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Major Seminar: Approaches to the Study of East Asian Cultures
No full textThis course provides an introduction to basic research methods and resources for the study of East Asia. Our source materials include a survey history of East Asia; monographic and article- length studies of cultural interactions among and comparisons between China, Korea, and Japan; and a variety of primary sources on China and Japan in particular, the two regions at the core of our program in East Asian languages and cultures. With respect to content, one important goal of the course is to impart a basic understanding of the grand sweep of East Asian history and its shared culture, especially but not exclusively Confucianism. With respect to methodology, the course highlights the centrality of primary sources to the study of East Asian history and culture, and explores how to balance primary sources with the secondary literature represented by monographs, thematic collections, and journals in the production of new knowledge and interpretations. We will emphasize how scholarship in the humanities involves immersion in primary sources on the one hand, and participation in an ongoing scholarly conversation on the other. By the end of this course, students should be able to use secondary sources to construct arguments about primary texts, cite their sources in correct and accurate academic style, and write in a register appropriate to scholarly work. To this end, students will submit numerous writing exercises, with an emphasis on the process of identifying and deploying primary and secondary\ud
sources
Modern Japanese Fiction and Poetry
No full textModern Japanese literature grew up in a period of rapid change and national violence. In this course we will see how people responded to lively city life, foreign influence, the death of friends and family members in wars, and social injustice. We will talk about the choices writers made in processing events and trends, in light of the literary possibilities available to them. And we will draw on traditional genre distinctions to talk about the different contents and functions of verse and prose. Course readings will include novels, short stories, poems, essays, and writing that does not quite fit into any such category. Throughout we will discuss works that are considered classics of\ud
Japanese literature, but also works that represent poverty, minority, political activism, and other marginal experiences
Junior Research Seminar: Psychological Biases and Economic Decisions
No full textThis is one of the ‘Junior Seminar’ courses added several years ago to Haverford’s Economics curriculum. It is a seminar-based course designed to expose students to the process of conducting research, and to prepare them for the senior thesis experience. The topic of this seminar, ‘Psychological Biases and Economic Decisions,’ draws heavily on the work of psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, and their influence on economic research
The Documentary Body: Advanced Media Production
No full textThis course focuses on the theory and craft of documentary film through an exploration of representations of the body, broadly defined: human, animal, machine, bodies of land and water, ideal and remembered bodies. Students will produce short documentaries on topics of their choosing, developing them from start to finish, with a focus on how to translate a non-fiction idea \ud
into a time-based media piece with a clear visual and aural aesthetic and a narrative structure. Projects may be generated specifically for this class or may arise from and engage with students’ ongoing scholarly work. Students may create single-channel videos or they may explore other media platforms, such as web documentaries, installations, and mobile media. Production labs will help students further develop their pre-existing production skills in camera, lighting, sound, and editing. We will also develop our understanding of the course theme through weekly documentary screenings, student presentations, and thematic and craft readings
First-Year Second-Semester Japanese
No full textThis course is designed for you to continue to learn beginning(Novice)-level Japanese language in an intensive, semi-immersion setting. It is "intense" because we will meet six lesson hours in class every week, and you are expected to spend a minimum of twelve hours for self-study outside of the classroom every week. It is "semi-immersion" in that in our classroom we constantly simulate authentic communicative interactions with speakers of Japanese, and will use the target language as much as possible while minimizing the use of English – your cooperation is necessary in creating the effective language-learning environment. Through extensive communication practice in classroom and beyond, we will work on developing all four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) along with cultural understanding. To enhance your learning opportunities, we also plan to hold extra-curricular activities, such as the Japanese Lunch Table. Most course-related activities are collaborative in nature, as it is considered highly effective in learning a foreign language. Active class participation and thorough daily preview/review, with classmates as well as on your own, are essential to your success and are required part of the course
Determinants of Attitudes Towards Immigrants in Denmark
No full textThis paper explores how attitudes towards immigrants are shaped in Denmark. While other studies have looked at this issue in other countries, to my knowledge there has not been a study on this issue in Denmark. With a changing population and contested views on immigration, Denmark is an ideal country for looking at the effects of immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey (ESS), I attempt to examine what factors contribute the most to the formation of attitudes towards immigration in Denmark, and why these factors are important. The results show that education has a significant effect in shaping attitudes, but it is difficult to determine whether this is due to economic or cultural reasons. Other factors such as income, religion and gender also appear to affect attitudes towards immigration, but the results for these variables are not as conclusive as education
Betting in Baseball: Is the Run-Line Market Efficient?
No full textThis paper explores the baseball betting market to determine if the Run-Line, a specific form of baseball betting, is market efficient. This analysis builds on prior literature that has analyzed other forms of baseball betting, such as the Money-Line and Total. Market efficiency is determined using a standardized Z-statistic through a comparison between the number of expected wins, based on listed pre-game betting odds, and the number of actual wins, based on post-game results, for teams at each individual Run-Line. Additionally, an aggregate test is run to determine the efficiency of the Run-Line market when grouping all Run-Lines together. The results of both the individual and aggregate Run-Line analyses show the market to be highly efficient. No systematic and predictable biases are present; teams win as often as their betting odds imply. The lack of predictable biases, coupled with the transaction costs of baseball wagers, makes it difficult to achieve sustained profits betting on the Run- Line
Ottowomen: Picturing Women from Empire to Nation 1913-1928
No full textBryn Mawr student majoring at Haverford.On a gloomy November morning in 1918, nervous spectators watched as fleets of grey ships entered the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul. Stately British warships led the procession, followed close behind by those of the French and Italians. Worldwide armistice had been officially announced two days prior, but for Turkey the war was not over. This thesis aims to unearth the historical narrative of Turkish women during the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic using images from the illustrated press and Halide Edip’s life and contributions as a backdrop. It demonstrates the ways in which images of women’s bodies were employed to define cultural values, identify nationalistic fears, and contribute to the changes that have brought us the modern Turkish state. Images from the illustrated press bear witness to the struggles, stigmas and significance of Turkish women from 1913 to 1928. Ultimately, through their heroism on the battlefields of Anatolia, their labor behind the typewriter in Istanbul, and their representations on the page, women changed the trajectory of Turkish history
Applied Ethics of Peace, Justice and Human Rights
No full textThis is a course in applied ethics geared toward 1) introducing students to major schools of ethical thought in the western tradition, 2) helping students understand ethical arguments about peace, justice and human rights, 3) preparing students to formulate their own creative approaches to ethical problems, 4) introducing students to philosophy of law, which is intertwined in a complex way with the western tradition of ethical thinking, and 5) facilitating an approach to argument that emphasizes diplomacy, perspective-taking and empathy over the search for the one right answer or the infallible argument.The semester will begin with a survey of major ethical theories, and we will use those theories to help us discuss real-world issues bearing on peace, justice and human rights, such as: civil disobedience, abortion, killing and letting die, humanitarian intervention, human rights activism, animal rights, environmental protection, economic injustice, race- and gender-based injustice, public health, private property, global capitalism, punishment, clemency and execution, international criminal tribunals, just and unjust war, and whether violence is ever justified. Students will be encouraged to bring other issues of interest into the class for discussion. Along the way, we will consider some critiques of the western tradition of ethical and legal thinking. We will also be visited in class by some of the scholars whose work we will be reading: George Yancy, Mark Drumbl, Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke