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Media & Democratization: Learning Cluster 2015

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Course Objectives
In the last decades, the governments of Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Argentina have sought, through media reform, more participation in the production and distribution of media in principle to assure a plurality of voices. This political undertaking, which supporters of these elected governments see as an instrumental part of the process of re-democratization, is at the center of a controversial endeavor to overcome inequality in Latin America. For instance, the governments of Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina, have advanced new regulations through their respective congresses that are believed to be instrumental in the democratization of mass media.

This Learning Cluster will explore the critical intersections of media, democratization, and social struggles Latin America. Together we will analyze the media as key political-economic institutions, as the public sphere or contested political-cultural arenas within which political and social struggles are waged. As such, the media will be understood as the object of political struggles over legislation or regulations that shape its functioning and also as a way to reinforce participatory practices and community projects. Students interested in this course should be willing to theorize and imagine new political, economic, social and cultural systems that are more participatory and egalitarian. Our focus will center on analyzing how different types of media platforms (corporate, state/public, party, community, social, etc.) play a role in current struggles and on how particular types of media restructuring reshape power relations at all levels.
The following are some questions I would like to consider in this LC: What is the role of the State in the production and distribution of media (TV programming, radio programming, film, internet programming) in the past few decades of neoliberal economics, post-dictatorship democratization processes, and increasing popular resistance to inequality in Latin America? How is “identity” shaped by different media formats? Have new digital technologies helped to undermine the monopoly of media conglomerates? What are some of the theoretical and ideological debates around the role of the media in the consolidation of democracy and the pursuit of social justice? How do social movements use and/or create their own media? What are some of the contributions of grassroots organizations and groups in the ongoing process of democratization?
Students enrolled in this LC will be part of a working group that will generate an application for a Nieves Grant to visit Latin America next academic year to continue research on this topic.


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Human Rights & Democratization in Latin America

Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli
Soka University of America
Course meets: 1:00- 4:00 p.m.
Office: Ikeda 414
Office hours: By appointment


HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN LATIN AMERICA
INTS 490
Advanced topics in International Studies

Introduction

This course is designed for students who have already taken an introductory human rights course. As such, it will further contextualize human rights as an ethical and judicial principle, and draw analytical parallels to the development of political rights under colonialism, liberalism, and neoliberalism in Latin America. This is an interdisciplinary course; students will read essays, watch documentary and fiction films, listen to music and research the life and work of Latin American authors and social movements. The course will give students a general knowledge of major political events in the region that have challenged established notions of human rights and justice.

Special attention will be given to the systematic use of violence during the armed conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s and the textual and visual testimonies that attempt to document the trauma of political groups and human rights organizations repressed by terrorist States. We will examine the neoliberal turn in politics and human rights rhetoric and track its impact on international law and local governance. An important part of this course will be to consider the role that documentation has played in cataloging atrocities. We will consider groundbreaking evidence that has paved the way for democratic reforms in certain countries and helped to change complicated amnesty laws that have historically blocked the prosecution of crimes against humanity. We will also explore the role of amnesty laws within the larger international legal community.

Assignments
Proposal for research paper                           15% (4 pages)
Annotated bibliography for research paper             10% (2 pages)
AR Presentation                                       10%
Discussion and participation                          30%
Final Paper                                           35% (15 pages)

Weekly required readings will be around 100 pages to be done ahead of class. You must come to class prepared for discussion. Read the text or texts assigned before class, take copious notes and come prepared to class with questions. Your participation not only will improve your overall grade but it is a fundamental part of the course’s success. Each student will lead one discussion seminar, introducing a text or the work of an author or filmmaker and explaining its relevance to the history of human rights in the region. We will watch films in class and attend a couple of screenings outside class (if possible). We will analyze films both as artistic products (formal qualities, cinematic genres and stylistic influences) and as sociological documents.

The course will culminate with a 15 page argumentative essay (research paper). I will be happy to discuss a prospectus for the essay and help you organize your bibliography.  Please type all written work using a standard 12-point font, use double-spaced text, leave a one-inch margin on all sides, and staple multiple pages. Late papers will be marked down 1/3 grade for each day late. Please follow the MLA Style or APA format for citations and general style formatting. You can find an online version of style manuals at:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu

Accommodation for Persons with a Disability
Student desiring accommodations on the basis of physical learning, or psychological disability for this class is to contact the Office of Student Services. Student Services is located in Student Affairs.

Please check on Brightspace for a weekly update of reading and writing assignments.

COURSE SCHEDULE

WEEK 1: Human Rights in Latin America

Friday September 8th
Introduction to the Course
 Cardenas, S. (2011). Human rights in Latin America: a politics of terror and hope. Philadelphia: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr. (44 pgs). (CR) 46 pgs.
 Ishay, M. (2009). The history of human rights: from ancient times to the globalization era. Chapter 2. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. (AR) 51 pgs.

FILM: Chicago Boys (2015), by Carola Fuentes and Rafael Valdeavellano (85 mins.)

*Thursday, September 14th:
Opening Art Show Soka University Gallery: Artists Sebastián Chillemi and Pablo Salvadó.  Sleeping in the Forest. Dreamscapes of nature and society. Reception: 5:30- 7:30 p.m.


WEEK 2: Dictatorships and State Repression during the Cold War

Friday September 15th
Amnesty International. “Urgent Action.” Santiago Maldonado
 Los Espiritus, “Perdida en el Fuego” [Recording]

Dinges, J. (2005). The Condor Years: how Pinochet and his allies brought terrorism to three continents. “The Condor System.” New York: New Press. (CR) 27 pags.
 Garcia Espinosa, Julio. “For an Imperfect Cinema.” Chomsky, A., Carr, B., & Smorkaloff, P. M. (2006). The Cuba reader: history, culture, politics. Durham: Duke University Press. (CR) 8 pgs.
 Walsh, Rodolfo. “Open Letter From A Writer To The Military Junta.” http://www.jus.gob.ar/media/2940455/carta_rw_ingles-espa_ol_web.pdf (CR)
 Walsh, Rodolfo. “Carta abierta de un escritor a la Junta Militar”.
El Pais. “Los 43 de Ayotzinapa, una cartografia de la violencia en Mexico”.
 https://elpais.com/internacional/2017/09/07/mexico/1504807666_400055.html


FILMS:

Olla Popular (1968), by Gerardo Vallejo (4 mins.) [in class screening]
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDnig288W8
Las AAA son las tres armas (1979), by Cine de la Base/Jorge Denti (16 mins.) [in class screening]
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI-vJofHdp0
Raymundo, by Ernesto Ardito and Virna Molina (127 mins) [in class screening]
 https://vimeo.com/37441523


Friday, September 22nd
Archard, David and Colin M. Macleod. The Moral And Political Status of Children. Introduction. Chapter 2 & Chapter 3. (CR) 45 pages.
 Sikkink, Kathryn. The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics. Do Human Rights Prosecutions Make A Difference?. (CR)  35 pgs.
 Ocampo Saravia, Tania. “Guerra y desaparición forzada de infantes en El Salvador.” Cultura y Representaciones Sociales, 2013.
 http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2007-81102013000200007 (AR)

FILM: The Metal Stork (2015), by Joan Lopez Lloret [in class screening]. 80 min.

Assignment: Please bring to class a hard copy of the topic of your research project and a brief description of it.


Friday, September 29th
Report (Argentina), Human Rights Watch “The Theft of Babies.” (CR) 4 pages.
 https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/argentina/argen1201-05.htm
Moon, Claire. “Forensic Knowledge, Human Remains and the Politics of the Past.” Latin American Perspectives, January 8, 2013 (CR) 20 pages
Equipo Peruano de Antropología Forense [explore the website] (CR) Explore the website.
 http://epafperu.org/en
Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense [explore the website] (CR) Explore the website.
 http://www.eaaf.org/
Testimony of Erik Stover y Clyde Snow in the Juntas Trial, Argentina (pgs. 17 and 18) (AR)
 http://www.memoriaabierta.org.ar/juicioalasjuntas/pdfs/diariodeljuicio/el-diario-del-juicio-01.pdf
Cohen-Salama, M. Tumbas Anónimas: Informe sobre la identificación de restos de víctimas de la represión ilegal. (87-95) (AR)
 https://www.academia.edu/11947991/Tumbas_Anonimas

FILM: NN, by Héctor Gálvez, 89 mins. [screening in class]


Friday, October 5th
FILM: Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza Mayo by Lourdes Portillo & Susana Munoz, 1988 (64 minutes).

Knippers Black, Jan. The Politics of Human Rights Protection. Chapters 18 and 19. (CR) 25 pages.
United Nations Decade For Human Rights Education (1995-2004) [for your reference]
 http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Education/Training/Pages/Decade.aspx
Navarro, Marysa. “The Personal is Political: Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo.” Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements. Ed. Susan Eckstein. (CR) 18 pages.

 Estela de Carlotto, Press Conference [sequence screened in class]
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDC-WXz2GS8
A grandmother’s 36-year hunt for the child stolen by the Argentinian junta, The Guardian. [CR] 4 pgs.
 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/07/grandmothers-of-plaza-de-mayo-36-year-hunt-for-stolen-child
Rivera Hernandez, Raul Diego y Mariana Ortega Brena. “Making Absence Visible: The Caravan of Central American Mothers in Search of Disappeared Migrants.” Latin American Perspectives, September 2017. (19 pages) [AR]

Assignment Due! Annotated Bibliography (bring a hard copy to class).


Friday, October 13th
FILM: Naomi Campbell: It’s Not Easy To Become A Different Person/ Naomi Campbell: No es facil convertirse en otra persona, by Nicolas Videla and Camila Jose Donoso, 85 min.

Corrales, Javier and Mario Pechemy. “Introduction.” The Comparative Politics of Sexuality in Latin America: A Reader on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights. 30 pgs. (CR)
 Prieur, Annick. Mema’s House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos. “Stealing Femininity: On Bodily and Symbolic Constructions.” (CR) 39 pgs.

CNDH, Comision Nacional de los Derechos Humanos, “Los derechos humanos de los transgeneros, transexuales y travestis.” (AR) 36 pages
 http://www.cndh.org.mx/sites/all/doc/cartillas/2015-2016/31-DH-Transgenero.pdf
Mexico encara la crisis de los desaparecidos con una nueva ley, El Pais, 10/13/17
 https://elpais.com/internacional/2017/10/12/mexico/1507844976_896227.html


Friday, October 20th
FILM: Finding Oscar, Ryan Suffern.

Weld, Kirsten. “Introduction: The Power of Archival Thinking,” and “Revolutionary Lives in the Archives.” Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala. (CR) 60 pages
 Sarkar, Bhaskar and Janet Walker. “Introduction: Moving Testimonies.” Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering.  (AR) 25 pages.

*Tuesday, October 17th:
Workshop with Chilean muralist Camilo Diaz

Camilo Diaz will give a short talk and mural workshop called “Paint and Struggle” on Tuesday Oct 17 from 4:30 to 6:30.  Following a presentation and discussion about UMLEM, a group of Chilean muralists who work to create political and social change through public art, Mr. Diaz will guide students in their own politically oriented mural project.  Students will be able to paint murals within the Residence Halls.  


Friday, October 27th
Interview with SUA alumni. Human Rights violations in Venezuela.

For those interested in learning about the political situation in Venezuela please read the following article by Steve Ellner:

https://monthlyreview.org/2017/10/01/venezuelas-fragile-revolution/
or
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0094582X16647082

We will be reviewing all readings we have discussed so far in the semester. If you missed some of the screenings, please check out the films from the library and watch them before class.

FILM: Island of Flowers, by Jorge Furtado (1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQcdXh9v0pA


Friday, November 3rd
Oral Presentations- 5-8 minutes.

Hicks, Kathryn and Nicole Fabricant. “The Bolivian Climate Justice Movement: Mobilizing Indigeneity in Climate Change Negotiations.” Latin American Perspectives, 2016 (CR)
“Who ordered Killing of Honduran Activist…” The New York Times.  (CR)
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/28/world/americas/honduras-berta-caceres-desa.html
“Time has created distance…” The Guardian. (CR)
 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/01/peru-film-makers-cinema-internal-conflict?CMP=share_btn_fb
“Las consecuencias sociales del cambio climatico global” (AR)
FILM: H20 mx, by Jose Cohen (2015) [sequence screened in class]


Friday, November 10th
Oral Presentations- 5-8 minutes.  (cont.)

Reportero, by Bernardo Ruiz, 2013. (73 mins.)
 https://soka.kanopystreaming.com/video/reportero
Silva Lopes, Ivonete. “Political Culture and the Democratization of Communications in Brazil.” LAP


Friday, November 17th
Media and Democratization in Latin America, by Javier Campo and Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli. (Lecture of forthcoming special issue of Latin American Perspectives on Media and Democratization in Latin America).
 Silva Lopes, Ivonete. “Political Culture and the Democratization of Communications in Brazil.” LAP (reading from last week) (CR)
 Zamorano Villareal, Gabriela. “The Plan Nacional, a Process of Indigenous Communication.” Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia. (to be uploaded soon).  (CR)

Assessment of Media Development in Bolivia (UN Report) Category 2 (pgs. 37-50). (AR)
 http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002469/246906e.pdf
Keynote Lecture Iván Sanjinés, Visible Evidence Buenos Aires, 2017.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=161&v=Caa699iwHdo
Plurinacional TV
Friday, December 1st.
Oral Presentations- 5-8 minutes.  (cont.)

“Islamabad,” Fito Paez
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faxx6NO0rU0 [played in class]

Aquarius, Kleber Mendonca Filho. 2 hrs. 26 mins. (shown in two parts).

Maricato, Erminia. “The Future of Global Peripheral Cities.” Latin American Perspectives, March 2017. (CR)
Friendly, Abigail. “Urban Policy, Social Movements, and the Right to the the City in Brazil.” Latin American Perspectives, March 2017. (CR)

Please go over this articles before class:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2017/nov/27/living-edge-sao-paulo-inequality-mapped (CR)
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/27/inside-crackland-open-air-crack-market-sao-paulo (CR)
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/27/revealed-fires-sao-paulo-favelas-higher-value-land (CR)
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/live/2017/nov/27/guardian-cities-live-sao-paulo (CR)
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/27/resistance-sao-paulo-homeless-reclaim-city-occupations (CR)
“Argentina ‘death flight pilots sentenced to death…” The Guardian. (AR)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/29/argentina-death-flight-pilots-sentenced-for-deaths-including-popes-friend?CMP=share_btn_fb
AL Jazeera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEL_96lbr8Q
Friday, December 8th

Aquarius, Kleber Mendonca Filho. 2 hrs. 26 mins. (second part/discussion of the film).

Rocha, Glauber. “Aesthetic of Hunger.” 
http://www.diagonalthoughts.com/?p=1708

Continue our discussion of:

Maricato, Erminia. “The Future of Global Peripheral Cities.” Latin American Perspectives, March 2017. (CR)
Friendly, Abigail. “Urban Policy, Social Movements, and the Right to the the City in Brazil.” Latin American Perspectives, March 2017. (CR)


Friday, December 15th
Deadline to submit your final research project.
Please submit via email your final research paper by 6 p.m.

Bibliography


Archard, David, and Colin M. Macleod. The moral and political status of children. Oxford University Press, 2005.


Aquarius, Directed by Kleber Mendonca Filho, 2016.

Assessment of Media Development in Bolivia. UNESCO, 2017.

Barcelos, Iuri and Natalia Viana. “Revealed: fires in São Paulo Favelas more likely on higher-value land.” The Guardian, 2017.

Campo, Javier and Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli. Media and Democratization in Latin America: Lecture of forthcoming special issue of Latin American Perspectives on Media and Democratization in Latin America. 2017. 


Cardenas, Sonia. Human rights in Latin America: a politics of terror and hope. Univ Of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Chicago Boys. Directed by Carola Fuentes and Rafael Valdevellano. 2015.

CNDH, Comision Nacional de los Derechos Humanos Mexico, “Los derechos humanos de los transgeneros, transexuales y travestis.” http://www.cndh.org.mx/sites/all/doc/cartillas/2015-2016/31-DH-Transgenero.pdf

Cohen-Salama, M. Tumbas Anónimas: Informe sobre la identificación de restos de víctimas de la represión ilegal. Catálogos Editora, 1992. pp. 87-95. 


Collyns, Dan. “Time has created distance: Peru’s filmmakers take on country’s long conflict.” The Guardian, 2017.

Corrales, Javier and Mario Pechemy. “Introduction.” The Comparative Politics of Sexuality in Latin America: A Reader on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2010.

Cowie, Sam. “Inside Crackland: the open-air drug market that São Paulo just can’t kick.” The Guardian, 2017.

Dinges, J. “The Condor System.” The Condor Years: how Pinochet and his allies brought terrorism to three continents. New York: New Press. 2005. 


Ellner, Steve. “Venezuela’s Fragile Revolution.” Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, vol. 69, no. 05. 2017.

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Estela de Carlotto, Press Conference. YouTube, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDC-WXz2GS8

Ferri, Pablo. “Los 43 de Ayotzinapa, una cartografía de la violencia en México.” El País. 2017.

Finding Oscar. Directed by Ryan Suffern. 2016.

Friendly, Abigail. “Urban Policy, Social Movements, and the Right to the the City in Brazil.” Latin American Perspectives, 2017.

Gallegos, Zorayda. “Mexico encara la crisis de los desaparecidos con una nueva ley.” El Pais, 13 October, 2017.

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Goñi, Uki. “A grandmother’s 36-year hunt for the child stolen by the Argentinian junta.” The Guardian. 2015.

Goñi, Uki. “Argentina ‘death flight’ pilots sentenced or deaths including pope’s friends.” The Guardian, 2017.

Hellinger, Daniel and Anthony P. Spanakos. The Legacy of Hugo Chávez. Latin American Perspectives, 2016.

Hicks, Kathryn and Nicole Fabricant. “The Bolivian Climate Justice Movement: Mobilizing Indigeneity in Climate Change Negotiations.” Latin American Perspectives, 2016.

H20 mx. Directed by Jose Cohen, 2015.

Island of Flowers. Directed by Jorge Furtado. YouTube, 1989.

“Islamabad,” by Fito Paez. YouTube, 2017. 


Ishay, Micheline R. The history of human rights: from ancient times to the globalization era. Univ. of California Press. 2009.

Keynote Lecture Iván Sanjinés, Visible Evidence Buenos Aires, 2017. Plurinacional TV, 2017.

Knippers Black, Jan. The Politics of Human Rights Protection. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.

Las AAA son las tres armas. Directed by Jorge Denti. Cine de la Base. 1979.

“Las consecuencias sociales del cambio climatico global.” Megafon: La Batalla de las ideas, 2017.

Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza Mayo. Directed by Lourdes Portillo & Susana Munoz. 1988.

“Living on the Edge: São Paulo’s Inequality Mapped.” The Guardian, 17.

Los Espíritus. “Perdida en el fuego.” 2017.

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Michael, Chris, et all. “Guardian Cities: Live from São Paulo’s occupations.” The Guardian, 2017.

