Courses

CURRENT COURSES

FOUNDATIONAL FICTIONS AND FILMS I SPANISH 243 - Spring 2017 (Recurrent in Spring semester every two years)

Prof. Doris Sommer

Course ID: 146792

As moderns, we may assume that national identity is as natural as gender identity. This course explores the analogy between nation and sexuality through the examination of selected “national romances,” and theoretical speculations by Benedict Anderson, Foucault, Lukács, de Man, and Benjamin, among others. Our analysis will include the ways these novels have shaped the national imaginary for generations: through film, soap operas, and opera.

Course conducted in Spanish.

CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: ENTREPRENEURIAL SOLUTIONS TO INTRACTABLE PROBLEMS   I   SOCWORLD 47 - Recurrent in Fall Semester I Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:30 - 5:00pm

Co-taught: Tarun Khanna (SAI, HBS), Satchit Balsari (HSPH), Krzysztof Gajos (SEAS), Doris Sommer (FAS), and John Macomber (HBS)

This course will provide a framework (and multiple lenses) through which to think about the salient economic and social problems of the five billion people of the developing world, and to work in a team setting toward identifying entrepreneurial solutions to such problems. Case study discussions will cover challenges and solutions in fields as diverse as health, education, technology, urban planning, and arts and the humanities. The modules themselves will be team-taught by faculty from engineering, the arts, urban design, healthcare and business. The course will embrace a bias toward action by enabling students to understand the potential of individual agency in addressing these problems. All students will participate in the development of a business plan or grant proposal to tackle their chosen problem in a specific developing country/region, emphasizing the importance of contextualizing the entrepreneurial intervention. The student-team will ideally be comprised of students with diverse backgrounds from across the University.

Offered jointly with the Business School as 1266, the School of Public Health as GHP 568, the Kennedy School as PED-338, the Medical School as IND520, the Law School as HLS 2543 and the Graduate School of Education as A-819. 

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