HISTORY
CRN |
12075 |
Distribution |
C/D |
Course No. |
HIST 102 |
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Title |
Europe from 1815 to present |
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Professor |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 203 |
Related interest: Russian and Eurasian Studies, Victorian Studies
The course has two goals: to provide a general introduction to European History in the period from 1815 to 1990 and at the same time to examine a number of especially important developments in greater depth. The first half of the course will range in time from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914. The following issues will be emphasized: the rise of conservative, liberal and socialist thought; the establishment of parliamentary democracy in Great Britain; the revolutions of 1848; Bismarck and the Unification of Germany; European imperialism; and the origins of World War I. The second half of the course will stress the following problems: World War I; the Russian Revolution and the emergence of Soviet Russia; the Versailles Treaty; the Great Depression; the rise of fascism, especially Nazism; the Holocaust; the emergence of a new Europe with the "European Community"; the Cold War; the fall of communism in Eastern Europe; and the reunification of Germany.
CRN |
12036 |
Distribution |
C/D |
Course No. |
HIST 135 |
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Title |
"In the Realm of the Son of Heaven" - Imperial Chinese History |
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Professor |
Thomas McGrath |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 OLIN 204 . |
Cross listed: Asian Studies
China's imperial state, sustained in one form or another for over two millennia, was arguably history's longest continuous social and political order. This course will provide an introduction to the origins and transformations of the imperial order from the Warring States period to the final decades of the Qing Dynasty. Particular points of focus will be the founding and elaboration of the state bureaucracy, relations between the imperial state and elite social groups, and those elites' continuing reformulation of a flexible state ideology that incorporated various forms of Confucianism along with other diverse strains of thought. We will also explore fundamental social and cultural changes at key junctures of Chinese history, as well as how neighboring cultures and political systems in East Asia adopted and adapted to the ideology and institutions of Chinese imperial rule. A sweeping overview of pre-modern Chinese history, this course will provide a foundation for further study of East Asian history.
CRN |
12158 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
HIST 142 |
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Title |
Catholics, Muslims, "Heretics", and Unbelievers in 16th Century Europe |
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Professor |
Tabetha Ewing |
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Schedule |
Wed Fri 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 204 |
Cross-listed: Historical Studies, Gender Studies, Religion
Related interest: German Studies, French Studies, Italian Studies, LAIS
This is a social and cultural history of religious ideas and practices in one of the most turbulent centuries of Europe. Students will read from the fascinating biographies of Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli, study the religious wars -beyond their politics-- as sites in which people battled over the destiny of their souls. We will chart the rise of radical sects as well as atheists and witches. We will give primacy to the practices of ordinary people and their local worship. This course is cross-listed with Gender Studies because the history of religious conversion in the sixteenth century intersects directly with the history of women in politics and the history of the family.
CRN |
12275 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
HIST 152 / AADS |
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Title |
The African Diaspora and the Cultural Reproduction of Africa |
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Professor |
Wilmetta Toliver |
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Schedule |
Tu 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 304 Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 308 |
Cross-listed: AADS, MES
The diaspora offers a critical link for many "Africans" dispersed throughout the world. But questions over origins and cultural invention posed by African Americans long departed from the continent, leave contemporary Africa in an ambiguous position. The class will go further than suggesting "African" influences throughout the various cultures of the diaspora. It will focus on how to generate a conversation between diasporic scholars and scholars from the continent that acknowledge linkages and disruption of Africa and the diaspora. Major themes include: theorizing and defining the African diaspora, repatriation, Yoruba religions in the New World, negritude, post-80s African
immigration to Europe and the Americas.
CRN |
12262 |
Distribution |
C/D |
Course No. |
HIST 177 |
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Title |
Early Greek History |
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Professor |
Barbara Olsen |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 304 |
Cross-listed: Classical Studies
Related interest: AADS, Gender Studies
This course is designed as an introduction to the civilization of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age up to the beginnings of the classical period of Fifth Century Athens, and hence as a complement that can be taken before or after Classics 101, The Rise and Fall of Athens. It will combine material offered by art and archaeology with the reading of original texts as sources and will give equal emphasis to political and social history. After a survey of the earliest archaeological record, we will examine in turn the rise of the elaborate palatial states of the Bronze Age, the societies immortalized in the Homeric epics, as well as the two predominant city-states of the historic period, Athens and Sparta. The course will conclude with an examination of the first Pan-Hellenic effort, the war with Persia in the beginning of the Fifth Century BCE. Throughout the course, we will address problems such as the relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology, the elusive "Minoan matriarchy", the relationship between the Aegean and the societies of Egypt and the Near East, and the role played by religion in each of these societies. We will also be examining the rise of social institutions such as the emergence of the citizen-soldier elite in Sparta, the transition to democracy in Athens, and the creation of social hierarchies based on wealth, gender, and occupational status. Where sources permit, we will also address the early Greek conception of "the other": slaves vs. free, women vs. men, foreign vs. Greek. No prerequisites. All texts read in English.
