2015-2016 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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GEOG 352 - GIS & Land Change Science
Students work collaboratively to create new GIS-based methods to measure and to explain land change over time and its environmental consequences. The work is linked to research at Clark University, thus topics vary from year to year. Some products of previous years are vidoes available at www.clarku.edu/~rpontius. Students must take initiative and be creative because the course will address issues for which standard methods of analysis do not yet exist. A goal of the seminar is to create and to communicate the methods for the professional community beyond Clark University. Students will make regular oral presntations in class to report on progress. Students become qualified to make presentations at professional conferences such as the Association of American Geographers annual meeting. A prerequisite is Introduction to GIS or equivalent competency in GIS. This course is designed for doctoral and masters students, but senior undergraduates and other qualified students can enroll with special permission. rpontius@clarku.edu
Prerequisites: GEOG 190 or GEOG 390 or permission from Professor Pontius (rpontius@clarku.edu).
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every fall
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GEOG 356 - Utopian Visions, Urban Realities: Planning Cities for the 21st Century
Although utopia literally means “no place” and utopias do not exist in any concrete sense, utopian thinking exerts a powerful hold on our imagination and continues to inspire a lot of approaches to urban policy, design and planning today. This course explores this thinking and will attempt to come to grips with various ideas about what utopias should be, how they have animated our thinking about city form and function, and how they have achieved certain material expressions in the twentieth-century urban context. It will also examine the contradictions and unintended consequences of utopian thinking in planning. Amongst other things, the course will grapple with questions of order versus disorder in the city, heterogeneity versus homogeneity, openness versus closure, and individual freedom versus collective necessity. It will draw upon geographical sources as well as a diverse array of other materials. Open to doctoral students only.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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GEOG 360 - GIS & Land Change Models
Students learn how to use and to interpret GIS-based computer models that simulate land change, especially those models in Idrisi. Students learn funadmental concepts such as calibration, validation, extrapolation, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis. Most applications focus on policies for Smart Growth of suburbanization and policies to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD). The work is linked to on-going research at Clark University, thus topics vary somewht from year to year. The course culiminates in presentations of student projects. Open to doctoral and masters students.
Prerequisites: GEOG 390 or instructor permission
Anticipated Terms Offered: offered every spring
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GEOG 361 - Decision Methods for Environmental Management and Policy
Information on environmental-impact assessments needs to be systematically organized and analyzed to be useful in the decision-making process. This course provides a survey of methods that are currently used to aid environmental decision makers (who include policy makers, environmental managers and affected populations). Covers techniques such as: decision analysis, benefit/cost analysis, multicriteria evaluation, multiobjective analysis, multiattribute utility theory, the analytical hierarchy process, and spatial-analytical methods using geographical information systems. These methods will be evaluated with respect to their theoretical foundations, systems formulation and appropriate application. A critical evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of these methods will also be discussed. Open to doctoral and masters students. Advanced undergraduates require instuctor permission to register.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year/
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GEOG 362 - Seminar on Globalization
Examines contemporary literature on globalization from various disciplinary perspectives. Both theoretical and empirical literature from Economics, Geography, Sociology, Political Science and Anthropology on various aspects of globalization, including governance, interdependence, labor relations and ‘networks’ will be analyzed. Explores the possibilities of developing a geographic paradigm to better understand the relationship between the global and the local. Open to doctoral students only.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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GEOG 363 - The Climate System and Global Environmental Change
In order to understand and predict the Earth’s current and future climate, it is imperative to know the forces that can drive both natural and anthropogenic climate change. This course will utilize an Earth Systems approach towards climate science, meaning rather than simply cataloging the Earth’s history of climate change, we will focus on understanding the climate system’s response to both external and internal drivers. We will examine the interactions between atmosphere, ice, ocean, land surface, and vegetation, allowing us to touch on the fields of geology, ecology, paleobotany, glaciology, oceanography, meteorology, biogeochemistry, climate modeling, atmospheric chemistry, and hydrology, among others. The goal of the course is to provide the scientific background that is necessary for understanding global environmental change-related issues as well as providing a basis for addressing the critical social and policy questions that cascade from these issues. Open to doctoral and masters students.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 366 - Topics in Urban Geography
Topics in Urban Geography engages a substantive theme within urban geography and cognate disciplines, focusing first on theorizations of the theme, then substantive empirical investigations of it. Over the course of the semester, doctoral students will read a range of scholarly texts and will place them in two regards: first, in the broader historical and conceptual sweep of urban geographical scholarship; and second, in critical engagement with the goals, methods, and contributions of the specific work in the subfield. Since the particular topic in a given semester will vary, doctoral students can take the course more than once for credit, as long as the subtitle is different from a previously taken course. Open for doctoral and masters students. Open to doctoral students, others by permission only.
In the topics seminar subtitled “Urban Politics,” we will consider fundamental contemporary scholarship and debates around urban politics and urban geography. We will interrogate the intersections of urban geography and political geography, focusing on themes related to: citizenship, place identity, state theory, and urban governance. Our overall goal is to understand the ways that scholars, particularly within or in dialogue with urban geography, conceptualize “politics” and citizen-state-subjectivity relations.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall - every other year
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GEOG 368 - The Development of Western Geographic Thought
Examines principal orientations, themes and debates within emergent professional geography communities in the 19th and 20th centuries and the professional structure of the field in research, educational and applied contexts. Required for, and open only to, first year geography doctoral students.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 369 - Relational Political-Economic Geographies
Relationality - the notion that the world is constituted and transformed by contingent, dynamic, and embedded relationships between people, places, objects, and structures - has emerged as a key concept in human geography. This course interrogates critically the idea of relationality and assesses its significance and possibilities for contemporary thinking in economic and development geography. Participants will read, critique, discuss, and debate a variety of theories about and sub-disciplinary perspectives on relational thinking - from economic sociology, organizational studies, critical realism, phenomenology, actor-network theory, Marxism, feminism, urban-economic geography, and development studies - and evaluate how these works might inform our understandings of contemporary political-economic issues. For doctoral students only.
