Course Development and Faculty Research

On an ongoing basis, course development grants are offered by the Duke University Center for International Studies every year, funded both by the annual budget and by Title VI National Resource Center funds. DUCIS also budgets funds to support overseas travel and research by faculty. The Vice Provost for Global Strategy and Programs provides additional funding for this purpose.

Spring 2011 Courses

Toggle AMES 188 LIT 112J AMI 111A VISUALST 105G	Modern Chinese Cinema	Guo-Juin Hong	01	Th 02:50 PM-05:20 PM	Carr 240
Course Description Films, documentaries, television series, and soap operas produced in Mainland China in the post-Mao era, modern and contemporary Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Topics include the history and aesthetics of the new wave cinema, soap operas as the new forum for public debate o popular culture, and debate over the relationship between Euro-American modernist and the national cinema. C-L Film Video. Instructor: Hong
Toggle FRENCH 193 AAAS 193	Creole/ Kreyol Studies II	Jacques Pierre	01	TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM	Carr 135
Course Description A second course on Haitian Creole/Krey
Toggle GERMAN 184 THEATRST 172B LIT 112N ICS 183C VISUALST 118H AMI 111Q	Existentialist Cinema	Michael Morton	01	TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM	Old Chem 116
Course Description Distinctively cinematic engagements with principal themes in the existentialist tradition: isolation and alienation, identity and commitment, perception and reality, communication and contact, madness and sanity. In-depth exploration of culturally specific filmic modes of capturing, processing, and transmitting images of human life and the myriad issues, moral conflicts, and dilemmas that inform it. Films to be considered will vary with different offerings of the course, but may include works of directors such as Herzog, Schloendorff, Fassbinder, Wenders, Bergman, Antonioni, Kurosawa, and Godard, among others. Instructor: Morton
Toggle HISTORY 120	Baseball In a Global Perspective	John Thompson	01	MWF 10:20 AM-11:10 AM	Perkins 2-071
Course Description Examination of baseball from 18th-c. origins in Britain’s North American colonies to the contemporary “World Baseball Classic.” Topics addressed include transformation from amateur participant sport to commercial spectator sports business based in North America; globalization of the sport; commercialization and professionalization in new environments; and trans-national baseball as a lens for examining evolving class, race, gender, regional, and international relationships. Among central themes is how baseball’s international migration reshaped the game.
Toggle PUBPOL 148S DOCST 173S	Islam and the Media	Philip Bennett Wendy Ewald	01	M 04:25 PM-06:55 PM	Nasher 119
Course Description How the news media portray Muslims in the United States, and how Muslim communities see themselves in the context of media coverage. Roles of religion, culture, language and other experience in journalists’ approach to stories about Muslims in America. American Muslims identification with these stories. News media’s portrayals of individuals and communities resemblance to Muslims’ self-portraits. One assignment: develop a project involving Muslim communities, guided by Wendy Ewald of the Center for Documentary Studies. Field trips to area Islamic centers.
Toggle POLISH 2	Elementary Polish	Beth Holmgren	01	MWF 01:30 PM-02:20 PM	Languages 109
Course Description Introduction to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Polish. No preliminary knowledge of Polish necessary. Second half of Polish 1, 2.
Toggle TURKISH 11	Accelerated Turkish II	Serhat Uyurkulak	01	MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM	TBA
Course Description Continuation of Turkish 10. Intermediate level of proficiency in five areas, grammar, speaking, listening comprehension, reading and writing. Language taught embedded in cultural constructs.
Toggle RELIGION 196S	Muslim Traditions in Learning	Ebrahim Moosa	01	M 03:05 PM-05:35 PM	Perkins 2-065
Course Description Topics and instructors to be announced. Instructor: Staff
Toggle WOLOF 2	Elementary Wolof	Bouna Ndiaye	01	TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM	TBA
Course Description Introduction to reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in the Wolof language. Includes manuals, newspapers, music recordings, video clips, and movies. Instructor: Ndiaye
Toggle WOMENST 168S	Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights	Ara Wilson	01	MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM	White 201
Course Description This course investigates gender and sexual dimensions of human rights, considering key international human rights campaigns and emphasizing the historical and philosophical contexts involved in advocacy for Women’s Human Rights and Sexual Rights. May include a service-learning component.