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4.00 Credits
In the minds of many Americans, cities are places where nature is absent-places where nature exists only in the crevices and on the margins of spaces dominated by technology, concrete, and human artifice. This course confronts this assumption directly, drawing on the scholarship from the relatively young field of urban environmental history to uncover the deep interconnections between urban America and the natural world. Among the other things, we will examine how society has drawn upon nature to build and sustain urban growth, the implications that urban growth has for transforming ecosystems both local and distant, and how social values have guided urbanites as they have built and rearranged the world around them. Using the Twin Cities has a backdrop and constant reference point, we will attempt to understand the constantly changing ways that people, cities, and nature have shaped and reshaped one another throughout American history. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Although the United States accounts for just five percent of the world's population, it consumes roughly twentyfive percent of the world's total energy, has the world's largest economy, and is the world's largest consumer angenerator of waste. Relative to its size, its policies and actions have had a significantly disproportionate impact on global economic development and environmental health. Mixing broad themes and detailed case studies, this course will focus on the complex historical relationship between American actions and changes to the global environment. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 - 9.00 Credits
At the dawn of the twentieth century, automobiles were newfangled playthings of the very wealthy; by century's end, they had become necessities of the modern world. This momentous change brought with it a cascading series of consequences that completely remade the American landscape and touched nearly every aspect of American life. This course will explore the role that cars and roads have played in shaping Americans' interactions with the natural world, and will seek an historical understanding of how the country developed such an extreme dependency on its cars. In the process, we will engage with current debates among environmentalists, policymakers, and local communities trying to shape the future of the American transportation system and to come to grips with the environmental effects of a car-dependent lifestyle. Alternate years. Not offered in 2008-09. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
How has science informed definitions of race, sex, and gender in the past How is scientific knowledge about race, sex, and gender constructed How has racial difference shaped scientific knowledge How has the scientific search for sexual difference shaped debates about sex and gender This class examines the scientific discourses and methodologies that have, historically, sought to explain racial and sexual difference. We will examine scholarship that considers the social effects of science and the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and science. Among the topics under consideration: the definitions of deviance in colonial and post-colonial societies, eugenics, phrenology, scientific racism, contemporary debates on race, sexuality, and genetics. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
A survey of English life, politics and society in the days of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs. The course will focus on a number of major themes including the emergence of the English nation; the struggle between royal and parliamentary authority; the English roots of the American tradition; and the relation of social structure, religious belief and political action. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
The development of English politics and society from the time of George III to the twentieth century. Among the topics to be considered are: the transition from rural to urban society; the American Revolution; the rise and decline of Britain as world leader; Victorian and Edwardian society; England and Ireland; and the future of Britain in the modern world. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
A study of the culture, social conditions, and artistic developments of Victorian England (1837-1901) through an examination of a number of documents (novels, plays, memoirs, government reports, etc.) of the period. This course is usually taught in conjunction with English 332, and when it is, students will be required to register for both courses. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
A survey of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet history from the Russian Revolution to the present. Topics include the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, Bolshevik rule and its tsarist heritage, Soviet "monocratic" society under Lenin andStalin, dissent in the USSR, the "command economy" in the collapse of Communist political power, and nationalconsciousness as an operative idea in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the history of German society and politics from the Bismarckian unification to the present with emphasis on the origins of the German and world catastrophe of 1933-45. Among the major issues covered will be Bismarck and his legacy for German politics, the army and German political life, the Weimar Republic and German political culture, the origins and development of the Nazi party, Germany between the United States and the USSR, and Germany's significance in post-Cold War Europe. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
A study of European politics, culture and society during the years (1780-1850) in which Europe experienced the most profound social and political transformations in its history. Among the topics to be considered are the French Revolution, urbanization, industrialization, new concepts of the family, Darwin, and the growth of new ideologies. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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