Moon, Claire. “Forensic Knowledge, Human Remains and the Politics of the Past.” Latin American Perspectives. 2013.

Naomi Campbell: It’s Not Easy To Become A Different Person/ Naomi Campbell: No es facil convertirse en otra persona. Directed by Nicolas Videla and Camila Jose Donoso, 2013.

Navarro, Marysa. “The Personal is Political: Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo.” Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements. Ed. Susan Eckstein. University of California Press, 2001.

NN. Directed by Héctor Gálvez. 2014

Ocampo Saravia, Tania. “Guerra y desaparición forzada de infantes en El Salvador.” Cultura y Representaciones Sociales, 2013.

Olla Popular, Directed Gerardo Vallejo. 1968.

Prieur, Annick. “Stealing Femininity: On Bodily and Symbolic Constructions.” Mema’s House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos. 1968.

Raymundo. Directed by Ernesto Ardito and Virna Molina. Vassar College NY. 2003.

Reportero. Directed by Bernardo Ruiz. Kanopy, 2013.

“Resistance! São Paulo’s homeless seize the city.” The Guardian, 2017.

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Rocha, Glauber. “Aesthetic of Hunger/Aesthetic of Dream.” Diagonal Thoughts.

Sarkar, Bhaskar and Janet Walker. “Introduction: Moving Testimonies.” Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering. Routledge, 2009.

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Silva Lopes, Ivonete. “Political Culture and the Democratization of Communications in Brazil.” Latin American Perspectives, 2014.

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The Metal Stork. Directed by Joan Lopez Lloret. 2015.

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Weld, Kirsten. Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala. Duke University Press Books, 2014.

Zamorano Villareal, Gabriela. “The Plan Nacional, a Process of Indigenous Communication.” Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia. University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Sustainable Housing & Urban Development: Learning Cluster 2014

Tomas F. Crowder-Taraborrelli
Learning Cluster Syllabus
Winter 2014
Introduction

Last year, Professor Tomas Crowder-Taraborrelli led a Learning Cluster to Argentina to study and build a sustainable house in Buenos Aires. The trip was a great learning experience for everyone. We all felt this LC should be organized a second time in order to elaborate on the 2013 Sustainable Housing Cluster experience.* Once again, we’ve recruited some of the same scholars, architects, and artists that made last year’s LC such a great success.
 We are still inspired by the same research questions: Why have homes become unaffordable for most people in the world? Is it due to the cost of land, the price of construction, property taxes, and/or public services? Why must one hire an architect or an engineer when, with limited training, one can build a home by hiring just a few workers? How can these sustainable practices impact future growth of underdeveloped areas? Our Learning Cluster will explore ways in which many people in the world have built houses with reclaimed, environmentally conscious and aesthetically pleasing materials. We will also explore the connections between this type of sustainable, efficient development and how it can potentially reconcile the disconnection between urban and rural development.
While the earthship sustainable adobe homes are gaining traction in many parts of the developed world, this type of construction has long been practiced in Argentina. Indigenous communities built their homes with adobe; many of them are still standing in the North. Pioneer adobe builder Jorge Belanko, mentored by Professor Gernot Minke, founder of Earth Architecture, has committed his life to building adobe houses in Southern Argentina and to teaching others the simple construction methods. Belanko produced a well-known didactic documentary film that demonstrates the different techniques in earth building. He argues in Las manos, el barro, la casa that since the 1930s, construction with earth has been deemed to be for “poor” people; that a whole business was built around the concept that “hard materials” like concrete, are longer lasting, more elegant, and more valuable. Belanko, is one of many Argentines, redeeming an indigenous building practice that is cost-effective, easy to accomplish, environmentally sound, aesthetically pleasing, and safe. Earth building as demonstrated by the interest in Belanko’s work, is particularly popular in countries like Argentina where building materials are expensive.
*For more information about the sustainable housing project, please visit last year’s Learning Cluster https://tcrowdertaraborrelli.com/lc-2013/

Purpose of the Learning Cluster

This Learning Cluster will examine the social, economic, and environmental problems of housing and urban development in Buenos Aires, one of Latin America’s most populous cities, and ways in which sustainable adobe construction is being positioned by many as a possible solution. Since the 1970s, metropolitan areas in Latin America have grown dramatically, as has the income inequality between the wealthy and the poor. Slums commonly referred to as villas miserias, have increasingly become perilous ways for the poor to gain access to housing. In the last decades, the wealthy, in part influenced by unrelenting media stories about crime and insecurity have moved to the suburbs to build luxurious homes in gated communities. Conversely, slums like the well-known Villa 31 in Buenos Aires continue to expand, presenting their own sets of complex environmental issues. By analyzing ways in which sustainable housing can safely and efficiently modify the living standards in the slums, this course will assuredly transform the skepticism about sustainable housing and provide for a more educated approach to urban development in Latin America.  Urban transformation has had profound cultural, social, and political consequences for society at large.
During the first part of this travel course, we will study the rich architectural history of Buenos Aires, once considered to be the “Paris” of Latin America because of its neoclassical
buildings and wide boulevards. We will consider the decisive historical events that have shaped its urban identity. We will visit traditionally wealthy neighborhoods like Barrio Norte, working class neighborhoods like La Boca, and neighborhoods that are currently experiencing rapid transformation due to a real estate boom like Palermo Soho, Palermo Hollywood, and Puerto Madero. We will also visit the politically charged Villa 31, a slum that was built in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of the city. Mercedes Maria Weiss, professor of art-history and architecture at the University of Buenos Aires, will lead seminars on urban history and development for our LC. The objective of these seminars will be to understand the economic and political forces that have ordered and regulated the construction of neighborhoods and housing along economic lines.
During the second part of the course, we will travel to Ingeniero Maschwitz, in the Northern part of the city, and participate on an eco-construction team with plastic artist Pablo Salvadó, where the Sustainable Housing Learning Cluster took place last year. We will participate in helping to build a sustainable adobe building. This building will eventually be completely self-sufficient and off the electricity, water and sewage grid.  
Students will have hands-on experience in the design and construction of a low-impact natural building that requires little training in construction. Based on last year’s experience,  students will form teams according to their interests. These teams will be coordinated by Professor Crowder-Taraborrelli and Professor Weiss and consist of:
* a design team ( which will draw plans for the structure of the building)
*  a budget team (which will calculate costs for purchasing equipment and materials)
*an environmental and services team (which will assess the resources available in the area, design and install electricity and water access)
* a building team (which will coordinate the field work)
The building workshop will run from 9A.M.-5 P.M.  Plastic artist Pablo Salvadó will provide all materials and tools. Among the many skills students will learn during the workshop on earth building are: laying out a rock foundation and perimeter drain, building small and medium size walls with discarded car tires, mixing adobe and plastering walls with adobe (clay), and participating in the design of a sustainable garden. Professor Weiss will explain the rain collection system that will be hooked to underground tanks to students. Cristián Torlasco, an Argentine national who obtained his architectural degree at the University of Oregon, will also be on sight to advise the project. He has built two sustainable homes in the past. In order to capture this experience, the students will create a short documentary (15-20 minutes) to be presented at the Learning Cluster Fair. This short documentary will help to educate SUA students about the practical, structural, and societal effects of living a sustainable life, as well as the positive effects on the environment and humanity.

Course Objectives

1.Gain a deeper understanding of the significance of sustainable living where environmentally stable housing and financial security is under threat.

2. Research the process and practice of sustainable construction using both recycled and natural resources.

3. Perform a comparative study between southern California and the province of Buenos Aires in regards to property management and building permit regulations where sustainable construction is concerned.

4. Critically analyze the contrasting architectural styles as well as the use of materials among affluent and impoverished communities.

5. Create meaningful relationships between the group and organizations in Argentina dedicated to building sustainable homes.

6. Facilitate discussions that encourage social change through community activism.

Learning Outcomes

Team building; experience hands on learning; production and construction of a documentary.

As the universal movement for sustainable living collects momentum, the students of this Learning Cluster will have a much more expansive and tangible understanding of what it takes to bring the theory of sustainable living into practice. By visiting and exploring wealthy and poor neighborhoods alike, students will gain knowledge of both the materials and resources that have been utilized, in a highly contrasting way, to create the city of Buenos Aires. Students will aspire to achieve the following learning outcomes in a variety of ways:

Develop students’ habits of independent inquiry and study: Prior to leaving for Argentina, all students will form research teams and present their findings to the rest of the class. The documentary aspect of the project in Argentina will provide another avenue for independent growth, as students will be able to develop their own questions to be asked in interviews as well as organize visual material to complement the pedagogical objectives of the Learning Cluster.

Engender analytical and investigative skills and the ability to apply them to a specific problem or question: During their first week in Argentina students will develop questions and expectations based both on their own research as well as research presented by their classmates. During the second and third weeks, they will combine this research with firsthand experience in order to understand how to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

Enhance the ability to work collaboratively: Students will be working together to organize the trip, develop the documentary interviews, divide the subject matter, and create a cohesive final project.  They will also have to develop a steadfast work ethic to include all team members, both domestic and international, who will be collaborating and contributing to the success of the project.  The experience in its entirety will require students to depend on each other’s skills, including Spanish speaking abilities, different cultural understandings, and creative writing talents.

Foster a contributive ethic by working on issues that have a larger social significance or meaning: The creation of sustainable housing not only benefits the immediate community and the environment directly, but also ripples out to provide an alternative way to build a house for people who cannot afford the standard industrialized, corporate approach to building. Our documentary will further contribute to spreading awareness about the feasibility of and access to resources for this type of construction.

Prepare students for their roles as engaged global citizens:  Through personal encounters, new experiences, hands on creation, community collaboration, inquiry into government regulations, critical evaluation of materials and resources, and an overall objective of contributing to the sustainability of humanity, this experience in Argentina will help deepen the understanding of what it means to be a global citizen.

Impact on SUA Community

Upon return, students from this Learning Cluster will attempt to impact the SUA community in an innovative manner that will shed light upon the environmental inquiries that are still very much alive on-campus. Once we learn the techniques of building an earth structure, we will be able to impart this knowledge to those who are willing to learn and take action. Bringing awareness of our LC project to the SUA community will allow for a gradual shift in the way our generation perceives sustainable living in the United States, and especially, in Orange County. Understanding, for instance, the implications of renewable and solar energy will help Soka students realize that we each have the capacity to push the “eco-friendly–go green” movement even further. This will instill a sense of pride in our students to contribute to the global community on an exceedingly prudent and moral level. These earth ships prove that humanity is capable of “doing more”. SUA can be one of the first campuses to realize the potential and effectiveness of these living standards.
Soka takes great pride in the Language and Culture Program. Close to 90% of our LC class is studying the Spanish language. By traveling to Argentina to experience the culture and life in Latin America, we can share our discoveries and challenges in working in another language with fellow students back home. We envision that this LC’s travel component will empower others to better their language skills by immersing themselves in una cultura hispanohablante.
Finally, the meaning behind the word “Soka”—to create value—is also tied into our LC’s belief that through the creation of sustainable living spaces, we can create value on our own. A home is one of the most quintessential parts of being human. Humans need shelter, and creating a home can both accomplish that goal and represent part of the human identity within society. By collaborating together as a team to build this sustainable living space, this LC re-defines what value means within the home. A home is not just composed of nails, wood and paint–it can be composed of matter that we recycle, of matter that is part of the earth we live on. Giving, instead of taking is what matters most in this paradigm for sustainable dwellings. We feel that such a message will resonate with the SUA community. Can value be created within a home? Why is it important to give back? These are some of the working questions that define our Learning Cluster.
Significance of Fieldwork and Location
While abroad, this Learning Cluster will study the architectural history of Buenos Aires, as well as construct a true realization of sustainable architecture. As sustainable architecture is still in its infancy, contributing to a fully self-sustaining housing project is a rare opportunity that can influence the current perception and future of sustainable eco-housing. The structure that we will leave in Argentina will be a unique and significant step towards a more sustainable world. It will advertise itself to the local community, but we plan to spread additional awareness through an instructional documentary. While much of our studies are for the course members, this endeavor is about proving that “off the grid” living is not only possible, but cost effective and feasible. We hope to inspire and instigate future architectural experimentation and innovation.
     Buenos Aires is the heart and spirit of Argentina, and the focus of this LC. Touring the city and buildings in Argentina is vital in this critical study to decipher the distinct differences between communities within the city. Understanding Urban Development in Buenos Aires, Argentina plays a large role in understanding how sustainable housing can be successful in nearby communities.
     This LC also seeks to analyze the architectural and aesthetic styles of housing in the city, in collaboration with a local non-profit institution called Techo.Like this LC, Techo advocates the importance of strengthening urban development on social policies in impoverished areas. More pertinent to this course, Techo builds an environment where sustainable communities exist in order to improve the quality of life for those who are struggling to survive in Buenos Aires and its surrounding neighborhoods. By gaining a deeper understanding of the area as the students travel to contrasting locations, they will be able to engage with the community members and discuss how they can help impact the community on the social and cultural facet of this study. What is really at risk here is that the public in Argentina lacks awareness about sustainable
housing. This course will help them see that this is a cost-effective manner of living that is easily accessible. This study and project could truly educate and inspire Argentines to take action and improve their own quality of living.
The opportunity given to the students to travel to Argentina will profoundly affect the way in which these students comprehend the rapidly growing slums at a time in which an unstable and unforgiving economy exists for all. They are found in rural areas and as well as in populous cities such as in Buenos Aires. According to July 2004 estimates, there are about 640 precarious neighborhoods in suburban Buenos Aires, comprising of 690,000 residents and 111,000 households. The population of villas miseria in the city of Buenos Aires property doubled during the 1990s, reaching about 120,000 as of 2005, which is continuously growing today. These statistics show how important it is to study the reasons behind not only how both slums, such as “neighborhoods of misery” and cities are built and where they are located, but also of laying the foundation for the causes and reasons for why they exist. 
Assignments
Students will have hands-on experience in the design and construction of a low-impact natural building that requires little training in construction. Grade breakdown is the following: Participation on the field: 60%, Blog submissions 20%, Learning Cluster Fair participation: 20% Students will form teams according to their interests and write blog entries describing their responsibilities and accomplishments. For that purpose a website has been created:
https://tcrowdertaraborrelli.com/lc-2013/
Teams will be coordinated by Professor Crowder-Taraborrelli:
* a design team ( which will draw plans for the structure of the building)
*  a budget team (which will calculate costs for purchasing equipment and materials)
*an environmental and services team (which will asses the resources available in the area, design and install electricity and water access)
* a building team (which will coordinate the field work)
The building workshop will run from 9A.M.-5 P.M.  Plastic artist Pablo Salvadó will provide all materials and tools. A short documentary will help to educate SUA students about the practical, structural, and societal effects of living a sustainable life, as well as the positive effects on the environment and humanity.
 


Week 1

Monday Jan. 6:
ON-CAMPUS
10AM- 12PM: Review syllabus with the class and course/objective overview. Assign group and/or individual research based questions and topics for course. Discuss reading: Rock, Chapters 8 and 9, Sernau Chapter 10 (Social Inequality).
1PM-3PM: In class training session to prepare construction of adobe structure. Screening: Garbage Warrior.

Tuesday Jan 7:
ON-CAMPUS
10AM-12PM: Overview of history of urban development in Buenos Aires, Argentina since the 1970’s. Discuss Reading: Wilson, Part 1 and 3.

1PM-3PM: Overview of sustainable housing in/around Buenos Aires, Argentina (Techo website)

<Un techo para mi pais

Wednesday Jan 8:
ON-CAMPUS
10AM-12PM: Screening: Las manos, el barro, la casa


1PM-3PM: Discuss documentary and implications. Discuss reading: Carns, Chapter 7 and Sanchez Chapter 1.
Form teams.

Thursday Jan 9:
ON-CAMPUS
Please update
10AM-12PM:
1PM-3PM:
Friday Jan 10:

EN-ROUTE
AM: Depart LAX

Saturday Jan 11:

ARRIVE IN
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
*Meeting time TBA depending on flight arrival.
12PM: Meet at Tomas’ apartment to discuss reading: Phillips, Chapter 14 and 16.  Teams discuss reading according to their team topic and assignment. Water, discuss reading: Ludwig, Chapter 7.

1PM: Lunch
2PM-3PM: Meet with collaborating institution, Techo representatives and conduct short interview to better understand community development in the Buenos Aires region.
5PM: Dinner
7PM: Daily Reflection on Angel.

Sunday Jan 12:
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
9AM-12PM: Architectural tour of the Center of Buenos Aires with Professor Weiss. Compare styles of construction and techniques with earth architecture and green building.
12PM-1PM: Lunch
1PM-4PM: Meet at Tomas’ apartment. Teams present list of objectives and tasks during construction of earth building. Discuss reading: Minke, Chapter 2 and 3, Fryer Chapters 4 and 5.
5PM: Dinner
7PM: Daily Reflection on Angel.

Week 2

Mon Jan 13:
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
9AM-12PM: Meet to prepare for week two and discuss travel and earth ship construction. Architectural tour of Northern part of Buenos Aires with Professor Weiss.
12PM-1PM: Lunch
1PM-3PM:  Screening: Earthship-Britanny Groundhouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krWgtnJRAUg&feature=related

Visit Villa 31 (Barrio Retiro).
7PM: Dinner with plastic artist Pablo Salvadó. Daily Reflection on Angel.

Tues Jan 14:
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
9AM-12PM:  Lecture by Argentine Economist and former real state agent Alexis Dritsos: “Real estate in Buenos Aires: the affordability of housing”. . Schroder, Ogletree, Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5. Discussion with architect Mercedes Maria Weiss and Pablo Salvadó about building techniques in adobe construction.

12PM-1PM: Lunch
1PM-4PM: Design of earth building. Teams offer suggestions for building techniques.
5PM: Meeting with plastic artist Salvadó and architect Weiss to discuss plans for earth structure. Demonstration of labor— how to utilize sustainable materials for successful building. Become familiar with materials as a group.
7PM: Daily Reflection

Wednesday Jan 15:
ON-SITE
8AM: Breakfast
9AM: Depart by bus for Ingeniero Maschwitz.
10AM: Arrive at location. Meet with plastic artist Pablo Salvado, on-site architect Cristian Torlasco and Weiss. Foundation work.
12PM: Lunch
1-5PM: Continue work on draining ditch and foundation. Discuss reading: Hunter Chapter 4.
5PM: Return to city. Evaluation of costs for purchasing equipment and materials.
6PM: Dinner
8PM: Daily Reflection on Angel. Teams meet to discuss progress of earth building.

Thursday Jan 16:
ON-SITE
8AM: Breakfast
9AM: Depart by bus for Ingeniero Maschwitz.
10AM: Arrive at location. Work on project with on-site architects.
12PM: Lunch
1-5PM: Continue construction of on-site project. Wall, windows, draining.
5PM: Return to city
6PM: Dinner
8PM: Daily Reflection on Angel.

