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HIST S-42
Study Abroad in Tokyo (Waseda): Constructing the Samurai (32096)
(Printable version)
Mikael Adolphson
Limited enrollment.
Study abroad programs are restricted to students 18 years of age or older.
See Study Abroad for more information.
HIST S-1090
Study Abroad in Istanbul, Turkey: Introduction to Byzantine History (32435)
(Website) (Printable version)
Koray S. Durak
Limited enrollment.
Study abroad programs are restricted to students 18 years of age or older.
See Study Abroad for more information.
HIST S-1265
Study Abroad in Istanbul, Turkey: World War I and the Ottoman Empire (32434)
(Printable version)
Halil Berktay
Limited enrollment.
Study abroad programs are restricted to students 18 years of age or older.
See Study Abroad for more information.
HIST S-1331
Thought and Culture in Modern America (32343)
(Syllabus) (Printable version)
David C. Engerman
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Mondays, Wednesdays, noon-3 pm. Tuition $2,475.
This course surveys American cultural and intellectual life from Victorianism to the present. Readings include fiction, philosophy, and politics, supplemented by films, music, architecture, and visual arts. The course focuses on conflicts over religion, political reform, university life, radicalism, and gender, racial, and ethnic identity. Prerequisite: some background in American history.
HIST S-1572
Summer Seminar—The Holocaust in History, Literature, and Film
(4 credits: UN) Tuition $2,475. Limited enrollment.
Summer Seminars are open only to Secondary School Program juniors and seniors, and to college undergraduates.
Section 1 (32168) (Syllabus) (Printable version)
Kevin Madigan, Mondays, Wednesdays, 8:30-11:30 am.
Section 2 (32192) (Printable version)
*** HIST S-1572 (Section 2) has been CANCELED.***
This seminar approaches the Nazi persecution of European Jewry from several disciplinary perspectives. Initially it explores the topic historically using a variety of historical materials dealing with the history of European antisemitism, German history from Bismarck to the accession of Hitler, the evolution of anti-Jewish persecution in the Third Reich, and the history of the Holocaust itself. Texts include primary sources produced by the German government between 1933 and 1945 and by Jewish victims and survivors, documentary films, and secondary interpretations. The aims of this part of the seminar are to give students an understanding of the background and narrative of the Holocaust, to introduce them to the use of primary historical sources, and to familiarize them with some of the major historiographical debates. Students then ponder religious and theological reactions to the Holocaust, using literary and cinematic resources as well as discursive theological ones. They consider the historical question of the role played by the Protestant and Catholic churches and theologies in the Holocaust. The course concludes with an assessment of the role played by the Holocaust in today's world, specifically in the United States.
HIST S-1581
Study Abroad in Venice: Between Inclusion and Exclusion—the Jews of Venice in the Age of the Ghetto (32457)
(Printable version)
Michela Andreatta
Limited enrollment.
Study abroad programs are restricted to students 18 years of age or older.
See Study Abroad for more information.
HIST S-1607
The American Revolution (32345)
(Printable version)
Sally E. Hadden
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Mondays, Wednesdays, 8:30-11:30 am. Tuition $2,475.
This course examines thematically the major issues confronting Americans in the century prior to the American Revolution, as well as the main events and major figures of the revolution itself. By exploring social, cultural, political, and economic developments in America's revolutionary period and the ultimate break that occurred between Americans and their British cousins, we gain a greater understanding of the formative event in our nation's history.
HIST S-1620
The Old South (32346)
(Printable version)
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Tuition $2,475.
*** HIST S-1620 has been CANCELED.***
This course examines Southern history, focusing on the period from 1800 to 1861. It considers the myths and facts about Southern society and culture, as well as slavery and Southern distinctiveness. Attention is paid to political events that ultimately created a short-lived Southern nation and triggered the Civil War in 1861.
HIST S-1662
The United States in the Twentieth Century (30175)
(Printable version)
Brett Flehinger
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Mondays, Wednesdays, noon-3 pm. Required sections to be arranged. Tuition $2,475.
This course studies the major political, social, cultural, and intellectual events of American history between the turn of the twentieth century and the 1980s. Topics include progressive reform, women's suffrage, the Great Depression and New Deal, both world wars, McCarthyism, the modern civil rights movement, "second wave" feminism, Watergate, and the rise of conservatism. This course takes a wide-ranging point of view and attempts to integrate national development with rising social division in twentieth-century America.
