CAS 587

Spring 2014 All Classes

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Advanced Study: Special Topics

Credit: 4 hours.

Course is an upper-level graduate course in multi-disciplinary studies with topic material that will vary term to term. Interested graduate students should contact the instructors.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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CAS 587 class schedule data for spring 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	31695	Lecture-Discussion	S	12:00PM -2:50PM	T	ARR 912 W Illinois	Somerville, S Shao, D Mohamed, F	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Section Title: Cultures of Law/Global Context Section Info: Topic: Cultures of Law in Global Contexts. This team-taught course takes a broadly comparatist approach to the interdisciplinary field of law and the humanities. The course will be organized into three sections, each investigating legal issues of contemporary relevance through approaches based in history, literary studies, political theory, and critical theories of race, gender, sexuality, and indigeneity. Drawing on several national contexts ? Egypt, China, Japan, England, and the U.S. ? for case studies, we will consider questions such as revolution, constitution-building, the transnational circulation of legal norms, national borders, formal citizenship, and deportation. Throughout the course, we will pay particular attention to the slippages, continuities, and distinctions between legal subjects and embodied, historical subjects. Our discussions will include visiting speakers sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study in conjunction with the INTERSECT initiative on Cultures of Law in Global Contexts. Requirements include active participation in discussion, a class presentation, weekly response papers, and a final essay. Students from all disciplines and colleges are welcome. Meets with ENGL 578, EALC 550 and GWS 590.