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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Group 2,1 course Most Americans learn about the past not in college classrooms but from visiting historical museums and sites, through reading 'popular' historical works and from hobbies, like genealogy and living history re-enactments. Visual markers of past eras-historical landscapes, buildings, and artifacts-are powerful places for learning about the past. But who decides which "pasts" are worth preserving and whose stories are retold What is the relationship between history learned in the classroom and history learned at public sites This course examines these questions from three perspectives: material culture, the objects that are the primary historical documents for interpreting the past at historical sites and museums; history museums and their role in determining how the past is displayes; and public member, or popular uses of the past for commemoration or for heritage purposes.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Group 4, 1 course A study of selected problems and texts in the critical history and philosophy of history. Major questions addressed by the course: Is objective history possible What is the role of the historian How is history politicized through selection of subject matter And, how has the idea of progress influenced the writing of history
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Group 4, 1 course Why did Europe suddenly erupt in a fury of witch trials in the sixteenth century Why did these trials just as suddenly die out in the eighteenth What was the role of religion in the pursuit of witches Was misogyny at the heart of the witchcraze These questions and more will be addressed in this course as we try to understand the nature of the European witchcraze. Through a close and careful analysis of primary documents, we will try to develop our own conclusions on this troubling episode of European history.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Group 4, 1 course A study of life in France during the reign of the Sun King. A deeper understanding of 17th-century French life is attempted through a study of French history, politics, society, literature, philosophy and art.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Group 4, 1 course This 18th-century European intellectual movement is approached through the works of the major thinkers of the period. Writers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, and de Sade are examined.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Group 4, 1 course This course will look at Western Europe at its height of power and influence and in the decades leading up to and including WWI (c.1870-1918). The class will approach Imperial Europe through a series of thematic clusters, such as empire, imperialism and militarism, nations and nationalism, gender and generation, culture, technology, politics and political organization, intellectual developments, mortality, sexuality, etc.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Group 4, 1 course An examination of the social, economic, political and ideological conditions and processes that led to the establishment of single-party dictatorships in Italy, Germany and the Soviet Union.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Group 4, 1 course An exploration of feudal Japanese society (1185-1800) through an in-depth study of its major actors - the samurai. The topics that are explored in this course include the mores, ethos and valor of the samurai, on the one hand, and the changing as well as enduring social, economic and political structure of this period on the other hand.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Group 2,1 course The role and status of women and the evolution of the Chinese family from the late imperial period to the present. It draws on materials from novels and biographical case studies.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Group 2,1 course An examination of the emergence of East Asia from a pre-industrialized backwater in the 19th century to a vibrant economic region by the 1980s.
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