Course |
HIST 1001 Revolution |
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Professor |
Robert Culp / Gregory Moynahan |
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CRN |
17032 |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 205 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
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Cross-listed: Human Rights
What is revolution? Why does it happen? Where and
when have revolutions occurred, and to what effect? This course addresses these
questions by exploring a range of revolutions in Europe and Asia during the
past five centuries. A primary focus of the course will center on analyzing and
comparing some of the most iconic and influential revolutions in world history:
the French Revolution of 1789, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and the
Chinese Communist Revolution of 1921-1949. In addition, we will analyze the
causes and impact of a range of other revolutionary moments, including the
German Peasant Revolt of 1525, the Taiping Rebellion, the Meiji Restoration,
the 1905 Revolution in Russia, the 1911 Revolution in China, China's Cultural
Revolution, the protests by students and intellectuals that rocked continental
Europe in 1968, and the "velvet revolutions" and near revolutions
that transformed state socialism in 1989. As we compare revolutions over time,
we will try to discern links or lines of influence between revolutionary
movements. We will also explore how particular revolutionary movements
contributed to a shared repertoire of revolutionary thought and action. No
previous study of history is necessary for this course; first-year students are
welcome. On-line registration
Course |
HIST 102 Europe from 1815 to present |
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Professor |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
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CRN |
17041 |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 309 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C/D |
NEW: History
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Related
interest: Global & Int’l Studies, Human Rights, 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. On-line registration
Course |
HIST 131 The Politics of Culture |
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Professor |
Mark Lytle |
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CRN |
17037 |
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Schedule |
Wed Fr 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 201 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
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Cross-listed: American Studies
This course develops the assumptions that Americans
define their differences more through their culture than their politics. Those differences are sometimes muted and at
others inflamed by the role of culture in the market place. The Scopes Trial
over the teaching of evolution is a telling example. Over the semester we will
focus on the development of modern media, popular cutlure, advertising,
architecture, gender roles, and official efforts to suppress cultural
differences. The readings will include novelists like Twain, Fitzgerald,
Salinger, and Mary Gordon who have had a keen sense of the sources of cultural
conflicts.
On-line registration
Course |
HIST 140 The Land of the Golden Cockerel: Introduction to Russian Civilization |
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Professor |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
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CRN |
17043 |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 4:00 -5:20 pm OLIN 303 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
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Cross-listed:
Medieval Studies, Russian and Eurasian Studies
This course examines the origins and evolution of
Russian civilization from the founding of the first Eastern Slavic state
through the eighteenth century, when Russia began to modernize by borrowing
from Western culture. Among the topics to be considered are the ethnogeny of
early Russians, the development of state and legal institutions, the
relationship between kinship and politics, the role of religion in public and
private spheres, economic organization, social institutions, family, gender
relations, sexuality, popular culture, and the impact of the outside world
(both Orient and Occident) upon Russian society. The sources include a variety
of Russian cultural expressions (folk tales, literature, art, film, music),
original documents, and scholarly texts. On-line registration
Course |
HIST 141 A Haunted Union: Twentieth Century Germany and the Unification of Europe |
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Professor |
Gregory Moynahan |
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CRN |
17042 |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 305 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
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Cross-listed: German Studies, Global & Int’l
Studies, Human Rights
Related Interest: STS
The development of the German nation-state has been
at the center of nearly every dystopian reality and utopian aspiration of
modern continental Europe. This course will examine the history of the
German-speaking lands from Napoleon's dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in
1806, through the development of the German state in 1871, the cataclysmic
initiation by this state of the two twentieth-century World Wars, and the
creation of the new political entity of the European Union. Attention will placed throughout on the
dialog of Germany and Europe in relation to regional structural issues,
particularly state form and Realpolitik, capitalism and communism, the
'second-industrial revolution' and institutional development, and state control
or surveillance and systems of rights.
