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4.00 Credits
(same as WLC 173) This course examines aspects of Iranian culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as manifested in film and literature, with special attention to the aesthetics of the visual and verbal mediums of communication. Depictions of life in contemporary Iran in carefully selected short and feature films, and texts provide a gateway to more general discussions about Iran's political system, social structures and cultural specificities, including familial, social, artistic and political cultures.
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4.00 Credits
(same as RUS 236 and COM 236) Students will come to understand the richness of the Russian cinema, including its innovations that have become critical for modern world film, such as vertical montage, and will demonstrate appreciation for the leading filmmakers, landmark films, and aesthetic trends in the history of Russian film. Special attention will be paid to the geniuses of Russian film, including Eisenstein and Tarkovsky, as well as films that had a significant impact on the development of the broader canvas of Russian culture. Students will develop critical analysis skills to evaluate films as cinematographic and cultural texts. No knowledge of Russian is required, although students with Russian-language expertise can opt to take the course for LAC (Language Across the Curriculum) credit.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on differing topics of historical significance having to do with African or Latin American history. This course may be repeated for credit when the topic changes.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the ways that African novelists, musicians, and filmmakers have memorialized Africa's past. In the films of Mweze Ngangura, in the songs of Lomwe plantation workers, in the creative writing of African novelists, students will learn how trained artists and ordinary people alike use the arts to think through history. How art comments on political relations in the present is also an enduring theme.
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4.00 Credits
Offers a social, cultural, and political history of the encounters of Spanish and Portuguese peoples with the indigenous population of the New World since the 15th century and focuses on the making of a truly multicultural and multiethnic society over the subsequent three centuries.
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4.00 Credits
A concise survey of Indian Mexico and the Spanish legacy followed by an intensive study of Mexico's quest for independence-political, economic, and cultural-with particular attention to the Revolution of 1910-1920.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the history of food consumption and preparation in the Western world, and its place in defining gender roles; food as part of religious ceremony; development of table manners; the politics of breast-feeding; the changing of kitchen roles; and the history of eating disorders.
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4.00 Credits
Recounts and analyzes the patterns of interaction among the Spanish, English, French, and Dutch colonists and the native peoples of North America from first contact to independence.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the patterns of Indian-European interaction followed by a more comprehensive survey of the relations between the Indians and the rising United States.
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4.00 Credits
This course will introduce the student to the historical study of frontiers and of the North American West as a place that shifted over time. After all, in 1800, the West meant Ohio, which raises the question: Is the American West best understood as a fixed geographical place or as the frontier process itself? What effect has the frontier had on American culture and history more generally? And how can we make sense of the messy historical realities produced by different cultures coming into contact? We will read some classic works by historians, including Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis, and a number of primary sources, including the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville and Mark Twain and the works of American artists. We will look at the encounters of Native Americans and Euro-Americans, the expansion of slavery, women and men on the overland trails, the lives of Black Hawk and Daniel Boone, the role of water, and the lives of bandits, miners, and prostitutes. Along the way, you will be introduced not only to interesting slices of American history, but also to different ways of understanding the past, including the study of gender, space, social history, and cultural history.
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