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Course Criteria
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2.00 - 9.00 Credits
This two-block course will survey the history of the Eurasian region from Eastern Europe to the Central Asian and Pacific areas of Eurasia, with an important theme being the rise and fall of the Russian Empire, and the rise and fall of the Soviet bloc. The focus throughout will be on the ways in which religious, cultural, and ethnic identities were shaped by, accommodated to, and resisted the construction of national boundaries and identities. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 2 units.
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1.00 Credits
Traditional African states, Portugal and Africa, the slave trade, European conquest, occupation and administration. The African response to the European presence in terms of social change, the origins of a "Europeanized" African elite and the beginnings of modern African politics. - Blasenheim,. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) 1 unit - Blasenheim.
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1.00 Credits
Africa and the Berlin Conference, primary and secondary resistance to European colonialism, political independence, conflicts between traditional and modern cultural patterns and ideologies, one-party rule and economic dependence. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) 1 unit - Bose.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Examines the origins of Chinese civilization, from the divination rituals of the theocratic Bronze Age Shang Dynasty to the mighty Han. Considers the great religious and philosophical traditions of China's axial age: Confucianism, Daoism, and others vying for influence in China's bloody "Warring States" period. Students will understand the political, economic, cultural and spiritual patterns that gave shape to classical Chinese civilization. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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2.00 Credits
Latin American history from pre-Columbian times to the present. Emphasis on colonial Mexico and Peru, the centers of Spanish power in the New World, and the political and social development of post-independence Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) 2 units - Blasenheim.
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1.00 Credits
This course will follow the turbulent history and politics of China from the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 through the post-Mao reforms. Using primary documents, personal accounts, and scholarly studies, students will assess China's political and cultural changes and continuities in historical context. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as Asian Studies 229.) 1 unit - Williams.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
This course will trace the social, political, and cultural developments in Japan from the first Parliamentary elections in 1890 to the current fiscal crisis in the 1990s. Using a wide range of sources, students will explore major themes in Japan's empire, World War, economic miracle, and troubled role as Asian leader. Major themes will include cross-cultural contact, world systems, and women's history. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 Credits
Focus on how conservative Roman republican ideals were reconciled in an increasingly Hellenized empire dominated by an imperial dynasty. Topics include the changing status of traditional gender types and established class systems, the role of rulers, women and freedmen in Tacitus, Juvenal, Martial, Suetonius, Seneca, Apuleius, Lucian, Plutarch, Aristides, Dio Chrysostom and Claudian. Attention will also be given to representations of women and imperial families in art and statuary. (Also listed as Classics 226 and Feminist and Gender Studies 225.) 1 unit - FitzGibbon.
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2.00 - 9.00 Credits
The 1920s in American culture and politics; the changing practices of the middle class family and of gender relations; the causes and consequences of the Depression; race relations (nationalism, accommodation, Civil Rights and Black Power in Afro-American thought and politics); the consequences of World War II and the Cold War at home and abroad. (Not offered 2008-09.) 2 units.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Women in American society, from colonial times to 1860, including issues of race, class and servitude; transformations in pre-industrial work and family relationships; women and slavery; women and religion; women's efforts to reorder their lives and society. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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