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OSPGEN 20: Engineering and Technology in India

This seminar explores India's dynamic landscape of engineering, technology, entrepreneurship, and culture. Throughout this immersive program in Delhi, Agra, Bangalore, Pune, and Mumbai, participants delve into a variety of industrial and educational organizations. By examining key challenges and opportunities across various sectors, the seminar equips students with a nuanced understanding of how the country is navigating the intricate web of political, economic, and cultural contexts in India, fostering a holistic perspective on the nation's role in the global technological landscape.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Kochenderfer, M. (PI)

OSPGEN 21: Kangnam Style: South Korea's Soft Power Empire

South Korea has become a driver of pop culture and art. The musical/audio-visual genre known as K-pop has become globally mainstream, Korean dramas reach viewers around the globe, the K-beauty routine is championed by online influencers, and Korean fine arts dominate in the international arena. In this seminar, students will become familiar with South Korea's economic, social, and political history that enabled these astonishing developments. Through field trips we will explore the following questions: Who are the people driving Korea's "K-" industries? How can we understand its sustained success? At what cost has Korea achieved dominance in this field? Students will visit the centers of South Korea's art establishment and entertainment industries, and will meet executives, performers, and contemporary artists. Students will contemplate the relationship between history and culture, and will interrogate the boundaries between the authentic and artificial.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Zur, D. (PI)

OSPGEN 26: Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Urban Studies

The main principle for this course will be to use Accra as a way to illuminate cities of the student's own choice, wherever they might be located.? This means that the course will be inherently comparative and that features of Accra will be used to ignite students' understanding of details of the urban in general.? Features of other African cities such as Cairo,?Lagos, Kinshasa, and Johannesburg will be introduced primarily through literary, anthropological, and other humanistic texts. Spatial concepts such as spatial morphology, spatial traversal, means of locomotion, space-time anamorphism (for science fiction), topoanalysis (from phenomenology), and chronotypes?(from Bakhtin) will be progressively introduced and applied to different urban features.? There will also be trips to Elmina, and Cape Coast Castles, old seats of the European trading presence on the Gold Coast/Ghana and sites of the slave trade.? From 1877 to 2015 Christiansborg was the seat of both colonial and post-colonial governments.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Quayson, A. (PI)

OSPGEN 35: Mexican Modernisms

The course brings students to Mexico City to survey the shift to future-oriented modernisms in post-1876 Mexican cultural production. Veering away from traditionalism and bellelettism in leaps and bounds, the period's literature, painting, and architecture decisively engaged with the socio-political context that produced them. Masters across media may include Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Dr. Atl, Lopez Verarde, Juan Rulfo, Nellie Campobello, Elena Garro, Rosario Castellanos, Octavio Paz, Luis Barragan, and others. The course combines critical and practical learning through different activities, including seminar sessions, workshops, and site visits. Spanish fluency is required.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2

OSPGEN 45: Shades of Grey Between Life and Death: Neuro-Ethics Across the Pacific

This BOSP seminar will provide an in-depth exploration of neuro-ethical issues surrounding life and death in Japan and America. Participants will learn about the medical, ethical, cultural and legal dimensions of brain death and organ donation in two unique cultural contexts. The immersive international experience will include opportunities with interdisciplinary and international experts both in the US and Japan. The in-country itinerary will focus largely on Japanese cultural experiences, but will also include visits with physicians, anthropologists, ethicists, and organ transplant experts.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2

OSPGEN 48: History, Urbanity, and Performance In The Middle East

The proposed course takes cultural artifacts as the foundational blocks of the Levant, asking a fundamental question about how a contemporary state exists on top and beside the ancient past, by exploring three cities: Petra, Jerash, and Amman. All three cities have large theatres that suggest a particular pattern of growth over time, and play a major role in how these cities function today as tourist attractions and a geography for performances of everyday life. In these three case studies, students will investigate how culture, in its broadest definition, has shaped the destiny of the Levant historically and in the present day. We will ask: How did three major metropolitan cities that stretch back to antiquity develop into very different urban living spaces today? Why do all of them have a massive theatrical space in their midst? For the 2024 program, we've added reading inscriptions as a tool for examining our relationship with the city, past and present.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Al-Saber, S. (PI)

OSPGEN 64: Decolonizing African Arts in Nairobi

This course will introduce students to an East African country ? Kenya ? whose artists and scholars have been at the forefront of decolonial theory. Heeding the call of the esteemed Kenyan author, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, whose literary manifesto Decolonizing the Mind calls on readers to reject colonial impositions and celebrate the vitality of African literature and theater, the course will teach students about decolonial literary, visual, and performance practices in Nairobi, Kenya. The course is highly interactive and structured around field trips to literary hubs, museums, performances and film screenings, as well as interactive workshops in creative writing, storytelling, filmmaking, and musical production.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Derbew, S. (PI); Iyer, U. (PI)
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