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3.00 Credits
This course examines the various ways that we think about the past by exploring documentary and blockbuster film, ¿scholarly¿ and ¿popular¿ history, heritage tourism, memory, and genealogy. Over the course of the semester we will focus on the myriad ways that people tell tales about important historical moments, events, and personalities.
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Through a close reading of John Dos Passos' famous novels which constitute the USA triology (The 42nd Parallel, 1919 and The Big Money), the class will explore the history of the United States from the 1890s well into the depression decade of the 1930s. Events and issues which will be covered include turn-of-the-century American imperialism, domestic and international radicalism, World War I, Prohibition and the Great Depression. The course will be conducted largely on a discussion basis.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2009: Women and the Arts A topics-based study of the visual arts of the modern era (ca. 1500-Present) with a focus on women artists and depictions of women in art. Two primary themes will direct the choice of topics: an introduction to women artists often overlooked in general art surveys, and, the social and historical contexts that have informed the way that women have practiced art as well as how they are used as subjects within art. Topics can include gender and art history, images of the body, feminism and race, depictions of women and mass media, women as patrons, the ¿lesser arts¿, and the gendered spaces of architecture.
Spring 2010:19th Century Art: From Enlightenment to Expressionism A topics-based course covering the major issues in European and American art from ca. 1775-1875. Topics may include: majors movements such as Romanticism and Impressionism, key themes such as landscape painting and new forms of realism, the impact of technology such as the invention of photography and the effects of the industrial revolution, the relationship between established institutions and revolutionary movements, and the changing roles and audiences for art during the early modern era.
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3.00 Credits
This course will expose students to a variety of sources which bear on the subject of American national identity and character. While due consideration will be given to the variety and diversity that characterizes Americans, attention will also be given to what all Americans may have in common.
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3.00 Credits
From "sugar and spice and everything nice" to "a woman's place is in the House... and Senate" the expectations for a girl's life mirror the ever-changing social, cultural, religious, and political conditions in the United States. In our examination of girlhood from the 17th to the 21st century we will learn of society's changing expectations for females, and the political and cultural roles Americans believed girls played in society.
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the social, cultural and political dimensions of race, ethnicity and identity in Latin America. Themes covered will include Aztec, Maya, and Inca culture and society, Spanish and Portuguese colonial society, African slavery, the wars of independence and the rise of nations and national identities, and changing conceptions of national identity in the 20th century. The course integrates materials from several disciplines, and students will read diaries, novels and other primary sources in translation, consult current news articles about Latin America, and study film and music.
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3.00 Credits
A theme-based exposure to the earlier periods of US history. Possible themes could include paradox or irony in US history, US history as the construction of empire, US history as progress or regression, US history as escape from the past. A variety of primary and secondary sources will be employed.
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3.00 Credits
A thematic exposure to the latter century and a half of US history. Possible themes could include the paradox of race in US history, the architects and managers of the American Century, or consensus and conflict in the US history. A variety of primary and secondary sources will be employed.
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