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Before there were movies, TV or the internet, books were mass media. In this course, we will read books pamphlets and tracts written for or eagerly embraced by large numbers of readers. By looking at bestsellers, we will seek insights into the American cultures which produced and received these texts by attempting to understand not only why these narratives were so popular, but also what relationship they had to American politics, religion, labor relations, and the family. Our readings will focus on tales of the city-its dangers, its promises, and its power. While we focus on bestsellers of the nineteenth century, we will also consider how the themes and issues addressed by nineteenth-century popular literature play out in the twenty-first century.
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This course will look at the various cultural productions of landscape, nature, and environment. It will focus on paintings, texts, popular imagery, architecture, city planning, and garden design from the early modern era to the contemporary world. Major topics could include landscape painting and Romanticism, landscapes and industrialism, nature writing and image making, city parks and planning, photography and travel, and the environmental movement and modern art. Lecture and discussion. The course will count as an advanced studies credit.
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3.00 Credits
Selected topics in history scheduled on a one-time basis when faculty and student interest justifies it.
The Great War: Originally simply called "The Great War," World War I was in many ways the decisive event of the 20th century. When the victors met at Versailles in 1919 to conclude the peace, virtually every political phenomenon that would play out during the remainder of the century was present in some form. This course will examine the war from a variety of perspectives, making use of primary and secondary sources as well as fiction. Students will be required to do an extensive amount of reading and to reflect critically upon that reading in a written form.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This team-taught, interdisciplinary course is designed to take an in-depth look at the relationship between women and the environment over time. We will explore several themes, including how women relate to the natural world; women, science and nature; living lightly on the land; nature as healer, ecofeminism, and women as advocates for the environment. Topics will be studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores American involvement in the Pacific from the eighteenth century to the present. In addition to Japan and China, considerable attention will be focused on those areas of the Pacific where the United States has had major influence, including the Philippines, Hawaii, Samoa, and Micronesia. A major theme of the course involves an exploration of how involvement in the Pacific has contributed to an American sense of identity.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the role of Africans and their descendents in the making of the New World. We begin by learning about the lives of Africans in Africa before their coerced migration to the Americas and the Caribbean. After briefly examining the process of enslaving Africans and transporting them to the New World, we proceed to learn about the lives of Africans in a variety of different geographical settings and contexts, from slaves engaged in the production of tobacco in South Carolina and Cuba to free(d) blacks in Brazil and Mexico. Over the course of the semester, we will examine how notions and customs regarding race, gender, class, and religion shaped the lives of everyday Africans and their descendents in the New World.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2010: Critical Perspectives on America and American Foreign Policy This course examines some of the major thinkers who have reflected on the nature of American society and culture as they have affected the way the country has approached the world outside its borders. The thinking of individuals such as Charles Beard, William Appleman Williams, George Kennan, Reinhold Niebuhr, J. William Fulbright and others of importance will be explored. This course is intended for upper level humanities and social science students. Other upper division students may be admitted with the permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Selected topics in history scheduled on a one-time basis when faculty and student interest justifies it.
Fall 2008:Adv: Top: Modern Tourism: From beaches to lunatic asylums, mountains to urban centers, tourism both shaped and was shaped by the modern world. Although now a cornerstone of our lives, modern tourism is only about two hundred and fifty years old. This class explores the development of touristic practice, beginning in a time when beaches were an intermediary space between heaven and hell, mountains were so terrifying that those who could afford it were carried through them while blindfolded, and most people could not even imagine the idea of "free time." As years passed, aesthetic revolution, technological developments, and growing economies utterly transformed how we look at our surroundings and how we think about time. This class will use lectures, readings, discussions, and field trips to explore the history of modern tourism, while at the same time giving students an opporrtunity to play a role in shaping understanding of this vital part of modern life.
Fall 2008:Adv: Top: Rebellion and Revolution in Twentieth Century Latin America: This course examines the major revolutionary movements in Latin America during the twentieth century -- particularly-- but not exclusively those movements that developed in Mexico (1910), Cuba (1959), Chile (1973) and Nicaragua (1979). The course asks what were the political, economic and cultural forces at work that compelled ordinary people in these countries to rebel against their governments and the status quo.
Spring 2008 & Spring 2009:Adv: Top: Modern Architecture: This course is a study of the development of modernism in the built environment of the past two centuries, with a close look at key structures and texts that highlight the major ideas of the period. The focus will initially be on Europe and North America, with a shift to a global perspective in the second half of the course. Topics will vary widely, but include buildings, design issues, city planning, ornament, technology, colonialism, and other aspects that contribute to the built environment of the modern world.
Fall 2009:Adv: Top: Indigenous People of Latin America Since the colonization of Latin America in the fifteenth century, Europeans and their descendents have sought to change the lives and habits of the native peoples, who the colonizers called "Indians", or "Indios". This course examines the indigenous cultures before, during and after European colonization. During the semester, we will ask how indigenous people drew on their own cultural traditions to endure colonial and post-colonial rule. Along the way, we will ask how divisions among natives-rich and poor, women and men, young and old-shaped the history of indigenous groups.
Spring 2010: The Vietnam War (Section A) This course examines the origins, evolution and impact of United States political and military intervention in Vietnam, which became a dominant, and divisive, issue in American politics in the 1960s and early 1970s. In addition to reviewing the history of the Vietnam War, the class will explore the political, cultural and social forces that shaped the behavior of the various Vietnamese and American parties in the conflict. The objective of the course is to develop a coherent perspective on what became one of the costliest conflicts in U.S. history.
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