Friday January 17:
ON-SITE
10AM: Arrive at location. Work on project with on-site architects.
12PM: Lunch
1-5PM: Continue construction of on-site project.
5PM: Return to city
6PM: Dinner
8PM: Daily Reflection on Angel.

Saturday January 18:
ON-SITE
10AM: Arrive at location. Work on project with on-site architects.
12PM: Lunch
1-5PM: Continue construction of on-site project. Construction of walls, preparation of adobe.
5PM: Return to city
6PM: Dinner
8PM: Daily Reflection on Angel.

Sunday January 19:
ON-SITE
10AM: Arrive at location. Work on project with on-site architects.
12PM: Lunch
1-5PM: Continue construction of on-site project. Walls, adobe, plastering.
5PM: Return to city
6PM: Dinner
8PM: Daily Reflection

Week 3

Monday January 20:
ON-SITE
10AM: Arrive at location. Work on project with on-site architects.
12PM: Lunch
1-5PM: Continue construction of on-site project.
5PM: Return to city
6PM: Dinner
8PM: Daily Reflection

Tuesday January 21:
ON-SITE
10AM: Arrive at location. Work on project with on-site architects.
12PM: Lunch
1-5PM: Continue construction of on-site project.
5PM: Return to city. Update on progress of documentary film.
6PM: Dinner
8PM: Daily Reflection

Wednesday January 22:
ON-SITE
10AM: Arrive at location. Discuss Reading: Hunter, Chapter 5. Work on project with on-site architects.
12PM: Lunch
1-5PM: Preparation of roof structure.
5PM: Return to city
6PM: Dinner
8PM: Daily Reflection on Angel

Thursday January 23:

ON-SITE/BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

May need 9th day

Friday January 24:

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

Please update

Saturday January 25:
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

Please update

Sunday January 26:
EN-ROUTE

EZE-LAX-SUA

Week 4

Monday January 27:
ON-CAMPUS
10AM-12PM: Continue to edit and work on film material.
1-3PM: Film editing continued.

Tuesday January 28:
ON-CAMPUS
10AM-12PM: Finalize any film editing needed.
1PM-3PM: Film finalizing continued.

Wednesday January 29:
ON-CAMPUS
10-12AM: Meet to discuss and launch our short film on YouTube.
1-3PM: Discuss our Learning Cluster Fair Presentation. (TBA)

End of Winter Block

*We will be filming throughout our Learning Cluster. The objective is to create a short film documentary (15-20 min) about our group and individual studies on Urban Development, Architecture, and Sustainable Housing in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

*Students will submit photo essays, personal essays, and possibly more material about their experiences with building, their time spent in the city, and the economic, social, and environmental issues they study. Students will be divided into their four groups (design, environmental, building, budget) and each group will submit a final bibliography on their assigned topic of interest.


Health and Safety

*For the following reasons, Buenos Aires is considered to be a relatively safe place to stay.

1. Health

Buenos Aires has a temperate climate that ranges from subtropical in the north and sub polar down south. During the month of January, we will be experiencing an Argentine Summer, which turns out to be relatively hot with high moisture readings. The Center for Disease Control states that Malaria should not be a concern since Buenos Aires is an urban center. It does, however, recommend for travelers to have their vaccines up to date, which will be required of all students in the group.

2. The Popularity of the Destination

According to the World Travel & Tourism Council, Buenos Aires is the second most desirable city to visit. This suggests that Buenos Aires is as safe as any other major urban hub.

3. Safety Rules and Guidelines

The students will always be required to remain in groups of 2-3 people at all times. It is recommended that all members of the core group be informed when a small group separates. It is also important that a fluent Spanish speaker be assigned to each smaller group at all times. The students will be oriented on safe practices for a major city of this type but are also expected to exercise common sense.

Language

The official spoken language in Buenos Aires, Argentina is Spanish. The sponsoring faculty, Professor Tomas Crowder-Taraborrelli, is a native Argentine, fluent in both English and Spanish. Three of the students in this Learning Cluster group are native Spanish speakers, 2 other students are fluent and about 3 are capable of understanding and communicating back fairly well.


Accompanying Faculty

Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli, Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies,
will be the accompanying faculty. He led two successful Learning Clusters to Brazil (2010), San Diego/Tijuana (2011), and Argentina (2012). All class meetings will be held in an apartment in Buenos Aires outfitted with AV equipment.

Tomas Crowder-Taraborrelli
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Map of Buenos Aires, Argentina & Location of Property
 
Works Cited
Carns, Ted. Off on Our Own: Living Off-Grid in Comfortable Independence: One Couple’s “Learn as We Go” Journey to Self-Reliance. N.p.: St. Lynn’s, 2011. Print.
Fryer, Julie. The Complete Guide to Water Storage: How to Use Gray Water and Rainwater Systems, Rain Barrels, Tanks, and Other Water Storage Techniques for Household and Emergency Use (Back to Basics Conserving). N.p.: Atlantic, 2011. Print.
Hunter, Kaki, and Donald Kiffmeyer. Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques (Natural Building Series). N.p.: New Society, 2004. Print.
Low, Setha M. Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader. N.p.: Rutgers UP, 1999. Print.
Ludwig, Art. Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use–Includes How to Make Ferrocement Water Tanks. N.p.: Oasis Design, 2005. Print.
Minke, Gernot. Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture. 2nd ed. N.p.: Birkhäuser Architecture, 2009. Print.
Phillips, E. Barabara. City Lights: Urban-Suburban Life in the Global Society. N.p.: Oxford UP, 2009. Print.
Rock, David. Argentina, 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsín. N.p.: University of California Press, 1987. Print.
Roy, Rob. Earth-Sheltered Houses: How to Build an Affordable Home. N.p.: New Society, 2006. Print.
Sanchez, Laura, and Alex Sanchez. Adobe Houses for Today: Flexible Plans for Your Adobe Home. N.p.: Sunstone, 2008. Print.
Schroder, Lisa, and Vince Ogletree. Adobe Homes for All Climates: Simple, Affordable, and Earthquake-Resistant Natural Building Techniques. N.p.: Chelsea Green, 2010. Print.
Sernau, Scott R. Social Inequality in a Global Age. Third ed. N.p.: Sage, 2010. Print.
Wilson, Jason. Buenos Aires: A Cultural History. N.p.: Interlink, 1999. Print.
Documentary films and instructional videos:

Earthship-Britanny Groundhouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krWgtnJRAUg&feature=related

Garbage Warrior
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrMJwIedrWU&feature=related

El barro, las manos, la casa
http://vimeo.com/41616082
http://ecocosas.com/documentales/el-barro-las-manos-la-casa-documental/

Other possible resources for student research

Earth architecture
http://www.eartharchitecture.org

1. “Tips on Building an Adobe House” . This website has sections dedicated to different aspects of building an adobe home. One of the most helpful sections is titled “Adobe Bricks.” It has step by step instructions on how to make adobe bricks which essentially make up the structure.

2. Adobe Houses for Today: Flexible Plans for Your Adobe Home book for purchase: $27 .This book was mentioned in an article titled “Top Six Adobe House Building Plans and Manuals.” It covers plans for building an adobe house including many photographs and diagrams.

3. Adobe: Build it Yourself book for purchase: $29     This book was also mentioned in the article “Top Six Adobe House Building Plans and Manuals.” This one covers the building codes and energy requirements in building an adobe home.

4. “Adobe Building Systems”  This website is titled “Adobe Building Systems.” On this particular link you will find  what amounts to a power point on the basics of building an adobe home. http://www.adobebuilding.com/Education/green%20building.html

5. Sustainable Development in Argentina
http://eau.sagepub.com/content/4/1/37.full.pdf+html
Sustainable development in Argentina analyzes why, despite having an impressive endowment of renewable and non-renewable resources, Argentina has failed to maintain its relative global position in economic, social and environmental development in recent decades. The authors summarize the main environmental problems in the country and conclude that the current trend is not unsustainable development but unsustainable underdevelopment, with increasing damage to natural resources and ecosystems and a growing incidence of poverty.

6.   Sustainable building and community organization technologies
http://search.proquest.com/docview/200023418/fulltextPDF?accountid=25347
Whilst much has changed in Argentina over the last four decades, housing remains a critical issue. Public housing schemes favor the construction of expensive homes that are accessible to few. There is an ever-growing need, therefore, to tackle the housing problem through a comprehensive approach that addresses housing, employment and local development. The Experimental Centre for Economic Housing/Association for Economic Housing (AVE/CEVE) is a non-governmental organization established over 40 years ago in the context of rapid urbanization. AVE/CEVE has worked to develop, apply and transfer a range of technical solutions to address various housing issues affecting low-income communities. Its approach encourages the active participation of residents throughout the process — both in projects for housing construction and in technology transfer processes. AVE/CEVE has developed a number of technologies and systems that seek to ensure the efficient use of energy and water resources, including a compact toilet and sink unit which results in water savings of 20%.

7.    Buenos Aires: Global Dreams, Local Crises by David J. Keeling
http://www.amazon.com/Buenos-Aires-Global-Dreams-Crises/dp/0471949353/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1349301672&sr=8-7&keywords=urban+development+argentina&tag=rnwff-20
Buenos Aires is a city of fascinating contrasts. The most southerly of the world’s great metropolises, it dominates the Argentine urban system, but is relatively isolated from the rest of Latin America and the global economic and political system. The archetypal elegance and sophistication of the Paris of the South is set against the problem of poor housing, social deprivation, and suburban sprawl. As Argentina struggles to maintain a democracy, the future stability of the region depends on how this vital, varied, and vulnerable city comes to terms with the need to restructure in the face of economic, environmental, and demographic crises. The book begins with an overview of the city’s four-hundred-year history, which forms the basis for an examination of the contemporary urban landscape. This leads to an analysis of local politics in relation to planning and housing policies that is followed by a consideration of changes in the city’s economic structures and an examination of Buenos Aires’ national, regional and global transport links. The book then turns to a detailed look at the city’s green spaces, environmental problems, and health care systems.

8.    The Influence of the World Bank on National Housing and Urban Policies: The Case of Mexico and Argentina During the 1990s (Ashgate Economic Geography Series) by Cecilia Zanetta
http://www.amazon.com/Influence-World-National-Housing-Policies/dp/0754634914/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349301672&sr=8-1&keywords=urban+development+argentina&tag=rnwff-20
Firmly grounded on her professional work, Dr. Zanetta’s academic research is aimed at building a bridge between practice and the world of ideas to ultimately improve living conditions in developing countries. During the past ten years, she has worked extensively on development projects in many Latin and Central American countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras and Peru. Her main areas of interest include urban and housing policies, decentralization, public sector modernization and sub-national governments. Dr. Zanetta is an adjunct faculty member at the Department of Geography, University of Tennessee.

Latin American Film and Culture

Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli
HUM 290.03. 1108
Wednesdays and Fridays, 3:00-4:30 p.m. (90 minutes) Gan 303B
tcrowdertaraborrelli@soka.edu
https://tcrowdertaraborrelli.com/
Office: Ikeda 321
Office hours: To be announced
LATIN AMERICAN FILM AND CULTURE
In this course we will explore the national cinemas and film industries of various countries in Latin America. We will analyze films both as artistic products (formal qualities, cinematic genres and stylistic influences) and as sociological documents. Films will also be analyzed in relation to the continental and transcontinental categories of “Latin American Cinema” and “Third Cinema.” Films have been selected not only for their historical significance, their influence in the cinema of the continent and world cinema, but also because of the formal innovations.
We will start the course by posing some basic questions: What is the importance of cinema in the representation of a national and/or continental culture? How do filmmakers represent national identity in their films and why do they represent them in a certain way? What do films tell us about social and economic hierarchies? What formal strategies do filmmakers use to engage the spectator?
After the Cuban Revolution, and partially as a result of the creation of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), Latin American films received an injection of creativity. In the course we will establish what these aesthetic and social innovations were and attempt to track them in more contemporary films. An important part of this course will be to consider the role that documentary films have played in providing groundbreaking evidence that has both paved the way for democratic reforms in certain countries, and helped to change complicated amnesty laws that have blocked the prosecution of crimes against humanity, thus impacting the international legal community. The course will also serve as a forum to debate and conceptualize a new approach to the study of film based on a rupture in the ways Latin American nations have envisioned the past.
As you will notice during the semester, some of the films screened are of poor quality and some do not have subtitles in English. Some Latin American films are very hard to find and researchers often have to contact the filmmakers themselves to obtain copies. As we will discuss in class, this reflects the lack of resources of production companies to distribute their films in the rest of the world, therefore limiting the cultural offerings for spectators about Latin American cultural identity.
Assignments and grade breakdown
Five critical responses on film discussion forum–Angel (1 page)            30%
Presentation                                                     20%
Research Paper (10-12 pages)                                     30%
Attendance and participation                                     20%
You must come to class prepared for discussion. Read the text assigned before class, take copious notes and come to class with questions. Your participation not only will improve your overall grade but it is fundamental part of the course’s success. Please arrive on time to class so that I can begin the screening promptly. You may have trouble understanding the overall message of a film if you miss the opening scene.
Each student will have to lead one discussion seminar, introducing a text or a film and explain to the rest of the class its relevance to the history of Latin American film. If you are assigned a film, you must discuss three or more scenes that highlight central thematic, theoretical or formal issues. For the most part, we will watch films in class but you will also be required to attend two screenings outside class (date and time to be confirmed). These films are open to the public.
You will be expected to post screening reflections after viewing the films on the Angel discussion forums. To insure that everyone has the chance to read your comments, please post them before 9 p.m. on Mondays.
For the final assignment, students must write a 10-12 research, argumentative essay. I will be happy to discuss with you a prospectus for the essay and help you organize your bibliography and filmography.  Please type all written work using a standard 12-point font, double-space the text, leave a one-inch margin on all sides, and staple multiple pages. To avoid penalization, paper extensions must be approved before the essay is due. Late work is penalized 5 points (1/2 grade) per day. Please follow the MLA Style format for citations and general style formatting. You can find an online version of the MLA style manual at:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu
Go to this website and click on the link to the MLA Formatting and Style Guide (on the right hand side of the page).
Grading Guidelines
In grading, I will consider two central aspects of the student’s performance-participation in class discussion and writing. If you have any questions about the writing assignments, please make sure to ask during class time (other students might have similar questions).
Essays: This course fosters rigorous inquiry and critical thinking and promotes effective written argumentation.
A range: This paper is outstanding in form and content. The thesis is clear and insightful; it is original, or it expands in a new way on ideas presented in the course. The evidence presented in support of the argument is carefully chosen and deftly handled. The argument is not only unified and coherent, but also complex and nuanced.
B range: This paper’s thesis is clear; the argument is coherent and presents evidence in support of its points. The argument shows comprehension of the material and manifests critical thinking about the issues raised in the course. The paper is reasonably well written and proofread. The argument, while coherent, does not have the complexity, the insight, or the integrated structure of an A range paper.
C range: This paper has some but not all of the basic components of an argumentative essay (i.e., thesis, evidence, coherent structure): for example, it may offer a thesis of some kind, but it presents no evidence to support this thesis; or it may present an incoherent thesis; or it may simply repeat points made in class without an overall argument. Such a paper is usually poorly organized, written and proofread.
A paper lacking more than one of the basic components of an argumentative essay will earn a grade of  “D” or below.
Angel
Please make sure to check Angel before each class meeting to see if I have posted any notes about the course or assignments that haven’t been announced in class. I will ask students during the semester to write blogs posts to discuss articles, films or essay prompts.
Accommodation for Persons with a Disability
Student desiring accommodations on the basis of physical learning, or psychological disability for this class are to contact the Office of Student Services. Student Services is located in Student Affairs.
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing about Film. New York: Prentice Hall (7th edition). You can purchase this book online (new and used). http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780321096654-0
ATTENTION: Readings to be discussed in class are listed under the date that they will be discussed
WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
Friday, Sept. 9:
Readings: Film Grammar Power Point (DVD, 7 mins.)
Screening: Close-reading and discussion of two opening scenes: Adrián Biniez, Gigante [Giant], Uruguay, (2009), Arcady Boytler, La mujer del puerto [The woman of the port] Mexico, (1933).
WEEK 2: THE GOLDEN AGE OF MEXICAN CINEMA
Wednesday, Sept. 14:
Readings: Rene Claire, “How Films Are Made.” 
 Timothy Corrigan.  A Short Guide to Writing about Film. Chapter 1, 2.
Screening: Emilio “El Indio” Fernández, María Candelaria (Xochimilco), Mexico, (1944) (sequence screened in class). First 50 minutes of Aventurera.
Discussion leader (R. Claire): ____________________________________________
Discussion leader (Corrigan): ____________________________________________
Friday, Sept. 16:
Readings: John King. “Cinema in Latin America.” 
 Ana M. López. “Women and Melodrama in the ‘Old’ Mexican Cinema”. 
Screening: Aventurera, Alberto Gout, Mexico (1950), (remaining 90 minutes).
Assignment: First critical response on discussion forum on Angel by  Monday 9 p.m.
Discussion leader (King): ___________________________________
WEEK 3: ITALIAN NEO-REALISM AND THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY
Wednesday, Sept. 21:
Readings: Cesare Zavattini. “Some Ideas On The Cinema.” 
 Andre Bazin, “De Sica: Metteur-En-Scene.” 
Screening: Vittorio De Sica, Ladri di biciclette, [The Bicycle Thief] Italy, (1948) (sequence screened in class) El [This Strange Passion], Luis Buñuel, Mexico, (1950). 92 min. First part 45 min.
Discussion leader (Zavattini) _____________________________________
Discussion leader (Bazin)_________________________________________
Friday, Sept. 23:
Readings:  Julianne Burton-Carvajal, “Regarding Rape: Fictions of Origin and Film Spectatorship.” 
Screening: El [This Strange Passion] Second Part
Discussion leader (Burton-Carvajal)________________________________
WEEK 4: FERNANDO BIRRI AND THE INSTITUTO DE CINEMATOGRAFIA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DEL LITORIAL (SANTA FE, ARGENTINA)
Wednesday, Sept. 28:
Readings: John Hess, “Neo-Realism and New Latin American Cinema.” (Angel) Rocha, Glauber “An Esthetic of Hunger.” 
Screening: Fernando Birri, Tire Die [Throw me a dime], Argentina (1960) (sequence screened in class).
In Class Assignment: Analysis of a sequence from Tire Die.
SPECIAL OPEN SCREENING: Carancho, . 7 p.m. Location to be announced
Discussion leader (Hess) ____________________________________________
Discussion leader (Rocha)____________________________________________
Friday, Sept. 30:
Readings:  V.I. Pudovkin, “Film Technique.” 
 Timothy Corrigan. A Short Guide to Writing about Film. Chapters 3, 4.   Eisenstein, Sergei “From Film Form: The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram” (suggested reading).
Screening: Analysis of editing techniques in and in Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund’s Cidade de Deus, [City of God], Brazil, (2002) (sequence screened in class).
Assignment: Second critical response on discussion forum on Angel by Monday 9 p.m.
Discussion leader (Pudovkin) _______________________________________________
Discussion leader (Corrigan)  ———————————————-
WEEK 5: THE CUBAN REVOLUTION
Wednesday, Oct. 5:
Readings: Paul Rotha, “Some Principles of Documentary.” 
 John Mraz “Santiago Alvarez: From Dramatic form to direct cinema.” 
 Travis Wilkerson, “Hasta la victoria siempre.” in Senses of Cinema (Link): <span lang="ES-AR"
Screening: Santiago Álvarez, Che Guevara, Hasta La Victoria Siempre, Cuba (1967) 19 minutes.
Discussion leader (Rotha) __________________________________________________
Discussion leader (Mraz, Wilkerson) ________________________________________
Friday, Oct. 7:
Readings:  Che Guevara, “Message to the Tricontinental” (Link):
http://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1967/04/16.htm
Screening:  Una foto recorre el mundo, [A Photograph Travels the World] Pedro Chaskel, Cuba, Chile (1981)
Discussion leader (Guevara) _______________________________________________
WEEK 6: MODERNIDA Y IDENTIDAD POLITICA
Wednesday, Oct. 12:
Readings:  To be announced
Screening: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Brasilia, Contradicoes de uma Cidade Nova, Brazil (1967) 23 min. Memories of Underdevelopment, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba (1968), 97 min. First Part.
Friday, Oct. 14:
Readings: To be announced
Screening: Memories of Underdevelopment, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba (1968), 97 min. Second Part.
Assignment: Third critical response on discussion forum on Angel by Monday 9 p.m.
WEEK 7: THE NEW LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA MOVEMENT
Wednesday, Oct. 19:
Readings: Jorge Sanjinés and the Ukamau Group, “Problems of Form and Content in Revolutionary Cinema.” 
 Julio García Espinosa, “For an Imperfect Cinema.” 
Screening: Octavio Cortázar, Por la  primera vez [For The First Time], Cuba (1967)  Mario Handler, Me gustan los estudiantes [I Like Students], Uruguay (1968).
Discussion Leader (Sanjinés)_______________________________________________
Discussion leader (Espinosa)_______________________________________________
Friday, Oct. 21:
Readings:  Teshome H. Gabriel, “Third Cinema as Guardian of Popular Memory: Towards a Third Aesthetics.” Suggested reading!
Screening: Raymundo Gleyzer, La Tierra Quemada [The Burnt Land], Brazil and Argentina (1964) (12 min.)  Ernesto Ardito, Virna Molina,  Raymundo, Argentina (2003) (Sequence screened in class).
Assignment: Fourth critical response on discussion forum on Angel by  Monday 9 p.m.
WEEK 8: THIRD CINEMA- GRUPO CINE LIBERACION AND GRUPO CINE DE LA BASE
Wednesday, Oct. 26:
Readings: Solanas and Getino, “Towards a Third Cinema.”
“Some Notes on the Concept of a ‘Third Cinema.’” 
 Robert Stam, “The Hour of the Furnaces and the two avant-gardes.” Suggested reading!!!
Screening: Sequences from Fernando “Pino” Solanas and Octavio Getino, La hora de los hornos [The Hour of The Furnaces], Argentina (1969).
Discussion leader (Solanas and Getino) ______________________________________
Friday, Oct. 28:
Readings: Samira Makhmalbaf, “The Digital Revolution And The Future Cinema.” 
Screening: Alejandro Fernández Mouján, Solo se escucha el viento, [Only the wind can be heard], Argentina, 2007 (21 min.) Cine Insurgente, (shorts screened in class)
WEEK 9: MUSIC AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Wednesday, Nov. 2:
Readings: Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” 
Screenings: Carlos Diegues, Bye Bye Brazil, Brazil (1980) (sequence screened in class), Nestor Frenkel, Buscando a Reynols [Searching For Reynols], Argentina (2004) (sequence screened in class).
Friday, Nov. 4:
Readings: Randal Johnson, “In the Belly of the Ogre: Cinema and State in Latin America.” 
Screenings: Santiago Alvarez, El Tigre salto y mato…pero…morira…morira!! Cuba (1973) (Also available in YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhUTNRJzgKA). Fernando Faro, Elis Regina: MPB Special, Brazil (1973) (sequence screened in class), Roberto Farias, Roberto Carlos: Em Ritmo de Aventura, Brazil (1971), Diego Capusotto, Peter Capusotto y Sus Videos (2006-2007)
WEEK 10: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
Wednesday, Nov. 9:
Readings: Joseph H. Kupfer, “Film Criticism and Virtue Theory.” 
Screening: Patricio Guzmán, La Batalla de Chile [The Battle of Chile], Chile (1978) y El caso Pinochet, [The Pinochet Case] Chile (2001) (sequence screened in class).
Discussion leader (Kupfer): _________________________________________________
Friday, Nov. 11:
Readings: Elizabeth Jelin, “Political Struggles for Memory” and “Trauma, Testimony, and ‘Truth.’” 
Screening: Silvio Caiozzi,  Fernando ha vuelto [Fernando is back] Chile (1998).
Discussion leader (Jelin)____________________________________________________
Assignment: Fifth critical response on discussion forum on Angel by Monday 9 p.m.
WEEK 11: DISSAPEARANCE, MEMORY AND REPARATION
Wednesday, Nov. 16:
Readings:  Robert A. Rosenstone, “History in Images, History in Words.” 
Screening:  El General, Dir. Natalia Almada, Mexico/USA, 2009, 83 minutes  [First Part: 40 min.]
Friday, Nov. 18:
Readings:  Rosenstone (cont.)
Screening: El General, Dir. Natalia Almada, Mexico/USA, 2009, 83 minutes [Second Part: 43 minutes]
WEEK 12: URBAN VIOLENCE
Wednesday, Nov. 23:
Readings: Kristi M. Wilson, “From Pensioner to Teenager: Everyday Violence in De Sica’s Umberto D and Gaviria’s Rodrigo D: No Future.” 
Screening: Victor Gaviria,  Rodrigo D, No Futuro [Rodrigo D: No Future], Colombia (1990)       (sequence screened in class) Jose Padilha, Onibus 174 [Bus 174], Brazil (2002) First Part
Discussion Leader (Wilson)__________________________________________________
Friday, Nov. 25:
THANKSGIVING
WEEK 13: LATIN AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA
Wednesday, Nov. 30:
Screening: Onibus 174. Second Part
Assignment: Discuss prompts for final essay. Prepare outline for Wednesday. Bring a hard copy to class!
Friday, Dec. 2:
Overview of film terms and techniques. Review and critique essay outlines.
WEEK 14: SOCIAL GUILT, CONTEMPORARY CINEMA AND AUTEUR THEORY
Wednesday, Dec. 7:
Readings: Deborah Shaw. Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Breaking into the Global Market. 10-64.
SPECIAL OPEN SCREENING: Location to be announced.  Claudia Llosa, La teta asustada, Peru (2009).
Friday, Dec. 9:
Last day of class!!!
Final Exam
WEEK 15:
Assignment: Final essay is due! Date to be announced