Anticipated Terms Offered: annually
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GEOG 370 - Development’s Geographies: Debates and Interventions
James Ferguson once referred to development as anthropology’s “evil twin,” and geography also has had an at best ambivalent relationship with development. This course first explores the place of international development in the social sciences to then focus on its place within geography and anthropology. We consider how particular authors have engaged the notion of development, and focus our discussion as much on efforts at conceptual reformulation as critique. The course then considers to what extent it is useful to speak of development geography as an intellectual enterprise - again considering usefulness in terms of both theoretical and practical engagement. Through the notion of “geographies of intervention” the course explores the literatures on livelihoods, NGOs and social movement/organizations. For doctoral students only.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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GEOG 370 - Development’s Geographies: Debates and Interventions
James Ferguson once referred to development as anthropology’s “evil twin,” and geography also has had an at best ambivalent relationship with development. This course first explores the place of international development in the social sciences to then focus on its place within geography and anthropology. We consider how particular authors have engaged the notion of development, and focus our discussion as much on efforts at conceptual reformulation as critique. The course then considers to what extent it is useful to speak of development geography as an intellectual enterprise - again considering usefulness in terms of both theoretical and practical engagement. Through the notion of “geographies of intervention” the course explores the literatures on livelihoods, NGOs and social movement/organizations. For doctoral students only.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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GEOG 373 - Seminar in Urban Geography
In this seminar we will consider fundamental geographical aspects of urban theory. Some years this course is offered as the first installment of a two-sequence course with GEOG 374 . In that year-long sequence, we start in the fall with a survey of major theoretical perspectives ranging from neoclassical economics to political economy perspectives. Other years, this course will stand alone. In both, the goal is to understand the ways that scholars have approached the study of cities, and to compare and contrast the epistemological assumptions underlying different approaches to “the urban.” We will critically evaluate major theoretical perspectives in light of their contribution to contemporary research: ecological theories, neoclassical theories, institutional theories, political economy approaches, and cultural studies/identity approaches. OPen to doctoral students but masters students may request permission.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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GEOG 375 - Technology and Sustainability: Perspectives from the Global South
Examines the nature of technologies and their relationships to socioeconomic and environmental change in the developing world. Readings and discussions will address and critique theories on technology change, the role of technologies in development, and their real-world implications (good and bad) for developing regions. Theoretical literature will be linked to empirical case studies of agricultural, energy, financing, information-communication, and/or manufacturing technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South/Southeast Asia. The key objective of the course is to deepen and complicate students’ understandings of the ways in which technologies are developed, diffused, and absorbed and about how these processes influence communities and economies in the Global South. Open to doctoral students, but masters students may request permission to enroll.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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GEOG 377 - Africa’s Development in Global Context
Explores, in detail, the economic geographies of Sub-Saharan Africa; both their historical development and their contemporary manifestations in commodity chains, business practices, production systems, gender and environmental relations, entrepreneurial and innovative behavior, and rural and urban livelihood strategies. Emphasis is placed on examining how African economies relate to the rest of the world, how globalization is influencing the prospects for growth, autonomy, and sustainability in Africa, and how Africans actually produce, innovate, succeed, and struggle in their business activities. Confronts stereotypes about “backward” economic practices in Africa and encourages students to view Africans as capable agents of economic change not simply as passive victims of global or historical inequalities. Open to doctoral and masters students.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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GEOG 379 - GIS & Map Comparison
GIS & Map Comparison investigates quantitative methods that are commonly used and abused for map comparison, especially in remote sensing and land change science. We examine the advantages, disadvantages, interpretations, and misconceptions of the most common metrics such as Omissions Error, Commission Error, Kappa, Figure of Merit, Relative Operating Characteristic, Total Operating Characteristic, Mean Absolute Deviation, and Root Mean Square Error. Students learn a philosophy of map comparison that focuses on components of deviation between maps. Students learn how to use the computer language R. Course projects frequently become scientific lterature. The prerequisite is GEOG 190/GEOG 390 Introduction to GIS, but it is recommended that students enroll also in GEOG 296 or GEOG 397 Advanced Raster GIS simultaneously or before this course. Open to doctoral and masters students.
Prerequisites: The prerequisite is GEOG 190 or GEOG 390 Introduction to Geographic information Science (GIS) or instructor premission.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every spring
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GEOG 380 - Urban Ecology: Cities as Ecosystems
Explores ecology and the social and physical geography of cities as systems built, inhabited and managed by people. This class of ecosystem is often neglected except in studies of pollution, yet it is home to many of the world’s people and to a surprising number of plant and animal species as well. Readings, lectures, discussion and written work combine landscape and systems ecology with physical and urban geography and environmental justice to broaden our understanding of city environments, both present and possible. Four day field trip to Boston/Providence or New York City is required September 18-21; a $100 fee is charged to students at time of registration to cover administrative and transportation costs. In addition, students should bring $20 for a subway pass and enough to cover meals. Book costs for the course are minimal. Registration is by permission for both doctoral and masters students.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 382 - Advanced Remote Sensing
Application of remote sensor systems in earth science and other disciplines; interpretation of multispectral scanner, RADAR and thermal imagery, classification, postclassification analysis, special transformations, multitemporal data analysis for change detection, the study of spectral characteristics of vegetation, soils, water, minerals and other materials. The specific objectives of the course are to acquaint the student with the physical principles underlying remote sensing systems and the primary remote-sensing data-collection systems; introduce the student to methods of interpreting and analyzing remotely sensed data; provide some insight concerning the applications of remote sensing in various discipline areas; and provide hands-on experience in digital image processing using software packages available in the computer lab. Open to doctoral and masters students.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 383 - Introduction to Remote Sensing
This course is designed to introduce the students to the principles and analytical methods of satellite remote sensing as applied to environmental systems (e.g., land-cover classification, vegetation monitoring, etc.). Lectures will cover principles of remote sensing, sensor types, as well as the processing and analysis of multispectral satellite images (e.g. Landsat and SPOT). A series of hands-on lab exercises will complement students’ understanding of lecture material and also helps students to become familiar with image processing functions of the IDRISI image analysis software. Particular emphasis will be placed on final group project that brings a real world perspective to the learning process. Open to doctoral and masters students.
