SIPA Course Open to Undergraduates

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U4890 "Topics on Contemporary Turkey: Identity, Accession and Social and Political Debates in Turkey Today".

This course proposes to examine in depth some of the major debates and issues faced by the citizens of the Turkish Republic at the present time. In doing so this course will briefly examine the origins of the modern Turkish State with a focus on how the founding realities and myths have aided or hindered contemporary Turkish society. This course will give particular emphasis to the interplay of domestic and international agendas in the larger framework of the current Turkish debates on such topics as accession negotiations to join the European Union, civil society and the rights of women and ethnic minorities.

Course Requirements: As this course is intended to take form as a seminar, the final grade will consist of class participation (20%), the leading of a selected reading, (20%) and the submission of either two ten page papers or one twenty page papers (60%). This requires that all members of the class are also expected to lead a readings discussion section of their choice.

New Course Announcement -- HIST W3426 History of Slavery

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HIST W3426y History of Slavery. 3 pts.

Professor Christopher Brown
TR 1:10-2:25
301 Fayerweather Hall

This lecture course presents an introduction to the history of comparative slavery, with particular reference to the relationship between human bondage and broader processes of economic and social change. Topics include the experience of enslavement, the development of long-distance networks for the transportation of slave labor, the rise and fall of the plantation complex in the Americas, and the distinctive character of human bondage in the twentieth century.

Department of History website:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/history/ugrad/main/index/index.html