Using an array of primary documents, including an optional weekly film
series, we will examine Germany's pivotal place in the ideological divisions,
political catastrophes, and -- more optimistically -- theoretical, political,
and scientific innovations of modern Europe. As a guiding theme, we will use
the paradox that even as Germany is chronologically perhaps the most 'modern'
of European states, its definition - and with it the identity of its citizens -
has been haunted since inception by its heterogeneous past. Topics of particular importance will
include: the multiple 'unifications' of Germany (as a culture, a state, a
racist 'greater' Germany, a reunified power within the European Union), the
role of 'German' and 'European' identity in colonial expansion and Nazi
propaganda, 'scientific' racism and the Holocaust, the development of the DDR
and BRD, the consolidation of the European Union since 1951, and the student
protests of 1968. No previous courses in history are required, but if space is
limited preference will be given to history majors or potential majors. On-line
registration
Course |
HIST 2032 Indochine: On Love and Empire |
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Professor |
Tabetha Ewing |
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CRN |
17035 |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 4:00 -5:20 pm OLIN 201 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
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Cross-listed:
Asian Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Global & Int’l Studies, French Studies
French Indochina was composed geographically of
Vietnam (divided into Cochinchine, Annam, and Tonkin), Cambodia, and Laos. This course is ordered around the theme of
social order, from pre-colonial state structures in the early modern period to
the French colonial re-structuring and administration of the built environment,
commercial relations, law and punishment in these places. We end with the famous rout at Dien Bien Phu
(1954) that brought a violent end to French rule in Indochina. Throughout the course, we focus on local
cultural exchanges, criticism, and resistance to French ideas (put in practice)
of History, progress, and the modern. On-line registration
Course |
HIST / ANTH 2103 Global Core Course: Cultural Politics of Empire: The Case of British India |
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Professor |
Laura Kunreuther / Lia Paradis |
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CRN |
17494 |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 102 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
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Cross-listed: Anthropology, Gender & Sexuality
Studies, Victorian Studies
The focus of this course
is the reciprocal impact that Britain and India had on each other as a result
of the British imperial presence in India from the mid- 19th Century
until decolonization in 1948. No other colony was more prized or the object of
more fantasy than India, “The Jewel in the Crown.” It is important, however, to
acknowledge that imperialism did not only profoundly change the cultures of the
Indian subcontinent but also the British people themselves – both those who
were first-hand participants (soldiers, administrators, entrepreneurs, etc.)
and those citizens who never left Britain. Domestic politics, science, popular
culture and education were all changed irrevocably by the imperial project. In
India, sites of resistance to the imperial project were also sites of
negotiation, where the rhetorical model of the Enlightenment and the central
tenets of British liberal ideology were adopted and recast to give voice to the
Indian nationalist movement. On-line registration
Course |
HIST 2133 Making of the Atlantic World |
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Professor |
Christian Crouch |
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CRN |
17206 |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 9:00 - 10:20 am OLIN 306 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History /
Rethinking Difference
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Cross-listed: American Studies, SRE
The Atlantic: an English lake, an African lake, a
Dutch lake, a French lake, a First Peoples lake, an Iberian lake, an American
lake, a connector, a barrier, a source of trade, a source of sorrow. The
Atlantic World encompasses the histories of the peoples, economies, ideas, and
products that interacted around the oceanic basin in the early modern period.
