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History of Central Eurasian Muslims. Focus on diversity and cultural vivacity. Examines early appearance of Islam in the region,the evolution of Muslim religious and cultural institutions under governance of Chingissid, Timurid, Russian and Chinese empires, the encounter of Central Eurasian Muslims with European modernity and their experience during Soviet and Chinese socialist experiments. Instructor: Tuna
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A critical appraisal of Marxism as a scholarly methodology for understanding human societies. The basic concepts of historical materialism, as they have evolved and developed in historical contexts. Topics include sexual and social inequality, alienation, class formation, imperialism, and revolution. Core course for the program in Marxism and Society. Instructor: Staff
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Foundations of European politics and society from 450 to 1000, when imperial Roman religion melded with the world of Goths, Celts and Franks, and custom and conflict sustained law and order. Ideas of Christian empire developed during Charlemagne's reign and manifested in the violence of the First Crusade. Instructor: Malegam
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Focus on four cases in which soldiers have launched murderous attacks against civilians: Turks against Armenians, Nazis against Jews and other racial enemies, Khmer Rouge against their Cambodian enemies, and "ethnic cleansing" in Yugoslavia. Examines responsibility of both perpetrators and bystanders. Instructor: Koonz
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This course explores the power of origins stories in explaining and empowering societies. It contrasts religious creation stories with the scientific narratives that emerged in the past two centuries. Often seen as opposing narratives, these two styles of origin stories share much in common, and certainly the passion which surrounds them and their teaching owes much to the roles that origins stories have long played in societies. The course will review the history of evolutionary thought, as well as twentieth century developments in genetics, eugenics, and scientific analyses of human diversity. Instructor: Humphreys
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The role of epidemic diseases such as smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, tuberculosis, and polio in shaping public health policy in the United States from the colonial era to World War II. Instructor: Humphreys
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Credit for Adavanced Placement on the basis of College Board examination in American History (score of 4 or 5). One Advanced Placement credit may count toward the major.
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Credit for Advanced Placement on the basis of College Board examination in American History (score of 4 or 5). One Advanced Placement credit may count toward the major.
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Health, disease, and medicine in the twentieth-century United States. Topics include public health, race, technology, gender, ethics, economics, and the relationship between doctor and patient. Not open to students who have taken this course as History 103 or 104. Instructor: English
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The obesity epidemic among children and adults in the United States, with focus on changes in food supply and consumption, agricultural policy, body image, exercise, federal food programs such as school lunch, food stamps, and food technology. Gender, racial, and socio-economic patterns of the epidemic. Not open to students who have taken this course as History 103 or 104. Instructor: English
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