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4.00 Credits
Offers elective credit for courses taken at consortium institutions.
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4.00 Credits
Offers elective credit for courses taken at consortium institutions.
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4.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to historical methods, research, writing, and argument in which all students produce a substantial research project that passes through at least two revisions, and that is presented publicly to other members of the colloquium.
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4.00 Credits
Evaluates different historical, economic, and cultural explanations of global socioeconomic inequality in the modern world. Examines why some parts of the world are much richer than others; why people so often divide the world as "the West and the rest," or the First, Second, and Third Worlds; if these divisions have any reality; and how the social and economic status of individual nations are shaped by patterns and relationships that are global in scale. Also explores the ways in which peoples on different sides of this economic divide understand and depict themselves and one another, through cultural production, political thought, and social movements.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the family as theoretical construct and as social reality from approximately 1600 to the present, in Europe and America. Attempts to understand the social meanings of "the family" by looking at the different forms it has taken in different locations at different times; the historical significance of kinship and household; and at the ways in which "the family" has been constituted bydifferent ideological and political systems. Uses film, literature, and primary documentary sources to examine practices of marriage and sexuality; the family in relation to capitalism, socialism, and the state; the development of welfare state policy; racial and ethnic differences in family practices; and the dynamics of gender within familie
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4.00 Credits
Explores the complex gender dynamics of women in non-Western societies during the years of Western imperialist domination, nationalist resistance struggles, and postcolonialism. Begins by deconstructing the term "Third World" and seeing how that term can be read against the context of imperialism. Examines gender constructs in the Third World through a variety of written and visual materials including autobiographical accounts, ethnographies, historical fiction, films, and slides. Topics include patterns of gender domination and female resistance; the interplay of race and gender hierarchies under colonial rule; the Western gaze and representations of Third World "primitive" women; and the feminization of labor and the global economy, reproductive strategies, and sex traffickin
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4.00 Credits
Outlines some of the most significant trends in global economic relations since the sixteenth century. Examines how exchange has bound human societies for the last half-millennium, how small-scale societies have been affected by the emergence of a global market, how theories of economic relations have affected their shape, and what the deeper integration of diverse global locales into a single system means for people across the globe.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the major themes of Atlantic history and especially on the interconnections of the Atlantic world, circa 1000-1840. During this period, ships, goods, diseases, human beings, and ideas flowed across the ocean, tying together the Atlantic basin in a complex web of relationships. Examines Atlantic history more deeply than merely through a chronological narrative, exploring central cultural themes such as gender, social developments, the economy, and ideologies. Considers explorations; colonization and conquest; and the movement of people and ideas.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the political, economic, social, and cultural relationship between the developed and developing world since the end of World War II. Topics include the Cold War, independence and national movements in developing countries, the globalization of the world economy, scientific and technological innovations, wealth and poverty, the eradication of some diseases and the spread of others, the fall of the Soviet Union, Middle East turmoil, and the enduring conflict between Israel and Palestine.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the creation, modification, and clash of racial identities in the modern world. Shows the worldwide patterns of racial discrimination and reform in the past three centuries, and how they are changing today. Discusses development of racial categories and ideas and practices in racial mixing. Explores racial desegregation and persecution, and campaigns against racial discrimination. Includes background on human evolution and debates on the origins and meaning of physical differences among humans.
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