This was an international arena that shaped or destroyed new communities and
developed as a result of voluntary and involuntary movement. If the rhetoric of
empire ushered in the birth of the “Atlantic World”, today we live with the
mature, and lasting, effects and memories of these vital interactions. Students
will consider not only the histories of the actors and agents who shaped or
were shaped by Atlantic systems but they will also investigate what the
implications are of how we write or remember that history. On-line registration
Course |
HIST 2301 China in the Eyes of the West |
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Professor |
Robert Culp |
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CRN |
17221 |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 205 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History /
Rethinking Difference
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Cross-listed: Asian Studies, Human RightsEuropean
Enlightenment thinkers viewed the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) as the world's most
enlightened despotism, but by the turn of the twentieth century most Western
thinkers considered China to be the "sick man of Asia." This course
will reconstruct the visions of China formulated by Europeans and Americans
during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explore how and why those
visions changed over time. We will approach these issues with the goal of
understanding how certain portrayals facilitated Western imperialism toward
China, even as imperialism generated the social, cultural, and political
contexts in which those portrayals were produced. We will also explore how
changing relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Euro-American
world during the past three decades have generated new images of China, even as
images from earlier periods continue to shape popular conceptions. Shared
readings in theoretical literature discussing Orientalism, cross-cultural
observation, and the politics of modernization theory will provide a common
framework for our work. We will analyze representations of China in a wide
array of sources, including popular histories, news reports, travel writing,
academic works, novels, photographic essays, documentary and feature films,
websites, blogs, and list-serves. The course will culminate in individual
research projects on a particular text, film, or depiction. Open to first year
students. On-line
registration
Course |
HIST 238 The Conservative Revolution: America from Watergate to Cyberspace |
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Professor |
Mark Lytle |
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CRN |
17218 |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 202 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
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Cross-listed: American Studies
One historian wrote of the 1970’s, “It seemed like
nothing happened.” We now know that in that decade and the period that followed
America was transformed in profound ways that this course intends to examine.
In some ways the informing dynamic of this period was the struggle over the
legacy of the 1960s in both politics and culture. What would happen to
affirmative action, sexual liberation, freedom of cultural expression, and
cultural experimentation in the age of limits that began in the 1970s? It turns
out a great deal did happen in the 1970s and after: The New Deal Coalition
collapsed during the Reagan Revolution, cable transformed television, the
personal computer and internet created a new information culture,
fundamentalist Christians became a defining force in American politics; the
sexual liberation movement confronted AIDS, the Cold War ended, and the United
States struggled to understand its role in the New World order. On-line
registration
Course |
HIST 297 Beyond Witches, Abbesses, and Queens: A History of European Women, 1500-1800 |
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Professor |
Tabetha Ewing |
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CRN |
17222 |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 6:00 -7:20 pm OLIN 201 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
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Cross-listed: Gender and Sexuality Studies
Women make history – as historical actors and as
historians. In this course, we will read about the “woman question” in the
medical, legal, religious, and political discourses of the early modern period
through processes such as the centralization of European states, Protestant and
Catholic reformations, explorations, and colonial settlement. Many of our
readings examine how social, economic, and other material circumstances shaped
the history of working and bourgeois women. However, where possible, we will
focus on women’s cultural production – literary, musical, and artistic. The
course will also serve as an opportunity to reflect upon the history of women’s
studies, both as a field of inquiry and as an academic institution. On-line
registration
Course |
HIST 3102 Research Seminar: US Urban History |
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Professor |
Myra Armstead |
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CRN |
17205 |
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Schedule |
Mon 9:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 303 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
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Cross-listed: American Studies, SRE
Ideally, students in this course will have taken
History 232, American Urban History, although this is not required. The course will provide an opportunity for
students to pursue specialized study and research in American urban history. Students interested in urban space and its
meanings, urban planning and design, new urbanism, suburbanism, the postmodern
city, urban politics, urban infrastructure, and urban culture are especially
invited in this course to bring their individual topics to the table, although
additional subjects can be imagined. The class will initially consider a common
set of readings having to do with urban historiography. Class organization will then shift to focus
on individual student research projects, and the literature and methods
informing them. All students will produce a long research paper.
On-line registration
Course |
HIST 3105 Migration & Identity in the Modern World |
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Professor |
Lia Paradis |
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CRN |
17226 |
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Schedule |
Wed 9:30 -11:50 am OLIN 301 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
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Cross-listed: Human Rights, SRE
Migration has been happening since before recorded
history. For the purpose of this course, however, we will be concentrating on the
age of Modernity, roughly between 1850 and the present day, which is defined,
in part, by the increased volume and speed of people’s movement. Rather than
focus on immigration, we will be more concerned with the experiences of moving
through space and across cultures. We
will examine articles, primary source documents, film and photography to try
and better understand the impact of movement on the identity of individuals and
communities and whether that impact is historically significant. We will try to
decide what difference it has made whether people migrated voluntarily or not,
and whether that migration thought of their identity before and during their
journey and ask whether that journey ever reaches an end.
