Historical Studies
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Revolution |
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Professor:
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Robert Culp and
Gregory Moynahan |
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HIST 1001 |
CRN Number: |
90251 |
Class cap: |
36 |
Credits: |
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Tue 10:10 AM
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Thurs 10:10 AM
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HA Historical Analysis |
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Asian Studies; Human Rights |
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Global Core Course 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. |
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Growth and its Discontents: A History of the United States
from 1865 to the Present |
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Professor: |
Daniel Wortel-London |
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Course Number: |
HIST 111 |
CRN Number: |
91141 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Tue Thurs
10:10 AM – 11:30 AM Olin 202 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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American &
Indidenous Studies |
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Economic growth and the growth of individual liberty, we are
often told, are perennial and permanent features of American life. In our era
of economic instability and climate change, however, both the sustainability
and desirability of growth is increasingly questioned. But if we are to
better adapt to growth’s future, we’ll first need to understand growth’s
past. In this course we will examine American history through the framework
of ‘growth’ from the Reconstruction Era to the present. We’ll analyze primary
sources by groups ranging from civil rights activists to environmental
preservationists. We’ll conduct multidisciplinary inquiries into
controversial questions around who growth has benefitted, and why. And we’ll apply our insights into
historically-informed arguments on how growth can - or can’t - better serve
Americans today. |
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Twentieth Century Britain |
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Professor:
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Richard Aldous
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Course
Number: |
HIST 122 |
CRN Number: |
90247 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Mon Wed 3:30 PM
- 4:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 102 |
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HA Historical Analysis |
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Global & International Studies |
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This introductory course offers a survey of Britain in the
twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. We start with the death of Queen
Victoria in 1901, when Britain was the most powerful country in the world,
and move chronologically through the century. Particular emphasis is given to
the multi-layered British experience of global conflicts (the first and
second world wars, the cold war and the "war on terror"), the
relationships with the empire, Europe and the United States, as well as the creation
of the welfare state and a diverse multicultural society. We also examine how
Britain used its soft power, particularly music, to retain its influence and
promote a British sensibility “Here, There, and Everywhere.” |
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European Diplomatic History |
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Professor:
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Sean McMeekin
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Course
Number: |
HIST 143 |
CRN Number: |
90248 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
- 2:50 PM Olin 205 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
Global & International Studies; Russian and Eurasian Studies |
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A survey of the major developments in European diplomatic
history between the Treaty of Westphalia and the outbreak of World War
I. Key themes of discussion will
include the changing nature of diplomacy and international order; the rise of
the nation state and standing armies; war finance and the bond market; the
French Revolutionary upheaval, the Industrial Revolution, and ideological
responses to them (eg, liberalism, nationalism/irredentism, conservatism,
socialism, and anarchism). The course
concludes with an examination of the high era of imperialism and the origins
of the First World War. |
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African Encounters and Contemporary
Realities |
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Professor:
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Lloyd Hazvineyi
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Course
Number: |
HIST 148 |
CRN Number: |
90246 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Olin 205 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies |
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Modern Africa and its shifting contours of social,
political and economic life has been shaped by its contested past. The class
takes a chronological survey approach to the history of modern Africa. It
examines the history of the continent from 1800, covering emotive themes
which include slavery, colonialism, culture, decolonization and leisure. What
was the impact of slavery in Africa, how did indigenous communities respond
to and challenge colonial rule, how did Africans create meaningful lives
under colonial rule? The course centers the lives of Africans as they
navigated different historical processes as proactive actors with agency, and
grapples with the enduring legacies of slavery and colonialism and their
far-reaching implications in shaping contemporary realities. |
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Latin America: Independence,
Sovereignty, and Revolution |
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Professor:
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Miles Rodriguez
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Course
Number: |
HIST 152 |
CRN Number: |
90250 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 10:10 AM
- 11:30 AM Olin 203 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Global & International Studies;
Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies |
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Latin America is one of the world’s most diverse regions, now
with over six hundred million people of African, Asian, European, Indigenous,
Middle Eastern, and interracially-mixed descent, in at least twenty different
independent nations. The largest Latin American country, Portuguese-speaking
Brazil, and the second largest, the world’s most populous Spanish-speaking
country, Mexico, as well as countries in the Spanish Caribbean like Cuba,
Central America, and in Spanish South America, encompass rich and complex
cultures and peoples. This course is an introductory historical survey of
Latin America. It focuses on the tremendous, troubled, and often traumatic
transformations and transitions that many of its distinct nations and peoples
have experienced in struggles for independence, sovereignty, and revolution.
