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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits) or May Term (3 credits). The radical left and the radical right from their 19th-century origins to the end of the Cold War. The ideas, personalities, and shifting social contexts shaping the development of Marxism, anarchism, fascism, and Nazism, as well as the varieties of neoradicalism emerging after World War II. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). Eastern Europe from post-World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and beyond. Emphasis on social and cultural forces that held the Eastern bloc together and those that led to its dissolution. Consideration of current opportunities and challenges facing Eastern Europe in the post-Soviet world. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Russia from Peter the Great's drive to modernize Russia to the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. Exploration of topics such as the autocracy, representation of political authority, social relationships, gender, intellectual thought and dissent, rural/urban life, and popular culture. Emphasis on the relationship between state, society, and culture. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). The Soviet Union from the Bolshevik's rise to power in 1917 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Topics to be explored include state power and the legitimation of political authority, social relationships, gender, artistic/intellectual expression, dissent, daily life, mass culture, and Russia's relationship with the West. NU and EV only.
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3.00 Credits
May Term (3 credits). This course uses films as historical documents to explore the Soviet experience. Emphasis on films that reflected and shaped politics, society, and culture. Themes: individual and state, individuality versus conformity, promises and discontents of revolution, ethnic and gender relations, Cold War and post-Soviet nostalgia. Films in Russian with English subtitles. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Survey of Native American history from the era of first contact with Europeans to contemporary controversies. Topics include the contesting of European colonization, the phenomenon of intercultural captivity, the "era of removal," battles over cultural assimilation,personal and collective identities, American Indian law, gender issues, and tribal sovereignty. Offered in alternate years. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). Brazil since 1500 is examined in light of the struggle between economic development and political democracy. Special emphasis given to treatment of Indians, foreign ideology and investment, African religions, and state building. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Analysis of Mexican history from the pre- Columbian era to the present, with heavy focus on the 19th and 20th centuries, especially the Mexican revolution and its aftermath. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Survey of China from the founding of the Qing empire to the present: the zenith of the imperial-bureaucratic state in the 18th century, China's disintegration under the blows of Western aggression and internal rebellion, and the great political, social, and intellectual upheavals of the 20th century. Offered as needed.
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3.00 Credits
May Term (3 credits). Examination of the rapid transformation of society and values and the rebellion of the individual against the authoritarianism of state and family in contemporary China through the experiential media of fiction, memoirs, and films. Offered as needed.
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