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1.50 Credits
Petropoulos Explores the relationship between politics, culture, and social change in Western and Central Europe. Units will focus on important cities, including Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Prague, Budapest, and Paris. Topics include the rise of psychoanalysis, impressionism, and expressionism, conceptions of decadence, cultural pessimism, and anxieties about changing gender roles. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Cody This course examines the political, economic, intellectual, and cultural revolutions in the northern European and North American world from the late 17th century to the early 19th century, exploring the rise of democracy, republicanism, liberalism, and the public sphere. Topics will include comparative conceptions of rights, citizenship, and nationalism; the Enlightenment; economic change; women and revolution; violence; culture and the arts as registers of change. Though the course examines the American Revolution, the focus is primarily European. Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
Petropoulos Provides an understanding of fascism in modern Europe by exploring its cultural and intellectual components. After surveying the various fascist movements and considering the competing definitions of the concept, specific topics to be treated include: intellectual roots; theories of psychological appeal; management of the arts in national socialist and fascist Italy; film; architecture and monuments; and the role of the Church. Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
Petropoulos Traces the history of German lands from Frederick the Great to recent reunification. The rise of Prussia, the mixed responses to the Enlightenment, the emergence of Bismarck, and the creation of a unified German state in 1871, are examined as foundations of modern Germany and as prelude to the devastation of two world wars. Other topics include the nature of the Third Reich, the evolution of the genocidal program, postwar efforts at de-nazification, the establishment of two Germanies, the tensions of the Cold War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
Selig This course examines the transforming effects of two cataclysmic events in the 20th century. We will study the ways in which both the Great Depression and World War II led to a major reordering of American society, politics, and culture. Topics include social welfare, the growth of the state, race and gender relations, work and organized labor, the impact of new forms of media, economic mobilization, and war and social change. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Cody Explores the triumphant rise of the 16th-century Tudor monarchs and their impact on politics, society, religion, and culture. By using several of William Shakespeare's plays and other cultural sources, the course analyzes how theater, literature, the visual arts, print and popular culture created mythic national histories and reflected contemporary socio-political concerns. Other topics will include: kingship and state building; the Protestant Reformation; women and family; crime and the poor; early empire building and slavery. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Cody From the "Glorious Revolution" to the end of the "GreaWar," this course will examine how the British politically, economically, and culturally constructed their nation and empires. Themes will include the British Enlightenment, the rise of capitalism and industry; the acquisition of a world-wide empire in the Americas, India, Africa, and elsewhere; the cultivation of nationalism, Victoria and Victorianism; the growth of mass politics and culture; the early welfare state; warfare; revolution; politics and political change. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Cody This seminar examines different aesthetic genres between 1700 and World War II, asking how visual, performing, and literary arts work politically. Topics include print culture, satire, the theater and opera in the 18th century; spectacle and imagery in the French Revolution and 19th-century political revolutions and movements; mass culture and entertainments in the 19th century; film, photography, and music in the first half of the 20th century. Offered every third year. These courses meet the general education requirement in history; freshmen need permission of the instructor for courses above 102.
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1.50 Credits
Yoo This seminar examines the role that religion has played in the history of the United States, and asks students to critically explore how peoples and communities in various places and times have drawn upon religion to give meaning to self, group, and nation. The course will cover a wide range of traditions, including Protestant Christianity, Roman Catholicism, and Judaism, as well as regional, denominational, and racial-ethnic dimensions within these groups. Also listed as Religious Studies 138. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
A. Park Utopianism has been celebrated as stimulating imagination and criticized as a mystifying force. Despite its critics, utopianism in East Asia has played a valuable role in organizing movements for political liberation and economic equality, criticizing ideological structures and helping people to negotiate the present in order to create a new future. Examining utopian ideas and movements in East Asia after 1800, this class critically studies various themes in utopian studies, including Utopian Thinkers, such as Thomas More, the Taiping Rebellion in China; 1930s Japanese Utopian Literature; Utopian Agrarianism in Korea; Maoism and Utopianism; and Anime and Fantasy in East Asia. Offered every other year.
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