2009-2010 UW Courses with Labor Content
To confirm course offerings and other details, please consult University of Washington Course Descriptions.
Winter Quarter 2010
At the UW Seattle Campus:
| Course Number: |
ANTH 374 |
| Title: |
Narrative, Literature, and Medical Anthropology |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Anthropology |
| Meeting Times: |
MW 1:30-3:20 |
| Location: |
Savery Hall 166 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Janelle Taylor |
| Description: |
Introduces anthropological perspectives on the
workings of narrative in illness, healing, and medicine. Considers
writings in medical anthropology alongside other genres of writing about
similar topics. Readings include memoirs and fiction as well as scholarly
articles.
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| Course Number: |
ANTH 474 |
| Title: |
Social Differences and Medical Knowledge |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Anthropology |
| Meeting Times: |
MW 3:30-5:20 |
| Location: |
Savery Hall 166 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Janelle Taylor |
| Description: |
Explores relations between medical and social
categories: how social differences become medicalized; how medical
conditions become associated with stigmatized social groups; and how
categories become sources of identity and bases for political action.
Considers classifications (race, gender, sexuality, disability) and
how each has shaped and/or been shaped by medical science/practice.
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| Course Number: |
CHSTU 254 |
| Title: |
Northwest Latinos: History, Community, Culture |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Chicano Studies |
| Meeting Times: |
MW 12:30-2:20, F 12:30-1:20 |
| Location: |
Thomson Hall 125 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Erasmo Gamboa |
| Description: |
Traces the history, extent, and development of the
Chicano/Latino presence from the early Spanish period to the present.
Examines the major contemporary political, social, and economic issues
affecting Northwest Chicano/Latinos in a broader national and
international context.
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| Course Number: |
CHSTU 256 |
| Title: |
Chicanas: Gender and Race Issues |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Chicano Studies |
| Meeting Times: |
MW 8:30-10:20, F 8:30-9:20 |
| Location: |
Communications 226 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Elizabeth Salas |
| Description: |
Contemporary issues in the Chicana
movement since the 1940s. Issues range from feminism and
Chicana political, educational, and social organizations,
to work, family, health, and the arts.
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| Course Number: |
GEOG 277 |
| Title: |
Geography of Cities |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Geography |
| Meeting Times: |
MWF 9:30-10:20, TTh section |
| Location: |
Mary Gates Hall 389 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Kim England |
| Description: |
This course will develop your understanding of the geographic nature of urbanization, urban systems (inter-urban geography) and the internal spatial patterns and activities within cities (intra-urban geography). Particular emphasis is placed on the US and Canadian experience, although examples will be occasionally drawn from other regions of the world. The course will explore: (1) system of cities – their location, distribution, and functions; (2) their internal structure – the location of activities within urban areas, including housing, economic activities and social geography; and (3) shed light on the major issues and problems facing contemporary urban society.
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| Course Number: |
GEOG 371 |
| Title: |
World Hunger and Agricultural Development |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Geography |
| Meeting Times: |
TTh 12:30-2:20 |
| Location: |
Thomson 135 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Lucy Jarosz |
| Description: |
Addresses world hunger and poverty in relation to
agricultural development, food security policy, the globalization of food
and agriculture and social movements. Explores the problem and historical
persistence of hunger across geographic scale and examines the debates
about how hunger can be eradicated.
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| Course Number: |
HIST 205 |
| Title: |
Filipino Histories |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
History |
| Meeting Times: |
TTh 1:30-3:20 |
| Location: |
Anderson 223 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Vincente Rafael |
| Description: |
This course is an introduction to the histories,
cultures and politics of the Philippines. We will examine such topics as
pre-colonial social formations, the onset and consolidation of
colonial-Christian rule under Spain, the rise of nationalism, the
Revolution and the First Republic, the Filipino-American War, the period
of US colonial rule, the Japanese Occupation, the postcolonial period
leading up to Martial Law, and the period leading up to People Power I
and II, and the history of overseas migration.
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| Course Number: |
HIST 249/POL S 249/SOC 266 |
| Title: |
Introduction to Labor Studies |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
History/Political Science/Sociology |
| Meeting Times: |
MW 10:30-11:50, TTh section |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Margaret Levi |
| Description: |
Conceptual and theoretical issues in the study of
labor and work. Role of labor in national and international politics.
Formation of labor movements. Historical and contemporary role of labor
in the modern world.
