SEAS Related Courses 2006-07
ANTH 372a Political Violence and
Human Rights
Christophe Robert
(Substantial Southeast Asian content)
This course deals with the grounds, meanings, and effects of violence
as a political instrument. It considers the reasons and methods behind
violent actions by states against their own citizens, and the means
by which they are redressed. In this way the course centers on violence
and its political consequences in an anthropological and broadly comparative
framework.
ANTH 435b/635b Vietnam: War, Memory,
Forgetting
Christophe Robert
This course deals with the “Vietnamese Conflict” (1960-1975)
not just from an historical but also a comparative anthropological viewpoint.
We examine it first as one among the series of anti-colonial wars of
Indochina, together with the cultural formations within which war emerged
as a privileged mode of opposition in Southeast Asia against imperialism,
colonialism, and communism, as well as the United States in particular.
In this way a context will be developed to deal with broader questions
about the character of war and its after-effects: dimensions of nationalism
and revolution; trauma and forgetting in nationalist historiography;
the relationship between violence, war, and the idea of law; and the
work of fiction in both culture and its analysis.
ANTH 541a Agrarian Societies: Culture,
Society, History, and Development See also F&ES 753a/HIST 965a/PLSC
779a
James C. Scott, Michael R. Dove and other Yale Faculty
(partial Southeast Asian content)
An interdisciplinary examination of agrarian societies, contemporary
and historical, Western and non-Western. Major analytical perspectives
from anthropology, economics, history, political science, and environmental
studies are used to develop a meaning-centered and historically-grounded
account of the transformation of rural societies. Four-hour lecture-plus-discussion.
ANTH 581a Society and Environment:
Introduction to Theory and Method See also F&ES 747a Michael
R. Dove
(Substantial Southeast Asian content)
An introductory course on the social scientific contributions to the
study of the environment and natural resources, designed as the first
course for students who specialize in the social sciences as well as
the only course for students who take just one course in this field.The
approach taken is inductive, problem-oriented, and case study-based.
Subjects covered include the framing of environmental "problems,"
social science field methods, re-thinking environmental perturbatin
and change, and the environmental relations of local communities. It
offers students an opportunity to develop analytic frameworks for past
or proposed research projects. 3 hr lecture plus discussion sections.
Enrollment limited to thirty.
ANTH 610b Society and Environment:
Advanced Readings. See also F&ES 752b
Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter
*(Substantial Southeast Asian content)
An advanced seminar on the social science theory of the relationship
between society and environment, intended for students interested in
research design, and policy planning in this field. The course examines
key theoretical developments and current issues in social/political/historical
ecology and ecological anthropology. Topics vary from year to year in
response to ongoing debates in the field and global events b ut in the
past have included environmental conflict, the concepts of local agency
and governmentality, re-thinking extractive reserves, converging theory
in agriculture and medicine, the natural history of the Amazon, conservation
in Papua New guinea, ethnographic approaches to human-animal relations,
and comparative method. Students are expected to use the course to develop
and present in class, their own research and writing. Prerequisite:
F&ES 747a, F&ES 756b, or F&ES 757a. Limited enrollment.
Three hour lecture/seminar. Taught alternate years.
951a or b Directed Research in
Ethnology & Social Anthropology
952a or b Directed Research in Linguistics
*(Graduate seminars in anthropology are open to qualified undergraduates. Permission of the instructor and of the director of graduate studies is required.)
ECON 329b/735b Economics of Agriculture
Robert Evenson
(Substantial Southeast Asian content.)
ECON 899a or b Individual Reading
and Research
By arrangement with faculty.
(Graduate courses in Economics are open to qualified undergraduates. Permission of the instructor and of the DGS is required)
FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
F&ES 747a Society and Environment:
Introduction to Theory and Method. See ANTH 581a
Michael R. Dove
(Substantial Southeast Asian content.)
The course is a prerequisite for F&ES 752b and F&ES 759b.
F&ES 753a Agrarian Societies:
Culture, Society, History, and Development. See ANTH 541a for description
James C. Scott, Michael R. Dove and other Yale Faculty
(partial Southeast Asian content)
752b Society and Environment: Advanced
Readings. See ANTH 610b for description
Michael Dove and Carol Carpenter
(Substantial Southeast Asian content)
HIST 965a Agrarian Societies: Culture,
Society, History, and Development. See ANTH 541a for description
James C. Scott, Michael R. Dove and other Yale Faculty
(partial Southeast Asian content)
998a/b Directed Readings
999a/b Directed Research
Offered by arrangement with instructor and permission of Director of
Graduate Studies
(Some graduate and professional school courses are open to qualified undergraduates with permission of the instructor and the DGS)
INDONESIAN
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INDN 115 / 520a/b Elementary Indonesian.
