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  • HIST 240: Cities in Modern Europe

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Slobodian This lecture course explores the uses and visions of the city in Europe since the mid-nineteenth century. The course covers both the histo-ry of modern urban planning and the responses to it-the way the city was designed and the way it was lived. We will begin by looking at differing theories of the city: Was it a place of freedom or increased control, especially for socially marginalized groups like women, colo-nized populations and the poor Was it an artifact of dominant social forces or a space for individual self-creation Themes we will cover include colonial urbanism, modernism, fascist city planning, suburbanization, tourism, migration and reclamations of urban space by social movements, squatters and youth subcultures. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 242: Postwar Europe and the Three Germanies

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Slobodian NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. In 1945, Germany's war had left much of Europe in ruins. Yet postwar planners recognized that the conti-nent's strongest economic power and most populous country would have to remain the center of a reconstructed Europe. This course ex-plores the challenges confronting a divided continent after 1945 through the histories of East and West Germany, which faced similar prob-lems, but developed solutions that reflected the differing ideologies of state socialism andcapitalism. It compares the relative influence of the U.S. and Soviet ?partners,? strategies for dealing with the Nazi past and histories of collaboration, and efforts to build consumer culture and domestic consent. It also compares youth revolt, gender politics, immigration, and explores the role of a third, reunified Germany in Europe and the world after 19 89. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.
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  • HIST 243: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Europe

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Slobodian Issues of gender and sexuality were central to projects of social and political transformation in twentieth-century Europe. Regimes of natio-nalism, socialism, fascism, and capitalism each provided prescriptive models of ?good? and ?healthy? gender relationships, making sexuali-ty the frequent and ongoing site for state and scientific intervention. At the same time, the ruptures of two world wars and the effects of modernization created spaces for unprecedented challenges to sexual mores from below. This course explores the fraught, and occasio-nally deadly, debates over sexual normalcy in twentieth century Europe through the topics of eugenics, psychoanalysis, first and second wave feminism, the sexual politics of fascism, and the rise of the permissive socie ty. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: Fall Unit: 1.
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  • HIST 246: Vikings,Icons,Mongols,and Tsars

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Tumarkin A multicultural journey through the turbulent waters of medieval and early modern Russia, from the Viking incursions of the ninth century and the entrance of the East Slavs into the splendid and mighty Byzantine world, to the Mongol overlordship of Russia, the rise of Moscow, and the legendary reign of Ivan the Terrible. We move eastward as the Muscovite state conquers the immense reaches of Siberia by the end of the turbulent seventeenth century, when the young and restless Tsar Peter the Great travels to Western Europe to change Russia forever. We will focus on khans, princes, tsars, nobles, peasants and monks; social norms and gender roles; icons and church architec-ture; and a host of Russian saints and sinners. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 247: Splendor and Serfdom:Russia Under the Romanovs

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Tumarkin NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. An exploration of Imperial Russia over the course of two tumultuous centuries, from the astonishing reign of Peter the Great at the start of the eighteenth century, to the implosion of the Russian monarchy under the unfortunate Nicholas II early in the twentieth, as Russia plunged toward revolution. St. Petersburg-the stunning and ghostly birthplace of Russia's modern history and the symbol of Russia's attempt to impose order on a vast, multiethnic empire-is a focus of this course. We will also emphasize the every-day lives of peasants and nobles; the vision and ideology of autocracy; Russia's brilliant intelligentsia; and the glory of her literary ca non. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1
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  • HIST 248: The Soviet Union:A Tragic Colossus

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Tumarkin NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. The Soviet Union, the most immense empire in the world, hurtled through the twentieth century, shaping ma-jor world events. This course will follow the grand, extravagant, and often brutal socialist experiment from its fragile inception in 1917 through the rule of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev, after which the vast Soviet empire broke apart with astonishing speed. We will contrast utopian constructivist visions of the glorious communist future with Soviet reality. Special emphasis on Soviet polit-ical culture, the trauma of the Stalin years and World War II, and the travails of everyday life. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 250: Research or Individual Study

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Prerequisite: Open to first-year students and sophomores. Distribution: None Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 250H: Research or Individual Study

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Prerequisite: Open to first-year students and sophomores. Distribution: None Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 0.5
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  • HIST 253: Native America

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Grandjean An introduction to the history of Native American peoples, from precontact to the present. Through a survey of scholarly works, primary documents, objects, films and Indian autobiographies, students will grapple with enduring questions concerning the Native past. How should we define ?Native America? How interconnected were Native peoples, and when Can we pinpoint the emergence of ?Indian? iden-tity and understand how it developed This course confronts those questions and other issues in Native American history, through such topics as: the ?discovery? of Europe and its effects, cultural and commercial exchange with Europeans, removal, the struggle for the West, the ?Indian New Deal,? and the Red Power movement of the 1970s. Special attention to the Native nor theast. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: Fall Unit
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  • HIST 256: Colonial America

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Grandjean This course considers America's colonial past. It is a bloody but fascinating history, with plenty of twists and turns. We will investigate co-lonial American culture and ordinary life (including gender, family life, ecology, the material world, religion and magical belief), as well as the struggles experienced by the earliest colonists and the imperial competition that characterized the colonial period. Between 1607 and 1763, a florid variety of cultures bloomed on the North American continent. We will explore these, with an eye toward understanding how the English colonies emerged from very uncertain beginnings to become-by the mid-eighteenth century-the prevailing power on the continen t. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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