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4.00 Credits
This offering explores the cultures of northern Europe from the 5th century BCE to the 10th century CE. In the first unit, we will deal with the Celtic peoples from their prehistoric pagan past to their continuing cultural identity after their conversion to Christianity, especially in Ireland. The second unit traces the Germanic peoples from their movement throughout Europe during the Migration Period to their conversion and settlement as Christian kingdoms. The last unit considers the history of the Vikings, "the last of the barbarians", and their impact on the Christian West. The course stresses the sources and interpretation of evidence from Archaeology, art history, historical texts, inscriptions, and place names, which allow us to reconstruct the cultures and assess their contribution to Medieval and, ultimately, Modern society.
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
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4.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the main currents of European thought in the twentieth century--a century historian Eric Hobsbawm has rightly termed the "Age of Extremes." Focusing on shifting and competing conceptions of selfhood and society, it will place modern European culture and the intellectuals who forged it within the context of the ordeals of two world wars; a host of revolutions (scientific, sexual, Bolshevik, fascist, and "velvet"); the Holocaust and Cold War; the collapse of European colonialism; and the expansion of American empire. We will center on French and German thought, but other regions of the modern European mind - British, Italian, Polish, Czech, émigré American - will also weigh in.
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4.00 Credits
This course is a general (social, political, cultural) survey of the tragically entangled histories of England and Ireland from the Act of Union to the present. The format is a mix of open lectures and discussion sections supplemented by the occasional documentary film.
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4.00 Credits
The course suggests that there existed two distinct views as to how the new nation would be structured. Once these views clashed and became sectional, the nation was thrown into a political, theological, and, ultimately, a military contest the demands of which led to the incorporation of structural changes that had the effect of resolving the very issues that had propelled the nation into war. As we identify and discuss the causes, conduct, and consequences of the Civil War, we will examine the changing ideas about nation, government, work, race, and gender, and ask: How different were Northern and Southern institutions and, to what extent were northern and southern Americans fundamentally different people?
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3.00 Credits
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4.00 Credits
Rarely have the dreams of a nation been so bound to an individual as with Nelson Mandela and South Africa. Using Mandela’s ninety-two year life-span as a framework, this course will follow the political, social, and cultural changes that have swept South Africa in a single lifetime. From the consolidation of a white supremacist government, through the nightmare of Apartheid, and into the hope of a New South Africa, this class will explore the major themes of African nationalism, post-colonialism, Marxist revolution, civil disobedience, third-world development, and international human rights.
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