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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Historical study of world of work in early modern and modern Europe. Focus on nature of work itself, how it framed mentalities, created social classifications, informed economic thought, and shaped the political process. Topics include history of wage labor and guilds, early industry from countryside to cities, working class formation, division of labor in industry, and policing labor. Unit(s): 1
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An examination of Medieval frontier societies in a comparative perspective, considering such themes as political organization and allegiances, and social, economic and religious life. Consideration given to both geographic and cultural frontiers--places where movement, confrontation, and intersection among peoples occurred. Particular emphasis on the dynamic of contact and separation, cultural exchange, and resistance in Southern Italy, Spain, the Crusader States, and the British Isles. Unit(s): 1
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Exploration of individuals and socio-economic groups who lived in and helped define Britain in the reign of Queen Victoria, 1837-1901. Unit(s): 1
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Interdisciplinary course investigating the Russian Great Reforms (1861-1881) through the lens of L.N. Tolstoi's "Anna Karenina." Examines issues connected to imperial Russian literary, social, cultural, and political history, as well as the subject of gender relations. Unit(s): 1
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An exploration of approaches to and conceptions of what historians have come to call the "Enlightenment." What do they mean by "The Enlightenment " In what ways do they seek fuller understanding of it How and why do they disagree about its features Although the main focus will be on secondary literature, primary texts will be read and discussed as examples of the kind of evidence scholars are trying to interpret. Unit(s): 1
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Examination of selected images China and "the West" constructed of each other in the past two and a half centuries and of the driving forces and mechanisms behind their production. Unit(s): 1
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Examines the lingering controversies surrounding the history of WWII in East Asia. It focuses on the intersections of history and memory, and explores the politics of remembering and representing difficult historical events associated with the war. Issues include the Nanjing Massacre, comfort women, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Battle of Okinawa. Unit(s): 1
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Changing conceptions and treatment of crime and punishment since independence: capital punishment, banditry, vagrancy, infanticide, prostitution, crimes of passion, theft, lynchings, subversion, death squad killings, "disappearances," human rights abuses. Unit(s): 1
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An examination of major debates in the field of Modern Middle Eastern and Islamic History, exploring what the main approaches and their critiques are, how the field (especially recently) came to be polarized and politicized, and where more fruitful middle ground might be found between these hardened categories. Topics will include Orientalism and its discontents, the rise of political Islam, nationalism, and "civilizational identities." Unit(s): 1
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Women's roles in and perspectives on some of the major issues in African history, including slavery, colonialism, and development. Unit(s): 1
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