SMU Human Rights Education Program

SMU Human Rights Education Program
The Human Rights Minor
Fall 2009 Course Offerings

ANTH	1321	002H	TR	9:30 am to 10:50 am	Parson
Violence and Social Suffering in Global Perspective


ANTH	2301	701	W	6:30 pm to 9:20 pm	Santos
ANTH	2301	801	TR	12:30 pm to 1:50 pm	Smith-Morris
*Introductory Cultural Anthropology*
This course focuses on understanding the forces that shape cultures and societies, and how they adapt to a rapidly changing world.

ANTH	3301	001C	MWF	12:00 pm to 12:50 pm	Parson
Health, Healing and Ethics
Cross-cultural perspectives on sickness and society. Explores cultures and organization of medical systems, economic development and the global exportation of biomedicine and ethical dilemmas associated with medical technologies and global disparities in health.

ANTH	3310	001C	MWF	1:00 pm to 1:50 pm	Brettell
*Gender and Sex Roles*
Cross-cultural and historical comparison of women’s and men’s life experiences in the areas of family, marriage and kinship, economic and political participation, sexuality, reproduction, ritual and religion.

ANTH	3336	001C	TR	11:00 am to 12:20 pm	Lockwood
Gender and Globalization
An analysis of the impact of globalizing forces of women's lives and identities, as well as on patterns of gender relations and ideology in various cultures around the world.

ANTH	3353	701	W	6:30 pm to 9:20 pm	Phinney
*Indians of North America*
A survey of American Indian and Eskimo life, past and present, with emphasis on the interaction of Indians and Whites since 1492 and contemporary American Indian problems and enterprises – reservation and urban life, gambling, health care, and legal rights.

ANTH	3354	701	R	6:30 pm to 9:20 pm	Santos
Latin America: Peoples, Places and Power
Examines the development of Latin America in the context of global transformation since the 16th century.

ANTH	4309	001C	W	6:30 pm to 9:20 pm	Kemper
Human Rights/Indigenous People
This course focuses on indigenous rights in the contemporary world. Students will encounter indigenous peoples from all parts of the world.

ARHS	4349	001	T	2:00 pm to 4:50 pm	Griffin
*Seminar in Contemporary Art*
Specific topics of investigation will be chosen by the instructor.

ENGL	1365	001	TR	9:30 am to 10:50 am	Levy
Literature of Minorities
Representative works of African-American, Hispanic, American, Gay, Asian American, and Native American literature, both in their immediate cultural context and against the background of the larger American culture.

ENGL	3383	001C	TR	12:30 pm to 1:50 pm	Holahan
*Literary Executions: Imagination and Capital Punishment*
The literary treatment of capital punishment in drama, poetry, novel and biography.

HIST	3301	701C	T	6:30 pm to 9:20 pm	Halperin
*Human Rights: America’s Dilemma*
Examines certain violations of human rights within their historical context and explores America’s commission and prevention of human rights violations.

HIST	3307	001H	MWF	10:00 am to 10:50 am	Knock
The US and the Cold War
An examination of major events in American foreign policy since World War II, emphasizing policy toward Western Europe, the Soviet Union, Asia and Latin America.

HIST	3313	001	TR	9:30 am to 10:50 am	Hamilton
*African-Americans in the US 1607-1877*
This course examines the people of the African continent, uprooted and enslaved, who continually grappled with the problem of how to preserve their identity in a hostile environment.

HIST	3341	001	TR	9:30 am to 10:50 am	Orlovksy
Soviet/Post Soviet Society and Politics 1917 to Present
Soviet/Russian/Eurasian experience from historical ethnographic, economic, social, and cultural perspectives, beginning with the present and going back to the roots of the Soviet state and society in the Revolutionary experience, 1917 to 1921.

HIST	3363	001C	MWF	9:00 am to 9:50 am	Niewyk
*The Holocaust*
This course examines the destruction of the European Jews as they emerged from pre-World War I anti-Semitism and Nazi racism and considers Jewish responses to genocide, the behavior of bystanders, and possibilities of rescue.

PHIL	3371	001C	MWF	4:00 pm to 4:50 pm	Hiltz
*Social & Political Philosophy*
A historical study of philosophical formulation of the individual good (ethics) in its relation to the public good (social philosophy).

PHIL	3377	001C	TR	12:30 pm to 1:50 pm	Kazez
Animal Rights
An examination of the moral status of nonhuman animals, and its implication for the common use of animals as food and experimental subjects for humans.

PLSC	1380	001	MWF	9:00 am to 9:50 am	Various
PLSC	1380	002	MWF	11:00 am to 11:50 am	Various
PLSC	1380	003	TR	12:30 pm to 1:50 pm	Takeuchi
*Introduction to International Relations*
A basic survey of the elements of international relations, including the nation-state system, international organizations, international law, diplomacy, foreign policy and various non-state actors such as multinational corporations.

PLSC	4337	001	WF	2:00 pm to 3:20 pm	Kobylka
*Civil Rights*
Examines changes wrought in the American system of governance by the addition of the Fourteenth Amendment, particularly its Equal Protection Clause, and the ways the Supreme Court has interpreted and applied it over time.

PLSC	4380	001	TR	3:30 pm to 4:50 pm	Brown, Chelsea
*Special Studies in International Relations*

PLSC	4381	001	T	2:00 pm to 4:50 pm	Brown, Seyom
*National Security Policy*
The historical background and development of national security policy in the United States. Emphasizes war powers and defense policy; the constitutional framework, precedents, and presidential-congressional authority; and Cold War and post-Cold War national security strategies and defense policy issues.

SOCI	3363	701	W	6:30 pm to 9:20 pm	Hawkins
*Crime and Delinquency*
Extent of the problem, causal theories, prevention and public policy.

SOCI	3370	701	MW	5:00 pm to 6:20 pm	Cortese
Minority-Dominant Relations
The nature, origins, and consequences of relationships between unequal groups; US and other societies compared.

SOCI	4364	001	MWF	12:00 pm to 12:50 pm	Hawkins
*Correctional Systems*
The history of punishment, adjustment to incarceration, and comparison of prisons for men and women.