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Ideas about race, culture, and identity still shape strategies for African American empowerment and securing the ideals of democracy in the United States. ''Classic'' texts from each decade of the twentieth century. Explore the location of the authors' work within its historical and political contexts. Attention given to the texture of (debates within) the African American intellectual community. Instructor: Baker
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Development of the United States Constitution through Supreme Court decisions: the foundations of national power, including the separation of powers, the nature of the federal union and the relationship of the Constitution to political and economic life since 1790. Instructor: Fish
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Development of the United States Constitution through Supreme Court decisions: national power and federalism in the context of modern political and economic life, New Deal to the present. Instructor: Fish
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Development of scientific thought and technological innovation in the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome. Topics might include the rise of scientific thought, as against myth; impact of scientific and technological developments on Greek and Roman society and culture; history of medicine; history of mathematics; military technology. Instructor: González
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Introduction to German intellectual traditions that have proven highly influential both within Europe and beyond. Readings typically include Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn, Kant, Goethe, Humboldt, Hegel, Heine, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Benjamin. Readings and discussions in English. Instructor: Pfau
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Focus on the history of the Inca empire, its complex economic organization, ecologically sensitive use of environmental resources, sophisticated political and religious structures, and magnificent architecture and material culture. How the empire's descendents accommodated and challenged the forces of Spanish colonialism. Instructor: Silverblatt
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A survey of Europe between approx. 1440-1750 that highlights changes in European society including the end of the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution and the European encounter with other regions of the world. Instructor: Martin, Neuschel, or Robisheaux
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Focuses on contemporary Russia. The post-2000 decade examined as aftermath of political and economic turmoil and restructuring of the 1990s and as a period of consolidation of Russia's political and economic systems and business practices. Critically examines functioning of Russia's sovereign democracy, mechanisms of economic crime and corruption, radical political movements, and popular perceptions of democracy, capitalism, market, and the West among Russian citizens. Instructor: Krylova
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An exploration of Canada's "limited identities" of ethnicity, race, and language. Instructor: Thompson
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Exercise in reconstructing Eurasian history from the 13th century Mongol invasions to post-Soviet era through critical reading of eyewitness accounts--travel notes and memoirs. Reflects on political, religious, and cultural evolution, expansion, and rivalry as well as cross-cultural and trans-regional exchange. Instructor: Tuna
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