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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of the past through an examination of the relationship between freedom and moral responsibility in various historical contexts, including ancient Greece, medieval Europe, Nazi Germany, and contemporary America. Open to first-year students and sophomores only.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of the past through an examination of various aspects of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust (1933-1945). Drawing upon personal recollections and reflections, historical accounts and analyses, biographies and autobiographies, and films and novels, the course explores the problem of the Holocaust. Specific topics are drawn from among the following: the role of the individual in history, historical forces versus freedom of choice, human motivation, individuals and organizations, freedom versus authority, class and ideological conflict, the nation state, nationalism, national minorities, and war and peace. Open to first-year students and sophomores only.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of the French Revolution in which students are assigned and act out positions as leaders of major revolutionary factions. Role-playing begins as the newly-emerged National Assembly struggles to create a Constitution amidst internal chaos and threats of foreign invasion. Questions considered include: will the king be permitted to retain a semblance of power; can the Assembly contain the radical demands of "the People;" will Catholic priests obey the new revolutionary government or the dictates of the Pope; can the revolutionaries create a stable democratic regime, or was the violence and bloodshed of the Reign of Terror inevitable?
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of the past through looking at the way black slavery took root in America; how it shaped the lives of blacks, whites and Indians; how blacks in bondage developed a distinctive culture revealed in the lives of individuals like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman and in the folk tales, spirituals, blues, language and customs of the African-American population. Open to first-year students and sophomores only.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to American History through the study of biographical and autobiographical literature. Students will read biographies and autobiographies of such persons as George Washington, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass and Alice James. Special attention is paid to the relationship of biography to history, and how historians interpret the lives of those who have lived before them. Open to first-year students and sophomores only.
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4.00 Credits
An investigation of the myths of American history, why they were created, and how they reflect American values. Some myths that might be explored are those associated with the noble savage, George Washington, the Plantation South, as well as the "Camelot" myths created about the Kennedy Administration. Students will formulate their own interpretations of people and events that have been the object of America's mythological past. Open to first-year students and sophomores only
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4.00 Credits
An examination of civil and military issues, such as the causes of the war, strategy and tactics, and technological change, the limits of individual dissent, and changes in the status of minorities. Students explore why the North won and the South lost the conflict. Open to first-year students and sophomores only.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of how knights and concubines serve as contrasting icons of Chinese culture. Through the use of fiction and film, this course shows how both groups have been idealized and reinterpreted in the nineteenth century and twentieth centuries to become something more exotic and mythical in both the Chinese and the American mind.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the significance and the impact of one of the most dramatic decades in American history. Particular attention is devoted to an elucidation of various "myths of the sixties" and to the role of the mass media in generating these myths. Open to first-year students and sophomores only.
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4.00 Credits
An introductory survey of Latin American cultural history through an examination of death. Topics might include the concepts of "political suicide" and the "political funeral," the 19th-century fad for photographs of dead babies, counter-revolutionary death squads in 20th-century Central America and elsewhere, cemetery architecture and funeral rituals among Native American peoples before and after the Conquest, starvation in Brazil's urban slums, Catholic responses to extreme poverty, witchcraft and folk medicines of the colonial era, and violence in the mass media. Open to first-year students and sophomores on
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