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This course examines the plays and times of the three playwrights whose works thrust the American stage into international prominence. Students attend at least one of the assigned plays in performance and have the opportunity (but are not required) to engage the texts by working scenes during class time. (2 credits) Keppel
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This course examines the dramatic works and critical theory of one of the most important dramatists of the 20th century theatre, Bertolt Brecht. Students attend at least one of the assigned plays in performance and have the opportunity (but are not required) to engage the texts by working scenes during class time. (2 credits) Keppel
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A study of the figure of the Doppelganger (or Double) as described in anthropology and psychology and as it is dramatized in literature and film. (2 credits) Keppel
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This class will survey Europe's political, social, and cultural history from England'sGlorious Revolution to France's epic Revolution of 1789, focusing on the transition from a rural, agrarian world to a modern, urban, and industrial society, as well as its rejection of absolute monarchy in favor of modern notions of rights and representation. Topics will include the European political rivalries and the great wars that dominated the century, the development and growth of the modern state, the emergence of a new, urban, popular culture, the triumph of the Enlightenment, as well as the reaction to it expressed in both the Wesleyan 'religion of warmth' and the literature of Sturm und Drang, and the newly global economy, centered on European slave colonies and international trade. Students will discuss writings by Jonathan Swift, the Grimm brothers, Isaac Watt, Goethe, and David. (2 credits) Klein
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A study of the philosophy of economics, and its application to such contemporary issues as the business of the arts, the growth of international competition, and the changing structure of work in industrial society. (2 credits) Klein
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Students will follow the history of these two Pacific powers over the last hundred years as they have pursued their unique social, cultural, and political ambitions on the world stage. Readings, discussions, and lectures will focus on China's transformation from an ancient, closed empire to a modern international state, with special emphasis on the social and cultural transformations of Mao Zhedong's Communist regime. In contrast, studies of Japan will evaluate that state's strategy of modernization, using Western means to achieve traditional Japanese goals. (2 credits) Klein
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The story of Europe's decline from great power into civil war, totalitarianism, and cultural confusion. Students will read and discuss such issues as the alienation of the "Lost Generation," the appeal of fascist and communist ideologies, the emergenceof anti-democratic thinkers, the retreat from liberal ideals, loss of empire, and collapse of Soviet-styled socialism. We will read and discuss such 20th-century artists and thinkers as Ernst Junger, Picasso, Jean Paul Sartre, Fredrich Hayak, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Franz Fanon. (2 credits) Klein
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The politics of extermination in the 20th century. The class uses historical case studies, literature, film, and art to study the political and social motives behind genocide, as well as its psychological impact on victims, survivors, and collaborators. (2 credits) Klein
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An examination of the central importance of the war in American history beginning with the developments that led to the war, the major campaigns of the war, the Emancipation Proclamation and Final Union Victory. (2 credits) Faculty
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A study of the rise of America from frontier nation to world empire. Topics include conservation, the Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, America's rise to world power, the protest movements of the 1960s and the development of contemporary American literature, art, and music. (2 credits) Klein
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