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College Catalog 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

 

History
  

  • HIST 611 - Independent Project

    Students may carry out independent research on specific topics under the supervision of a member of the department with expertise on that particular field. The work should result in an original paper or series of papers. Only one independent study may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (1 Credits)
  

  • HIST 612 - Independent Project

    Students may carry out independent research on specific topics under the supervision of a member of the department with expertise on that particular field. The work should result in an original paper or series of papers. Only one independent study may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (2 Credits)
  

  • HIST 613 - Independent Project

    Students may carry out independent research on specific topics under the supervision of a member of the department with expertise on that particular field. The work should result in an original paper or series of papers. Only one independent study may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (3 Credits)
  

  • HIST 614 - Independent Project

    Students may carry out independent research on specific topics under the supervision of a member of the department with expertise on that particular field. The work should result in an original paper or series of papers. Only one independent study may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • HIST 621 - Internship

    A student may register for an internship with any member of the department. Off campus learning experiences must have explicit historical content. The student, the faculty sponsor, and the site supervisor will negotiate a learning agreement which specifies the student’s goals, means of achieving them, and the manner in which the internship will be evaluated. A standard internship will involve ten hours per week and earn four credits. Only one internship may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Internship Office. Every semester. (1 Credits)
  

  • HIST 622 - Internship

    A student may register for an internship with any member of the department. Off campus learning experiences must have explicit historical content. The student, the faculty sponsor, and the site supervisor will negotiate a learning agreement which specifies the student’s goals, means of achieving them, and the manner in which the internship will be evaluated. A standard internship will involve ten hours per week and earn four credits. Only one internship may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Internship Office. Every semester. (2 Credits)
  

  • HIST 623 - Internship

    A student may register for an internship with any member of the department. Off campus learning experiences must have explicit historical content. The student, the faculty sponsor, and the site supervisor will negotiate a learning agreement which specifies the student’s goals, means of achieving them, and the manner in which the internship will be evaluated. A standard internship will involve ten hours per week and earn four credits. Only one internship may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Internship Office. Every semester. (3 Credits)
  

  • HIST 624 - Internship

    A student may register for an internship with any member of the department. Off campus learning experiences must have explicit historical content. The student, the faculty sponsor, and the site supervisor will negotiate a learning agreement which specifies the student’s goals, means of achieving them, and the manner in which the internship will be evaluated. A standard internship will involve ten hours per week and earn four credits. Only one internship may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Internship Office. Every semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • HIST 631 - Preceptorship

    Students may arrange to precept a course with a department member. They will normally be expected to attend the course, do the reading and participate in discussion, look over student writing, and provide guidance or tutor as necessary. Preceptorships do not count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs. Every semester. (1 Credits)
  

  • HIST 632 - Preceptorship

    Students may arrange to precept a course with a department member. They will normally be expected to attend the course, do the reading and participate in discussion, look over student writing, and provide guidance or tutor as necessary. Preceptorships do not count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs. Every semester. (2 Credits)
  

  • HIST 633 - Preceptorship

    Students may arrange to precept a course with a department member. They will normally be expected to attend the course, do the reading and participate in discussion, look over student writing, and provide guidance or tutor as necessary. Preceptorships do not count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs. Every semester. (3 Credits)
  

  • HIST 634 - Preceptorship

    Students may arrange to precept a course with a department member. They will normally be expected to attend the course, do the reading and participate in discussion, look over student writing, and provide guidance or tutor as necessary. Preceptorships do not count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs. Every semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • HIST 641 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of the senior honors project. The independent may be undertaken during a semester, during January, or during the summer. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (1 Credits)
  

  • HIST 642 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of the senior honors project. The independent may be undertaken during a semester, during January, or during the summer. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (2 Credits)
  

  • HIST 643 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of the senior honors project. The independent may be undertaken during a semester, during January, or during the summer. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (3 Credits)
  

  • HIST 644 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of the senior honors project. The independent may be undertaken during a semester, during January, or during the summer. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (4 Credits)

Interdisciplinary Courses
  

  • INTD 90 - Practicum in Forensics

    (1 Credits)
  

  • INTD 100 - Supplementary Writing Workshop

    This course meets for one hour once a week during the fall semester. The course carries one credit and is offered on a pass/fail (S/N) basis only. Most of each hour is spent working through writing assignments students are producing for their other courses. Each session typically focuses on one feature of writing (for instance, generating ideas, organizing paragraphs, or revising strategies). Every semester. (1 Credits)
  

  • INTD 191 - Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies

    Interdisciplinary course offerings, topics to be announced at the time of registration. Enrollment is typically by invitation only, and course work graded S/N. Occasional. (1 Credits)
  

  • INTD 401 - Urban Studies Colloquium

    This course provides students with a culminating experience in the urban studies concentration. Students will use the course to integrate past coursework in urban studies and reflect on where their interests in the diverse field of urban studies lie. Weekly meetings will explore the breadth and diversity of urban studies through guided readings, meetings with faculty in the urban studies program, and conversations with urban studies professionals in the community. Students will also be responsible for organizing a colloquium meeting and making a presentation on an interest of theirs germane to urban studies. S/SD/N grading only. Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing;  , at least two discipline-based theoretical courses, and at least one applied course as identified in the description for the Urban Studies concentration. Instructor permission required. (2 Credits)
  

