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4.00 Credits
Examines Vienna from the 1860s through the 1930s as the site of itellectual, political, and aesthetic responses to the challenges of modern urban life. Through readings in politics, literature, science, and philosophy, as well as through art and music, we explore three contested elements of personal identity: nationality, sexuality, and rationality. - D. Coen Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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The development of the modern culture of consumption, with particular attention to the formation of the woman consumer. Topics include commerce and the urban landscape, changing attitudes toward shopping and spending, feminine fashion and conspicuous consumption, and the birth of advertising. Examination of novels, fashion magazines, and advertising images. - L. Tiersten Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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Transformations in the culture of leisure from the onset of industrialization to the present day. Relations between elite and popular culture and the changing relationship between the work world and the world of leisure will be among the topics considered in such settings as the department store, the pub, the cinema, and the tourist resort. - L. Tiersten Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Social and cultural history of London from the Great Fire of 1666 to the 1960s. An examination of the changing experience of urban identity through the commercial life, public spaces, and diverse inhabitants of London. Topics include 17th-century rebuilding, immigrants and emigrants, suburbs, literary culture, war, and redevelopment. - D. Valenze Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). 4 points
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Examination of European understandings of human senses through the production and reception of art, literature, music, food, and sensual enjoyments in Britain and France. Readings include changing theories concerning the five senses; efforts to master the passions; the rise of sensibility and feeling for others; concerts and the patronage of art; the professionalization of the senses. - D. Valenze Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). 4 points
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Examines the ways gender has constituted citizenship in modern western history. Topics include suffrage; national belonging; marriage and military service for women and LGBT citizens; social citizenship and the welfare state; "postpolitical citizenship" through economics and consumption; statelessness and migration; cosmopolitan citizenship; and parity, quotas and representation. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Sophomore standing. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). 4 points
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3.00 Credits
Individual guided research and writing in history and the presentation of results in seminar and in the form of the senior essay. See Requirements for the Major for details. - Staff Prerequisites: Open to Barnard College History Senior Majors. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). 8 points 4 points each term.
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4.00 Credits
Critical examination of recent trends in modern U.S. women's history, with particular attention to the intersection of gender, sexuality, class, and race. Topics will include: state regulation of marriage and sexuality, roots of modern feminism, altered meanings of motherhood and work, and changing views of the body. - R. Rosenberg Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Considers what role "race" plays in U.S. culture, politics, economics and foreign policy. Beginning with the origins of racial slavery, examines how, when and whether the subsequent development of racial systems - and challenges to them - shaped historical developments. Through a survey of theories about "race relations" and contemporary discussions about affirmative action, immigration, empire and rights, ponders the possibilities for a "colorblind" society in the United States. - E. Esch Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Exploration of women's lives from World War I to the Great Crash. Topics include women's politics, domestic roles, the female work force, collegiate life, the new morality, flaming youth, women in the Harlem Renaissance, women's literature, and the paradox of modern feminism. - N. Woloch Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). 4 points
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