 Bibliography

Bazin, Andre. “De Sica: Metteur-En-Scene.” What is cinema?, edited by Bazin, André, Gray, Hugh, Andrew, Dudley, Renoir, Jean. University of California Press, 2005.

Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010.

Burton-Carvajal, Julianne. “Regarding Rape: Fictions of Origin and Film Spectatorship.” Mediating Two Worlds: Cinematic Encounters in the Americas, edited by Ana M. Lopez, and Manuel Alvarado. BFI Publishing, 1993.

Corrigan, Timothy. Short Guide to Writing about Film. Pearson, 2011.

Eisenstein, Sergei. “From Film Form: The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram.” Film Theory and Criticism. Oxford University Press, 1992.

Espinoza, Julio Garcia. “For an imperfect cinema.” Jump Cut: A Review to Contemporary Media, http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC20folder/ImperfectCinema.html.

Gabriel, Teshome. “Third Cinema as Guardian of Popular Memory: Towards a Third Aesthetics.” Teshome Gabriel: Articles & Other Works, teshomegabriel.net/third-cinema-as-guardian-of-popular-memory.

Getino, Octavio. “Some Notes on the Concept of a ‘Third Cinema.’” New Latin American Cinema, edited by Michael T. Martin. Wayne State University Press, 1997, pp. 99-107.

Guevara, Che. “Message to the Tricontinental.” Che Guevara Internet Archive, http://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1967/04/16.htm.

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Documenting International Mass Atrocities

Professor Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli
Soka University of America
International Studies 390.02
Office hours: Ikeda 321- to be announced
Course meets: TR 13:00 to 14:30 Gan. 201
   
The Holocaust is unique in that it creates a circle of flames around itself, a limit which cannot be crossed because a certain absolute horror cannot be transmitted.
Claude Lanzmann
DOCUMENTING INTERNATIONAL MASS ATROCITIES: FROM THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TO RWANDA
INTRODUCTION
This interdisciplinary course will survey different types of approaches to documentation of international mass atrocity crimes and their effectiveness in supporting social change. One of our objectives will be to establish parallels between events in different areas of the world, strategies of oppression and systematic killing. The instructor assumes that students have certain knowledge of the different cases under consideration and have had the opportunity to reflect upon some of the causes that led to large scale, gross human rights violations. We will utilize a wide designation of the term documentation, often defined as being distinct from personal reflection or the “creative” composition of a fiction writer. We will also consider the writings and testimonies of witnesses, who are often the only ones that have access to crimes.
Critical examination of the readings will begin with a consideration of genre conventions- reveling the way an author builds textual credibility by relying upon or writing against previous texts or “common” forms of knowledge. We will attempt to answer questions such as:  How much brutality should documentarians present to their audiences? With what purpose and authority should a documentarian turn mass atrocities into spectacle?  
At the beginning of the semester, we will evaluate certain approaches to representation and as the semester progresses we will collaborate (both online and in the classroom) in the formulation of a document that gathers the most important conclusions we come to. The principal approach to the collaborative writing of this document is to evaluate readings in order to build knowledge about international atrocities across genres and disciplines. With this in mind, we will proceed by asking clarifying questions, evaluating documentary sources and considering alternative forms of narrative and representation. The final goal of the course is to be able to synthesize our findings, formulate a complex critique of different processes of documentation and envision collective responses.  Students will be encouraged to continue doing research on a particular historical event for the final essay and presentation. In the response forums, students will be graded on their evaluation of the readings and on their understanding of the complexity of causes that lead to international atrocities (cultural beliefs and practices, ethnic clashes, concepts of national identity, etc.). Please come to class with the readings completed and a short, but compelling, list of comments or questions that might trigger an interesting debate about issues central to the course.
STUDENT PROJECTS AND PRESENTATIONS
I propose that students research a particular methodology of documentation.  Research will begin after the first week when students choose a historical period/event to research and write their final paper on. At the end of the semester, students will have to write a 10-12 page paper developing their initial inquires by engaging with a few of the readings of the course. With this in mind, we will raise a few questions in the first class which we will attempt to answer throughout the semester. Inevitably, we will come up with new questions as we complete the readings, so as a group we will create a log of our initial findings on a blog on Angel.  To insure that everyone has the chance to read your comments, please post them before 9 pm one day prior to our class meeting. I will be happy to discuss with you a prospectus for the essay and help you organize your bibliography. 
Please type all written work using a standard 12-point font, double-space the text, leave one-inch margins on all sides, and staple multiple pages. To avoid penalization, paper extensions must be approved before the essay is due. Late work is penalized 5 points (1/2 grade) per day. Please follow the MLA Style format for citations and general style formatting. You can find an online version of the MLA style manual at:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu
Go to this website and click on the link to the MLA Formatting and Style Guide (on the right hand side of the page).
Assignments and grade breakdown
Five critical responses on discussion forum–Angel (1 page)                 30%
Presentation                                                     20%
Paper (10-12 pages)                                              30%
Attendance and participation                                     20%
Grading Guidelines
In grading, I will consider two central aspects of the student’s performance-participation in class discussion and writing. If you have any questions about the writing assignments, please make sure to ask during class time (other students might have similar questions).
Essays: This course fosters rigorous inquiry and critical thinking and promotes effective written argumentation.
A range: This paper is outstanding in form and content. The thesis is clear and insightful; it is original, or it expands in a new way on ideas presented in the course. The evidence presented in support of the argument is carefully chosen and deftly handled. The argument is not only unified and coherent, but also complex and nuanced.
B range: This paper’s thesis is clear; the argument is coherent and presents evidence in support of its points. The argument shows comprehension of the material and manifests critical thinking about the issues raised in the course. The paper is reasonably well written and proofread. The argument, while coherent, does not have the complexity, the insight, or the integrated structure of an A range paper.
C range: This paper has some but not all of the basic components of an argumentative essay (i.e., thesis, evidence, coherent structure): for example, it may offer a thesis of some kind, but it presents no evidence to support this thesis; or it may present an incoherent thesis; or it may simply repeat points made in class without an overall argument. Such a paper is usually poorly organized, written and proofread.
A paper lacking more than one of the basic components of an argumentative essay will earn a grade of  “D” or below.
Angel
Please make sure to check Angel before each class meeting to see if I have posted any notes about the course or assignments that haven’t been announced in class. I will ask students during the semester to write blogs posts to discuss articles, films or essay prompts.
Accommodation for Persons with a Disability
Student desiring accommodations on the basis of physical learning, or psychological disability for this class are to contact the Office of Student Services. Student Services is located in Student Affairs.
REQUIRED BOOKS AVAILABLE AT THE SOKA BOOKSTORE:
      Kafka, Franz. The Penal Colony.
      Amery, Jean. At The Mind’s Limits.
      Sebald, W.E.  The Natural History of Destruction.
      Partnoy, Alicia. The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina.
1st WEEK: MASS ATROCITIES, GENOCIDE AND EDUCATION (Feb. 11th)
Tuesday:
Evans, Gareth. “The Problem: The Recurring Nightmare of Mass Atrocities.” (In Evans pp 11-30 on Angel)
Thursday:
Charny, Israel W. “Worksheet for describing and categorizing a genocidal event.” (on Angel)
Haynes, Stephen R. “Holocaust Education at American Colleges and Universities: A Report on the Current Situation.” (on Angel)
2nd WEEK: ANTICIPATING MASS ATROCITIES, THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY (Feb. 16th)
Tuesday:
Kafka, Franz. “The Penal Colony.” (on Angel and in the Bookstore)
Thursday:
Adalian, Paul Rouben. “The Armenian Genocide.” (in Totten pp 53-90 on Angel)
3rd WEEK: THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE (cont.) (Feb. 23rd)
Tuesday:
Power, Samantha. A Problem from Hell. (pp. 1-45 on Angel)
Thursday: 
Balakian, Peter. Black Dog Of Fate. (on Angel)
FIRST DISCUSSION FORUM: RESPONSES DUE BY SUNDAY AT 8 P.M.
4th Week: THE HOLOCAUST (March 2nd)
Tuesday:
Celan, Paul and Nelly Sachs: Selective Poems (on Angel).
Peterson, John. “’Some Gold Across the Water’: Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs.” (on Angel)
Shostakovich, Dmitri. Symphony No. 13 “Babi Yar” (recording on reserve in Ikeda Library)
Thursday:
Stier, Baruch Oren. “Different Trains: Holocaust artifacts and the Ideologies of Remembrance.” (On Angel)
Reich, Steve. “Different Trains” (recording on reserve in Ikeda Library)
Resnais, Alain. Night and Fog (DVD film on reserve in Ikeda Library)
5th WEEK: THE HOLOCAUST AND IT”S AFTERIMAGES (March 9th)
Tuesday:
Lanzmann, Claude. Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust. (On Angel)
Lanzmann, Claude. Shoah. (Sequences screened in class/on reserve in Ikeda Library)
Amery, Jean. At The Mind’s Limits: Contemplations By A Survivor On Auschwitz And Its Realities. (pp. 1-62 in the Bookstore)
Thursday:
Amery, Jean. At The Mind’s Limits: Contemplations By A Survivor On Auschwitz And Its Realities. (pp. 62-103 in the Bookstore)
SPRING BREAK March 15th to 19th
6th Week: AERIAL BOMBING AND THE QUESTION OF DISTANCING (March 23rd)
Tuesday:
Amery, Jean. At The Mind’s Limits: Contemplations By A Survivor On Auschwitz And Its Realities. (pp. 62-103 in the Bookstore)
Young,  James E. “On Rereading Holocaust Diaries and Memoirs.” (on Angel)
Thursday:
Sebald, W.G. The Natural History of Destruction.(in the Bookstore)
Morris, Errol. The Fog of War (sequences screened in class). Special seminar discussion with Professor Kristi Wilson
7th Week: THE NUREMBERG TRIALS (March 30th)
Tuesday:
Tusa and Tusa. The Nuremberg Trials (on Angel)
Stevens, George, dir. Concentration Camp. (Sequences screened in class)
Thursday:
Orgeron, Marsha. “Liberating Images?: Samuel Fuller’s Film of Falkenau Concentration Camp.” (on Angel)
Fueller, Sam, dir. Falkenau: The Impossible- Samuel Fuller bears witness (documentary film online)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4YtWbsdgLA&feature=PlayList&p=497BA768F5DD643C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=26
Fueller, Sam. Shock Corridor. (Sequences screened in class)
SECOND DISCUSSION FORUM: RESPONSES DUE BEFORE SUNDAY AT 8 P.M.
8th WEEK: VIETNAM (April 6th)
Tuesday:   
O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. “The things they carried” and “How to tell a true war story.” (On Angel)
Thursday:
Winter Soldier Collective. Winter Soldier (1972). (Sequences screened in class)
9th WEEK: THE CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE (April 13th)
Tuesday:
Kiernan, Ben. “The Cambodian Genocide-1975-1979.” (in Totten 339-373 on Angel)
Thursday:
Williams, Paul. “Witnessing Genocide: Vigilance and Remembrance at Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek.” (on Angel)
10th WEEK: LATIN AMERICA AND THE CONDOR PLAN (April 20th)
Tuesday:
Alicia Partnoy. The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival. pp 1-73 (Available at the bookstore)
Thursday:
Alicia Partnoy. The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival. pp 73-136 (Available at the bookstore)
11th WEEK: LATIN AMERICA AND THE CONDOR PLAN CONTINUED (April 27th)
Tuesday:
Danner, Mark. The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War. (on reserve in Ikeda library)
Thursday:
Gallagher, Hugh Gregory. “Holocaust: The Genocide of Disabled Peoples.” (in Totten, pp 205-271 on Angel)
Rees, Laurence. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi state. (Sequence screened in class, on reserve in Ikeda library)
THIRD DISCUSSION FORUM: RESPONSES DUE BY SUNDAY AT 8 P.M.
12th WEEK: RWANDA AND THE GENOCIDE THAT COULD HAVE BEEN STOPPED (May 4th)
Tuesday:
Greg Barker, dir. The Ghosts of Rwanda (documentary film screened in class)
Pillay, Sukanya. “Video as Evidence” in Sam Gregory’s Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism. (on Angel)
Thursday:
Gourevitch, Philip. “The Life After: Fifteen years after the genocide in Rwanda, the reconciliation defies expectations.” (on Angel)
13th  WEEK: WAR AND GENOCIDE IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA (May 11th)
Tuesday:
Koff, Clea. The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. pp. 1-79 (in the Bookstore)
Thursday:
Koff, Clea. The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. pp. 79-157 (in the Bookstore)
War Photographer (sequence  screened in class)
Sontag, Susan. “Looking at war: Photography’s view of devastation and death.” (on Angel)
Wilkinson, Alec. “Picturing Auschwitz: What does a recently found photo album reveal.” (on Angel)
Special seminar discussion with Professor Ryan Caldwell
EXTRA READINGS
Claude, Richard Pierre and Burns H. Weston. Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action. Chapter Five. (on Angel, suggested reading).
Evans, Gareth. “Mobilizing Political Will.” (on Angel, pp 223-241)
Evans, Gareth. “After the Crisis: The Responsibility to Rebuild.” (on Angel, pp 148-174)
Swanson Goldberg, Elizabeth. Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights. Introduction and Chapter 5. (on Angel)

Bibliography 


Amery, Jean. At The Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities. Indiana University Press, 2009.

