Courses
International Studies Minor
CICS 401
Winter 2008
International Development & Security Seminar
Psychological Aspects of War and Peace
Instructor: David Winter, Psychology
This seminar is open to all international studies minors who are second-semester juniors or seniors.
In 1933, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud exchanged letters on the topic, "Why War?" People have asked this question since the begining of recorded history. Many academic disciplines have contributed to our understanding of why wars happen: for example: what is the "psychological meaning" or psychological significance of war? What motives drive countries, and people, thus to organize and attempt to kill each other? To what extent do wars result from mistakes of perception and misjudgments? And could our social relationships and cultural institutions somehow drive us to war? Can any or all of these psychological forces be controlled or "tamed"? How?
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Human Rights Courses
(check with departments for availability/times)
Anthropology 549 "Indigenous Political Movements"
Kirsch, Stuart
Anthropology 625 "The Anthropology of Property "
Kirsch, Stuart
Anthropology/Women's Studies 326 "The Politics of Health and Social Suffering"
Ticktin, Miriam
Anthropology/Women's Studies 436 "Human Rights, Gender and Culture"
Ticktin, Miriam
Architecture 603 "Reconstruction: Architecture After Disaster"
Herscher, Andrew
Art & Design 310 / Women's Studies 344 "Bodies in the World: Representing Human Rights"
Jacobsen, Carol
English 528 / Sociology 580 "Topics in Disability Studies"
Mulhorn, Kristine & Siebers, Tobin
Law 724 "International Refugee Law"
Hathaway, James
Law 845 "Refugee Rights Workshop"
Hathaway, James
Political Science 389 "Labor Rights in the Global Economy"
Gallagher, Mary E.
Residential College 100 "Unteaching Racism"
Fox, Helen
Residential College / Social Sciences 315
"International Grassroots Development"
Fox, Helen
Residential College / Social Science 354
"Nonviolence in Action"
Fox, Helen
Slavic 470 (
Topics in Cultural Studies of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe)
/ Architecture 603 "Urbicide: Violence Against Cities"
Herscher, Andrew
Spanish 373 (Topics in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures) Section 2 "Violations of Human Rights in the Americas: How Film, Literatures and Academic Discourse(s) Represent Them"
Verdisio, Gustavo
Past Courses
