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  • 79 252: Recent U.S. History 1945-Present

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course will explore the social cultural and political history of America since World War II. Topics include: the dawn of the nuclear age, the cold war, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, counter culture, the energy crisis of the 1970s, the rise of environmentalism, the turn toward conservatism in the 1980s. We will use music, film, television, and literature as evidence of cultural change in American society during the past 50 years.
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  • 79 254: Topics in the Jewish Diaspora: The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course explores the history of the Jewish presence in Latin America and the relevance of the Latin American experience in shaping Jewish identity. We will survey the presence of Jews in Latin America from the time of the conquest to the present. Among the topics we will consider are: the Inquisition and crypto-Jews in Latin America; Jewish immigration in early nineteenth-century Latin America; realtionships between Jews and non-Jews including other minority groups such as Arabs; relations between Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews; Jewish cultural life and political activism in the context of the rise of modern-nation states, revolutions, military dictatorships and violence; antisemitism; and the influence of contemporary politics in Latin America on Jewish life.
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  • 79 255: Irish History

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course surveys Irish history from the earliest human settlements until the present day, with emphasis on the period since the sixteenth century. Our main objective is to understand the sources of conflict in modern Ireland. In order to do that, however, we look at a number of topics such as the role of religion in Irish society; the causes of population growth, movement and decline; changing forms of protest; and the formation of rival myths of the Irish past and its meaning.
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  • 79 258: French History: From the Revolution to De Gaulle

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This survey course looks at French society and culture from the period after the French Revolution (roughly 1815) to the Nazi invasion of 1940. We first look at the multiple impacts of the Revolution on French society. We try to understand some of the lasting features of nineteenth and early-twentieth century France by studying the lives of different social groups including workers, peasants, and members of the elites. We follow the continuing problem of French political instability in the nineteenth century, trying to understand the deep rifts that divided different groups of French people from one another. We look at the devastating impacts of World War One and the Great Depression, and end with the collapse of France in 1940. Coursework is based on the use of works of fiction, film, personal memoirs, and art as well as historians? writings. Written work includes papers and in class tests.
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  • 79 259: France During World War II

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course surveys the history of French society and culture in the years 1939-1945 focusing on problems that the war presented. To understand life under the German Occupation and the collaborationist government in Vichy, requires us to look back at major political, social and economic conditions of the 1930s that divided the French people. We use film and personal memoirs as well as recent historical studies to recreate a sense of life during the war, and try to answer such questions as: What accounts for the French military collapse of 1940? Which groups of French men and women benefitted from collaboration with Germany? How did France's collaboration in the Holocaust come about? We also consider how the French people have tried to come to terms with their wartime experience since the 1940s. This course can be used to fulfill the three-unit "language enrichment" option, with the permission of the instructor.
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  • 79 263: China's Cultural Revolution

    6.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This mini-course examines the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-69) as a species of revolution, including its origins and its aftermath until Mao Zedong's death in 1976. What were Mao's goals in prompting this most famous of student uprisings? Why did he attack his fellow party leaders, and other authorities and symbols of China's past? How did Chinese of various ages and statuses respond? What long-term effects did the movement have and how is it regarded in retrospect? To examine these issues we use memoirs, collections of documents and eyewitness accounts, a recent history, and visual material including film. No prerequisites.
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  • 79 264: China in the Age of Reform, 1978-Present

    6.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This mini-course explores the social history of China's dramatic emergence as an economic power in the past thirty years. We pay special attention to China's export market, including the factories that supply Walmart and other foreign companies, and to the consumer revolution in Chinese cities. We also look at the Tiananmen June Fourth suppression of ?Beijing Spring? in 1989, and whether the Communist Party is loosening its authoritarian rule. We use various article collections and memoirs, as well as a number of films. No prerequisites.
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  • 79 265: Russian History: From the First to the Last Tsar

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course covers a broad sweep of Russian history beginning with the first settlements of tribal nomads in the ninth century and ending with the fall of the 300-year-old Romanov dynasty in 1917. In our study of Russian colonization and state formation, we make the acquaintance of Mongol marauders, greedy princes, and peasant rebels, as well as Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, and the long succession reformers and reactionaries who occupied the Russian throne. We explore the development of a working class, and the uprising of workers, peasants, and soldiers that ultimately brought down the Tsar.
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  • 79 266: Russian History: From Communism to Capitalism

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course covers a broad sweep of Russian history from the socialist revolution in 1917 to the turmoil of the present. Spanning almost a century of upheaval and transformation, the course examines the October revolution, the ruthless power struggles of the 1920s, the triumph of Stalin, the costly industrialization and collectivization drives, the battle against fascism, and the "wild west" capitalism and collapse of the social welfare state in the present time. The course provides essential background for anyone interested in understanding the explosive, history-making events in the former Soviet Union.
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  • 79 271: Russian Studies Topics

    6.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    [Note: students who have already taken this course under its former number 79-418 and former title, Literary Culture of the 19th Century Russia, may not enroll.] A1- Literary Culture of the 19th Century Russia The purpose of the course is to give students an introduction to the cultural environment of the Imperial Russia through the works of major 19th century Russian writers. We will read and analyse some masterpieces of Russian fiction, including works of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. Emphasis will be made on how these brilliant classics reflected turbulent history of the 19th century Russia. [Note: students who have already taken this course under its former number 79-419 and former title, Literary Culture of the 20th Century Russia, may not enroll.] A2- Literary Culture of the 20th Century Russia This mini-course focuses on Russian prose and poetry of the early 20th century. Readings will include the ?proletarian? writings of Maxim Gorky, 'symbolism? of Alexander Blok, ?futurism? and ?modernism? of Vladimir Mayakovsky, as well as works of some other authors. We will discuss issues important to the 20th century Russian Cultural History such as the role of intelligentsia in Russian Revolution, the content and method of Russian decadence, symbolism, and modernism, as well as imprisonment, liberation, and exile that became so important for many writers and poets.
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