Balakian, Peter. Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir. Basic Books, 2009.

Charny, Israel W. Worksheet for Describing and Categorizing a Genocidal Event: A New Tool for Assembling More Objective Data and Classifying Events of Mass Killing. Social Sciences, 2016. 5(3), 31.

Claude, Richard Pierre and Burns H. Weston. Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action. University of Pennsylvania, 2006.

Evans, Gareth. “The Problem: The Recurring Nightmare of Mass Atrocities.” The Responsibility to Protect – Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008. 11-30. Print.

Gregory, Sam, et al. Video for Change: A Guide For Advocacy and Activism. Pluto Press, 2010.

Gourevitch, Philip. “The Life After: Fifteen years after the genocide in Rwanda, the reconciliation defies expectations.” New Yorker, May 4, 2009. 36-49.

Haynes, Stephen R. “Holocaust Education at American Colleges and Universities: A Report on the

Current Situation.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, (12)2, 1 October 1998. 282–307. Web.

Kafka, Franz. The Penal Colony. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.

Lanzmann, Claude. Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Knopf Publishing Group, 1985.

O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. Mariner Books, 2009.

Orgeron, Marsha. “Liberating Images?: Samuel Fuller’s Film of Falkenau Concentration Camp. Film Quart, (60)2, Winter 2006. 38-47. Web.

Partnoy, Alicia. The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina. Cleis Press, 1998.

Power, Samantha. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Brilliance Audio, 2012.

Sebald, W.E. The Natural History of Destruction. Notting Hill Editions, 2012.

Sontag, Susan. “Looking at war: Photography’s view of devastation and death.” New Yorker, December 9, 2002. Web.

Stier, Baruch Oren. “Different Trains: Holocaust artifacts and the Ideologies of Remembrance.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, (19) 1, 1 March 2005. 81–106. Web.

Swanson Goldberg, Elizabeth. Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights. Rutgers University Press, 2007.

Tusa and Tusa. The Nuremberg Trials. Skyhorse Publishing, 2010.

Totten, S., et al. Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts. Routledge, 2004.

Williams, Paul. “Witnessing Genocide: Vigilance and Remembrance at Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, (18) 2, 1 January 2004. 234–254. Print.

Sustainability and Weatherization: Learning Cluster 2016

LEARNING CLUSTER 2016
 
Application for the Luis & Linda Nieves Learning Cluster Grant
 
LC Long Title:
Sustainable Housing and Weatherization in low-income housing in Buenos Aires, Argentina
LC Short Title:
Sustainability and Weatherization
Sponsoring Faculty:
Tomás F. Crowder -Taraborrelli,
Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies
 
Introduction
Once considered the Paris of Latin America due to its rich architectural history, Buenos Aires is now recognized for a dramatic surge of unregulated and unplanned suburban settlements. It is estimated that half a million families live in 864 slums in the metropolitan area. With an increasing population of economically disenfranchised citizens finding refuge in unregulated housing, Buenos Aires now faces the challenge of incorporating the illegal settlements into the city’s infrastructure to ensure their safety and livability.
Past Learning Cluster trips led by Professor Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli have constructed environmentally sound dwellings in Buenos Aires, affording students the opportunity to apply sustainability research in a significant and contributive way.  To re-approach recent developments in Buenos Aires’ low-income housing crisis, 2016’s proposed Argentina Learning Cluster aims to complement the investigation of sustainable housing with specialized, hands-on weatherization training. This instruction would outfit students with the knowledge and skill set necessary to execute low-cost home improvements on site in Buenos Aires.      Participants of the Learning Cluster will collaborate directly with Dr. Nicolas Maggio, President of the Foro de Vivienda Social y Eficiencia Energética (FOVISEE)[1] and Weatherizers Without Borders (WWB)[2], to gain and implement their weatherization training.  Dr. Maggio will work in conjunction with the WWB to coordinate a four day trip to the city of Campana, where SUA and University of Buenos Aires (UBA) students will perform energy assessments and provide recommendations for participating low-income families. As Dr. Maggio explained in a 2014 weatherization interview, “the need for energy efficiency in existing housing becomes even more important for low-income families, as they end up paying more for energy and are subject to health and safety threats.”[3]
 
 
Timetable and Logistics
 
The Argentinian Weatherization Learning Cluster is inspired by three questions: first, what factors have contributed to making homes become unaffordable for most people in the world? Second, how can the Learning Cluster group diagnose the energy efficiency of unregulated homes and implement changes to improve their safety and economic viability? Third, how can sustainable practices explored in this Learning Cluster impact future generation?

The Argentinian Weatherization Learning Cluster will visit different neighborhoods in Buenos Aires to investigate the decisive historical, socioeconomic, and environmental factors that have shaped the urban identity of the city.  The Learning Cluster will compare traditionally wealthy neighborhoods like Barrio Norte, working class neighborhoods like La Boca, and transitioning neighborhoods like Palermo Soho and Puerto Madero, as well as the controversial Villa 31 slum. Students will also revisit the two dwellings built by previous Learning Clusters and meet with plastic artist Pablo Salvadó to participate in an intensive adobe construction workshop and discussion.[4]

[1] “The FOVISEE (Housing Forum, Sustainability and Energy)
is a foundation that works on the issues of housing, energy and poverty in order to promote energy efficiency. The Forum creates projects applied for energy efficiency in housing, produces opportunities for dialogue and exchange on these issues, and seeks to raise awareness in society about the importance of energy efficiency in housing in general and social housing in particular. “ http://www.fovisee.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106&Itemid=111
[2] “WWB fights energy inefficiency and energy poverty, improving the health, safety comfort, and economy of families across the globe.” http://www.weatherizers.org/joomla/about-us
[3] http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Nicolas-Maggio/1755126040
[4] *For more information about the previous sustainable housing projects, please visit our Learning Cluster websites: http://learningcluster-argentina2013.blogspot.com/



The training is broken into three components:
1) Pre-training
2) Training
3) Field mentoring in Campana. 
The first component of training will occur in Buenos Aires and consist of three days of weatherization instruction, encompassing topics such as Energy Auditing and Retrofitting of dwellings. WWB will provide intensive classroom, hands-on field mentoring and online training to students, including Retrofit Installer Technician, HVAC Fundamentals and Energy Auditor.
 The second component of training will entail three days of classroom and field training with weatherization equipment and WWB mentors.
 The third component of training will apply weatherization knowledge to the geographic location of Campana. Students will gather information about health, safety issues within a home, quality of life, energy, and environmental impacts.
During the Learning Cluster, students will form teams according to their interests. These teams will be coordinated by Professor Crowder-Taraborrelli and Dr. Maggio and include:
* A design team (which will consider the structural styles of homes and buildings)
* A budget team (which will calculate costs for purchasing equipment and materials)
*An environmental and services team (which will assess the resources available in the area)
* A building team (which will coordinate the field work)
Over the course of the Learning Cluster, students will create a fifteen to twenty minute documentary film to be presented at the Learning Cluster Fair.  The short documentary will educate SUA students about the practical, structural, and societal effects of sustainable living, as well as demonstrating the positive effects of weatherization on low-income families in Buenos Aires. In the end, the goal is to shed light on the benefits of weatherization and its potential international significance regarding impoverished areas on a global scale.
 
Course Objectives
1. Gain a deeper understanding of the significance of sustainable living where environmentally stable housing and financial security is under threat.
2. Research the process and practice of sustainable construction and weatherization.
3. Critically analyze the contrasting architectural styles as well as the use of materials among affluent and impoverished communities.
4. Create meaningful relationships between the group and organizations in Argentina dedicated to building sustainable homes and weatherizing homes.
5. Facilitate discussions that encourage social change through community activism.
 
 
Learning Outcomes
 
Team building; experience hands on learning; production of a short- documentary film.
As the universal movement for sustainable living collects momentum, the students of this Learning Cluster will have a much more expansive and tangible understanding of what it takes to bring the theory of sustainable living into practice. By visiting and exploring wealthy and poor neighborhoods alike, students will gain knowledge of both the materials and resources that have been utilized, in a highly contrasting way, to create the city of Buenos Aires. Students will aspire to achieve the following learning outcomes in a variety of ways:
Develop students’ habits of independent inquiry and study: Prior to leaving for Argentina, all students will form research teams and present their findings to the rest of the class. The documentary aspect of the project in Argentina will provide another avenue for independent growth, as students will be able to develop their own questions. These questions will be asked in interviews to provide professional intel on sustainable living and the weatherization process. Above all, the film will organize visual material to complement the pedagogical objectives of the Learning Cluster.
Engender analytical and investigative skills in order to apply them to a specific problem or question: During the first days in Argentina, students will develop questions and expectations based both on their own research as well as research presented by their classmates. Once questions have been developed, research and firsthand experience will be combined in order to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
Enhance the ability to work collaboratively: Students will be working together to organize the trip, develop the documentary interviews, divide the subject matter, and create a cohesive final project.  They will also have to develop a steadfast work ethic to include all team members, both domestic and international, who will be collaborating and contributing to the success of the project.  The experience in its entirety will require students to depend on each other’s skills, including Spanish speaking abilities, different cultural understandings, and creative writing talents.
Foster a contributive ethic by working on issues that have a larger social significance or meaning: The creation of sustainable housing immediately benefits the community and environment. In addition, it provides people who cannot afford the standard industrialized corporate approach to building with a beneficial alternative. Furthermore, we will spread this knowledge of the feasibility of this type of sustainable living and weatherization through our documentary.
Prepare students for their roles as engaged global citizens:  Through personal encounters, new experiences, hands on creation, community collaboration, and inquiry into government regulations, critical evaluation of materials and resources, and an overall objective of contributing to the sustainability of humanity, this experience in Argentina will help deepen the understanding of what it means to be a global citizen.
Impact on SUA Community

Upon return, students from this Learning Cluster will attempt to impact the SUA community in an innovative manner that will shed light upon the environmental inquiries that are very much alive on-campus. Bringing awareness of our LC project to the SUA community will allow for a gradual shift in the way our generation perceives sustainable living in the United States, and especially, in Orange County. Understanding, for instance, the implications of renewable and solar energy will help SUA students realize that we each have the capacity to push the “eco-friendly–go green” movement even further. This will instill a sense of pride in our students to contribute to the global community on an exceedingly prudent and moral level.
SUA takes great pride in the Language and Culture Program. A majority of our LC class is studying the Spanish language. By traveling to Argentina to experience the culture and life in Latin America, we can share our discoveries and challenges in working in another language with fellow students back home. We envision that this LC’s travel component will empower others to better their language skills and cultural literacy by immersing themselves in a Latin American culture.
Finally, the meaning behind the word “Soka”—to create value—is also tied into our LC’s belief that through the creation of sustainable living spaces, we can create value on our own. A home is one of the most quintessential parts of being human. Humans need shelter, and creating a home can both accomplish that goal and represent part of the human identity within society. By collaborating together as a team to build sustainable living space through weatherization, we hope to re-define what value means within a home. A home cannot simply be a composition of nails, wood and paint–it needs to be a practical structure that will promote sustainable living options. Therefore, we believe that giving, instead of taking, is what matters most in this paradigm for sustainable dwellings. We feel that such a message will resonate with the SUA community. Can value be created within a home? Why is it important to give back? These are some of the working questions that define our Learning Cluster.
 
Significance of Fieldwork and Location
While abroad, this Learning Cluster will study the architectural history of Buenos Aires, and construct a true model of sustainable architecture. As sustainable architecture is still in its infancy, contributing to a fully self-sustaining housing project is a rare opportunity that can influence the current perception and future of sustainable eco-housing.

          Buenos Aires is the heart and spirit of Argentina, and the focus of this LC. Touring the city and buildings in Argentina is vital in this critical study to decipher the distinct differences between communities within the city. More developed areas of the city are already retrofitted with some of the weatherization methods that have yet to reach the more underprivileged nearby communities. Studying urban development in Buenos Aires, Argentina allows us to understand the potential role of sustainable housing in nearby communities.

      The opportunity given to the students to travel to Argentina will profoundly affect the way in which these students comprehend the rapidly growing slums at a time in which an unstable and unforgiving economy exists for all. They are found in rural areas and as well as in populous cities such as in Buenos Aires. According to July 2004 estimates, there are about 640 precarious neighborhoods in suburban Buenos Aires, comprising of 690,000 residents and 111,000 households. The population of the villas miseria in the city of Buenos Aires property doubled during the 1990s, reaching about 120,000 as of 2005, which is continuously growing today. Many of these houses were built with no regards to sustainability and do not meet modern weatherization standards. Today over half a million residents live in these slums. These statistics show how important it is to study the reasons behind not only how both slums, such as “neighborhoods of misery” and cities are built and where they are located, but also of laying the foundation for the reasons why they exist and how weatherization can improve the lives of their residents.
 
 
Lodging
 
In Buenos Aires, the students will be staying at a local hostel, Borges Design Hostel, located in Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires. Situated in the heart of the city, the Borges Hostel has modern interior within a classic 1920s-era building structure. Each room contains a bathroom, TV, patio, and kitchen for possible meal preparations. The Borges Design Hostel is close to transportation and is in one of the safest neighborhoods.

Contact e-mail address: info@bdhostel.com
Contact phone number: 54. 11. 4777. 8174
Official website: www.bdhostel.com


Transportation

This LC is planning to leave the United States from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Friday, January 15th and arrive at Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires on Saturday January 16th. The students will then take 4 taxis to the Borges Design Hostel. Due to the immense size of the city, during the stay in Buenos Aires, the students take public transportation colectivos (buses) and a private shuttle to complete the fieldwork in Campana.

Itinerary, course reading and activities

Dates: Monday, January 11th to February 3rd 2016

Week 1

Monday Jan. 11:
ON-CAMPUS
10AM- 12PM: Review syllabus with the class and course/objective overview. Form groups. Assign group and/or individual research based questions and topics for course.

Discuss readings: Rock, Chapters 8 and 9, Sernau Chapter 10 (Social Inequality), and Bird/Hernandez.

Screening: Garbage Warrior.
1PM-3PM: First day of online weatherization training

Tuesday Jan 12:
ON-CAMPUS
10AM-12PM: Overview of history of urban development in Buenos Aires, Argentina since the 1970’s.

Discuss Readings: Wilson, Part 1 and 3 and Carns. Overview of sustainable housing in/around Buenos Aires, Argentina

1PM-3PM: Second day of online weatherization training.

Wednesday Jan 13:
ON-CAMPUS
10AM-12PM: Screening: Las manos, el barro, la casa

and Earthship-Britanny Groundhouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krWgtnJRAUg&feature=related. Discuss documentary and implications.
Discuss readings: Carns, Chapter 7 and Sanchez Chapter 1. Form teams.
1PM-3PM: Third day of online weatherization training.
Screening: Edwards Aliso Viejo This Changes Everything

Thursday Jan 14:
ON-CAMPUS
10AM-12PM: Discuss readings: Phillips, Chapter 14 and 16. Minke, Chapter 2 and 3, Fryer Chapters 4 and 5.
1PM-3PM: Fourth day of weatherization online training.
Friday Jan 15:
No Class

Saturday Jan 16:
No Class
Sunday Jan 17:
No Class
Week 2
Mon Jan 18:
Travel Day
Departing Soka at 9 a.m.

Flight departs LAX  at 1p.m.

Tues Jan 19:
ARRIVE IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

HOSTEL
Arrival time: 10:40 a.m.
1PM: Meet at Tomas’ apartment:  Teams discuss reading according to their team topic and assignment while eating lunch.
Water, discuss reading: Ludwig, Chapter 7 and Dahlhausen. Schroder, Ogletree, Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5.
2PM-3PM: Meet with Nicolas Maggio from FOVISEE collaborating institution. Conduct short interview to better understand housing development and weatherization in Buenos Aires.
5PM: Dinner
7PM: Daily Reflection on Angel. Dinner with plastic artist Pablo Salvadó to discuss techniques of adobe construction.

Wednesday Jan 20:
CLASSROOM FOVISEE
7 AM: Breakfast
8AM-1 PM: Sociological perspective for the study of housing, energy and sustainability

City, housing, energy, sustainability in Buenos Aires. The social factor of energy efficiency in buildings. The case of low income housing. Research methodologies in housing, energy and sustainability
1 PM: Lunch
2 PM: Return to hostel.
5PM: Discuss reading: Hunter Chapter 4.
7PM: Dinner
8PM: Daily Reflection on Angel. Teams meet to discuss progress of earth building.

Thursday Jan 21:

CLASSROOM FOVISEE
7AM: Breakfast.
8AM-1 PM:Explaining the broad gap between theory and practice. Weatherization in Buenos Aires.
1 PM: Lunch
2 PM: Return to hostel.
7PM: Dinner
8PM: Daily Reflection on Angel. Teams meet to discuss progress of earth building.

Friday January 22:
ON-SITE
8AM: Departure to Campana.

10AM: Arrive at location. Real homes Energy and Sustainability Auditing. Participation in real weatherization work. Filming and interviews with families. Measuring results of the performed retrofits.
1PM: Lunch
2PM: Return to city
7PM: Dinner
8PM: Daily Reflection on Angel.

Saturday January 23:

ON-SITE
8 AM: Departure to Campana
10AM: Arrive at location. Real homes Energy and Sustainability Auditing. Participation in real weatherization work. Filming and interviews with families. Measuring results of the performed retrofits.
1 PM: Lunch

2 PM: Return to city
5PM: Return to hostel
6PM: Dinner
8PM: Work on short documentary film about weatherization and sustainability.

Sunday January 24:

ON-SITE
8 AM: Departure to Campana
10AM: Arrive at location. Real homes Energy and Sustainability Auditing. Participation in real weatherization work. Filming and interviews with families. Measuring results of the performed retrofits.
1 PM: Lunch

2 PM: Return to city
5PM: Return to hostel
6PM: Dinner
8PM: Work on short documentary film about weatherization and sustainability..