CRN |
12224 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
HIST 198 |
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Title |
European Women since Mary Wollstonecraft |
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Professor |
George Robb |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 204 |
Cross-listed: Gender Studies, Victorian Studies
This course is all about the experiences of European women from the late eighteenth century to the present. A host of issues will be emphasized, including: the life-styles of women of all classes; work, family, politics, including the feminist movements, sexual politics, and the emergence of women into what had been the exclusive arena of men. In other words, women's lives were transformed in a host of ways over the past two centuries and this course seek to understand why those transformations came about and what affect they had on the daily lives of women.
CRN |
12492 |
Distribution |
C/D |
Course No. |
HIST/LAIS 203 |
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Title |
Modern Latin America |
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Professor |
David Tavarez |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 305 |
Cross-listed: LAIS
This course is a survey of the social, political, and intellectual history of Latin America from the independence period until the transition to democratic regimes in South America in the 1980's. We will begin with a consideration of nationhood and citizenship projects in the early independence period, examine the causes of political instability and civil wars in the 19th century, and then move to an assessment of interventionist attempts by the U.S. and European powers. We will then focus on the recurrent problems of a never-ending transition to "modernity" from the late 19th century onwards: social and economic inequality, conflicts between native peoples and the state, the tensions between popular Christianity and secular nationhood projects, and populist and nationalist movements. The course will also emphasize the transition from rural to urban and industrial modes of production, revolution and armed insurrection movements, and the emergence of militaristic and socialist regimes during the latter half of the 20th century. Lectures and readings will be complemented with a selection of films.
CRN |
12155 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
HIST 205 |
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Title |
Dissent and Reform |
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Professor |
Alice Stroup |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 201 |
In an authoritarian society, how do dissenters find a voice? Fiction in the guise of travelers' tales was a favorite ploy of discontented European writers between 1550 and 1750. We will examine the writings of Rabelais, More, Bacon, Campanella, Foigny, and others, exploring their views about human nature and society, seeing how travel literature influenced them, and comparing their solutions to the social and political problems.
CRN |
12159 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
HIST 211 |
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Title |
Women and Work in U.S. History |
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Professor |
Myra Armstead |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 8:30 am - 9:50 am OLIN 203 |
Cross-listed: Gender Studies
Focusing on the labors of women in the experience of the U.S., this course explores several historical themes--the "proper" locus for the study of work (home? community? factory? office?); women's work culture; the feminization of certain types of work and the implications of this for wages, promotion opportunities, and general working conditions; women as labor activists and organizers; the relationship between work and leisure for women; women's participation rates in the formal economy; the masculinization of work; class, race, and ethnic differences among women as workers; and the ways in which women's labor history necessitates a revision of the general national labor history narrative. From this roster of topics, it should be clear that this is not a traditional "labor history course" in that our point of departure is not limited to or mainly formal union history and the place of women within that history. The course is comprehensive in its chronological focus, covering the colonial period through the late twentieth century.
CRN |
12236 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
HIST 2305 |
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Title |
China in the World: China's Foreign Relations from the Opium War to MFN |
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Professor |
Thomas McGrath |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 203 |
Cross-listed: Asian Studies
With the coming of the Western powers, China's foreign relations underwent a fundamental shift from the tributary system to the "family of nations." This course explores the development of China's foreign relations from the wrenching defeat of the Opium War to pressing current issues, including most favored nation status with the U.S., membership
in the World Trade Organization, and relations with Taiwan. In this course, we will consider China's changing approaches to foreign relations, the Great Powers' shift from carving up China to propping up Chinese governments, the efforts to preserve China's international standing in the early 20th century, the Korean War, the Sino-Soviet split, and Nixon's visit to China in their historical contexts.
CRN |
12216 |
Distribution |
B/C |
Course No. |
HIST 255 / LIT |
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Title |
British and Irish History and Literature: 1830 -1947 |
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Professor |
George Robb / Deirdre d'Albertis |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 205 |
Cross-listed: Literature, Victorian Studies
Through interdisciplinary study of English, Scottish and Irish culture, we will consider the rise and fall of Victorian values with particular attention to nationalism, imperialism, and domestic ideology. Consulting a variety of texts--novels, plays, essays and historical works--we will also examine changing (and often conflicting) conceptions of crime, sexuality, race, social class, and the position of women in nineteenth-century Britain.
