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4.00 Credits
An examination of the experiences of perpetrators and victims in the totalitarian environment of the concentration, labor, and extermination camps of the Nazi regime (1933-1945). Drawing upon biographical and autobiographical accounts, as well as histories of the camps, the seminar considers the lives and actions of those individuals who administered the camps, as well as those who were confronted by the extremes of the Nazi principle of terror. The course focuses on the parameters of freedom of choice within the confines imposed by historical circumstance and explores the human capacity for living the moral life under the most extreme of conditions. Prerequisites: History 115 and permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the formation of cultural identities in classical Greece and Rome and examines the political interests that these identities served. Readings in modern psychological, sociological and anthropological literature and cultural/literary theory supply the backdrop against which we read selected classical texts. The cultural construction of civilization (Hellenism, Romanitas) vs. barbarism is a theme that runs throughout the course. Ancient readings include Aeschylus' Persians and Prometheus Bound, Plato's Protagoras, the Hippocratic medical treatise Airs, Waters, Places, Isocrates' Panegyricus, excerpts from the Greek historians Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon's Cyropaedeia, Aristotle's Politics, I and II Maccabees, and Polybius' Histories. Special attention is given in the final week to the Roman historian Tacitus' ethnographical treatise, Germania. Prerequisite: Permission of the instru
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of how the imaginative artist fashions history. Focusing especially on the history of Elizabethan England, it addresses how Shakespeare, in his history plays, recreated myths of England's historical past from sources that themselves were creations: chronicles that mythologized events from the deposition of Richard II through the victory of Henry Tudor at Bosworth Field, with an eye to shaping the political present. Readings include selections from Tudor chroniclers and other prose tracts, Shakespeare's two history tetralogies, and modern assessments of the history and politics of the Elizabethan era. Students also compare various film versions of the history plays. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of class conflict in ancient Greece from the time of Homer to the fourth century BC. The course considers the representation of the lower classes in archaeological and literary sources and the influence of the lower classes on Greek politics and society. Among the topics studied are ancient slavery, class strife and the development of the Greek polis, and the relations between the masses and the elite in the Athenian democracy. Prerequisites: History 260 recommended, and permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
An historical study of social deviance in medical thought and practice with a concentration on the United States and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. A close reading of scholarly writing and primary evidence is emphasized to explore the sources of medicine's power in modern society and culture. Among the historical problems examined are scientific theories of human behavior, the delineation of the normal and pathological, the intersection of medicine and law, the statistical "discovery" of social illness, eugenics and the concept of degeneration, and the role of class, gender and race in the definition of the deviant individual. These themes are investigated through such problems as suicide, criminality, juvenile delinquency, prostitution, homosexuality and madness. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
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4.00 Credits
A critical study of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) as sociopolitical movement, collective memory, and historical trauma. The course provides an historical perspective to analyze the origin, process, and aftermath of the Cultural Revolution as both the continuation and the culmination of modern Chinese political crisis. Subjects considered include the rise of the cult of personality, anti- traditionalism, anti-intellectualism, xenophobia, student activism, changing gender identity, and state-sanctioned political violence. Prerequisites: History 244 and permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
An historical examination of the creation and persistence of nations and nationalisms from an international perspective. Even at their most basic level, definitions of "nation" and "nationalism" branch out to include blood, language, history, race and ethnicity, politics, and territory. The development of nations in Europe, North America, and Latin America from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries is discussed, including comparative references to the development of nations in Asia and Africa. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructo
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4.00 Credits
An historical examination of the period of the Second American Revolution, from 1846 to 1895. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a series of profound transformations centered on the Civil War and the long years of Reconstruction that followed. Among these transformations were the sectional developments of politics, the changing sphere of liberty, the abolition of slavery and the developing meaning of freedom, the relationship between the federal and state governments, and profound changes in the nature of the Constitution and laws. Not all of the transformations were immediately effective, but our task is to understand how they came about, developed, and changed the United States and its people. Prerequisites: History 140, History 230, or History 328 and permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Independent Study
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2.00 Credits
A mandatory preparatory seminar for History 610. Students write a project proposal, develop an extensive bibliography, create a project outline, and present their research. The fundamentals of historical research and writing are also reviewed. Taken on a letter-grade basis. Credit: Two semester hours.
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