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. CORE 3990 Global Search for Justice Winter 2008
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Section | Title | Day | Time | Faculty | Term/Year Offered |
20329
D01 | Voices of Dissent | M | 6-9:30 | Nowak | Winter Sem 2008 |
In this section, students will study the new mosaic of groups and campaigns currently challenging neoliberal globalization, including the Zapatistas, the Indian Narmada Valley dam protests, the Brazilian land occupation movement (Sem Terra), and Students Against Sweatshops. We will examine such gatherings as the World Social Forum, whose motto is "Another World is Possible," and seek to articulate these global struggles to local, regional, and national politics and activism.
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20333
D02 | Dismantling Racism | W | 6-9:30 | Seamon | Winter Sem 2008 |
This Global Search for Justice course will examine how racism persists in U.S. society. We will survey how twentieth- and twenty-first century American dramatists have explored individual, institutional, and systemic forms of racism on the page and stage. We will also consider how factors such as gender, sexuality, and socio-economic class can compound racial injustice. A community component will supplement the course.
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20336
D03 | Immigrant Experience | MWF | 8:15-9:20 | O'Hara | Winter Sem 2008 |
We will focus on Southeast Asian immigrants in our surrounding area and examine especially their entrepreneurial initiative and contributions. The course includes visits to local businesses, urban gardens and farmer's markets.
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20342
D04 | Dismantling Racism | MWF | 12:15-1:20 | Heitzeg | Winter Sem 2008 |
This section will examine the persistence of racism - individual, institutional and systemic - and strategies for change. All aspects of systemic racism will be addressed, with particular attention given to racism in the criminal justice system. This section examines the impact of racism from multiple perspectives (i.e. multiple racial/ethnic groups, nationally and globally) and requires a community component.
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20347
D05 | Environmental Justice | T | 6-9:30 | Agrimson | Winter Sem 2008 |
This section of Global Search for Justice will look at justice issues facing populations both locally and globally. We will explore various environmental issues in the context of science, religion, economics and social values. We will examine ways to come up with solutions to the various environmental issues and how we as individuals can do our part to impart change.
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20353
D06 | Immigrant Experience | TR | 9:55-11:35 | Wilcox | Winter Sem 2008 |
This course will explore both macro and micro aspects of immigrant experiences. We will discuss the historical trends and structural causes of migration around the globe. Specifically, we will look at how mobility (or lack thereof) of people is a result of wars, global and local economic crises, cultural and religious persecutions, immigration laws, foreign policies, international trade policies, and so on. We will examine the inter-connectedness between the mobility of the corporations and the mobility of workers, and the unjust, differential treatment of these two types of border-crossing, while the former is increasingly endorsed by the state and its constituency, the latter is increasingly stigmatized and persecuted by the same forces. We will also discuss migration's impact on cultures (broadly defined as ways of life), including the mainstream culture of the receiving society, the culture that travels with the migrant, and the culture that the migrant has left behind. Ideologies of assimilation and multiculturalism will be subject to close analysis in this class. The class is discussion-based and student-centered. Students will read and discuss both sociological works about migration, and literary works by and about migrants. Students are require to engage in service learning, directly working with immigrants or community organizations that work with immigrants.
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20361
D07 | Women and Work | TR | 1:30-3:10 | Jewell | Winter Sem 2008 |
The purpose of this course is to discuss the value of women's work in the context of social justice. We will examine justice issues related to women and poverty in the process of economic development and social change. We will discuss women's roles in this process and compare their share of benefits from economic growth. The course will engage students in a critical analysis of public policy and justice issues including the inter-relatedness of women's work and social well-being. This section will have a particular focus on women in the Middle East.
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20385
W01 | Latin American-Haiti | F | 6-9:30 | Civil | Winter Wknd 2008 |
And so what does some little country in the Caribbean have to do with me, waiting for the real spring to arrive in St. Paul, Minnesota? How does my sense of history, heritage, labor, commodity, ecology, emigration, contagion, culture or spirtuality intersect with this place, the first free black replublic, the second free republic in the western hemisphere (after the USA), now one of the poorest nations in the world. Come discover for yourself, how in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue to Haiti, one half of the island of Hispaniola. And thus, he discovered the New World, a place we are only now recovering. At the start of the twenty first century, Haiti is the perfect site to address and explore the legacy of slavery, colonialism, revolution, diaspora, resistance, dictatorship, liberation theology, Catholic social action, creolization, syncretic religion, emigration, AIDS, American imperialism and most importantly cultural, social and political resistance. Studying Haiti, you will come to understand better your own place in the world, the power and need for a global search for justice.
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20396
W02 | Immigrant Experience | S | 8:30-12 | Edwards-Simpson | Winter Wknd 2008 |
This section of Global Search for Justice will focus on immigration experiences in the United States, historically and in the present day. The history of immigration and the personal, social and political struggles of immigrants will be key topics. We will use Ronald Takaki's A Different Mirror to develop historical perspectives on Native American Indian/non-Native relationships, the forced migration and enslavement of African-Americans, and the immigration of deverse European, Asian, and Latin American peoples. We will also call on art, music poetry, short stories, essays and a novel to add depth to our questions. NOTE: There will be one off-site class meeting at a local community resource for a service learning experience.
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20405
W03 | Voices of Dissent | U | 1-4:30 | Connors | Winter Wknd 2008 |
This section of Voices of Dissent will examine a variety of instances of social and institutional injustice so that we can see what is involved in voicing dissent from such injustice, that is, not only speaking up and speaking out about oppression and injustice, but also involving oneself in non-violent action aimed at dismantling injustice and constructing human relations and social patterns of justice and peace. The injustices that will be examined will include economic oppression, racism, and sexism, as well as other forms of injustice manifested not only in civil society but also in religious institutions. Special attention will be given to questions of character, that is, the kinds of character qualities, virtues, are involved in being able to be a “voice of dissent.” How might such qualities of character might be nurtured or fostered?
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