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House
Course Descriptions 2001-2002 New World War:
AIDS and its Impact on the Global Community Facilitators: Kush Agrawal ka3@duke.edu 613-2873 Chelsea
Castellano cgc@duke.edu 613-0359 Faculty Sponsor: Dr.
Kathy Rudy, Dept. of Women.s Studies Time: Thursdays,
7:00-8:30pm Location: House H
Commons Room Course Description This course is
intended to survey the AIDS pandemic from a scientific, ethical, scholarly,
social, and - most importantly - hands-on approach. While the aim is to foster intelligent, informed discussion on
issues such as patient care, drug testing, and AIDS in Africa, we hope that
students - given the chance to interact with AIDS patients, agencies, and Organizations - will
have a greater appreciation for the impact of AIDS on our global community. Environmental
Justice Facilitators: Beth Moore blm3@duke.edu Andy Hall aeh11@duke.edu Faculty Sponsor:
Erika Sasser, Nicholas School of the Environment Time: Monday, 7:00-9:00
pm Location: Randolph
Dorm Commons Course Description This course will
explore how current governmental regulations and business practices
disproportionately expose poor and minority populations to environmental
risks. Using domestic and international
examples, we will investigate the roles played by economics and politics in
shifting an unfair health burden onto poorer populations, and the impacts these
environmental injustices have on communities.
This course will address the wide range of causes of environmental inequity
as well as possible solutions to this problem. Issues Facing
America.s Children Facilitators: Rakesh Jotwani rpj@duke.edu 613-0667 Jainey Bavishi jkb7@duke.edu 613-2763 Faculty Sponsor: Dr.
Alex Harris, Institute for Public Policy Studies Time: Sunday, 3:00 ?
4:30 pm Location: Round Table
Commons Room Course Description In order to discuss
issues facing children in today's developing society, we need to understand
children themselves. To do this, we must
try and see things from their perspective.
As adults, it is difficult to do this. But we must make an attempt
because children.s voices are seldom heard.
Children are often misinterpreted:
they are either expected to behave more maturely or less maturely, but
rarely their own age. It is always
effective to understand other's stories by relating them to your own. To this end, our class will with reflections
on our own childhoods. We will then
move on to examine the complex and crucial stages of our development, from
infancy to adolescence. After this understanding
is built, issues such as the foster care system, homelessness, education, teen
pregnancy, child labor, and the strong influence of media on children will be
discussed. The last part of the course
will deal with immigrant children in the United States and issues concerning
children in developing nations. Over
spring break, those who wish to participate will travel to Philadelphia. There we will do a combination of direct
service work with children. We will also observe what goes on behind the scenes
at particular institutions,
health centers, non-profits, schools, and other centers directed around issues
of child advocacy. Poverty and
Privilege: Economic Inequality in the United States Facilitator: Amy
Faulring amf@duke.edu 383-1264 Faculty Sponsor: Dr.
William Darity, Institute for Public Policy Studies Time: Mondays, 7:00-9:00 pm Location: Wilson Dorm Commons Course Description This course will
deal with the politics of poverty and the influence of privilege and
oppression. A variety of topics
relating to the dynamics of poverty and privilege will be analyzed and
discussed throughout the semester.
These topics include, but are not limited to, race, gender, sexuality,
living wage, welfare reform, human rights, homelessness, affordable housing,
gentrification, the feminization of poverty, hunger, distribution of food, and
activists and organization working to end economic inequality. Recognizing that we need to address these issues
at the local level, there will be a particular emphasis on understanding how
they exist in the Duke community, the Durham community, and in North Carolina. This class will
utilize a variety of popular education exercises to enhance class
discussions. We will watch movies,
invite speakers, and examine poetry, art, photography, and political
cartoons. The class will also emphasize
the use of personal stories - our own and others - as a way to better
understand the dynamics of power, privilege, and poverty. There will be
particular emphasis on classroom dynamics as a way to supplement our
understanding of privilege and power.
The class will be run based on a democratic model of decision-making and
both students and facilitator will actively address all forms of oppression
during class and in class-related activities. Rural Healthcare
and Community Action Facilitators: Dana
Roque dmr3@duke.edu
613-2372 Brian Eichner bhe@duke.edu 613-2353 Faculty Sponsor:
Lawrence Goodwyn, History Department Time: Mondays
7:00pm-8:30pm Location: House H
(Braxton) Commons Room Course Description This house course
will examine the roots of health and political problems in rural North Carolina
and the .Black Belt.. We will examine rural
public health as a means to understand the interconnectedness between social
problems and health care delivery.
Through analyzing the historical and present-day racial and economic
relations throughout the Black Belt, we will learn about barriers to healthcare
access faced by many poor people of color living in the region. Students will be challenged to discuss how
race, class, and history affect our present society, and we will question our
present healthcare system in terms of equality and rights to adequate
healthcare in rural North Carolina. In this course we
hope to provide an educational experience which promotes community involvement,
self reflection, and social action. We hope
to deepen understanding by combining political analysis with direct service, by
looking beyond the theories to the social problems that real people are
facing. We will learn a great deal
about small communities
struggling to empower themselves and demand their own political power to create
local change for a healthier future. In
this same way, we will attempt to empower ourselves, through the context of this
course, to understand and get involved with these issues beyond the text. United States of
Immigrants Facilitators: Nancy
Lee n.lee@duke.edu 613-0436 Pavithra Vasudevan
pv5@duke.edu 613-2737 Faculty Sponsor:
Sucheta Mazumdar, History Department Time: Monday, 7-9pm Location: Giles Dorm
Commons Course Description This house course
focuses on immigration in the United States: the dichotomy between the ideal of
the United States being a land of immigrants, and the realities of the immigrant
experience. We will address both the formal and informal processes of
immigration, and take a closer look at individual institutions, such as the
systems of education and labor. The course intends to be multidisciplinary and therefore
present a varied approach to the history of immigration in the US. Based on the
principles of peer education, with an emphasis on student experiences and
involvement in the subject, we will encourage the class to continually reflect
on our own positions and roles in the context of
immigration in the US, and on the situation of immigrants and immigration in
today's world. Welfare: How and
Why? Facilitators: Christina
J. Hsu cjh5@duke.edu
613-3411 Jeffrey F. Stewart jfs4@duke.edu 613-3160 Faculty Sponsor:
Felicia Kornbluh, History Department Time: Tuesdays
7:00pm-8:30pm Location: Blackwell
Commons A Course Description What is welfare?
When and how did it originate? How is it changing? Who's on it? In this class, we will try to answer some of these questions
by critically examining the many issues surrounding welfare. We will examine welfare by exploring the
ideas, beliefs, and values that influence the perceptions of poverty and
welfare in the United States paying particular attention to class, race, and
gender. Our spring break trip to
Philadelphia, working with the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, will provide us
with an opportunity to gain a more personal and firsthand view of the ideas and
issues that we will grapple with in our
readings and class discussions.* |
