2018-2019 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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GEOG 346 - Geospatial Analysis with R
Free and open source R is increasingly used for geospatial analyses. R and its ecosystem of supporting software also facilitate the creation, presentation, and reproducibility of analyses. R is therefore very close to being a one-stop shop for the modern GIScientist. This course will provide students with the skills they need to use R as a GIS. There will be additional emphases on programming, presentation, and reproducibility, which will entail learning to develop R libraries, development of presentations and reports using Rmarkdown, and using version control with github. Students will learn and apply R skills by working on a specific research problem. Open to upper level undergraduates and graduate students.
Prerequisites: GEOG 190-Introduction to GIS
Anticipated Terms Offered: annually
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GEOG 347 - Intermediate Quantitative Methods in Geography
Continues development begun in GEOG 110 of computer-based methods in geographical analysis. Focuses on bivariate and multivariate regression, discriminant analysis, factor analysis, log-linear models and analysis of spatial and temporal data. Includes lab work with PCs, spreadsheets and SPSS-X statistical software package. Meets skill requirement for senior undergraduate geography majors and doctoral students and masters students.
Prerequisites: GEOG 110 .
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 348 - Social Justice and the City
Cities today face unprecedented challenges. Migration, rapid urbanization, growing inequality, authoritarian governments, racial tensions, terrorism, climate change, and the list goes on. This course examines the concept of social justice in light of contemporary philosophical debates and explores its various relations to the city and urban development, using a geographical perspective. After engaging various dialogues on social justice, the course turns its attention to the ‘urban question’. It asks what is distinctive about the issue of social justice in an urban context and whether we need a more geographically-informed viewpoint from with to deploy our positions on social justice. In the final section of the course, various urban issues and problems are explored using developed understandings of social justice. Open to doctoral and masters students.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 349 - Advanced Topics in Spatial Analysis
Explores spatial statistics and spatial decision models. The spatial statistics part of the course focuses on point, block and global estimation, fitting variogram models, kriging and spatial simulation. The prescriptive modeling part will focus on location/allocation-based decisions models including private- and public-sector facility location problems and land-allocation models. The topics covered are closely linked to the underlying spatial analytic methodologies used in, and often illuminated by examples developed with, Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The spatial statistics module in the IDRISI GIS will be used. The class is run on the “Socratic” method with some high-tech twists. Students are assigned a topic per week to prepare material and lead discussion. Pass/fail. Grading is based on class participation.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 351 - Seminar in Critical Resource/Food Geographies
This course examines major questions in two important areas of critical geography: natural resources and food studies. Each topic will take one-half of the semester. We will first examine questions of nature and culture, and the role of the state and biopolitics, which are of concern for scholars of both topics. We will then turn to political economic theory on commodity chains or value chains, and power relations along those chains. We will address questions such as the “resource curse” and ethical consumption. Questions of sovereignty, territoriality, and investment relations will also be examined, as well as, questions of state and quasi-state governance. The resource component will emphasize water, minerals and oil/gas. Open to doctoral and masters students.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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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 357 - Internet Geography: Socioeconomic Impacts of Information Technologies
Spring 2018 Course Description:
In the span of a few decades, the Internet has become a driver of global change and has connected people and places to an unprecedented degree. However, to what extent does the Internet transform or supersede the structures, configurations, and arrangements that make up our world? How does the Internet interact with, and produce, geographies at various scales? In light of the rapidly changing environment influenced by the information revolution and the Internet itself, the answers to these questions are not universal, or even immediately apparent. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an explanatory framework that places the Internet into a broader historical, social and political-economic context. By adopting a geographical perspective, this course prepares students to challenge abstract notions of the Internet as a placeless informational cloud, by analyzing its grounded causes, consequences, and impacts at various scales. This course will cover a range of topics related to the history, technology, politics, regulation, and practices of the Internet and associated communication technologies. The course is centered on weekly readings and group discussions.
Prior Semesters Course Description:
Examines how the Internet has changed our society, economy, culture and geography. Explores the myths and the realities of the impacts derived from technological changes. Issues for discussions include an examination of ‘the death of distance’, social polarization and the ‘digital divide’ at the national and international scales, as well as the changing practices and modes of everyday social interactions. Explores how consumption and our conceptualization of leisure is changing as a result of the widespread use of the Internet.
