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1.25 Credits
Examines major turning points in Jewish history from the 17th century through the 20th: the challenge of modernity, the rise of political anti-Semitism, the migration of European Jews to America, the nearly total destruction of European Jewry in the 20th century, and the origins and development of the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors. (General Education Code(s): E.) B. Thompson
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1.25 Credits
American Jewish history from 1654 to the present. Traces social, political, religious, and economic history of Jews from colonial America to the present. Topics include the influence of government, immigration, religion, anti-Semitism, and acculturation on Jewish life in America. (General Education Code(s): E.) A. Yang-Murray, L. Rosenzweig
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1.25 Credits
Examines a series of distinguished documentary and feature films about the destruction of European Jewry. Each film is placed in its historical context, and wherever possible, the readings include the original documents on which films were based. Emphasis is placed on the strategies the filmmakers used to address the problem of representing genocide with succumbing to mere melodrama. (General Education Code(s): E.) B. Thompson
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1.25 Credits
Examines gender, sexuality, and family across classes in late imperial China, and the transformation of all three by revolution (and vice versa). Concentrates throughout on gender as a category of historical analysis that has remained largely invisible in the construction of conventional Chinese history. (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts, E.) G. Hershatter
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1.25 Credits
Examines the "golden age" of espionage during the early 20th century, the Second World War, and the Cold War, emphasizing not only the origins and development of intelligence agencies but also images of spies in modern popular culture. (General Education Code(s): T4-Hu-manities and Arts.) B. Thompson
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1.25 Credits
Focusing on women at work, uses women's films and excellent historical writings to examine how work has shaped conditions of womanhood, and how women from distinct backgrounds have encountered, defined, and given meaning to their labor. Engages students in recon-ceptualizing history while it introduces a century of vivid patterns of change in women's worlds of work. (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts.) L. Haas
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1.25 Credits
Focus is on the destruction of the Jews of Europe by Nazi Germany. Issues are historically grounded, and include works of literature, social sciences, philosophy, and film. (Also offered as Literature 80L. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts, E.) M. Baumgarten, P. Kenez
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1.25 Credits
Examines how the meaning of such issues as war origins, war responsibility, the atomic bomb, reparations, and racism have been subjects of contention in postwar U.S. and Japan. Students explore the relations between history, memory, and contemporary politics. (General Education Code(s): T4-Humanities and Arts, E.) A. Christy
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1.25 Credits
Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
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1.25 Credits
An introduction to the history of art and visual culture. Need not be taken in sequence.
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