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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history of the first socialist state created after the Russian revolution of 1917. The Soviet Union (1917-1991) was a multicultural and multi-ethnic "empire" united by a common ideology.We shall study the rise and demise of this superpower in the twentieth century by examining its history, culture, and society. Weekly readings rely heavily on original sources.
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3.00 Credits
Topics in the political history of twentieth century United States. Progressivism, the New Deal, the Great Society, prohibition, McCarthyism, and campaigns for political equality will be explored in depth. Key presidencies will be examined, including those of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hoover, Johnson, and Reagan. Two additional themes will run through the semester: the role of the mass media in shaping public perceptions of social and political issues and the ability of ordinary people, through social movements, electoral politics, and the courts, to shape and reshape government. Students research the history of a current public policy issue, gaining a deeper understanding of the forces that drive our own current policy debates.
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3.00 Credits
Against the background of totalitarianism, the resistance to Nazi-occupied Europe will be followed with special emphasis on women's role in it. Actual cases will be studied. The history of the Holocaust and the impact of concentration camps on inmates, especially women, will be analyzed.
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3.00 Credits
Major issues and interpretations of the black historical experience over three centuries. Topical units examine slavery and slave culture, free black communities, white supremacy and violence, migration and urbanization, the struggle for education, and the politics of black liberation. The contributions of women and church are central themes. Afro-Caribbean influence is also explored.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Irish history from the 1600s to the present. Topics include the Great Hunger, Irish nationalism and the struggle for independence, civil unrest in Northern Ireland since the 1960s, and the influence of religion in Irish society. The course will also consider the troubled relationship with England and its ramifications in the search for a peaceful future.
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3.00 Credits
Using autobiography, novels, and film as well as historical documentation, the course will examine immigration as a major force in the shaping of American culture and society and as a central event in the lives of many Americans. Issues to be addressed include assimilation vs. ethnic identity, race and immigration. The experience of immigrant groups, from the Irish of the 1840s to the Caribbeans, Vietnamese, and Latin Americans of the 1990s.
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3.00 Credits
An historical overview of relationships between the United States and Latin America, Asia, and Africa from the nineteenth century to the "Post-Cold War" era.The nature of U.S. imperialism will be explored; economic, cultural, racial, and geo-political explanations will be addressed.
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3.00 Credits
The seminar explores the impact of war on American society. Topics include propaganda and the making of "enemies," civil liberties in wartime, the draft and conscientiousobjection, and women, work, and family. Focus on the two world wars with reference to Korea and Vietnam.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar examines the way in which literature and culture impacted the construction and deconstruction of European empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We shall examine examples of imperial literature and analyze how they forged an imperial identity. The seminar also focuses on the native response to imperialism and the use of literature to create an anticolonial, independent identity.
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3.00 Credits
By studying novels and watching plays of writers of different nationalities and ideological persuasions, the seminar will seek a more direct and personal understanding of some of the major intellectual, political, and social conflicts of the twentieth century. Works by Martin du Gard, Jaroslav Hasek, Stefan Zweig, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Ignacio Silone, Arthur Koestler, E.L. Doctorow, George Orwell, André Malraux, Christopher Isherwood, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Anais Nin, Alan Paton, and others.
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