Institutional Learning Outcomes: Knowledge In this course, students examine the politics of life and death. Through interdisciplinary theories and concepts, students investigate the ways that states exercise biopower to manage, coerce, or expel populations as a means of control over human bodies, biology, populations, and means of living. Students explore a range of examples that may include migrants held in detention centers or left to die along their journeys, mothers who are affected by policies or technologies that support or prevent childbearing, unequal access to life saving or life enhancing technologies, Indigenous communities dispossessed of their land and lifeways, and those who died from or survived enslavement or internment. Students read compelling theoretical and ethnographic work to deepen their knowledge as they assess how and why some live and others die in a world of profound inequality and perseverance. Prerequisites: 45 credits in any discipline. Note: Students will only receive credit for one of POLI 3470, ANTH 3470 or SOCI 3470.
Institutional Learning Outcomes: Knowledge In this course, students examine the politics of life and death. Through interdisciplinary theories and concepts, students investigate the ways that states exercise biopower to manage, coerce, or expel populations as a means of control over human bodies, biology, populations, and means of living. Students explore a range of examples that may include migrants held in detention centers or left to die along their journeys, mothers who are affected by policies or technologies that support or prevent childbearing, unequal access to life saving or life enhancing technologies, Indigenous communities dispossessed of their land and lifeways, and those who died from or survived enslavement or internment. Students read compelling theoretical and ethnographic work to deepen their knowledge as they assess how and why some live and others die in a world of profound inequality and perseverance. Prerequisites: 45 credits in any discipline. Note: Students will only receive credit for one of POLI 3470, ANTH 3470 or SOCI 3470.
