Classes

Culture and Belief 50: The European Postwar: Literature, Film, Politics

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Fall

Offered: 

2015

Head Teaching Fellow (for Peter Gordon)

Course Description: What happened in the last half century in European culture and politics? How can we read history through culture, and culture through history? This undergraduate lecture survey offers a general overview of European history since 1945, with a primary focus on some of the greatest works of postwar European film and literature. We will interrogate major trends in cinema and literature (e.g., expressionism, existentialism, neo-realism, minimalism, the New Wave, the realist political dramas of the 1970s, and so forth); in conjunction with new modalities of political discourse concerning communism, democracy, colonialism, and sexuality. Note: The course includes six classic novels by postwar European authors, and twelve of the greatest postwar films by noteworthy European directors.

GOV 97: The Sophomore Tutorial in Government

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Spring

Offered: 

2013

Teaching Fellow (for Michael Rosen and Jim Alt)

Course description: This one-semester course is designed to provide all Government Department concentrators with a unified and challenging intellectual experience in the study of politics. The course covers a selection of topics on the theme of "Democracy" and draws on materials ranging from classics in political theory to cutting edge research in the discipline today.

GOV 1087: Shakespeare and Politics

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Fall

Offered: 

2012

Teaching Fellow (for Paul Cantor)

Course description: A study of the relationship between the political regime and human character in Shakespeare’s plays, beginning with the Roman Republic and contrasting it with later regimes, including Christian monarchy and the Venetian Republic. Readings include Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth (with background reading in political theorists such as Machiavelli).

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GOV 20: Foundations of Comparative Politics

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Fall

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2011

Teaching Fellow (for Steve Levitsky)

Course description: Provides an introduction to key concepts and theoretical approaches in comparative politics. Major themes include the causes of democratization, economic development, ethnic conflict, and social revolutions; as well as the role of the state, political institutions, and civil society. Examines and critically evaluates different theoretical approaches to politics including modernization, Marxist, cultural, institutionalist, and leadership-centered approaches. Compares cases from Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Latin America to provide students with grounding in the basic tools of comparative analysis.