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2021 - 2022 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies |
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GWS 111 - Introduction to Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course introduces students to key topics, concepts, approaches, and problems in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies as the field has developed over the past 45 years. We investigate the significance and meaning of gender at different periods in United States history and explore the development of United States feminism and feminist theory, adopting comparative and transnational perspectives throughout the semester. The ways in which race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, nationality, and age shape experience, culture, ideology, and politics are central areas of inquiry. We also address the means through which women have resisted inequality and affected social and political change. This course takes an interdisciplinary approach, and students are introduced to scholarship from a wide range of disciplines, including cultural studies, economics, history, philosophy, political theory, psychology, and sociology.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
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GWS 211 - Foundations of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course provides students with an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) studies. We study the emergence and transformation of LGBTQ identities, cultural practices, and political movements within the broader context of changes in social constructions of sexuality, as well as cultural, social, political, and economic transformations. We pay particular attention to the ways in which gender, race, ethnicity, class, and generation have shaped same-sex sexuality in different historical periods.
Prerequisite: GWS 111 and second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Allen
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GWS 235 - Feminism and Popular Culture 4 credits (Fall)
This course examines various popular cultural forms using feminist criticism/theory as a critical lens. Through an intersectional and intertextual investigation of television, film, advertising, and popular music, students will explore how representation both reflects and produces sociocultural phenomena and ideas about race, gender, class, and sexuality in society.
Prerequisite: GWS 111 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Johnson, Staff
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GWS 249 - Theory and Methodology in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies 4 credits (Fall)
This course provides students with a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the interdisciplinary field of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, including its theories, methods, debates, and relationships to other academic disciplines. We examine the history and development of feminist and queer theory, paying particular attention to the relationship between theory and activism. We explore the forms of privilege and power operating within feminist and queer theory and the intersections of race, sexuality, class, and gender.
Prerequisite: GWS 111 .
Instructor: Allen, Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Staff
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GWS 274 - Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Germany 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See GRM 274 .
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GWS 324 - Critical Race Feminisms 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course provides an introduction to critical theoretical debates about gender, race, and class in the United States legal system. Students examine legal concepts, structures, and narratives that produce and/or reinforce patterns of discrimination and inequality, as well as examine alternative models proposed within critical legal scholarship.
Prerequisite: GWS 111 and one GWS course at the 200 level.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Johnson, Staff
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GWS 331 - Studies in American Prose II 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: ENG 331 when taught as Feminist Memoirs. A study of contemporary memoirs by feminist writers. In addition to critically analyzing the memoir as a literary form, students will examine how feminist writers have used memoir to describe both personal and political experiences, to theorize from these experiences, and to develop concepts of feminist subjectivity. Readings will include a diverse range of memoirs, as well as critical essays on memoir, autobiography, and feminist/queer theory.
Prerequisite: GWS 249 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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GWS 495 - Senior Seminar 4 credits (Spring)
An advanced interdisciplinary senior seminar for students who are completing the major in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies. The course will provide an in-depth exploration of a topic with both historical and contemporary significance within the field of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: senior status; Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Major; GWS 111 ; GWS 249 .
Instructor: Allen, Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Johnson
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General Literary Studies |
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GLS 135 - Philosophy and Literature 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See PHI 135 .
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GLS 201 - Theatre History I 4 credits (Fall)
See THD 201 .
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GLS 202 - Theatre History II 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See THD 202 .
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GLS 203 - American Theatre 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See THD 203 .
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GLS 227 - Topics in German Literature in Translation 4 credits (Spring)
See GRM 227 .
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GLS 242 - Classical Mythology 4 credits (Spring)
See CLS 242 .
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GLS 247 - The Russian Short Story 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See RUS 247 .
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GLS 248 - The Russian Novel 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See RUS 248 .
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GLS 259 - Criminals, Outcasts, and (con) Artists in German Culture 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See GRM 259 .
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GLS 261 - History of Russian Film 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See RUS 261 .
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GLS 263 - German Cinema 4 credits (Fall)
See GRM 263 .
