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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Spring 2018 |
Registration ID | POLSH324B001 |
Course Title | Thinking Across Borders: Comparative and Transnational Studies |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Political Science |
Instructor | Donahue,Thomas J. |
Times and Days | M 01:30pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | GST103 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2411 In a globalizing world, we need to think across borders. But how to do that? This course seeks to answer that by considering the strengths and weaknesses of comparative, transnational, and area-focused perspectives on the way we live now, and on how we got here. Questions examined include: comparisons of economic change in Africa, China, and Europe; similarities and differences among secularisms and constitutionalisms in India, Latin America, and the Islamic lands; how various actors colonized by Europeans shaped and reshaped their colonizers' ideas; is modernity essentially colonial or European; and is the best response to European hegemony to play up the differences between modernity and one’s own non-European culture, or to reinterpret modernity by reworking it and adding one’s own ideas to it?; Prerequisite(s): Two courses in any of: area studies, comparative issues, or transnational questions.; Enrollment Limit: 15; Lottery Preference(s):; 1. Senior Political Science majors; 2. Students concentrating, minoring, or majoring in an area study Social Science (SO) |
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