Week 3

Monday January 25:
ON-SITE
8 AM: Departure to Campana

10AM: Arrive at location. Real homes Energy and Sustainability Auditing. Participation in real weatherization work. Filming and interviews with families. Measuring results of the performed retrofits.
1 PM: Lunch
2 PM: Return to city
5PM: Return to hostel
6PM: Dinner
8PM: Work on short documentary film about weatherization and sustainability.

Tuesday January 26:
ON-SITE
8 AM: Departure to Campana
10AM: Arrive at location. Real homes Energy and Sustainability Auditing. Participation in real weatherization work. Filming and interviews with families. Measuring results of the performed retrofits.
1 PM: Lunch
2 PM: Return to city
5PM: Return to hostel
6PM: Dinner
8PM: Work on short documentary film about weatherization and sustainability.
.

Wednesday January 27:
9:00 AM: Processing information and video from WWB-Soka experience. Preparation of presentations for the LC and Weatherizers Without Border’s Summit (in Pauling). 
Open day
Thursday January 28:
EN-ROUTE
Depart from hostel for airport at 6 p.m.
Departs EZE airport at 10 p.m.

Friday January 29:
Arrives at LAX at 11:10 a.m.
ON-CAMPUS
1P.M.-3 P.M.: Continue to edit and work on film material.

Week 4

Monday February 1:

ON-CAMPUS
10AM-12PM: Finalize any film editing needed.
1PM-3PM: Film finalizing continued.

Tuesday February 2:
ON-CAMPUS
10-12AM: Meet to discuss and launch our short film on YouTube.
1-3PM: Discuss our Learning Cluster Fair Presentation. (TBA)

Wednesday February 3:
10 AM-2 P.M. : Learning Cluster Fair

2:30-4:00 Presentation at Soka University of America in Pauling 216.

End of Winter Block


*We will be filming throughout our Learning Cluster. The objective is to create a short film documentary (15-20 min) about our group and individual studies on Urban Development, Architecture, Sustainable Housing and Weatherization in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
*Students will submit photo essays, personal essays, and possibly more material about their experiences with building, their time spent in the city, and the economic, social, and environmental issues they study.

Collaborating Institutions

FOVISEE
* below is a statement from the non-profit organization
The founders of FOVISEE are a group of professionals sharing a strong commitment towards the improvement of our society. For over 10 years we have worked on the design and implementation of programs on access to energy in low income communities.
The context which inspired us is one of a developing country, where large numbers of the population live under the line of poverty, where the social policies agenda targeted at these people does not include sustainability or energy efficiency topics. The Argentine state builds annually around 36,000 new social housing units, where construction is based on living space needs and reduced budget not including energy efficiency criteria, so it yearly adds thousands of homes that will waste energy for decades and lessen families’ comfort.
To make up for the lack of experience, we built and measured new energy efficient affordable housing model units, and designed, applied and measured rehabilitation models. Determined to influence public policies, we base our work on feasibility; and believe that the most definitive way of assessing it is actually carrying out applied field projects. During our experience we attempted to carry out several ideas with unsuccessful results, where the lessons were all the more valuable than with successful cases: it has helped us rule out ideas that were impracticable, too costly, complicated, or fragile; and also helped us work on ideas that were originally flawed, but could be improved.
FOVISEE does not charge for its services. Sponsorships and donations from businesses and individuals are the foundation’s financial sources. But above everything, the specificity of the Forum is to gather different institutions that contribute to the projects with human, technical and financial resources. The main partners from the beginning of the Forum are:
CIHE (Center of Research on Habitat and Energy), Architecture Faculty, University of Buenos Aires: Professional advising.
DRS-UTN (Social Responsibility Department, National Technological University): Human resources and logistics support.
INTI (National Institute of Industrial Technology): Institutional support and professional advising.
Edenor (largest electrical distributor of Argentina): Financial, logistical and human resources support.
TECHO
www.techo.org
As mentioned in the itinerary, this Learning Cluster will meet with representatives of this non-profit organization to discuss the implications of sustainable housing for impoverished communities. Students will conduct a short interview to gain clarity on urban development policies in inner-city neighborhoods where most Techo volunteers work to improve the quality of life for members of each area. This organization maintains an exceptional standard that coincides with the objectives of the course.

* below is a statement from the non-profit organization

TECHO pursues three strategic objectives: (1) The promotion of community development in slums, through a process of community strengthening that promotes representative & validated leadership, drives the organization and participation of thousands of families living in slums to generate solutions of their own problems. (2) Fostering social awareness and action, with special emphasis on generating critical and determined volunteers working next to the families living in slums while involving different actors of society. (3) Political advocacy that promotes necessary structural changes to ensure that poverty does not continue reproducing, and that it begins to decrease rapidly.

Vision: A fair and poverty free society, where everyone has the opportunities needed to develop their capacities and fully exercise their rights

Mission: Work Tirelessly to overcome extreme poverty in slums, through training and joint action of families and youth volunteers. Furthermore, to promote community development, denouncing the situation in which the most excluded communities live. And lastly, to advocate for social policies with other actors in society.

Asociación Guardianes del Ambiente (A.Gu.A)
* below is a statement from the non-profit organization

The Asociación Guardianes del Ambiente (A.Gu.A) is a non-profit organization that has as a mission the development of the “sense of initiative” to create the tools to preserve environmental harmony through formal and informal education. A. Gu. A was founded by professors and students of the Instituto Pizzurno de Enseñanza Integral, Nivel ESB and Polimodal. It organizes international and national gatherings, lectures, workshops and and seminars to promote the sense of responsability towards the environment. A. Gu. A has became an space of training, exchange, and reflection between Educational Institutions and their students to foster the action of youth in the political decisions of sustainability in Argentina.

Person in charge: Gustavo Horacio Vera
Contact: caretakers@fullzero.com.ar / ipei@teletel.com.ar

Through this organization, we would be able to meet with students to establish dialogue about our projects and exchange ideas.

The Asociación Guardianes del Ambiente (A.Gu.A):
Learning Cluster Budget
January 15th to January 31st 2016

Health and Safety

*For the following reasons, Buenos Aires is considered to be a relatively safe place to stay.

1. Health

Buenos Aires has a temperate climate that ranges from subtropical in the north and sub polar down south. During the month of January, we will be experiencing an Argentine Summer, which turns out to be relatively hot with high moisture readings. The Center for Disease Control states that Malaria should not be a concern since Buenos Aires is an urban center. It does, however, recommend for travelers to have their vaccines up to date, which will be required of all students in the group.

2. The Popularity of the Destination

According to the World Travel & Tourism Council, Buenos Aires is the second most desirable city to visit. This suggests that Buenos Aires is as safe as any other major urban hub.

3. Safety Rules and Guidelines

The students will always be required to remain in groups of 2-3 people at all times. It is recommended that all members of the core group be informed when a small group separates. It is also important that a fluent Spanish speaker be assigned to each smaller group at all times. The students will be oriented on safe practices for a major city of this type but are also expected to exercise common sense.

 

Language

The official spoken language in Buenos Aires, Argentina is Spanish. The sponsoring faculty, Professor Tomas Crowder-Taraborrelli, is a native Argentine, fluent in both English and Spanish. Three of the students in this Learning Cluster group are native Spanish speakers, 2 other students are fluent and about 3 are capable of understanding and communicating back fairly well.


Accompanying Faculty

Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli, Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies,
will be the accompanying faculty. He led two successful Learning Clusters to Brazil (2010), San Diego/Tijuana (2011), and Argentina (2012, 213, 214). All class meetings will be held in an apartment in Buenos Aires outfitted with AV equipment.

Bibliography

Bird, Stephen, and Diana Hernandez. “Policy Options for the Split Incentive: Increasing Energy Efficiency for Low-income Renters.” Elsevier 48.2012 (2012): 506-14. ScienceDirect. Web. 7 Oct. 2015.

Brown, Marilyn A., Linda G. Berry, Laurence F. Kinney, Thomas C. Wilson, and Dennis L. White. “Ten Case Studies of Effective Weatherization.” Prairie Schooner 10.3 (1936): 235-36. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Nov. 1993. Web. 9 Oct. 2015.

Carns, Ted. Off on Our Own: Living Off-Grid in Comfortable Independence: One Couple’s “Learn as We Go” Journey to Self-Reliance. N.p.: St. Lynn’s, 2011. Print.

Dahlhausen, Matthew, Mohammad Heidarinejad, and Jelena Srebric. “Building Energy Retrofits under Capital Constraints and Greenhouse Gas Pricing Scenarios.” Elsevier 107.2015(2015): 407-16. ScienceDirect. Web. 7 Oct. 2015..

“Developing Weatherization Programs In Argentina.” Developing Weatherization Programs In Argentina. Clean Energy Solutions Center, n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2015.

Fryer, Julie. The Complete Guide to Water Storage: How to Use Gray Water and Rainwater Systems, Rain Barrels, Tanks, and Other Water Storage Techniques for Household and Emergency Use (Back to Basics Conserving). N.p.: Atlantic, 2011. Print.

Gintis, Herbert, and Bo Gustafsson. Markets and Democracy Participation, Accountability, Efficiency. Ed. Samuel Bowels. N.p.: Cambrige U, n.d. Print.

Hong, Tianzhen, Mary Ann Piette, Yixing Chen, Sang Hoon Lee, Sarah C. Taylor- Lange, Rongpeng Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, and Phillip Price. “Commercial Building Energy Saver: An Energy Retrofit Analysis Toolkit.” Elsevier 159.2015 (2015): 298-309. ScienceDirect. Web. 8 Oct. 2015. .

Hunter, Kaki, and Donald Kiffmeyer. Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques (Natural Building Series). N.p.: New Society, 2004. Print.

Low, Setha M. Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader. N.p.: Rutgers UP, 1999. Print.

Ludwig, Art. Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use–Includes How to Make Ferrocement Water Tanks. N.p.: Oasis Design, 2005. Print.

Minke, Gernot. Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture. 2nd ed. N.p.: Birkhäuser Architecture, 2009. Print.

Morley, Rebecca, Angela Mickalide, and Karin A. Mack. Healthy & Safe Homes: Research, Practice, & Policy. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 2011. Print.

“National Retrospective Evaluation of the Weatherization Assistance Program.” Overview. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2015.

Noris, Federico, William W. Delp, Kimberly Vermeer, Gary Adamkiewicz, Brett C. Singer, and William J. Fisk. “Protocol for Maximizing Energy Savings and Indoor Environmental Quality Improvements When Retrofitting Apartments.” Elsevier 61.2013 (2013): 378-86. ScienceDirect. Web. 7 Oct. 2015.

Phillips, E. Barabara. City Lights: Urban-Suburban Life in the Global Society. N.p.: Oxford UP, 2009. Print.

Rock, David. Argentina, 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsín. N.p.: University of California Press, 1987. Print.

Roy, Rob. Earth-Sheltered Houses: How to Build an Affordable Home. N.p.: New Society, 2006. Print.

Sanchez, Laura, and Alex Sanchez. Adobe Houses for Today: Flexible Plans for Your Adobe Home. N.p.: Sunstone, 2008. Print.

Schroder, Lisa, and Vince Ogletree. Adobe Homes for All Climates: Simple, Affordable, and Earthquake-Resistant Natural Building Techniques. N.p.: Chelsea Green, 2010. Print.

Scott, William, and Stephen Gough. Sustainable Development and Learning: Framing the Issues. London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2003. Print.

Sernau, Scott R. Social Inequality in a Global Age. Third ed. N.p.: Sage, 2010. Print.

Steubing, Jacob Wayne. “Measuring the Efficacy of Low-Income Residential Sustainability Interventions.” (2011): n. pag. Web. 9 Oct. 2015.

Walton, Kim C. “Renewable Energy for Low Income Clients: Benefits Beyond the Money.” Elsevier 57.826-833 (2014): 826-33. ScienceDirect. Web. 10 Oct. 2015.

“Weatherization Guide for Older & Historic Buildings – National Trust for Historic Preservation.” Preservationnation.org. National Trust for Historic Preservation, n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2015.

“What Is Weatherization.” What Is Weatherization. Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, 2 Feb. 2002. Web. 10 Oct. 2015.

White-Newsome, Jalonne L., Brisa N. Sanchez, Olivier Jolliet, Zhenzhen Zhang, Edith A. Parker, J. Timothy Dvonch, and Marie S. O’Neill. “Climate Change and Health: Indoor Heat Exposure in Vulnerable Populations.” Elsevier 112.2012 (2011): 20-27. ScienceDirect. Web. 10 Oct. 2015.

Wilson, Jason. Buenos Aires: A Cultural History. N.p.: Interlink, 1999. Print.

Latin American Literature

Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli
tcrowdertaraborrelli@soka.edu
Tomas’ blog: tcrowdertaraborrelli.com
Office, office hours: Maathai 414, Mondays and Fridays 3:00- 4:00 p.m.
Class Website 
LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE
This course is a survey of twentieth-century Latin American literature. The fact that many of these readings are grouped under this category reveals that we have a need to organize knowledge in a way that is industrious and geopolitically convenient. Although it is undeniable that some of the authors featured in this course have found inspiration in each other’s writings and shared long conversations about national identity, cultural heritage, social reform and liberation, most of them carried on with their work in blissful remoteness.
To begin the study of Latin American literature is to enter a universe of literary innovation, cultural critique, philosophical ruminations, jealously, and the often eluding quest to establish a continental movement to amend the painful legacies of colonialism, racism and underdevelopment. Jorge Volpi, one of the writers included in the reading list for the course, recently wrote:
What do we, Latin Americans, share in exclusivity? More of the same: a language, catholic traditions, Roman law, a few customs of an uncertain indigenous or African origin, and the resentment, now turned into jokes, against Spain and the United States? Is that all? After two centuries of independence, is that all? Seriously?
The literary works I’ve selected for this course make great demands both on readers and scholars. They demand open-mindedness, passionate reflection and the luxury to continue exploring the historical allusions made in these narratives after the course is over. In the last decades, an analytical dialogue has deepened the study of literary texts with writings from multiple disciplines: sociology, psychology, history, philosophy, and art history just to name a few. Academics often refer to these often-interdisciplinary texts as “theory”. I have included several influential “theoretical” texts in our reading list in an attempt to show you the pleasures and pains of “applying” what could appear to be “esoteric” formulations to the interpretation of literature.
A main motivation in this course is to attempt to answer Volpi’s open-ended question (quoted above). I hope that during our classroom discussions will be the beginning of an educated response to his insolent query.
REQUIRED BOOKS
I recommend you purchase your books on Powell’s books website http://www.powells.com right after you read this syllabus! Please purchase the same editions I have listed. Keep in mind that you must attend class with your personal copy of the books not a digital version in your computer (when possible). If readings are posted on Brightspace, please bring a hard copy to class.
     
Aira, Cesar. How I Became a Nun. New York: New Directions, 2007 (optional).
Arlt, Roberto. Mad Toy. Transl. McKay Aynesworth. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002 [electronic version
available from Ikeda Library].
Bellatín, Mario. Beauty Salon. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2009 (required text).
Bolaño, Roberto. Distant Star. New York: New Directions, 2004 (required text).
Carpentier, Alejo. The Kingdom of This World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006 (required text).
Lemebel, Pedro. My Tender Matador: A Novel. New York: Groove Press, 2004 (required text).
Lispector, Clarice. The Hour of the Star. New York: New Directions Books, 1992 (Sixth       Printing) (required text).
Pacheco, Jose Emilio. Battles in the Desert & Other Stories. New York: New Directions, 1987 (required text).
Schwelbin, Samantha. Birds In The Mouth. Electric Literature, 2012 (kindle edition on Amazon, optional)
Zamba, Alejandro. Bonsai. First Melville House Printing: October, 2008 (required text).
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• To understand some of the key literary figures and movements in Latin American literature
• Learn to read closely short-stories, poems, novels and literary criticism essays
• Gain knowledge about historical events that shaped the continent’s literary movements and the life of some of their key authors
• Analyze a literary text through the lens of philosophical or critical theory essays
• Write short academic essays about literature
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
• Journals (25%)
The purpose of the journals is to help generate ideas and to give the students an informal arena in which to state reactions to the works they read, to record initial explications of key passages, and most importantly, to help students think about the work in relation to other works discussed in the course. I will check the journals periodically.
• 2 Papers (25%)
Two 5-6-page essays with research (secondary sources) focusing on a poem, essay or work of fiction we have discussed in class.
• Class presentation (30%)
Presentations should cover literary criticism, or an article regarding an author, his or her work, or a particular aspect of the development of Latin American literature in the twentieth century- 10 minutes in length
• Class participation and attendance (20%)
• Unannounced quizzes may be given to insure the class is reading the assigned material 
WEEK 1:  February 9th and 11th
 Introduction to Latin American Literature and Literary Criticism
Tuesday: Introduction to the Course. Williams, Raymond. Marxism and Literature, “Culture”, “Literature”, “Creative Practice” (Brightspace).
Wednesday: Carlos Velázquez, La marrana negra de la literatura rosa. Translated by Jake Edelstein (Soka alumni).
WEEK 2: February 16th and 18th
Latin American surrealism and historicism
Tuesday: Miguel Angel Asturias, Legends of Guatemala. “Legend of La Tatuana” (on Brightspace).
Thursday: (cont.) Roberto Fernández Retamar, Calibán and Other Essays, “Calibán: Notes Toward a Discussion of Culture in Our America” (on Brightspace)
WEEK 3: February 23rd and 25th
Modernism
Tuesday: Roberto Arlt: Mad Toy, translated by Michelle Aynesworth (electronic copy available through the library) 1-85.
Thursday: Roberto Arlt: Mad Toy, translated by Michelle Aynesworth (electronic copy available through the library) 85-170.
WEEK 4: March 1st and 3rd
A Caribbean master
Tuesday: Alejo Carpentier. The Kingdom of This World. Part One (1-90)
Thursday: Alejo Carpentier. The Kingdom of This World. Part Two (91-180) .Terry Eagleton, “Political Criticism” (on Brightspace)
WEEK 5: March 8th and 10th
A paper revolution- the literary avant-garde
Tuesday: Jorge Luis Borges. Selected short stories (on Brightspace)
Thursday: Jorge Luis Borges. Selected short stories (cont.). Michelle Foucault. The Order of Things, “Preface” “Las Meninas” (on Brightspace)
WEEK 6: March 16th and 18th
SPRING BREAK!!
WEEK 7: March 22nd and 24th
Magical realism and the boom
Tuesday: Gabriel García Márquez, Strange Pilgrims, “Prologue”, “The Saint”, “Miss Forbe’s Summer of Happiness” (on Brightspace)
Thursday: Pablo Neruda, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, “The Heights of Macchu Picchu” “America, I do not invoke your name in vain” “Canto General of Chile” (on Brightspace)
WEEK 8: March 29th and 31st
The fantastic
Tuesday: Todorov, The Fantastic, “Definition of the fantastic”, “The uncanny and the marvelous” (excerpt on Brightspace) Julio Cortázar, Selected short stories (on Brightspace): “House taken over,” “The distances,” “The Idol of the Cyclades” “Blow-up,” “Letter to a young girl in Paris.”
Thursday: Julio Cortázar, Selected short stories (on Brightspace).
WEEK 9: April 5th and 7th
Gender and sexuality
FIRST PAPER DUE ON THIS TUESDAY! (5 pages) Bring hard copy to class!
Tuesday: Rosario Ferré, The Youngest Doll, “The Youngest Doll” (on Brightspace).
Thursday: Clarice Lispector. The Hour of the Star.
FILM ON RESERVE TO BE VIEWED OVER THE WEEKEND: The Hour of the Star
WEEK 10: April 12th and 14th
Violence and sex
Tuesday: Alejandro Zambra, Bonsai. Reading marathon [location to be announced].
Thursday: Samantha Schwelbin. Birds in the Mouth (selection, kindle). Theodor W. Adorno, Prisms, “Cultural Criticsim and Society” (on Brightspace)
WEEK 11: April 19th and 21st
Love and death
Tuesday: Mario Bellatín. Beauty Salon.
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, “The house, from cellar to garret. The significance of the hut” (on Brightspace)
Thursday:  Rodrigo Ray Rosa, Dust on her tongue, “Dust on her tongue”, “Privacy”, “The Burial” (on Brightspace)
Jorge Volpi, “Ars Poetica”, Mayra Montero “That man, Pollack” (on Brightspace)
WEEK 12: April 26th and 28th
Bolaño and literary, deadly, social clubs
Tuesday: Roberto Bolaño. Distant Star, part One.
Thursday: Roberto Bolaño, Distant Star, part Two.
WEEK 13: May 3rd and 5th
Short-stories
Tuesday: Pedro Lemebel. My Tender Matador. Part One
Thursday: Pedro Lemebel. My Tender Matador. Part Two.
WEEK 14: May 10th and 12th
Oral presentations if needed
SECOND PAPER IS DUE (6 pages, date to be announced!)
WEEK 15: FINALS WEEK! May 18th to May 24th

Bibliography 

Adorno, Theodor W. “Cultural Criticism and Society.” Prisms. MIT Press, 1981.