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GLS 270 - The Holocaust Remembered 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See GRM 270
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GLS 277 - Modern China through Literature and Film (in Translation) 4 credits
See CHI 277 .
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GLS 279 - Modern Japanese Fiction and Film 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See JPN 279 .
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GLS 281 - Major Russian Writers 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See RUS 281 .
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GLS 291 - Perspectives in 20th-Century Central and Eastern European Literature 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See RES 291 .
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GLS 303 - Studies in Drama I 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See THD 303 .
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GLS 304 - Studies in Drama II 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See THD 304 .
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GLS 349 - Medieval Literature 4 credits (Fall)
See ENG 349 .
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German Studies |
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GRM 101 - Introductory German 4 credits (Fall)
Acquisition of German language skills through listening, speaking, reading, and study of grammar. Students will develop communication skills such as the ability to talk about themselves and their interests. Practice of oral skills with a native German-speaking assistant.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
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GRM 102 - Introductory German II 4 credits (Spring)
Continuation and completion of oral-aural study of grammatical structures. Increased emphasis on developing oral fluency. Introduction to the literature and culture of Germany through reading and analysis of modern short stories and expository prose. Practice of oral skills with a native German-speaking assistant.
Prerequisite: GRM 101 .
Instructor: Staff
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GRM 121 - Accelerated German 5 credits (Spring)
Intensive study of German focused on developing proficiency. This course is the equivalent of and GRM 102 . Designed for students who want to progress quickly in their German. Not open to students who have taken GRM 102 .
Prerequisite: Placement by department, based on previous exposure to German or prior study of another foreign language.
Instructor: Staff
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GRM 221 - Intermediate German I 4 credits (Fall)
This course emphasizes understanding German culture through language, history, literature, popular culture, politics, and the arts. Includes a review of selected topics in German grammar accompanied and followed by continued practice in speaking, reading, and writing.
Prerequisite: GRM 102 .
Instructor: Staff
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GRM 222 - Intermediate German II 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
A continuation of GRM 221 . This course emphasizes understanding German culture through language, history, literature, popular culture, politics, and the arts. Includes a review of selected topics in German grammar, accompanied and followed by continued practice in speaking, reading, and writing.
Prerequisite: GRM 221 .
Instructor: Staff
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GRM 227 - Topics in German Literature in Translation 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 227 . Texts selected from a wide variety of literary (and some nonliterary) texts by German-speaking authors. Readings and discussion in English. May be repeated once for credit when content changes. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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GRM 259 - Criminals, Outcasts, and (con) Artists in German Culture 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 259 . Readings and Discussion in English. This course mines the rich field of German crime fiction to explore the relationship between authority (the state, the academy, the church, tradition) and those who oppose it through criminal and/or aesthetic transgressions. What is the relationship between art and crime? What does criminality mean in a society that is led by a criminal regime? To what extent does society produce its own criminals, and to what end? Texts selected will vary. May be repeated once for credit when content changes. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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GRM 263 - German Cinema 4 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: GLS 263 . Readings and discussions in English. The course explores the medium of cinema through the prisms of film history, film theory, German history in general, by addressing thematic, stylistic, historical or theoretical topics. Variable thematic concerns include the aesthetics of power, the real and the imaginary, representations of subjectivity, gender and the body, and/or the construction of national identity. German majors write in German.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Reynolds
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GRM 270 - The Holocaust Remembered 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 270 . This course examines works of literature, testimony, film, and memorials to explore how the Holocaust is remembered, both individually and collectively. The course will ask both what has been remembered over time, and how different modes of remembrance may also enable certain kinds of forgetting. We will delve into some of the controversies that have emerged concerning the proper ways to remember an event that some have deemed “beyond representation.” Taught in English.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year. Foreign language option available in German for Plus-2 only.
Instructor: Reynolds
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GRM 274 - Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Germany 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: GWS 274 . This seminar explores the relationship between race, gender, and sexuality in modern German history. This course is not comprehensive either chronologically or topically. Instead it addresses some key issues, methodologies, and historiographical debates and it provides a toolbox for doing critical German and Gender Studies. We discuss historical documents, literature, and film to destabilize Germany’s racialized and gendered national identify until this day.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year. Foreign language option available for course and +2 option.
