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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Examines the intellectual and cultural history of these three closely linked capitals of Central Europe, their relationship to empires, multinationalism, and the development of modernism before and after World War I.
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4.00 Credits
Provides an economic history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the present. Working in lectures and the computer lab, students use tactics and methods of modern business, economics, and management strategy as a means to understand, interpret, and evaluate Soviet economic policies and the history of Soviet economic development. Special themes include discussions of the purge of industrial managers as "wreckers," the labor incentives of _Stakhanovism_-the Stalinist star system for extraordinary labor productivity, the economics of forced labor and the Gulag, the Second World War, financing the Cold War, the black market, corruption, and the central role played by former communists in the transition to capitalism (_nomenklatura_ privatization).
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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
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
Offers an overview of Cuban history using Cuban films. Covers the colonial period through times of slavery and the nineteenth-century struggles for independence. Proceeds to the twentieth century, first the republican period (1902-1959), then the revolutionary period (1959 to the present). Touches on topics such as colonialism, slavery, race, women in Cuban history, the anti-Batista struggles of the fifties, underdevelopment, exile, homosexuality, Cuba in the "Special Period" (1991-2005), problems of personal freedom, and identity in revolutionary societies. Also includes visits to historical museums, buildings, monuments, and parts of Havana that reveal the country's histor
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4.00 Credits
Examines and analyzes major problems in public history in the United States and the world. Issues confronted include the nature and meaning of national memory and myth, the theory and practice of historic preservation, rural and land preservation and the organizational structures and activities associated with those efforts, the interrelationship of historical museums and popular culture, the history and organization of historic house museums, historical documentary filmmaking, historical archaeology in world perspective, interpreting "ordinary" landscapes, and the impact of politics on public history.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the management of nonprofit organizations, which include historical agencies, museums, archives, historic houses, and various special historical collections. Covers public management of complex organizations with all of their institutional components and human complexities. Studies planning in the public sector, budgeting, fundraising, conflict resolution, and the human relations literature as it relates to becoming a functional and successful manager.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to the variety of chemical and electronic media, and the appropriate uses of these media for teaching, preservation, outreach, and primary research documents. Each student engages in research related to the selection and evaluation of existing media, and on the deconstruction, analysis, evaluation, and assembly of documentary presentations. Students then form research and production teams for the creation of media production, which takes place during the semester. Topics such as media preservation, production budgeting, marketing, and intellectual property are also covered.
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