  • INTD 411 - Sr Seminar in Community and Global Health

    S/SN grading only. (1 Credits)
  

  • INTD 421 - Human Rights and Humanitarianism Colloquium

    This course is designed to provide students with a culminating experience in the human rights and humanitarianism concentration. Through this experience, students will bring together past coursework, along with internship and/or study abroad experiences, reflect on their interests and future goals, and, for some, begin to prepare for further study and/or careers in the fields of human rights and humanitarianism. Class sessions will vary and will include student-led discussions and/or presentations, meeting with concentration faculty, and conversations and interactions with professionals, including Macalester alumni, working in human rights and humanitarianism. S/SD/N grading only. Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing; permission of instructor required. (2 Credits)

International Studies
  

  • INTL 110 - Introduction to International Studies: Globalization - Homogeneity and Heterogeneity

    Globalization is upon us, resulting in unprecedented cultural interpenetration and civilizational encounter. Most of what animates this condition is old. However, the contemporary velocity, reach, and mutations of these forces suggest a new “world time,” full of contradictions, perils, and promises. This course introduces students to globalization by asking What is globalization, and how does one study it? What are the principal forces (social groups, ideas, institutions, and ecological circumstances) that shaped and now propel it? What are its concrete consequences, and how are we to respond? Open to first- and second-year students, or permission of the instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 111 - Introduction to International Studies: Literature and Global Culture

    One of the most significant trends of the current era has been globalization: the shrinking of distances, the greater interpenetration of the world’s peoples, and the rise, perhaps, of a so-called global culture. Yet it is too simple to say, “it’s all a big mix,” for the questions of how the mixing is done, and who mixes, are complex. The study of literature illuminates these questions. By reading important recent texts, this course tackles “world” questions: what does it mean to be from a certain place? what is a culture? and who are we in it? We’ll work to link our own personal readings with the texts in dialogue with the world. Texts will be drawn from U.S. multicultural, “world,” and travel literature, and rich theoretical readings. Open to first- and second-year students, or permission of the instructor. Prerequisite(s): Open only to First Year students and rising sophomores. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 112 - Introduction to International Studies: Globalization, Media, and Cultural Identities

     What roles do media play in constituting identities for people and places both near and far? How do various media facilitate or hinder globalization? How are cultures and cultural identities shaped by contemporary media practices and globalization? The course introduces some key concepts in social theory that have been central to how media is researched (i.e.: public sphere, nation, media, identity, diaspora, multiculturalism and so on). We will investigate the role of media in constituting national identities, contesting and proposing political visions, creating subcultures, and representing and shaping social categories such as race, gender and class. How do media create categories of people? How do people inhabit, resist, subvert, reproduce those categories in and through media? This course focuses on thinking through, about and with media. Open to first- and second-year students, or permission of the instructor.

      (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 113 - Introduction to International Studies: Identities, Interests, and Community

    Open to first- and second-year students. This course develops a base of knowledge, concepts, and analytical skills for engaging with International Studies’ multi-dimensional concerns. Ranging across disciplines but with an emphasis on social science, we study global theories of interaction and conflict between human groups and explore sites and implications of increasing encounter. Focusing on culture, people flows, nationalism and ethnicity, democratization, contending interests, security, religious fundamentalism, gender, and modes of community integration, we examine how particular cases reflect broader processes. Open to first- and second-year students, or permission of the instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 114 - Introduction to International Studies: International Codes of Conduct

    Can we all live by one set of rules? This course investigates the broad field of global studies by addressing fresh and age-old issues in international law from the personal to the global, including borders, sources and enforcement of international law, law of the sea, immigration and asylum, post-national federation, colonization, world order, and global citizenship. Readings include case studies, memoirs, fiction, and other texts focusing on individuals, cultures, and states. Open to first- and second-year students, or permission of the instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 194 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 202 - Global Media Industries

    Cross-Listed as MCST 202 
    Global media collectively have tremendous influence in how many see and comprehend the world and therefore on the information and beliefs upon which they feel or act. While media are central to the continued production of a sense of “the world” at large or the “global” scale, media industries are situated geographically, culturally and institutionally. Even if they promise worldwide coverage or are multinational companies, there is much to be gained from studying how media are produced and distributed differently according to specific social, political, economic and historical conditions. This course considers media industries around the world with a focus on the relationships between the labor and infrastructures behind representations in a broad range of media (television, radio, cinema, news, telecommunications, internet). (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 225 - Comparative Economic Systems

    Cross-Listed as   
    This course examines the workings of economic systems from the perspective of the incentives facing the firm and consumer. The course provides an introduction to the economics of information and organization which is used to evaluate resource allocation under the specific institutional environment of different economic systems. Our understanding of the incentive system is then used to evaluate the overall economic system. The focus of the course is primarily on the U.S., Japan and the former Soviet Union/Russia. As time permits the course may examine China, Germany and Central Europe. Counts as Group E elective for the Economics major. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119  (with minimum grade of C-) (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 232 - Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship

    Cross-Listed as SOCI 232  
    This course is focused and driven by student team project work. Students will prioritize social problems / issues for which they would like to engage in the creation / implementation of a solution. They will spend the semester working to more deeply understand the problems, research successful and failed attempts to resolve the problem in other contexts, and to generate a solution that includes a well researched model for introducing sustainable social change. It is through this engagement that students will grapple with the challenging realities of practice and implementation. Students will study several methodologies including Lean Startup, Human Centered Design, Participatory Poverty Assessment and Impact Gap Analysis. Students will learn through their own experiences and utilize case studies comparing problems, their root causes and the entrepreneurial approaches deployed to address them from various countries and cultural contexts. Fall semester (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 245 - Introduction to International Human Rights

    This course offers a theoretical and practical introduction to the study and promotion of human rights. Using broad materials, it focuses on the evolution and definition of key concepts, the debate over “universal” rights, regional and international institutions, core documents, the role of states, and current topics of interest to the human rights movement. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 250 - Terrorism and Art: The Spectacle of Destruction

    Cross-Listed as RUSS 250  
    Russia presents an excellent case study for the topic of political violence. Terrorism as a means of political persuasion originated in the land of the tsars; Russian history features an incendiary cycle of repressions, revolts, and reprisals. Studying the origins and depictions of these events in works of art reveals how culture mediates between the world of ideas and the sphere of action. We will consider the tactics and motives of revolutionary conspirators as well as the role that gender and religion played in specific acts of terror. We will explore the ways in which Russian revolutionary thought and action served as a model for radicals around the world. The Russian case will provide a framework for in-depth study of examples of terrorism from Algeria, Ireland, Germany, the U.S., and the Middle East. Texts will include novels, poems, manifestos, letters, journalistic accounts, and films, as well as readings in cultural history and political theory. Taught in English. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 252 - Photography: Theories and Practices of an International Medium

    Cross-Listed as ANTH 252  and MCST 252  
    This course examines histories, theories and practices of photography, a medium that has transformed significantly since the daguerrotypes of the mid 19th century.  In 1839, Daguerre’s invention was presented as “a free gift to the world.”  This course will look at how that gift has been put to use in photographic cultures around the world in contexts as diverse as portrait studios in Yogyakarta, a history museum in Vietnam, French advertising, Soviet family albums and news imagery circulating worldwide. While we will pay careful attention to visual aesthetics, we will focus on photography as a documentary genre that has long been central to how individuals imagine the world beyond their experience. We will also be considering personal photographic archives such as family albums and scrapbooks and asking when private photographs become public representations.  One central feature of the course will be learning about how scholars have thought about and through photography and discussing the complications of applying these theories transhistorically and cross-culturally.  (Berger, Barthes, Benjamin, Sontag, Sekula, Strassler, Pinney, Tagg, Azoulay) Topics for discussion include debates around truth in photography and the politics of representation, photography’s relationship to history and changing institutional uses of photography, as well as different photographic cultures and their anthropological and sociological significance. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 253 - Comparative Muslim Cultures

    Cross-Listed as ANTH 253  
    This course is an introduction to the diverse lifeways of Muslims around the world, looking at how understandings and practice of Islam are shaped by social, economic, and political factors. It examines the Qur’an and hadith, and other authoritative texts that ground Islamic jurisprudence, and explores the diverse ways in which Muslims have understood and interpreted these teachings in locations across the world-such as Indonesia, the Middle East, South Asia, Europe and the United States - and at various points in history. The specific focus may vary with each offering, responding to instructor expertise and focus, emerging and volatile situations worldwide, or new advances in the field. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 265 - Translation as Cross-Cultural Communication

    Cross-Listed as  
    When communication takes place across language barriers, it raises fundamental questions about meaning, style, power relationships, and traditions. This course treats literary translation as a particularly complex form of cross-cultural interaction. Students will work on their own translations of prose or poetry while considering broader questions of translation, through critiques of existing translations, close comparisons of variant translations, and readings on cultural and theoretical aspects of literary translation. Prerequisite(s): Advanced proficiency in a second language. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 272 - Post-Nationalism: The Post-Soviet Sphere

    Cross-Listed as  
    The USSR’s 1991 dissolution ended one of history’s great experiments. Socialism sought to dissolve ethnicity and overcome ethnic conflict with a focus on equality. Instead it exacerbated nationalism and created-separated identities. But how? Topics include ethno-creation, control, and resistance; ethnic animosities and the USSR’s destruction; new states after 1991; “diaspora” populations beyond ethnic homelands; local rebellions; new “native” dictatorships; and recent international organizations. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 280 - Indigenous Peoples’ Movements in Global Context

    Cross-Listed as  
    During the last three decades, a global indigenous rights movement has taken shape within the United nations and other international bodies, challenging and reformulating international law and global cultural understandings of indigenous rights. The recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights in international law invokes the tensions between sovereignty and human rights, but also challenges the dominant international understandings of both principles. In this course, we examine indigenous peoples’ movements by placing them in a global context and sociologically informed theoretical framework. By beginning with a set of influential theoretical statements from social science, we will then use indigenous peoples’ movements as case studies to examine the extent to which these theoretical perspectives explain and are challenged by case studies. We will then analyze various aspects of indigenous peoples’ movements and the extent to which these aspects of the movement are shaped by global processes. Every other year. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 282 - Introduction to International Public Health

