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Course numbers: 001-499 undergrad
*; 500-800 graduate; a/b - spring/fall
*Summer
Abroad in Singapore is an undergraduate program for
Yale College credit
ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH
010a, Urban Culture,
Space, and Power
(Freshman Seminar). Erik
Lind Harms
(partial Southeast Asian content)
The course explores urban environments as spatial landscapes
infused with power relations. Course readings, projects,
and writing assignments use anthropological perspectives
to analyze spatial dimensions of cities, and to understand
how social life both transforms, and is transformed by,
the cities we live in.
ANTH
201b, Postwar
Vietnam
Erik
Lind Harms
Vietnamese
society since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Focus
on the effect of economic and political changes on cultural
and social life. The challenges of postwar socialism; economic
renovation; the intersection of market-oriented socialism
with class dynamics, urbanization, gender, health care,
and ritual life.
ANTH 388/588a, The
Politics of Southeast Asia.
Erik
Lind Harms
This
course analyzes how Southeast Asian nations promote national
culture as part of political and economic agendas. Also
explores Southeast Asian cultural and political diversity
to rescue the possibility for cultural difference within
a global world.
ANTH 541a,
Agrarian
Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development
See also F&ES 753a
/HIST 965a / PLSC 779a
Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Elisabeth
Woods, Peter Perdue
(some/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
572a, Disaster, Degradation, Dystopia: Social Science Approaches
To Environmental Perturbation and Change.
F&ES
80176a Michael
R. Dove
(Partial
Southeast Asian content)
There is a long tradition of social science scholarship
on environmental perturbation and natural disasters, the
relevance of which has been heightened by the current global
attention to climate change. This advanced seminar is designed
to review seminal works in this field and analyze some of
the current theoretical debates. Topics covered include:
the relevance of the post-equilibrium shift in the natural
and social sciences; the academic literature on the social
dimension of natural disasters, illustrated with a case
study of volcanic hazard; the discursive dimensions of environmental
degradation, focusing on deforestation and other case studies;
the discourse of global climate change, focusing on North-South
dimensions; the current debate about the relationship between
resource wealth and political conflict, focusing on the
'green war' thesis, orientalist perspectives, and the case
of tropical forest commodities; and alternative perspectives
on sustainable environmental relations, based on inter-disciplinary
work and also work in the humanities. Prerequisite: F&ES
84056a/ANTH 597a, or F&ES 83050a/ANTH 581a, or F&ES
83073b/ANTH 582b. Enrollment limited to twenty.
ANTH 581a,
Society
and Environment: Introduction to Theory and Method
See
also F&ES
83050a
Michael
R. Dove
(Substantial
Southeast Asian content)
This
is an introductory course on the scope of social scientific
contributions to environmental and natural resource issues.
It is designed to be the first course for students who will
be specializing in social science approaches as well as
the last/only course for students who take only one course
in this area. The approach taken in the course is inductive,
problem-oriented, and case study-based. The course is divided
into five sections. Section I presents an overview of the
field and course. Section II deals with the way that environmental
problems are initially framed. Case studies focus on placing
problems in their wider political context, new approaches
to uncertainty and failure, and the importance of how the
analytical boundaries to resource systems are drawn. Section
III focuses on questions of method, including the dynamics
of working within development projects, and the art of rapid
appraisal and short-term consultancies. Section IV is concerned
with local peoples and the environment, with case studies
addressing the myth of slash-and-burn cultivation, livestock
and development discourse, and the question of indigenous
knowledge and its transformation. Finally, Section V presents
lessons learned. Enrollment limited to thirty.
ANTH
582b, Households,
Communities, Gender (for Development and Conservation) (See
also F&ES 83073b)
Carol
Carpenter
(Partial
Southeast Asian content)
The
implementation of development and conservation projects
involving people requires an understanding of households,
communities, and geners; unfortunately, policy is laden
with mistaken assumptions about these social units. This
course examines both the anthropology of households, communities
and gender, and common assumptions about them in development
and conservation. Economic and political aspects of relations
within these unites are intimately linked, and are examined
together. Important global variations in the structure of
households, communities, and gender exist, and are explored
in the course. The goal of the course is to encourage future
policy makers and implementers to examine their assumptions
about society, and to tghink more critically about the implications
of these social units for development and conservation.
No prerequisites.
ANTH
597a, Social
Science of Development and Conservation
(See
also F&ES
83056a)
Carol
Carpenter
(Partial
Southeast Asian content)
This
course provides a fundamental understanding of the social
aspects involved in implementing sustainable development
and conservation projects. Social science provides ways
of thinking about, researching, and working with social
groupings - including rural households and communities,
but also development and conservation institutions, states,
and NGOs. Second, social science tackles the analysis of
the knowledge systems that implicitly shape development
and conservation policy and impinge on practice. The goal
of the course is to stimulate students to apply informed
and critical thinking to whatever roles they play in sustainable
development and conservation, in order to move toward more
environmentally and socially sustainable projects and policies.