Prerequisites: Vector GIS or Raster GIS, and must register for Lab.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year.
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GEOG 385 - Proposal Writing
Offered for variable credit to geography doctoral students only who are working on their proposal writing.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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GEOG 386 - Special Topics
Devoted to a specific topic unique for each semester and instructor. Designed for doctoral students. Permission from instructor is required for registration.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every semester
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GEOG 388 - Development Policy
A research seminar for students with some background in development studies. After an introduction on policy and policy-making institutions, the seminar critically examines recent tendencies in development policy, particularly the policies advocated by the World Bank, IMF and WTO. The course also looks at alternative development. Open to doctoral and masters students.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 392 - Remote Sensing of Global Environmental Change
Human and natural forces are profoundly altering earth’s surface and function. This graduate-level seminar investigates how satellite remote sensing is being used to monitor and understand these changes, thus addressing many of the frontier challenges in earth system science today. Specific topics will include desertification, loss of snow and ice cover, forest disturbances, fire detection, famine early warning, boreal forest migration, carbon cycle assessments, trends in hurricane intensity, coral crises, and climate variability and change. Students will read and introduce primary and popular literatures, critically evaluate specific remote sensing applications, facilitate discussions, and debate interpretations and conclusions. Open to doctoral and masters students.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year.
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GEOG 397 - Advanced Raster GIS
This course builds on Introduction to GIS by delving deeper into raster GIS. Topics include time-series analysis, uncertainty assessment, multi-objective decision making, land-change modeling, and spatial statistics. Concepts in lectures are illustrated using the Idrisi software. Final project is required. This is a prerequisite for the fifth year Masters program in GIS and is a requirement for the GISDE masters program. This is a prerequisite for the accelerated degree program (MS GIS) and is a requirement for the GISDE masters program.
Prerequisites: GEOG 190 /GEOG 390 /IDCE 310 - Intro to Geographic Information Systems or permission of instructor.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every spring
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GEOG 398 - Internship
Academic experience taking place in the field with an opportunity to earn university credit. For doctoral and masters students.
Anticipated Terms Offered: -
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GEOG 399 - Directed Study
Directed readings, discussion, and research supervision designed for doctoral students and some qdvanced qualified masters students. Permission from instructor is required for registration
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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GEOG 1040 - Earth System Science
An introduction to the structure and function of the earth system, with a focus on how the Earth system sutains life. Topics include the connections among the terrestrial surface, oceans, and atmosphere and how these connections create and sustain the climates and biomes of the world and provide ecosystem services.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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GERM 102 - Elementary German II
Second half of elementary German. Continues the focus on developing basic language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Anticipated Terms Offered: n/a
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GERM 103 - Intermediate German I
Consolidates basic skills for students who have completed GERM 102 or the equivalent. Reviews grammar, reading and discussion of selections from newspapers and magazines. Develops skills in oral and written expression. There are weekly conversation groups with a native German speaker and individual laboratory work.
Prerequisites: GERM 102 or equivalent.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
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GERM 104 - Intermediate German II
Bridges basic skills courses and advanced courses in language, literature and culture. Reviews grammar and studies literary works on themes of contemporary German culture. Develops the ability to articulate ideas and to participate in discussions in German. There are weekly conversation groups with a native German speaker as well as individual laboratory work.
Prerequisites: GERM 103 or equivalent.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
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GERM 220 - Global Freud
This course provides an introduction to Freud’s thinking, especially on literary and cultural topics. Reading his writing in conjunction with literary texts from a variety of cultural backgrounds, we will focus on the ways in which authors, artists, musicians and film makers from around the world have used Freud’s insights and try to determine in what ways his thoughts translate globally. Besides Freud’s 1909 Clark lectures, we will read his writings on Oedipus, hysteria, repression, the uncanny, melancholia, religion and civilization. Alongside these works, we will read writings by such authors of world literature as Sophocles, Hoffmann, Jelinek, Puig and Mishima.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered in Fall 2009
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
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GERM 230 - The German Discovery of Sex
Few people realize that the Greek term “homo” (same) and the Latinate “sex” (sex) were first combined to describe someone with a sexual interest in members of their own sex in 1869 in the German-speaking world. Similar observations can be made about terms such as “heterosexual,” “masochist,” and “transvestite.” Out of this interest emerged sexologists such as Richard von Krafft-Ebing, whose Psychopathia Sexualia introduced a new vocabulary of sexuality to the entire world, homosexual activists such as Karl Ulrichs, who made arguments about sexual rights that are still prevalent in the gay community today, and Sigmund Freud, whose understanding of sexuality arguably structured much of twentieth century popular culture. In this course, we will investigate the emergence of modern sexual discourses in the nineteenth-century German-speaking world.
