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3.00 Credits
An exploration of British cinema from its origins until the present day. Focuses on the production and distribution of British films, as well as provides an analysis of specific films important to a history of cinema as an art form and medium of mass communication.
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3.00 Credits
This course will begin with a brief examination of family law in antiquity and the structure of the European medieval family before considering the transformation of the family in the early modern period, particularly in response to the Reformation and the rise of the nation state. Although the Renaissance is often described as the birthplace of modern individualism, the early modern period can just as easily be seen as dominated by families who employed cultural strategies to increase their collective reputation and power. The course will finish by examining the challenges to the modern European family in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A wide range of experiences will be covered, from the family life of royalty and aristocracy to the demographic and legal evidence of everyday life in the homes of artisans and peasants. The social and economic pressures that shaped the family will be discussed, as well as debates over the emotional life of the early modern family. Readings will include letters, journals, legal documents, instructional pamphlets, sermons, novels, and moralizing treatises.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
France from 1750 to 1799. Emphasis on the origins and causes of the French Revolution, the attempt to reform the Old Regime, the nature and explanation of the Reign of Terror, and the meaning and importance of the Revolution for subsequent historical development.
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3.00 Credits
The aim of this course is to examine cultural and social change over the past one and a quarter centuries; to focus primarily upon literature and language change, cinema, and education as, simultaneously, important indicators of, and factors effecting and shaping, that change; and to explore the complex interactions between "traditional" and "modern" factors as Japan has evolved.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the social and political history of Ireland and the Irish from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. We will trace the ideologies and tactics of Irish republicanism and unionism, the struggle for political separation from Britain, the Irish literary renaissance, the Irish Diaspora and its effects on Ireland and abroad, the influence of religion on Irish identities, the origins of the `troubles¿ in Northern Ireland, and the shape of Irish culture and society into the twenty-first century.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the experience of women and the meaning of gender in Britain, France, and Germany from the onset of industrialization through the period following the Second World War. Particular attention to: the impact of industrialization on the European family; the Victorian construction of separate spheres; the role of the state, industry, and science in defining gender roles; the impact of war on gender relations; the growth of the welfare state.
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3.00 Credits
"This course examines the great works of modern social science, works of ongoing interest and influence that have achieved the status of classics. Each work is studied in its historical context, with an eye to bringing out the themes of perennial interest for the study of society, politics, economics psychology and culture. Those studied include Hobbes, Adam Smith, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud Weber, Durkheim and Simmel."
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3.00 Credits
The history of Europe, west and east, during the Cold War. Topics include the division of Germany, the communization of eastern Europe, the development of the welfare state, decolonization, the New Left, the exhaustion of the welfare state and neo-liberalism, the collapse of communism, and the attempt to build democratic, capitalist societies in eastern Europe.
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with the ways in which western intellectuals have thought about capitalism, not only as an economic system, but in terms of its moral, political, and cultural ramifications. It explores the historical roots of thinking about what has come to be called "globalization." Does the spread of the market -- across geographical borders and into ever greater regions of our lives -- make us better off or worse? What effect does it have on personal development, on the family, and on collective identities? This course focuses on the response to such questions by major European thinkers from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
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