Instructor: Samper Vendrell
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GRM 311 - Contemporary Germany Through Media 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course offers an advanced grammar review of the German language. It is designed to help you improve German oral and writing skills by discussing current issues and trends in German society. We’ll discuss different types of information and media, including opinion pieces, feature articles, news broadcasts, radio plays, advertisements, television shows, and film. Taught in German.
Prerequisite: GRM 222 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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GRM 335 - German Media Revolutions 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Conducted in German. This course offers an overview of German media history from Gutenberg to the present. Topics may include case studies from the history of inscription and printing, scientific observation and instruments, popular entertainments, illustration, intermediality, seriality, photography, telegraphy, collage and montage, surveillance, and digital media.
Prerequisite: GRM 222 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Byrd
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GRM 344 - Forester Fictions: Germany and the Environment 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Conducted in German.The forest is symbolic, spiritual, and political place for Germans. In this seminar, we will read texts that reconstruct the cultural and historical meaning of German forests from Tacitus to National Socialism. This course will help students think about issues such as Heimat and identity, aesthetics, sustainability, the origins of environmental protection, antisemitism, nationalism, and memory.
Prerequisite: GRM 222 .
Note: Plus-2 option. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Byrd
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GRM 350 - German Culture from the Avant-Garde to Postmodernism 4 credits
Conducted in German. An exploration of German-speaking identities through their formulations and contestations in literature, architecture, cinema, music, cabaret, and political culture. Tracing the artistic epochs from Naturalism to Postmodernism, the course will examine ideologies of self and Other as they relate to ethnicity, race, class, gender, and geography.
Prerequisite: GRM 222 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Reynolds, Samper Vendrell
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GRM 355 - Weimar Culture 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Conducted in German. The Weimar Republic (1918-1933) is characterized by economic turmoil, political violence and extremism that resulted in Hitler’s rise to power and the Third Reich. At the same time, it also represents one of the most productive periods in artistic and intellectual terms in the twentieth century. Literature, film, art, and historical documents will help us explore this period’s tension between social and cultural advancement and political repression.
Prerequisite: GRM 222 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Samper Vendrell
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GRM 360 - German Comics and Graphic Novels 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Conducted in German. This course provides an overview of graphic narratives from the 19th-century to the present, including works by Deutsch, Kleist, König, Mahler, Mawil, Yelin, Reiche, Schwartz, Vieweg, Weyde, Yelin. In addition to an introduction to comics theory, participants will learn about adaptation, coming to terms with the past, colonialism, gender, race, sexuality, and print culture.
Prerequisite: GRM 222 or placement equivalent.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Byrd
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GRM 372 - Creative Writing German 1 or 2 credits (Spring)
Practice in creative writing of fiction, poetry, screen plays, comics, or other media led by the current German Writer in Residence. Close reading and analysis of recent German works from a contemporary cultural perspective. All readings and discussion in German. May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisite: Any 300-level German course.
Instructor: Staff
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GRM 377 - German Youth Cultures 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Conducted in German. This course examines how youth has been understood in German history and how it is experienced today. Literary and non-literary texts and documents will help us generate discussion about youth movements; subcultures; sexual expression and repression; and the different social and psychological developments that have been part of becoming an adult since the late eighteenth century.
Prerequisite: GRM 222 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Samper Vendrell
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GRM 380 - A Critical Approach to the German Canon 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Readings and Discussion in German. This course will select key works from the German literary canon in order to acquire an appreciation of German literary and intellectual history, but also to question the assumptions about language, nation, gender, religion, class, education, citizenship and power that constitute the formation of a literary canon. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: GRM 222 or placement equivalent.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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GRM 495 - Research Seminar in German Studies 4 credits (Spring)
Critical reading and close analysis of selected texts in German literature and culture for students with a solid background in the study of German. Topics vary, and texts include both primary and secondary sources. Course may be repeated once for credit when content changes.