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
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GERM 250 - German Film and the Frankfurt School
In this course, we will survey the masterpieces of German-language cinema, beginning with such expressionist works of art as Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Murnau’s Nosferatu, Lang’s Metropolis and M, and Sagan’s Mädchen in Uniform. We will also study Nazi film, particularly Leni Riefenstahl’s work. Among the postwar directors that we study will be Fassbinder, Herzog and Wenders. Queer German film-makers such as Praunheim and Treut will receive special attention. The course will conclude with recent critical and popular successes such as Run Lola Run and The Lives of Others. As a critical lens, we will rely heavily on psychoanalytic and Frankfurt School criticism, focusing on writings by Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Theodor Adorno. In addition to class meetings, a weekly video screening of approximately two hours is required. All discussion in English. Students taking the course for German credit will be expected to watch the films without subtitles and complete written assignments in German; students taking the course for credit in Screen Studies or Communication and Culture will generally watch films with subtitles and write in English.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
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GERM 286 - Germans, Jews and Turks
This class studies the expression of cultural identity in central European literature. How have people in central Europe come to think of themselves or others as “Germans,” “Jews,” “Turks,” or some combinations thereof? While the Holocaust is obviously central to the German-Jewish relationship, it is not the only focus of this course-we will also study the emancipation of the Jews in the German-speaking world, German-Jewish assimilation and symbiosis, the rise of anti-Semitism and Zionism, as well as attempts to remember the Holocaust. And while the long history of the relationship between Jews and non-Jews in Germany will be a major component of our course, we will also study the emergence of Turkish culture in the German-speaking world and conclude with reflections on Germany today as a multicultural nation.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall
Placement Guidelines
Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
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GES 297 - HONORS
Readings and research for students in the honors program.
Anticipated Terms Offered: each semester
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GES 298 - Internship
An Academic internship is a practical work experience with an academic component that enables a student to gain knowledge and skills within an organization, industry, or functional area that reflects the student’s academic and professional interests.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall/Spring
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GRK 102 - Elementary Greek II
Second half of elementary Greek. Continues the focus on developing basic language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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HEBR 102 - Elementary Hebrew II
This course is a continuation of HEBR 101 . Offered also for students who placed at that level during placements exams.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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HEBR 103 - Intermediate Hebrew I
Modern conversational Hebrew. Emphasis on speaking, reading, writing and listening skills. Enrichment and reinforcement of verbal expressions and grammatical structures. Two class meetings per week, one hour of mandatory drill sessions led by a teaching assistant and individual work in the language laboratory.
Prerequisites: HEBR 102 or the equivalent required.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HEBR 104 - Intermediate-Advanced Hebrew
Surveys significant Hebrew texts, including literature and newspapers, focusing on the Holocaust through literature. Enrichment of verbal and written expression and grammatical structures. Two class meetings per week, one hour of drill sessions, and individual work in the language laboratory.
Prerequisites: HEBR 103 or equivalent required.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HEBR 1010 - Elementary Hebrew
Modern conversational Hebrew. Emphasizes speaking, reading, writing and listening skills. Acquisition of vocabulary and basic grammar.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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HIST 011 - Survey of U.S. History to 1865
A survey of American history from the earliest 17th-century settlements through the end of the Civil War. Introduces students to historical inquiry and stimulates creative inquiry into the origins and character of American civilization. Fulfills the Historical Perspective.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HIST 016 - American Race and Ethnicity
Explores the influence that racial and ethnic patterns have on American history from colonial times to the present. Largely through first-hand accounts, students will explore the experiences of various ethnic and racial groups in American history. Fulfills the Historical Perspective.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HIST 037 - 19th-Century America Through Women’s Eyes
How is our understanding of the past transformed when we look at it through women’s eyes? This seminar explores the major developments of 19th-century American history industrialization, slavery, westward expansion, immigration, and reform, as captured in women’s narrative writings, diaries, letters, autobiographies and autobiographical fiction. Its goals are three-fold: to introduce students to history as a lively scholarly discipline (as opposed to a timeless and fixed story of the past); to familiarize students with the central questions of women’s history; and to train students in the reading, analysis and critique of primary sources. What will emerge at the end of our investigation is an understanding of the ways in which the experience and production of history are shaped by gender and, in turn, how the experience and production of gender are shaped by history. Fulfills the Historical Perspective.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 040 - The Witchcraze: Witch Hunts in Early Modern Europe
From 1450-1750, hundreds of thousands of people were investigated for the crime of witchcraft across Europe and North America. Tens of thousands of them, mainly women, were executed. Over the course of the era, the figure of the witch as an ally of the Devil emerged and became an indelible part of Western culture. Yet scholars doubt that very many people in this period actually practiced witchcraft, or at least did so in the ways imagined by their prosecutors. The question then is why did all of this happen? How was the figure of the witch and the practice of witchcraft constructed? Why did they engender such panic at this particular time? Why were women so often accused? Why did the hunts begin and just as important, why did they end? This course will explore the history of the witch craze in order to provide the perspective to answer these questions. In the process, we will work on developing skills essential to the study of history: How do you pull the main points, the argument, out of a reading? How do you assess that argument? What is the raw material of history and how do historians use this raw material to write history?
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year.
