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Interested students must register for HIST 2970C S01.
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Enrollment limited to 20 first year students.
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American film-making from its origins as a technological amusement to classic Hollywood cinema. Particular attention given to representations of gender, race, and ethnicity with comparisons to the evolution of European film. The Birth of a Nation (1915) by D.W. Griffith, a white Southerner, will be a key text in dialogue with African-American director Oscar Michaeux's Within Our Gates (1920).
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This interdisciplinary seminar for first year students will examine the City of Boston from its seventeenth-century origins to the present day. Among the topics covered will be architecture, city planning, physical expansion, political leadership, urban renewal, historical preservation, park development, racial and ethnic tensions, and suburban sprawl. Includes a Boston tour.
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No region has such a purchase on Americans' collective imagination as the West. No region is so drenched in misrepresentation and mythology. In this seminar, we will use fiction, film, and works of history to explore the American West as both historical reality and wellspring of collective myth.
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This course examines space and place in African American literature and culture. From the north-south trajectory of slave narratives, to novels that highlight the experiences of migrants in the city, to films about urban trauma (racist violence like the Tulsa "race riot" and the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia), we will analyze the uses to which black cultural workers have put architecture and geography.
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This course is an introduction to psychoanalysis and its vexed and productive relationships to women and feminism. Freud asked his famous question: "What does a woman want?" after years of clinical practice and theoretical speculation. Woman's desire remained a mystery to him, but the attempt to solve it has given rise to a rethinking of human sexuality, of gender, of social structures, and of creativity. We will read foundational texts by Freud and by feminist disciples and critics of psychoanalysis theories. The literary texts will be read as critiques of theoretical positions, as well as examples of particular historical constructions of gender. The course is broadly interdisciplinary and explores the boundaries and intersections of different disciplinary practices and frameworks.
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An introduction to American women's writing and to the development of feminist literary practice and theory. This course will cover a broad historical range from the colonial poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley to contemporary writers Toni Morrison, a Nobel Laureate, and Marilynne Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize winner. Attention to the effects of racial, class, and cultural differences will inform this course that will focus on gender and literature.
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Since Columbus, China has held special place in the American imagination. Americans from different vantage points have imagined China as a source of wealth, labor, or souls to save, as a victim, a revolutionary model, factory and bank. Using literature, material culture, and film, we will seek to understand how different groups of Americans, including merchants, workers, women, African Americans and Chinese Americans, have contructed "China". Reserved for First Year students. Enrollment limited to 20. FYS DVPS
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