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This interdisciplinary course offers a first understanding of the society, politics, culture, and economics of South Asia and provides a critical assessment of its growing significance in world politics and the global economy. It introduces students to the history, social, cultural, and political dynamics of the region. Key questions addressed include (a) What is the lasting legacy of Partition on the political and economic integration of the region? (b) How have the main South Asian states tackled poverty, inequality, and economic development? (c) Why is there so much gender inequality in South Asia and what have various states done to address it? (d) What are the main social cleavages (based on ethnicity, tribe, caste, religion) in South Asia, how have the states of South Asia sought to accommodate these differences and why have they developed different pathways in this regard? (d) To what extent has the liberalization of the South Asian economies affected their development and what have been the costs and benefits of globalization? What role has India played, as the largest South Asian country in world trade and climate change negotiations? (e) To what extent does the India-Pakistan rivalry affect the regional integration of South Asia, politically and economically? (f) Is India a rising power?

This course provides an understanding of what the space is. We experience spaces either created or developed by various relationships between people and their surroundings. This course covers the various relationships formed by environmental elements, such as building structure formed space as well as human beings. Beside this main concept, students have to find the method to express its inter-relationships for using graphic and rendering techniques clearly. This course focuses on practical sketch, drawing and color rendering techniques to express ideas.

This course explores art and politics in France from the revolution to the present. Through a multimedia approach including sculptures, paintings, prints, commemorative monuments, architecture, street art, and photographs, it retraces the changing forms that some of the most salient political messages have taken in modern French art. The course follows a chronological progression from Revolution to Empire, followed by the rise and fall of the Second Empire and the resulting thirst for revenge. It then broaches the 20th century, including the politics of the avant-garde, the art of colonialism, and the varied aesthetic responses to the rise of totalitarianism on display at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris and evident in the art of collaboration and resistance produced in Occupied and Vichy France during the Second World War. The art of 1960s countercultural contestation (anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, feminist, etc.) is then studied, before examining recent initiatives in the realm of commemorative art and cultural display that approach issues facing contemporary French society today, such as terrorism and constructively confronting its colonial legacy. The instructional format consists of both lectures and group site visits to museums and monuments throughout the city.

This course provides an overview of empirical political science, introducing important concepts, theories, methods, and findings in the discipline. The course examines some of the major questions in political science and encourages critically thinking about the discipline's best answers to those questions. The course covers basic concepts relevant to the study of different types of political systems (such as democracy or sovereignty) and explores the challenges of defining and measuring such concepts while also acquiring some historical understanding of these concepts. The course explores how political scientists assess causal relationships between social, economic, and political variables, and how scholars study political behavior and political identity. 

With a career spanning nearly 50 years, Stephen King is one of the world's most popular and influential writers, his stories and iconic characters forming an integral part of the American cultural landscape. Film adaptations of his work continue to receive critical acclaim and extraordinary box office success. The analysis of Horror film and fiction can reveal cultural anxieties at significant socio-historic moments. In this course, students explore the ways in which Stephen King's shorter novels, novellas, and film adaptations of his work interrogate the American psyche, capturing its fears and apprehensions at defining points in modern history. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this course uses King's work as a lens through which to examine developments in American horror cinema and fiction, investigating the articulation of cultural anxieties from the New England Puritan imagination in the influential works of Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. 

This course offers a study of econometric methods at an intermediate level, with an emphasis on applications from macroeconomics and finance, the choice of an adequate model, the testing of assumptions, and the interpretation of results. The topics covered include modelling non-stationary time series and error correction models. The course discusses topics including the proper use of econometric methods in economic and business research; how to use the basic toolkit of econometrics, including software (EViews, Stata); and how to interpret applied econometric studies and how to evaluate them with regard to their theoretical and practical relevance.

This course examines the process by which government agencies select certain values as policy goals, focus on particular dimensions of complex social problems, and formulate policy solutions. Key concepts and theories are examined along with systematic discussion of relevant cases.

Faraway and everyday landscape typologies shape human inhabitations, as well as cosmogonies, cosmologies, myths, and folklore of different cultures. These spaces are sometimes the place of conquests, other times the place of retreat; sometimes regarded with fear, other times with fascination. The same landscape typologies can be the archetypical images of inhabitation, and the archetypical images of abandonment. This course unfolds some of the meanings of landscape through the lenses of abandonment and inhabitation, shedding light over the pertinence of some concepts in particular historical periods and the cause of their oblivion in others, for example, concepts of nature and environment; wilderness and sublime; or landscape urbanism, social urbanism, or informal urbanism.

 

From the betel popular across the region for millenia, to colonial opium regimes, to Bangkok’s Soi Cowboy, vice has always been a part of life in Southeast Asia. In this course, students investigate the economic, political, social, ecological, and cultural significance of a variety of substances and activities, from drugs like opium, alcohol and caffeine, to activities like paid sex and gambling. Students use a range of texts, including scholarly articles, memoirs, movies, and first‐hand observation to investigate the ways illicit substances and behaviors are deeply imbricated in everyday life in Southeast Asia.