    This course introduces and explores the major health problems facing developing countries, and the main approaches to remediation. The course considers the social determinants of health, and the need for public health programs to address the root causes of health inequities as well as illness itself. Focus is at the country, international-organization, and donor levels. Attention will be given to major indicators, recent trends, policies, and metrics for monitoring progress. A case study, such as international tuberculosis control, will be used as an applied analysis. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 284 - Imaging the Modern City

    Cross-Listed as HIST 284  
    From c.1850-1950 the world’s cities transformed as never before. Across the globe, these burgeoning metropolises were reconstituted as massive stages for the economic and cultural transformations of the day - the sites of industrialization, centralized planning, mass transport, and the locus of global migration. This course will trace the broader history of global urbanization during this period with an emphasis on how these processes were represented and imaged by nineteenth and twentieth-century urbanites. How was the modern city conceived as it transformed beyond all recognition? How did the global scope of the modern city impact these images? How were new technologies incorporated into this radical re-imagining of the modern city? And how did these images travel across the globe, themselves spurring further urbanization as they went? Geographically, the class introduces the radical transformation of urban morphology that began in mid-19th century European cities such as Manchester, London, Paris, Vienna and engages the transfer and reinterpretation of such processes on global cities from Kolkata to Moscow to Mexico City to Rio de Janeiro to Chicago and back, often to Paris. The class also engages classic and contemporary urban theory, artistic representations, and other narratives of the modern city. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 285 - Ethnicity and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe

    Cross-Listed as POLI 285 
    This course explores ethnic nationalism’s causes and consequences in Eastern Europe. Drawing on several disciplines, we begin by examining the core concepts and theories in the contemporary study of nationalism. We then explore both the historical roots of Eastern European nationalisms, and their implications for democracy, minority inclusion, regional stability, and European integration. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 288 - Identity, Race, and Ethnicity in Japan

    Cross-Listed as AMST 288  and JAPA 288 .
    From notions of the “pure self” to teenage ganguro (“face-blackening”), Japanese culture is rife with instances of ideology and performance that reflect a deep complexity in its engagement with issues of identity and foreignness. This course traces the roots of this complexity back to Japan’s beginnings as a modern nation and examines its cultural development into the present day. Works of fiction will be paired with readings in history and criticism to explore the meanings of identity, race, and ethnicity as they are expressed and contested in Japanese culture. The course will cover the literature of Korea and Taiwan, the experience of domestic minorities, and the contemporary cultures of cos-play (“costume-play”) and hip-hop. No prior knowledge of Japanese required. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 290 - World to Table: Global Food Studies

    Food has been a global issue for over half a millennium. The intercontinental movement of potatoes, sugar, rice, tobacco and more has shaped populations, economies, empires, and environments, while food today inflects the worldwide experience of nationality, ethnicity, religion, health, gender, race, class, culture, rights, and indeed life. Thus this course explores global food from many disciplinary, geographical, and thematic perspectives. We will also interact with local food institutions, address in a limited way our own food practices, and cook and eat a bit too.Al Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 294 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 300 - Advanced Feminist/Queer Theories and Methodologies

    Cross-Listed as   
    This course is an in-depth study of some specific theories and methodologies on which contemporary feminist and queer thinkers have based their analysis, critique, and reconstruction of men’s and women’s roles. Some guiding questions are: What is a nation? Who are its citizens? How do language and gender roles shape the ways we imagine our roles as men and women? Do sexuality or economy affect how we subscribe to or resist political ideologies? In previous offerings, the course has explored the intersection of Postcolonialism (specifically gendered critiques of colonizing sociopolitical structures) with Postmodernism (specifically gendered critiques of language and sexuality). The course will include film, photography, music, and the writings of Butler, Foucault, Chodorow, Kristeva, hooks, Spivak, and Trinh, among others. It offers ways to create links with local community and social-work organizations. Prerequisite(s): junior standing or permission of instructor and at least one intermediate WGSS core course. WGSS 200  highly recommended. Every other year. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 301 - Power and Development in Africa

    Cross-Listed as POLI 333  
    In a notable turn around, a significant number of African societies, in recent years, have experienced both economic growth and renewal of the spirit of women and men acting as citizens. These are commendable achievements. Yet, old quotidian urgencies such as precarious personal safety, hunger, poor health, and political disorder are still prevalent. This is the dialectic of development. This course explores these contradictions. Most of the attention will be given to the concepts of power, politics, and development in contemporary Africa. The course concludes with each student submitting a research paper on a specific problem (e.g. environment, economic, social, cultural, political) confronting one country of the student’s choice. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 316 - Mapping the New World: Exploration, Encounters, and Disasters

    Cross-Listed as HISP 316  and LATI 316 .
    Europeans were by no means the first peoples to explore new territories and human populations. Renaissance scientific methodology, however, led European travelers to meticulously document each New World encounter in writing and develop new tools with which to navigate and represent space, devices that subsequently became weapons of colonial domination. But as Nature and indigenous populations refused to be subjected to European epistemology, failure and disaster were frequent events: shipwrecks left Old World survivors stranded among unknown lands and peoples in the Americas; Amerindians rejected the imposition of a foreign culture and religion, murdering colonists and missionaries; Africans rebelled against slavery and escaped to mountains and jungles to form autonomous communities. An examination of maps, exploration logs, missionary histories, travel literature, historiography and colonial documents will provide the foundation for this course on the ambivalent reality of the Old World’s encounter with the Americas, in which Europeans were often the losers. This course satisfies the Area 1 requirement for the Hispanic & Latin American Studies major. Prerequisite(s): HISP 305  and another 300-level HISP course, or consent of instructor. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 317 - Writers and Power: The European East in the 20th Century

