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Explores the world that pirates called their home, including both the myth and the reality of being a pirate. Topics include a pirate's daily life, the reasons why someone would become a pirate, and the relationship between piracy and the construction of early modern empires. Comparisons with pirates in the South China Sea and the northern coast of Africa are also explored, and several films are screened. Prerequisite: sophomore/junior/senior status; must read Stevenson's Treasure Island for first day of class. Offered in selected Winter Sessions.
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An intensive exploration of an underutilized masterpiece of American literature as well as a rumination on the tenor of life, politics, culture, and history in the United States during the first three decades of the 20th century. The core of this seminar is John Dos Passos' great trilogy, U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel: 1919: The Big Money. We read and discuss these fascinating and complicated books, explore and evaluate Dos Passos' innovative narrative and experimental styles, his political agenda and social critique, his understanding of the flow of American history, his enduring appeal to the fan of a good read, and his great utility to the student of American history. Using the books as a guide and a lodestar, we construct an understanding of the American experience before, during and after the First World War, and gain a unique insight into the connections between literature and history and between art and memory. Prerequisite: any 100-level history course, sophomore/junior/senior status. Offered in selected Winter Sessions.
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An intensive reading and discussion seminar which explores the tenor of early 20th century Southern life and culture through the fiction and non-fiction works of Erskine Caldwell, a much-overlooked genius of American letters. Caldwell stands alongside William Faulkner as one of the two most important interpreters of life, culture, and society in the South during the early 20th century. In his highly readable works, Caldwell straddled the lines between sharp social commentary and popular fiction, high art and reportage. By focusing on the lives of ordinary Southerners, Caldwell explored race, class, and gender in a South wracked by industrialization, social upheaval, racial violence, and the Great Depression. Rural Southern life, the race question in the South, radical Georgia politics, social change during the Great Depression, and the broader flow of events in American history between 1900 and 1945 are covered along with other important topics. Prerequisite: sophomore/junior/senior status. Offered in selected Winter Sessions.
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Identical to ENG 383.
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Explores the development of socialism in Europe from the late eighteenth century through today. Examines the theoretical origins of socialism in the late eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century. Includes an analysis of Marxism and Communism as developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the midnineteenth century, as well as critical socialist thinkers after Marx, including August Bebel, Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Geog Lukacs. Includes an analysis of socialist/communist feminism, aesthetics, literary theory, and home furnishing. Investigates the historical application of socialist theory to the political world from the midnineteenth century, to the Russian Revolution, to the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe in the 1990s. Prerequisite: sophomore/junior/senior status. Offered in selected Winter Sessions.
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A seminar consisting of intensive reading and discussion of selected classic and cutting-edge scholarship on the African-American freedom struggles of the 20th century. We work from the premise that the roots of the Civil Rights Movement stretch back long before the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and that its achievements and continuing struggles remain central to understanding the role of race in American society today. Topics of study include the early campaigns of the NAACP; the significance of the Great Depression and World War II in accelerating the struggle for racial justice; the role of grassroots activism in the 1950s and 1960s; civil rights efforts outside of the South; and the interwoven relationship of the "Civil Rights" and "Black Powermovements. This is a reading and writing intensive history seminar. Prerequisites: senior status and either HIST 113, 114, or 115.
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Is the American Dream for sale? The history of consumer culture in the United States during the 20th century is examined. It is often said that we live in a consumer society, but seldom do we stop to consider what this actually means or how it came to be. In tracing this history, scholars grapple with such questions as: How has consumerism helped to shape American culture in the 20th century? Has consumer culture primarily been oppressive or liberating? How does consumer culture shape and reflect personal and group identity, whether based on gender, class, ethnicity, race, or nationality? These and other questions are examined through readings, films, and primary sources. Prerequisite: senior status or consent. Offered spring of even-numbered years.
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Political, economic, and social conditions during prosperity and depression, war and peace. Emphasis on conflict and adjustment of traditional American concepts to an urbanized and mechanized society. Prerequisite: senior status. Offered fall of even-numbered years.
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Introduces students to the major topics and themes arising from the innumerable connections that existed between peoples who crisscrossed the Atlantic Ocean between 1500 and 1800. Students examine topics such as encounter, environment, migration, piracy, slavery, and revolution in Africa, Europe, North America, and South America. Prerequisite: senior status or consent. Offered spring of even-numbered years.
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An intensive study of life, politics, culture, economics, gender, and race throughout the different areas of the American South between the early colonial era and the coming of the Civil War. Covers, among many other topics, cultural and political developments of life in the unique context of the Antebellum South; the experience of the frontier, mountain, Tidewater, piedmont, and Gulf Coast; the complex relationship between Black, White and Native Americans; the notion of Southern honor; the interplay of sectionalism, radicalism, Southern nationalism, and expansionism; and the experience of plantation life for master and slave. This advanced-level class also puts considerable effort into analyzing an array of different historiographical interpretations and schools of thought on the history of the Old South. Prerequisite: senior status or consent. Offered fall of odd-numbered years.
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