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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Campion Content: The political, cross-cultural, and social development of the Indian subcontinent from the classical civilizations of late antiquity to the beginnings of colonial rule in the 18th century. The artistic and architectural achievements of Indo-Islamic civilization; the Mughal Empire and regional polities; religious and cultural syncretism; the influence of contact with the West. Special emphasis on the historical antecedents of contemporary debates about regional identities, state formation and fragmentation, and the origins of colonial rule. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Opportunities for well-prepared students to design and pursue a substantive course of independent learning. Details determined by the student and the supervising instructor. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Taught: Each semester, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Materials and craft of historical research. Bibliographic method; documentary editing; use of specialized libraries, manuscripts, maps, government documents, photographs, objects of material culture. Career options in history. Students work with primary sources to develop a major editing project. Topical content varies depending on instructor's teaching field. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Taught: Two or three seminars per year, 4 semester credits each. Enrollment preference given to history majors and minors.
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3.00 Credits
Glosser Content: The nature and extent of China's contact with other countries, including the silk roads to Middle Asia in the first millennium B.C.E., Jesuits and the influx of Spanish-American silver in the 16th century, British tea and opium trade, and Chinese intellectual experiments with social Darwinism, anarchism, communism, and the nuclear family ideal. Primary sources showing foreign and Chinese perceptions of the content and significance of these exchanges. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Glosser Content: Development of family structure, gender roles, and sexuality in Chinese history, explored through oracle bones, family instructions, tales of exemplary women, poetry, painting, drama, fiction, and calendar posters. Key movements in the transformation of family and gender from 1600 B.C.E. to the 20th century. Close readings of texts to explore how social, economic, religious, and political forces shaped family and gender roles. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Bernstein Content: Japanese religious traditions and their impact on social and political structures from ancient times to the present. Examination of the doctrinal and institutional development of Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto, and Christianity, as well as the creation and suppression of more marginal belief systems. Issues include pilgrimage, spirit possession, death practices, millenarianism, militarism, abortion, eco-spiritualism, and religious terrorism. Sources include canonical scriptures, short stories, diaries, government records, newspaper articles, artwork, films. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Bernstein Content: Popular culture as the site of social change and social control in Japan from the 18th to the 20th century. Religion and folk beliefs, work and gender roles, theatre and music, tourism, consumerism, citizens' movements, fashion, food, sports, sex, drugs, hygiene, and forms of mass media ranging from woodblock prints to modern comic books, film, television. Concepts as well as content of popular and mass culture. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. History 112 recommended. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Westervelt Content: Writings by major figures in the humanist movement from the 14th to the 16th century. Social, political, intellectual contexts of humanism in the university and Italian city-state; ideal of return to sources of classical culture; civic humanism; interplay between Christian and secular ideals; relationship between Italian and northern forms of humanism; relationship between Renaissance humanism and the Protestant Reformation; comparative experience of Renaissance humanists and artists. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Healy Content: Approaches to the problem of ethical values in 19th- and 20th-century European thought, including Marxist, social Darwinist, Nietzschean, and Freudian perspectives; existentialism; postmodernism. Readings in philosophical, literary, artistic works. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. History 121 recommended. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Westervelt Content: Charism and bureaucracy in the careers of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, and Teresa of Avila, of the Discalced Carmelites. Ignatius and Teresa as mystics, theologians, founders and/or reformers of religious orders, believers. Impact of national origin, social status, gender on their careers and on early modern Catholicism. Prerequisite: None. History 120 or Religious Studies 373 recommended. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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