Course Designation/Attribute: no
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 373 - Seminar in Urban Geography
In this seminar we will consider fundamental geographical aspects of urban theory. Our goal is to undestand 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. 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.
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: Sept. 15-18 (alt. dates: Sept. 22-25); 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. May be repeatable for credit.
SPRING 2019 SEC. 1 - LOOMIS: GEOGRAPHIES OF POVERTY & INEQUALITY The gap between the rich and poor is growing, prompting concerns about what intensifying inequality and poverty might mean for society. This course will provide students with an opportunity to think deeply about the diverse causes, consequences and experiences of inequality and poverty. We will focus primarily on the United States, but we will also look at historical and global examples for context. Throughout the semester, we will move through a series of inquiries to explore how housing, food, transportation, health, the environment, and work and wages are related to course themes. We will use academic articles, maps, videos, short stories, reputable news sources, policy briefs, art and in-class discussion to help us identify and analyze the underlying structural causes and consequences of poverty and inequality so we might envision alternatives.;
SEC. 2 - LOOMIS: WRITER’S WORKSHOP SEMINAR - This course is designed for students who are seeking to advance and conclude a major piece of writing-whether a journal article, thesis or dissertation-during the semester. The purpose of this seminar is to provide students with support, including structure and accountability, so they are able to achieve a major writing goal by the end of the semester. Using a workshop-style format, students will also have an opportunity to engage in the peer review process including receiving constructive feedback on their own writing and reviewing the work of peers. Students will also be introduced to a variety of writing strategies, exercises and resources that will support the development of an academic writing habit. Students interested in the workshop must be prepared to write, revise and submit a major piece of writing by the end of the semester; a writing project with a clear scope and deadline are essential for success in this course. Permission Required: Open to graduate students and senior thesis writers in Geography, and to graduate students in other departments by permission only.;
SEC. 3 - CHUNG: QUALITATIVE METHODS: THEORY AND PRACTICE Similar in scope to GEOG 310; open to graduate students new to qualitative methods, or those who seek to expand upon previous knowledge (and who may have already taken GEOG 310). Examines the purpose, scope and procedures of qualitative research, especially as applied to human geography. Emphasis is on epistemologies underlying various approaches to qualitative research. Readings will draw on a variety of work in the social sciences, especially anthropology, geography, sociology and women’s studies. We examine a range of qualitative methods, including interviews, participant and nonparticipant observation, ethnography, action research and discourse analysis. Through case-study readings, we examine how scholars employ these methods in different research contexts, with particular attention to the ethical and practical considerations of doing so. The course will engage theoretical debates relevant to qualitative research by addressing questions such as: How does qualitative research challenge the practice of social “science” and the search for “universal truths”? How do we represent the world or multiple understandings and perspectives of it? Why should we pay attention to issues of reflexivity, positionality, and power in the world that we are researching? What are the implications of using qualitative data for the researcher, the research product and the “researched”? How do we interpret qualitative data and present it to scholarly audiences? Open to GEOG PhD students only or by permission.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every semester
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GEOG 387 - New Methods in Earth Observation
Understanding the Earth System depends on observing observations of socioeconomic and environmental patterns and processes across multiple spatial and temporal scales. These scales span seconds to decades in time, and centimeters to millions of square kilometers in space. Earth Observation (also known as remote sensing) is the only feasible means for providing this range of perspectives, but our ability to collect data across all necessary scales is currently limited by inherent tradeoffs between the extent, duration, frequency, and resolution of observation. This suggests the possibility that there may be important, but currently unknown, phenomena that exist within our observational blind spots. Some of this blindness is imposed by physics (there are only so many photons reflected from the Earth, and these are proportional to wavelength), but many are due to engineering or economic constraints (some sensors are too expensive to use more than once or over a large area). These latter hurdles are falling, however, as new “big data” analytical techniques emerge, and combine with increasingly available, high quality, low-cost data made possible by a host of new innovations, including cheap satellites, unmanned aerial systems, inexpensive cellphone enabled field sensors, and the availability of a large pool of internet-enabled workers who can interpret these data in ways that computers cannot. By harnessing these new developments, geographers can make breakthroughs in understanding Earth System dynamics, while answering fundamental but unresolved questions.