The class examines the main historical issues and challenges of Latin
America’s post-colonial independent national period, including persistent
inequality, regional and national integration and disintegration, and global
and international relations, as well as revolution, war, military rule,
popular social movements, civil reconciliation, and continual violence. Its
goal is to understand the incredibly complex and diverse meanings and
histories of Latin America to the present. LAIS Core Course. |
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A History of New York City, 1624-2024 |
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Professor: |
Daniel Wortel-London |
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Course Number: |
HIST 2014 A |
CRN Number: |
91142 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs
11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Olin 202 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
American &
Indidenous Studies; Environmental Studies |
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The New York City you know is the product of conflicts and
collusions going back centuries. Underneath the city’s streets, underneath
the subways and sewer lines, is a history of struggle over the design and use
of urban space. This course will help you uncover that history. We will apply
frameworks drawn from a variety of disciplines - science and technology
studies, urban economics, racial capitalism, and more - to interrogate
historical sources and narratives around foundational topics in New York’s history
ranging from the building of the subways to the fiscal crisis of the 1970s.
We will identify gaps and silences within these narratives, and conduct
original inquiries that will deepen our collective understanding of Gotham’s
development. And we will apply our research to present-day New York,
developing historically-informed arguments for how the city can address
present-day challenges around social, economic, and ecological injustice. |
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Reason and Revolution: Science and
World-Perspective from Copernicus to Oppenheimer |
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Professor:
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Gregory Moynahan
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Course
Number: |
HIST 2136 |
CRN Number: |
90340 |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Olin 203 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
Science, Technology, Society |
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Copernicus' claim that the sun, not the earth, was the
center of the known universe is perhaps the most famous episode in which an
understanding of the natural world at once transforms lived experience and
becomes embroiled in ever-wider theological, political, and social conflict.
Starting with Giordano Bruno, "the philosopher of Copernicanism,"
this course will look at a series of such shifts in scientific perception and
how they were received, misunderstood, or initially simply ignored by wider
society. A key theme will be the development of popular science, particularly
as written by practicing scientists, and science fiction as a means to
anticipate and grasp such transformations. Also discussed will be the global
origins of natural philosophy and science, particularly in astronomy, its
development through European hegemony and colonialism, and its return as a
global set of norms and institutions. Authors read will include Ibn Rushd,
Bacon, Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, Humboldt, Hegel, Lovelace, Mach, Nietzsche,
Blumenberg, Keller, Kuhn, and Stengers. |
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London's Burning: Britain in the
Seventies |
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Professor:
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Richard Aldous
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Course
Number: |
HIST 2170 |
CRN Number: |
90339 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 5:10 PM
- 6:30 PM Reem Kayden Center 102 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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“Our decline has been so marked that today we are not only
no longer a world power, but we are not in the first rank even as a European
one.” So wrote Britain's ambassador to France in his farewell telegram to
London in 1979. By the end of the seventies, Britain seemed to be standing at
the edge of the abyss. The optimism of the sixties had long gone, as was the
Empire that had for so long been the source of British prosperity and power.
