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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: At least two history courses and consent of the department. Enrollment normally open only to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Provides an intensive study of a specific topic in modern European history varying from year to year. Takes advantage of current issues in historiography and faculty expertise. Topics include post-1989 Europe, history and memory, and war and society. Leonard.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: Consent of the department. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: At least three history courses and consent of the department. Enrollment normally open to seniors and graduate students. Studies history as an interpretive craft and explores various methods and models for researching, analyzing, and writing history in both academic and popular forms, from essays to public exhibits, monographs to films. Prieto.
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3.00 Credits
3 sem. hrs. Depending on the context, human characteristics may serve to mark us as different or similar. When should those differences matter? What differences are morally relevant and when? Institutions - law, education, policy, for example - tend to group us by our similarities. When does that approach disadvantage us unfairly? When should differences make a difference? Explores these questions, using readings from philosophy, literature, legal theory, and the social sciences. Raymond.
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3.00 Credits
3 sem. hrs. Examines John Dewey's theory of democracy and education, outlines major economic theories, and explores whether education-economy interactions promote "separate but equal" development ordemocracy. Explores the value of multiculturalism as an approach to understanding the self as individual and writer, society as inspiration for and audience of writing, and one's role in reshaping society. Students receive intensive writing instruction. Aoki.
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3.00 Credits
3 sem. hrs. Explores how filmmakers have rethought many of the basic public and private institutions that define who we are. Considers depictions of family and private life, as well as representations of relations among larger groups, including groups based on nation, race, class, and gender, and emphasizes works that challenge dominant depictions of such relations. Suzanne Leonard.
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3.00 Credits
3 sem. hrs. Investigates how categories of social existence such as family, self, race, love, and nation have histories, and explores why these categories take on radically different shapes and meanings in various times and places. Sarah Leonard.
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1.00 Credits
A one-credit seminar for all first-year students. Sophomore-entry students take this course in the spring of their sophomore year. The course develops critical thinking skills learned in HON 101 and 102, now applying them to public speaking. The class meets once a month for workshops on extemporaneous speaking, formal presentations, and the use of sources to make strong arguments.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq: Membership in the honors program. Explores Sudan's multiple identities and the conflicts that have plagued the country since independence, with particular attention to the civil wars in the south and Darfur and the conflicts in the Nuba Mountains and the northeast. Looks at the commonality and differences of these areas, how conflicts feed into a national crisis of political structure and identity, and what steps would promote unity-in-diversity and lasting peace. Connell.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq: Membership in the honors program. Examines political events in several Latin American countries as well as intellectual and literary reactions to these events. Topics include the Mexican Revolution, the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath, the Dominican Republic under Fulgencio Batista, the dictatorships in the Cono Sur (Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay) and the Sandinista revolt in Nicaragua. Halty.
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