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An examination of the Jewish experience in America both from a historical perspective and from the perspective of American Jewish life today. We will look at examples of writing by and about Jews drawn from both scholarly and popular sources, at portrayals of Jews in the media, and at other manifestations of the Jewish presence in the United States. This examination will lead both to a greater understanding of the origins and current condition of Jewish life in the United States and a greater appreciation of the problems and promises of multi-culturalism in America. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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This course examines the tumultuous changes that define the postwar era in U.S. society and culture. Themes of the course will vary depending on instructor. Topics may include: cultural tensions of the Cold War era, the civil rights movement and Black Power, the women's movement, postwar prosperity, suburbanization, the Vietnam War, and the New Right. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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This course examines the political, cultural, economic, and social ramifications of segregation in the United States from approximately 1865 to the present. While much of the course will focus on the South, we will also consider how racial boundaries were drawn in the West and North. The course will pay special attention to the ways racial boundaries became "fixed," and how black men and women defied Jim Crow in the streets, courts,and in their homes. Additionally, this class examines how segregation has been forgotten and how and when it is remembered. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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This course investigates two mutually influencing transformations of the first half of the twentieth century: 1) the urbanization of the Afro-American people; and 2) the emergence of the modern American metropolis as the site of congregation and segregation of distinct racial and ethnic groups. Principal points of focus for this course include the causes and patterns of black migration from the rural South to the urban North; the formation of ghettoes in major northern cities; the internal life of those ghettoes, including changing gender roles and the development of new cultural forms; and the rise of new political and social ideas within these communities. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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This course is intended to familiarize students with both concepts of human biology and medicine from ancient Egypt and the formation of the Hippocratic corpus to the early modern period and the relationship of these concepts to broader religious, intellectual, and societal trends in Europe and the Middle East. Medicine in China, India, and the Americas will be touched upon but the course will be concentrated on ancient Greek and Roman medicine in the pre-modern Christian and Muslim worlds. Fall 2008. (4 credits)
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An analysis of the various ideas of socialism from the eighteenth century to the present. Philosophically, the course will investigate the logic and ethics of the socialist ideas encountered. Historically, the course will explore the social-economic, cultural, and political environments in which the socialist ideas appeared. Radicals of the French Revolution, the Utopian socialists, the Anarchists, Marx, Marxian Revisionists, Bolshevism, Soviet Marxism-Leninism, the socialism of Mao Tse-Tung, and the significance to socialism of the collapse of the USSR will all be studied. Readings will be heavily weighted toward socialist texts themselves. Students will enroll for both History 255 and Philosophy 255. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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This class examines the Atlantic commerce in African slaves that took place roughly between 1500 and 1800. We will explore, among other topics, transatlantic commerce, the process of turning captives into commodities, the gendered dimensions of the slave trade, resistance to the trade, the world the slaves made, and the abolitionist movement on both sides of the Atlantic. Students will read a range of primary and secondary sources in order to gain a more complex understanding of the slave trade and how it changed over time. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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This course will survey the evolution of modern European empires from their inception in the mid-nineteenth century to their aftermath in the 1980s and 1990s. The course will be organized topically, separate modules being devoted to theory, imperial administration, race and segregation in the colonies, cultural and economic exploitation of colonies, European culture and imperialism, indigenous anti-colonial movements and decolonialization, and the issue of colonialism's role in globalization. Materials will be drawn from the experiences of the British, French, German, Dutch and Russian empires. Lectures, class discussions and films. Essay exams prepared outside of class and quizzes. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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A survey of European history from the end of World War II to the present, emphasizing social and economic history and including both western Europe and the former socialist republics of eastern Europe. The course tests the hypothesis that Europe constitutes a social and political entity as well as a geographic one. Among the topics the course will cover are a comparison of European post-World War II reconstruction (East and West), Europe's power decline in a global context, Europe as a tool and a participant in the Cold War, political trends and their roots in social and economic change, and the origins and European-wide implications of the collapse of the socialist states of eastern Europe. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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A survey of the development of Russian social and political institutions from Peter the Great (1682-1724) to 1917. The course will explain the growth of the tsar's authority, the origins and outlooks of Russia's majorsocial/gender groups (nobility, peasants, merchants, clergy, women, minorities, Cossacks) and the relations which grew up between the tsar and his society. The course will conclude with an appraisal of the breakdown of the relationship in 1917, and the tsarist legacy for Russia's social and political institutions in the Soviet Union and beyond. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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