CRN |
12237 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
HIST 256 |
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Title |
Introduction to Modern Southeast Asia, 1800 - 1980 |
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Professor |
Thomas McGrath |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 4:30 pm - 5:50 pm OLIN 201 |
Cross-listed: Asian Studies
The major focus of this course is the development of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma and the Philippines) in the historical context of conflict between the indigenous societies and the global community of the colonial powers. The course will be broken into four sections: the pre-colonial order, the colonial powers in SEA, World War II, and post-war independence movements. Political, social, and intellectual trends, with an emphasis on the diversity of experiences within the region, will be highlighted. The course is intended as an introduction to a broad and diverse region of the world.
CRN |
12217 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
HIST 279 |
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Title |
Germany-Austria-Czechoslovakia from 1900 to 1989 |
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Professor |
Hsi-Huey Liang |
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Schedule |
Mon Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm PRE 128 |
Cross-listed: German Studies
Germany from defeat in World War One to defeat in World War Two and beyond. With particular attention to the role of Austria in the history of the Nazi movement and of Czechoslovkia in the resistance to Nazism. We will pay much attention to Berlin, Prague, and Vienna to savor the bitterness of the struggle for Central Europe between the two wars. We end with a description of Cold War Berlin 1945-1989 and of life in communist Prague. Student obligations: regular class attendance, five short papers, and a final examination.
CRN |
12314 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
HIST 292 |
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Title |
Modern European Intellectual History: Consciousness and Self Since the "Death of God" |
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Professor |
Elizabeth Moore |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 204 |
This course is an intellectual history of the explorations of consciousness and concepts of self that increasingly preoccupied many European intellectuals in the midst of the technological, scientific, and socio-political revolutions of
the 19th and 20th centuries. Beginning with the publication of Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript in 1846, the class will examine the emergence of Existentialism, Nihilism, Modernism, Expressionism, Absurdism, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis, as responses to the tectonic shifts that were taking place in Western Society throughout the latter half of the 19th and most of the 20th century. Though the course will center primarily on Continental writers and intellectuals, it will include representatives from Ireland and Great Britain, such as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sir Isaiah Berlin. The primary readings for the course will include works of fiction, philosophy, theology, psychology, essays, and films.
CRN |
12493 |
Distribution |
C/D |
Course No. |
HIST/LAIS 309 |
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Title |
Nationalism and Historical Consciousness in Mexico |
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Professor |
David Tavarez |
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Schedule |
Wed 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm OLIN 303 |
Cross-listed: LAIS
From an outsider's perspective, Mexico's national identity has traditionally been regarded as the rather exotic product of an epochal clash between European and indigenous cultures. From an insider's perspective, the diverse local and ethnic identities in what is now called Mexico have alternatively resisted and embraced centralized nation-building projects and interpretations of their collective past, generating an existential (and at times schizophrenic) confusion that has informed military, sociopolitical, and symbolic conflicts. This course will examine the development of political and sociocultural notions of collective identity in Mexico from late colonial times until the present through an interrogation of the symbols and pageants of nationhood, nation-building projects, blueprints for citizenship, and versions of history and national identity enshrined in textbooks, public rituals, and intellectual debates. Course requirements include a research paper and a presentation.
CRN |
12337 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
HIST / SOC 340 |
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Title |
Making it in America: Stratification and Mobility, Ethnicity and Race |
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Professor |
Joel Perlmann |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 4:00 pm - 5:20 pm OLIN 306 |
Cross-listed: Sociology
See Sociology section for description.
CRN |
12218 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
HIST 348 |
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Title |
Victorian Culture |
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Professor |
George Robb |
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Schedule |
Mon 4:00 pm - 6:20 pm OLIN 309 |
Cross-listed: Victorian Studies
This course focuses on material culture (food, clothing, housing), etiquette and aesthetics from the 19th century. Artifacts of everyday life as well as architecture, painting, and music are analyzed as a means of understanding social and economic developments within industrial society, class and gender relations, and broad cultural movements like the Gothic Revival or the Arts and Crafts Movement. Extensive readings are the basis for weekly discussions, and include works by John Ruskin, William Morris and Oscar Wilde.
CRN |
12076 |
Distribution |
C/D |
Course No. |
HIST 350 |
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Title |
20th-Century Russia:A Society in Turmoil |
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Professor |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
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Schedule |
Fri 10:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 309 |
Cross-listed: Russian and Eurasian Studies
The most important force that shaped the contemporary world was the process of modernization initiated by the eighteenth-century revolution in France and the English industrial revolution. As a result of modernization, many societies underwent a profound transformation that changed them beyond recognition. The seminar will discuss the modernization of Russia and its diverse effects on Russian society. It will cover the period from the reforms of 1861 under Tsar Alexander II to the 1930s. Among the topics to be considered will be political changes in Russia, including the 1917 revolution and the establishment of Stalin's regime; economic developments in pre- and postrevolutionary Russia; and social transformation (the rise of the working class and the bourgeoisie, changes in the position of the peasantry and women). Students will be required to write a substantial paper on a historical problem related to the period. Some prior exposure to Russian or Soviet history will be helpful.
