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Spring 2017  |  GLOS 3900 Section 001: Topics in Global Studies -- Disposable People? Surplus Value/Surplus Humanity (67553)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
5 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 220
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
Topic Title: 'Disposable People? Surplus Value/Surplus Humanity' http://classinfo.umn.ed/?gidwa002+GLOS3900+Spring2017
Class Description:
How do economic, social, and technological arrangements generate marginalized populations that are considered "surplus"? What is distinctive about "surplus populations" in the present global age? Have certain segments of humanity--remaindered lives, as it were--become "disposable" within the existing order of things? In what ways does capitalism's drive for productivity and profit contribute to the rise of superfluous populations? How are structural upheavals in the global economy driven by technological progress and automation transforming the future of work and employment? How do states attempt to "manage" surplus populations, whether through mechanisms of consent and/or coercion? What kinds of political and ethical questions does the existence of "surplus humanity" force us to confront as citizens of a country and (relatively privileged) inhabitants of the planet? Is the upsurge of (left-wing and right-wing) populism in various parts of the world, including movements like Black Lives Matter, the Native American-led DAPL protest, and white nationalism in the United States, symptomatic of the perceived ills and injuries of neoliberal globalization or are the explanations more complex? Our course will address these sorts of urgent issues and others. Classes will be a combination of lectures, discussions, debates, and audio-visual clips. Some books will have to be purchased. Other readings and assignments will be posted on Moodle.
Grading:
There are no exams. The class operates on the premise that instructor and students collaboratively produce an outcome that is rewarding for all. In short, no free riders please! Be prepared to take a genuine stake in the course and invest in it as you might in a common-property resource. Think of it as collective pedagogical experiment in which we each teach and learn from the other (with the caveat that the instructor's role is to judiciously guide discussions, provide structure, and consolidate understanding over the course of the semester). Grades will be based on the following: a) regular class attendance and participation (10%), b) willingness to lead class discussion with careful forethought and preparation at least once during the semester (10%), c) a total of 10 weekly commentaries (of varying formats, as per instructor's guidelines) on assigned readings over the course of the semester (25%); d) work cooperatively in groups of two to three on a high quality end-of-semester research presentation on a contemporary event, problem or phenomenon with the instructor's prior approval (25%); d) write a 10-page (2,500-3,000 word, excluding bibliography) research essay on a topic relevant to course themes with the instructor's prior approval (30%).
Exam Format:
Not applicable
Class Format:
Lecture and discussion
Workload:
40-60 pages (very occasionally more) of reading per week (i.e. approximately 20-30 pages per class), and intermittently audio-visual materials to animate and supplement understanding.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67553/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
22 November 2016

Spring 2017  |  GLOS 3900 Section 002: Topics in Global Studies -- The Politics of Global Health (67559)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
5 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Appleby Hall 11
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
Topic Title: 'Politics of Global Health' http://classinfo.umn.edu/?jssuh+GLOS3900+Spring2017
Class Description:
What is global health, and how is it different from public health? How should we situate the meanings, practices and politics of global health within broader processes, structures, and inequalities of globalization? To answer these questions, this course draws on multiple fields, including anthropology, sociology, geography, human rights, history, population and development, and science and technology studies. We assess current distributions of and disparities in global disease mortality and morbidity. We trace how contemporary global health models and actors evolved from earlier processes of European colonialism, US imperialism, and post-World War II development. We identify actors responsible for developing global health interventions and evaluate the politics of measuring effectiveness. The course explores how geopolitical relations influence research on and access to life-saving drugs. We examine how globally circulating narratives and images of illness facilitate or hinder disease prevention, treatment or eradication. Although the course explores these questions primarily through the lens of infectious diseases like malaria, polio, HIV, and Ebola, we also investigate why other global health conditions such as reproductive and maternal health have been politically marginalized. We end by reflecting on the responsibilities and challenges faced by first line of global health practitioners--health workers--in places like Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, and Senegal.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67559/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
29 November 2016

Spring 2017  |  GLOS 3900 Section 003: Topics in Global Studies -- Holocaust Art: History and Commemoration (68536)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
1 Credit
Repeat Credit Limit:
5 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Meets With:
GLOS 5900 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Second Half of Term
 
04/18/2017 - 04/20/2017
Tue, Thu 06:00PM - 08:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hanson Hall 1-111
 
04/25/2017
Tue 06:00PM - 08:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 135
 