This course is a skills-based follow-on to GEOG 391-Innovation in Earth Observation, a seminar that reviews the key limitations facing Earth Observation (EO), the recent developments that are challenging these limitations, what limitations remain, and what new challenges are being posed by EO advances. In this course, students will work, within the broader context of several active research projects, on developing and applying several specific EO methods that were reviewed in GEOG391.
Prerequisites: By instructor permission, or successful completion of GEOG 391 - Innovation in Earth Observation
GEOG 391 - Innovation in Earth Observation (Spring 2018)
Understanding the Earth System depends on observations of socioeconomic and environmental processes collected across multiple spatial and temporal scales, many of which cannot be addressed by existing Earth Observation (EO, or remote sensing) systems because of inherent tradeoffs between the extent, duration, frequency, and resolution of observation. In the past few years these obstacles have started to fall as new methods and technologies are introduced. This seminar will survey the key recent advances in EO, and their associated applications. A prerequisite for Geography and IDCE graduate students taking New Methods for Observing Our Changing World. Open to graduate students; advanced undergraduates may ask permission.
Anticipated Terms Offered: bi-annually
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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 391 - Innovations in Earth Observations
Understanding the Earth System depends on observations of socioeconomic and environmental processes collected across multiple spatial and temporal scales, many of which cannot be addressed by existing Earth Observation (EO, or remote sensing) systems because of inherent tradeoffs between the extent, duration, frequency, and resolution of observation. In the past few years these obstacles have started to fall as new methods and technologies are introduced. This seminar will survey the key recent advances in EO, and their associated applications. A prerequisite for Geography and IDCE graduate students taking New Methods for Observing Our Changing World. Open to graduate students; advanced undergraduates may ask permission.
Prerequisites: GEOG 383 Introduction to Remote Sensing must be completed before signing up for this course.
Anticipated Terms Offered: annually
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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 394 - Dissertation Writing
This is a variable unit, graduate course for students engaged in writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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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 1020 - Weather and Climate
This course focuses on understanding controls of weather, including insolation, evaporation, wind, and topography as well as the climates that result, and how they may influence human activities. Students are also introduced to fundamentals of scientific inquiry and knowledge with exposure to observational methods, data analysis, and forecasting.
Course Designation/Attribute: SP (summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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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 sustains 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.
Course Designation/Attribute: SP (Summer Only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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GEOG 1270 - Political Economy of Development
Why do some people die from too much consumption yet others at the opposite corner of the world perish from poverty and starvation? Development theories try to answer fundamental questions like this. This course critically examines these development theories, including classical, neoclassical and Keynesian economies; modernization theory; dependency, Marxist and neo-Marxist and world systems theories; post-developmentalism; feminism and feminist critiques of development; and critical modernist theories. The course quickly takes students with an initial interest in development to a high level of critical understanding. Fulfills the Global Comparison perspective.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP (summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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GEOG 1900 - Introduction to Geographic Information Science
This course introduces Geographic Information Science (GIS) as a powerful mapping and analytical tool. Topics include GISc data structure, map projections, and fundamental GISc techniques for spatial analysis. Laboratory exercises concentrate on applying concepts presented in lectures and incorporate two widely used GISc software packages - IDRISI (created by Clarklabs) and ArcGIS (created by ESRI). These exercises include examples of GISc applications in environmental modeling, socio-demographic change and site suitability analyses. Although the course is computer-intensive, no programming background is required.
Course Designation/Attribute: FA (summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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GEOG 2050 - Introduction to Hydrology
This course offers an overview of the hydrological cycle’s major components of precipitation, evapotranspiration, soil moisture, surface water, and groundwater. The core principles of physical hydrology will be introduced to students with topics, such as runoff processes, surface and subsurface storage and flows, and land-atmosphere exchange. Students will learn about human influences on the water cycle and management of water resources at field to watershed scales.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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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.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
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.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
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.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
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.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: -
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 Language, Literature and Culture 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.
Course Designation/Attribute: 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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GERM 299 - Directed Study
Undergraduates, typically juniors and seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member. Offered for variable credit. May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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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.
Course Designation/Attribute: 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.