HIST S-1855
Film and History in Postwar Japan and Post-Mao China (31557)
(Syllabus) (Printable version)
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Tuition $2,475.
*** HIST S-1855 has been CANCELED.***
Japan after 1945 and China from Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution to the Olympics achieved prosperity and global power, yet films in each country probed history and questioned society. This class explores classic directors (including Kurosawa, Ozu, anime and Fifth Generation Chinese) and contemporary films through lecture, discussion, and writing.
HIST S-1886
The Middle East: Rapprochement and Coexistence (31770)
(Syllabus) (Printable version)
Nafez Yousef Nazzal and Laila Ahed Nazzal
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Tuesdays, Thursdays, noon-3 pm. Tuition $2,475.
This course surveys the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from its inception. It focuses on the effects of the wars in the region since 1948 and their impact, as well as the transformation of Palestinian and Israeli societies. The course concludes with an assessment of the negotiations and agreements between the Israelis and the Palestinians since the 1991 Madrid Middle East Peace Conference and explores the prospects of peace and security in the Middle East.
HIST S-1887
Perspectives on Islam: Religion, History, and Culture (31789)
(Syllabus) (Printable version)
Nafez Yousef Nazzal and Laila Ahed Nazzal
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8:30-11:30 am. Tuition $2,475.
This course is an overview of Islam in its religious, historical, cultural, and societal context. It examines beliefs, practices, sects, family organization, the status of women, the relationship between religion and politics, and the concepts of war, peace, and human rights. The course also explores Islam's encounter with the West, the impact of modernization and the rise of revivalism, fundamentalism, and terrorism.
HIST S-1892
Study Abroad in Istanbul, Turkey: The Economic History of the Middle East Since World War II (32436)
(Website) (Printable version)
E. Roger Owen
Limited enrollment.
Study abroad programs are restricted to students 18 years of age or older.
See Study Abroad for more information.
HIST S-1894
Introduction to the History of South Asian Religions (32281)
(Printable version)
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Tuition $2,475.
*** HIST S-1894 has been CANCELED.***
South Asia has a rich cultural legacy, which has spread around the world through its diasporic communities. Not only did it birth several world religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, but it has also been home to ancient communities of Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians. Whether through its fabled spices and fine textiles, its legacy within the British Empire as "a jewel in the imperial crown," its present influence on Internet technology, global fashion, Bollywood film, and literature, not to mention its place in post-cold war politics and economics, South Asia emerges prominent and vital on the global map. Students are introduced to a broad history of the region by investigating the crossroads of history, literature, and religion. With an emphasis on primary source readings, the course explores the history of the region from the Vedic Age up to the mid-twentieth century. Students investigate particular aesthetic, religious, political, and state formations as they illuminate significant trends or events in the history of the subcontinent.
HIST S-1918
Colonialism in Africa (31964)
(Website) (Printable version)
Poppy Fry
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Mondays, Wednesdays, noon-3 pm. Optional sections to be arranged. Tuition $2,475.
This course explores the background to European colonization of Africa; the diverse and multifaceted encounters between colonizers and African peoples; and the political, economic, and social ramifications of colonial rule. Focusing on African initiatives and local experiences during this period of rapid change, topics include societies of late precolonial Africa; conquest and resistance; mission Christianity; colonial government and "native policy"; cities and workers; education, tradition, and modernity; and African nationalism and independence.
HIST S-1967/W
From Cold War to Global Terror: World History from 1945 to the Present (32150)
(Syllabus) (Printable version)
Donald Ostrowski
Writing-intensive course. (4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6:30-9:30 pm. Optional sections to be arranged. Tuition $2,475.
This course is an integrative study of the world from the end of World War II to the present. Topics include the cold war; the Arab-Israeli conflict; creation of independent states in Africa; apartheid and its demise; Latin America's struggle for democracy and economic stability; the development of the European Union; the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the Soviet Union; Communist China; shooting wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf; the expansion of rights for women; atomic power and the problem of energy resources; environmental change; space exploration; the computer revolution; and the phenomenon of global terrorism.