密歇根大学教授为北大在校生开课，欢迎感兴趣的留学生选课
University of Michigan – Peking University Joint Institute
Program in Chinese Studies and Social Theory
Graduate Course Offerings for Spring 2007

2007年春季学期，来自密歇根大学的资深教授将在我校开设两门用英语授课的研究生课程，欢迎感兴趣的留学生选课。具体课程介绍请见下文，选课需通过社会学系。
The UM – PKU Joint Institute is pleased to offer two graduate courses at Beida for the Spring Semester as part of its Program in Chinese Studies and Social Theory.  Both courses will be taught in English by senior faculty members from the University of Michigan.  Enrollment is open to interested graduate students from all humanities and social science departments;  students should register through the Sociology Department.  For more information about these courses, please contact the Joint Institute at 6276-6210.

论文写作  李中清  课号:03112020
Evidence and Narrative in the Social Sciences: How to Write a Thesis
Professor James Lee, History and Sociology, University of Michigan

This course is designed for graduate students at the beginning stages of their MA or PhD thesis writing to discuss how most social scientists and some humanists use evidence to construct a narrative.  The purpose is to assist graduate students in writing their own theses.  Readings will include recent studies in Chinese population studies and political economy.  The professor is the Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan.

跨文化比较理论与方法  博达伟  课号:03116110
Theory and Method of Cross-Cultural Comparison
Professor David Porter, English and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan

This interdisciplinary course will explore the nature and purpose of comparative studies in the humanities and social sciences.  We will read and discuss a variety of Western texts that attempt to “explain” various aspects of Chinese culture in comparative terms, and others that hold the comparative project itself up to scrutiny.  Our focus will not be facts about Chinese history or society per se, but rather the processes by which such “facts” are constructed, as we examine the goals and implications of different approaches to comparative analysis within such fields of history, philosophy, anthropology, literature, sociology, and art history.  Readings will include works by such writers as Max Weber, Arthur Smith, David Hall, Haun Saussy, Lydia Liu, Lionel Jensen, Craig Clunas, Richard Nisbett, Dorothy Ko, and Kenneth Pomerantz.