African Social Movements in the Age of Globalization
Department:
African American and African Studies
Course Number:
AFAMAST 765
Call Number:
26413
Quarter:
Spring 2012
Days/Times:
T 4:30 to 7:18 pm
Professor:
Franco Barchiesi
Professor Email:
barchiesi.1@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(614)292-0498
Other Contact:
Elona Boykin
Other Contact Email:
boykin.1@osu.edu
Globalization is confronting African societies with new, urgent challenges. Since the early 1980s, structural adjustment, privatization, and economic liberalization have underscored deepening poverty, social inequality, armed conflicts, and environmental emergencies. Moreover, neo-liberal economic policies have undercut the functions of governments and public institutions, making many scholars talk of a crisis of the African nation-state. Social movements and civil societies have responded to such shifts in a variety of ways, trying to resist, negotiate, or adapt to the socioeconomic changes of a globalizing world. In this course, we will look at diverse, multi-layered ways in which African social movements cope with globalization. Our emphasis will be on the complexity and variety of collective identities and agency underpinning African social movement politics. Apart from a theoretical discussion on the meanings of social movements in Africa, we will therefore look at a wide range of movements, including pro-democracy, ethnic, religious, labor, women, student, and environmental movements. The resulting picture is of a dense, often contradictory, yet always vital and vibrant social texture, whose comprehension is essential to understand Africa’s problems and possibilities at the beginning of the 21st Century.
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Body-Mind Goes to School
Department:
Ed P&L
Course Number:
411
Call Number:
8515
Quarter:
Spring 2012
Days/Times:
MW 9:30 to11:48 am
Professor:
Beaker Prince
Professor Email:
prince.78@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(___)___-____
Other Contact:
Beaker Prince
Other Contact Email:
prince.78@osu.edu
This course explores how we arrived at our current, disembodied system of education, and investigates the benefits of changing instruction to engage the whole learner- body, mind and emotions. Throughout the course you will discover solutions in teaching and learning that reflect the function of the brain, body, and emotions in the learning process. You will learn about and apply brain and educational research on how the brain processes experiences and creates “learning”. You will have opportunities to experience, experiment with, and create more embodied approaches to teaching and learning.
This course fulfills:
-a GEC under Social Sciences: Individuals and Groups
-a course in the Education Minor
-a course in the Integrative Approaches to Health and Wellness minor
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Folk Music and Musical Cultures
Department:
English
Course Number:
577.02
Call Number:
26284
Quarter:
Spring 2012
Days/Times:
TR 9:30 to 11:18 am
Professor:
Willow Mullins
Professor Email:
mullins.169@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(___)___-____
Other Contact:
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa
Other Contact Email:
seljamaa.1@osu.edu
What do the blues, bluegrass, reggae, and punk have in common? The term “folk music” may bring images of banjos and accordions, circles of musicians or Bob Dylan, but every kind of music has a “folk.” This class will explore how music functions as a folklore genre from Chicago to Newport, Ireland to Appalachia. We will explore the roles music plays as a dialogue between the individual, the community, and the society. We will look at how we use music to represent our identities and our causes while we are simultaneously shaped by the music around us.
This course fulfills:
- a Folklore major and minor course
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Fundamentals of Personal and Professional Leadership
Department:
AEE
Course Number:
342
Call Number:
24209
Quarter:
Spring 2012
Days/Times:
TR 3:30 to 5:18 pm
Professor:
Dr. Bob Birkenholz
Professor Email:
Birkenholz.1@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(614)323-9903
Other Contact:
Trina Beebe
Other Contact Email:
beebe.25@osu.edu
This course will increase your knowledge, skills and capacity for personal and professional leadership. Students will develop a leadership vision for their future. Individual and small group activities will enable students to develop their personal leadership philosophy, build on their individual strengths, and make plans for continued personal and professional development. (5 credits)
This course will meet the Foundations requirement for the minor in Leadership Studies.
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Reproductive Rights and Justice
Department:
WGSS
Course Number:
296H
Call Number:
26634
Quarter:
Spring 2012
Days/Times:
TR 1:30 to 3:18 pm
Professor:
Mytheli Sreenivas
Professor Email:
sreenivas.2@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(___)___-____
Other Contact:
womstd.info@osu.edu
Other Contact Email:
beer.42@osu.edu
Why is reproduction such a controversial issue, both in the US and in many parts of the world? What do we mean by reproductive rights, and what is the relationship between rights and reproductive justice? How do reproductive technologies—such as surrogacy, IVF, new contraceptives—shape reproductive politics? What is the relationship between reproductive rights, justice, and feminism?