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| Course Number: |
HIST 388 |
| Title: |
Colloquium: Introduction to History: The Jew as Other: Anti-Semitism in America |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
History |
| Meeting Times: |
M 1:30-3:20 |
| Location: |
Social Work/Speech Bldg (SWS) B010 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Susan Glenn |
| Description: |
Introduction to the discipline of history for
new or prospective majors. Emphasizes the basic skills of reading,
analysis, and communication (both verbal and written) that are central
to the historian's craft. Each seminar discusses a different subject
or problem.
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| Course Number: |
HSTAA 105 |
| Title: |
The Peoples of the United States |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
History of the Americas |
| Meeting Times: |
MTWTh 10:30-11:20, F section |
| Location: |
Kane 220 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. James Gregory |
| Description: |
This course explores the history of American
diversity. Beginning with the centuries that preceded the birth on an
American nation, we will examine the sequences of immigration and
conquest that eventually made the United States one of the most
ethnically and racially diverse societies on earth. The consequences
of diversity are another theme of the course. We will explore both
the contributions of various peoples and the conflicts between them,
paying special attention to the historical construction of race and
ethnicity and the changing understandings of American citizenship.
"What is an American?" each generation has asked, usually answering
in terms that are new to their era.
See the
course website for more information.
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| Course Number: |
HSTAA 230 |
| Title: |
Race and Power in America, 1861-1940 |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
History of the Americas |
| Meeting Times: |
TTh 9:30-11:20 |
| Location: |
Fishery Sciences Building 102 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Moon-Ho Jung |
| Description: |
We will explore race and the shaping of American
society between the Civil War and World War II, when the United States
abolished slavery, emerged as a leading industrial and imperial power,
and admitted and excluded foreign-born peoples in unprecedented numbers.
How did racial concepts, representations, and practices fundamentally
define power dynamics in American culture? Topics include Reconstruction,
segregation and lynching, immigration and naturalization, imperialism,
and movements for social justice. |
| Course Number: |
HSTAA 313 |
| Title: |
African Americans in the American West |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
History of the Americas |
| Meeting Times: |
MWF 8:30-9:50 |
| Location: |
Smith 105 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Quintard Taylor |
| Description: |
African American history in the American West represents a particular challenge for historians. Most scholars who study the African American experience limit their focus to the Old South and the cities of the East and Midwest, only occasionally describing Los Angeles as an example of national trends in black history. Scholars of the American West usually focus on Native Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans if they discuss people of color at all in the region. Yet black history in the West is as old, complex, and compelling as Western or African American history. This course describes pre-1848 Spanish-speaking black settlers, slavery, post-civil war migration, buffalo soldiers, 19th and 20th Century black urban settlers, World War II migration, the civil rights movement in the West, the interaction of African Americans with other people of color. There will be particular focus on Seattle and Pacific Northwest. The course will present the diverse array of women and men who helped shape the history of the region, of black America, and of the entire nation. |
| Course Number: |
HSTAA 482 |
| Title: |
The History of Brazil: Colonial Period to the Present |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
History of the Americas |
| Meeting Times: |
TTh 1:30-3:20 |
| Location: |
Bagley 154 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Ileana Rodriguez-Silva |
| Description: |
Colonial foundations; the first and second empires; the old and new republics; current problems; prospects for the future.
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| Course Number: |
LAW A 562 |
| Title: |
Employment Law |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Law School |
| Meeting Times: |
TTh 1:30-3:20 |
| Location: |
LAW 213 |
| Instructor: |
Lea B. Vaughn |
| Description: |
A topical study of the employment relationship: its formation, duration and termination. Specific topics covered include employee access to job opportunities, employer information gathering including testing, regulations of health and safety conditions on the job, employee privacy, and the developing topic of unjust discharge. The focus will be on the non-unionized private sector. Wherever possible, the course topics will be put in the appropriate historical and policy setting.
Two other themes will inform the presentation of the substantive doctrine. The first will be preparation of actual work products that a lawyer in this type of practice produces. To this end, students will be asked to submit short writing projects. Second, employment law is a rapidly changing area. Legal reform is always a concern, in theory and in practice. Some Washington cases will be covered, particularly in the area of workers’ compensation. Finally, there will be some comparative focus on global employment law perspectives.