ANTH 598b, Social
Science of Developoment and Conservation: Advanced Readings.
See
also F&ES
80157b Michael
R. Dove and Carol Carpenter
(Some/partial
Southeast Asian content)
951a or b Directed Research
in Ethnology & Social Anthropology
952a or b Directed Research in Linguistics
ECONOMICS
ECON 899a or b Individual Reading
and Research
by arrangement with
faculty
FORESTRY &
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
F&ES
80176a, Disaster,
Degradation, Dystopia: Social Science Approaches To Environmental
Perturbation and Change. See
ANTH 572a
for course description
Michael
R. Dove
(Some/partial
Southeast Asian content)
F&ES
753a, Agrarian
Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development
See
ANTH 541a for course description
F&ES 83050a, Society and
Environment: Introduction to Theory and Method
See ANTH 581a
Michael
R. Dove
(Substantial
Southeast Asian content)
F&ES
83073b,
Households, Communities, Gender
(for Development and Conservation) See
ANTH 582b for course description
Carol
Carpenter
(Partial
Southeast Asian content)
F&ES
83056a,
Social
Science of Development and Conservation
(See
ANTH 597a for course description )
Carol
Carpenter
(Partial
Southeast Asian content)
HISTORY
HIST
323b, Southeast Asia Since 1900
Ben
Kiernan
Comparative colonialism, nationalism,
revolution, and independence in modern Southeast Asia. Topics
include Indonesia and the Dutch, Indonchina under French
rule, the United States in the Philippines and Vietnam,
Buddhism in Burma and Thailand, communist and peasant movements,
and the Cambodian revolution and its regional repercussions.
HIST
479b, Vietnamese History from Earliest Times to 1920
Ben
Kiernan
Evolution
of a Vietnamese national identity, from Chinese colonization
to medieval statehood, to French conquest and capitalist
development. Topics include the roles of Confucianism, Buddhism,
gender, and ethnicity in a Southeast Asian context.
HIST
965a, Agrarian
Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development
See
ANTH 541a
HIST
980a, Genocide: History and Theory
See also INRL 625a
Ben
Kiernan
(Some/partial
Southeast Asian content)
Comparative
research and analysis of genocidal occurrences from ancient
times to the present; theories and case studies; an inter-regional,
interdisciplinary perspective. Readings and discussion,
guest speakers, research paper.
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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Indonesian Studies at Yale)
INDN
110a/120b/ 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
130a/140b/ 527a/b,
Intermediate Indonesian.
Indriyo
Sukmono
Continued practice in
colloquial Indonesian conversation and reading and discussion
of texts. (After INDN 115 or equivalent)
INDN
470a/471b, 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 in a 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.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
INRL
625a, Genocide: History and Theory
See
HIST
980a
Ben
Kiernan
(Some/partial
Southeast Asian content)
MUSIC
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
420b Gendering Musical Performance. (See also WGSS 420b).
Sarah
Weiss
(~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.
MUSI
928b Music and Empire. Sarah
Weiss
(some/partial
Southeast Asian content)
Empires through the ages are
a distinctive political formation, different from nation-states
and modern colonialism. Empires seem monolithic, but they
are, by definition, formed out of previously separate units,
and diversity - ethnic, national, cultural and religious
- is a central feature of all imperial formations. In this
course we will examine music imagined to celebrate, contest,
or interact with imperial domination. Case studies will
be drawn from Turkey, Indonesia, India, and Japan. Students
are encouraged to reserach geographic locations beyond those
addressed in class.
PHILOSOPHY
PHIL 210a Eastern
Philosophy.
Quang
Phu Van
NOT OFFERED THIS YEAR - TO BE OFFERED
FALL 2009 AND ALTERNATE YEARS THEREAFTER - ALSO OFFERED
SOME SUMMER SESSIONS
An
Introduction to Eastern philosophy through the study of
philosophical and religious texts. Topics include reality
and illusion, knowledge, self, right and wrong, nonattachment,
meditation, aesthetics, meaning of life, and death. (Limited
enrollment)
POLITICAL SCIENCE
PLSC
779a Agarian Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development.
See ANTH 541a for description. (partial
Southeast Asian content)
James
C. Scott, Robert Harms, Amity
Doolittle
VIETNAMESE
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
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on -> Vietnamese
Studies at Yale)
VIET
110a/120b/
515a/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
130a/140b/
530a/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
220b Introduction to Vietnamese Culture, Values, and Literature.
Quang Phu Van
A brief introduction to Vietnamese
culture and values. Topics include cultural and national
identity, aesthetics, meaning of life, war, and death. Selected
readings from Zen poems, folklore, autobiographies, and
religious and philosophical writings.
* All readings in translation.
No previous knowledge of Vietnamese required.
VIET
470a/471b,
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.
WOMEN'S,
GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES
WGSS
420b, Gendering Musical Performance
(See MUSI 420b). Sarah
Weiss
(some/~1/4
Southeast Asian content)
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