Next Semester Courses

Fall 2013

CSCR 11000-01 Introduction to Asian American Studies
3 credits
INSTRUCTOR: Phuong Nguyen

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Offers a critical introduction to Asian American Studies. Focuses on Asian migrations to the U.S., especially in response to labor demands in the 18th -21st centuries. Examines the ways these migrations and subsequent generations of Asian Americans have shaped the economy, racial hierarchies/power, notions of citizenship and cultural belonging, and movements for freedom and autonomy. Discusses the structure and systems of race in the United States as they apply to Asians within a broader context.

COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture
SCHEDULED MEETING TIMES: 9:25am - 10:40am TR

CSCR 12000-01 U.S. Civil Rights Seminar
1 Credit
INSTRUCTOR: Professor Sean Eversley Bradwell

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The primary goal of the course is to introduce students to the history, philosophies, and practices of the civil rights movement in the United States, with a particular focus on the work and writings of Martin Luther King Jr. By utilizing readings, class discussions, and a visit to significant historical landmarks of the movement, students will develop an understanding of the differing approaches to social change and their strategic use within different parts of the modern day civil rights era. In addition, students will build an academic foundation for the required civil rights tour to be held during fall break. The seminar is open to Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar Program participants only. For more information scholars should review the program requirements.

COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture
SCHEDULED MEETING TIMES: 6:30pm - 8:00pm W

CSCR 14500-01 Politics of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Culture
3 credits
INSTRUCTOR: Professor Asma Barlas

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course explores the impact of race on both individual identities and on the life opportunities afforded to different racial groups in the United States. It engages a wide range of topics, including the relationship between race and resources, the implications of racial diversity for national unity, the political and social effects of thinking in terms of white/black, self/other, similarity/difference, and the relationship between gender and attitudes toward race/racism. The primary aim of exploring these issues is to allow students to understand how identity and race are socially and politically constructed and to devise an anti-racist politics that cuts across racial and cultural differences.

COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture
SCHEDULED MEETING TIMES: 2:35pm - 3:50pm TR

CSCR 22000-01 Case Studies In Global Justice
1 credit
INSTRUCTOR: Professor Paula Ioanide

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This seminar will introduce students in the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar Program to the study of social justice in an international and comparative context. In general the seminar is designed to engage scholars in analysis, discussion, writing, and action that will contribute to the development of global citizens who have the skills, perspectives, and motivation to work effectively for social justice. Each seminar will examine a particular case study while utilizing the work of Martin Luther King Jr. The seminar also provides the academic framework that explores the nexus between race, migration, and social justice. Through both individual and group work students will work to draw conclusions and life lessons from their international research and experiences. This seminar may be taken for 0 or 1 credit and is open to Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar Program participants only. For more information scholars should review the program requirements.

COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture
SCHEDULED MEETING TIMES: 6:30pm - 8:00pm W

CSCR 29001-01 ST: The Politics Of Whiteness
3 credits
INSTRUCTOR: Professor Paula Ioanide

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS: The category "white," like other racial categories, is a historical fiction with concrete impacts on those it defines. This course will examine the emergence of whiteness as a category determining the distribution of rights and privileges including voting rights, property rights, and the right to own one’s own body. We will examine the politics of whiteness in relation to culture, ideology, sexuality, social movements, and cross-racial alliances.

COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture
SCHEDULED MEETING TIMES: 10:50am - 12:05pm TR

CSCR 29002-01 ST: Race & Love In Asian America
3 credits 
INSTRUCTOR: Phuong Nguyen

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This interdisciplinary course explores the way racial identity shapes opportunity for love and vice versa.

COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture
SCHEDULED MEETING TIMES: 4:00pm - 5:15pm TR
 

CSCR 32400-01 Critical Race Theories in the United States
3 Credits
INSTRUCTOR: Professor Sean Eversley Bradwell

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Explores the realities and consequences of using race as a category of analysis and identity in the United States, as well as the foundations and assumptions of critical race theory. Includes the study of racism, history of racial formations, racial identities, social constructs, the black-white binary, whiteness, and critical race theory.

COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture
SCHEDULED MEETING TIMES: 1:00pm - 1:50pm MWF

CSCR 35000-01 Punishment, Prisons, and Democracy

3 Credits
INSTRUCTOR: Professor Paula Ioanide

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course explores dominant definitions of crime, punishment, and democratic justice in the United States and their relationship to imprisonment. The course will begin by interrogating the historical and ideological roots of the prison industrial complex from the Black Codes to the convict lease system. Focusing on the post-civil rights era, we will consider how post-1970s deindustrialization, the “war on drugs,” changes in policing practices, shifts in welfare policy, tougher sentencing laws, and the global export of American prison models have redefined notions of justice and democracy. The course will be attentive to the ways the prison industrial complex disproportionately affects people of color.

COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture
SCHEDULED MEETING TIMES: 1:10pm - 2:25pm TR

CSCR 43300-01 Education, Oppression, and Liberation
3 Credits
INSTRUCTOR: Professor Sean Eversley Bradwell

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Interrogates the educational experiences of oppressed people in the African Diaspora. A historical overview of the schools, pedagogies and curriculums developed for Black/Brown students including the political, social, economics and cultural manifestations of "Black education". Additionally, the course examines how educational institutions have been, and can be, used for individual, group and global liberation. Prerequisites: Three courses in the liberal arts or permission of instructor.

COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture
SCHEDULED MEETING TIMES: 4:00pm - 5:15pm MW