Course Designation/Attribute: 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.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
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.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HEBR 299 - Directed Study
Undergraduates, typically juniors and seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member. Offered for variable credit. May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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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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HGS 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 while earning credit. Maybe repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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HGS 299 - Directed Study
Graduate students construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member. Offered for variable credit. May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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HGS 397 - Doctoral Dissertation
PhD. students work on their dissertation research under the direction of a faculty member. Offered for variable credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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HGS 399 - Directed Study
PhD. students construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member. Offered for variable credit. May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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HIST 011 - Survey of U.S. History to 1865
This introductory course offers a survey of what is conventionally referred to as early American or United States History. More precisely, our attention will be focused on the history of the region of North America that embarked upon the national project of the “United States” during the American Revolution of the late eighteenth century. In essence we will examine what might be considered the formative years of the modern United States, running from the earliest seventeenth-century settlements through the solidifying of the national project during the great Civil War of the mid-nineteenth century. Recurrent thematic concerns will include the interlocking experiences of native Americans, African-Americans, and Euro-Americans; the complicated process by which all Americans together defined and shaped a distinctive national identity and republican culture; and the ongoing challenge for Americans of arriving at a meaningful definition of individual liberty while balancing this commitment to liberty with a parallel commitment to order, community, and the public or common good. Fulfills the Historical Perspective.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HIST 012 - Survey of U.S. History Since 1865
Chronicles the rise of America to world power, focusing on key internal and foreign policy developments and conflict. Private and public life and the diversity of Americans’ experiences are highlighted. Attention is given to general political, social, economic and intellectual developments. Fulfills the Historical Perspective.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
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.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HIST 037 - Nineteenth-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.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 039 - The American Home: Power, Place, and Gender
In order to underscore both the unity and diversity of nineteenth-century cultural life, this course revisits the variety of places Americans called home –middle-class suburban houses to working-class tenements, frontier dugouts to urban settlement houses–while considering the shifting interpretations of these spaces from within and without. Beginning with the rise of home as a haven from the uncertainties of public life, it traces the popular celebration of home as a moral force, notes the movement of domesticity into the public worlds of politics and reform, and concludes with a consideration of home’s relationship with and penetration by and of the marketplace. Fulfills Historial Perspective.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
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?
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
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 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.
Course Designation/Attribute: 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.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 050 - Revolutions in Europe and the Americas
Revolutions have been important in the construction of the world in which we live. These sudden bouts of political, military, and social upheaval not only led to regime change, but in the period from 1688 to 1848 put an end to a world based on privilege and laid the foundations for one that was more egalitarian. Through the lens of both primary and secondary documents, this course will introduce students to the main events that made up the revolutions as well as the concepts that proponents and opponents of revolution in Europe and the Americas discussed.
This course has been designed to introduce entering students to the college-level experience of informed and conceptually-grounded discussion of a major topic in human culture. The writing and speaking skills students develop here will help them meet the expectations of Clark’s liberal arts curriculum. In addition, it will introduce them to the research methodologies employed in the study of History, and provide them with a platform from which to consider their own educational goals.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
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HIST 051 - Introduction to Public History: History Objects
Topic for Fall 2018: This course will introduce you to the study of objects-material culture- as a way to understand the past. Historian Jules Prown defines material culture as “the study through artifacts of the beliefs - values, ideas, attitudes, and assumptions - of a particular community or society at a given time.” Objects provide an invaluable primary source for understanding the past by making the past tangible and understandable in more complex ways. The artifacts of material culture are as varied as the human experience-photographs, toys, letters, clothing, recordings …name just about any object qualifies as material culture.
In this course students will learn how to conduct research on objects as history: what questions to ask, how to answer them, and how to draw conclusions and make broader generalizations about the meaning and significance of an object. After several weeks of readings, discussions, a museum visit, and in-class workshops, each student will select an object represented in a historic photograph collection, research this item and write an essay about the meaning and significance of their item. Essays will be uploaded to the website, “Rediscovering a American Community of Color: The Photographs of William Bullard,” sponsored by Clark University.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every few years
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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.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 060 - American Jesus: Christianity and National Identity in US History
The United States is one of the most religiously diverse countries in the world. It is also one of the most Christian. While church membership continues to decline in Western Europe - the home of Christian culture - American Christianity shows no sign of giving way to the temptations of secular society and the critical inroads of unbelief. The powerful notion of a “Christian America,” informed by biblical ethics and inspired by the promise of divine redemption, sits uneasily with the ideal of social pluralism and cultural modernism that characterizes the American way of life and the historical experience of many Americans. This course undertakes to explore this contradiction. Looking at the development of American Christianity from a variety of different theological, institutional and devotional perspectives, we will examine the political and cultural challenges faced by American-Christian believers and the challenges that the power of their faith continues to present to the values of their non-Christian neighbors.