Yet for all the upheaval and loss of confidence, the seventies was also a
period of enormous cultural originality, social change, and political
ambition. From environmentalism, Europeanism, multiculturalism, gay rights,
and legislation on sex discrimination and race relations, to cheap package
holidays and color TV, this chaotic decade brought about profound and lasting
change— and all to the soundtrack of The Selecter, David Bowie, and The
Clash. |
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Apocalypse Then: Anguish and Elation in the Ancient and
Medieval Mediterranean |
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Professor: |
Nathanael Aschenbrenner |
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Course Number: |
HIST 218 |
CRN Number: |
90620 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 204 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
Medieval Studies |
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Apocalypses, or revealed futures of “end times” have long exercised
a powerful hold on our imaginations. Today we grapple with anxiety over
climate change or increasingly autonomous and self-conscious AI. But
apocalyptic thinking emerged first in the ancient world, not only as a source
of fear, but of ecstatic anticipation as well. This course will introduce
students to the origins and development of apocalyptic thought, as well as
its social and political catalysts and consequences. Beginning with the
emergence of the apocalyptic history in ancient Jerusalem in the 2nd c. BCE,
it traces changes in religious and political writings through the emergence
of Christianity, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the advent of Islam,
the Black Death, Columbus’s voyages to the Americas, and the Protestant
Reformation. We will explore how apocalyptic writing and thought engaged with
the challenges of famine, pandemic disease, church reform, religious
violence, and global exploration. Through these ideas and experiences,
students will encounter a range of emotional and intellectual reactions to
the expectation of an imminent end—not only terror and panic, but also hope
and joy. |
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Africans, Empire, and the Great War |
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Professor:
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Wendy Urban-Mead
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Course
Number: |
HIST 2210 |
CRN Number: |
90332 |
Class cap: |
12 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue 5:40 PM
- 8:00 PM Olin 204 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies; Global & International Studies |
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What made the First World War a "world" war? Many
factors contributed to the conflict's designation as a world war, but the
significant role of Africa, Africans, and members of the African Diaspora in
the war is not least among them. Some Africans and members of the African
diaspora signed up in response to a call for volunteers, others were
ruthlessly coerced, and many more became involved for reasons that fell
somewhere in the uncertain middle ground between coercion and willing
participation. African-Americans, and African subjects under French, German,
and British colonial rule in Africa and the Caribbean were drawn into the
war's vortex. Following DuBois' prescient observation that "[t]he problem
of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line," this course
visits the Great War with an eye to unpacking the experiences, choices, and
impacts of Africans and members of the African diaspora in the context of
both empire and white supremacy. Gender - in conversation with questions
regarding masculinity, warfare, and race - will be a vital course theme.
Working from a wide range of primary materials and selected theoretical and
secondary works, students will have the opportunity both to form questions in
response to what they find in the readings, and explore possible answers,
using the skills of the historian. This course is part of the Racial Justice
Initiative, an interdisciplinary collaboration among students and faculty to
further the understanding of racial inequality and injustice in the United
States and beyond. This course is cross-listed with the MAT program. |
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A Political History of Common Sense |
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Professor:
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Tabetha Ewing
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Course
Number: |
HIST 231 |
CRN Number: |
90336 |
Class cap: |
18 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 5:10 PM
- 6:30 PM Olin 203 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; French Studies;
Human Rights |
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This
course seeks to broaden understandings of modern democracy by locating populism
and its tensions with myriad forms of expertise, for example, orthodox
religious authorities, Enlightenment thought, legal frameworks for
citizenship, abolitionism, and state forms of information-gathering and
knowledge production. Opposition to book learning, intellectualism, and
expertise may only be as old as the wide-scale presence of books,
intellectuals, and experts in social life. In other words, however seemingly
universal and transhistorical folk knowledge, proverbial wisdom, and, especially,
common sense are presented, their meaning, significance, and practice have
changed over time. Their politicization in France, Great Britain, and the
United States is, in fact, distinctly modern. Born not only of struggles
between tradition and innovation, common sense emerged in the early-modern
global contact between Africans, indigenous peoples, and Europeans, lettered
and illiterate, articulating rights during the revolutionary formations of
nation and empire. The course begins around the time of Thomas Paine’s Common
Sense and ends with the trickster politics of later 20th/21st-century Brazil,
Ghana, and the United States. |
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Bougie: On Making Race, Class, Kin |
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Professor:
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Tabetha Ewing
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Course
Number: |
HIST 238 |
CRN Number: |
90330 |
Class cap: |
18 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 3:30 PM
- 4:50 PM Olin 309 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies |
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What does it mean to say, “I am [a] bourgeois?” The long
