from their native homelands. At a time when multiculturalism is not a popular model for national integration, immigrants, refugees, and other sojourners find themselves in new places creating new lives for themselves. The processes by which this occurs illustrate some of the basic social, cultural, and political dilemmas of contemporary societies. Using historical and contemporary case studies from Europe and the Americas, this course looks at issues of flight, resettlement, integration, cultural adaptation, and public policy involved in creating culturally diverse nations. Questions to be raised include what are the conditions under which people leave, who can become a (authentic) member of society, what rights do non-citizens versus citizens have, are borders sacrosanct, are ethnic and racial diversity achievable or desirable, is multiculturalism an appropriate model, do people want to assimilate, what are the cultural consequences of movement, and how can individuals reconstruct their identities and feel they belong? This course includes a community learning component. (Also offered under American Studies, Public Policy & Law, and Women, Gender, & Sexuality.) |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 250 |
| Global Migration |
| This course explores population mobility as an outcome of global processes and investigates its role in reconfiguring personal, cultural, social, political, and economic life. Specifically considers the impact of migration on gender relations and identities, cultural and educational practices, integration policies, individual and group rights and questions of citizenship and governance. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 250 |
| Hartford Global Migration Lab |
Optional Community Learning Component integrated with INTS250 Global Migration to provide field-based, participatory research experience with community partners on the consequences of global migration in the greater Hartford area.
PR: Concurrent or previous enrollment in INTS 250 (lecture) |
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0.50 units, Laboratory
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| INTS 258 |
| The Islamic City: Places, Pasts and Problems |
| This course explores the cities founded, claimed, and inhabited by Muslims over the centuries, with a particular focus on the Middle East. Scholars have long debated whether there is such a thing as a prototypical "Islamic city" shaped by religious and cultural norms. Through a combination of lectures and discussions, we will grapple with this question by situating cities in their historical contexts, examining their built environments, and considering the ways in which gender, economic and social life, political movements, and war shape urban space. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 259 |
| The Colonial City |
| Born as trading centers, colonial cities grew into bifurcated social zones (the colonizer's city and the city of the colonized). Algiers, Batavia, Calcutta, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, and Singapore are a few celebrated examples. We will trace the history of these cities, the way they were built and the way they were represented, as well as the kinds of popular urban cultures that grew across the segregated spaces, and the anti-colonial movements within the cities that incubated new forms of national urbanism. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 260 |
| The City in African Studies: Past, Present, and Potential |
| Africa is a rapidly urbanizing region of the world; the most rapidly urbanizing by World Bank standards. Contemporary urbanization in Africa has stimulated new scholarship on the history of African cities, African urban economies, urban politics and urban identities, among other topics. African urban studies has produced some of the most thoughtful and engaged work on Africa to date. In this course we will be exploring major themes in the field of African urban studies to gain deeper appreciation of the history of African cities, their contemporary iterations, and their future possibilities. |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 261 |
| The South Asian City |
| The modern Indian city is shaped by the processes of colonialism and nationalism, of neoliberal desires and the reality of inequity. We shall investigate the early development of colonial port cities (Bombay, Madras, Calcutta), the colonial urban formations (cantonments, civil stations, hill stations), the creation of capital cities (New Delhi, Chandigarh, Bhubaneshwar and Gandhinagar), the planning of refugee towns (Faridabad, Nilokheri, and Gandhidham), the formation of industrial cities (Jamshedpur and Bhadrawati), and the mega-cities of the present. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 262 |
| Peoples and Culture of the Caribbean |
| A review of the attempt to develop generalizations about the structure of Caribbean society. Theoretical materials will focus on the historical role of slavery, the nature of plural societies, race, class, ethnicity, and specific institutions such as the family, the schools, the church, and the political structure. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 299 |
| Independent Study |
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1.00 units min / 2.00 units max, Independent Study
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| INTS 300 |
| Worldly Sex |
| This course will examine sexual practices and their cultural and social meaning across different cultures and at different periods in the sweep of human history. We will read social history, biographies, memories, and study representations of sexual practices and behaviors in the daily life of different societies, from the ancient Aztecs, and the Egyptians to the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's in the U.S. and beyond. |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 301 |
| Arab Politics |
| This seminar examines the outstanding features of the full range of politics in the Arab world, from regimes and resistances to the new forms of politics in civil society and private spheres. (Also offered under political science and Middle Eastern studies.) |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 302 |