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| Course Number: |
POL S 201 |
| Title: |
Introduction to Political Theory
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| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Political Science |
| Meeting Times: |
TTh 9:00-10:20, WF section |
| Location: |
Smith 120 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Christine Di Stefano |
| Description: |
This course is recommended for students who are
exploring the field of political theory for the first time. No prior
knowledge of political theory is required, although an interest in the
kinds of issues that political theorists study is recommended. Among
the recurrent preoccupations of political theorists, questions of
justice and legitimacy figure prominently. In this class we will
focus on the question of legitimacy. What, if anything, makes some
governments worthy of the support of their citizens? Under what
conditions do governments forfeit the right to be obeyed by their
citizens? Are there conditions under which citizens not only have the
right, but the obligation, to disobey their governments? Each of these
questions involves the concept of political legitimacy. In this course,
we will pursue these and other questions about the legitimacy of
governments. We will study a number of different and compelling
accounts of legitimacy that have been proposed by some of the major
thinkers of Western political theory and American political thought,
including Plato, Thomas Jefferson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke,
Malcolm X, Emma Goldman, and the Students for a Democratic Society.
Several key historical events involving contestations and invocations
of political legitimacy—including the American Revolution, the
anti-slavery and woman suffrage movements, the civil rights movement
and the student movement of the late 1960s—will also be discussed.
In addition to learning about major conceptual approaches to legitimacy,
students will be encouraged to develop their own thoughtful accounts
of political legitimacy, particularly as this bears on contemporary
assessments of politics and government in today's world. |
| Course Number: |
POL S 310 |
| Title: |
The Western Tradition of Political Thought, Modern
|
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Political Science |
| Meeting Times: |
TTh 12:00-1:20, WF section |
| Location: |
Anderson 223 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Christine Di Stefano |
| Description: |
This course will provide a selective survey of
modern (not to be confused with contemporary) political theory, including
primary source works of Karl Marx, Alexandra Kollontai, John Stuart Mill,
W.E.B. Du Bois, Max Weber, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Special attention will
be given to each theorist's unique and enduring attempt to analyze the
modern Western experience.
Key themes include: diverse meanings and
assessments of modernity; narratives of modernity and its non-modern
"others"; the relationship between modernity and modern emancipatory
movements; the relationship between modernity and colonialism; the
impact of modernity on intimate relationships; the question of historical
progress (i.e., are modern people better off than their pre-modern
predecessors and non-Western contemporaries?); the declining role
of religion, tradition, and communities in modern societies;
modernity as experienced by disenfranchised populations; modernity
as myth; intimations of postmodernity. |
| Course Number: |
SISLA 355/SOC 355 |
| Title: |
Social Change in Latin America
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| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Latin American Studies/Sociology |
| Meeting Times: |
TTh 3:30-5:20 |
| Location: |
Denny 216 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Warren Jonathan |
| Description: |
Explores cultures, identities, political economy,
and popular mobilization in Latin America. Examines relations of power
and production between social classes and ethnic groups, as well as
ideologies and intellectual movements.
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| Course Number: |
WOMEN 339/ANTH 339/SISA 339 |
| Title: |
Social Movements in Contemporary India
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| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Women Studies/Anthropology/International Studies (Asian Studies) |
| Meeting Times: |
MW 1:30-3:20 |
| Location: |
Thomson 325 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Priti Ramamurthy |
| Description: |
Covers issues of social change, economic development, and identity politics in contemporary India studied through environmental and women's movements. Includes critiques of development and conflicts over forests, dams, women's rights, religious community, ethnicity, and citizenship.
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| Course Number: |
WOMEN 345/ANTH 345/SIS 345 |
| Title: |
Women and International Economic Development
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| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Women Studies/Anthropology/International Studies (Asian Studies) |
| Meeting Times: |
TTh 10:30-12:20 |
| Location: |
Smith 102 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Priti Ramamurthy |
| Description: |
Questions how women are affected by economic
development in Third World and celebrates redefinitions of what
development means. Theoretical perspectives and methods to interrogate
gender and development policies introduced. Current processes of
globalization and potential for changing gender and economic
inequalities assessed.
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At the UW Tacoma Campus:
| Course Number: |
TCSIUS 221 |
| Title: |
African-American History 1865-1945 |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Communities and Social Institutions: United States, UW Tacoma |
| Meeting Times: |
MW 8:00-10:05 |
| Location: |
CP 106 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Luther Adams |
| Description: |
Examines construction of the "Jim Crow" system of
racial segregation in the United States, from the Supreme Court's
Plessy v. Ferguson decision legalizing segregation in 1896 to the court's
Brown v. Board of Education decision overthrowing it in 1954.
