Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 3026 |
HRST-237-01 |
Interpreting the Holocaust |
1.00 |
LEC |
Catlin, Samuel |
TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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HUGI
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: JWST-237-01, RELG-237-01 |
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This course explores how postwar writers, theologians, filmmakers, jurists, politicians, artists, philosophers, and nation-states have responded to, represented, and interpreted the Holocaust (or Shoah): the Nazi state’s genocide of six million Jews and mass murders of millions of other victims in 1933–1945. With an emphasis on Jewish responses, we'll consider the various, sometimes contradictory lessons that have been drawn from the Holocaust and debate the questions it raises about a range of critical topics: humanity, morality, truth, meaning, reason, progress, suffering, identity, guilt, power, the nation-state, racism, colonialism, aesthetics, historiography, justice, and memory. |
| 3000 |
HRST-256-01 |
Human Rights in Lat Amer&Carib |
1.00 |
LEC |
Euraque, Dario |
MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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HUGI
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Enrollment limited to 35 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: INTS-256-01, HIST-256-01 |
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In the 1970s and 1980s, thousands of people were “disappeared,” tortured and murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean, mostly by military regimes and by para-military death-squads. The period is often characterized as perhaps the lowest point in the modern abuse of “Human Rights” in the region. This course explores how these central notions, the human and rights, have evolved in theory and in practice in the history of the Americas. The course begins with the 16th-century debates among the Spaniards over the “humanity” of Indians and enslaved Africans; it then covers distinguishing elements of the human and rights within the legal structures of the nations created after independence from Spain in the 1820s and before the more contemporary conceptions of human rights in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the crimes against humanity during WWII. Finally, the modern conception and practice of human rights defense and legal monitoring are explored in case studies in the region from the late 1940s to the 1980s. |
| 2895 |
HRST-316-01 |
Ecofeminism and Human Rights |
1.00 |
SEM |
Aldrete, Diana |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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HUGI
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: WMGS-315-01 |
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By examining the contributions of both ecofeminism and intersectional environmentalism this course highlights how the same ideologies and historical injustices against women, queer folk, and the environment are connected to Human Rights violations. This course is designed to provide theoretical, historical, and scientific paradigms to analyze and understand the ways in which women and queer folk are treated as inferior under Western heteronormative standards, as well as how the natural environment has been deemed inferior and separate from humans/men and culture (via capitalist ideals of progress/modernity). Using a feminist, queer, environmental justice lens, this course will further explore the connections between sexism, racism, gender and sexuality discrimination, class exploitation, and environmental destruction. |
| 2518 |
HRST-349-01 |
Global Migration/Refugee Lab |
1.00 |
SEM |
Hussain, Shaznene
Alic, Erna |
F: 2:00PM-3:30PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOGI
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Enrollment limited to 18 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with CLIC, PBPL |
Cross-listing: AMST-349-01 |
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Provides an experiential-based introduction to the practical challenges of
refugee and immigrant resettlement and integration and to the development
of effective policies and implementation strategies to address them. Students
will be placed with a community-based organization working with
immigrants and refugees 10-12 hours a week and attend (weekly or
biweekly) seminar class meetings to integrate their onsite learning
experience and responsibilities with discussions of assigned readings and
relevant concepts in participatory action research and diaspora studies. Seminar meetings will be organized around enrolled students' existing class schedules. |
| 2103 |
HRST-369-01 |
Intl Human Rights Law |
1.00 |
LEC |
Carbonetti, Benjamin |
MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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GLB5
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: POLS-369-01 |
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This course offers a comprehensive survey of the evolution of international human rights law, focusing on the major actors and processes at work. Which rights do individual human beings have vis-a-vis the modern state? What is the relationship between domestic and international legal processes? Are regional human rights mechanisms like the European system more influential than international ones? More generally, how effective is contemporary international human rights in securing accountability and justice? We use specific cases and contemporary debates to study a range of treaties and emerging institutions, including ad hoc war crimes tribunals and the International Criminal Court. |
| 2357 |
HRST-399-01 |
Independent Study |
0.50 - 2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. |
| 2725 |
HRST-490-01 |
Research Assistantship |
0.50 - 1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to undertake substantial research work with a faculty member. Students need to complete a special registration form, available online, and have it signed by the supervising instructor. |
| 1076 |
HRST-497-01 |
Senior Project |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