Prerequisite: Senior standing or special permission for third-year students.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Staff
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Global Development Studies |
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GDS 111 - Introduction to Global Development Studies 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
This course adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of contemporary issues in the economic development of less-developed countries. Course reviews the leading theories of economic, political, and social change that have been adopted by anthropologists, economists, and political scientists, and considers how these theories have shaped past and current debate on the definition and goals of the development process. Course compares and contrasts the approaches adopted by international institutions and alternative development organizations to the “practice” of development.
Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology, or Economics, or Political Science, or Sociology. ECN 111 is strongly recommended.
Instructor: Brottem, Roper
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GDS 251 - Water, Development, and the Environment 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: ENV 251 . This course explores international water issues, focusing on the environmental, social, economic, and political implications of water scarcity. Emphasis will be on three interrelated topics: water scarcity as a constraint on development; water scarcity as a source of domestic and international conflict; and, in particular, the environmental implications of water supply projects and their social and economic consequences. Water management policy and the implications of changing climate on regional water availability will also be considered.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: P. Jacobson
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GDS 261 - Climate Change, Development and the Environment 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: ENV 261 . This course introduces the basic science of climate change, focusing on the environmental, social, economic, and political implications of such change, as well as the institutions and associated policies engaged in negotiating a response, both locally and globally. Students will conduct in-depth examinations of key regions and ecosystems exemplifying how climate change is closely intertwined with development and natural resource management. The difficulties of predicting regional shifts in climate will be considered, along with the challenges associated with defining policy in the face of uncertainty.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: P. Jacobson, Brottem
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GDS 300 - Global Development Studies Internship 2 credits (Fall, Spring, or Summer)
Students participate in an 8-10 week full-time internship relevant to GDS concentration themes. Internship sites are typically located in a low-income country or with an organization that works on issues in such locations. Organizations can be from government, non-government, for-profit sectors. Students are responsible for procuring their own internships and must have a concentration adviser who will approve the internship for credit and work with the student to develop learning expectations and graded assignments.
Prerequisite: GDS 111 and declared GDS concentration.
Instructor: Staff
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Greek |
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GRE 101 - Elementary Greek 5 credits (Fall)
The fundamentals of ancient Greek inflection, grammar, syntax, and literary style, based on simplified readings from Attic prose and poetry.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
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GRE 222 - Intermediate Greek 5 credits (Spring)
Continuation of GRE 101 . Review of forms and grammar. Introduction to a range of Greek poetic and prose literature, with selected short readings from Homer, lyric poetry, Herodotus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, and the Christian Scriptures.
Prerequisite: GRE 101 .
Instructor: Staff
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GRE 301 - Homer 4 credits (Spring)
Reading of selected passages from the Iliad, the Odyssey, or both epics; special readings in archaeological and critical background.
Prerequisite: GRE 222 and HUM 101 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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GRE 302 - Plato 4 credits (Fall)
Readings from one or more of Plato’s dialogues with attention to language, literary features, and philosophy.
Prerequisite: GRE 222 and HUM 101 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: J. Cummins
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GRE 303 - Greek Drama 4 credits (Spring)
Reading of two plays with study of literary form, the myths, and relevant social, religious, and philosophical issues.
Prerequisite: GRE 222 and HUM 101 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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GRE 304 - Greek Prose Writers 4 credits (Fall)
Reading and study of related works of one or more Greek prose writers, excluding Plato. Possibly to include history (Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon), philosophy (Aristotle), oratory (Andocides, Lysias, Demosthenes), or epigraphy.
Prerequisite: GRE 222 and HUM 101 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: M. Cummins
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GRE 305 - Greek Poetry 4 credits (Fall)
Readings in Greek poetry, excluding Homer and drama. Possibly to include Archaic lyric and elegiac poets (e.g., Sappho, Archilochus, Solon), Pindar and Bacchylides, or the Hellenistic poets (Apollonius, Theocritus, Callimachus). Introduction to Greek metrics and literary dialects. Emphasis on close reading and critical analysis of the texts.
Prerequisite: GRE 222 and HUM 101 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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GRE 387 - Individual Reading 2 or 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Supervised readings designed to fit special needs of students — for example, those who wish to develop facility in reading New Testament Greek.