    Eastern European writers and filmmakers have long been prominent figures, reflecting their confrontation with the 20th century’s three most powerful ideologies: fascism, communism, and democracy. This course explores the interactions between writers and these systems of power in the works of major figures such as Ionesco, Kundera, Havel, Milosz, Forman, and Kusturica. We follow written and cinematic engagements with power at both social and individual levels, and extend to broad questions of history and community. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 320 - Global Political Economy

    Cross-Listed as POLI 320  
    Traces the evolution of (global) political economy as a peculiarly modern way of understanding and organizing (global) social life. Particular attention will be paid to how the distinction between the political and the economic is drawn and implemented in interconnected ways within nation-states and in international society. Course includes a detailed study of one of the key components of the international political economy: international trade, international finance, technological processes, etc. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 321 - Cultures of Neoliberalism

    Cross-Listed as MCST 321  
    Neoliberal theory posits the relative autonomy of the economic sphere from both culture and politics. Rejecting this assumption, the course will give students the ability to understand the interconnection of economic, political and cultural practices as well as the ways that economic theories are shaped by cultural assumptions about what constitutes a person, a life, a society, etc. We will read some of the foundational texts from the neoliberal school of economic thought (Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman) alongside more contemporary reflections on the culture and politics of neoliberalism from the fields of Anthropology, Geography, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, and Critical Race Studies. Additionally, we will look at both the global institutions that craft and enforce economic policies as well as their impacts in multiple international contexts. This course will emphasize interdisciplinarity and original research. Finally, in addition to key texts, we will examine recent documentaries that attempt to render economic structures visible. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 325 - China, Russia and Central Europe in Transition

    Cross-Listed as   
    This course surveys the theoretic and empirical literature on Soviet-style central planning and the transition to a market economy. The economic history of central planning is examined with emphasis on the experience of the Soviet Union and its variants in Eastern Europe and China. The tool of analysis is the branch of economics known as the economics of organization and information, which will be used to analyze the operation, strengths, and limitations of central planning. The legacy of central planning forms the backdrop for an examination of the transition to a market economy. Counts as a Group E elective for the economics major. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119  and one 200s level ECON course from Group A electives; ECON 221  or ECON 225  are recommended. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 333 - Economics of Global Food Problems

    Cross-Listed as ECON 333  and ENVI 333 .
    This course will examine food distribution, production, policy, and hunger issues from an economics perspective. It explores and compares food and agriculture issues in both industrialized and developing countries. Basic economic tools will be applied to provide an analytical understanding of these issues. Topics such as hunger and nutrition, US farm policy, food distribution, food security, food aid, biotechnology and the Green Revolution, the connection between food production and health outcomes, as well as other related themes will be explored in depth throughout the semester. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119  and a C- or higher in one 200-level Economics course from Group A electives;   or   recommended. Offered every other spring semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 342 - Representing the World As It Is: Histories and Theories of Ethnographic Film

    Cross-Listed as ANTH 342  and MCST 342  
    How can an experience of the world as it is be represented?  What are the promises and challenges of transcultural filmmaking?  This course will explore what has been called ethnographic, cross-cultural and transcultural cinema from several points of view.  We will look at ethnographic film in terms of its geo-political, anthropological and cinematic origins, and then delve into its various forms and contemporary manifestations.  We will examine some of the major films of the canon of ethnographic cinema, and look at the developments of several it its most renowned practitioners (Flaherty, Mead, Rouch, Marshall, Gardner, Asch, MacDougall).  We will explore the shifting forms and representational strategies of ethnographic film and how these are linked to technological and ideological transformations.  We will see how scholars inside and outside of anthropology have defined, criticized or challenged the project of ethnographic film, and how recent film and video makers, including those who traditionally have been the subject of the ethnographic gaze, have created new ways of visualizing experience for themselves and for others. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 345 - Advanced Themes in Human Rights

    This course closely investigates human rights violations and the dilemmas facing the actors and institutions that seek to address them. The specific focus may vary with each offering, responding to instructor expertise and focus, emerging and volatile situations worldwide, or new advances in the field. Prior coursework on human rights, or instructor’s permission required. Prerequisite(s): Prior coursework in human rights or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 352 - Transitional Justice

    Cross-Listed as POLI 352  
    This course explores the rapidly evolving field of transitional justice, examining how and why regimes respond to wide-scale past human rights abuses. Drawing on examples worldwide, it asks why states choose particular strategies and examines a variety of goals (truth, justice, reconciliation, democracy-building), approaches (trials, truth commissions, file access, memorialization, reparation, rewriting histories), actors (state, civil society, religious institutions), experiences, results, and controversies. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 362 - Culture and Globalization