history of a socio-economic category is closely linked to the histories of
serfdom and slavery, religion and politics, cities, and, eventually, overseas
trade. The surface that the European bourgeoisie presents to us veils a
complex, multi-racial, often bi-continental family romance. In the African
American vernacular, bougie will signify both the triumph of aspiration and
achievement, and moral and cultural bankruptcy. It is the “white mask” that
enables the construction of national, political identity even as it developed
out of the global circulations of goods, ideas, and people. The rise of the
bourgeoisie is also bound to our understanding of the rise of capitalism,
nuclear families, and the flourishing of the individual. Given that so much
of modern life seems to owe its existence to this class of people, this
course explores how it came into being from a global perspective. This course
is designed for both introductory and advanced students. |
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Themes in African History |
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Professor:
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Lloyd Hazvineyi
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Course
Number: |
HIST 245 |
CRN Number: |
90331 |
Class cap: |
18 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 3:30 PM
- 4:50 PM Olin Languages Center 120 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies |
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Some scholars have described Africa as the cradle of
mankind. Building on this, the class will explore different key aspects in
the making of modern African societies and nations. Situated in the 20th and
21st Centuries, the objective of this class is to provide a thorough
appreciation of the multiple and complex processes that have shaped the
experiences of African communities over time and space. By closely exploring
key themes such as migration, the Anthropocene, economies, politics, agrarian
change, governance, and resource conflicts, the course situates developments
in Africa in the context of the prevailing global processes. |
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History of Globalization since 1300 |
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Professor:
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Victor Apryshchenko
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Course Number: |
HIST 279 |
CRN Number: |
90333 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Henderson Comp. Center 101A |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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How and why did globalization start? This course embarks on
a historical exploration, guiding students through various epochs in search
of a roots of Modern global world. This examination spans from the conquests
of Chinggis Khan's armies in 13th-century Beijing and Baghdad through the
sweeping impact of the Black Death across the Eurasian world to the
trade-centric empires in the Atlantic and Indian basins, culminating in the
neo- imperialistic influences of the United States, Soviet Union, China, and
Western Europe during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries,
and finishing on the phenomenon of contemporary global nomads and global
pandemics. Studying the history of global connectivity, the inquiry delves
into the question of whether earlier manifestations of globalization provide
insights into our present era and seeks to elucidate the dynamics of
historical and contemporary global divides. A multifaceted analysis of the
various types of primary materials is employed to comprehend the myriad forces
shaping global interactions, encompassing religious, economic, environmental,
ideological, military, and political dimensions. The course's primary
objective is to unravel the intricate interplay of factors that both united
and fragmented the world over the last eight centuries. Special emphasis is
placed on the pivotal role of empires, broadly construed, in shaping global
connectivity. In collaborative endeavors, students will engage in weekly
group-writing assignments centered on primary historical sources (written,
visual etc.) fostering a deeper understanding of the course's thematic
content. Finally, this course invites students to learn history of
globalization globally. Facilitating global connectivity, it provides a
platform for students to connect with peers across more than twenty locations
spanning from Bangladesh to Lebanon, France to Nigeria, and Argentina to
Afghanistan. Simultaneously undertaken by students in these various
locations, the course encourages active participation through the exchange
and sharing of ideas on the dedicated course Gallery site. This collaborative
approach in this Global Core Course enables a dynamic cross-cultural
dialogue, enriching the learning experience by fostering a global perspective
on historical themes. |
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Latin America: Race, Religion, and
Revolution |
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Professor:
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Miles Rodriguez
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Course
Number: |
HIST 331 |
CRN Number: |
90337 |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue 10:10 AM
- 12:30 PM Olin 306 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian
Studies |
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This research seminar will study the violent interactions
between race, religion, and revolution in Latin America from the early
twentieth-century to the present, to understand how these interactions have
mattered to the region’s history and how they explain some of its most
violent current conflicts. The very name "Latin America" derived
from and became associated with specific racial, religious, and revolutionary
meanings through a history of violence. The seminar will begin by studying
how racial concepts formed and became fixed ideas through distinct
revolutionary-inspired intellectual debates on interracial mixture and
indigenous rights. Based in Mexico and Peru, the formation of concepts like
global mestizaje, a "cosmic race," and indigenismo involved rival
valuations of each nation’s indigenous and colonial histories and cultures,
with lasting effects. The seminar will then explore the simultaneous rise of
wars and conflicts over radically different religious meanings and faiths,
within and outside of Catholicism, including native religions and the rise of
Evangelical Protestant Christianity. The latter part of the seminar will
focus on Guatemala, which dramatically combined extreme violence over race,
religion, and revolution, and focused global attention on indigenous rights