Asturias, Miguel Angel., and R. Kelly. Washbourne. “Legend of La Tatuana.” Legends of Guatemala = Leyendas de Guatemala. Latin American Literary Review Press, 2011.

Bachelard, Gaston, and M. Jolas. The poetics of space. Penguin Books, 2014.

Bellatin, Mario. Beauty Salon. City Lights Publisher, 2009.

Bolaño, Roberto. Distant star. Vintage, 2009.

Borges, Jorge Luis, and Pierre Macherey. Jorge Luis Borges. Freeland, 1978.

Carpentier, Alejo. The kingdom of this world. Macmillan, 2006. 1-180.

Lispector, Clarice. The Hour of the Star. New Directions, 1992.

Cortázar, Julio, and Paul Blackburn. Blow-up, and other stories. Pantheon Books, 2013.

Ferre, Rosario. The Youngest Doll. University of Nebraska Press, 1991.

Lemebel, Pedro. My tender matador. Grove Press, 2003.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. Strange Pilgrims. Vintage, 2006.

Neruda, Pablo, and Ilan Stavans. The poetry of Pablo Neruda. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Retamar, Roberto Fernández. Caliban and other essays. University of Minnesota Press, 2005. 1-170.

Rosa, Rodrigo Rey. Dust on her tongue. City Lights Books, 1992.

Schweblin, By: Samanta. “Birds in the Mouth.” PEN America, 18 Nov. 2011, pen.org/birds-in-the-mouth/.

Todorov, Tzvetan, and Richard Howard. The fantastic: a structural approach to a literary genre. Cornell Univ. Pr., 2007

Velázquez, Carlos. La marrana negra de la literatura rosa. Sexto Piso, 2013.

Williams, Raymond. Marxism and literature. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Zambra, Alejandro. Bonsai. Melville House, 2012.

Core I

Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli
Meeting times: M-F 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Office hours: M 4-5 p.m., Maathai 414
tcrowdertaraborrelli@soka.edu


Core
“The Enduring Questions of Humanity”
2017

Introduction to Core Curriculum

A two-course sequence, Core explores a range of issues related to the mission statement of the university, including its commitment to values such as peace, human rights, and the creative coexistence of nature and humanity. Core also provides an introduction to the various ways of knowing that characterize the major divisions of the undergraduate curriculum, thereby laying the foundation for the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study that underlies Soka education. In this exploration, Core courses stress an understanding of the social and historical contexts necessary to make meaningful comparisons among cultural traditions.

Upon completing the Core, student-learning outcomes are:


* To demonstrate knowledge of the commonalities and differences of the human experience from multiple (historical/cultural/disciplinary) perspectives
* To critically evaluate this knowledge in relation to their own lives
* To develop their ability to speak and write effectively about their evaluation of this knowledge

Building on a set of common readings, individual members of the faculty help shape the core through reading selections drawn from their special training, expertise, and interests.

Books you need to purchase in the SUA bookstore

Bhagavad-Gita:  The Song of God
Confucius, The Analects
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
The Upanishads:  Breath of the Eternal  [in the bookstore]

Grading

CORE 1 is a Pass/No-Pass class, but you may obtain a letter-grade by formally requesting it by the end of the 2nd day of class. Narrative Assessments will also be given along with your final grade.

Assignments

1st essay, 4 pages      25%
2nd essay, 4 pages      25%
3rd essay, 6 pages      35%
Short oral presentation 15%

Special Needs

Soka University is firmly committed to providing whatever assistance necessary to aid in the learning process.  Those students with special needs are strongly urged to present the appropriate documentation to the Instructor immediately so that the instructor can make the necessary arrangements.

WEEK 1

Monday, August 14
Introduction to the course/syllabus.
Introduction to Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching. First 41 sections.
E. Cioran. “Thinking against oneself.” The temptation to
exist. Richard Howard-Susan Sontag-Eugene Thacker. Arcade Pub. 2012 (15 pages).
Discussion of upcoming Essay #1 (DUE on Sunday, Aug. 23rd)
HOMEWORK: Next 40 sections of Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching.

Tuesday, August 15
Discussion of Lao-tzu (finish)
Screening of sequence of Rivers and Tides
Introduction to Confucius

HOMEWORK: Confucius Analects, Ch. 1-4, 7, 9, 12-13


Wednesday, August 16
Discussion of Confucius Analects
Screening of sequence of Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams


HOMEWORK: The Upanishads:  Breath of the Eternal [Katha (pp. 13-25), Isha (pp. 26-28)]

Thursday, August 17
Discussion of The Upanishads.

HOMEWORK: Bhagavad-Gita:  The Song of God [Chapters I, II, III (pp. 30-49)]

Friday, August 18
Discussion of Bhagavad-Gita:  The Song of God [Chapters I, II, III (pp. 30-49)]

HOMEWORK: Aristotle’s “Metaphysics.” J. Ackrill. A New Aristotle Reader. Princeton University Press, 1988.

Sunday, August 20
ASSIGNMENT DUE: Essay #1 Due at noon.  


WEEK 2
Monday, August 21
Discussion of Aristotle’s “Metaphysics ” (from Book I (A) to Book
VIII (H)) and upcoming Essay #2.
Weiss, F. G. Hegel’s Critique of Aristotle’s Philosophy of
Mind. Martinus Nijhoff, 1969. (recommended reading)

HOMEWORK: Finish reading Aristotle’s “Metaphysics.”


Tuesday, August 22
Discussion of Aristotle’s “Metaphysics.”
Introduction to Antigone and Greek Tragedy.
FILM: La stanza del figlio (The Son’s Room), Nanni Moretti, 2002.
           
HOMEWORK:

Wednesday, August 23
Discussion Antigone.


HOMEWORK: Antigone


Thursday, August 24
Discussion Antigone
Epicurus. “Letter to Herodotus.” The Art of Happiness.
Trans. George K. Strodach. Penguin Books, 2012.

HOMEWORK: Epicurus. “Letter to Herodotus” and Lucretius Books I, II


Friday, August 25
Discussion of Epicurus. “Letter to Herodotus”
Discussion of Lucretius Books I, II.

HOMEWORK:
Lucretius Book III.

Sunday, August 27
ASSIGNMENT DUE: Essay #2 due at noon.
WEEK 3

Monday, August 28
8:15 a.m. (meet at Ikeda library steps) Getty Field Trip
HOMEWORK: Look over notes of Getty Field Trip


Tuesday, August 29
Discuss oral presentation assignment
Discussion of upcoming Essay #3.
Wednesday, August 30
In-class film screening: Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia for the Light.
HOMEWORK: Work on Oral Presentations

Thursday, August 31
Oral Presentations in-class.

HOMEWORK: Bring a reading to class that relates to one of the texts we have read

Friday, September 1
Oral Presentations if needed

Core II

Soka University of America
Core 200-11 (1014), Spring, 2017
TuTh 1:00PM-2:30 PM Gan202
#core2sua
CORE II
The spirit of the corrupt mob said to the objects: I am yours, take me! and hurled itself into the river of objects, let itself be swept along by them and perished in the flood. 
G.W.F. Hegel
INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
This course examines how the central questions posed in Core I continue to be addressed in a contemporary context. Through readings on the environment, historical development of human societies, current issues of social inequality, as well as personal and group identities and relationships, Core II explores some of the major issues facing humanity today.
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013) ushered in a wave of articles around the world that gave legitimacy to what millions of people had been discussing for years- the steadfast growth of inequality in their communities. The consequence of the income gap between the wealthy and the poor is felt with greater intensity today, as we witness the rise of repressive regimes around the globe. In this course, we will be exploring inequality and state-repression as a way to reflect upon the strengths and weaknesses of our social institutions. I hope the readings I have chosen will help us develop theoretical approaches to analyze the root causes of the increase in inequality and its dreadful consequences.
RECOMMENDED BOOK
Hobsbawm, Eric. Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century: 1914-1991. New
York: Vintage, 1996.
LABOR
●   Daily class reflections: You must buy a pack of flashcards and bring them with you to every class. At the end of each class period, I will give you 10 minutes to reflect on the reading/s and discussion. On your flashcards, please write down a few notes on the topic of discussion and/or transcribe one or two quotes from the readings (make sure you include first and last name of the author, title of the essay or book, and page number).
●   Complete common readings and any additional readings assigned specifically to you
●   Attendance and participation at film screenings
●   3 Short Papers
●   Abstract and outline of your final presentation
●   Final presentation
●   Final Paper
ABBREVIATIONS
CR    Common Readings- Every student needs to do the reading and prepare for
class discussion
ARS   Assigned Reading to 1 student: The student who is assigned the reading
must prepare a 10-minute presentation on the reading and prepare to
engage with other readings or films scheduled for that day.
COURSE SCHEDULE

Tuesday, February 7th 1:00- 2:30 p.m.
Inoue, Asao B. “Reading as a Mindful Practice.” (CR) 3 pages
Yates, Michael D. “Measuring Global Inequality.” Monthly Review. (CR) 9
pages
Lenin, Vladimir. “Communism and the East: Theses on the National and Colonial
Questions.”Lenin Anthology. (ASR) 4 pages
Thursday, February 9th
Singer, Peter. “Common Objections to Giving.” The Life You Can Save: Acting
Now to End World Poverty. (CR) 10 pages
Stiglitz, Joseph E. “Inequality Is Not Inevitable.” (pgs 300-305). The Great
Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them. (ARS) 18 pages
Screening (in class): The Queen of Versailles. Dir. Lauren Greenfield, 2012.
Saturday, February 11th
Extra credit opportunity: Brothers Hypnotic. Dir. Reuben Atlas and Sam
Pollard, 2013. Black Box Theater, 5:30 p.m.
http://www.soka.edu/news_events/events/2017/02/BrothersHypnotic.aspx
Tuesday February 14th
Rousseau, Jean Jacques. “A Dissertation On The Origin And Foundation Of The
Inequality Of Mankind: First Part.” (9-23) Discourse on Inequality.  
(CR) 15 pages
https://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cvsp/Documents/DiscourseonInequality.pdf879500092.pdf
Rousseau, Jean Jacques. “A Dissertation On The Origin And Foundation Of The
Inequality Of Mankind.” (23-38) Discourse on Inequality.(ARS) 15
pages
Thursday February 16th
Kaplan, Jerry. “America, Home of the Brave.” Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide
to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. (CR)  [Last
chapter in the PDF] 20 pages
Lyotard, Jean-Francois. Universal History and Cultural Differences. The
Lyotard Reader. (ARS) 5 pages
Prompt for First Short Paper
Tuesday February 21st
Engels, Friedrich. “Competition,” “Irish Immigration,” and “Results.” The
Conditions of the Working Class in England (CR). 25 pages.
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. “A Self-Portrait,” and “Property is Theft.” No Gods
No Masters, ed. Daniel Guerin. (ARS). 9 pages
Lenin, Vladimir. “Two Resolutions on Party Policy.” Lenin Anthology (ARS). 4
pages
First Short Paper Due- Inequality.
Thursday February 23rd
Washington, Booker T. Chapters I, VI, VIII, X. Up From Slavery (CR). 25
pages.
Community Cinema Screening. 7 p.m. Pauling 216: The Bad Kids, dir. Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe. This is a mandatory screening!
Tuesday February 28th [away Conference]
Baldwin, James. “Preface to the 1984 Edition,” “Many Thousands Gone.” Notes
on a Native Son. (CR). 16 pages.
Screening in class: I’m Not Your Negro. Dir. Raoul Peck, 2016. [if
available] if not, James Baldwin: The Price of The Ticket. Dir. Karen Thorsen. 1990
https://soka.kanopystreaming.com/video/james-baldwin-price-ticket
Thursday March 2nd [away Conference]
Khatchadourian, Raffi. “Edward Burtynsky’s quest to photograph a changing
planet.” The New Yorker, December 19th & 26, 2016. (CR)
Hayek, F.A. “Individualism and Collectivism.” The Road to Serfdom. (ARS) 5
pages.
Prompt for Second Short Paper.
Tuesday March 7th [away Conference]
Dewey, John. The Live Creature. Art As Experience. (CR). 10 pages.
Screening (watch on your own):  Land Without Bread. Dir. Luis Buñuel, 1933.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at-xnnNT8N8
Wednesday, March 8th [away Conference]
Mandatory event!!
Sancutary in the Age of Crimmigration. Gues Speaker, Ana Muniz.
6:00-7:00 p.m. Pauling Hall 216.
Thursday March 9th [away Conference]
Second Short Paper Due- Analysis of Land Without Bread.
Assignment, pick a movie on reserve in the library and watch it over the weekend.
La hora de los hornos [The Hour of the Furnaces]. Dir. Grupo de Cine
Liberación. 1st part only. [on reserve in the Library]
The Battle of Algiers. Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966.
The Exterminating Angel. Dir. Luis Buñuel, 1962.
Nostalgia for the Light. Dir. Patricio Guzmán. 2000 [on reserve in the
Library]
The Selfish Giant. Dir. Clio Barnard, 2013. [on reserve in the Library]
Up the Yangtze. Dir. Yu Chang, 2007. [on reserve in the Library]
Ici et Ailleurs. Dir. Dziga Vertov Group (Jean-Luc Godard), 1976. [on reserve
in the Library]
Tuesday March 14th
Marti, Jose. Selected Writings. (CR). 5 pages.
Flores Magon, Ricardo et. al. Reading of the Mexican Revolution. The Mexico
Reader. (ARS). 10 pages.
Thursday March 16th
Anna Muniz Talk.
https://soka.box.com/s/anzwr4nyd1rh81rou0kqsua39zkgaiv7
Nietzche, Friedrich. “Book One,”. The Gay Science (selection). (CR). 23 pages.
Tuesday March 21st
Spring Break  
Thursday March 23rd
Spring Break  

Luxemburg, Rosa. “The Junius Pamphlet The Crisis in German Social Democracy.” Rosa Luxemburg Reader. (CR) 15 pages.
Tuesday March 28th
Menchú, Rigoberta.”An eight-year old agricultural worker,” “Death of her
little brother..,” “A maid in the Capital,”. I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala. (CR). 23 pages
Black Lives Matter Statement: Guiding Principles. (ARS) 3 pages
Garza, Alicia. “A Herstory of the Movement.” 4 pages
http://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/
Thursday March 30th
Du Bois, W.E.B. 1. Our Spiritual Strivings. 3. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others. The Souls of Black Folk (CR). 11 pages. Screening (in class): Now. Dir. Santiago Alvarez.
Tuesday April 4th
Outlaw, Lucius T. (Jr.) “Against the Grain of Modernity: The Politics of Difference and the Conservation of ‘Race’.” On Race and Philosophy. (CR) 23 pages.
Biko, Steve. Foreword. “Black Souls,” “The Definitions…” I Write I like. (ARS) 12 pages.
Thursday April 6th
Arendt, Hannah. Chapter 5.”The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie.”
      The Origins of Totalitarianism. (CR) 35 pages
Arendt, Hannah. Chapter 11. “The Totalitarian Movement.” The Origins of
Totalitarianism. (341- 364) (ARS) 24 pages
Arendt, Hannah. Chapter 11. “The Totalitarian Movement.” The Origins of
Totalitarianism. (364-388) (ARS) 25 pages
“Totalitarianism in the Age of Trump: Lessons from Hannah Arendt,” The
Guardian. February 2, 2017.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/01/totalitarianism-in-age-donald-trump-lessons-from-hannah-arendt-protests
Tuesday April 11th
Améry, Jean. At The Mind’s Limits. (CR). 21 pages
Screening (in class): Night and Fog. Dir. Alain Resnais, 1956.
Thursday April 13th
Klemperer, Victor. “1935.” I Will Bear Witness: A Diary Of the Nazi Years
(1933-1941). (CR). 20 pages
Screening (in class): Triumph of the Will. Dir. Leni Riefenstahl, 1935.
Prompt Third Short Paper
Tuesday April 18th
West, Cornel. “Race And Modernity.” The Cornel West Reader. (CR). 34 pages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LhmQ-DwLTU
Thursday April 20th
Fanon. “Colonial War And Mental Disorders.” The Wretched of the Earth.
(249-280) 31 pages (CR)
Fanon. “Colonial War And Mental Disorders.” The Wretched of the Earth.
(280-310) 31 pages (ARS)
Screening (in class): Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from the
Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense. Dir. Goran Hugo Olsson, 2014. [Kanopy streaming]
https://soka.kanopystreaming.com/video/concerning-violence
Community Cinema Screening. 7 p.m. Pauling 216: National Bird, dir. Sonia Kennebeck. This is a mandatory screening!
Tuesday April 25th
Desnoes, Edmundo. “Inconsolable Memories. A Cuban View of the Missile Crisis.” (CR). 3 pages.
Screening (in class): The War Game. Dir. Peter Watkins, 1965.
Thursday April 27th
Screening (in class): Enron: The Smartest Boys in the Room. 2nd part.
Third short paper due.
Tuesday May 2nd
Pachedo, José Emilio. Battles in the Desert. 19 pages (CR)
Thursday May 4th
Baudrillard, Jean. “Catastrophe Management.” “The Dance of Fossils.” The Illusion of the End. (CR). 6 pages.
Outline of Final Paper due (1-2 pages)
Tuesday May 9th
Student Presentations
Thursday May 11t
Student Presentations
Tuesday May 16th
Study Day
May 17th- 23rd (Final Exams)
Final essay due by midnight (Date to be announced)

