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OSPGEN 10: Introduction to Japan: History, Religion, Culture

This course provides a broad introduction to the history, religion, and culture of Japan from prehistory until the death of the Meiji Emperor in 1912, with emphasis on Japan's relations with the continent (especially China) and the wider world and how those relations changed over time in the context of successive waves of globalization. The course is experience-intensive, taking full advantage of the historical and cultural treasures of Kyoto and environs through multiple field trips per week.
Last offered: Summer 2023

OSPGEN 12: "Uttermost Part of the Earth" The Intersection of Nature and the Human Enterprise in Patagonia

This field-based course introduces students to the environmental gradients and natural resources of southern Patagonia as well as current issues in fisheries, ranching, tourism, and indigenous rights. The coupled human-natural systems of Patagonia provide a unique lens for students to explore broader resource management and conservation issues. The curriculum balances field exercises with community exploration in which students meet government planners, fishermen and fish processing plant operators, tour operators, and local conservationists. We will complete two team-based research projects.Date(s) of course:August 30-September 22, 2023
Last offered: Summer 2023

OSPGEN 14: Faith, Science and the Classical Tradition in Renaissance Florence

The story of the Renaissance can be told as a shift from a god-centered world to a human-centered one, a shift that began with the rediscovery of the classical humanist tradition (especially the philosopher-poet Lucretius) and led eventually to the scientific revolution. It is quintessentially the story of Florence. This course presents the story by using the city itself to look at the ways people represented their relationship with God and their understanding of what it is to be human and rational. That in turn leads us to a larger question: how to understand belief itself.
Last offered: Summer 2022

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

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 25: The Khmer Rouge Legacy and Transitional Justice in Cambodia

The ongoing trials at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) began a transitional justice process that ushered in an era in which Cambodians began to examine their experience of the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979). This seminar will focus on Cambodia's experience of civil war, trials, reparations, reconciliation, and coming to terms with the past. We will engage with ECCC, UN, and human rights NGO representatives, as well as young Cambodian artists, human rights lawyers, and academics. In Phnom Penh, we will visit the ECCC, the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, the Choeng Ek Killing Fields, human rights NGOs, etc. We will go on to visit Siem Reap and the temple complex of Angkor Wat.
Last offered: Summer 2020

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 27: Creative City: Culture and Resistance in Global Bangalore

Formerly described as "pensioner's paradise," and "garden city," Bangalore is a city in southern India that once evoked images of rest and retreat. From an earlier somnolent rhythm of life, Bangalore has transformed into the high technology capital of the Global South and grows at a pace so rapid that it eludes our conceptual grasp of it. This course explores a central question: How did the southern Indian city, Bangalore, transform from ¿pensioner's paradise¿ to India's high tech capital? We will study the urban transformations of Bangalore through three vectors of analysis: the city'sn2vibrant arts scene, civic and legal activism, and environmental and social justice movements.
Last offered: Summer 2020

OSPGEN 28: Can a Start-Up Culture and Technology Heal the World?

Israel's health system is one of the most admired in the world. Despite its small size, Israel is home to a disproportionate number of start-ups.Through this immersive seminar, students will gain an understanding of how socio-cultural conditions, including political, regulatory, military, and academic institutions; geographical, historical, and environmental conditions; and human cultures and activities have shaped the health innovation ecosystem in Israel into one of the world's most productive centers; and an appreciation of the advantages and disadvantages faced by entrepreneurs in Israel, how they have evolved, and how they compare to the experience of entrepreneurs elsewhere.
Last offered: Summer 2022

OSPGEN 29: A cultural, ethical, medical and legal exploration of Japanese and American Societies

How can someone be dead in America but alive in Japan? Why does Japan have among the lowest rates of life-saving organ transplantation in the world despite being a highly developed society? While death is broadly considered an absolute biological event, the space between life and death may be blurry and influenced by often-competing forces. This course will explore historical, anthropological, ethical, and medical constructs around death and dying, brain death and organ transplantation. Through in-classroom and experiential learning, we will compare the US and Japanese perspectives and will include unique cultural, ethical, and medical experiences in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan.
Last offered: Summer 2022
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