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4.00 Credits
This course directs students on an exploration of the largest and arguably most complex civilization of the Pre-Columbian Americas-the Inca Empire of Andean South America. In addition to lectures, discussions, and films, students will experience the products of Inca civilization directly through study of Inca artifacts housed in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the emergence of medieval civilization from the ruins of the ancient world, and the evolution of that civilization into modern Europe. Themes include: the fall of Rome, the spread of Christianity, the rise and fall of Byzantium, the challenge of Islam, the Vikings, the Crusades, commerce and agriculture, the Feudal Revolution, the Twelfth Century Renaissance, spirituality and persecution, the origins of law and government, the Black Death, and the Italian Renaissance.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the origins, military history, and successive postwar settlements of World Wars I and II in the framework of evolving empires, fascist, communist, and democratic ideological mobilization, forced resettlement and cultures of mass violence, ongoing economic and social change (and persistence). Attention to Asian and African as well as European and American transformations.
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4.00 Credits
On July 8, 1853, Commodore Mathew C. Perry steamed into Japan's Edo Bay with four heavily armed US Navy warships. Two were the so-called "black ships," ominously painted coal-burning steamships of the latest design. There, within view of a stunned populace, Perry issued an ultimatum: open the country to trade or face unstoppable bombardment. Thus began Japan's modern engagement with the outside world, a new chapter in the broader encounter between "East" and "West." Through primary sources, discussion and lecture, this course examines Japan's rapid development from samurai-led feudalism into the worlds first non-Western imperial power.
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4.00 Credits
This course surveys the nature, types and extent of modern servitude, distinguishing broadly between those resulting from international trafficking such as trans-national prostitution, human smuggling into bonded labor, child soldiering and organ trafficking, and more intra-national forms such as debt-bondage and the domestic exploitation of women and other vulnerable groups. Examines the conceptual and theoretical issues raised in attempts to distinguish among these types of differential power relations; the empirical difficulties of estimating the magnitude of what are inherently secretive processes; and the ideological controversies surrounding the subject. Explores ethical, socio- political and practical issues raised by these trends.
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4.00 Credits
Focus on the sociological study of leadership emphasizing leadership in organizational settings. Topics covered: how leadership, power, influence, and social capital are interrelated; organizations as complex social systems; politics and personalities in organizational life; organization design and culture; leadership of organizational change and transformation; and creating sustainable organizations.
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4.00 Credits
Far from disappearing as the world modernized, religion today is found everywhere from the public to private spheres. We will explore the places of religion around the globe, from the rise of religious nationalism to transnational immigration networks.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces the methods and logic social scientists use to study the empirical world. Topics include the scientific method, hypothesis testing, measurement of variables, survey research design and sampling, qualitative interviewing, ethnography, experiments, content analysis, GIS, demography, and the ethics of research.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the key role played by the education system in reproducing and transforming modern society. Considers what purposes education serves; the extent to which ability, effort, intelligence and luck determine educational success; why educational attainment is socially stratified by social class origin, gender, 'race' and ethnicity; and how the study of other countries' educational systems can inform understanding of our own.
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4.00 Credits
This course on contemporary social theory has a thematic focus on the concept of power (broadly defined), and an empirical focus on communist and post-communist societies including the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, and Cuba. Each week will pair readings from a particular school or theorist (Marx, Bourdieu, Foucault, etc.) with readings by authors who employ that theoretical perspective in their research on societies with a legacy of state socialism. Topics covered will include class, colonialism, culture, gender, and resistance. Some background in either social theory or communist societies is recommended.
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