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3.00 Credits
For U.S. students, the study of international human rights is becoming increasingly important, as interest grows regarding questions of justice around the globe. This interdisciplinary course presents a practitioner's overview of several major contemporary human rights problems as a means to explore the utility of human rights norms and mechanisms, as well as the advocacy roles of civil society organizations, legal and medical professionals, traditional and new media, and social movements. Topics may include the prohibition against torture, problems of universalism versus cultural relativism, and the human right to health. S. Gzesh. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the production of particularly gendered norms and practices. Using a variety of historical and theoretical materials, it addresses how sexual difference operates in various contexts (e.g., nation, race, class formation; work, the family, migration, imperialism, postcolonial relations). K. Schilt, Winter; D. Nelson, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Reading knowledge of Spanish and at least one prior course on Latin American history or culture. This course examines human rights in Mexico in the contemporary period. We begin with an exploration of the religious and secular sources of Mexican concepts of human rights. We also explore the contemporary human rights movement through civil society responses to the 1968 massacre of students at Tlatelolco and the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. The second half of the course focuses on contemporary case studies, which may include labor rights, the rights of women and indigenous people, and issues of accountability and impunity. Readings are largely drawn from Mexican sources. S. Gzesh. Not offered 2009 C10; will be offered 201 0 -11.
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3.00 Credits
The abolition of torture, as well as of cruel and inhuman punishment, is one of the key standards of achievement of the modern era. This discussion course begins with the fact that torture is a remarkably persistent reality in order to explore how, in different times and places, it was contained and how it was overcome (if only temporarily). Classic European cases feature in the first part of discussion. Human rights and humanitarian campaigns against torture in the second half of the twentieth century are discussed in the second part. The United States, past and present, is the focus of the third part. M. Geyer. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
This colloquium uses Hyde Park and Chicago' s South Side as a case study to introduce students to issues and methodologies in the history and historical geography of American urban life during the past century and a half. Discussions focus on both primary and secondary source readings, and each participant designs and carries out an original research project . K. Conzen. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
After the opening of the Soviet archives at the beginning of the 1990s, many archival documents were published for the first time in English. Using these documentary publications as a base, supplemented by memoirs and files of the U.S. State Department and British Foreign Office, this colloquium develops historical research skills, with particular reference to critical evaluation of sources and evidence and the framing of research topics. Topics include the Russian Revolutions of 1917, Lenin's rule, the Russian peasantry and the collectivization of agriculture, Stalin' s rule, Soviet everyday life in the 1930s, the Comintern, and Stalinist repression and the Gulag . S. Fitzpatrick. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This course begins with an examination of the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s. We then discuss the history of the Nazi imperialism, conquest, and occupation in Europe during the World War II, with our focus equally on Eastern and Western Europe. Topics include the Holocaust, Germanization, population policies, collaboration and resistance in daily life, economic plunder, gender and the family, and postwar retribution and ethnic cleansing . T. Zahra. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor and undergraduate program coordinator. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
HIST 29801 and 29802 form a two-quarter sequence that is required of students with fourth-year standing who are majoring in history and writing a BA essay. Must be taken for a quality grade. This seminar provides students with a forum within which research problems are addressed and conceptual frameworks are refined. The class meets weekly. S. Burns. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: HIST 29801. HIST 29801 and 29802 form a two-quarter sequence that is required of students with fourth-year standing who are majoring in history and writing a BA essay. Must be taken for a quality grade. The purpose of this course is to assist students in the preparation of drafts of their BA essay, which
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