This class takes an interdisciplinary approach to investigating the history and contemporary politics of reproduction beyond a “pro-life” vs. “pro-choice” dichotomy. We will focus on both US and global contexts. Our sources will include legal and historical documents, studies in reproductive and public health, ethnographies and film.
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Senior Leadership Capstone
Department:
EDU P&L 571
Course Number:
22112
Call Number:
TBA
Quarter:
Spring 2012
Days/Times:
R 7:30 to 9:18 pm
Professor:
Scott Boden, Don Stenta
Professor Email:
stenta.1@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(___)___-____
Other Contact:
boden.4@osu.edu
Other Contact Email:
stenta.1@osu.edu
A leadership capstone course, specially designed for graduating seniors (graduating Spring or Summer 2012), will be offered in Spring 2012. The course will allow students to reflect on their leadership experiences and mentors, consider values and ethics in leadership, reflect on their overall college experience, and develop a plan for leaving a leadership legacy. If you would like to register for this class, please do so through Buckeyelink.
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Textiles and Material Culture
Department:
Comparative Studies
Course Number:
677.03
Call Number:
26478
Quarter:
Spring 2012
Days/Times:
MW 11:30 am to 1:18 pm
Professor:
Willow Mullins
Professor Email:
mullins.169@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(___)___-____
Other Contact:
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa
Other Contact Email:
seljamaa.1@osu.edu
Things are so much a part of our lives that we often don’t think about them at all, but they help us define who we are, personally and culturally, and literally shape how we live. This course is about things in general. Through the term, we will tackle a series of questions: What makes an object an object, especially in a virtual world? How do objects represent, what happens when they are on display? How do objects make meaning and become signs? We will begin by looking at what we mean by “things” – from gravestones to clothing, handmade chairs to tattoos, we’ll explore how objects function and help us to make meaning in everyday life. We’ll see how objects are crucially interwoven with other folk forms, including verbal art, ritual, and festival. From the things around us, we move to the display of things, in our homes, on our bodies, and in the museum. Bringing these discussions together, we will end in the marketplace, where things become signs to be exchanged for other things. Along the way, we’ll pursue some object studies of our own.
This course fulfills:
- a course in Folklore Major/Minor
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The Disability Experience in the Contemporary World
Department:
English
Course Number:
597.01
Call Number:
12704
Quarter:
Spring 2012
Days/Times:
MW 9:30 to11:18 am
Professor:
Amy Shuman
Professor Email:
shuman.1@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(___)___-____
Other Contact:
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa
Other Contact Email:
seljamaa.1@osu.edu
Global, national, and local issues of disability in the contemporary world. We will explore the concept of stigma as a central issue in disability studies. According to Erving Goffman, cultural groups establish certain kinds of practices and ways of being as normal and acceptable and others as not normal and unacceptable. Many disability scholars challenge how the category of "normal" gets used as if it is natural. Goffman says that people who are considered not "normal" are put in the position of having to manage their identity, to prove that they can be normal and accepted. In this class we will look at how stigma works in everyday life, in fiction, in film, in news accounts, and in personal narratives by people with disabilities.
Prerequisites: Jr or Sr standing.
This course fulfills:
- a GEC Issues of the Contemporary World
- an elective course in Folklore Major/Minor
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The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
Department:
International Studies
Course Number:
230H
Call Number:
21709
Quarter:
Spring
Days/Times:
MW 11:30 am to 1:18 pm
Professor:
Tatyana Nestorova
Professor Email:
nestorovamatejic.1@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(614)292-9657
Other Contact:
Liz Langford
Other Contact Email:
Langford.18@osu.edu
The course provides an introduction into the geography, history, politics, economy, society and foreign policy of the former Soviet Union. Particular attention will be drawn to the meaning of the Soviet experience and the role of political leaders in the Soviet context. In addition, special emphasis is placed on the emergence of post-Soviet Russia and the evolving new Russian political and socioeconomic system.
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Travelers, Tourists, Tricksters
Department:
Comparative Studies
Course Number:
677.02
Call Number:
26477
Quarter:
Spring 2012
Days/Times:
M 5:30 to 8:18 pm
Professor:
Sabra Webber
Professor Email:
webber.1@osu.edu
Professor Phone:
(___)___-____
Other Contact:
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa
Other Contact Email:
seljamaa.1@osu.edu
This seminar takes a critical look at different sorts of travel and travelers--explorers, ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, NGO and government officials and workers, missionaries, and tourists. We will look at a wide range of travel narratives and their relation to “tricksters” and trickster stories as they arise in different cultural and historical contexts. It is to be hoped that students will produce papers that circle around these themes and that their projects will intersect in ways that will enhance the work of fellow students in the seminar and in turn will be enhanced by theirs.
This course fulfills:
- a course in Folklore Major/Minor
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