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1.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary team-taught course will examine the history, culture, and architecture of the city of Berlin since the 18th century. Readings in history, literature, and urban studies will focus on the Berlin of old Prussia and Bismarck through the Weimar era and the Nazi dictatorship up to the divided city of the Cold War and the Berlin of Reunification. This is the same course as Comparative Studies in Culture/German Studies 272. An optional one credit FLAC section in German will be offered. Enrollment limited to 35 students. G. Atherton, M. Forster
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4.00 Credits
This optional section of Comparative Studies in Culture/History/German Studies 272 will meet for an additional hour each week to discuss supplemental texts in German. Students participating in the foreign language section will receive one additional credit hour, pass/not passed marking. Students electing Course 272f must concurrently register for Comparative Studies in Culture/History/German Studies 272. This is the same course as Comparative Studies in Culture/German Studies 272f. G. Atherton, M. Forster
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4.00 Credits
Witchcraft and magic in relation to the history of religion, the phenomena of crime, deviance, and demographic change, and the history of women in Europe and America. Witchcraft beliefs and practices in several cultures, the witch craze in Salem, Massachusetts, and the function of the occult in modern times. This is the same course as American Studies/Gender and Women's Studies 275. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 30 students. J. Manion
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of early American maritime culture along the Atlantic coast. North American connections with Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean, particularly in relation to economic, political, and social developments, including colonialism, slavery, free labor, trade, political revolutions, and gender roles. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 30 students. J. Manion
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4.00 Credits
A history from Laozi to contemporary times focusing on the philosophical and mystical aspects of the tradition in comparative perspective. This is the same course as Philosophy 214/Religious Studies 209. Open to juniors and seniors without prerequisite and to others who have had Course 115 or Course 224/Philososphy 213, or by permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 30 students. S. Queen
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the history of recent wars in North and Southeast Asia through the murky lens of memory. Using a variety of documentary materials, texts, and films, the course centers around contemporary efforts at reconciling the past. Open to juniors and seniors and to sophomores with permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 30 students. Staff
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the political, social, and cultural impact of Hip Hop Music and Culture in American society and the world including the different forms of rap music (pop, social conscious, and southern) and explores the tensions between authenticity and mass appeal. The course also examines the impact that deindustrialization, Reaganomics, and the dot.com boom had on the artists and the industry. Open to juniors and seniors and to sophomores with permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 30 students. D. Canton
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4.00 Credits
The process of decolonialization and the legacies of the imperial experience in politics, economics, and society. Issues include neocolonialism, the fragility of states, democratization and the role of the military, racism and the apartheid regimes, famine and refugees and other issues facing contemporary Africa. Open to juniors and seniors and others with permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 30 students. V. B. Thompson
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the origins of slavery in the Americas focusing on the United States, but also considering the slavery in the Caribbean and Latin America. Topics include the slave trade, the organization of labor, gender and family relations, resistance and rebellion, slave culture, emancipation. Open to juniors and seniors and others with permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 30 students. J. Downs
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4.00 Credits
A readings course that explores the history of the American West in the post-frontier era. Topics include: Dust Bowl and New Deal, World War II, the rise of the Red Power and Chicano rights movements, urbanization, the conservation movement, and the nuclear industry. Prerequisite: Course 105, or the permission of the instructor. Open to juniors and seniors without prerequisite. Enrollment limited to 30 students. C. Stock
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