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Spring 2002
This information effective
for Spring 2002.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Instructor: Ronnie D. Lipschutz
MW 5:00–6:45 p.m.
M 7:00–10:00 p.m.
Stevenson 175
The objective of this topical course is to analyze the relationship between politics and popular culture, the ways in which various U.S. foreign policy issues and how some of the major issues in politics, such as power, justice, war, peace and identity have been addressed in the film and fiction of the Cold War and what has followed. What kinds of themes do authors, screenwriters, directors, and publishers try to sell in the “marketplace” of popular culture? Where do those themes come from? How do they reflect relations of power both inside and outside of a society? And what do those cultural products reveal about our society, its politics, and its place in the world in relation to other peoples and states? Trying to answer these, and other questions, can tell us a great deal about both domestic politics and the politics of foreign policy in what is imagined to be a threatening and sometimes chaotic world. The books and films that are the focus of this course are all, in some way, about these two questions and the ways in which they have been answered, sometimes in very indirect ways.
The class meets for lectures on Mondays and Wednesdays, and for film viewing on Monday nights. Students will be evaluated on the basis of several short papers and two exams.
Films will include some of the following:
Crimson Tide; Rambo II; The Big Lift; The Third Man; Red Planet Mars; The Day the Earth Stood Still; Kiss Me Deadly; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Red Dawn; Testament; Dr. Strangelove; Red Planet Mars; Invasion of the Bodysnatchers; State of Siege; Apocalypse Now; Go Tell the Spartans; Falling Down; Them!; Independence Day; Deep Impact.
Texts will include:
Ronnie Lipschutz, Cold War Fantasies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001),
paper,
George Orwell, 1984 (New American Library, 1990)
Jack Finney, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Pocket Books, 2001)
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (Anchor, 1998)
Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers (Ace, 1987)
William Lederer & Eugene Burdick, The Ugly American (Norton, 1999
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Bantam, 1979)
Daniel Ford, Incident at Muc Wa (Lightning Source, 2000)
Spring
2002
Instructor: Bruce Larkin
For class syllabus:
Go to: http://www.learnworld.com/COURSES/P160C/P160C.Syllabus.html
For any questions, e-mail the instructor at: mailto:larkin@learnworld.com
Spring 2002
Instructor: Isebill
V. Gruhn
TTh 4:00–5:45 p.m.
Merrill 2
An advanced research seminar. The first half of the quarter will be spent in
collective reading and discussion of Henry Steiner and Philip Alston’s,
International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals. During the second
half of the quarter, seminar participants will present oral reports on their
research. Each student will select a research topic in consultation with the
instructor, will make an oral report on an assigned date, will submit
a draft of the research paper by week seven and a final paper 20–35 pages
in length the last day of classes. Seminar participants will be given reading
assignments from appropriate sections of the course text prior to each oral
report by the report giver. Seminar participants must attend all seminar sessions
(exceptions: doctor certified medical excuses). Participants will be graded
on their research paper and their seminar participation.