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1.50 Credits
Moss This course examines the nature of philosophy and history and their interrelations. Accounts of the past - including speculative philosophies of history - are considered critically in terms of the methodological problems they involve, the meaning of "explanation,""causal connection," "unit of interpretation," "historigeneralization," and "objectivity" as distinguished fro"subjectivity." Also listed as Philosoph y 181 . Offeredoccasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Petropoulos An interdisciplinary exploration of research and reflection on the cutting-edge of current issues and debates surrounding Nazi Germany's attempt to annihilate the Jews. In a seminar-style inquiry designed for students who want to take their previous Holocaust studies to a more advanced level, attention focuses on film and internet resources, as well as on recent books and articles. Written permission required. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Petropoulos This advanced seminar will explore the European aristocracy in a comparative context. It will focus on the modern era, beginning with the Enlightenment and continuing through the present day. The first segment will explore the monarchies in various countries: the Windsors, Romanovs, and Hohenzollern, for example. The second segment will examine the declining fortunes of the feudal aristocracy: how they contended with revolutions, republicanism, and a nascent bourgeoisie. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Kumar This seminar is an exercise in how to study a topic in history from different theoretical perspectives. We will look at Mohandas ("Mahatma") Gandhi, the Indiahe belonged to of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the problems he took up (inequality, leadership, selfperfection) through the perspectives of narrative history, development, Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, cultural studies, postmodernism, deconstruction, and feminism. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Khazeni This seminar examines the social, political, and economic history of the Middle East since 1500. Beginning with an examination of early modern states and societies, the seminar will go on to explore the ways in which capitalist market economies, European penetration, and nation building projects have transformed and restructured the region during modern times. Subjects include the Ottoman era, the territorial settlement of the Middle East and the emergence of the Mandate System after the First World War, nationalism and the question of Palestine, and the emergence of modern Islamic movements. Offered every spring semester.
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1.50 Credits
Yoo The course introduces students to the theory and methodology of oral history through a group project. The first part of the course acquaints students with the basic methodologies of oral history and the historical background of the topic for the year. The second portion of the course consists of interviews. Each student edits a final transcript for deposit in the Honnold Library and submits a written report on his/her findings. Students also develop a group report and video documentary based on the interviews. Some prior background in history required. Intended primarily for majors and other interested students. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Cody A seminar comparing how these two great urban centers experienced the tremendous social upheavals of the 19th and early 20th centuries. How did the developments of capitalism, revolution, war, urbanization, modernity, and alienation play themselves out in London and Paris between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the end of the First World War We will examine historical texts, maps, economic and demographic data, art, architecture, novels, poetry, popular culture, detective stories, photography, and early film. Some prior background in history required. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Hamburg This course explores European responses to the Holocaust and the Gulag, the construct of "totalitarianism" often invoked to explain them, and theproblem of absolute or radical evil in politics. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Khazeni This seminar traces the history of state and nation building in Iran and Afghanistan. Ranging in chronology from the pre-modern period to the present, the course examines the emergence of national identities and nation states in West and Central Asia. Following an introduction to the historical geography of the region, exploring such topics as environment, ethnicity, Islam, and Western imperialism, the course will seek to understand how Iran and Afghanistan have undergone processes of modern transformation during the 19th and 20th centuries. Finally, the course will turn to the modern Islamic movements that have developed as a reaction to Western imperialism and secular, nationalist, and Marxist ideologies. Offered every fall semester.
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1.50 Credits
Khazeni This seminar presents a history of the natural and cultural geography of the Middle East. It explores how people have used, constructed, and perceived natural environments in the region extending from North Africa to the Iranian Plateau. Concerned with the interrelated themes of environment, society, and culture, the course focuses on the transformation of natural environments in modern times. Students will be asked to consider the ways in which different groups of people - peasants, pastoral nomads, imperial agents and engineers, among others - have shared in the making of these changes in the land. Offered every other year.
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