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3.00 Credits
A selection of seminars designed to enhance students’ understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity, to provide them with a bridge between their previous educational experience and the world after graduation and to help them improve their research, writing and speaking skills. Each seminar will focus either on a non-Western civilization or on a submerged group within Western civilization. Course selection will include topics such as African-American history, the history of American women, Latin American history, and East Asian history.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the history and culture of African-Americans from colonial times through Reconstruction, with emphasis on their social, cultural and religious experiences. Fulfills ENG/HST senior core requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the thoughts, ideas, and actions of African- Americans from the 1880s to the present. It focuses on major African-American figures, the Great Migration and development of urban black communities, social protest movements of the 1930s and 1940s, the civil rights movement and the black power movement. Race, class and gender are important elements of this course. African-American literature, film and music are also examined. Fulfills ENG/HST senior core requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a detailed study of Mexico from pre-Columbian times to the present day. Themes include Maya and Aztec civilizations, the Spanish conquest, Mexico under Spanish colonial rule, the independence movements of 1810-1823, the era of the Great Reforms, the Mexican Revolution of 1910, and political, social and economic developments in contemporary Mexico. Fulfills ENG/HST senior core requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the roles and perceptions of women in the medieval and early modern periods in Europe (300– 1500). We will also consider the role of gender in history and examine how women saw themselves as wives, mothers, workers and spiritual and sexual beings. Open to seniors only. Fulfills ENG/HST senior core requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the phenomenon of genocide through the lens of five thematic fields: Beginnings, Styles and Technologies, Remembering and Commemoration, Denial and Responsibility. Starting with a brief encounter with the genocidal destruction of the peoples of North America, we will then move through these thematic fields while exploring five genocidal moments of the 20th century: the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the Cambodian autogenocide, the Rwandan genocide and the ethnic cleansings of the Balkans. As we consider each, we will think about the links between modernity and genocide and the steps that could be taken to prevent genocide in the future. This course fulfills the ENG/HST senior core requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the history of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with emphasis on their customs and cultures and the impact on them of modernization, imperialism, revolution and war. A seminar project and oral report are required of all students. Fulfills ENG/HST senior core requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history of the struggle of European women with the patriarchy that dominates Western civilization. It focuses on the recurrent themes of that struggle, including women’s quest for a cultural voice and their demands for political rights as well as recognition of the value of their socio-economic contributions. Fulfills ENG/HST senior core requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the lens of the linked concepts of history and memory. It uses as well, the rich literature generated by the conflict to explore the connections between historiography, commemoration, museology, archaeology and power; it takes a multidisciplinary approach to an understanding of how the history of the region has been written and how the past is made to live in the lives of contemporary Palestinians and Israelis. Likewise, it interrogates how history and memory are inscribed on national and diasporan identity and problematizes phenomena like “collective memory” “transgenerational trauma” and “national historFulfills ENG/HST senior core requirement.
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3.00 Credits
The history of film, drama, museums, literature, media and the internet in the Middle East during the period 1880-2004 are covered in this course; it is also a course about how we can use culture, broadly conceived, as a way to better understand the social and intellectual history of that part of the world. Capstone seminar for PGS.
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