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4.00 Credits
Examines critically the public and private lives of European women from 1750 to the present. An introduction discusses the theory and methods of using gender as a category in history and proceeds to a chronological survey of women's experience from both a social and a political viewpoint. Women are examined as participants in war and revolution, as well as workers, consumers, and mothers in everyday life. The focus is primarily on France, Germany, and England, with some reference to women's experience in America.
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4.00 Credits
Takes up questions about the identity and agency of women and about the performative nature of gender in Western culture and society during the Middle Ages. In exploring medieval texts and images, and the interpretive body of scholarship that made it its task to recover and to make visible ways that medieval women acted in history, we pay specific attention to interactions between women and men in order to understand how assumptions about male and female nature informed and gendered the very possibility of action, expression, empowerment, and subjectivity.
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4.00 Credits
Conquest, domination, and exploitation in the 19th and 20th centuries in Africa, Asia, and North America. Compares the imperialism of Western Europeans and Americans, as well as non-Western peoples. Examines general, technological, environmental, cultural, political, and economic causes. Focuses on the effects of imperialism on conquered societies: the Chinese after the Opium Wars; the Plains Indians of North America; the Sotho of South Africa after the Mfecane and the Great Trek; and the Indians after the Great Mutiny. Theory, practice, and results of modern imperialism.
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4.00 Credits
See description under Classics.
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4.00 Credits
Covers the history of Western medicine and medical thought, from antiquity to the present. It familiarizes students with basic questions and concepts in the history of medicine, models for understanding the historical development of medical thought; the varied historical relationships between medicine and other healing practices such as religion, alchemy, and homeopathy; the influence of culture and politics on the development of medical thought; and the role that the emergence of a medical profession characterized by formal training and a coherent scientific viewpoint played in the development of Western societies.
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4.00 Credits
See description under Classics.
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4.00 Credits
See description under Classics.
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4.00 Credits
Studies the history of communism in Eastern Europe since World War II and especially focuses on issues of intellectual history-that is, the ways in which the intellectuals of Eastern Europe, as representative of their national cultures, responded to the crises, challenges, and constraints of communism between 1945 and 1989. Issues include the nature of political dissidence under authoritarian governments in Eastern Europe. Focuses on writers from Poland, the former Czechoslovakia, and the former Yugoslavia. The format of the course is a discussion colloquium, with weekly assigned readings.
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4.00 Credits
Examines Western expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean from the 11th to the 15th century, focusing on the two main, peaceful or violent, ways of Western penetration in the East. Topics include Western Europe in the period leading to the Crusades; the creation of overseas states (by the Franks) and of commercial empires (by the Italians); the Easterners' reaction to the presence of the Westerners; and the latter's influence on the social, political, economic, and cultural traditions of the East.
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4.00 Credits
The specific subjects treated in this seminar vary according to student need and instructor interest.
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