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3.00 Credits
SO L.Graham This course approaches the Enlightenment as a process of political and cultural change rather than a canon of great texts. Special emphasis will be placed on the emergence of a public sphere and new forms of sociability as distinguishing features of 18th century European life. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
SO (Cross-listed in Political Science) A.Isaacs,A.Kitroeff Prerequisite: One course in history or one course in political science
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3.00 Credits
SO A.Kitroeff The interrelationship of politics with communism and nationalism in the Balkans. The political legacies of the region; the rise of communism and the way in which communist regimes dealt with nationalist issues in each of the region's nation-states; the sharpening of nationalist conflicts in the post-communist era; focusing on the Yugoslav war and the post war efforts to restore democratic rule and resolve nationalist differences equitably. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
SO D.Hayton This course examines the historical situation that produced witchcraft and the occult sciences: How and why did people believe or claim to believe in witches, astrology, and magic The second goal is to recognize how historians and recent authors (including film makers and artists) have used the past. Why are studies of witchcraft and astrology experiencing such a renaissance today By combining a close reading of primary sources - ranging from texts to trial records to paintings and literature - with secondary sources, we will confront the challenges these activities pose for our understanding of the past and the present. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
SO (Cross-listed in Religion and Peace and Conflict Studies) E.Lapsansky The development of Quakerism and its relationship to other religious movements and to political and social life, especially in America. The roots of the Society of Friends in 17th-century Britain, and the expansion of Quaker influences among Third World populations, particularly the Native American, Hispanic, east African, and Asian populations.
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3.00 Credits
SO (Cross-listed in African and Africana Studies) P.Jefferson This course reconstructs the emergence of a modern African American Intellectual and cultural tradition - in the context of a changing political economy and our national coming of age. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
SO (Cross-listed in Russian) L.Gerstein Topics considered include the culture of serfdom, Westernization, reforms, modernization, national identities, and Revolution. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
SO (Cross-listed in Russian) L.Gerstein Continuity and change in Russian and Soviet society since the 1890s. Major topics: the revolutionary period, the cultural ferment of the 1920s, Stalinism, the Thaw, the culture of dissent, and the collapse of the system. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
SO P.Jefferson American Pragmatism in Theory and Practice. This course will reconstruct the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth century development of what was celebrated and criticized as a characteristically American approach to philosophy. Beginning with the writings of Charles S. Peirce, William James, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., members of the so-called Metaphysical Club, we will trace the theorizing of eupraxia [good practice, articulating empirical and normative concerns] in religion, philosophy, science, and politics by sampling the synoptic work of John Dewey, a "godfather" of modern liberalism. After surveying the intellectual landscape of the mid-late twentieth-century, we will conclude by sampling the work of philosophers Richard Bernstein, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Rorty, contemporary neo-pragmatists. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or consent.
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2.00 Credits
SO P.Jefferson A two-semester course which reconstructs our national historical "project[s]," from the landing of the first Africans at Jamestown in 1619 and the founding of Plymouth Plantation in 1620 to the present. Our Ariadne's thread will be the persisting problems of race, class, and regional differences for a would-be republican commonwealth. Reading widely in the sources, we will relate the architecture of public discourse in America - its rhetorical scaffolding, its recurrent themes, and its alternative blueprints for a well-ordered society - to the perceived constraints of a changing political economy. This course may be divided, with the instructor's consent. The first semester will cover the years 1620 to the Civil war. Typically offered in alternate years.
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