Course Designation/Attribute: VP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
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HIST 069 - Introduction to Medieval History (400-1400)
This course provides an introduction to the history, civilization, and culture of Western Europe during the Middle Ages (ca. 400-1400), from the “fall” of Rome to the beginning of the Renaissance. By broadly exploring political, social, cultural, and economic developments of this period, we will try to answer the question of what is medieval history and ultimately determine what makes this period unique. Special attention will be devoted to the importance of the Church in shaping “the contested norms” of medieval life, the evolution of new forms of political power, the foundations of new systems of knowledge, and the workings of social and gender hierarchies. The course will focus mainly on Western Europe, but will also consider key developments in the neighboring civilizations of Byzantium and Islam, as well as the influences these civilizations brought to bare on the medieval west. We will also consider modern appropriations of medieval history, from Hollywood to White Power movements. The course will introduce students to basic skills employed by historians including how to analyze primary sources, how to identify and critique scholarly arguments, and how to develop written arguments
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-Annually
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HIST 070 - Introduction to European Histor: Part I, to 1600
Outlines developments of Western society and our collective identity. Presents historical angles–cultural, religious, political, military, economic and social–and integrates these analytical approaches into a coherent, popular narrative. The medieval period is emphasized as the root of modern history. HIST 070 and HIST 071 are parts of a whole, but either course may be taken without the other. Fulfills the historical perspective.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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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.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HIST 080 - Introduction to Modern East Asia
Surveys modern historical trends in China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and India. 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.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP, DI
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.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year.
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HIST 085 - Introduction to African History
This course will cover the history of the African continent, from antiquity to the present era. It will begin with the emergence of early African civilizations and their evolution into kingdoms and empires, focusing on their political organization, culture, and trade. It will then explore the rise of colonialism, the persistence of African societies under colonialism, and African resistance to it. The course will then turn to the emerging independence movements on the continent in the twentieth century, followed by the development of new political states. We will examine the challenges faced by post-colonial societies including the impact of colonial constructions of race. The course will emphasize the experience of African peoples as they built and transformed politically, economically, and culturally across these eras, as well as the ways in which Africans trade networks were situated in global ones. After completing the course, students will be able connect the themes covered in class to a greater understanding of global history and societies, which they can carry to all their areas of study.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP and DI
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
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HIST 087 - Introduction to Ancient History: Rome and the Mediterranean, 1000 BCE-500 CE
Numerous civilizations rose and fell around the Mediterranean Sea during Antiquity, ranging from the Egyptians, Bablyonians, and Hittites, to the Phoenicians, Persians, and Greeks. But one civilization surpassed them all in the size of its dominion and the scope of its influence on later cultures of the West and the world: ROME. In this course we will study the people, politics, and cultures of the ancient Mediterranean from roughly 1000 BCE to 500 CE, with a focus on the Romans from their humble beginnings as a tiny village on the River Tiber to their imperial dominance of much of Europe, the Near East, and North Africa. The coursework emphasizes the analysis and discussion of primary source documents in English translation, and not just those on the greatest statesman, emperors, and conquests of the Roman era, but also on Roman daily life, women and children, sports and medicine. At the end of the course, we will devote special attention to the perennial questions asked by all historians: Why did Rome fall? And what aspects of “Rome” persisted in the Middle Ages and down to this day
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
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HIST 090 - Twentieth-Century Global History
This course examines events and themes in global history over the duration of the 20th century. Topics in the course will include the tension between internationalism and nationalism as seen in the rise of political ideologies like anarchism, socialism, and fascism, the process of global alignment during and after the World Wars and the Cold War, the role of social movements and the mobilization of people for societal change, the idea of the “Third World” and the challenges of decolonization and postcolonial nation building, and the meaning of “globalization.” Within these topical examinations, we consider the lived experience of history alongside the common threads that connect these experiences throughout the globe and to the challenges and opportunities facing our world today.
