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The greatest empire of the ancient Western world is the subject of this course. Topics considered will include the Empire's rise, political, social, military, and religious institutions, the contested debate over the causes of the Empire's fall, and its lasting impact on the ensuing history of the world. ( Spring '08)
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Two hundred years ago, sports in the new United States were generally considered to be minor diversions for children; today, organized sports and athletics form a major component of our culture. The increasing importance of sports, the various activities Americans have engaged in, and the meanings they have found and made while so occupied will form the content of this course, with football, baseball, and basketball receiving the greatest emphasis. ( Spring '09)
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This course offers an analysis of the causes and course of the greatest conflict in world history, covering all theatres of operation. Topics include the military and diplomatic implications of "total war" and the compelling personalities,both famous and otherwise, who struggled against each other. (Fall '07)
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This course explores the origins, ideas and impact of an extraordinary literary and philosophical movement that flourished briefly in mid- 19th- century New England: American Transcendentalism. Readings include selected essays of the movement's leading light, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, essays and poetry of Margaret Fuller, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's critical fiction, as well as works of historical and interpretive analysis of their Concord community. (Fall'07)
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This course focuses on the social and cultural history and politics of modern Iran, covering the early modern formation of the country; the 19th- century encounter with the West and its economic and intellectual results, and the 20th - century struggles between despotism, theocracy, and constitutionalism in the shadow of petroleum and the Great Powers. It further covers the Islamic Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War, and the current situation in Iraq. The course will emphasize conflicts facing political and social elites arising from invasions, civil war, Shi'ism and modernization. ( Spring '09) International History
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Drawing on writers like Sir Walter Scott and Alfred Tennyson, politicians like Benjamin Disraeli, educators like Thomas Arnold and Thomas Hughes, the pre-Raphaelite movement in art and the neo-Gothic revival in architecture, this course will examine the emergence of chivalry as an agent of aristocratic hegemony and the anchor of conservatism and tradition in political and culture life in the period between the American Revolution and World War I. ( Fall '07)
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3.00 Credits
This course will familiarize students with the growing body of literature that examines the roles and positions of women in post colonial, Islamic societies and look in particular at 19th- and 20th- century Egypt. We will look at how modernization, colonization, independence and radicalism have affected women's real, lived experiences and contributed toward the manufacture of idealized, female behavior. ( Fall '08)
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This course examines the relationship between religion and politics as it affected, and indeed defined the conflict between native and colonial in Ireland over three centuries. Topics covered will include the Reformation, the Tudor conquest of Ireland, the Penal Laws, the emergence of "Protestant ascendancy" in the 18th- century and, finally, the evolution of entrenched oppositional religious identities that has produced such a unique and complex legacy in the 20th- century. ( Fall'07) American History
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3.00 Credits
This course considers American society and culture during two decades of revolutionary change. Topics to be covered include the Civil Rights movement and its imitators, the American experience in Vietnam, consumer culture and suburbia, and youth culture. ( Fall '08)
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3.00 Credits
Women have long enjoyed a dubious celebrity in Latin America- alternately exalted as the pinnacle of virtue and benevolence or blamed as the epitome of betrayal and weakness. These contradictory images have often served to relegate women to the status of second-class citizens within Latin America. Yet women have not been passive in the creation of these images or this status. Throughout the history of Latin America, women have negotiated their status, at times using both negative and positive imagery to enhance their own stature. At the same time, women have used other categories of identity, such as race and class, to enhance their individual place within society. Beginning with the movements for independence, this course will examine how the status of women in Latin America has changed and discuss the tools women had to affect the meaning of gender roles. Our readings and analysis will explore women's roles in revolution, nation state formation, and feminist movements and how education, the Catholic Church, the workplace and the family informed women's movements and gender roles.
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