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Undergraduates, typically juniors and seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member. Offered for variable credit.
Prerequisite:
Permission of instructor.
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Studies formation and testing of the early United States from the adoption of the Constitution through the Jacksonian era. Emphasizes ideology, public policy and the problem of national integration during an age of extraordinary territorial and economic expansion.
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Content varies with the interest of the instructor. This semester's topic will be American Cultural History.
Prerequisite:
Permission of the instructor is required.
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Students will explore society and culture in New England in the years between the Revolution and the Civil War. Classes will meet frequently at Old Sturbridge Village, the living museum of New England history, with some sessions at Clark. We will study life and death, health and medicine, work, family, sexuality, housing and landscape, everyday life, religion, and community life. We will pursue these topics through readings, discussions, and extensive use of the museum's resources -- primary documents, paintings and engravings, artifact collections, historical exhibits, historic buildings and landscapes, and programs of historical farming and crafts.
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Covers the history of sexuality from the Enlightenment to the present focusing on Western Europe. Students will examine how different societies in different times determined what was licit and what was illicit sexual behavior. Considers the efforts of governments, religious bodies, moralists, the medical profession and interest groups to regulate, repress or indeed encourage certain behaviors and attitudes. Specific topics include marriage, prostitution, birth control, the emergence of homosexual subcultures, and sexuality as identity.
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A course that deliberately moves away from the traditional focus on nation-states and continents, concentrating instead on the Atlantic world that was created in the wake of the Portuguese explorations and Columbus' voyages. The emphasis will be on the flow of people, commodities, germs, and ideas between the Old World (Europe and Africa) and the New.
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The purpose of this course is to investigate the different and often hidden ways gender images and gender regimes shaped the radicalization of mass violence in Germany and Europe in the first half of the 20th century and Europe's conversion to peace from 1945 on. A related question is how these gender images and gender regimes were itself shaped by war and genocide. The course covers WWI and WWII, national differences of war memories, the feminization of the Holocaust, the rise of a peace culture in Europe since the 1980s, and the return of genocide to Europe in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Special attention will be paid to various approaches to gender history, such as the analysis of discourses and images, or the analysis of gender practices. We will attempt to do this by critical analysis of scholarly work, written testimonies, literature, films, and propaganda materials.
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This course will follow the history of France from 1559 through 1792. We will ground ourselves in the basic question of how France moved from being a mass of rebelling provinces under the leadership of a child king to something approximating a modern state with an international empire. We will not, however, restrict ourselves to political explorations. Equally important will be a thorough investigation of the major economic, social, demographic and cultural shifts of the period. We will try to identify these shifts and ask ourselves what impact they may have had on political developments, how they may have been affected by political developments and how they informed one another. Themes will include the role of religion in society and politics, the centralization of the state, the creation of a public sphere, the development of "new" upper and middle classes, the role of France in international commerce and politics and the importance of these to internal developments within France.
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Modern Jewish culture got its start in Eastern Europe. During the 19th century, Eastern European Jewry comprised the largest Jewish population in the world. Living in towns, villages, and large metropolitan centers throughout the area that today includes the countries of Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, Eastern European Jews played a vital role in local economic and social life and in the life of immigrant communities throughout Western Europe and the Americas. Many were deeply traditional and just as many rebelled against Jewish faith and practice and created new forms of spiritual and intellectual community, including the modern Jewish state in Palestine. Against the background of dramatic events, including two world wars and a revolution, as well as the rhythm of ordinary life, we will examine the historical experience of modern Eastern European Jews from the era of the Polish Partitions at the end of the 18th century to the break-up of the Soviet Union at the end of the twentieth.
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What are the principal ideas that inform the modern mind? Designed to complement the department's European history offerings and instrumental to a variety of subject areas - - such as Holocaust and genocide studies, women's studies, and Jewish studies -- this upper level lecture course provides a critical framework for the study of modernity. Through a variety of primary sources, we explore an intellectual tradition that has given us some very provocative views of the human condition - - including, for instance, that civilization is the source of inequality (Rousseau), that sexual desire empowers the intellect (Freud), that creation has no discernible moral purpose Darwin), that there is nothing outside the text (Derrida), that kindness is an expression of weakness (Nietzsche), that popular culture is a form of thought control (Adorno). What were these people thinking? What are the factors that lay at the root of their modern discontent and their aspiration toward the new? As we will see, their anxieties intersect with our own and their radical conceptions of politics, gender, economy and society helped to shape the world in which we live.
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