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HIST 044 - Picking up the Gun: A history of violence in African American Social and Political Movements
This first year intensive course takes up the history of radicals, revolutionaries, and reformers by examining the role of violence in their struggle for democratic rights, or what some scholars now call “freedom rights”. It explores the use of violence within movements to end slavery; it looks at the use of violence to attain political rights by women, black Americans, and other ethnic and religious minorities; it examines the advocacy of violence during movements against Jim Crow segregation and lynching; it considers how people and groups employed violence to end economic exploitation and class-based oppression; and it explores the use of violence by those who challenged state-violence, mass incarceration, detention, and police shootings. We will approach the topic of violent resistance by reading historical documents, philosophical treatise, analyzing poetry, pouring over fiction, and viewing films. Thus, our approach to the America’s violent past will cut across academic disciplines in order to examine the vantage point of both those who advocated (and participated in) violent actions against the government and other citizens and, those who rejected violence on principal and/or because they did not believe the use of violence to be an effective means to attain citizenship rights.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
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HIST 045 - Reconsidering the Harlem Renaissance
This first-year seminar is designed to explore the history of African American art and literature during and preceding the period commonly identified as the Harlem Renaissance. Rather than examine the Harlem Renaissance uncritically, this course is designed to reinterpret the Harlem Renaissance in a way that takes into consideration the broader movement of black activitism and creative works, reaching back to the 1880s and 1890s, that represent more accurately, perhaps, a “renaissance” of black creative achievement. Thus, students will consider the broader, more inclusive designation, “New Negro Movement,” as they examine the history of African American arts and letters both in New York and beyond.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 048 - Baseball and American Society
This course will use the story of baseball to illuminate key themes and issues in U.S. history. These include urbanization; mass media, transportation, and culture; immigration and assimilation; race and civil rights legal issues; labor struggles; and globalization. This course will emphasize critical analysis, especially how to interpret sources, from written texts to photographs, films, cartoons, and music, and will include several field trips. HIST 048 carries an HP designation.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 055 - 9/11 in Fact and Fiction
In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, students at Clark and other universities across America remarked again and again that “everything is different now.” Nine years after al-Qaeda brought down the World Trade Center, however, many Americans question whether anything at all has changed, either at home or abroad. This first-year seminar will examine this apparent contradiction by placing the events of 9/11 into historical context. Among the questions we will explore are: Were the events of 9/11 truly unprecedented in American history? Were the American public and their leaders aware of the rising tide of Islamic extremism during the 1990s? How did al-Qaeda’s assault on America affect Arabs and other Muslims living in the United States? How have civil liberties in America more generally fared in the age of the Patriot Act? How have the events of 9/11 been depicted in literature, film, and popular cultural phenomena such as interactive video games? Each student will be expected to undertake an oral history evaluating the impact of 9/11 on his or her own family and to participate in a collaborative group project examining how the events of 9/11 affected the Clark community. The class will also take a field trip to New York City to visit Ground Zero. History 055 carries an HP designation.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 071 - Introduction to European History, Part II, Since 1600
Same goal as HIST 070 . Covers the military revolution of the 16th century, the bureaucratic and scientific revolutions of the 17th century, the 18th-century Enlightenment, and the political, industrial, intellectual and social revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries. HIST 070 and 071 are parts of a whole, but either course may be taken without the other. Fulfills the historical perspective.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HIST 080 - Introduction to Modern East Asia
Surveys modern historical trends in India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia and Korea. Through political biographies, literary selections and general histories, the course compares native traditions, colonial experiences and postcolonial developments in Asia since roughly 1800. Fulfills the Historical Perspective.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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HIST 081 - Modern East Asia, 1600-Present
This course surveys the histories of the four major cultures of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam) from 1600 CE to the present. Topics and themes to be covered include the cultural ties that bound these civilizations into a China-centered order in premodern times, Western intrusion in the 19th century, Japan’s emergence as an imperial power, colonialism in Korea and Vietnam, the battle for China, decolonization and nationalist independence movements in the postwar period, and interactions between East Asia and the world in the contemporary era.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year.
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HIST 104 - Introduction to Russian History
This introductory lecture course provides an overview of the historical development of Russian civilization from Christianization in the tenth century to the fall of the Soviet Union at the end of the twentieth. Class discussions will aim toward grounding students in the history of Russia through the analysis of a variety of primary source materials ranging from icons to government decrees to personal diaries. Issues covered in the course will include the following: the importance of geography and the natural landscape, religious and ethnic diversity, the role of authoritarian government, resistance and revolution, the relationship between the individual and community, the impact of mass literacy, education and technology and the social effects of war and imperial conquest.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HIST 110 - Early Modern Europe
This course is part of an integrated early modern humanities initiative and is linked with two other courses which focus on the early modern period: ENG 180, Early American Writers, taught by Meredith Neuman, and MUSC 101, Bach and Before: Studies in Music before 1750, taught by Ben Korstvedt. While the courses will run independently, they will each be organized around a common set of themes. Each week the three courses will meet collectively for a supplemental 50-minute group session. These sessions will feature presentations, performances, and discussions that connect among the three courses, deepen our investigation of our common themes, and bring other scholars and teachers from within Clark and beyond into the discussion.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HIST 112 - African American History to 1865
This course introduces students to the most important events and issues African Americans confronted as they struggled for equality and “freedom” in the United States prior to 1865. We will analyze and discuss the black experience using a variety of sources. Topics include the Atlantic slave trade, evolution of African American communities and culture, the free black community, the distinct experience of black women, and the antebellum black protest tradition. Through the use of class discussions, lectures, and multimedia presentations, we will learn about the diverse and complex history of African Americans.