WEB
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor and director are required for enrollment in this single term project. |
| 2176 |
HRST-499-01 |
Senior Thesis Part 2 |
1.00 |
IND |
Staff, Trinity |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
WEB
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course is the second part of a two semester, two credit thesis. Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the thesis adviser and the director are required for enrollment. The registration form is required for each semester of this year-long thesis. |
| 3056 |
FILM-313-01 |
Reels of Change |
1.00 |
SEM |
Aponte-Aviles, Aidali |
M: 6:30PM-9:00PM |
TBA |
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GLB2
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with HRST |
Cross-listing: HISP-313-01 |
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Prerequisite: HISP 260 or higher, 270 recommended |
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For more than 135 years, films have shaped information, interpretation, and understanding. Like any other cultural product, cinema is able to convey the spirit of the time and location. Therefore, it is necessary to examine its viewpoints, interpretive decisions, and biases. This course looks at Hispanophone motion pictures as primary historical sources and as metaphors of sociopolitical, historical, and cultural change. Films from Spain, the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific will be examined to analyze them as representations of cultural change. We will study how these films react to and are influenced by political and sociocultural contexts, how filmmakers use film to represent their experiences and history, how cinema frames the fears and concerns at a period in time, and how viewers reinterpret their meaning. This course will be taught in Spanish. |
| 3055 |
HISP-313-01 |
Reels of Change |
1.00 |
SEM |
Aponte-Aviles, Aidali |
M: 6:30PM-9:00PM |
TBA |
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GLB2
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with HRST |
Cross-listing: FILM-313-01 |
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Prerequisite: HISP 260 or higher, 270 recommended |
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For more than 135 years, films have shaped information, interpretation, and understanding. Like any other cultural product, cinema is able to convey the spirit of the time and location. Therefore, it is necessary to examine its viewpoints, interpretive decisions, and biases. This course looks at Hispanophone motion pictures as primary historical sources and as metaphors of sociopolitical, historical, and cultural change. Films from Spain, the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific will be examined to analyze them as representations of cultural change. We will study how these films react to and are influenced by political and sociocultural contexts, how filmmakers use film to represent their experiences and history, how cinema frames the fears and concerns at a period in time, and how viewers reinterpret their meaning. This course will be taught in Spanish. |
| 2903 |
LAAL-200-01 |
Action Research Methods Htfd |
1.00 |
LEC |
Atalay, Derin Ozlem |
M: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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NUIP
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Enrollment limited to 24 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with CLIC, EDUC, HRST, PBPL, URST |
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What is the role of academic research in social change? How can students and community groups collaborate effectively to co-create, implement, and use research projects to solve social problems? In this course, students will study the theories and methods of interdisciplinary action research. Emphasizing ethical collaboration, students will learn research design strategies, methods, tools, and research tools in order to work with community partners to solve pressing problems. Students will learn to use a variety of statistical, geographic, and interview data to answer questions, make recommendations, and tell stories about the issues that are most relevant to Hartford. |
| 2765 |
PHIL-332-01 |
Fanon |
1.00 |
SEM |
De Schryver, Carmen |
W: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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GLB
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with HRST |
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This course explores Frantz Fanon's philosophical output from 1952 to 1961. Through a series of close readings, we will consider Fanon's contributions to psychiatry, critical philosophy of race, phenomenology, decolonial theory, and Africana philosophy. In the final part of the course, we engage with a number of Fanon commentators to enter into ongoing debates surrounding Fanon's work. Some of the issues we will discuss include the nature of race; the legitimacy of violence in revolution; the connection between psychiatry and society; the place of women in anti-colonial struggle; the question of humanism; and the meaning of decolonization. |
| 2380 |
POLS-353-01 |
Authoritarianism |
1.00 |
SEM |
Matsuzaki, Reo |
T: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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GLB5
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with HRST |
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NOTE: 7 seats reserved for juniors, 7 seats for sophomores. |
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This course explores the institutional foundations of authoritarian regimes, the strategies they employ to dominate society, and the dynamics of resistance against authoritarianism with a focus on Eurasia, broadly defined. To this end, the course will examine historic cases of powerful and all-encompassing authoritarian regimes in Germany and Russia, as well as recent manifestations of authoritarianism in the Middle East, Russia, and China. Readings will draw from an array of academic disciplines, including political science, history, philosophy, and sociology. |