Indriyo Sukmono
An introductory course in standard Indonesian with emphasis on developing
communicative skills through systematic survey of grammar and graded
exercises. Introduction to reading in the second term, leading to mastery
of language patterns, essential vocabulary, and basic cultural competence.
INDN 130 / 527a/b Intermediate
Indonesian. Indriyo Sukmono
Continued practice in colloquial Indonesian conversation and reading
and discussion of texts. (After INDN 115 or equivalent)
INDN 470 a/b Independent Tutorial.
Indriyo Sukmono
For students with advanced Indonesian language skills who wish to engage
in concentrated reading and research on material not otherwise offered
in courses. The work must be supervised by an adviser and must terminate
ina term paper or its equivalent. (Permission of instructor/submission
of project proposal)
INDN 560 a/b Readings in Indonesian.
Indriyo Sukmono
For students with advanced Indonesian language skills working on modern
Indonesian literature.
MUSI 150a Music Cultures of the
World. Sarah Weiss
(partial Southeast Asian content)
An introductory survey of selected musical traditions from around the
world. Structure, content, materials, and performance contexts of local
musics, as well as the broader role music plays in society.
MUSI 225b Javanese Gamelan Performance.
Sarah Weiss
A study of Javanese musical genres from the eighteenth century to the
twenty-first. Introduction to the playing techniques of multiple instruments.
Survey of theoretical and aesthetic discourses on gamelan and other
Indonesian performance. Members of the class form the nucleus of the
Yale Javanese Gamelan Ensemble. (No previous experience in gamelan performance
required. May be repeated for course credit, but not for distributional
credit.) See Yale Gamelan Suprabanggo
MUSI 376a World Music Theories:
Practice and Aesthetics. Sarah Weiss
(substantial Southeast Asian content)
Survey of the musical processes of various mode-based musical systems,
selected from the Indian raga, Arabic maqam, Irish tune-family, Javanese
pathet, Persian dastgah, and Vietnamese Dieu. Readings about eh musical
cultures are combined with notation and analysis of the music as well
as discussion about the related aesthetics systems. (prerequisite: MUSI
211a or b or equivalent)
MUSI 420b Gendering Musical Performance.
Sarah Weiss
(Partial - 1/4 Southeast Asian content.)
A critical examination of the discourse on gender, sexuality and music.
Grounded in the cross-cultural detail of specific musical genres and
performers, we will examine the ways in which issues of race, class,
ethnicity, spirituality, and embodiment intersect with gender in the
shaping of musical cultures and aesthetics.
PHIL 210a Eastern Philosophy.
Quang Phu Van
An Introduction to Eastern philosophy through the study of philosophical
and religious texts. Topics include reality adn illusion,m knowledge,
self, right and wrong, nonattachment, meditation, aesthetics, meaning
of life, and death.
PLSC 449b Southeast Asian Politics
Timothy Pachirat
An introduction to Southeast Asian politics. Topics include thepolitics
and societies of each country in the region, and socio-political issues
such as nationalism and nation-building, ethnic and religious pluralism,
developmentalism and the recent economic crisis, reformist movements,
and regional initiatives. Prior knowledge of one or more countries in
the region helpful but not required.
PLSC 779a Agrarian Societies: Culture,
Society, History, and Development. See ANTH 541a for description
James C. Scott, Michael R. Dove and other Yale Faculty
(partial Southeast Asian content)
VIETNAMESE
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
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VIET 115 / 515 a/b Elementary Vietnamese.
Quang Phu Van
Students acquire basic working ability in Vietnamese including sociocultural
knowledge. Attention paid to integrated skills such as speaking, listening,
writing (Roman script), and reading. No previous knowledge of or experience
with Vietnamese language required.
VIET 130 / 530 a/b Intermediate
Vietnamese. Quang Phu Van
An integrated approach to language learning aimed at strengthening students'
listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in Vietnamese. Students
are thoroughly grounded in communicative activities such as conversations,
performance simulation, drills, role playing, and games. Discussion
of aspects of Vietnamese society and culture. Prior knowledge of Vietnamese
required.
VIET 470 a/b Independent Tutorial.
Quang Phu Van
For students with advanced Vietnamese language skills who wish to engage
in concentrated reading and research on material not otherwise offered
in courses. The work must be supervised byan adviser and must terminate
in a term paper or its equivalent. (Permission of instructor/submission
of project proposal)
VIET 560 a/b Readings in Vietnamese.
Quang Phu Van
For students with advanced Vietnamese language skills who wish to engage
in concentrated reading and research.