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4.00 Credits
Studies womens lives and roles from pre-Columbian times to 1890. Examines womens experiences in households and families, at work, and in diverse communities. Focuses on racial, class, ethnic, and regional differences among women. Also explores changing definitions of femininity and masculinity. Course materials include a wide range of primary documentary and visual sources as well as historical essays. Prieto.
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Studies womens lives and roles from 1890 to the present. Examines womens experiences in households and families, at work, and in diverse communities. Focuses on racial, class, ethnic, and regional differences among women. Also explores changing definitions of femininity and masculinity. Course materials include a wide range of primary documentary and visual sources as well as historical essays. Prieto.
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4.00 Credits
Traces the transformation of a premodern familycentered system equating sexuality with reproduction into the 20th century concept of sexuality as a form of identity and self-expression. Explores the connections between changes in sexuality and historically specific events and trends. Considers the roles gender, race, and class have played in changing definitions of what constitutes a family. Prieto.
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Studies the many manifestations of the genius of Mediterranean civilization in the Greco-Roman era. Examines Greek democracy, theater, and thought; Hellenistic medicine and city life; and Roman law, culture, and imperialism. Concludes with the merger of these many creative strains in early Christianity. Staff.
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Explores selected aspects of medieval civilization, beginning with the 4th and ending with the 15th century. Emphasizes social and economic organization and cultural patterns. Gives special attention to northwest Europe. Staff.
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Provides a thematic exploration of the social, political, and cultural developments in Italy. Pays close attention to the cultural and intellectual developments of the period (ranging from civic humanism, to painting, to literature, and to architecture). Makes use of the Boston area museums. Leonard.
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Surveys the impact of social, cultural, economic, and medical forces in modern Europe. Explores the advances of women in the face of persisting gender stereotypes and legal restrictions and the ways medicine, psychology, and literature defined gender roles. Leonard.
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Beginning with the Enlightenment, traces the intellectual and political causes of the revolution of 1789. Explores how the revolutionaries developed their concepts of nation through political ideology, state rites, language, and symbols. Examines counter-responses to the new regimes attempts to create new political identity. Makes extensive use of slides, art, and literature. Leonard.
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Examines the rise of Nazism in the 1930s as well as the policies and mechanisms Hitler implemented in his plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe. Uses literature, memoirs, and film to examine the devastating conditions of life in the camps and its continuing legacy. Staff.
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