CHAT teachers, past and present. Hilary P. Dick, Joan Jasak, Saul Tobias, Kara Clevinger.
Fall 2012 Graduate Course Listings
These courses welcome the participation of qualified graduate students from other departments or programs. All are taught by members of Temple's graduate faculty. Please contact the instructor with questions and enrollment information.
To include a course, please email the following information to chat@temple.edu: Title, Course number, Instructor name and email, Meeting time. Include a short description (50-100 words). Courses will continue to be added until the start of the new term.
Anthropology
Sociolinguistics
ANTH 5501, Prof.Paul Garrett, T, 5:30-8:00 pm
Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate, amounting to a "great extinction." A language disappears approximately every two weeks. Over half of languages currently spoken will be extinct before the end of this century. What is really happening when a language is "dying"? Is a culture, a worldview, irretrievably lost along with it? Is the loss of a language a loss for all humanity? Are language rights a matter of basic human rights? Is there a relationship between linguistic diversity and biodiversity? This seminar considers the ecological, social, politico-economic, ideological, and ethical aspects of endangerment and extinction phenomena.
Community and Regional Planning
Sustainable Food Systems Planning
CRP 5251, Prof. Deborah Howe, W, 2:00-4:30 pm, Ambler Campus, LC 301, with video conferencing to Harrisburg Campus
Food system planning involves farm land preservation and environmental stewardship; economic development including distribution, processing, employment and globalization; and food security involving access to affordable, healthy foods. There are also issues of public health, food cultures, consumer spending patterns and education. Guest speakers and field trips will provide a focus on regionally based food systems initiatives and readings will address work that is underway elsewhere in North America. Students will develop an appreciation for the ways in which a food systems perspective can enrich community planning efforts and create more sustainable and vital places in which to live and flourish.
Sustainable Community Design and Development
CRP 5256, Prof. Lynn Mandarano, W, 5:00-7:30 pm, Ambler Campus, LC 301, with video conferencing to Harrisburg Campus
The purpose of this course is to develop students’ understanding of the concept of sustainable development and how it can be applied to the design and development of communities and regions. The course will begin with an examination of the historical evolution of the concept of sustainable development. We will review the discourse of theory and practice of sustainable development at the local, regional and global level. Students will engage in case study analysis of existing sustainable development approaches in North America and will prepare a conceptual plan for sustainable community development for a neighborhood in the Philadelphia metropolitan region.
Ecological Planning and Development
CRP 8155, Prof.William Cohen, T, 2:00-4:30 pm, Ambler Campus, LC 301, with video conferencing to Harrisburg Campus
The fundamentals of the ecological planning method developed by landscape architect and regional planner, Ian McHarg, establishes a basis to plan and develop both individual projects and entire communities that can be enduring (sustainable). The course will examine these prospects in both theory and practice. The relationship between ecological planning and actual development will be a principal focus for the semester. Case studies, field trips, and guest presenters will highlight specific examples of the successful implementation of ecological planning by the private development sector.
Water Resources Planning and Management
CRP 8267, Prof. Jeffrey Featherstone, M, 5:00-7:30 pm, Ambler Campus, LC 301, with video conferencing to Harrisburg Campus
Water management is complicated and highly contentious. This course evaluates various aspects of water resources including quality, flooding, supply and allocation and the interaction of these issues with global warming. Management alternatives are evaluated, ranging from fragmented to more integrated forms such as multi-jurisdictional river basin and ecosystem management. We will also consider water resource planning and management from various scales including local, state, national and international. The course will include guest speakers with national and international expertise.Transportation Planning
CRP 8267, Prof. Bradley Flamm, M, 7:40-10:10 pm, Ambler Campus, LC 301, with video conferencing to Harrisburg Campus
This course presents an overview of the history of transportation in the United States and the fundamentals of present day transportation planning and policies. It explores the relationships between urban form and modal choice, accessibility and mobility, regional and local travel demand, and the operational efficiencies of cars and trucks, transit, bicycles, walking, and telecommuting. The course covers the impacts of transportation investments on land use, regional population growth, and environmental, community, and economic sustainability and introduces students to currently used transportation planning methodologies, legal requirements, and decision-making processes.
English
Modernism, Futures, Past
English 8202, Prof. Priya Joshi, T, 3:00-5:30 pm
“Modernism,” Roland Barthes wrote, “begins with the search for a literature that is no longer possible.” With Barthes' reference to modernism’s lost politics as a point of entry, the seminar excavates modernism's origins in an effort to discover, if not to retrieve, its possible futures beyond the Euro-American axis.
