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4.00 Credits
GIS, Human Rights, RES, Victorian Studies A general introduction to a number of important developments in modern European history. The first half of the course, from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914, emphasizes the rise of conservative, liberal, and socialist thought; the establishment of parliamentary democracy in Great Britain; the revolutions of 1848; Bismarck and the unification of Germany; European imperialism; and the origins of World War I. The second half focuses onWorldWar I; the Russian Revolution and the emergence of Soviet Russia; the Versailles Treaty; the Great Depression; the rise of fascism, especially Nazism; the Holocaust; the emergence of a new Europe with the "European Community";the Cold War; the fall of communism in Eastern Europe; and the reunification of Germany.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, GIS This course examines the international role of the United States in the 20th century. Special attention is given to the roles of corporations, the military, the intelligence community, and other special interest groups. The course covers Versailles, the rise of fascism, Pearl Harbor, the decision to drop the atom bomb, the Cold War, and Vietnam. Students are asked to weigh the role of economic, strategic, and moral concepts in the formulation of American policy.
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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies, American Studies This course explores the significance of race as a variable in history by using African Americans during slavery and freedom, from the colonial period to the present, as a case study. Among the crucial questions it addresses are: What is "race"?When and how did Africans brought to British North America first get "raced" or become aracialized people? Who and what is responsible for the perpetuation of black racialization-people and forces outside the "black" community,and/or those within the black community? To what extent have popular and formal conceptualizations of blackness as a racial category changed over time? To what extent has race served any purpose in American society? While these and other questions focus on African Americans, pertinent experiences of other groups ("ethnic" and"white") are considered as well.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies An introduction to the major themes and events in American history from the colonial era up until the end of the Civil War and beginning of Reconstruction. This course focuses on particular themes such as the definition of those "outside"of European empires, the contest over American continental "imperialism" betweenEuropeans and Indians, the definition and production of an "American (U.S.)" identity, andthe economic and political ramifications resulting from the transition of a household mode of production to a factory mode of production. The development of American regionalism and the United States as a nation, as well as major events in American history, such as the American Revolution and the CivilWar, are considered in the context of changes that were shaped by the lives of everyday people.
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4.00 Credits
In the premodern world, Jewish identity was centered on religion but was expressed as well in how one made a living, what clothes one wore, and what language one spoke. In modern times, Jewish culture became more voluntary and more fractured. While some focused on Judaism only as a religion, the most radical and the most typical way in which Jewishness was redefined was in secular terms. This course explores the intellectual, social, and political movements that led to new secular definitions of Jewish culture and identity in the modern period. Examples are drawn fromWestern and Eastern Europe, as well as from American and Israeli societies. Topics include the Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment); acculturation and assimilation; modern Jewish politics, including Zionism; and Jewish literature in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages.
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4.00 Credits
Japan in the mid-19th century was beleaguered by British and American imperialism and rocked by domestic turmoil. How, then, did it become an emerging world power by the early 20th century? Why did Japan's transformations during the late 19th and early 20th centuries lead to the total war of the 1930s and 1940s? And why did the horrible destruction experienced during World War II ultimately result in rapid economic growth and renewed global importance for Japan after the 1950s? These questions provide the framework for this introduction to modern Japanese history. The course focuses on Japan's distinctive urban culture, the changing role of women in Japanese society, the domestic and international effects of Japanese imperialism, and America's role in Japan's postwarreconstruction. Readings include drama, fiction, satire, and memoir.
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4.00 Credits
Victorian Studies This class provides a broad overview of the major developments in the criminal justice system during the 19th century. Focusing on Britain and the United States, it explores the rise of crime in industrial society and the various attempts to understand and control criminal activity, including the development of penitentiaries, police forces, criminology, and forensics. Students also consider the image of the criminal in popular culture by studying representations of crime as well as stories of famous criminals.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, Human Rights, SRE The United States is often portrayed as emerging triumphantly in 1776 to offer inclusive citizenship and a transcendent, tolerant, "American"identity to all its indigenous and immigrant residents. Yet the reality of American history belies this myth. That history is transnational, yet most narratives focus on its Anglophone roots, ignoring the fact that the "U.S." was carved outof the contests of many empires and grew on internationally based forced labor regimes. This course focuses on six moments that definitively challenged and shaped conceptions of "American identity," "citizen," and "the United States": early colonial period, the Constitutional Convention, Cherokee Removal, the era of internal slave trade and the "Market Revolution," theMexican-AmericanWar, and Reconstruction.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies This course develops the assumptions that Americans define their differences more through their culture than their politics. Those differences are sometimes muted and at other times inflamed by the role of culture in the marketplace. Studies focus on the development of modern media, popular culture, advertising, gender roles, and official efforts to suppress cultural differences. Readings include novels and stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mary Gordon, J. D. Salinger, Mark Twain, and others who have had a keen sense of the sources of cultural conflicts.
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4.00 Credits
China's imperial state, sustained in one form or another for more than two millennia, was arguably history's longest continuous social and political order. This course provides an introduction to the origins and transformations of the Chinese imperial order from the Neolithic period to the final decades of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Particular points of focus are the founding and transformations of the imperial state, the emergence of the literati class and their refinement of elite culture, China's explosive premodern urbanization, and late imperialperiod rural peasant society. The course considers the fluid and complex relations between Chinese states and their Central Asian neighbors (the Xiongnu, Uighurs, Tibetans, Mongols, Turks, and Manchus), and assesses the impact of Buddhism on China's Confucian and Taoist philosophical traditions.
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