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Preference to sophomores. Historical overview of race in America, race and violence, race and socioeconomic well-being, and the future of race relations in America. Enrollment limited to 16.

Focuses on the November 2012 election. Serial examinations of major topics at stake: foreign policy, the economy, the Supreme Court, and campaign strategy. One session will be devoted to California. Distinguished guests will participate in sessions moderated by the instructors with participation by students. Students enrolling for credit must attend regularly and contribute to a course blog. Sign up for the waitlist through PoliSci 51K. In order for a student to be enrolled in the course via the waitlist process, the student must not exceed the maximum unit enrollment for the quarter OR have a time schedule conflict with another course on his/her study list. If the student will either exceed the maximum units or has a class time conflict, the waitlist will bypass this student for enrollment, and will enroll the next eligible student into this course.

Our culture is obsessed with retelling old stories in new ways. This course will focus on the art of adaptation as it relates to representations of race and ethnicity. We will center our study on contemporary literary adaptations including works by Jean Rhys, Suzan-Lori Parks, William Styron and Alice Randall. We will also read critical theories of redress and reparations that draw attention to both the stakes and challenges of revision.

This seminar is designed to help MMUF honor students in the following ways: (1) developing and refining research paper topics, (2) learning about the various approaches to research and writing, and (3) connecting to Stanford University resources such as the library and faculty.

Ever since The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791), there has been an established tradition of upward mobility narratives in the U.S. Franklin¿s story is that of an individual¿s class ascension through hard work and thrift, virtues echoed by writers ever since. While the adoption of new values is still at the heart of many upward mobility narratives, in this seminar we will examine how those written by racial minorities may differ, while exploring issues such as inter and intra-group tensions, assimilation, and the makings of a minority middle class.

This course explores the ethical and aesthetic questions artists engage when facing, in their own time and place, social crises such as arise from the physical and psychic effects of war or political instability arising from disasters manmade and natural, the drug war in Mexico, the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, the Arab Spring, the Great Recession. Readings will include both critical and creative texts that look at historical and contemporary examples of artists representing such experiences. In addition, students will be called upon to create their own artistic productions writing, music, theatrical or multimedia (including online) in a workshop setting. By definition, the course considers the current historical moment to be one of crisis, in which students across the world are alternately, or simultaneously, its victims and engaged witnesses. Note: Course location is Harmony House for Autumn 2012

This course explores the history and development of the hip-hop arts movement, from its precursor movements in music, dance, visual arts, literature, and folk and street cultures to its rise as a neighborhood subculture in the Bronx in the early 1970s through its local, regional and global expansion and development. Hip-hop aesthetics, structures, and politics will be explored within the context of the movement¿s rise as a post-multicultural form in an era of neoliberal globalization.

Race, ethnicity, gender, and religion using the tools, analytical skills and concepts developed by anthropologists.

The course will examine and engage with dance cultures from around the world. Through historical and theoretical readings, film screenings, and viewing performances, this course aims to introduce students to a number of theoretical issues central to the study of dance across various disciplines. As a class we set out to explore how dance is more than a set of organized bodily movements, pleasurable to both do and watch. We will consider what cultural work dance performance accomplishes in the world.