Prerequisite: At least one reading course in Greek and permission of instructor.
Instructor: Staff
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History |
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HIS 30x - Advanced Studies in Latin America History 4 credits
In any academic year, students may choose from among six to eight 300-level seminar courses. For current course descriptions, prerequisites, and instructors, please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
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HIS 31x - Advanced Studies in United States History 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
In any academic year, students may choose from among six to eight 300-level seminar courses. For current course descriptions, prerequisites, and instructors, please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
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HIS 32x - Advanced Studies in United States History 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
In any academic year, students may choose from among six to eight 300-level seminar courses. For current course descriptions, prerequisites, and instructors, please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
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HIS 33x - Advanced Studies in Western European and British History 4 credits
In any academic year, students may choose from among six to eight 300-level seminar courses. For current course descriptions, prerequisites, and instructors, please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
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HIS 34x - Advanced Studies in Russian History 4 credits
In any academic year, students may choose from among six to eight 300-level seminar courses. For current course descriptions, prerequisites, and instructors, please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
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HIS 35x - Advanced Studies in Historiography and Ancient History 4 credits
In any academic year, students may choose from among six to eight 300-level seminar courses. For current course descriptions, prerequisites, and instructors, please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
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HIS 36x - Advanced Studies in African & Middle-Eastern History 4 credits
In any academic year, students may choose from among six to eight 300-level seminar courses. For current course descriptions, prerequisites, and instructors, please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
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HIS 37x - Advanced Studies in Asian History 4 credits
In any academic year, students may choose from among six to eight 300-level seminar courses. For current course descriptions, prerequisites, and instructors, please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
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HIS 38X - Advanced Studies in Comparative and Transregional History 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
In any academic year, students may choose from among six to eight 300-level seminar courses. For current course descriptions, prerequisites, and instructors, please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
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HIS 100 - Introduction to Historical Inquiry 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Introduces students to historical analysis and argumentation. Individual sections focus on different topics and time periods. In all sections, students will investigate a range of sources, methods, and approaches that historians use to interpret the past. Required of all majors and appropriate for all students. For current course content, please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
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HIS 201 - Colonial Latin America 4 credits (Spring)
A general survey of Latin American history from the Columbian encounter through independence. The course will focus on the patterns of European conquest and colonization, the complexity of race relations in the region, and the problems of colonial administration.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Not offered every year.
Plus-2 option available.
Foreign language option available in Spanish or Portuguese for course and +2.
Instructor: Silva
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HIS 202 - Modern Latin America 4 credits (Fall)
A general survey of Latin American history from independence to the present day. The course will focus on problems of political instability, economic development, and the role of the United States in the region.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Foreign language option available in Spanish or Portuguese for course and +2.
Instructor: Silva
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HIS 210 - Historical Perspectives on US Education 4 credits (Fall)
See EDU 210 .
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HIS 212 - Democracy in America, 1789–1848 4 credits (Fall)
Examines the tensions caused by the simultaneous development of political democracy in the United States and the demands for rights by those who continued to be excluded from various forms of power. Topics include: the creation of party politics, reform movements, economic growth, class conflict, expansionism, race, slavery, gender, and material culture.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Purcell
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HIS 214 - The American Civil War and Reconstruction 4 credits (Spring)
Surveys the causes, progress, and consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Examines American history from the mid-1840s through the late 1870s with a focus on race, politics, economics, gender, and military conflict to uncover how and why the United States tore itself apart, whether the fundamental conflicts of the war were solved by Reconstruction, and why the Civil War has occupied such an important place in American history and imagination.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Purcell
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HIS 220 - U.S. Environmental History 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines some of the central issues and debates in American environmental history, ranging from the era of pre-contact to the present day. Key topics will include: the shifting patterns of land use and resource management among Native American and settler communities; the ecological transformations wrought by commercial agriculture and industrial capitalism; the evolution of environmental policy; and the changing ways in which people have conceptualized and interacted with the natural world around them.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Instructor: Guenther
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HIS 221 - Being Muslim in American 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See REL 221 .