CRN |
12315 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
HIST 352 |
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Title |
A Strange Career: A Cultural Study of the American South Under Jim Crow |
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Professor |
Elizabeth Moore |
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Schedule |
Tu 4:00 pm - 6:20 pm OLIN 309 |
William Faulkner once famously wrote, "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past." Speaking universally, his observation held a peculiar and intentional resonance for the South from which he came. In an effort to plumb the meaning of Faulkner's remark, this seminar will pursue an interdisciplinary examination of Southern Culture from the end of Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950 and '60s. Drawing from fiction, music, film, and historical monographs, the course will consider the ways in which black and white Southerners responded to the tensions between the myths and the realities that permeated Southern Culture throughout the period of Jim Crow. A significant portion of the course will be spent examining fiction from what is referred to as the Southern Renaissance as well as songs by Mississippi Delta blues artists and New Orleans jazz musicians. The class will consider the social significance of assigned gender roles and racialized concepts of feminine identity as well as the complex relationship between race and sex that informed Southern life and consciousness. In addition, the course will look at the varied religious beliefs and communities that undergirded the greater belief systems of black and (especially poor) white Southerners. Finally, the course will question the assumption of the cultural distinctiveness of the South and will consider the ways in which the other regions of the United States have either rejected or been complicit in the perpetuation of the concept of a unique Southern culture. Preference given to Social Studies and Literature majors.
CRN |
12394 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
HIST 354 |
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Title |
The Invisible World |
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Professor |
Alice Stroup |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 201 |
Related interest: Gender Studies
The existence of an invisible world has long been a postulate of European thought; at issue was the nature of that realm. In the seventeenth century, the newly invented microscope seemed to unveil the mysterious dispositions of matter as well as the secret structures and processes that ordered motion or life and death. Yet every discovery--from Robert Hooke's eye of the fly to Anthony van Leeuwenhoek's animalcules--prompted disbelief and dispute over interpretation. This course examines early microscopy in philosophical context, paying special attention to theories of reproduction. We will examine Hooke's Micrographia, van Leeuwenhoek's letters, and other documents from the golden age of microscopy, putting these into a philosophical context to be understood in large part from the treatises of Aristotle, Lucretius, and Descartes. To enter the invisible world you will need a microscope.
CRN |
12156 |
Distribution |
B/C |
Course No. |
HIST 364 |
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Title |
Historical Revolutions |
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Professor |
Tabetha Ewing |
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Schedule |
Th 10:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 107 |
Cross-listed: French Studies
This courses studies historiographies of the French Revolution. Our historians include: Burke, Tocqueville, Taine, Michelet, Marx, Todorov, Lefebvre, and Schama. It is as much a course on historical practice as on 19th- and 20th-century (mostly) French thought.
CRN |
12276 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
HIST 366 / AADS |
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Title |
Women in Africa |
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Professor |
Wilmetta Toliver |
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Schedule |
Wed 10:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 107 |
Cross-listed: AADS, Gender Studies
Are there global parallels that can be made about women cross-culturally? Where can scholars draw the line between victimization, resistance, and cultural/ethnic nationalism? This seminar is designed to introduce students to the historical study of women in Africa, both topically and methodologically. Thematically, students will examine themes of slavery, economic participation, prophetic movements, marriage and circumcision as they dialogue with changes affecting Africa such as the growth of trade, religious conversion, colonialism, the market economy, and the creation of national cultures. Methodologically, the course is designed so that students will understand the myriad sources available for a historical understanding of women in Africa such as life histories, songs, films, and novels. Open to Moderated Students. May be used as a Major Conference in Historical Studies or African and African Diaspora Studies.
CRN |
12160 |
Distribution |
C |
Course No. |
HIST 373 |
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Title |
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade |
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Professor |
Myra Armstead |
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Schedule |
Wed 8:30 am - 10:50 pm OLIN 304 |
Cross-listed: AADS, MES
This course will survey the trans-Atlantic slave trade to British North America between 1619 and 1808 with a special thematic focus on the historical evidence for continuities between slaves of African birth and the emerging African-American population. Students will be expected to produce a major research paper using our library's CD-rom, containing geographical information on the origin and disembarkation points of trans-Atlantic slave-trading vessels of the late sixteenth to late nineteenth centuries.
CRN |
12077 |
Distribution |
n/a |
Course No. |
HIST T200 GS |
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Title |
Soviet Foreign Policy |
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Professor |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
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Schedule |
By arrangement |
To be arranged with the instructor. Limited enrollment.