Seats Available in Fall 2008 Global Village Courses

The Global Village Living Learning Center has openings in the following courses for Fall 2008.

GLLC-G210 Manifestos: Persuading Unbelievers and Inciting Revolutions
(3 cr.) (A&H)
(TR, 2:30-3:45, FQ 012A) (26643) Paul Kanczuzeweski

GLLC-G220 Human Rights, Truth and Justice (3 cr.) (S&H) (TR, 9:30-10:45, FQ 012B) (26644) Cesar Seveso

GLLC-G291 Study Abroad: Before You Go (1 cr.) (2nd 8-weeks) (MW, 3:35 - 4:25, FQ 012B) (14213) John Galuska

Course descriptions:

GLLC-G210 Manifestos: Persuading Unbelievers and Inciting Revolutions
(3 cr.) (A&H)
(TR, 2:30-3:45, FQ 012A) (26643) Paul Kanczuzeweski
Usually consisting of relatively few words, the manifesto is a powerful genre that proposes novel ideas, persuades unbelievers and provokes revolutions. This course will investigate both the destructive and constructive qualities of these texts: while they reject and undermine the dominant systems of beliefs, they also propose new philosophies that aspire to establish new ways of thinking. An interdisciplinary approach will be take on this international phenomenon: we will draw on literature, politics, economics, sociology and gender studies to understand these political, literary and social manifestos. Our class will answer questions such as: How did Marx start a revolution? Why did Marinetti want to burn all the libraries? Why does Huidobro make a bird nest on a rainbow? How does S.C.U.M wish to change patriarchic society? Evaluation will include short response papers, class presentations and two exams.

GLLC-G220 Human Rights, Truth and Justice (3 cr.) (S&H) (TR, 9:30-10:45, FQ 012B) (26644) Cesar Seveso
This course explores how societies across the world historically define, enforce, and violate human rights. It also examines how states punish the perpetrators of human rights violations and set the foundations for national reconciliation, truth, and justice. We take as our point of departure the post-World War II years, when the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany led to the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. We will then analyze the way that global processes impact and transform local struggles by examining how the idea of human rights shaped the movement for civil rights in the US South during the 1960s. Next, we will analyze how and why the establishment of dictatorships across Latin America led to the systematic violation of human rights during the 1970s. At the same time, we will start to ponder how democratic governments, empowered by a discourse of human rights, have challenged the rule of authoritarian regimes. Similarly, we will analyze how truth and justice were achieved in post-socialist Eastern Europe, where no such commissions were enacted. Finally, we will tackle the systematic use of torture in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and the impact that global, non-governmental actors have in the maintenance and violation of human rights.
Throughout the course, our main goal will be to think how different societies have constructed mechanisms to protect basic rights to which all humans are entitled. At the conceptual level, we will define human rights, explore how the definition has worked across cultures and time, and analyze the impact of new global actors on the international human rights law. On a broader level, this course will introduce students to fundamental categories of analysis and emphasize the relations between theoretical concepts with specific historical examples.

GLLC-G291 Study Abroad: Before You Go (1 cr.) (2nd 8-weeks) (MW, 3:35 - 4:25, FQ 012B) (14213) John Galuska
Consent of Office of Overseas Study.
This 8-week course prepares students for the rewarding educational experience of studying abroad. Taught from an interdisciplinary perspective, the course will stimulate students both to think about and to openly discuss, their primary goals/concerns with overseas study.

Lauren Caldarera
Assistant Director
Global Village Living Learning Center
Email: lcaldare@indiana.edu
Phone: 812-855-4264
Fax: 812-856-0983