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Spring 2007. THOMAS CONLAN. Seminar. What makes a king How does one characterize or define sovereign authority and to what degree is this culturally specific Explores the nature of kingship through a comparative perspective, contrasting Buddhist and Confucian notions of kingship and sovereignty. The focus is on Asia (South Asia, China, and Japan), although further insight is provided through comparisons with medieval Europe. (Same as Asian Studies 287.)
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Spring 2007. DAVID HECHT. Seminar. Examines the history of the Cold War. Primarily considers United States politics and culture of the era, focusing on issues such as the atomic bomb, the arms race, McCarthyism, civil rights, 1960s student protests, the Vietnam War, and the myriad ways in which all aspects of American culture - from film to literature to science to religion - wereaffected by the Cold War. Addresses issues of historiography and historical memory, exploring changing notions of Cold War history and the political and ideological implications of those ideas.
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Spring 2007. JILL PEARLMAN. Explores major developments in Boston's built environment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with emphasis on the twentieth. Topics include the evolution of public buildings and spaces, cultural institutions, neighborhoods, housing types, academic landscapes, commercial districts, transportation infrastructure, and the heritage industry. Considers the roles that builders, architects, economic and political interests, and ordinary citizens have played in the shaping of Boston. Each student engages in a semester-long research project. (Same as Environmental Studies 341.) Prerequisite: One of the following: Environmental Studies/History 244; Environmental Studies/History 227; History 226, Environmental Studies/Art History 243, or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. KIDDER SMITH. (Same as Asian Studies 28.)
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THE DEPARTMENT.
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. DALLAS DENERY. A research seminar for majors and interested non-majors focusing on Medieval and Early Modern Europe. After an overview of recent trends in the historical analysis of this period, students pursue research topics of their own choice, culminating in a significant piece of original historical writing (approximately 30 pages in length). Prerequisite: One previous course in history.
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3.00 Credits
Experiments in Totalitarianism:Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. SUSAN TANANBAUM. An interdisciplinary study of the Victorian era in England. Explores the changing political milieu; issues of industrial progress and poverty; the status of men and women in domains such as the home, work, health, education, and philanthropy. Emphasizes critical reading of primary and secondary sources, discussion, and research methods. Students play a prominent role in leading discussion and undertake a major research paper. (Same as Gender and Women's Studies 321.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2007. SARAH MCMAHON. Explores the ideals and the social, economic, and cultural realities of community in American history, focusing on change, continuity, and racial, ethnic, and socio-economic diversity in community experience from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Examines the formation of new communities on a "frontier" that began on the Atlanticseaboard and gradually moved westward across the continent; the attempts to create alternative communities either separate from or contained within established communities; and the changing face of community that accompanied cultural diversity, expansion, modernization, urbanization, and suburbanization.
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. DAVID HECHT. Examines theories of innate "difference" - in race, class, ethnicity, gender, and sexualit- as they have developed in scientific investigation and American politics over the twentieth century. Explores why such notions were created, to what political and social ends they have been used, and what the role of science has been in alternately validating and challenging them. Topics discussed include evolution, eugenics, the emergence of cultural anthropology, the growth of genetics under the shadow of Nazism, and the "Bell-Curve wars" of the 1980s.(Same as Africana Studies 333 and Gender and Women's Studies 333.)
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