Readings include debates on modernist aesthetics, politics, form, function, literary history, and literary geography by Adorno, Barthes, Benjamin, Bloch, Brecht, Lukàcs, Marx, Freud, Simmel, Banfield, Huyssen, P. Anderson, Jameson, Moretti, T.J. Clark, S. Friedman, R. Williams. A limited number of literary readings will be included from titles by British, French, German, Indian and African writers, tbd.
Because this is an advanced-level theories of modernism seminar, students should have completed one graduate level course on modernism (e.g., English 5022 or equivalent in a relevant department such as Art History or foreign languages) or to have received instructor's permission prior to registering (pjoshi@temple.edu).
Course requirements include an oral presentation, a group project surveying journals in the field, and a 7,000-word research paper.
History
Crime, Punishment, and Politics of Prisons
History 8800, Prof. Heather Thompson, T, 3:00-5:30 pm, Gladfelter 913
Drawing from the latest and most cutting-edge historical scholarship on America’s modern carceral state –new studies on the history of incarceration, prisoner rights, the war on drugs, prison labor, sentencing, policing, immigration detention, etc.--this course will ask students to look very closely at historical context and political moment when considering how the judicial system as well as prison system of this country evolved over the course of the late-19th and entire 20th centuries.
By delving deeply into the history (and impact) of the criminal justice system, this course also helps students to rethink current scholarly understandings of numerous other major developments in American history—everything from the origins of urban crisis, to the rise of the New Right, to the collapse of the Welfare state, to the impact of deindustrialization, to the role of privatization in America, to the rise and fall of the nation’s public education system, and so many more. This course will offer a critical examination of the ways in which race, gender and class have shaped both prison politics and populations over time. It will also explore the importance of regional difference when it comes to conceptions of justice and the administration of correctional facilities. Finally, it will introduce students to the historical context of, and present-day realities of everything from debates over the death penalty, the law regarding youth offenders, the ethics of drug legislation, prisoner civil liberties vs. victims’ rights, and mandatory sentencing guidelines, to how the criminal justice system deals with the mentally ill, the elderly, and children.
Material Culture
History 8151, Prof. Seth Bruggeman, M: 2:00-4:30 pm, Gladfelter 913
Introduction to literature from several fields that uses artifacts to understand culture. Exploration of various theoretical approaches. Topics include architecture, folk art, photography, decorative arts, landscape design, historic preservation, and the use of interior space.
Modern US Social History
History 8106, Prof. Ken Kusmer, W: 3:00-5:30 pm, Gladfelter 913
Introduction to literature from several fields that uses artifacts to understand culture. Exploration of various theoretical approaches. Topics include architecture, folk art, photography, decorative arts, landscape design, historic preservation, and the use of interior space.
Religion
African American Islam
Religion 8604, Prof. Zain Abdullah, Th, 2:00-4:30 pm
This graduate seminar examines the growing literature on African American Islam, a Black religious tradition dating back to the fifteenth-century. We examine the varieties of African American Islamic Thought and discuss, for example, the tensions between Islam as a system for spirituality and a charge for Black liberation. We also discuss the anxieties and politics between heterodox and orthodox interpretations of the faith. In the end, this course seeks to understand how Black Muslims make sense of their faith, negotiate their identities and religious practices, and navigate the complex realities of a pluralistic America and a global world.
Teaching in Higher Education: Humanities
Religion 8985, Prof. Rebecca Alpert, W, 5:00-7:30 pm
This course is required for any student seeking Temple’s Teaching in Higher Education Certificate. The course introduces current research on learning and human development, best teaching practices, and reflective approaches to teaching. It includes experiential components, including micro-teaching and the creation of a syllabus and assignments. All topics are considered through the lens of teaching in the Humanities. Students may enroll without prior teaching experience
Women's Studies
Introduction to Women's Studies
Women's Studies 8001, Prof. Laura Levitt, M 5:30-8:00 pm
This course will begin by addressing the relationship between feminist politics, critical theory, and "Women's Studies." What is the work "we" do, how do "we" go about doing it? Where and how do feminist scholars claim spaces to do our work? It will use the specific example of Jewish feminist studies to illustrate how feminist studies has shifted the
discourse in a particular field and what kinds of tensions and issues are at stake in engendering disciplinary knowledges contrasting this approach with more recent critiques of the gender studies more generally.
llevitt@temple.edu
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