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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the evolving peace process in the Middle East, with particular attention to Israel and the West Bank/Gaza and some attention to the Golan Heights and the relations between Israel-Jordan. Since 1992, there has been an accelerated peace process. The course assesses the implications for Israels international relations and domestic situation against the background of Israels history. Course includes seminar meetings, visits to historical sites (e.g., Massada, Western Wall, Tel-Hai), museums (e.g., Yad VShem), and political locations (e.g., the Knesset), and sessions with political leaders, academic analysts, and public officials. Peleg, Weiner
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the many ways in which the land of Ireland has figured in Irish history and the Irish imagination. The history of Ireland centers on definitions of the land as an economic, political, and symbolic-even religious-value. Using written sources culled from Irish history, ethnography, politics, and literature, along with some guest lectures, and an extensive field program in the Boyne Valley, Galway, Donegal, Dublin, and Belfast, the instructors take students on an exploration of the shifting Irish landscape. Heavey
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3.00 Credits
Travel to such destinations as Quito, Cuzco, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, and S o Salvador (Bahia) to investigate the cultural development of South America from pre-Columbian through modern times. Students study Inca, colonial, and postcolonial society, architecture, and art, visiting archeological sites, museums, churches, and other places of interest. The course includes historical and sociological readings and literary texts by such major authors as El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Machado de Assis, and Jorge Luis Borges. Jordan, Rosa
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3.00 Credits
This course entails on-site study of medieval architecture in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. The architecture is considered as an expression of northern medieval European society and technology. The technical accomplishments of medieval builders are emphasized; Roman architecture, based on large-scale use of masonry arches and vaults, is studied as medieval architecture's foundation. Study of history from the Roman through the medieval period enables students to place the architecture in a societal context. Van Gulick, Van Gulick
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3.00 Credits
This on-site course explores the brilliant artistic and literary culture of Florence during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Its primary text is the city and its monuments: its buildings, from church to palace; its art, including masterpieces by Giotto, Donatello, Botticelli, and Michaelangelo; and its literature, including such classics as Dante's Inferno, Petrarch's sonnets, and Boccaccio's Decameron. Visits to Pisa, Siena, Assisi, and Rome enhance understanding of this extraordinary age. Ahl, Pribic
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3.00 Credits
This course entails on-site study of French medieval art and architecture in and around Avignon, Toulouse, and Paris. Medieval art and architecture are considered as expressions of medieval society and medieval technology. Study of French history from pre-Roman Gaul through the nineteenth century enables students to place the art and architecturein an appropriate societal context. Van Gulick, Van Gulick
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary seminar centers on questions that arise when students volunteer to work with people in the community who are poor. Specific problems-homelessness, poverty, or crime-as well as the social system in which they exist are studied. [W] Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above and one semester of volunteer work Corequisite: Volunteer experience is also required Beckman, Miller
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3.00 Credits
This course examines selected social and ethical aspects of the health care systems of the United Kingdom and the United States. After providing an overview of the two systems, selected features of the systems are compared. Once the comparisons are made, the ethical implications of system differences are explored. Lecture, discussion, site visits, student presentations. Staff
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the business environment of France and its role in the ever-changing economic marketplace of the European Community. The course examines French culture and its impact on the financial, production, and marketing processes through firsthand experiences in the EU organizations and the French marketplace. Bukics, Lalande
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3.00 Credits
This course examines central themes in the work of Kierkegaard, Ibsen, and Strindberg in their cultural and historical context. It involves reading and discussing a number of their major works, visiting the cities in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden that shaped them, viewing artwork and attending theatrical works that influenced them or that were, in turn, influenced by them, and examining the political, economic, and cultural upheavals in Europe in the 19th century that shaped their thought. Staff
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