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Democracy Theme Classes
FALL 07
Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages
CHN/AST 46: Responses to Political Repression in Chinese Literature and Film, Yenna Wu
CPLT 12: The Writer in Writing, Stephanie Hammer
(Includes liberal progressive writers as Voltaire, Douglass, Murakami, Bender, Saunders, Notomb, et al.)CPLT 17A: Masterworks of World Literature, Theda Shapiro
(Focuses on ways in which until very recently women have been locked out of democracy when/where it has existed.)
Department of Creative Writing
All lower division classes have been encouraged to incorporate readings related to democracy
Department of Ethnic Studies
ETST/HIST 61: Martin Luther King Jr.
ETST 135: Mass Incarceration of Japanese Americans
ETST 145/SOC 145: Law and Subordination
ETST 157: Native American Diaspora
Department of Hispanic Studies
SPAN 171: Latin American Film, Freya Schiwy
Department of History
HIST 17: Introduction to U.S. History
Department of Philosophy
PHIL 163: Political Philosophy
Department of Political Science
POSC 1: Introduction to Political Theory
POSC 10: American Politics
POSC 101: The U.S. Congress
POSC 155: Government and Politics: Western Europe
POSC 167: Constitutional Law: Fundamental Freedoms
Department of Sociology
SOC 145: Law and Subordination
SOC 181: World-Systems and Globalization, Christopher Chase-Dunn
Last section of the course focuses on global democracy using George Monbiot's Manifesto for a New Global Order.
Department of Theatre
THEA 100: Play Analysis, Erith Jaffe-Berg
(Focus on plays dealing with issues pertinent to democracy and censorship, e.g. Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" and David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly," among others)
WINTER 08
Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages
CPLT 22A: Introduction to World Literature by Women , Theda Shapiro
CLA 45: The Ancient World in Film and Television, Tom Scanlon
(Takes up themes of oppression, freedom, and democracy: in Spartacus, The Trojan Women, etc.)
Department of Creative Writing
All lower division classes have been encouraged to incorporate readings related to democracy
CRWT 174: Issues in Journalism, Charles Whitney
(Will focus on Herb Gans's Journalism and Democracy)
Department of Dance
DNCE 132: Dance, Citizenship, Location, Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Department of Economics
ECON 116: Foundations of Political Economy
ECON 119: Law and Economics
ECON 175: Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
Department of Ethnic Studies
ETST 111: Ethnic Politics: Practicum in Political Change
ETST 109I: The Black Diaspora: Cultural, Political and Historical Connections
ETST 178: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and U.S Liberation
ETST 186: Policing and the Hegemony of "Law and Order"
Department of Hispanic Studies
SPAN 102B: Latin American Culture
Department of History
HISA 166: Modern Argentina: Democracy and Dictatorship, James Brennan
Department of Political Science
POSC 5: Modern Political Ideologies, John Christian Laursen
SPRING 08
Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages
CLA 10B: Classical Greece, Wendy Raschke
CPLT 22B: Introduction to World Literature by Women, Stephanie Hammer
Department of Creative Writing
All lower division classes have been encouraged to incorporate readings related to democracy
Department of Ethnic Studies
ETST 112: The Civil Rights Movement, 1950-1970
ETST 156: Politics of the Chicano Movement
ETST 177: The U.S. Prison Industrial Complex: Race, Gender, and Citizenship
Department of History
HIST 15: World History: 1500-1900, Robert Patch
Department of Political Science
POSC 122: Skepticism and Liberalism, John Christian Laursen
Department of Religious Studies
RLST ???: Religion and Human Rights, June O'Connor
Department of Women's Studies
WMST 156:Women and Citizenship, Tracy Fisher
CHASS F1RST CLASSES (for freshmen)
CHASS CONNECT: Reconstructing Democracy
The nature of American Democracy through the voices of racial/ethnic minorities. What does democracy mean to a Native American who has been stripped of his sovereignty, an African American freed by manumission or the Emancipation Proclamation, or a convicted felon in his Folsom prison cell? How has American democracy been changed by political expedience, economic desire, or racial prejudice?
Fall 2007
CHFY001E 002 Literature: Democracy's (M)others, Michelle Raheja.
Native Americans have been both insiders to U.S. democracy by influencing its structural, political, and philosophical underpinnings, as well as its outsiders through legally and socially sanctioned elisions, violence, and displacement. This course critically examines Richard Henry Pratt's admonition to "kill the Indian and save the man" through the process of assimilation in order to understand the discursive limits of compulsory democracy. The policy of forcibly educating Native American children in boarding schools began during the early colonial period and reached its zenith in the 19th century with the founding of Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, a school Pratt created. We will read a selection of autobiographical narratives written by students enrolled in these schools with attention to the ways personal narrative is crafted under conditions of physical, emotional, and spiritual violence and with the aim of theorizing indigenous notions of sovereignty.
Winter 2008:
CHFY001F 001 Religious Studies: The Tragic and Prophetic: African American Voices of Resistance, Jonathan Walton.
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the intellectual tradition of African American spiritual witness and prophetic resistance. By engaging 19th and 20th century thinkers such as Frederick Douglas, Maria Stewart, Ida B. Wells, James Baldwin and others, we will examine the ways these "voices from below" have helped to bring America's eyes toward democracy into greater focus.
Spring 2008:
CHFY003M 001 Ethnic Studies: Incarceration and Democracy, Dylan Rodriguez.
United States prisons, jails, youth/juvenile facilities, and detention centers have emerged as central sites of social liquidation and civil death, currently incarcerating well over 2.5 million people in the domestic sphere, while disrupting and displacing countless affective, (extended) familial, and kinship bonds. This course examines the formation of United States jurisprudence, policing, and state punishment practices as they produce particular philosophies and social practices of "freedom," "democracy," and nation-building. We will especially focus on a theoretical conception of the U.S. prison regime as a globalizing apparatus of racial bodily domination, elaborating histories of racial chattel slavery, colonization, conquest, and genocide. The course will conclude with an extended meditation on—and critical engagement with—a lineage of political thought and collective praxis that has emerged since the 1970s, and is anchored in the intellectual production of imprisoned thinkers, activists, teachers, organizers, and writers.CHFY 010 Political Science: Democracy, John Medearis
Fulfills ANTH/PSYC/SOC BREADTH Requirement
From a term of derision or ridicule in the 17th century, "democracy" has become the universal label to which all states and movements aspire. We have grown up in the age of democracy, in which everyone claims to be a democrat, and in which democratic transitions have been almost commonplace. Yet it is not at all clear what democracy really is or should be. This creates great interest and great potential confusion. Must democracy be just a dressed-up form of elite rule? Should democracy be extended to the workplace or to international institutions? What is the core value of democracy participation or deliberation, or something else? This course will explore these questions and more.