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4.00 Credits
In seminar format, students will read and discuss books and articles on women's history in Japan, China, and Korea. Differences in their responses to the modern world and their role in the history of modern East Asian society will be emphasized. The study of women in modern East Asian history will be used as a vehicle to improve student's critical reading, speaking, and writing skills.
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the historical development of theories of human rights and their relationship to gender issues. We will consider arguments over women's rights and human rights from the eighteenth century democratic revolutions in the United States and France to the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing. Specific case studies will include reproductive rights and women's economic rights in a world context as well as alliances and rifts between "First World" and "Third World" feminisms.
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4.00 Credits
This course delves into the conceptions and understanding that Americans have devised to understand their collective life. Emphasis on formal thought that maps the structure of society and dynamics of social activity. Topics will vary from year to year but among possible investigations are American understanding of capitalism, the nature of social justice, the problem of social cohesion.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the major interpretations of American history from Reconstruction to the late 20th c. resurgence of conservatism. Senior history majors may register by invitation only.
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4.00 Credits
After a discussion of the Moynihan Report controversy and an assessment of the literature on the black family, the readings will investigate why and how stable black families were encouraged, and how they developed under slavery. The impact of factors such as economics, politics, religion, gender, medicine, and the proximity of free families, on the structure of the black family will be given special attention. In this way, the structure of the slave family on the eve of Emancipation, and its preparedness for freedom, will be tested and assessed. Students will be encouraged to identify persistent links between the "history" of slavery and the black family, and the development of social policy.
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4.00 Credits
Selected problems in the political, social, and intellectual history of the Middle Ages.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the modernization of the Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu traditions of the Indian Ocean in response to the introduction colonial rule in the eighteenth century and of mass schooling in the late nineteenth century. Readings include: Peter van der Veer, Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain; Engseng Ho, The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean; Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Buddhism Betrayed?: Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka; Thomas Blom Hansen The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India.
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4.00 Credits
Cultural critic Stuart Hall has observed that “Heritage is a discursive practice. It is one of the ways in which the nation slowly constructs for itself a sort of collective social memory.” In this upper level seminar, we will look at case studies of how people (through the collectivities of gender, ethnicity, race, or nation) construct visual narratives about the past. Among the topics for consideration are Holocaust memorials, Native American and Polynesian museums and cultural centers, African American quilt histories, and even individual artists’ projects of the last few decades (Judy Chicago, Fred Wilson, Silvia Gruner, José Bedia, and Jolene Rickard, among others).
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0.00 Credits
Individual instruction in the teaching of history under the supervision of a faculty member.
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0.00 Credits
Designed for junior and senior students who wish to pursue an independent reading program with a professor; required for honors program participants. Upper-level writing credit awarded if students prepare and revise an extended essay.
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