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3.00 Credits
This seminar will provide students with an introduction to the internal social, political, and economic influences that led to revolution in Mexico and Cuba and counterrevolution in Guatemala and Chile, while also taking into account the influence of the United States and the cold war. This course, however, will not explore social change through the lens of the United States. Rather, we will examine how regional identities, women, peasants, and workers in each nation, shaped revolutionary movements and post-revolutionary state structures.
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This seminar examines political murder and murderers in the United States from the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln to the domestic terrorism of the Unabomber. Sociological, psychoanalytical, and psychiatric perspectives on the motivations and personality "types" of American politicalkillers, as well as their own moral and political justifications, regrets, or denials of their actions, will be considered. A central focus of this course will be on understanding law enforcement, judicial, and legislative responses to political killing. Perspectives on the roles of government agencies and corporate power in political murder and the growth of a popular "conspiracy industry" will also be considered. Manifestations ofdomestic political homicide in modern American fiction, visual art, and music will be included. ( Fall '07)
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Anthropophagus - man-eater - was one of the first labels Europeans attached to the native peoples of the Americas. This course will study the historic and symbolic construction of cannibalism in the area today known as Latin America. It will examine: a) the practice of anthropophagy among the indigenous peoples of the area, in the 16th century - its aims, meanings, and changes; b) the construction, in Europe, from the 16th to the 19th centuries, of one of the most powerful symbols of savagery, cannibalism; c) the upside down turn Latin American artists did to the concept in the first half of the 20th century, transforming cannibalism in a new way of representing themselves and their relationship with the world.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the formal and informal participation of African women in politics, their interaction with the state and their role in society. Themes will include: the role of women in pre-colonial African society, women's responses to colonial intervention and rule, African women in the independence struggle, in the post-colonial political economy and the military, and women's contemporary political and social activism. (Spring) Asia and the Middle East
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This course will examine the social, political, cultural, and natural history of the Mississippi River and its environs. The river will be considered in all its aspects, from the physical and geographical through the social, political, and economic to the symbolic and spiritual. ( Spring '09) African History
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3.00 Credits
The current postcolonial era is replete with the failure of many political experiences in the Third world, but the phenomenon is better understood by looking at its origins, the colonial state. The course covers Europe's expansion from the 15th- to the 20thcentury and focuses on colonial regimes in America, Asia, and Africa. Some of the themes discussed are: nationalism, imperialism, assimilation, association, globality, hegemony, indigenity, emancipation, culture, civilization, religion, and race. (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
Is today's conflict between Muslims and Christians a direct result of The Crusades? This seminar will explore the medieval scene in Europe and the Holy Land to find out how tensions developed and perpetuated to divide our world into an East and a West. We will examine the controversial issues surrounding the origins of crusade and Jihad, explore both Eastern and Western perspectives on the major events of the Crusades, and attempt to understand the course of the ever changing crusading movement and its legacy on both the Eastern and Western worlds.
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3.00 Credits
This course will analyze some of the first contacts between Europeans and the indigenous peoples in the area today known as Latin America. It will examine the interests and the emotions as well as the material and cultural exchanges that were involved in these encounters, and also the violence and upheaval that characterized the process virtually from its beginnings. It will also consider the symbols and archetypes of these first encounters, which have influenced Latin American culture down to the present. Course material will mainly include historical documents produced during this period.
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3.00 Credits
The tour which will occur during the Spring Break will focus on themes ranging from the ancient and early Christian period as well as more recent events of the 19th and 20th centuries and the contemporary phenomenon of the "Celtic Tiger" economy. Sites selected for visitation will follow the overall theme. Students will have 3-4 required meetings prior to the tour.
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3.00 Credits
The Department of History welcomes independent study projects. These may consist of directed readings, research and writing, or a combination thereof; the exact nature of the study being worked out in consultation with a faculty member. Some recent examples of independent study include histories of Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Julius Caesar, World War II in the Pacific, Wall Street, the New York Yankees, and ice hockey, among many others. European History
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