| Global Cities |
| This seminar examines the contemporary map of interactions between cities in the world. There is now a considerable array of research analyzing what are variously termed global or world cities in the hierarchy of the world economy, and a counter-critique has emerged which seeks to analyze all cities as ordinary, moving beyond old binaries of 'developed' and 'developing' worlds of cities. We will interrogate this debate in both its theoretical and its empirical dimensions, with case studies from Africa and assessment of cultural, political, economic and environmental globalization. |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 303 |
| Globalization in Urban Southeast Asia |
| In this course we broadly examine how globalization has affected Southeast Asian cities. The course is divided into two sections. In the first section, students are introduced to some of the ways in which globalization has influenced Southeast Asia, covering such topics as global Islam, transnational flows and identity. The second section examines various ways in which cities are aspiring to be global, through high-tech zones, creative clusters, elite tourism, and cultivating cultural capital. Countries that will be examined include Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| AFIN 304 |
| Environ Hist of Africa |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 305 |
| Global Self Governance |
| This course focuses on modern global movements for self-governance ranging from anti-colonial struggles, pro-democracy movements, and initiatives to promote local governance and democratic decentralization in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We will examine practices associated with self governance including economic and political devolution, collective decision-making, participatory budgeting, dispute resolution, and truth commissions. This course also focuses on the broader conceptions of self-governance in different societies by looking at what it means to govern the self and govern others. |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 306 |
| Gender and Nationalism in the Middle East |
| This course explores the relationship between the rise of nationalism in the nineteenth-century Middle East and gendered claims to belonging in and to national communities. We will discuss the struggles against imperialism that shaped nationalist movements from Morocco to Iran through the twentieth century and the ways in which those struggles both produced and depended on new discourses about gender and sexuality. We will also investigate the transformations in these discourses associated with Islamist movements, neo-imperialism, and economic globalization in the Middle East in recent decades. This course will demand critical engagement with a sophisticated scholarly literature, intensive writing, and active participation in class discussions. |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 307 |
| Women's Rights as Human Rights |
| This course is a cross-cultural investigation of the gendered nature of human rights and of the changes in different societies that have resulted from struggles for human rights for women. Topics covered will include rights to protection against sexual abuse and gender violence (such as female genital mutilation), subsistence rights, reproductive rights, human rights and sexual orientation, and the rights of female immigrants and refugees. The course will make use of formal legal documents as well as cultural materials such as novels, films, personal testimonies, religious rituals, and folk traditions in music. (Also listed under Public Policy.) |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 308 |
| Global Hartford |
| An examination, from the perspectives of geography and space, of the complex of processes often described as globalization. The course will focus on the changing spatial patterns of political and economic power since the 1970s and evaluate future scenarios in a world in which the territorial aspirations of political communities clash with globalizing flows. Particular attention will be given to the articulation of global and local processes in Hartford and their impact on everyday life in the city. Community learning projects will be an integral part of the course. (This course includes a community learning component.) |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| INTS 309 |
| Development in Africa: From Civilizing Mission to World Bank |
| This course examines the history of development ideas and practices in Africa. Beginning with the early colonial era, when Europeans spoke of their “civilizing mission,” and ending with present-day critiques of World Bank policies, it traces continuity and change in state and grassroots efforts to bring about development in Africa. It explores the theories behind development policies. including the ways in which experts have conceptualized African farming systems and Africa’s place in the world economy, and it asks to what extent these theories match reality. It also examines how development policies have been put into practice, how African communities have responded to and reshaped development, whether communities have a “right to development” and who should define what that development should be. Finally, it considers why so many development efforts have failed and whether past failures have led to improved practice. (Also offered under History.) |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| MEIN 309 |
| Nationalism in the Middle East |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 311 |
| Global Feminism |
| This course examines how the struggles of diverse gender based movements (religious and secular, urban and rural, black and white), from the Americas to the Middle East and Asia, shed light on vexing social problems like the lack of sexual and reproductive rights, political and social representation, and equal opportunities. Using historical and contemporary examples of women’s organizing and theorizing, course materials interrogate the meaning of ‘feminism’, the relationship between the gendered self and society, the impact of race, class, and cultural differences on women’s solidarity, the challenge of women’s (and gender based) activism to state and social order, the impact of women's networking, and the possibilities for achieving a transnational, cross-cultural or global ‘feminism.’ |
