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ISF 198, Semester-‐Long Teach-‐In
ISF 198.5 Units: 2 Course Control Number: 17350 Grading: P/NP ��� ���Tuesdays, 4-6, 101 Moffitt
The 2016 U.S. Elections in Global Context: A Semester-Long Teach-In
Course Description: This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the 2016 U.S. elections in both an interdisciplinary and a global context. We will host guest speakers from across the UC Berkeley campus who will bring their critical disciplinary expertise to bear on issues ranging from voting to fake news, from trade wars to climate change, and from immigration to religious and racial discrimination. Although the course has a US focus, experts will speak to similar “populist” movements around the world, also using new media technologies, from Australia to Austria, Brazil to Berlin, Italy to India and beyond. Course Learning Goal: To teach students to think critically, within an interdisciplinary perspective, about current events. The course represents what the Interdisciplinary Studies Field at UC Berkeley does best: teach students, as part of a liberal arts education, to think across disciplinary divides. The course also attempts to institute a “real time social science” in which we are all learning from historical change as it is occurring before our eyes during the first 100 days of the Trump administration. Course Structure: The Tuesday sessions will vary between more formal presentations and workshops. Students registered in the class will be divided into four sections, and will spend a portion of most sessions meeting and discussing among themselves. Course Requirements: To receive credit, students must attend all Tuesday sessions, with two unexcused absences. These will be accounted for by each student’s posting.
Professor Peter Sahlins (History, ISF) [email protected] Office Hours: Mondays 2-5, 165 Evans
ISF 198, Semester-‐Long Teach-‐In
We will be using the university’s bCourses website to communicate all required reading for the course, but also as a homework platform. Each week, students in two of the groups will post a 400 word “Discussion,” and students in the two other groups will “Comment” on one of the 40 Discussion Posts. Students are required to read real news about real facts. They must (alas) choose one or more daily mainstream national newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, etc) and subscribe to a news feed on “Trump.” Additional readings of articles, data, and commentaries are to be found on the “Modules” section of the website. The schedule is subject to change. All current information is available on the bCourse web page.
January 17 Wendy Brown (Political Science) “How Did We Get Here?”
day -3 of DT
January 24 Philip Stark (Statistics)
"Whose Votes (were) Counted in the Election of 2016?” day 4
January 31
Laura Nader (Anthropology) and Marshall Sahlins (Anthropology, U of C) "Our Lives in Protest" day 11
February 7 Shreeharsh Kelkar (Interdisciplinary Studies)
"Fake News in the New Media Landscape" day 18
February 14 Rudy Mendoza (Psychology) "The Psychology of Prejudice” day 25
February 21 Leti Volpp (Boalt Hall) “Immigration and Discrimination” day 32
February 28 Paul Pierson (Political Science) "Trump and the New Inequality" day 39
March 7 Max Auffhammer (Agriculture and Environmental Economics) “Trump and Climate Change” day 45
March 14 Gillian Hart (Geography) and Fang Xu (Interdisciplinary Studies)
"Trumpism in Global Political Perspective" day 52
March 21 Special Guest TBA
day 57
April 4 Dick Walker (Geography) and Rakesh Bhandari (Interdisciplinary Studies)
"Trumpism in US and Global Economic Perspective” day 64
April 11 Steve Fish (Political Science) Russia, the US, and the Moslem Question day 71
April 18 Dylan Riley (Sociology), Raka Ray (Sociology) "From Berlusconi to Trump and Modi" day 78
April 25 Sandra Eder, Stefan Hoffman, Peter Sahlins, James Vernon (History) European Roundtable Tilting Right day 85
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