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3.00 Credits
Full-time. Please see departmental website for specific details. Prerequisites Permission of instructor. This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester First Summer Semester Second Summer Semester
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3.00 Credits
Full-time. Please see departmental website for specific details. Prerequisites Permission of instructor. This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
The rise of the United States to global preeminence over the course of the twentieth century is a fundamental element of recent international history. This transition had a profound impact on global life as well as the United States itself. This course will trace those changes. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities Social Sciences
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3.00 Credits
The arrival of the United States as the most powerful nation-state on the North American continent by 1900 was the product of much international interaction. This course explores the foreign relations of the Untied States by viewing this emergence in a broader international and historical frame. The course's major topics explore the migratory, political, diplomatic and intellectual currents linking the United States to Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia. Particular focus is given to the influence of the international system--ranging from European conflict and revolution to the slave trade--on the evolution of the diplomacy as well as the domestic politics, commerce, and society of the United States. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities Social Sciences
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to watercolor painting for beginners. The basic techniques and the characteristics innate to the watercolor medium will be explored. Frequent exercises will develop the individual's understanding of the medium in technical, expressive, and historical terms. Great watercolorists will be studied. There will be a trip to see masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts' watercolor collection. Basic skills will include watercolor techniques, light (indoor and outdoor), figure-ground relationships, and color(mixing, layering, theory, perspective). Please see departmental website for specific details: http://www.smfa.edu/Continuing_Education/Studio_Art_Courses_Open_to_Tufts_Students.asp This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as World Civilizations 17.) Comparative examination of representations of love and sexuality in Japanese and Russian literature with supplementary guest lectures from Judaic and Chinese culture. Specific issues to be addressed across a diverse body of literature, film, and art include 1) the fusion of sexuality and romance, 2) love as a problem/love as an ideal, 3) societal conventions as to so-called proper or normative behavior (the various ways hetero- and homosexuality, celibacy, and hedonism have been understood nd commented upon in artistic media). All discussions and readings in English. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as German 55 and Art History 80.) The construction of difference in Western culture; symmetry/asymmetry; the problem of essentialism; the social construction of femininity and masculinities; gynophobia/misogyny; idealization/demonization; strategies for reading and looking designed to facilitate feminist interpretations of culture and the capacity to recognize those from other orientations. Images and texts from dominant as well as popular culture of Europe, CE 500 to the present day. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to selected works of Old Norse, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish literature, with discussion of their cultural background, from the Snorra Edda and Old Icelandic heroic lays and sagas to works by Andersen, Hamsun, L gerkvist, and Dinesen. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Please see departmental website for detailed course description. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities
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3.00 Credits
Please see departmental website for detailed information. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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