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1.00 units, Lecture
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| MEIN 311 |
| Islam and Political Community |
| This course treats the theory and politics of the Islamic mainstream, seen in national, regional, and world perspective. Primary readings by major Islamic intellectuals and political activisits of the modern and contemporary period, complemented by selected sacred texts with political relevance. Emphasis on Islamic identity, contemporary interpretations of the heritage, and the quest for Islamic community. |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 312 |
| Global Political Ecology |
| The broad field of political ecology makes connections between local ecologies and larger political and economic structures. This course will explore the global ‘things’ of political ecological research, such as: trees, trash, sugar, seeds, bugs, rivers, and sea turtles. Using examples of ‘things’ from diverse world regions, the course invites students to explore the messy multi-level connections between people, ecologies, knowledge and power dynamics in a globalized world. |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 313 |
| The Making of Modern Dubai |
| In this seminar for upper-level undergraduates, we look at the city of Dubai through historical, ethnographic, and urbanist-architectural lenses. Dubai's history and social reality has been obscured by recent headlines invoking facile conceptual and cultural stereotypes ("global city," "tribal society," "architectural utopia," Arabian democracy"). The social, historical, and cultural struggles that have shaped the making of Dubai are the focus in this course. We situate Dubai both conceptually (in debates about port cities of the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, ethnography and sociology, and critical theory) as well as geographically and geopolitically (as a city at the crossroads of the Middle East, the Indian Ocean, various empires, etc.). |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 314 |
| Black Internationalism |
This course introduces students to the history of people of African descent and their struggles for universal emancipation during the 20th century. We will begin by drawing on theoretical readings about race/blackness and the African Diaspora. The second part of the class will probe the relationship between nationalism and pan-Africanism through comparative assessments of Marcus Garvey and his UNIA organization; Rastafarianism and music; and the U.S. Black Power Movement. Over the entire course, we will also seek to locate and critically evaluate Africa’s importance to these political and cultural projects. The ultimate purpose of this course is to impress upon students how struggles for self-determination were simultaneously local, national and global.
Prerequisite: C- or better in International Studies 112, International Studies 101, History 253 or History 238 |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 315 |
| Global Ideologies |
| From the 1920s to the 1980s, the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America forged a "Third World project." This project came undone in the 1980s, as debt, war and corruption overwhelmed the three continents. Along came neo-liberalism and globalization, which emerged as the dominant ideologies of the time. With the rise of Bolivarianism in Latin America, and with the financial crisis, neo-liberalism has lost its shine. This course will trace the "Third World project," neo-liberalism, and the emergent ideology of the Global South. |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 317 |
| Planetary History |
| How have humans understood their relationship with each other and nature, over time and space? This course will investigate the various theories of planetary history, and will develop an understanding of the interdependency of our social ecology. In the main, we shall concentrate on the world after 1300, and trace the principle social processes of our time (such as capitalism, democracy, science, and religion). |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 318 |
| Energy Security |
| The planet’s future rests between energy use and geopolitical insecurity. The hinge for this tension rests in West Asia, but extends to western Africa and central Asia. China and India’s rapid economic growth drives up demand for oil and gas and the Arab Spring has unsettled previous equations for the easy extraction of energy from the Gulf by global corporations. This course will explore the problem of “energy security”: it will look at the new hinges, particularly Central Asia, where the old Great Game of geopolitical intrigue morphed into a new stratagem for energy extraction. Energy security will be approached not only from the standpoint of the buying countries, but also from those who suffer under the “resource curse,” the selling countries. |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 320 |
| Postsocialist City |
| At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Soviet Union was a key site of experimentation where avant-garde architects and planners could realize their visions for democratic and egalitarian cities. This course explores how these ideals were implemented, compromised or modified from the perspectives of administrators and residents. We will also learn how the socialist legacy of built urban environments has shaped and conditioned the ways in which postsocialist societies are remade under the terms of a market economy. The course will be of particular interest to students interested in design, architecture, city planning, and public policy. |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 325 |
| Anthropology of Islam |
| This course examines Islam as lived religious practice in a context defined by both local constraints and global possibilities. Variations in local practices of Islam reflect accommodation to distinct cultural, political, and economic contexts while at the same time reflecting global connections. We will examine topics such as religious identity and community, gender as the site of religious and political struggle, new forms of Islam in diaspora communities, and contemporary political and moral debates over modernity, democracy, and reform in a variety of Islamic societies from North America to the Middle East and Asia. |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 326 |