Examines African-American history, culture, and resistance to
segregation in this period. |
| Course Number: |
TCSIUS 335 |
| Title: |
Social Class & Inequality |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Communities and Social Institutions: United States, UW Tacoma |
| Meeting Times: |
MW 4:15-6:20 |
| Location: |
ADMC BHS106 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Emily Ignacio |
| Description: |
This class explores the impact of the changing
economy (including globalization) on people within the United States. We
will critically evaluate "common sense" assessments of the social class,
globalization, and "the new economy" and explore how the economy has
affected the inequality gap. We will assess the changing economy's impact
on specific issues, such as health care, education, transportation,
housing, and tensions within the United States. In particular, we will
examine how cultural expectations, the economy, and government policies
have people within the United States in the past and present to better
understand the opportunities and obstacles we all face.
By the end of the course, we will be able to demonstrate an
understanding of the conditions which have, historically, worsened
inequalities in the United States. In addition, we will learn about how
people are trying to narrow this gap and work towards a more egalitarian
and just society. |
| Course Number: |
TCSIUS 434 |
| Title: |
Women, Race, and Class: Identity and Intergroup Relations |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Communities and Social Institutions: United States, UW Tacoma |
| Meeting Times: |
MW 1:30-3:35 |
| Location: |
KEY 102 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Emily Ignacio |
| Description: |
Explores interlocking effects of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality on the
life experiences of women in the U.S. Includes: impact of race, ethnicity, and racism on social institutions;
women's experiences of racism; struggles of anti-racist women; relationship between racial, class, and sexual
identities and feminism, development of dialogue and coalitions between women.
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| Course Number: |
TCSIUS 441 |
| Title: |
Black Freedom Movement in Perspective |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Communities and Social Institutions: United States, UW Tacoma |
| Meeting Times: |
MW 1:30-3:35 |
| Location: |
CP 108 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Luther Adams |
| Description: |
Explores the historical roots and present-day
manifestations of movements against racial oppression and for empowerment in
the African-American community, focusing heavily on the period since the
1950s. Includes films, music, and popular as well as academic literature.
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| Course Number: |
TCSIUS 456 |
| Title: |
Community and Labor Organizing: A Multicultural Perspective |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Communities and Social Institutions: United States, UW Tacoma |
| Meeting Times: |
TTh 1:30-3:35 |
| Location: |
SCI 309 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Charles Williams |
| Description: |
Explores current community and labor organizing
issues through intersections of gender, race, class, and immigration.
Discussions of labor movements, community and environmental coalitions,
living wage, social justice, and anti-sweatshop campaigns, in context of
globalization. Case studies and issues vary.
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| Course Number: |
TCXG 392 |
| Title: |
Labor, Globalization, and Art |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Cultural Expressions, UW Tacoma |
| Meeting Times: |
TTh 1:30-3:35 |
| Location: |
WGB WG308 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Beverly Naidus |
| Description: |
Through reading, writing, discussion, studio art practice and the analysis of contemporary media and art, we will examine issues of work, labor, and the effects of globalization on our contemporary life. Students will make art about their own work experiences and learn about art history and contemporary art that depicts labor. In particular we will look at some the exciting new art projects created by the global justice movement.
See the
course website for more information.
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| Course Number: |
TCXG 405 |
| Title: |
Cultural Identity and Art |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Cultural Expressions, UW Tacoma |
| Meeting Times: |
TTh 10:20-12:25 |
| Location: |
WGB WG308 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Beverly Naidus |
| Description: |
Through reading, art practice and the analysis of contemporary media and art, we will examine the concept of cultural identity and how many aspects of contemporary society play upon fears of difference. We will discuss current critical theories about race, including the growing studies about the construction of “Whiteness.” We will also discuss stereotyping “the other” in terms of class, geography, sexual orientation, and ability. We will make art pieces that explore both personal and collective stories about cultural identity and fear of difference, and look deeply at contemporary art that discusses the same.
See the
course website for more information.
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| Course Number: |
TPOL S 201 |
| Title: |
Introduction to Political Values and Ideas |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Political Science, UW Tacoma |
| Meeting Times: |
MW 4:15-6:20 |
| Location: |
DOU 280 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Michael Forman |
| Description: |
Surveys a variety of implicit and explicit values that inspire political action.
Explores whether there is such a thing as a universe interest and what it might be, who should rule, and
whether justice will be done.
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| Course Number: |
TPOL S 202 |
| Title: |
Introduction to American Politics |
| Credits: |
5 |
| Department: |
Political Science, UW Tacoma |
| Meeting Times: |
TTh 10:20-12:25 |
| Location: |
CP 324 |
| Instructor: |
Prof. Charles Williams |
| Description: |
Institutions and politics in the American political system. Ways of thinking about how significant problems, crises, and conflicts of American society are resolved politically.
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