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  • 79 297: Comparative Emancipations: Russian Serfdom and American Slavery

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course offers a comparative approach to slavery in the United States and serfdom in Russia, two distinct systems of ?unfree labor? that came into being far from each other, but almost simultaneously in the early seventeenth century. Both systems also ended at approximately the same time: the Russian government abolished serfdom in 1861 while U.S. slavery formally ended in 1863. In each case, millions of people were liberated from bondage. In addition to examining the reasons for the coincidental appearance and disappearance of slavery and serfdom in two distant parts of the world located on the fringes of Europe, the course will also explore themes of race, resistance, economic and social control, and the very different terms and results of each country's emancipation. Where appropriate, the experiences of other countries will also be drawn upon. This course is open to all students.
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  • 79 300: History of American Public Policy

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course will describe and analyze aspects of the development of public policy in the United States from the colonial era to the present. For the purposes of this course, public policy will be defined as the making of rules and laws and their implementation by government either: 1) in response to the failure of private markets to reach desirable outcomes; or 2) in an attempt to achieve a particular normative vision of what society ought to be like. This course assumes that the public policy landscape is complex but still comprehensible given the proper set of analytical frameworks and appropriate historical background. Particular emphasis will be placed on: changing views about the authority of the government to intervene in economic and social issues; the best way to balance individual and collective interests; and the variability within society of the life courses of individuals. Topics covered include: property rights, healthcare, the New Deal, civil rights, and drug policy.
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  • 79 305: Juvenile Delinquency: Images, Realities, Public Policy, 1800-1967

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course will examine juvenile delinquency in historical, sociocultural, and policy contexts during the past two centuries, and will focus mainly on the United States from the creation of the first juvenile reform school in 1825 to the Supreme Court's famous decision in 1967 requiring that juvenile offenders receive select due process protections. Three themes will be emphasized: 1) changing legislative, judicial, correctional, and therapeutic attempts to define, punish, and rehabilitate "delinquent" youth; 2) behavior patterns of youths labeled "delinquent," and how their behaviors changed over time; and 3), images of "delinquents," especially as portrayed in films of the 1930s to 1960s.
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  • 79 307: Religion and Politics in the Middle East

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course looks at the historic relationship among Islam, Judaism and Christianity and what they have to say about the nature of government, the state's treatment of religious minorities, and relations among states. We will consider the impact of religion on domestic and foreign policy in selected Middle Eastern countries and communities, the role of religion in fueling conflicts, the phenomenon of religious fundamentalism, the challenge and opportunity this presents to the United States, and the potential for religion to help advance Middle East peace.
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  • 79 316: Photography the First 100 Years, 1839-1939

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Photography was announced to the world almost simultaneously in 1839, first in France and then a few months later in England. Accurate "likenesses" of people were available to the masses, and soon reproducible images of faraway places were intriguing to all. This course will explore the earliest image-makers Daguerre and Fox Talbot, the Civil War photographs organized by Mathew Brady, the introduction in 1888 of the Kodak by George Eastman, the critically important social documentary photography of Jacob Riis (How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York) and his successor, Lewis Hine, the Photo-Secession of Alfred Stieglitz, the Harlem Renaissance of James VanDerZee, the precisionist f64 photographers Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Weston, and a host of other important photographers who came before World War II. The class will be introduced to 19th century processes, such as the daguerreotype, tintype, and ambrotype, as well as albumen prints, cyanotypes, and more. Two field trips will take place during class, one to The Frick Art Historical Center and one to The Carnegie Museum of Art.
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  • 79 318: Sustainable Social Change: History and Practice

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    If you wanted to change the world, who would you ask for guidance? Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mother Theresa, Rachel Carson, or Nelson Mandela? Perhaps you might write to Oxfam, Habitat for Humanity, or the Gates Foundation? Of course, these are but a tiny sample of the countless individuals and organizations?many largely forgotten?that made the twentieth century rich with efforts to make the world a better place. In this interdisciplinary course, we will examine the history of efforts to create sustainable social change through nonviolent means. Through a series of targeted case studies, we will examine the successes and failures of notable leaders, past and present, who strove to address social problems nonviolently and to create sustainable improvements in fields such as education, healthcare, and human rights. In keeping with the example of the people we will be studying, we will bring our questions and our findings out of the classroom. One integral part of this course will entail designing and implementing creative, student-driven lesson plans for high school students that communicate what we have learned about the history and practice of sustainable social change.
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  • 79 320: Women, Politics, and Protest

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course examines the history of women's rights agitation in the United States from the early nineteenth-century to the present. It investigates both well-known struggles for women's equality--including the battles for women's voting rights, an Equal Rights Amendment, and access to birth control--and also explores the history of lesser-known struggles for economic and racial justice. Because women often differed about what the most important issues facing their sex were, this course explores not only the issues that have united women, but also those that have divided them.
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  • 79 323: Family Gender and Sexuality in European History, 500-1800

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    The medieval and early modern periods witnessed a transformation in the cultural and social understandings of gender. During this period, the mutable sexual categories of the pre-modern world evolved into the definitions of masculinity and femininity recognizable today. This course examines these changes in the understanding of gender and the family in Europe in the medieval and early modern periods, drawing upon readings in gender history, marriage and the family, and the history of sexuality. We will explore the ideal of Christian marriage and family and examine how the "ideal" compared to the reality on such issues as marriage practices, family, gender roles, and sexuality. We will also explore the fashioning of female and masculine gender norms and the construction of the male and female sense of self over time. In the process, we will examine the larger historiographical issue of the use of gender as a tool of historical analysis.
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  • 79 324: Picasso and the Twentieth Century Art

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    The greatest artist of the twentieth century, Picasso, invented or participated in most of the major styles of modern art. His artistic genius and visual inventiveness will be explored from 1894 (age 13) to his death in 1973 (age 92), against the background of eight decades of modern art. The focus of the investigation will not be limited to psychological and iconographic factors, but will be discussed in the historical and artistic context of his time.
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  • 79 328: Photographers and Pholography Since World War II

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course explores in depth the tremendous range of photographic expression since World War II and examines in particular the contributions of significant image-makers such as Helen Levitt, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, Teenie Harris, Olivia Parker, William Wegman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Mary Ellen Mark, and many others. Along with discussion of the assigned reading materials, classes include a slide lecture and video segments that introduce a focused selection of images by major photographers in an attempt to understand their intentions, styles, and influences. Students will participate in one Small Group Presentation in class. At least one evening class will be conducted off campus, at Silver Eye Center for Photography and/or other locations. This course is open to all students.
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