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  • 3.00 Credits

    In this course, the city is the classroom. We will engage with the urban terrain. We will meet weekly off-campus, interact with community members, and interface--both literally and figuratively--with the city as a way to examine the linkages between historical, conceptual, and contemporary issues, with particular attention paid to race and class dynamics, inequality, and social justice. This course will have four intersecting components, primarily focusing on American cities since the 1930s: the social and physical construction of urban space, the built environment, life and culture in the city, and social movements and grassroots struggles. Offered as HSTY 381, POSC 381, SOCI 381, HSTY 481, POSC 481, and SOCI 481.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course examines the historiography of several key issues in the history of the People's Republic of China. Although the emphasis will be to explore at greater length and greater detail specific topics in post-1949 Chinese social, cultural, and political history, some topics will incorporate key historiographic works addressing the pre-1949 period as a point of comparison. We will explore the major historical transformations that led to a political break from China's imperial past, and we will examine both the continuities and discontinuities shaping China's experience as a modern nation during the latter half of the 20th century. Major themes covered include; the origins of the Chinese revolution, the Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, rural-urban divide, the one-child policy, socialism with Chinese characteristics, et al.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The primary goal of this course is to provide students an opportunity to explore at greater length specific topics in Chinese social and cultural history. The period covered by the assigned readings roughly spans the late eighteenth century through the first half of the twentieth century. Readings will cover a wide range of topical themes, including childhood, gender and sexuality, urban life, print media, religion, and the environment. Offered as HSTY 385 and HSTY 485.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Children have been growing up in the United States since it was declared independent, in 1776, but how adults conceive of (and therefore legislate and interpret) children and childhood constantly changes to fit current circumstances. The experiences of children themselves have varied not only in terms of race, class, gender, and religion but also depending on specific events (i.e., coming of age during the Civil War versus the Civil Rights movement) or geography (i.e., growing up in rural Hawaii vs. urban New Jersey). We cannot cover all of those histories in one course, so this seminar course instead focuses on exploring the interplay of ideas about children and the expressed or historical experiences of children. When the puritans and plantations members (slave, bonded and free) came to the Atlantic shore, they brought with them particular ideas about what is meant to be a child, and to experience childhood. They encountered already established residents who also had ideas about childhood. How did those concepts adjust/meld/contrast over time, and how do we see those ideas reflected or reshaped by actual experiences? This course engages particular lines of inquiry: How and why do understanding about what is "natural" for children change over time? How do variables like race, class, gender, etc., uphold effects the manifesting of such concepts? What is the role of the state in children's lives and how has that changed over time? What is the impact of mass culture on modern childhood?
  • 3.00 Credits

    Traditional accounts of American history usually stay within the geographical boundaries of the modern United States. Recent historical research, however, has found that many well known events of the past, from the Revolution to Progressive Era social reforms to the environmental movement, make more sense when examined from a global perspective. Through approaches variously known as "transnational history," "International history," "global history," and "borderlands history," historians have come to redefine the United States' role in the world. This course offers an introduction to this literature. Motivating questions range over time and topic: How were the Americans a product of Early Modern globalization? Was (or is) the United States an empire? How has the meaning of this term changed over time? What role have racial issues played in American involvement overseas as well as at home? How have the global flows of commodities shaped economic development? How was the American Civil War actually a global event? How was domestic social policy shaped by the exchange of ideas across the globe? How did American ideas about political rights and the consumer economy become globalized? How did Americans use new forms of media technologies to interpret and affect people from other parts of the world? This is not a course in the history of American diplomacy (though diplomacy will often come up), nor is it a history of American warfare abroad (though war, too, will often come up as well). Instead, it is a broad, thematic survey of the ways that American ideas, institutions, and people have shaped--and been shaped by--the rest of the world. Primary emphasis is placed on reading and discussing recent historical work: books and articles, but also essays, fiction, and visual art as well.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course seeks to elucidate the major strands of Zionism, their origins, how they have interacted, and their impact on contemporary Israeli society. These may include political Zionism, cultural Zionism, socialist (labor) Zionism, Revisionist Zionism, and religious Zionism. This course will also examine the differences in the appeal of Zionism to Jews in different places, such as Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the United States. Offered as HSTY 389 and JDST 389.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Directed independent research seminar for seniors who are majors in the History and Philosophy of Science program. The goal of the course is to develop and demonstrate command of B.A.-level factual content, methodologies, research strategies, historiography, and theory relevant to the field of history of science and/or philosophy of science. The course includes both written and oral components. Offered as HSTY 380 and PHIL 390.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Food is inextricably interconnected with the development of agriculture and other technologies, with the rise and fall of empires, with increasing understanding of diet and nutrition, with laws and regulations, with the arts, with economic development and consumer culture, and with religious and ethnic identities. By examining selective and representative episodes pertaining to each of these topics, this course explores the global history of food, from the agricultural revolution of the neolithic era to the consumer revolution of the last generation. Offered as HSTY 391 and HSTY 491.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course examines the concept of race as a social construction that carries political and economic implications. We begin by examining the histories of the early racial taxonomists (e.g., Bernier, Linnaeus, and Blumenbach among others) and the contexts that informed their writings. We then assess how the concept of race changed from the nineteenth to the twentieth century in the United States. We conclude by evaluating how the ideology of race has influenced U.S. domestic life and foreign policy at specific historical moments. Offered as HSTY 393, HSTY 493, and ETHS 393.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This seminar investigates 20th-century evolutionary theory, especially the Modern Evolutionary synthesis and subsequent expansions of and challenges to that synthesis. The course encompasses the multidisciplinary nature of the science of evolution, demonstrating how disciplinary background influences practitioners' conceptualizations of pattern and process. This course emphasizes practical writing and research skills, including formulation of testable theses, grant proposal techniques, and the implementation of original research using the facilities on campus and at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Offered as ANTH 394, BIOL 394, EEPS 394, HSTY 394, PHIL 394, ANTH 494, BIOL 494, EEPS 494, HSTY 494, and PHIL 494.
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