On-line registration
Course |
HIST 3142 Violence in Colonial America |
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Professor |
Christian Crouch |
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CRN |
17220 |
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Schedule |
Th 4:00 – 6:20 pm OLIN 310 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
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Cross-listed: American Studies, Human Rights
The frontier is one of the great underlying
constructs of North American identity. This nebulous, turbulent borderland has
been marshaled to defend everything from the natural expansion of the United
States to the hallowed memory of our colonial past. But what was the violence
of colonial America really like? Who participated, who suffered, who fought,
and what did it all mean? What
constituted “exceptional” or “daily” violence? This seminar investigates the
violent interactions – between Native Americans and Europeans, between
competing European empires, between slaves and masters, and all will be
considered in addition to the primary and secondary colonial sources in order
to understand the role violence plays in social and cultural formations. On-line registration
Course |
HIST 3143 Perspectives of War: The Pacific War Through Japanese and American Eyes |
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Professor |
Ian Buruma |
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CRN |
17503 |
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Schedule |
Tu 1:30 – 3:50 pm OLIN 307 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
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Cross-listed: Human Rights
In this course we will look at the same historical
period through Japanese as well as US eyes. This will include histories,
eye-witness accounts, novels, and films made during the war itself and
afterwards. Various types of propaganda, as well as national and political
biases, will be analyzed. Controversial events, such as the Nanjing Massacre,
Pearl Harbor, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Tokyo War Crimes
Tribunal, will be looked at from different national and political perspectives,
giving the student a grounding in history, as well as culture. US debates on
the first atom bombing will be part of the course, as will the continuing
controversies in Japan over school textbooks and memorials. Although classified
as a history course, the students are expected to attend the film screenings,
even when they take place outside normal class hours. Individual research will
be encouraged, and participation in class discussions will be valued as highly
as written work. Books to be used will include John Dower’s War Without Mercy, Ian Buruma’s Inventing Japan, as well as novels by
Endo Shusaku and Oe Kenzaburo. Wartime Japanese films, such as Sea Battle in Hawaii and Malaya (about
Pearl Harbor), will be analyzed, as well as postwar anime films, such as Grave of the Fireflies (about US
bombing), Hell in the Pacific, Hiroshima’s Children, and The Burmese Harp.
Course |
HIST 3235 War, Old Media & Performance |
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Professor |
Tabetha Ewing |
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CRN |
17223 |
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Schedule |
Fr 9:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 310 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History
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Cross-listed: Human Rights
This course traces the history of the
militarization of European society and its close relationship to the rise of new
media on the eve of the modern era. Against the backdrop of its unspeakable
enactment, war incited discourse and, perhaps, invented the modern public. We
study how that invention and how the ethos of war entered into such everyday
and pleasurable practices as listening to music, theater-going, dancing, sex,
and gambling. The seminar is structured around intensive readings in its first
half. Individual student projects will be workshopped in the second half. On-line
registration
Course |
HIST / SOC 3335 America, its Jews & Israel |
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Professor |
Joel Perlmann |
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CRN |
17246 |
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Schedule |
Th 4:00 -6:20 pm OLIN 203 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C |
NEW: History /
Rethinking Difference
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Cross-listed: American Studies, Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies
This course deals with ethnicity, domestic politics
and foreign policy. First, it deals with themes of American ethnicity by
tracing striking shifts in American Jewish attitudes towards Israel since the
establishment of the Jewish state in 1948. Second, the course deals with
American politics by illuminating the changing role of Israel in the American
Jewish voting patterns, lobbying efforts, and financial contributions for
politics. The course will also take up various non-Jewish domestic pressure
groups that call for or oppose strong support for Israel – for example, in
recent years the religious right has been an important supporting force, while
Arab-American organizations have typically opposed such support. And third,
this course deals with American foreign policy itself, evaluating the
dramatically shifting history of American involvement with the Jewish state, a
history in which domestic interest groups comprise only one among several
important components.