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HIST 114 - African-American History, 1865-Present
This course examines the history of African Americans from the Civil War to present day with special emphasis on the ways individuals and organizations challenged racial oppression. Students will examine how black Americans demonstrated a sense of agency within the context of Jim Crow segregation, employment discrimination, and disenfranchisement. Topics include Reconstruction, northern migrations, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the Women’s Club Movement, Garveyism, Civil Rights and Black Power movements, as well as the advent of African American popular culture.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 118 - Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1918
This course examines the history of Europe between the French Revolution in 1789 and the end of World War I in 1918 and the destruction of European monarchies and empires. It will cover all regional parts of Europe but focus on France, England, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Russia. Rather than following a chronological narrative, the course will explore specific topics and thus explain major political, social, economic and cultural transformations such as industrialization, urbanization, nation-building, imperialism, the eugenic movement, the rise of the working class and of socialism, the change of the gender order, and other. Each of them will cover one week, usually by providing a survey at the first weekly meeting and by discussing a related special aspect or a document at the second meeting of that week.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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HIST 120 - Writing History
Introduces students to the discipline of history, with emphasis on the different types of historical writing and on the issues involved in the research and writing of historical studies.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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HIST 128 - History of Modern Israel
This course surveys the history of modern Israel, from its roots in the Hebrew revival of the late nineteenth century to the contemporary fate and future of Jewish statehood in its immediate Middle Eastern setting. Looking at literature, journalism and historical writing, we will examine the development of the Jewish national idea as a source of social criticism, the basis for collective action and personal discipline as well as the inspiration for religious and artistic innovation. Focusing salient political events, conflicts and personalities and on the evolution of political culture in the modern Jewish state, the course will address the values, concerns and ideals that continue animate and inform the Jewish national ethos as a source of meaning for Israeli Jews at home and abroad.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered bi-annually
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HIST 130 - Introduction to History of Genocide
In this course, we will provide students with a comparative perspective that highlights both theory and concrete examples of genocide. After surveying different approaches to genocide, we will explore different cases of mass killing that took place over the course of centuries and across several continents: 1) Genocide in early history, 2) Genocide in modern time before Holocaust - Colonial Genocide, 3) Ottoman Genocide, 4) the destruction of European Jewry during the Holocaust, 5) Yugoslavia, 6) Cambodia, 7) Africa, Great Lake Region with a focus on Rwanda Darfur and Congo. Finally, we will discuss the problem of prevention of Genocide.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
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HIST 133 - Women during the Holocaust
The aim of this introductory level course is to familiarize students with the history of the Holocaust by analyzing the experiences of women. Women are often viewed as the objects of history - things happen to them; they don’t make things happen. Certainly, the application of Nazi policy, derived and carried out primarily by men inside Germany and throughout occupied Europe, falls into this category. Nazi policy affected various groups of women in diverse ways. But always, women crafted their lives in response to Nazi policy: some embraced it, others rejected it outright, and many did whatever they could just to get by. In this course, students will analyze women’s agency within varying degrees of constraint and why women’s experiences are important. Students will read a variety of texts that explore the experiences of women as victims, perpetrators, rescuers and resisters. Lecture/Discussion
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually Fall and/or Spring
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HIST 135 - History of Armenia
Introduces the history of Armenia from antiquity to the modern times. Examines the formation of the Armenian state as an independent entity, the role of the major powers (eg, Byzantium, Persia), and the social and political institutions under the Armenian monarchies (eg, Bagratuni, Cilicia). Covers the history of modern Armenia from the late-18th to the 20th century, including the development of modern Armenian culture and political life in Ottoman and Russian Armenia. The course examines the emergence of the Armenian national movements, the events leading to the genocide, and the creation of the Republic of Armenia, Soviet Armenia, the re-emergence of the Republic of Armenia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the current issues confronting the Republic.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HIST 145 - U.S. History Through the Novel
Introduces American history with a distinctive and unconventional approach, resting on the assumption that we can gain access to the past by reading fiction. Students learn how to approach imaginative literature from an historical perspective and to appreciate the historical insight of writers who were keen observers of aspects of the making of modern America. Fulfills the Historical Perspective.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HIST 152 - Jews in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America
Between ca. 1400 and ca. 1800, the rights of most European Jews were severely restricted. Their story can only be told if we take into account the actions and measures of “gentiles” vis-a-vis the Jews. Having established what these conditions were, we will direct our attention to Jewish cultural and religious practices. The course starts with late medieval Christian myths and stories about Jews, scapegoating mechanisms and outright persecution. The course will end with the extension of greater freedom to the Jews in the Age of Democratic Revolutions, which made the question of assimilation an important issue.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 153 - Europe in the Age of Extremes: the 20th Century
This course serves as an introduction into the political, social and cultural history of Europe from the beginning to the end of the 20th century. The survey is concerned with World War I and World War II, and with the nature of postwar stabilization and recovery. It focuses on the rise of dictatorships and the radicalization of mass violence during the first half of the century, as well as on the developments toward democracy, peace and civil society since 1950. The course will conclude with an evaluation of the remaking of Eastern and Western Europe in the 1980s and 1990s, the return of war and genocide to Europe, and present debates on the future of Europe.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HIST 162 - The History of the Modern Middle East
This course will explore the history of the Middle East from the decline of the Ottoman Empire during the twilight of the 19th century through the rise of radical Islam at the dawn of the new millennium. Although the course will focus on political and diplomatic affairs, there will also be coverage of some important social and cultural developments. Major themes include the emergence of revolutionary nationalism among Arabs, Kurds, and Iranians after World War I, the rise of Zionism and the ensuing Palestinian-Israeli conflict after World War II, and “the Clash of Civilizations” during the Cold War and beyond. Fulfills the Historical Perspective.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically.
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HIST 165 - Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
Introduces students to the rise, the fabric, and the fall of the “Third Reich.” It starts with an investigation in how the Nazis came into power and why the first German democracy failed. The course then focuses on two related issues. Both are revolving around the success and the impact of Nazi politics in Germany and in Europe: How could Hitler and the Nazi Party establish its power in a country which was seen as a heart of Western culture? And: Why did so few Germans oppose Hitler and his racially based, terrorist regime?
