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  • 79 383: Epidemic Disease and Public Health

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Epidemics of infectious disease are both biological and social events. Through the perspectives of the changing ecology of disease and social construction of disease, this course examines epidemics of such diseases as bubonic plague, cholera, yellow fever, and AIDS. Besides considering the social factors that help determine the epidemiology of a particular outbreak of disease, the course analyzes human responses to epidemic disease. These responses include popular attitudes toward the disease and those who contract it, as well as public health measures intended to control spread of the disease.
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  • 79 395: The Arts in Pittsburgh

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course will examine the arts in Pittsburgh, both historically and in the present. We will focus especially on art exhibits and musical events scheduled by the city's museums and concert halls during the semester. The "curriculum" will derive from the artistic presentations themselves, which will provide a springboard for reading assignments, seminar discussions, and research papers in the history of music and art. We will also examine the historical development of cultural institutions in Pittsburgh. The History Department will pay for students' admission to all museums and studios. However, students will be charged a supplemental fee of a minimum of $225 to help subsidize the considerable expense of purchasing tickets for concerts and performances by the Pittsburgh Symphony, Pittsburgh Opera, Chamber Music Society, and Renaissance and Baroque Society. Attendance at all art exhibits and musical events is required. Prerequisite: Availability to attend art exhibits on several Fridays and Saturdays, and to attend musical events on several Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings.
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  • 79 396: Music and Society in 19th and 20th Century Europe and the U.S.

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course will explore the interrelations between society and classical and popular music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe and the United States. We will examine the importance of different musical forms in the life of society and how music contributed to the making of political consciousness, especially in the twentieth century. In addition to reading assignments, seminar discussions, and research papers in the history of music, students will be taken to the performances of the Pittsburgh Symphony, Pittsburgh Opera, and Chamber Music Society. A supplemental fee of a minimum of $225. will be charged to subsidize part of the considerable expense of purchasing tickets for concerts and performances.Prerequisite: Availability to attend musical events on several Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings.
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  • 79 398: Documenting the 1967 Arab-Israeli War

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course considers how historians practice their craft in interpreting great events. The Arab-Israeli war of 1967 serves as the case study. Students read a recent scholarly account of the war and then check it against a variety of primary source materials such as memoirs, documents, speeches, newspapers, maps, eye-witness reports and UN resolutions. We will constantly be asking if the sources support the new text or if there are other interpretations that might lead to different conclusions. We will be examining the text for tangents left unexplored and possibly worthy of further research. Students should expect a significant reading load, frequent assignments and a major final research paper on a 1967 War-inspired topic.
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  • 79 400: Advanced Seminar in Global Studies

    12.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This intensive research seminar is the capstone course for Global Studies majors. Each year the course will have a broad theme that lends itself to the kind of multidisciplinary perspectives majors have been exposed to in previous coursework. The first part of the course will consist of discussing some key writings and approaches to the topic. The majority of the course will be devoted to defining and executing independent research projects chosen by students in close consultation with the faculty member running the seminar. Student projects may be based on in-depth readings, ethnographic fieldwork (possibly related to a previous study abroad or internship experience), archival research, literary analysis, or some combination of these methods. In addition to giving students the freedom to explore a topic of personal interest, this course will help prepare students for graduate studies in the humanities or social sciences. Intensive research, active participation in discussion, and peer-evaluation all expected. Prerequisites: 79-275 and Theoretical and Topical Core must be complete or concurrently enrolled.
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  • 79 420: Advanced Studies in History

    12.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course will focus on a theme, concept, or category that has been central to the historical investigation of society and culture in a variety of places and times. Colloquium topics may include social groups and classes (peasants, workers), social institutions (family, state), socio-cultural identities (ethnicity, religion),political-cultural identities (nationalism), or socio-economic development (agriculture, industrialization). Examining its chosen theme from a variety of angles, the course will consider how historians of different regions have applied key theoretical approaches and definitions. Students will also engage in an independent research project on the course topic. This course is designed for advanced history majors.
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  • 79 424: History of German Film

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course is a chronological introduction to one of the world's greatest cinema traditions: German cinema. It moves from the silent cinema of the 1910s to the Weimar Republic, when German cinema represented Hollywood's greatest challenger in the international cinema world. It then addresses the cinema of Hitler's so-called "Third Reich," when German cinema dominated European movie theaters, and moves on to the cinema of divided Germany from 1949-1989, when cinema in the socialist east and cinema in the capitalist west developed in very different ways. In the final week of the semester, we will address German cinema in the post-unification period, which has experienced a revival in popularity and interest. The two historical foci of the semester will be the Weimar Republic, the classic era of German cinema, and the era of the so-called "New German Cinema" of the 1970s and 1980s, when major German directors developed radical new approaches to cinema and critiques of Hollywood. Among the great directors focused on in the course of the semester will be Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Fritz Lang, Leni Riefenstahl, Wolfgang Staudte, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. No knowledge of the German language is required for this course; most of the films will be in German with English subtitles. The course will be cross-listed in the departments of Modern Languages, English, and History. Students will be required to attend class, including all film screenings, to actively participate in discussion, to write a 15-page term paper on a topic related to German cinema history, and to take two midterm examinations.
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  • 79 427: Russia's Demons

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Demons and devils, ghosts and goblins, witches and werewolves: Russian literature, art and music and are riddled with them. Where have they come from and why have they stayed? Under what conditions has Russian life conjured them, and what has their power been for creating conditions of their own? This course aims to find out by peering into the netherworld of demonic fantasy by the light of Russian social history from the nineteenth century to the current day. The core of the course is comprised of readings drawn from the literature of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bely, Lunacharksy, Bulgakov and Zamyatin. Additional attention is paid to Vrubel's painting and Prokofiev's music, among others. Prerequisite: All work is conducted in English, three hours per week, for 9 units, for which there are no prerequisities. Under the course number 82-397, an additional 3 units can be awarded for work conducted in Russian during one additional hourly meeting per week; for the additional credits, 82-292 or permission of the Instructor is required.
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  • 79 449: Ethics, History and Public Policy Project Course

    12.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    The Ethics, History and Public Policy Project Course is required for the Ethics, History and Public Policy major and is taken in the fall semester of the senior year. In this capstone course, Ethics, History and Public Policy majors carry out a collaborative research project which examines a compelling current policy issue which can be illuminated with historical research and philosophical and policy analysis. Based both on archival research and on contemporary policy analysis, the students develop an original research report and presentation for a client organization in the community.
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  • 79 450: Undergraduate Research Fellow

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

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