Fulfills the Global Comparative Perspective.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year.
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HIST 110 - Early Modern Europe
This course will cover the major trends in early modern European history, roughly from 1400-1800, including the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution, the decline of the position of women, and Revolution. Four hundred years and an entire continent is a lot to take on in a single semester. Consequently, while the presentation of material will roughly follow a chronological order, we will be emphasizing certain themes. These will include the rise of the state, the emergence of capitalism and European empires, confessional conflict, class relations, and the growth of “modern” thought.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
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.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP & DI
Anticipated Terms Offered: yearly
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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.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP & DI
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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HIST 116 - Pre-Colonial African History
This introductory course presents a brief overview of the history of Africa and its peoples–from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century. The class will introduce intellectual tools to students for them to intelligently explore key events in African history. In the course, there will be an examination of various aspects of African life, with an emphasis on cultural, societal and demographic themes. It explores the African past through a combination of presentations, texts (“primary” and “secondary” sources), films, arts, and music.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
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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.
Course Designation/Attribute: 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 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.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
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
Course Designation/Attribute: 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.
Course Designation/Attribute: 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.
Course Designation/Attribute: 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.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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HIST 162 - The History of the Modern Middle East 1800 -1925
The collapse of the Soviet Union, the Arab Spring and Syrian Civil War have rocked the political landscape in the world and the Middle East. Today’s nation-states and their boundaries in the region are in question and new nation-states are seeming to emerge. Contours of the region were first shaped by World War I and the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 which dismantled the Ottoman Empire some hundred years ago. This is a crucial point in the history of the region - one that continues to affect it to this day. This course will explore the history of the Middle East from the decline of the Ottoman Empire (early 19th century) until 1925. Major themes include the emergence of revolutionary nationalism among Armenians, Arabs, Kurds and Turks before and after World War I, massacres, ethnic cleansings and genocides against various people of the region; as well as the rise of Zionism and the ensuing Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the emergence of different nation-states in the region. The parameters that were set up in the 1920’s are the origin of today’s problems. Without understanding this period, we cannot understand the Middle East of today.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically.
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HIST 163 - A History of Immigration in the U.S.
Most current political debates surrounding immigration and the role of immigrants in U.S. society have largely focused on the very recent past. This course will attempt to equip students to understand the genesis of such debates, including ideological, economic, and social factors, by exploring the history of immigration in what is now the United States. We will begin with an examination of early settler colonialism, then European immigration, and finally nineteenth and twentieth- century legislative efforts to restrict or shape immigration patterns. Alongside a clear delineation of legislative and policy efforts, the course will likewise consider the ways in which immigrants and immigration have been viewed in popular culture such as movies and music. Using these and other primary source documents, students will analyze the ways in which ideas about progress, modernity, civilization, racialized constructions of the “other,” national identity, and social engineering affect and inform experiences of immigration not only for immigrants themselves but for native citizenry as well.
Course Designation/Attribute: DI
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
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HIST 164 - History of Nationalism: Europe and Beyond
The nation is one of the most powerful social ideas of the modern era. But what are the nations? Are they the eternally constant, fixed entities we often imagine them to be? This course accepts as its point of departure the proposition that nations are not fixed, but rather the contingent and fluid product off specific historical developments in the modern era. The goal is thus to analyze the rise of nations and the rapid spread of nationalist ideologies that espoused them. Particular attention will be given to the historical construction of constitutive components of nationalism, including the political limits of the nation, as well as arguments on ethnic and civic parameters. Instead of focusing on a specific region or chronological period, this course will pursue three goals organized around the common theme of nationalism: First, students will develop a satisfactory definition of “nations” and “nationalism.” Second, they will receive an overview of the historiography of nationalism that introduces relevant theoretical issues and historical debates. Third, it will allow students a glimpse into the processes and phenomena that have shaped modern history from a broader trans-national and even global perspective. Although our “case studies” will mostly cover the European continent, the global context of nationalism will become a primary focus during the final weeks of the course.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
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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?
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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