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 175 - Holocaust: Agency and Action
This course is an introductory, gateway course to the history of the Holocaust. It aims to provide a foundation for more specialized seminars and lecture courses in this field (many of which are offered by the History Department), and is required for the concentration in Holocaust and genocide studies. The Holocaust was not a natural disaster, nor is history predetermined. Looking at a range of people, from national leaders to army generals to local religious figures to student activists, to victims, we will examine the choices they confronted and the actions they took. This course spans many centuries and covers the continent of Europe. Our primary focus, however, is the National Socialist era and the Holocaust.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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HIST 181 - Chinese Civilization
Focuses on Chinese life, institutions and culture from the earliest times through the mid-19th century. Creative literature, philosophical writings and selected primary documents supplement information presented in interpretive texts and lectures. Fulfills the Historical Perspective.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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HIST 182 - Modern China
Introduces events, personalities and concepts of importance for understanding China’s history from the early-19th century to the present. Readings that present the Chinese view of events supplement interpretative studies by Western scholars. Fulfills the Historical Perspective.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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HIST 191 - Pirates and Smugglers in the Atlantic World
This course examines piracy and its cousin, privateering - - vital weapons of the latecomers in the Atlantic world. The French, English, and Dutch relentlessly targeted Iberian ships, hoping to harm the enemy and receive a share of the riches shipped from the New World. Privateering was also successfully practiced by the Barbary states of North Africa, which captured many European ships and enslaved their crews. In Atlantic waters, especially the Caribbean, the scope for both piracy and smuggling was much wider than in Europe. Even more pervasive than piracy, smuggling was initially an alternative way for the northern Europeans to get hold of American crops and precious metals. Eventually, it gave rise to a distinct way of life in vast parts of the Americas.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered biannually
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HIST 201 - Era of the American Revolution
Studies the origins, character and consequences of the American Revolution, from the erosion of imperial authority in the 1760s and 1770s to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Emphasizes relation of ideology and political ideas to social development.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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HIST 202 - The Early American Republic
Studies formation and testing of the early United States from the adoption of the Constitution through the Jacksonian era. Emphasizes ideology, public policy and the problem of national integration during an age of extraordinary territorial and economic expansion.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 204 - Special Topics in American History
Content varies with the interest of the instructor. This course explores the way that race and ethnicity was “made” and “unmade” over the course of the nineteenth century and the consequences of those constructions. This seminar aims to expose you to the variety of ways that historians have approcahed this topic.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 205 - Renaissance and Reformation
Charts the course of European history from ca.1300 to 1600. Reviews the devastation caused by the plague and examines the rise of the city-states in Italy. Deals with successful reformers (Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin), as well as the more short-lived radical currents such as the Anabaptists of Munster, who declared property to be in common, outlawed the use of money, and made polygamy compulsory. The course will also introduce the Spanish Inquisition and discuss everyday violence between Calvinists and Catholics in France.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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HIST 210 - Research Seminar
Spring 2016 Topic: American Race & Ethnicity in the 19th Century
This course invites students to undertake the study of 19th Century American Race & Ethnicity by designing individual research projects on a specific topic in the field. The emphasis of the course will be on that individual work within a classroom community with considerable attention paid to the research process and the fostering of productive and respectful critique.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 211 - American Consumer Culture
Investigates the nature and meaning of the consumer experience in American history. Draws upon studies of advertising, domestic life and urban institutions, and examines the varied ways in which historians have defined and interpreted the importance of consumption within American life. Introduces students to the process of primary historical research.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 212 - History of Sexuality: 1750 to the Present
Covers the history of sexuality from the Enlightenment to the present focusing on Western Europe. Students will examine how different societies in different times determined what was licit and what was illicit sexual behavior. Considers the efforts of governments, religious bodies, moralists, the medical profession and interest groups to regulate, repress or indeed encourage certain behaviors and attitudes. Specific topics include marriage, prostitution, birth control, the emergence of homosexual subcultures, and sexuality as identity.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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HIST 213 - Gender and the American City
This course considers how the experiences and spaces of nineteenth-century urban life were shaped by and, in turn, shaped gendered assumptions about men and women. How did men and women experience the city differently? What aspects of urban life defined or reinforced gender differences? Did city life create opportunities to transform gender roles? How did city dwellers use their gendered values and concerns to shape the city through reform, leisure, or work? Specific topics for discussion will include: gendered spaces in the city, the symbolic role of gender in the urban landscape, the interaction of sexual and racial identities with the city’s gendered terrain, and the place of gender in urban leisure and cultural institutions.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 214 - The American Civil War
Examines events and trends precipitating the single greatest crisis in American history, the Civil War of 1861-65. Includes consideration of the behavior and experience of Americans during the war itself.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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HIST 215 - The Age of Lincoln
A reading, discussion and research course focusing on an extraordinary individual and his times. Emphasizes biography and the relationship between the private and the public in Abraham Lincoln’s life, which becomes the vehicle for better understanding the distinctive problems and concerns of American society, culture and politics from approximately 1815 through the end of the Civil War.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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HIST 216 - Special Topics: African American Internationalism
Content and topics vary with instructor’s interests. A reading and discussion course exploring the advantages of taking a comparative approach to selected key themes and issues in the history of the United States.
