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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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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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3.00 Credits
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
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
This course will examine the origins of Hitler's Germany and the consequences of his ambitions for a Thousand Year Reich. Particular emphasis will be placed on the psychopathology of fascism, including the doctrines of racial purity, which led to the Holocaust, as well as Hitler's ambitions for world domination.
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4.00 Credits
One of the most effective ways in which the memory of the Holocaust has been kept alive has been through its portrayal on film. One might argue that a whole genre of film has emerged, devoted to the examination and remembrance of the Holocaust, from Alan Resnais's early documentary, Night and Fog, to Steven Spielberg's commercial feature, Schindler's List . Thiscourse will study the evolution of that genre and the changing nature of the Holocaust's portrayal.
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3.00 Credits
Discussion will focus on three questions. First, how did Western culture contribute to the attempt to exterminate the Jewish people that was carried out from 1933 to 1945? Second, what support can culture, especially literature and the arts, offer to the attempt to live in awareness of that event? Third, are the cultural factors that contributed to the Holocaust still active today? ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
A study of selected fiction, poetry, and drama depicting the human experience of the Holocaust, 1933-1945, and its continuing significance. The central question to be examined in this course is how genocide, the ultimate atrocity, can be transformed into art.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to examine the complex interplay between race, religion, and culture in a variety of contexts in the Western hemisphere. The course includes an examination of the impact of racism and sexism on religious practice. Related courses Other courses are listed under Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the course schedules that appear before registration each semester. Students completing a minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies may also propose that one related course be counted toward their program with approval of the Chair. Internships and independent studies are encouraged. Related courses could include many offerings from the Department of History in the European or African areas; Philosophy courses dealing with the problem of evil or ethics; Political Science or Sociology courses dealing with race or genocide; and World Religions courses that provide background or a context for research on the Holocaust or genocide.
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