Spring 2008 HLP COURSES
PPS 49S.01 – CIVIC PARTICIPATION AND COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
Instructor: Alma Blount
This seminar addresses a series of questions about defining and revitalizing democracy at the grassroots in the United States . We will investigate current events at the international, national and local levels as we pose the question, "What does it mean to be an engaged citizen?" The work of the course requires analyzing current events, developing your own point of view about complex political issues, and participating in fast-paced discussions with people who may disagree with you. Your full participation in this work will give you a sense of the challenges and rewards of public discourse and group problem-solving work. (Tu Th 2:50 – 4:05), Sanford 102.
[Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI] PERMISSION REQUIRED
PPS 116D.01 – POLICY CHOICE AS VALUE CONFLICT
Instructor: Robert Korstad
This course, which will also be a research service-learning gateway course, is one of the core courses in the Public Policy Studies curriculum. Focused on ethics in public life, the course asks students to investigate how conscience, character, and varieties of moral reasoning can help us in addressing corruption, deception, war, and social injustice. Readings and discussions are drawn from political theory, fiction, and history. (Tu Th 2:50 – 4:05), Sanford 03.
[Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI]
PPS 168S.01 – DOCUMENTARY ENGAGEMENT
Instructor: Alex Harris
Documentary photography as a tool for social engagement in preparation for intensive summer field-based projects. Students study documentary photographers, pursue a local documentary project, while planning their own summer documentary projects through which they will address societal issues locally, nationally, or abroad. Students learn and refine valuable technical skills such as Photoshop and web-based methods in order to complete a preliminary documentary in the Triangle area by the end of the semester. Service-learning course. Consent of instructor required. See course synopsis handbook and/or contact alex.harris@duke.edu (M 1:15-3:45), location TBA.
PPS 196.03 – LEADING IN A NEW WORLD
Instructor: Anthony Zinni
In General Zinni's last book, The Battle for Peace, he described how the world has significantly changed beginning with the collapse of the Soviet Union near the end of the last century. That collapse seemed to unleash a series of events and unprecedented phenomena that led to the reordering and altering of almost every aspect of our global society. Globalization, the rise of non-state entities, mass migrations, access to new technologies, the arrival of the Information Age, the emergence of new powers in the world, and many other world altering factors have caused a confluence of major changes that have reshaped our world and the way we must operate in it. This means that it has become necessary to develop fresh approaches to ensuring our security, governing ourselves, economically prospering, dealing with our environment, and adapting to social change. There is a new leader emerging who has combined some new skills with some selected tried and true skills into what seems to be the right blend required to succeed today. In this course, students will examine the trends that have reshaped our world and the ways in which visionary leaders and organizations have effectively responded to such change. (M 3:05-5:35), Sanford 04.
[Areas of Knowledge: SS] PERMISSION REQUIRED
PPS 196.30 – BORDER CROSSING: LEADERSHIP, VALUE CONFLICTS & PUBLIC LIFE
Instructor: Steve Schewel
This is the preparation course for students who plan to conduct community-based research projects in the summer through the Service Opportunities in Leadership Program, or another research service-learning opportunity. Students will be trained in basic research methods, complete a 20-hour service project for a local community organization, and be introduced to a leadership framework for undertaking complex problem solving work in the public arena. The course is designed to provide students with theoretical knowledge and critical reflection skills for entering other cultures to conduct research with community organizations.
It is inevitable that students will encounter value conflicts when they enter a new culture. Some of the most important work of this course will be our mutual reflection on the meaning, uses and misuses of these conflicts. We will approach this work through our theme this semester: religion and public life. We will explore the history of how religion, politics and public policy issues have become intertwined in the U.S. and abroad and investigate contemporary issues that represent a spectrum of viewpoints on faith and politics in our culture. The heart of the course will be a presentation of case studies that illuminate the complexities of religious values that can become either impediments to public problem-solving work or resources for its successful completion. (Tu Th 10:05-11:20, W 11:55-12:45 discussion), Sanford 03.
[Areas of Knowledge: SS, EI; Inquiries/Competencies: R, W] PERMISSION REQUIRED
PPS 264.34 – HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC POLICY
Instructor: Robert Korstad
This course explores the ways that history and historical thinking can be of assistance to public policy makers. Serving as a gateway course for students participating in a summer research project in South Africa as part of the Sanford Institute's new Program for the Study of History, Public Policy, and Social Change, the course raises important methodological questions about how and why history matters in the work we do. To what extent can historical analysis improve predictions about the behaviors of social groups and nations and thereby serve to inform the choices that policy makers possess? How do narrative techniques and story-telling strategies shape the crafting and implementation of public policy in the past and present? To what extent are counterfactuals, when used with discipline and imagination, effective tools for conducting social science research and making public policy? (Tu Th 11:40-12:55, Friday discussion TBA), Rubenstein 153.
[Areas of Knowledge: CZ, SS]
HISTORY 196S.06 –LEADERSHIP IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Instructor: Gerald Wilson
The seminar will focus on political, social, business, and artistic leaders in American history and problems that have called for leadership. In addition to selected short readings, students will examine closely the following: James MacGregor Burns' Leadership ; Walter Clark's Ox Bow Incident ; Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince ; May and R. Neustadt's Thinking in Time ; Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men ; Gary Wills' Certain Trumpets ; and David Gergen's Eyewitness to Power . ( Tu Th 4:25-5:40), Soc/Psych 128
[Areas of Knowledge: CZ; Inquiries/Competencies: EI, R] PERMISSION REQUIRED
HISTORY 196S.07 – AMERICAN DREAMS/AMERICAN REALITIES
Instructor: Gerald Wilson
This seminar will examine the role of such myths as "rags to riches," "beacon to the world," the "frontier" and the "foreign devil" in defining the American character and determining the hopes, fears, dreams and actions of people throughout American history. In addition to selected short readings, students will examine closely Arthur M. Schlesinger's The Disuniting of America ; David Potter's People of Plenty ; David Halberstam's, The Fifties ; John Hellmanns' American Myth and the Legacy of Viet Nam ; and Robert A. Rosenbloum and Gerald L. Wilson's The Value of Myth, Mythic Aspects of American History (Course Pack). ( M W 11:40-12:55), Soc/Psych 128
[Areas of Knowledge: CZ; Inquiries/Competencies: R] PERMISSION REQUIRED
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