Prerequisites: Jrs/Srs only
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 218 - London and Paris: the Making of the Modern City
London and Paris are two of the great cities of the world. This class will explore the foundation and development of these capitals as they grew from small medieval centers to the vast metropolises that they are today. We will consider major events (the Black Death, the Reformation, the French Revolution, the World Wars); the development of urban culture and politics; and the everyday life of ordinary Londoners and Parisians. You will hear from writers from Geoffrey Chaucer to Gertrude Stein; you will see works of art from Abbot Suger to Banksy; you will hear music from Gregorian chant to the Clash. From the London Bridge to the Eiffel Tower, from Notre Dame to the London Eye, we will explore the making of the modern city through the stories and perspectives of these great cities.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
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HIST 219 - History of American Women
This course moves through the chronology of American history to examine the broad themes that have shaped women’s lives in the United States from the colonial period to the present. While tracing larger trends and identifying common experiences, we will also pay close attention to the specific experiences of individual women in order to shed light on the differences and divisions among them. Throughout, we will investigate the ways in which notions of gender difference have changed over time and how a wide variety of women both created and responded to shifting and contested cultural, political, and social roles.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HIST 222 - History of the American South
Explores the history of the South from the colonial period to the present, focusing on how the South developed as a distinctive region of the United States. Examines development of slavery; impact of slavery on the economy, politics and culture of the South; race, class and gender in the Old and New South; myth and reality of the New South; the South in the 20th century.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 223 - The Civil Rights Movement
Examines roots and evolution of the civil-rights movement from the 1930s to the present. Includes civil rights as a grassroots movement; the New Deal, World War II and civil rights; emergence of Martin Luther King; women and the civil-rights movement; black power; the disintegration of the movement; the meaning of civil rights today.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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HIST 224 - Russian Visual Culture
Eisenstein, Malevich, Chagall. Every movie buff and every student of modern art is familiar with these Russian names and their contribution to the great twentieth-century upheaval in visual culture that transformed the way we look at images today. How did Russia–which had no tradition of painting comparable to Italy and France–come to be associated with radical innovation in painting, photography, film, book illustration, and lithography? This course examines the history of Russian visual culture against the background of Russian history. We will discuss the role that images play in Russian Orthodoxy; the impact of Western regimes of representation on the native tradition of image making; the secularization of painting in the nineteenth century and the search for authenticity in pictorial styles; the role of revolutionary politics and Bolshevik ideology in the creation of still and moving images; the connection between the avant-garde theory of world creation and totalitarian art; and, finally, the emergence of non-conformist art in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, and its relationship to post-modernism.
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HIST 226 - Comparative Colonialism
Seeks to examine the ways in which Spanish, Dutch and English societies evolved in the New World from 1492 to 1824. Topics include the motives and backgrounds of settlers, encounters with natives, syncretism, the search for crops and precious metals, contacts with the mother countries, the contributions of Africans, and the revolutions that made an end to the mainland empires.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 228 - Early Modern Britain
This course will cover the major political, economic, cultural, social, religious and intellectual developments in Britain from rise of the Tudor dynasty in the fifteenth century through the eighteenth century, at which time the British Empire dominated world politics. We will pay particular attention to the emergence of modern monarchy, the Protestant Reformations, the English Civil War, the Financial Revolution, and the beginnings of empire. We will examine how the four nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland came to be Britain and how a British identity emerged. We will also examine the relationships between major events and shifts in English society and culture, including the changing roles of women, the increasing dominance of the middle class and its affect on elite society and culture.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 230 - History of the Armenian Genocide
Examines the various dimensions of the Armenian Genocide, through scholarly analyses, survivor narratives, journalistic accounts and other resources. Through the course, students develop a detailed understanding of the actual events of the genocide, its social and political causes, and its immediate and long-term impact on individual Armenians and the Armenian nation generally. Students will also treat in-depth the initial external response to the genocide, its political and legal aftermath, and the significant effort still made by the Turkish successor state to deny that the genocide occurred.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 231 - Origins of Modern America, 1877-1914 (formerly America in the Gilded Age)
Focuses on a especially volatile era, encompassing Gilded Age excess and Progressive Era reforms, that gave birth to modern America. Among the many topics explored are the nation’s emergence as a world power, the rise of industrial capitalism, immigration, urbanization, Populism, popular culture, and trans-Atlantic reform movements.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 232 - Judaism and the Origins of Christianity
Most people think of Christianity as having descended from Judaism. In this course, we will see that what we know as Judaism and Christianity both claimed ownership of the same textual tradition. Both developed within the same political and religious landscape of the eastern Mediterranean in the first century CE and both drew heavily on contemporary Greek philosophy and literature. Through close readings of the principal sources of Christian literature, such as Paul’s letters to the first communities of Christian believers and the Gospel accounts of the life and death of Jesus, we will examine how Christianity first came to claim the title of “New Israel” and how its controversial messianic interpretation of ancient Israelite prophecy shaped the evolution of rabbinic Judaism. Focusing on the historical context of the original Jewish-Christian rivalry, we will see how their momentous split continues to shape our own social commitments, perceptions of divine and human justice, and attitudes toward family, community and self.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
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HIST 233 - Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism: Intellectual History of China
Explores the three major intellectual traditions of China, with special emphasis on the ethical values of each tradition and their historical and contemporary relevance. Fulfills the Values Perspective.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year.
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HIST 234 - History of Racism in Modern Europe
The category of “race” has been used since about 1500–when Europe’s Renaissance met with the exploration of “other” human beings in different continents–to naturalize inequality among groups of people based on certain ideas of their bodies. The seminar focuses on the scientific foundation of modern racism in the Enlightenment, the origins of the cult of health and beauty at about 1900, and the globalization of western body ideals until now.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 235 - The Atlantic World
A course that deliberately moves away from the traditional focus on nation-states and continents, concentrating instead on the Atlantic world that was created in the wake of the Portuguese explorations and Columbus’ voyages. The emphasis will be on the flow of people, commodities, germs, and ideas between the Old World (Europe and Africa) and the New.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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