HIST BC 3321x - Colonial Encounters:Europe and the Culture of Empire

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Barnard College

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Description:

Examines the shaping of European cultural identity through encounters with non-European cultures from 1500 to the post-colonial era. Novels, paintings, and films will be among the sources used to examine such topics as exoticism in the Enlightenment, slavery and European capitalism, Orientalism in art, ethnographic writings on the primitive, and tourism. - L. Tiersten General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). 3 points

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.barnard.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 854-5262

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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