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HIS 222 - Women in American History 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines the history of women in the United States from the colonial period through the 1970’s. Students consider the role of race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality in shaping women’s experiences, as well as the tensions between gender expectations, gender performance, and gender identities. Special attention is paid to women’s efforts to expand their access to equal rights, full citizenship status, and bodily autonomy.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Instructor: Lewis
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HIS 223 - Health and Medicine in American History 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course examines the history of medical care in America from the colonial period through the 20th century. Students consider how social factors, as well as personal, political, and professional agendas, influenced medical knowledge and practice. Students explore the constructed meanings of disease and health, and the individuals, technologies, and scientific discoveries that shaped them. Special attention is given to themes of public health, personal agency, and professional authority.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Instructor: Lewis
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HIS 224 - Sex in American History 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course explores the history of American sexual experiences, desires, and identities. Students will consider changes, contradictions, and continuities in ideals as well as the complicated realities of lived experiences. Topics include the invention of sexualities, courtship and marriage customs, sexual citizenship, sex as work, sexual violence, and more.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 , or second-year standing.
Instructor: Lewis
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HIS 225 - Native American History, 1491–1865 4 credits (Fall)
This course offers a social, environmental, political, and cultural history of early America from the perspectives of Native Americans. From the point of view of Native Americans, we will examine many familiar topics, such as European exploration of North America, the founding of European colonies, warfare among European powers, slavery, and the American Revolution.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Instructor: Lacson
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HIS 226 - Native American History, 1871 to Present 4 credits (Spring)
From the end of treaty-making with the United States in the late-nineteenth century through to the present, this course examines the struggles of Native people in asserting tribal sovereignty while simultaneously acknowledging connections to the United States. Focusing on some well-known events and people, like Little Big Horn and Geronimo, and many lesser-known people and events, this course examines persistence and change as American Indians in the United States grappled with issues of sovereignty and citizenship.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Instructor: Lacson
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HIS 227 - African American History 4 credits (Spring)
A survey of the African American experience in slavery and freedom, with a primary emphasis on the struggle for racial justice and equality since the Civil War. Assignments stress primary sources as well as scholarly studies, films, and recordings.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Lacson
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HIS 232 - Medieval Europe, 400 - 1400 4 credits (Fall)
This course will introduce students to Europe and the Mediterranean world from 400 to 1400, with particular attention to the legacies of the Roman Empire: Western Christendom, the Byzantine Empire, and the rise of Islam. This course will also explore how contemporary men and women understood their own era, and how subsequent generations have relied upon the ‘Middle Ages’ as both foil and inspiration.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Instructor: Chou
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HIS 233 - Renaissance, Reformations, Explorations 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Examines the crucible of forces that turned Europe from a geographical location into a powerful cultural idea. We will explore the cultural movement of the Renaissance and the subsequent transformation of natural philosophy, the religious reformations that divided Christendom and catalyzed years of sectarian warfare, and Europeans’ increasing engagement with the wider world. Students will study primary sources and historical debates, and practice communicating history to a public audience.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Chou
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HIS 234 - Tudors and Stuarts, 1485-1707 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Tudor and Stuart monarchs were some of the most intriguing characters to walk on the world’s stage. Their reigns were characterized by major changes in British and Irish political, religious, economic, and cultural life; these transformations shaped the politics and denominational diversity of the modern, Anglophone world. Students will examine manuscripts, rare books, portraits, and architecture, intervene in major historical debates about the period, and recreate an evening in Elizabeth I’s court.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Instructor: Chou
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HIS 235 - Britain in the Age of Enlightenment 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course examines the dramatic transformations that took place in the British world during the “long eighteenth century” (1688-1832), ushering in new forms of industry and imperialism, family life and socialbility, work and leisure, literature and science, politics and civil society. Students will explore how these transformations helped create many of the patterns of our modern world while also examining the new spaces and settings–such as the coffeehouse or the laboratory–in which they unfolded.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Guenther
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HIS 236 - Modern Britain and the Empire 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course examines the expansion and contraction of the British world order in the 19th and 20th centuries, and considers how modern British political institutions, social and economic structures, and cultural identities developed in a global context. Special attention will be paid to the evolving relationship between Britain “at home” and Britain’s empire overseas (particularly in South Asia).