and human rights. These histories will allow for a deeper understanding of
the rise of different forms of violence in Central America today, and
therefore of the current human rights, migrant, and refugee crisis centered
there and involving other parts of Latin America and the US. This seminar
emphasizes the narratives, interpretations, and voices of participants in the
history, and critical engagement with these primary sources in the writing of
the history. This course is part of the Racial Justice Initiative, an
interdisciplinary collaboration among students and faculty to further the
understanding of racial inequality and injustice in the United States and
beyond. |
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History of History, or How Modernity
Comprehends the Past |
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Professor:
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Victor Apryshchenko
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Course
Number: |
HIST 378 |
CRN Number: |
90353 |
Class cap: |
20 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue 12:30 PM
- 2:50 PM Hegeman 201 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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Why history does matter for Modernity? The
significance of history permeates the public sphere of Modernity, influencing
both its political and intellectual dimensions. The coexistence of history
with these facets is pivotal in both scholarly and popular discourses, as
evidenced by terms such as "appropriation of the past,"
"politics of history," and "captivity of the past." The
contentious position of history in contemporary society arises from the
evolving status of historical knowledge and contemporary efforts to redefine
history within the realms of academia and art. This course aims to scrutinize
the dynamics of historical knowledge during the 20th and 21st centuries,
characterized by the scrutiny of various humanitarian and social disciplines
questioning the academic standing of history. Our exploration will encompass
ongoing debates surrounding the status of History, various 'historical
turns,' and their interpretations as expressions of "politics,"
"memory," and "narrative." Additionally, we will
contemplate the ambiguous status of the Humanities in Modernity as a whole,
including the nuanced nature of the term "Modernity" itself. In the
analysis of history’s interaction with disciplines such as Psychology,
Sociology, Literary Criticism, Linguistics, and Political Studies, we will
employ theoretical frameworks influenced by the ideas of notable scholars
such as Erik H. Erikson, Norbert Elias, Immanuel Wallerstein, Ernest Gellner,
and Michel Foucault, among others. The primary objective of the course is to
foster critical skills essential for the examination and acquisition of
historical facts, while also cultivating the ability to differentiate between
"history as the past" and "history as a narrative about the
past." Another goal is to scrutinize the revolutionary transformation
within the contemporary Historiography (as a major Conference) – the discourse
on the subject of history and the historical method. |
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Radio and Revolution in Africa |
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Professor:
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Lloyd Hazvineyi
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Course
Number: |
HIST 379 |
CRN Number: |
90354 |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Thurs 12:30 PM
- 2:50 PM Olin 301 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies; Science, Technology, and Society |
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This course revisits the history of Africa’s anti-colonial
struggles by appreciating the specific role of radio as a media and as a
technology from the 1930s to the 1990s. While the anti-colonial war was
raging on the continent, a parallel war between colonial governments and
revolutionary forces was unfolding in the airwaves. It was a struggle for the
hearts and minds in which both parties used propaganda to garner support from
the masses. The course uses war-time radio broadcasting as a window to examine
the history of Africa’s liberation struggle. Bearing in mind the different
African encounters with colonialism, the course uses specific country case
studies and themes. Some of the themes include international solidarity,
technology, exile, the Cold War, and propaganda. The course centers on
African agency in using available technologies and resources to contend with
well-resourced and technologically superior colonial governments. At the end
of the term, students will have a nuanced appreciation of the multiple arenas
in which the anti-colonial wars on the continent were fought as well as the
multiple small acts of resistance deployed by Africans to liberate
themselves. |
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A History of Gender, Labor, and the Household in the Modern
Middle East |
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Professor: |
Belle Cheves |
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Course Number: |
HIST 395 |
CRN Number: |
91218 |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon 2:00 PM – 4:20 PM Levy |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
Economics; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Middle Eastern
Studies |
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This course takes a historical approach to gender, labor, and
household economies in the Modern Middle East. Domestic labor in the
household and royal harem provide the primary scene for our exploration of
how gender, along with race and ethnicity, shaped spheres of power and access
to it. From the Ottoman, Safavid, and Qajar royal harems, to elite households
in Aleppo, Istanbul, and Isfahan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
to discourses of development surrounding gender in Afghanistan, to today’s
Kafala system of migrant domestic labor in the Gulf, Lebanon, and Jordan, we
will trace connective threads of empire, enslavement, kinship, nationalism,
abolition, and feminism over time and across borders to see how perceptions
of difference shaped the social fabric and political economies of the Middle
East. Providing historical contexts to political economy, this course will
emphasize the importance of longer historical trajectories and broader social
circumstances. Students will leave the course with a better grasp of how to
ground their research in historical developments, as well as an understanding
of historical approaches to gender and political economy in the Middle East.
