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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history of the Maya peoples from the colonial to the present. Drawing upon missionary accounts, archeological sources and historical and anthropological works, students explore how the Maya -- despite the multiple traumas of conquest, demographic collapse, and state repression -- have managed to survive as a people. Specific topics include: Maya religious beliefs, the impact of Spanish conquest, changing sources of ethnic identity, and the emerging Pan-Maya movement of recent years. Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar examines the Vietnam War in the larger context of Vietnamese history and focusing on the Vietnamese side of history. Themes include the heritage of Vietnamese civilization, French conquest and colonial rule, nationalism and its relationship to Communism, the emergence of two Vietnamese states, and the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. This course also addresses questions about ideology, the role of the United States in Asia, and the historical processes of nationalism and Communism. Offered during Interim.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to personal narrative as a form of historical expression. Reading includes several published life histories of African women, along with examples of African women's autobiography. Students learn about the lives of African women through their own stories, and they examine the process through which these stories are made available to us.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses upon the American Revolution as a crucible of cultural change. Students work with primary documents and secondary sources that address significant topics: social change in 18th-century North America; the politics of resistance and revolution; war and American culture; the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; the emergence of American democracy; and "outsiders" such as loyalists, Native Americans, women, and African-Americans. Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar, using only eyewitness accounts, examines African slavery in the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Typical readings include the narrative of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, and the writings of slave-holders like Mary Chesnut. Topics include the slave trade, the origins of African-American culture, women and slavery, and the origins of the Civil War. The course concludes with an examination of the process of emancipation. Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the origin and lasting effects of the Indian Removals of the 1830s. Topics covered include the culture and history of the Native peoples of the Eastern woodlands, U.S.-Indian policy, frontier life in the early U.S. Republic, and the life and personal involvement of Andrew Jackson. Students read from a wide variety of secondary literature and primary source material, and have the opportunity to conduct their own research. Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
On the basis of selected works of O.E. R lvaag, including Giants in the Earth, this course considers the literature and history of Norwegian America in the later 19th and early 20th centuries. For the sake of comparison students also read selections from other Norwegian and Norwegian-American authors. Topics for consideration include ecology, family, gender, agriculture, economics, technology, urbanization, religion, immigration, ethnicity, and American pluralism. Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Students examine Norwegians in the U.S., 1820s to the 1990s, focusing upon the interplay of a transplanted set of values and cultural expressions with the demands of American life. Topics include mass emigration, adaptation to the new land, geographic patterns of settlement, political participation, religious life, education, the press, and literature. Comparisons are drawn to other ethnic groups in the U.S. Offered during Interim.
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3.00 Credits
The Mall of America is the result of more than 150 years of American history. This seminar traces the history of American consumer culture from Victorianism to Victoria's Secret. Students explore the histories of advertising, work and play, individualism and changing conceptions of the self, the economy, gender roles and changing sexual mores, and developing representations of class and race to see how they affect the buying and selling of goods and conceptions of the good life in places like the Mall of America. Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
The immigration of people from around the globe has been central to the making of the United States. The course examines how this experience has shaped ethnic and racial identities, neighborhoods and cities, workplaces, politics, and culture. Students focus especially on the dawn of the 20th and 21st centuries, as the immigrants' point of origin has shifted increasingly from Europe to Latin America and Asia. Offered periodically.
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