    Cross-Listed as  
    The world is far more interconnected today than ever before, but what does this mean in terms of culture? This course looks at the impact of globalization on cultures and at examples of global cultures such immigrants, media and popular cultures, world cities, and transnational intellectuals, ethnicities and ideologies. It also looks at the way cultures interact at geographic borders and in the margins of society. Prerequisite(s):   or   (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 364 - Culture and Revolution

    Cross-Listed as  
    This course examines the relationship between cultural and political change during three very different revolutions: France 1789, Russia 1917, Iran 1979. How do people change when governments are overturned? How do revolutions shape popular consciousness? Do people understand events as revolutionaries intend? To answer these questions, we will examine symbols and political ideologies, mass media, education, social identities, the culture of violence, popular participation and resistance, and other issues. Readings will include revolution-inspiring works of Voltaire and Rousseau, Marx and Lenin, Khomeini and the Koran. We will read sympathetic and antagonistic contemporary accounts, and look at popular culture to see how events were understood. Fashion and etiquette, comics and caricatures, movies and plays will be used. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 367 - Postcolonial Theory

    Cross-Listed as ENGL 367  
    Traces the development of theoretical accounts of culture, politics and identity in Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean and related lands since the 1947-1991 decolonizations. Readings include Fanon, Said, Walcott, Ngugi and many others, and extend to gender, literature, the U.S., the post-Soviet sphere, and Europe. The course bridges cultural, representational, and political theory. Prior internationalist and/or theoretical coursework strongly recommended. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 368 - Sustainable Development and Global Future

    Cross-Listed as ENVI 368 .
    This course examines the history and modern use of “sustainable development” as a framework for international development. Close attention is given to the role of philanthropies, NGOs and social movements in shaping projects and policies. The course examines a range of topics including appropriate technology, microfinance, ecotourism and ecovillages. Prior coursework in international development and/or environmental studies is strongly recommended Offered occasionally. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 372 - Post-Nationalism: The European Union

    The European Union aims to overcome nationality for the common good. Its successes have challenged traditional customs and identities, and it has stumbled over cultural questions, foreign policy, and constitutional foundations. Topics will include genesis of the EU; erosion of national sovereignty and consequent anxieties; European institutions vs. local control; cultural norms confronted with EU economic, political, and human rights; incorporating new member-states, and the very notion of “Europe.” Throughout we will ask whether one can get “beyond nationalism.” (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 380 - Global Leadership

    Leadership is among the deepest features of associational life, pervading every profession and institution, especially in the age of complex global change. Thus this seminar explores leadership. We begin with the relationship between structure and agency, and then focus on vision and invention, integrity and legitimacy, flexibility and decisiveness. Readings draw from Western, Islamic, and Indian sources. The main paper will focus on a major individual from any century or locale, chosen by the student. Prerequisite(s): Open to all but first year students (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 381 - Transnational Latin Americas

    Cross-Listed as HIST 381  and LATI 381 
    Examines critical and primary literatures concerning the transnational, hemispheric, Atlantic, and Pacific cultures that have intersected in Latin America since the early colonial era, with a particular focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 382 - Poverty, Health, and Development

    This course explores the links among poverty, health and socio-economic development in low-income countries. Key principles, methodologies and approaches to designing and evaluating programs to improve the health of poor populations will be discussed. We will explore several contemporary approaches to linked poverty reduction, public health improvement, and development. Enrollment limited to International Studies majors, Community and Global Health Concentrators, or International Development concentrators, or by permission of the instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 384 - Langston Hughes: Global Writer

    Cross-Listed as   and AMST 384 
    The great African American writer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is best known as the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance. But his career was vaster still. He was a Soviet screenwriter, Spanish Civil War journalist, African literary anthologist, humorist, playwright, translator, social critic, writer of over 10,000 letters, and much more. This course engages Hughes-s full career, bridging race and global issues, politics and art, and makes use of little-known archival materials. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 394 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 415 - Cultural Resistance and Survival: Indigenous and African Peoples in Early Spanish America

    Cross-Listed as LATI 415  and HISP 415 
    In the Old World, Spain defined its national identity by locating its “others” in Jews, conversos, Muslims, moriscos, Turks, gypsies, pirates and Protestants. In the New World, Spaniards employed many of the same discursive and legal tactics—along with brute force—to subject Amerindian and African peoples to their will and their cultural norms. But indigenous and African populations in the Americas actively countered colonization. They rejected slavery and cultural imposition through physical rebellion, the use of strategies of cultural preservation and the appropriation of phonetic writing, which they in turn wielded against European hegemony. We will examine a fascinating corpus of indigenous pictographic codexes, architecture, myths, and histories and letters of resistance, along with a rich spectrum of texts in which peoples of African descent affirm their own subjectivity in opposition to slavery and cultural violence. What will emerge for students is a complex, heterogeneous vision of the conquest and early colonization in which non-European voices speak loudly on their own behalf. This course satisfies the Area 1 requirement for the Hispanic & Latin American Studies major.  Prerequisite(s): HISP 307  or consent of instructor. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 477 - Comparative Environment and Development Studies

