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4.00 Credits
Classical Studies Alexander the Great changed the world more completely than any other human being, but did he change it for the better? How should his project of extending Western power into Asia be regarded, especially in light of recent attempts by the United States to project power into the same regions once conquered by the Macedonians? And how should Alexander himself be understood- as a tyrant of Hitlerian proportions, as a philosopher-king seeking to save the Greek world from self-destruction, or as a deluded madman? Such questions remain very much unresolved among modern historians. This course undertakes a thorough reading in the ancient sources concerning Alexander and examines as much primary evidence as can be gathered. It offers insight not only into a cataclysmic period of history, but into the moral and ideological complexities that surround the issue of empire.
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4.00 Credits
Classical Studies This survey of ancient history begins with the early cultures of the Near East, examining how they conceived of the past and preserved it, from preliterate times to the writing systems of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and such Near Eastern kingdoms as Israel. Priestly record-keeping, royal propaganda, the cultural implications of scribal classes employed in the service of elites, and the breakthrough represented by the Hebrew Bible are investigated. The course then considers the Mycenaean Greeks, the rise of epic poetry, Homer, the widespread use of the alphabet, and how the late archaic and early classical periods developed and modified the paradigms of Homer. It culminates with a study of the father of history, Herodotus, and why history as a genre and intellectual discipline came into its own specifically in fifth-century Athens.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the interconnected histories of the three kingdoms during the 16th and 17th centuries. Themes include the Protestant Reformation, the consolidation of national monarchies, the Civil War, and the struggles of the "Celtic Fringe" against English political andcultural domination. Secondary topics such as the Northern Renaissance, the witch hunts, and overseas colonization are also considered.
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4.00 Credits
French Studies, GIS, GSS French Indochina was composed geographically of Vietnam (divided into Cochinchine, Annam, and Tonkin), Cambodia, and Laos. This course is organized around the theme of social order, from precolonial state structures in the early modern period to the French colonial restructuring and administration of the built environment, commercial relations, and law and punishment in these places. The course ends with the famous rout at Dien Bien Phu (1954) that brought a violent end to French rule in Indochina. Throughout the course, the focus is on local cultural exchanges, criticism, and resistance to French ideas of history, progress, and the modern.
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4.00 Credits
GSS, Human Rights Religion and revolution have formed an unholy alliance at several distinct moments in history. This course is a journey across the motley religious landscape of early modern Europe, in which the ideas and practices of heretics, infidels, and unbelievers nestled in the spaces where orthodox Catholicism held sway. The 16th and 17th centuries were a time in which religious revolution and new ways of ordering spiritual life exploded in a fashion that no one could have anticipated. During the "Reformations" Europereinvented itself at home and discovered itself in the New World, and the power of women emerged as a primary agent for reformation processes. From the expulsion of Iberian Jews and Muslims to European contact with "cannibalism,"from Luther in Germany to Carmelite nuns in Canada, from witchcraft to the cult of Mary, students trace the personal stories of real people through Inquisition records, diaries and conversion tales, early pamphlets, and accounts of uprisings. The course examines how radical religious ideologies sustained themselves in the face of official repression and, more challenging still, official approval.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, LAIS, SRE The border is the physical boundary line that marks the geographic separation between the United States and Mexico. It is also a place: a borderland where Mexican and American politics, cultures, and societies meet, interact, and conflict. This course examines both ideas of the border: the making and enforcing of a boundary line and the place made by those who live on both sides of it. It explores how multiple things and people-including national governments, Hollywood and theMexican cinema, and writers and poets living in the borderlands-have sought to define and control the border throughout its history.
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4.00 Credits
French Studies This course focuses on a crucial 50-year period in French history, beginning with a survey of France in 1894, with particular emphasis on the socioeconomic and political roots of the Dreyfus Affair, and continuing with the affair itself and its aftermath. Students then consider France in the so-called "Belle époque"; France in the FirsWorld War; prosperity and problems in the 1920s; the rise of the extreme right and the advent of the Popular Front (1929-36); the twilight of the Third Republic and the defeat of 1940; and the Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. In addition to political and economic aspects (including colonialism), the course examines the exceptional artistic and literary flowering that characterized France during these decades, along with scientific progress.
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4.00 Credits
Anthropology, GSS, Victorian Studies This course focuses on the reciprocal impact that Britain and India had on each other as a result of the British imperial presence in India from the mid-19th century until decolonization in 1948. No other colony was more prized or the object of more fantasy than India, "The Jewel in the Crown." Imperialism, however, did not only profoundly change the cultures of the Indian subcontinent, but also the British people themselves- both those who were firsthand participants (soldiers, administrators, entrepreneurs, etc.) and those who never left Britain. Domestic politics, science, popular culture, and education were all changed irrevocably by the imperial project. In India, sites of resistance to the British were also sites of negotiation, where the rhetorical model of the Enlightenment and the central tenets of British liberal ideology were adopted and recast to give voice to the Indian nationalist movement.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies This labor history course covers the colonial era through the present. Unlike many such courses, it does not focus on the struggle between workers and employers for reduced hours, better working conditions, enhanced benefits, and the right to organize; nor is it concerned with the emergence of worker cultures in their varying forms. Although these topics are touched upon, the primary focus is to construct a narrative of the experience of work and how that has changed over time within the American context. For each time period surveyed-preindustrial, industrial, and postindustrial-the course examines what Americans have understood work to mean, and how that meaning in turn influenced the experience of work itself. Specific topics include the relationships between work and leisure, individual gain and community good, survival and comfort, private goals and public imperatives, male and female roles, "minorities" and mainstreampopulations, and income and personal satisfaction.
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4.00 Credits
Classical Studies, Medieval Studies A survey of seven centuries, from the Germanic invasions and dissolution of the Roman Empire to the Viking invasions and dissolution of the Carolingian Empire. Topics include early Christianity, "barbarians," the Byzantine Empire,Islam, monasticism, and the myth and reality of Charlemagne. Readings include documents, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, Einhard' s Lifeof Charlemagne, and selections from Ammianus Marcellinus's The Later Roman Empire and Gregory of Tours's History of the Franks.
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