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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the cultural, social, political, and economic history of African Americans through the CivilWar. Topics covered include the African background to the African American experience, the At- lantic slave trade, introduction and development of slavery, master-slave relationships, the establishment of black communities, slave revolts, the political economy of slavery, women in slavery, the experiences of free Negroes, the crisis of the nineteenth century, and the effect of the CivilWar. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-B requirement L. Morgan 4 credits
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the social, cultural, political, and economic history of African Americans from emancipation and Reconstruction through the present. Emphasis will fall on postwar southern social and economic developments, the rise of segregation, northern migrations, black class stratification, nationalism, the twentieth-century civil rights movement, and current trends in African American political, social, and economic life. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-B requirement L. Morgan 4 credits
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4.00 Credits
Does not meet a distribution requirement The department Prereq. soph, jr, sr, with permission of instructor; 1 to 4 credits
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4.00 Credits
Fall 2008 296f(01)Women in Chinese History An exploration of the roles and values of Chinese women in traditional and modern times. Topics will include the structure of the family and women's productive work, rules for female behavior, women's literature, and the relationship between feminism and other political and social movements in revolutionary China. Readings from biographies, classical literature, feminist scholarship, and modern fiction. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-B requirement J. Lipman 4 credits Spring 2009 296s(01) AfricanWomen'sWork, 1880-1980 Transformations in gendered divisions of labor and in women's access to resources are fundamental to understanding contemporary African societies.We explore how African women have created contexts for productivity using strategies such as marriage, pledged female friendship, and voluntary dependency. We investigate the loss of women's work of governing in the colonial period, and the consequences for women's wealth and productivity of incorporation into a global market economy. Texts include recorded life histories, autobiography, fiction, and film, and primary sources such as the testimony of participants in the IboWomen'sWar of 1929. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-B requirement J. Bowman 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2008 331f(01) China's Tumultuous Twentieth Century (Same as Asian Studies 331) A research seminar on the socioeconomic transformation of China from the advent of nineteenth-century imperialism to the Cultural Revolution. Topics include reform programs of the late Qing, the chaos and experimentation of the Republican period, and the centralizing totalitarianism of the People's Republic. Requirements include reviews of primary and secondary literature, definition and presentation of a research topic, and a final essay based on intensive research. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-B requirement J. Lipman Prereq. permission of instructor; 8 credits in history; written application prior to academic advising period (http://www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/hist/application.shtml) is required; 4 credits Spring 2009 331s(01) Imperial Japan, 1868-1945 (Same as Asian Studies 331) A research seminar on Japan's imperial venture from its inception in the 1870s to its rapid expansion and calamitous defeat in the 1940s. The enormous size of the Japanese empire at its height demands that we study a wide variety of local situations, indigenous peoples, and specific adaptations of and to Japan's imperial style and organization. A?er initial secondary readings, each student will identify a re- search question then discover her own sources to answer it in a 20-page final essay. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-B requirement J. Lipman Prereq. permission of instructor; 8 credits in history; written application prior to academic advising period (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/ acad/hist/application.shtml) is required; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
Fall 2008 341f(01) Power and Exchange in the African Past This seminar focuses on the extreme failure of accountability commonly called political corruption. How do economic conditions shape political realities, and how do political conditions shape economies We consider precolonial forms of exchange, the social and political conflicts engendered by nineteenthcentury integration into a global economy, and ask how the modernizing projects that were supposed to lead to efficient, representative governance and dynamic economic growth have instead yielded forms of rule that consume their populations. Evaluation will be based on participation, short written reflections on each reading, and a substantial research paper. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-B requirement H. Hanson Prereq. permission of instructor, 8 credits in history, written application prior to academic advising period (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/hist/application. shtml) required; 4 credits 341(02) The Meaning of Colonial Rule Our discussions will focus on the various forms of nationalism in colonial Africa.We will examine the evolution and implementation of colonialism in Africa as well as the development of the colonial state.We will look at local reactions and responses to this foreign domination in various parts of the continent. Our concern will be to examine interest groups and nationalist parties, and to explore their goals and strategies.We will look at the process of decolonization as well as the problems of independence and neocolonialism. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-B requirement The department Prereq. permission of instructor; 4 credits in history and 4 credits in a course on Africa in any department; written application prior to academic advising period is required; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2008 351f(01) Medieval Monasticism (Same as Medieval Studies 300(01)) This survey ofWestern monasticism from its origins in the Egyptian desert to the mendicant orders of fourteenth-century Europe seeks to understand what motivates men and women to define perfection as abnegation of food, sex, wealth, success, and even laughter--all that we now consider valuable in life. Topics: fasting, virginity, voluntary poverty; monastic rules and reform movements (e.g., Celtic, Benedictine, Cistercian, Franciscan, etc.). Also various saints' lives, mysticism, and women's spirituality. Course includes a stay at the Abbey of Regina Laudis.(p) Meets Humanities I-B requirement S. Hayes-Healy Prereq. permission of instructor; 8 credits in history; written application prior to academic advising period is required; History 120, 232, or courses in medieval studies; 4 credits Spring 2009 351s(01) Texts and Contexts: Reading the MedievalWorld 1350-1530 (Speaking- and writing-intensive course; Same as Medieval Studies 300 and English 316) This course explores cultural and social transformations (especially in England) on the eve of "modernity." Class discussions willordinarily focus on selections from major English writers of the period (Chaucer, Gower, and Malory, for example), and on the relationship between their writings and other kinds of evidence about the world in which they wrote. In consultation with instructors and colleagues, students will also be expected individually to locate, analyze, and interpret a collection of primary sources such as court records, chronicles and correspondence from a culture of their choosing in order to write a final essay on one dimension of the late medieval world. Meets Humanities I-B requirement C. Collette, H. Garrett-Goodyear Prereq. permission of instructor; 8 credits in history; written application prior to academic advising period (http://www. mtholyoke.edu/acad/medst/application.shtml) is required; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
(Writing-intensive course) The expectation of a catastrophic end to the world--an apocalypse-- has dominated the religious thought of many societies of the past. Our course will consider this expectation in ancient Roman, Zoroastrian, and Egyptian thought, as well as in the Judeo-Christian tradition, represented most famously by the Book of Revelations. We will focus in particular on apocalyptic belief as a response to moments of crisis and revolution, such as the German Reformation. The course extends temporally from the ancient world to modern times; we will finish by examining the place of the apocalypse in contemporary American thought. Meets Humanities I-B requirement P. Healy Prereq. permission of instructor, 8 credits in history, written application prior to academic advising period (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/hist/application. shtml) required; 4 credits
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4.00 Credits
(See Biological Sciences 308s) Meets Humanities I-B requirement S. Rachootin 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course will compare the rights regimes of various national, racial, and religious minorities in twentieth-century Centeral Europe, including Czechs, Germans, and Jews in late imperial Austria, Germans in interwar Czechoslovakia and Poland, Jews and Roma ("Gypsies") in Nazi Germany, Germans inNazi client states, Serbs, Croats, and others in Communist yugoslavia, and "guest workers"in the Federal Republic of Germany since the 1960s. Readings, discussion, and research will center on political struggles in daily life as well as over the longer haul, constitutional law, and different approaches to the dilemmas of reconciling difference with equality. Meets Humanities I-B requirement J. King Prereq. permission of instructor, written application prior to academic advising period (http://www.mtholyoke. edu/acad/hist/application. shtml) is required; 4 credits
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