    Cross-Listed as GEOG 477  and   
    A concern for the relationship between nature and society has been one of the pillars of geographic inquiry and has also been an important bridge between other disciplines. By the 1960s, this area of inquiry was referred to variously as “human ecology.” Over the last decade, certain forms of inquiry within this tradition have increasingly referred to themselves as “political ecology.” The purpose of this seminar is to review major works within the traditions of cultural and political ecology; examine several areas of interest within these fields (e.g., agricultural modernization, environmental narratives, conservation, ecotourism); and explore nature-society dynamics across a range of geographical contexts. Towards the end of the course we will explore how one might begin to think in practical terms about facilitating development in marginal environments. Prerequisite(s):  Completion of GEOG 232  prior to registering for this seminar is encouraged. Occasionally. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 485 - Senior Seminar: Confronting Global Hatred

    Drawing on several disciplines, this course confronts global hatred from three angles. The first is the hater’s internal world and looks at how human nature, genetic structure/instincts, and individual psychology may foster hatred. The second is external, exploring the role history, culture, ideology, social structure, religion, and mass psychology play. The third seeks to apply the insights gained from the first two, asking: how might we break the devastating cycles of hatred so present in our world? Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 487 - Senior Seminar: Rule of Law and the Chaos of Globalization

    Globalization has helped the international community to come together with an unprecedented immediacy. It has also enabled individuals and on-state actors to assume powers and duties formerly exclusive to state. The dispersion of state prerogatives can be liberating, as when oppressed people use new communication technologies to overthrow their masters. It can also provide opportunities for criminal enterprises and other agents of disorder to act with impunity. Our senior seminar will explore the tensions between the centripedal forces that bring us together, and the centrifugal forces that tear the global community apart. The state will most often be the law. The Westphalian sovereign state has often been declared vanquished by globalization, yet it is still very much alive, and has proven creative in deriving new means to control its subjects. It must do so because those subjects have proven equally creative in resisting state control; and globalization, in both its modern and older forms, has provided those subjects with many tools of resistance. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or permission of instructor. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 488 - Senior Seminar: Thinking on a World Scale

    For more than a century, many fine minds - St. Lucian poets, Russian linguists, Mexican mystics, German forest historians, American sociologists, Bengali novelists, and Macalester International Studies students among them - have been drawn to thinking on a world scale. This senior seminar begins by reading some of them at essay length, then tackles current world-scale books the instructor himself has not yet read. Finally we generate some world-scale writing of our own. Open to all geographies and disciplinary specialties.  Corequisite(s): Senior standing or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 489 - Senior Seminar: Capitalism and World (Dis)Order

    Capitalism, for many, is synonymous with the “natural” exchange of goods and services through “the free market.” But fuller examination shows capitalism to be neither natural, free, nor limited to economic transactions. Capitalism more precisely is a historical social system and a way of being which now penetrates all forms of life: cultural, ecological, civic and more. This senior seminar aims to identify capitalism’s origins and development, and interrogate its contemporary status. Thinkers such as Smith, Marx, and Braudel will loom, but readings will focus on works by Beaud, Weber, Tawney, Kotz, Wallerstein, and others. The course concludes with a significant research paper on a topic, relevant to the theme, of a student’s choice. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 494 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 601 - Tutorial

    Closely supervised individual or small group study for advanced students on a subject not available through regular offerings. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (1 Credits)
  

  • INTL 602 - Tutorial

    Closely supervised individual or small group study for advanced students on a subject not available through regular offerings. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (2 Credits)
  

  • INTL 603 - Tutorial

    Closely supervised individual or small group study for advanced students on a subject not available through regular offerings. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (3 Credits)
  

  • INTL 604 - Tutorial

    Closely supervised individual or small group study for advanced students on a subject not available through regular offerings. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 611 - Independent Project

    An opportunity for advanced students to pursue independent research under the supervision of a sponsoring faculty member. Prerequisite(s): Introduction to International Studies, junior standing, and a written proposal to the faculty supervisor and department chair. Every semester. (1 Credits)
  

  • INTL 612 - Independent Project

    An opportunity for advanced students to pursue independent research under the supervision of a sponsoring faculty member. Prerequisite(s): Introduction to International Studies, junior standing, and a written proposal to the faculty supervisor and department chair. Every semester. (2 Credits)
  

  • INTL 613 - Independent Project

    An opportunity for advanced students to pursue independent research under the supervision of a sponsoring faculty member. Prerequisite(s): Introduction to International Studies, junior standing, and a written proposal to the faculty supervisor and department chair. Every semester. (3 Credits)
  

  • INTL 614 - Independent Project

    An opportunity for advanced students to pursue independent research under the supervision of a sponsoring faculty member. Prerequisite(s): Introduction to International Studies, junior standing, and a written proposal to the faculty supervisor and department chair. Every semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 621 - Internship

    Internships join the intellect with practical internationalist experience. Students first identify a specific placement, and agree on objectives and means to gauge progress, including a 1500-word objective midterm report and 3000-word final reflective essay. Course is pass/fail (S/D/NC) only, but may be included on I.S. major plans. Prerequisite(s): Introduction to International Studies, sophomore standing, and International Studies faculty sponsorship. Work with Internship Office. Every semester. (1 Credits)
  

  • INTL 622 - Internship

    Internships join the intellect with practical internationalist experience. Students first identify a specific placement, and agree on objectives and means to gauge progress, including a 1500-word objective midterm report and 3000-word final reflective essay. Course is pass/fail (S/D/NC) only, but may be included on I.S. major plans. Prerequisite(s): Introduction to International Studies, sophomore standing, and International Studies faculty sponsorship. Work with Internship Office. Every semester. (2 Credits)
  