04/27/2017 - 05/05/2017
Tue, Thu 06:00PM - 08:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hanson Hall 1-111
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
Yehudit Shendar, former Deputy Director and Senior Art Curator at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Museum and Memorial, will lead the lectures for this course. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?abaer+GLOS3900+Spring2017
Class Description:
This three-week, one-credit course explores the history of the Holocaust through works of art created by Jewish artists living under Nazi occupation during the Holocaust, 1933-1945. Lectures will be led by one of the world's leading scholars on Holocaust Art, Yehudit Shendar, and will appeal to students of art, art history, global studies, history, sociology, museum studies, anthropology, German studies and Jewish studies. The course will investigate works of art and artist biographies with an emphasis on the particular historical events as reflected in the visual material. The artists who witnessed the events sought to process, to mourn, to document, to recall, to protest; thus their visual account will be analyzed as testimony. Poetry, literature, and memoirs of fellow survivors will also be intertwined throughout the course. The course will also address the subject of Holocaust commemoration through an examination of memorials and Holocaust museums worldwide as a means to understand the collective memory by the wide public. As the Holocaust has grown in importance throughout the world, commemorative manifestations have appeared globally: Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and International Holocaust Day ceremonies, Holocaust museums and Holocaust monuments. This course will explore these commemorative manifestations and the political role they play within their communities. The course will be a mixture of lesson and discussion. The course assumes no prior knowledge of Holocaust history. Grades will be determined on attendance, class participation, and a final paper.

Yehudit Shendar is former Deputy Director and Senior Art Curator at Yad Vashem and a current member of the Schwabinger Kunstfund, the international Task-force comprised of experts researching the provenance of the Cornelius Gurlitt cache of Nazi-looted art, unveiled in Munich in 2013.

Grading:
Grades will be determined on attendance, class participation, and a final paper.
Class Format:
The course will be a mixture of lesson and discussion. The course assumes no prior knowledge of Holocaust history.

60% Lecture
20% Discussion
10% Hands-on activities (assignments)
10% Film screenings

Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68536/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
15 November 2016

Spring 2017  |  GLOS 3900 Section 004: Topics in Global Studies -- Stories, Bodies, Movements (69752)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
5 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Thu 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 317
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
Email nagar@umn.edu for more information and see class link below. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?nagar+GLOS3900+Spring2017
Class Description:
For most of us, stories seem to simply 'happen.' We listen to stories, we tell stories, we are moved by stories, and we retell stories. However, every act of telling stories involves making decisions or moves, and each re-telling of a familiar story may either give birth to new meanings, nuances, and affects, or, it may erase their possibility. Thus, each storyteller can be seen as a translator of stories with a responsibility to retell stories ethically. It is precisely through these translational acts that all politics become politics of storytelling. In this course, we will consider the ways in which the politics of the global and the intimate derive their meanings, effects, and affects from the circulation, transaction, and re-tellings of stories within and across borders. We will ask how a praxis of ethical engagement with politics can be imagined as a praxis of receiving and retelling stories. By immersing ourselves in the process of remembering, telling, listening, trimming, interweaving, distilling, and performing stories, we will consider how ethical receiving and retelling of stories involves continuous revising, repositioning, and re-theorizing of such vexed and entangled terrains and terminologies as identity, community, rights, and justice, as well as the contingent meanings of knowledge, truth, and ethics.

This course will engage this terrain through a mode of active learning in which all the participants will read and reflect, listen and discuss, tell and retell, watch and play, move and perform collectively. By becoming aware of the ways in which our minds-bodies-souls are inserted in the receiving and translation of stories, we will grapple together with the ways in which our bodies--as our embodiments--help to relationally shape not only our own performances but also our responses to the performances of other living and moving bodies around us.

We will learn from writings, film, songs, and plays by writers, artists, activists, and thinkers from a range of historical and contemporary locations and struggles. These include: Marie Lily Cerat, W. E. B. Du Bois, Suheir Hammad, Sterlin Harjo, Naeem Inayatullah, June Jordan, AnaLouise Keating, Kauanui, J. Kehaulani, Audre Lorde, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Middle East Research and Information Project, Munshi Premchand, Alok Rai, Nina Simone, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Sangtin Writers, Standing Rock Collective, Eve Tuck, Patrick Wolfe, and K. Wayne Yang. Several of the 'Acts' in this course will be co-facilitated with writers and artists, including Beaudelaine Pierre, co-author and co-editor of How to Write an Earthquake; Esther Ouray, a theater artist and playwright who has worked with zAmya Theater and Heart of the Beast Theater in Minneapolis, and Tarun Kumar, an actor and director who has worked with Parakh Theatre in Minneapolis, Lucknow and Mumbai and with Sangtin Kisaan Mazdoor Sangathan in Sitapur, India.


There are no prerequisites for this course. We invite people from all kinds of locations and journeys to join us in this collective exploration. For further information, email: nagar@umn.edu
Grading:
A/F. The course requires all the participants to do sustained work and deep reflections, enjoy the process of imagining and creating with peers in a non-competitive environment.
Exam Format:
The class is based on active ongoing participation, deep reflection, and on building trust and co-creativity with all other members of the class. There will be no final exam. Students will work together to create and perform polyvocal scripts.
Workload:
Students will do about 100 pages of reading per week. Readings include works in all genres (poetry, memoir, creative non-fiction, and other forms of academic writing). They will prepare reflections in preparation for in-class exercises and group work which will include collective creation of texts, skits, and scripts.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69752/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
16 November 2016

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