printer friendly pageOSPOXFRD 17: Novels of Sensation: Gothic, Detective Story, Prohibition, and Transgression in Victorian Fiction
Literary and moral value of transgressive sub-genres of the novel; what they reveal about Victorian society's anxiety over prohibited elements in the domestic and public spheres. Sources include gothic and detective novels.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Plaskitt, E. (PI)
OSPOXFRD 18: Making Public Policy: An Introduction to Political Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
UK and U.S. What should society look like? How should incomes be distributed? How should it be taxed? How much inequality is acceptable? The overlap of economics with practical politics through political philosophy behind the government decisions; how public policy ought to be formulated. Issues include poverty, environmental policy, trade and globalization, and transport.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
OSPOXFRD 24: British and American Constitutional Systems in Comparative Perspective
Introduction to the study of constitutions and constitutional systems of government. The workings of the British and American systems of government. Comparative study of the most important constitutional issues facing Britain and the U.S. such as how suspected terrorists should be treated in a time of war. How to think about fundamental constitutional questions.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
OSPOXFRD 35: Modern UK and European Government and Politics
Background of main political systems in Europe and recent developments in European politics. Topics: Blair¿s constitutional reforms; the consequences of the German reunification; Berlusconi¿s rise to power in Italy; the extreme right in France and elsewhere; the single currency; the enlargement of the EU; and proposals for a constitution and their recent rejection by the French and Dutch electorates.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
OSPOXFRD 36: Jane Austen and Beyond: the Victorian Novel and its Antecedents
Development and evolution of the Victorian novel through texts in the context of their 18th- and early 19th-century precursors. Novels by authors such as Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and Elizabeth Gaskell in the context of earlier writers including Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and William Godwin, to gain sense of what makes a novel Victorian. Sub-genres with attention to class, gender, race and empire, detection, sensation, and the gothic.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Plaskitt, E. (PI)
OSPOXFRD 45: British Economic Policy since World War II
Development of British economic policy making from 1945, focusing on political economy including: ideological motives of governments; political business cycle; and the influence of changing intellectual fashions. Policy areas: attitude to the pound; control of the business cycle; and the role of the state in the economy. Prerequisite:
ECON 50.
Last offered: Winter 2008
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
OSPOXFRD 62: Heretics to Headscarves
Issues of religious toleration, diversity, and freedom of conscience, from their modern origins in the wake of the 16th-century Reformation to the current debate over the place of Islam in a highly secularized but historically Christian Britain and Europe. How persecutions and martyrdoms of the 16th and 17th centuries yielded to the tolerationist ethos of the 18th-century Enlightenment. Contemporary European debate over the public display of religious symbols.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Rakove, J. (PI)
OSPOXFRD 63: Locke and his Legacy
Locke¿s life and leading works, emphasizing his political writings as they relate to ideas of resistance, religious toleration, property, and related topics. Focus is not only on what he wrote, but also how and why he wrote it, in an effort to explain the sources of his creativity. How to account biographically for the development of Locke¿s leading ideas.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Rakove, J. (PI)
OSPOXFRD 66: Oxford: The Culture of the City
History and culture of cities in Britain from Roman times to the present, with Oxford as a case study. Impact of social and economic change on Oxford¿s planning and architecture in relation to British urban history. Visits to central and suburban locations to examine physical and social structures of the city and to Roman and Georgian Bath to provide contrast to Oxford.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
OSPOXFRD 67: Art in Oxford
Paintings and drawings in the collections of the University and colleges of Oxford and how they relate to key themes and critical approaches in the history of art. Themes include collecting and patronage, the impact of art historical scholarship on collections, drawing and its purposes, changing approaches to Renaissance art, symbolism and realism in 19th-century painting, and romantic and modern landscapes.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
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