  • INTL 623 - Internship

    Internships join the intellect with practical internationalist experience. Students first identify a specific placement, and agree on objectives and means to gauge progress, including a 1500-word objective midterm report and 3000-word final reflective essay. Course is pass/fail (S/D/NC) only, but may be included on I.S. major plans. Prerequisite(s): Introduction to International Studies, sophomore standing, and International Studies faculty sponsorship. Work with Internship Office. Every semester. (3 Credits)
  

  • INTL 624 - Internship

    Internships join the intellect with practical internationalist experience. Students first identify a specific placement, and agree on objectives and means to gauge progress, including a 1500-word objective midterm report and 3000-word final reflective essay. Course is pass/fail (S/D/NC) only, but may be included on I.S. major plans. Prerequisite(s): Introduction to International Studies, sophomore standing, and International Studies faculty sponsorship. Work with Internship Office. Every semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 631 - Preceptorship

    Work assisting a faculty member in planning and teaching a course. Prerequisite(s): Advanced proficiency in the area of study and invitation by a faculty member. Work with Academic Programs. Every semester, depending on instructor need. (1 Credits)
  

  • INTL 632 - Preceptorship

    Work assisting a faculty member in planning and teaching a course. Prerequisite(s): Advanced proficiency in the area of study and invitation by a faculty member. Work with Academic Programs. Every semester, depending on instructor need. (2 Credits)
  

  • INTL 633 - Preceptorship

    Work assisting a faculty member in planning and teaching a course. Prerequisite(s): Advanced proficiency in the area of study and invitation by a faculty member. Work with Academic Programs. Every semester, depending on instructor need. (3 Credits)
  

  • INTL 634 - Preceptorship

    Work assisting a faculty member in planning and teaching a course. Prerequisite(s): Advanced proficiency in the area of study and invitation by a faculty member. Work with Academic Programs. Every semester, depending on instructor need. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 641 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of a senior honors thesis. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (1 Credits)
  

  • INTL 642 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of a senior honors thesis. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (2 Credits)
  

  • INTL 643 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of a senior honors thesis. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (3 Credits)
  

  • INTL 644 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of a senior honors thesis. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair. Every semester. (4 Credits)

Japanese
  

  • JAPA 101 - First Year Japanese I

    Introduction to Japanese language and culture. Practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write Japanese. Fall semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 102 - First Year Japanese II

    Continuation of JAPA 101. Spring semester. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 101  or its equivalent. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 150 - Language and Gender in Japanese Society

    Cross-Listed as  ,   and WGSS 150 
    Japanese is considered to be a gendered language in the sense that women and men speak differently from each other. Male characters in Japanese animation often use “boku” or “ore” to refer to themselves, while female characters often use “watashi” or “atashi.” When translated into Japanese, Hermione Granger (a female character in the Harry Potter series) ends sentences with soft-sounding forms, while Harry Potter and his best friend Ron use more assertive forms. Do these fictional representations reflect reality? How are certain forms associated with femininity or masculinity? Do speakers of Japanese conform to the norm or rebel against it? These are some of the questions discussed in this course. Students will have opportunities to learn about the history of gendered language, discover different methodologies in data collections, and find out about current discourse on language and gender. Offered alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 194 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 203 - Second Year Japanese I

    Continuation of JAPA 102. While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of kanji and begin to work with short texts. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 102  or its equivalent. Fall semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 204 - Second Year Japanese II

    Continuation of JAPA 203. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 203  or its equivalent. Spring semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 251 - Fiction of Modern Japan

    This course introduces major authors, texts, and issues in modern Japanese literature from 1868 to the present. The focus will be on works of fiction (mainly novels, novellas, and short stories) and how they mediate and complicate the relationships between: self and other, tradition and modernity, nation and empire, and history and memory. One of the central themes of the course is the role of literature in the production, transformation, and contestation of the national narratives and cultural constructs-or the fictions-of modern Japan. In addition to the literary or textual aspects of individual works (such as language, style, and narration), we will consider the specific historical, political, and socioeconomic factors informing these works. No prior knowledge of Japan or Japanese is required. Readings are in English or English translation. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 254 - Japanese Film and Animation: From the Salaryman to the Shojo

    Cross-Listed as ASIA 254 
    This course surveys the history of Japanese film from the “golden age” of Japanese cinema to the contemporary transnational genre of anime. While introducing methodologies of film analysis and interpretation, it develops knowledge of how major works of Japanese film and animation have expressed and critiqued issues of modern Japanese society. In doing this, we trace the development of two related archetypes: the middle-class salaryman and the adolescent girl (shojo). These figures - as well as their incarnations as cyberpunks and mecha-warriors, sex workers and teen rebels - help us explore Japanese film’s engagement with the strictures of middle-class society, the constrained status of women, fantasy and escapism, sexuality and desire. Weekly screenings and discussion will be supplemented by readings in film theory and cultural criticism. Directors include Ozu Yasujiro, Akira Kurosawa, Oshima Nagisa, Miyazaki Hayao, Anno Hideaki, and Hosoda Mamoru. No prior knowledge of Japanese required. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
 

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