No prior knowledge of Middle Eastern history or political economy, gender history,
or historical approaches more broadly, is required. The Instructor will
provide any necessary background information each week, and we will work
through understanding the material and its context together. For History
Program concentrators, this course will satisfy the historiography
requirement. |
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Senior Project Colloquium |
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Professor:
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Robert Culp |
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Course
Number: |
HIST 403 |
CRN Number: |
90338 |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
0 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Fri 10:10 AM
- 12:30 PM Olin 305 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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The Senior Project Colloquium is required of all History
concentrators who are writing a senior project. Offered only in the fall
semester, it is ideally taken concurrently with HIST 401, for which students
will meet regularly with their advisor. (If necessary, the colloquium may
instead be taken prior to HIST 401 or concurrently with HIST 402, with
approval from the instructor and the project advisor.) In the colloquium we
will explore the diverse approaches historians take to the research and
writing process and reflect on the methodological approaches of various sub-
disciplinary fields within the historical guild. The colloquium will guide
students through the basic steps of starting a major research project. These
include surveying a relevant topical literature, formulating an interpretive
question, building a bibliography, identifying an archive, interpreting
primary sources, engaging other historians, and synthesizing an argument.
Assignments addressing each of these steps will contribute to development of
the final senior project. The colloquium will feature collaborative work, in
the form of collective brainstorming, peer review, writing workshops, and
more formal conference-style presentation. The colloquium is a component of
the 8 credits of the senior project. As with HIST 401, it will be graded on
an S/U basis, but will contribute to the final grade of the project. |
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Cross-listed Courses:
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Archaeology at Montgomery Place |
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Professor:
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Christopher Lindner
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Course
Number: |
ANTH 210 |
CRN Number: |
90556 |
Class cap: |
12 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue 1:30 PM - 5:20 PM Montgomery Place and Ecology Field Station Teaching Lab |
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Distributional Area: |
LS Laboratory Science |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental
Studies; Historical Studies |
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The Rift and The Nile: Nature, Culture
and History in Eastern Africa |
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Professor:
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John Ryle |
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Course
Number: |
ANTH 218 |
CRN Number: |
90318 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 10:10 AM
- 11:30 AM Albee 106 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental
Studies; Historical Studies; Human Rights |
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Black Aesthetic: Ralph Ellison |
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Professor:
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Nicholas Lewis
Drew Thompson |
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Course
Number: |
CC 121 |
CRN Number: |
90404 |
Class cap: |
36 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
- 2:50 PM Bard Chapel |
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Distributional Area: |
HA MBV Historical Analysis Meaning, Being, Value D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Historical Studies |
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The Greek World |
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Professor:
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James Romm |
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Course
Number: |
CLAS 115 |
CRN Number: |
90087 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 10:10 AM
- 11:30 AM Olin 201 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
Historical Studies |
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GIS for Environmental Justice |
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Professor: |
Jordan Ayala |
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Course Number: |
ES/EUS 321 |
CRN Number: |
90617 |
Class cap: |
16 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed 10:10 AM - 12:30 AM Reem Kayden Center
107 |
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Distributional Area: |
LS Laboratory Science |
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Crosslists: |
Architecture; Historical Studies;
Human Rights |
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Latin American and Caribbean Revolutions |
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Professor:
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Miles Rodriguez
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Course
Number: |
LAIS 204 |
CRN Number: |
90335 |
Class cap: |
18 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Olin 203 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Global & International Studies; Historical Studies; Human Rights |
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Sex, Lies and the Renaissance |
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Professor:
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Joseph Luzzi |
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Course
Number: |
LIT 241 |
CRN Number: |
90287 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 10:10 AM
- 11:30 AM Olin 101 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
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Crosslists: |
Historical Studies; Italian Studies |
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Distant Neighbors: U.S.- Latin American
Relations |
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Professor:
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Omar Encarnacion
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Course
Number: |
PS 214 |
CRN Number: |
90515 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 3:30 PM
- 4:50 PM Olin 202 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Global & International Studies;
Historical Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies |
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