| Baghdad in History |
| Founded in 762 CE by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur as "The City of Peace," Baghdad has acted as a center for politics, commerce, science, art, and religion - as well as human conflict - throughout its long history. This course will approach Baghdad through the lens of social and cultural history by examining the complex and ever-changing relationship between people and a city. How was Baghdad peopled? And how did people make and remake Baghdad over the centuries? Through rigorous seminar discussions of primary resources, recent scholarship, journalism, and literature, we will consider Baghdad from the eighth century to the present as a locus of human interaction, of memory and myth, and empire and nation, and of colonialism and war. |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 335 |
| Capitalism and Authoritarianism |
| This course interrogates the common identification of capitalism with liberal democracy. Although the emergence of capitalism overlapped with the process of formation of the public sphere and participatory democracy, post-WWII economic developments have troubled this coupling. We will explore the emergence of authoritarian capitalisms in Asia by attending to the phenomenon of “Asian Tigers” and delineating their conditions of possibility. We will also investigate the scholarship on the rise of neoliberalism in Western countries that identified this particular incarnation of capitalism as authoritarian control of the most private realms of human existence. Together, we will ponder on the consequences of this disassociation of political and economic liberalism. |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 350 |
| Traffic in Art: 20th Century Global Economy of Cultural Production |
| This course complements twentieth century art history by focusing on the traffic in art objects and aesthetic ideologies, initially, between the West and the colonized non-West, and more recently between “global” cities hosting international biennials of art. We will first trace the ways in which these circulations constituted the colonial powers and produced the colonized people. Subsequently, we will investigate the recent prominence of non-Western artists in key sites of the global art world. |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 383 |
| Sports, Race & Nationalism |
| An examination of the how sports emerged as a major sphere of society and international politics since the late 19th century and how capitalism, race, ethnicity and nationalism have played a major role in this story. We will focus our attention mainly on baseball, basketball, soccer, cricket, and “mega” sporting events, such as the Olympics and FIFA’s World Cup, with case studies from around the world. Additional attention will be given also to the interplay between sports and mega sporting events, on the one hand, and urbanization, urbanism and urban life, on the other. This course counts for both the History and INTS majors (“Global Core” in INTS). For more information, please visit the course blog at = http://sportshistory.trincoll.edu |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 399 |
| Independent Study |
| Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor and director are required for enrollment. |
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1.00 units min / 2.00 units max, Independent Study
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| INTS 401 |
| Senior Seminar in International Studies |
This writing intensive course functions as the capstone experience for all INTS majors. The instructor will guide INTS seniors through the process of completing a substantial research paper that engages critically with dominant disciplinary approaches to and public discourses about the “global” or “international” sphere. The instruction of this course will rotate among INTS faculty, each of whom will organize the course around a particular theme.
Seniors majoring in International Studies or consent of instructor |
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1.00 units, Seminar
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| INTS 466 |
| Teaching Assistantship |
| Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor and director are required for enrollment. |
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0.50 units min / 1.00 units max, Independent Study
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| INTS 490 |
| Research Assistantship |
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No Course Description Available.
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1.00 units, Independent Study
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| INTS 497 |
| Senior Exercise |
| Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor and director are required for enrollment in this single semester project. |
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1.00 units, Independent Study
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| MEIN 497 |
| Senior Thesis |
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No Course Description Available.
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1.00 units, Independent Study
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| INTS 498 |
| Senior Exercise Part I |
| Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor and director are required for each semester of this year-long project. (2 course credits are considered pending in the first semester; 2 course credits will be awarded for completion in the second semester.) |
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2.00 units, Independent Study
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| INTS 499 |
| Senior Exercise Part 2 |
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No Course Description Available.
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2.00 units, Independent Study
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