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1.00 Credits
Explores notions of medieval sex, gender and sexuality in discussion and writing. Particular focus on diversity and fluidity of ideas about the body, sexuality, chastity, homosexuality, and male and female gender characteristics. Examination of these ideas in context of spirituality and holiness, particularly in light of the church's teachings on Christ, Mary, and the saints¿ sexuality (or lack thereof). Additional examination of the place of politics and wealth in defining gender roles and expectations about sexuality. Instructor: Dubois
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Source-based discussion seminar revolving around questions of social response to bubonic plague in the middle of the fourteenth century. Focus is England but students also read religious and literary texts from other parts of the medieval and late antique world. Exploration of how societies respond to catastrophe and what panic means in terms of communities and institutions. To what resources did people turn? What does this tell us about society in the Late Middle Ages? Comparison of medieval texts that assign causation and blame in conjunction with discourses of disease and catastrophe in the twentieth century. Instructor: Malegam
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Explore meaning of community in medieval period by studying a variety of living groups that emerged in Europe c. 800-1400. Examine roles of work and religion in creating communities, i.e. manorial, monastic, merchant, Islamic, Jewish, urban, and university communities, using primary and secondary sources. Instructor: Morrow
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Examine pursuit of military force, war, and empire and making of global politics, 1850-1950. Ranges from wars of nation, industry, and empire in mid-nineteenth century to intercontinental great power wars of twentieth century. Special attention to strategies of global ordering and projection, as pursued by political, military, and corporate elites of the major powers in an age of empire and globalization. Instructor: Bonker
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course examines the pursuit of military force, war, and empire and the making of global politics in the past two centuries. Our explorations range from the wars of nation, industry, and empire in the mid-nineteenth century to the world wars of the twentieth century and their legacy. We will pay special attention to the strategies of global ordering that were pursued by the political, military, and corporate elites of the major powers in an age of empire and globalization. Instructor: Bonker.
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Practice of historical research interpretation and writing with focus on a specific historical question. Topics are numerous and vary each semester. Most seminars are offered for one semester and carry one course credit. If students wish to enroll in only one semester of a year-long seminar, they must obtain permission from the instructor. Both history majors and nonmajors may enroll in the seminars during their junior or senior years. Students are urged to enroll in their junior year if they expect to apply for the Senior Honors Seminar(Hst 197S-198S) or to practice-teach in their senior year. Instructor:Staff
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Source-based discussion seminar. Inquiry into the content and context of religious deviation and its repression in western Christianity between 300 and 1500 but focusing on the medieval period. Emphasizes the fine line between religious evolution and heresy. Examines questions of coercion, social and religious reform, pre-modern state control and early demonology. Students engage in close reading of selected primary sources. Instructor: Malegam
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Examines the advent of modernity and its relationship with sexuality. Appraisal of how that relationship changes over the course of the twentieth century up to the present. Focus on the Americas, in particular the United States, Mexico, and Brazil. Instructor: Sigal
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Explores the development of patterns of relations among British colonies in North America and the Caribbean and how these shaped a wider interconnected but differentiated colonial world. Discussion is framed against background of the formal framework of relations between Britain and her colonies. Themes to be explored include migration, trade, travel, the slave trade, slavery, communications, war, legal borrowing, maritime environment, cultural exchange, natural disaster. Instructor: Gaspar
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1.00 Credits
Origins and development of fugitive slave communities throughout the Americas from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Major focus is on their role in the operation of slave society. Instructor: Gaspar
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