Bibliography
Arendt, H. (1979). The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie. The origins Of Totalitarianism (pp. 122-157). San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Baldwin, James. “Preface to the 1984 Edition,” “Many Thousands Gone.” Notes on a Native Son. (CR). 16 pages.
Baudrillard, J. (1994). The illusion of the end. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Biko, S., & Stubbs, A. (1979). I write what I like. New York: Harper & Row.
Desnoes, Edmundo. (2004) “Inconsolable Memories. A Cuban View of the Missile Crisis.” Duke Press.
Dewy, John. (1934) The Live Creature. Art As Experience. The Penguin Group.
Du_Bois, W. E. (1961). The souls of black people: essays and sketches. Greenwich (Conn.): Fawcett Publications.
Engels, F. (1886). The condition of the working class in England. Great Britain: Penguin Books.
Fanon. (1963).  “Colonial War And Mental Disorders.” The Wretched of the Earth. Grove Press.
Flores Magon, Ricardo et. Al. (2003) Reading of the Mexican Revolution. The Mexico Reader. Duke Press.
Garza, Alicia. (October 7, 2014). A History of the #BlackLivesMAtter Movement by Alicia Garza. The Feminist Wire. Retrieved from http://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/.
Guérin, D., & Sharkey, P. (2005). No gods, no masters. Edinburgh, Scotland: AK Press.
Hegel, G. W. F. (1977). Phenomenology of Spirit. London: Oxford University Press.
Inoue, A.B. (n.d). Reading as a Mindful Practice [Scholarly project].
Kadourian, Raffi. “Edward Burtynsky’s quest to photograph a changing planet.” The New Yorker, December 19th & 26, 2016
Kaplan, J. (2015). Humans need not apply: a guide to wealth and work in the age of artificial intelligence. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Khatchadourian, R. (2016, December 19). Edward Burtynsky’s quest to photography: a changing planet. The New Yorker, 80-87.
Klemperer, V. (1999). 1935. I will bear witness: a diary of the Nazi years 1933-1941 (pp. 108-   145). New York: Modern Library.
Lenin, V. I., & Tucker, R. C. (1975). The Lenin Anthology. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Luxemburg, R., Hudis, P., & Anderson, K. (2004). The Junius Pamphlet: The Crisis in German Social Democracy. The Rosa Luxemburg reader (pp. 313-341). New York: Monthly Review Press.
Lyotard, J. F. (1989). Universal History and Cultural Differences. In A. Benjamin (Ed.), The Lyotard Reader. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell.
Martí, J., Allen, E., & Echevarría, R. G. (2002). José Martí: selected writings. New York: Penguin Books.
Menchú, R., & Burgos-Debray. E. (1984). I, Rigoberta Menchú: an Indian woman in Guatemala. London: Verso.
Outlaw, L.T. (1996). On race and philosophy. New Yorker: Routledge.
Pacheco, José Emilio. (2001). Battles in the Desert. Ediciones Era.
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. (2005). “Self-Portrait,” and “Property is Theft.” No Gods No Masters. AK Press.  
Rousseau, Jean Jacques. “A Dissertation On The Origin And Foundation OF The Inequality Of Mankind: First Part.”
Singer, Petter (2009). Common Objections to Giving, The Life You Can Save (pp. 21-41). New York: Random House.
Stiglitz, J. E. (2015). The great divide: unequal societies and what we can do about them. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Washington, B. T. (2010). Up from slavery, an autobiography. New York: New American Library.
West, Cornel. (1999). “Race And Modernity.” The Cornel West Reader. Basic Civitas Books.
Yates, M. D. (2016, November 1). Measuring Global Inequality. Monthly Review. Retrieved from http://monthlyreview.org

Digital Humanities

Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli
Humanities 290-01 (1169) Digital Humanities, Spring 2017
#digitalmediasua
DIGITAL HUMANITIES

When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered
Martin Luther King, The Riverside Church in New York, 1967
…nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.
Borges, citing G.K. Chesterton
INTRODUCTION
This course explores the intersection between digital technology and media with academic research in the Humanities. In recent years, this area of studies has flourished into one of the most popular and well-funded fields of inquiry. The corporate takeover of the Internet has prompted researchers to reflect on the impact that social networks, digital archiving, computer interfaces, and online communication, has had and will have on academic research, publishing, and social relations in general. Most authors we will be reading and discussing this semester seem to agree that the each year the arrival of new technologies in the consumer market appears to be intensifying. These new technologies both threaten and enhance our understanding of the capacities of human beings to remember, preserve, reproduce and represent reality. I hope that this course will grant us the opportunity to better understand the challenges and high hopes that digital technologies bring to the global community.
ASSIGNMENTS:
●   All assignments for this course must be uploaded to a blog. Your blog should be dedicated only to this course. You can upload images, videos, links, and files to your blog. Please keep in mind that all your assignments need to be uploaded by the deadline(10%)
●   Complete common readings and any additional readings assigned specifically to you(20%)
●   Attendance and participation at film screenings (20%)
●   8 writing assignments (15% each)
●   Abstract and outline of your final presentation (10%)
●   Final presentation (10%)
●   Final Paper (15%)
ABBREVIATIONS
CR    Common Readings- Every student needs to do the reading and prepare for
class discussion
ARS   Assigned Reading to 1 student: The student who is assigned the reading
must prepare a 5-10 minutes presentation on the reading and prepare to
engage with other readings or films scheduled for that day.
COURSE SCHEDULE

Tuesday, February 7th
Digital Humanities, why should we care?
Liu, Alan. The Meaning of Digital Humanities: What is the meaning of the
digital humanities to the humanities? (CR)11 pages
Mande, Joe. How I Learned To Game Twitter. The New Yorker (CR)
The World Unplugged (ARS) 4 pages
https://theworldunplugged.wordpress.com/
Thursday February 9th
Digital humanities discussion continues…
Golumbia, David. “Death of a Discipline.” A Journal of Feminist Cultural
Studies. (CR) 17 pages
Mone,Gregory. What’s Next For Digital Humanities?: New Computational Tools
Spur Advances In An Evolving Field,” Communications of the ACM. (ARS) 2
Pages
Visualizing Venice
http://theworldunplugged.wordpress.com/
Tuesday February 14th
Computer history: The perils of standardization
Ceruzzi, Paul. Introduction and “The Early History of Software 1952-1968. A
History of Modern Computing. (CR). 22 pages.
Ceruzzi, Paul. “The Personal Computer, 1972-1977.” A History of Modern
Computing. (207-221)(ARS) 15 pages
Ceruzzi, Paul. “The Personal Computer, 1972-1977.” A History of Modern
Computing. (221-241)(ARS) 20 pages
Thursday February 16th
Negroponte, Nicholas. “Commingled Bits.” Being Digital. (CR) 13 pages
Negroponte, Nicholas. “Where People and Bits Meet.” Being Digital. (ARS) 14
pages
Negroponte, Nicholas. “Less is More.” Being Digital.(ARS) 11 pages
The Entire History of You. Black Mirror [sequence screened in class]
Tuesday February 21st
Manovich, Lev. “Principles of New Media.” The Language of New Media. (CR) 22
pages.   
Manovich, Lev. “What New Media Is Not.” The Language of New Media. (ARS) 13
pages.
Cadwalladr, Carole. “Google, Democracy And The Truth About Internet Search.”
The Guardian. (ARS) 11 pages
Discussion of The Entire History of You. Black Mirror.
Thursday February 23rd [away conference]
Digital technology and education
Blikstein, Paulo. “Travels In Troy With Freire”.(CR) 26 pages
Freire, Paulo. “Chapter 1.  Society In Transition. Education for
Critical Consciousness. (ARS) 8 pages.
Negroponte, Nicholas. “Hard Fun.” Being Digital. (ASR). 10 pages
Tool MIT: http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/
7 p.m. Pauling 216. Community Cinema Event: The Bad Kids, dir. Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe.
Tuesday February 28th [away conference]
No class to make up for mandatory screening Feb. 23rd.
e, Lee and Barry Wellman. “Interlude: A Day in a Connected Life,”
Networked: The New Social Operating System.(CR) 12 pages
Thursday March 2nd [away conference]
Prompts for first paper
Assignment: Pick a movie on reserve in the library and watch it over the weekend.
Black Mirror. [Pick an episode. Streaming Netflix].
We Are Legion. The Story of Hacktivists. Brian Knappenberger, 2012. [on reserve in the Library]
Citizenfour. Dir. Laura Poitras, 2014. [on reserve in the Library]
Tuesday March 7th [away conference]
van Dijck, Jose. Mediated Memories as a Conceptual Too. Mediated Memories in the Digital Age. 26 pages (CR)
Thursday March 9th [away conference]
Watch The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aron Swartz. Dir. Brian Knappenberger (2014).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpvcc9C8SbM
Tuesday March 14th
Marwick, Alice. “Introduction.” Status Update: Celebrity, publicity, and
branding in the social media age. (CR) 19 pages
Marwick, Alice. “Self-Branding.” Status Update: Celebrity, publicity, and
branding in the social media age. (163-181) (ARS) 18 pages (Presentation)
Marwick, Alice. “Self-Branding.” Status Update: Celebrity, publicity, and
branding in the social media age. (181-204)(ARS) 23 pages (Presentation)
First essay due at 10 a.m.
Thursday March 16th
Segovia, Kathryn and Jeremy N. Bailenson.”Identity Manipulation What Happens
When Identity Presentation is Not Truthful.” The Social Net: Understanding our online behavior. Ed. Yair Amichai-Hamburger. (CR) 13 pages
Margalit, Ruth. “Should Auschwitz Be A Site For Selfies?” The New
Yorker, 2014. (ARS)3 pages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISbywX6vlRI
Short film of the Yolocaust (‘Holocaust Selfies’)
“Selfies at Auschwitz: When Tourism Destroys the Meaning of Memory.”
https://www.worldcrunch.com/opinion-analysis/selfies-at-auschwitz-when-tourism-destroys-the-meaning-of-memory
Yolocaust Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjjV_X5re4g
Tuesday March 21st
Galloway, Alexander R. “Introduction: The Computer as a Mode of Mediation.”
The Interface Effect. (CR) 24 pages
Galloway, Alexander R. ”Software and Ideology.” The Interface Effect. (ARS)
23 pages.
Doulas Engelbart Demo (clip screened in class)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/silicon-valleys-quest-to-live-forever?mbid=nl_170327_Daily&CNDID=45187349&spMailingID=10702659&spUserID=MTU4NDQ3OTE5MjM4S0&spJobID=1122167892&spReportId=MTEyMjE2Nzg5MgS2(ARS)
Thursday March 23rd
Thomas, Douglas. “(Not) Hackers: Subculture, Style, and Media Incorporation.”
Hacker Culture. (CR) 31 pages
Tuesday March 28th
Can machines think? AI
Kaplan, Jerry. “Introduction: Welcome to the Future,” “America, Land of the
Free Shipping.” Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.(CR) 14 pages
Kaplan, Jerry. “America, Land of the Free Shipping.” Humans Need Not Apply: A
Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.(ARS) 11 pages
Thursday March 30th
Herrera, Linda. “Wired Youth Rise,” Revolution in the Age of Social Media:
The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet. (1-24) (CR) 24 pages
Herrera, Linda. “Cyberdissident Diplomacy,” Revolution in the Age of Social
Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet. (1-24) (ARS)
22 pages
Gerbaudo, Paolo. “Friendly Reunions: Social Media and The choreography Assembly.” Tweets and the Streets. Social Media and Contemporary Activism. (CR) 30 pages.
Gerbaudo, Paolo. “Introduction.” Tweets and the Streets. Social Media and Contemporary Activism.(ARS) 17 pages.
Heller, Nathan. “The Failure of Facebook Democracy.” The New Yorker, 2016. (ARS) 4 pages
Tuesday April 4th
Baym, Nancy K. “Communities and Networks,” “New Relationships, new Selves.”
Personal Connections in the Digital Age. (CR) 31 pages
      In Real Life, dir. Beeban Kidron, 2014 (sequence screened in class). 0.:50.
https://soka.kanopystreaming.com/video/inreallife
Kirsch, Adam. “Technology is Taking Over English Departments: False Promise of the Digital Humanities.” The New Republic.
https://newrepublic.com/article/117428/limits-digital-humanities-adam-kirsch
Thursday April 6th
Networked communities
Baym, Nancy K. “Communities and Networks,” “New Relationships, new Selves.”
Personal Connections in the Digital Age. (CR) 31 pages (continue)
Vaidhyanathan, Siva Introd. “The Googlization of Memory: Information
Overload, Filters, and the Fracturing of Knowledge,” The Googlization
of Everything And Why We Should Worry. (ASR). 13 pages
Tuesday April 11th
Network communities (continued)
Rainie, Lee and Barry Wellman. “Networked Families.” Networked:
The New Social Operating System. (CR) 24 pages.
Baudrillard, Jean. “The Ecstasy of Communication,” The Ecstasy of
Communication. (ARS) 12 pages
“Meet Erica- Erica Man Made”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2017/apr/07/meet-erica-the-worlds-most-autonomous-android-video
Tuesday April 13th
Library workshop with Helen Alexander and Jan Fandrich
Morville, Peter. “The Sociosemantic Web.” Ambient Findability. (CR) 35 pages.
Tuesday April 18th
Wikipedia
Shirky, Clay. “Personal Motivation Meets Collaborative Production.”
      (ARS)33 pages
Shirky, Clay. “Sharing Anchors Community,” Here Comes Everybody The
Power of Organizing Without Organizations. (CR) 30 pages
Thursday April 20th
Surveillance and war
Vaidhyanathan, Siva. “The Googlization of Us: Universal Surveillance and
Infrastructural Imperialism.” The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry). (82-98) (CR) 15 pages
Vaidhyanathan, Siva. “The Googlization of Us: Universal Surveillance and
Infrastructural Imperialism.” The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry). (98-114) (ARS) 14 pages
Community Cinema screening. National Bird. 7 p.m. Pauling 216. (screening mandatory, make up for class)
Tuesday April 25th
Literature and Digital Technology
Hayles, Katherine. “The Future of Literature: Print Novels and the
Mark of the Digital.” Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the
Literary. (CR) 28 pages
Vaidhyanathan, Siva Introd. “The Googlization of Knowledge: The Future of
Books.” The Googlization of Everything And Why We Should Worry. (ARS) 24 pages.
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World. Dir. Wernerz Herzog, 2016.
Interview to N. Katherine Hayles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBhFYkaift4
Thursday April 27th
Van Dijck, Jose. “From Shoebox to Digital Memory Machine.” Mediated Memories In The Digital Age. (ARS)
Friend, Tad. “Silicon Valley’s Quest to Live Forever.” The New Yorker. 3/27/2017
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/silicon-valleys-quest-to-live forever (CR)
2045 Strategic Social Initiative http://2045.com/
Screening in class: The Entire History of You. Black Mirror.
Tuesday May 2nd
Knowledge and Memory
Aiden, Erez and J.B. Michel. “Armchair Lexicographerologists,” Uncharted Big
Data as a Lens on Human Culture. (CR). 27 pages
Aiden, Erez and J.B. Michel.“Utopia, Dystopia and Dat(A)topia,”Uncharted Big
Data as a Lens on Human Culture. (ARS) 28 pages
Cultural Observatory, Ngram Viewer: http://www.culturomics.org/home
Thursday May 4th
Abstract of Final project is due (1-2 pages)
Tuesday May 9th
Student Presentations of Final Project
Thursday May 11th
Student Presentations of Final Project
Tuesday May 16th
Study Day
May 17th- 23rd (Final Exams)
Final essay due by midnight (Date to be announced)

Digital Humanities Bibliography 
Aiden, E., & Michel, J. (2013). Uncharted: big data as lens on human culture. New York: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA).
Amichai-Hanburger, Y. (2005). The Social net: understanding human behavior in cyberspace. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Baudrillard, J. (1994). The illusion of the end. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Baym, N.K. (2010). Personal connections in the digital age. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
Blikstein, P. (1992). Introduction. Travels in Troy with Freire.
Boyd, D. (2014). It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Network Teens. London: Yale University Press.
Cadwalladr, C. (2016). Google, democracy and the truth about internet search.  The Guardian. Retrieved December 5, 2016, from http://www.theguardian.com/
Ceruzzi, P. E. (2003) A history of modern computing. London, Eng.: MIT Press.
Freire, P. (1973). Society in Transition. Education for Critical Consciousness. New York: Seabury.
Friend, Tad. (2017). “Silicon Valley’s Quest to Live Forever.” The New Yorker.
Morville, Peter. “The Sociosemantic Web.” Ambient Findability.
Galloway, A. R. (2012). The interface effect. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
Garbaudo, P. (2012). Tweets and the streets: social media and contemporary activism. London: Pluto Press.
Golumbia, D. (2014). Death of a Discipline. A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 25(1), 156-176. Duke University Press.
Hayles, K. (2008). The Future of Literature. Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Library (pp. 159-186). Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame.
Heller, N. (2016). The Failure of Facebook Democracy. The New Yorker. Retrieved November 22,2016.
Herrera, Linda. (2014). Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet. Verso.
Jenkins, H. (2006).  Converge culture: where old and new media collide. New York: New York University Press.
Kaplan, Jerry. (2015). Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press.
Liu, A. (2013). The Meaning of the Digital Humanities. The Changing Profession, 128 (10), pp 409-423.
Mande, J. (2016). How I learned to Game Twitter. The New Yorker. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
Manovich, Lev. (2001). “What New Media Is Not.” The Language of New Media. The MIT Press.
Margalit, R. (2016). Should Auschwitz Be a Site for Selfies?. The New Yorker. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
Marwick, A. E. (2013). Status update: celebrity, publicity, and branding in the social media age. New Haven: Yale University Press.
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Morville, Peter. “The Sociosemantic Web.” Ambient Findability.
Negroponte, N. (1995). Being Digital. New York: Knopf.
Rainie, H., & Wellman, B. (2012). Networked: The New Social Operating System. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Segovia, Kathryn and Jeremy N. Bailenson. (2013). ”Identity Manipulation What Happens When Identity Presentation is Not Truthful.” The Social Net: Understanding our online behavior. Ed. Yair Amichai-Hamburger.
Shirky, C. (2018). Here comes everybody: the power of organizing without organizations. New York: Penguin Press.
Thomas, D. (2002) (Not)Hackers: Subculture, Style, and Media Incorporation. Hcker culture (pp. 141-171). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Vaidhyanathan, S. (2011). The Goolization of everything: (and why we should worry). Berkley: University of California Press.
van Dijck, J. (2007). Mediated Memories as a Conceptual Too Mediated Memories in the Digital Age. Stanford University Press.