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Prevost
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HIS 237 - The Spectacle of Modern France 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Beginning with a detailed analysis of the French Revolution as the foundation for the making of modern France, this course concentrates thereafter on pivotal issues including transnational relationships with countries like Germany, Algeria, and the United States; consumerism and urban spectacle; the lure of bohemia and the fin-de-siècle crisis of bourgeois values; the interplay of so-called elite and mass cultures; and the collapse and recovery of democratic institutions in the twentieth century. We highlight perspectives of class, race, and gender and focus upon the power of culture and ideas in shaping the French nation.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available in English or French.
Instructor: Maynard
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HIS 238 - The Making of Modern Germany 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course traces the rise of the modern German nation from the accession of Frederick the Great through the Cold War. We examine the gradual decline of Habsburg dominance; the ascent of a powerful economic, military, and intellectual “Germany” dominated by Prussia by 1870; the rupture of World War I and the ensuing radicalism of the Weimar Republic; the rise and fall of the Third Reich; and Germany’s recovery from the catastrophes of the early twentieth century. We address the role of geography, culture, and ethnicity in the construction of national identity and the ongoing interplay between politics and culture.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Foreign language option available in German for course and +2.
Instructor: Maynard
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HIS 239 - Tyrants and Tunesmiths: Opera, Politics, and Society in Modern Europe 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course examines the complex relationship between operatic production and political power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in several national contexts including France, Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union. We consider specific interactions among composers, politicians, and institutions and seek to understand how such engagements shaped both the works themselves and the political and social realities around them in the processes of inception, performance, and reception.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Foreign language option available in English, French, or German for course and +2.
Instructor: Maynard
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HIS 242 - The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union 4 credits (Spring)
Examines the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, from the appearance of the revolutionary movement in the 19th century to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991. Key topics will include the origins of the revolution, the workings of the Stalinist dictatorship, the push to create a “New Soviet Man,” the reforms of Nikita Khrushchev, and the causes of the 1991 collapse. Option of doing some work in Russian.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Cohn
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HIS 244 - Ivan and Fritz Go to War: World War II on the Eastern Front 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course examines the war between Nazi Germany and the Stalinist U.S.S.R. along World War II’s Eastern Front. Although it will include an overview of the war’s main military events, it will focus on the conflict’s social and political significance. Major themes will include the experiences of the troops, the political working of each wartime regime, the reasons for the unusually high level of brutality, the war’s relationship to the Holocaust, and the Soviet myth of the war.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Cohn
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HIS 255 - History of Ancient Greece 4 credits (Fall)
See CLS 255 .
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HIS 257 - The Roman Republic 4 credits (Fall)
See CLS 257 .
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HIS 258 - The Roman Empire 4 credits (Fall)
See CLS 258 .
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HIS 261 - Southern Africa 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
An introduction to the 10-country region, with an emphasis on the Republic of South Africa. Regional geography along with culture and politics are principal themes, including the rise and fall of the South African apartheid state, culminating in a historical reenactment of conflict resolution.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Prevost, Drake
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HIS 262 - Modern Africa from the Sahara to the Zambezi 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
An introduction to West, Central, and East Africa during the colonial and post-colonial periods, focusing on the local, regional, and international dynamics of state-building, social and economic change, religious transformation, cultural identity, nationalism, and globalization.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Prevost
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HIS 265 - The Crusades in the Middle East 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See REL 265 .
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HIS 266 - History of the Modern Middle East 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course charts the development of the modern Middle East, exploring the contestations, negotiations, and exclusions that characterize the transformation of life in the region from 1798 through today. We will guide our exploration with pointed questions: How did the nation become an organizing principle for collective life? How did capitalism take root? How did secularism become a question of concern? How, for whom, and to what effect did modernity become a specific concern in the region?
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Elfenbein
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HIS 267 - Islam in the Modern Era 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See REL 267 .
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