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4.00 Credits
This course examines how concerns about socio-economic justice apply beyond the limits of the domestic state. Do we have reason to care about equality at the international level? If so, should we care about the relative standing of individuals, or of nation-states? Who, if anyone, is responsible for addressing global inequalities? Topics covered include the moral relevance of borders, natural resource distribution, immigration policy, climate change, the international status of women, and global institutional design.
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4.00 Credits
Ca. 1500 few guessed that the small peninsula at the western end of the Asian land mass would soon achieve world economic and political dominance. We trace the West's tradition of political upheaval by reading theory surrounding the major revolutions of the modern age. Splitting a 1,000-year "Universal church" into fragments, developing warring nation-states, executing Kings, and founding colonial republics - Why? How? What has this restless vision of progress made of politics and the world?
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4.00 Credits
In this course, we will examine how and why people migrate from one location to another, focusing both on the theoretical paradigms scholars use to explain migration processes as well as on the individual experiences of migrants. Topics include transnationalism, diaspora, identity formation, integration and assimilation, citizenship claims, and the feminization of migration. Ethnographic readings focus primarily on migration to the US, but also include cases from other world areas, most notably Asia.
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8.00 Credits
Writing of senior honors essay.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines how German-speaking Europe and its inhabitants have interacted with the wider world over the last four centuries. Political and military dimensions receive attention, but so do trade and commodity flows, migration, ecological exchanges, travel, exploration, colonialism, and cultural transfers. The course, in which visual materials play an integral part, seeks to show how a national history can be seen in new ways when viewed through a transnational perspective.
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4.00 Credits
Japan is a collection of islands, but its past and present unfolds through continuous interaction with wider worlds. This course places Japan in contexts of Asian and global history. It begins with the people, institutions, and ideas of premodern Japan, from the emergence of a court-centered state 1500 years ago to a warrior-dominated society centuries later. We then examine the tumultuous process of change from the 19th century through the present and explore how people in Japan have dealt with the dilemmas of modernity that challenge us all.
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4.00 Credits
Less than a century ago the British Empire ruled a quarter of the world. This course surveys the extraordinary reign of the British Empire from the American Revolution to World War II. Course presents a narrative of key events and personalities, introduces major concepts in the study of British imperial history, and considers the empire's political and cultural legacies. Readings include works by Niall Ferguson, Linda Colley, Winston Churchill, and Mahatma Gandhi.
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4.00 Credits
Roman culture and society in a period of radical transformation, the lifetime of the first emperor, Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE). Focuses on the interplay between a new set of political realities and developments in literature, the visual arts, and the organization of private and social life. Readings (all in translation) from Catullus, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Propertius, Ovid, and Tacitus, with special attention to the two great masterworks of the period, Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses. Most lectures illustrated with slides.
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4.00 Credits
A general overview of the patterns of social life in China and how these have changed since the revolution in 1949. The socialist transformations led by Mao Zedong after 1949 and the market and other reforms led by Deng Xiaoping after Mao's death receive equal emphasis. Topics covered include political institutions, work organizations, village life, cities, religion, family life, population control, gender relations, inequality, and schooling.
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4.00 Credits
This course spotlights familiar aspects of everyday life in contemporary America, and reveals how a deeper understanding of them often requires study of peoples and events in distant places and times. In addition to making startling discoveries about global history, students will also learn the creative use of electronic databases and archival resources, and gain experience with multimedia presentations (mini-documentaries, podcasts).
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