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4.00 Credits
American Studies This course measures the impact of the Depression and New Deal legacies and the Cold War consensus on the United States afterWorldWar II. It examines areas of popular culture (rock and roll), intellectual trends, social trends, and politics (the Fair Deal and McCarthyism) as they were affected by American efforts to find security in the face of rising prosperity and the communist menace.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights European Enlightenment thinkers viewed the Qing dynasty as the world's most enlightened despotism, but by the turn of the 20th century most Western thinkers considered China to be the "sick man of Asia." This course reconstructsthe visions of China formulated by Europeans and Americans during the 19th and 20th centuries and also considers how and why those visions changed over time. In particular, it explores how those constructions facilitated Western imperialism toward China, even as imperialism generated the social, cultural, and political contexts in which those constructions were produced. Shared readings in theoretical literature discussing Orientalism, cross-cultural observation, and the politics of modernization theory provide a common framework for study. Readings and discussions focus for the most part on literary texts, popular histories, news reports, travel writing, and academic works. The course culminates in individual research projects on a particular text, film, or depiction analyzed in light of the conceptual frameworks established throughout the semester.
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4.00 Credits
GIS The high-rise office buildings of Hong Kong island face the stately, colonial-era Peninsula Hotel across Victoria Harbor, and Shanghai's new wealthy middle-class elite choose between coffee at Starbucks or cocktails on the verandas of Jazz Age villas. As international industrial and business centers, and the main conduits for overseas direct investment, Shanghai and Hong Kong are China's global cities, but they are cities with long cosmopolitan pasts. This course explores the history of their current economic, social, and cultural dynamism, and in doing so probes the historical roots of globalization. It analyzes how 19th- and early 20th-century colonialism and semicolonialism both drove and conditioned, in somewhat different ways, the development of these two cities, and examines how this earlier phase of integration into global networks of commerce and culture relates to the patterns of the present.
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4.00 Credits
GIS, GSS This course explores the roles of gender and sexuality in the construction of social and political power in China over the last 500 years. Its point of departure is the traditional areas of focus for scholars of gender and sexuality in China: footbinding, the cloistering of women, and the masculinization of public space; the transformations of Confucian age-sex hierarchies within the family; the women's rights movements of the early 20th century; and the communist revolution's ambivalent legacy for women in the People's Republic of China. Drawing on recent historical and anthropological literature, students analyze the functions of gender in many other aspects of modern Chinese life, including constructions of masculinity and male identity during the late imperial period (1368-1911), the role of gender categories in constructions of Han Chinese relations with both Asian nomadic peoples and Euro-American imperialists, and the relation of China's women's movement torecent trends in Euro-American feminism and gender studies.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies "But there has been also the American dream, that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement." These words from James Truslow Adams summarize the optimism and sense of exceptionalism that have defined much of American experience. This course considers the various articulations of the Dream, as well as the ideological and structural supports for it, its limits, and how these have changed over time. It reviews and compares alternative dreams (e.g., the postwarAustralian Dream, the new European Dream) in an effort to assess theAmericanDream's uniqueness, and studies critiques of the Dream within a global context. Works by many authors are consulted, along with such relevant primary texts as John Winthrop's invocation of "A City on aHill"; Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur's letter,"What is an American?"; Horatio Alger's fictionLangston Hughes's poem, "A DreamDeferred"; and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Hava Dream" speech.
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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies, American Studies, Environmental Studies An examination of urbanization in the United States as a social process best understood by relevant case studies. Topics include the estab- lishment of the nation's urban network, the changing function of cities, the European roots of American city layout and governance, urban social structure, the emergence of urban culture, and American views of cities.
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4.00 Credits
German Studies, Italian Studies, STS Starting with Jacob Burckhardt's classic account The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, this course examines the role of the drastic upheavals of the early modern period in defining the origins of such institutions as capitalism, political individuality, religious freedom, democracy, and the modern military. Towns, cities, and peasant communes of the Italian- and German-speaking regions of Europe provide the geographic focus. Two apparently opposed developments are considered: first, the role of the autonomous peasant commune, particularly in Switzerland, as a model and spur for political forms such as democracy and anarchism; second, the development of modern capitalism and technology as they came to impinge on the traditional feudal and communal orders. The course also addresses the historiography and politics surrounding the "invention" of the Renaissance in the late 19thcentury, looking particularly at Burckhardt's relation with Ranke, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, Human Rights, SRE Americans obsess over, discuss, question, imagine, construct, and ponder the role and place of the indigenous population in this country. The legacy of colonial interactions has become particularly relevant to current Native American politics and the question of financial and land reparations. This course provides an overview of the history created by and between native peoples, Europeans, and Africans, from the initial colonial exchanges of the 15th century up through the 20th century. It focuses on primary sources from the Northeast, Southwest, and Southeast and the ways in which those sources have been manipulated for different purposes over time. The changing cultural and political self-understanding of native peoples is examined in conjunction with the appropriation of their culture and agency by the federal government and 19th- and early 20th-century scholarship.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, Integrated Arts This course examines the irony of increasing political dissent and violence in an era of relative prosperity. It touches on such topics as civil rights, media and politics, narcissism, the Cuban missile crisis, youth alienation, popular culture, and the feminist movement. It takes an in-depth look at the presidents who left their mark on the decade-John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon-as well as the most disruptive crisis of the post-World War II years, the war in Vietnam.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies One historian wrote of the 1970s, "It seemed like nothing happened." We now know that in that decade and the period that followed America was transformed in profound ways. This course focuses on the key dynamic informing this period, the struggle over the legacy of the 1960s in both politics and culture. It turns out a great deal did happen in the 1970s and after: the New Deal coalition collapsed during the Reagan Revolution, cable transformed television, the personal computer and the Internet created a new information culture, fundamentalist Christians became a defining force in American politics, the sexual liberation movement confronted AIDS, the Cold War ended, and the United States struggled to understand its role in the NewWorld order.
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