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AFST 330 Black Europe 6 credits
This course examines the history and experiences of people of African descent and black cultures in Europe. Beginning with early contacts between Africa and Europe, we examine the migration and settlement of African people and culture, and the politics and meaning of their identities and presence in Europe. Adopting a comparative perspective, we consider how blackness has been constructed in various countries through popular culture, nationalism, immigration policy, and other social institutions. We further consider how religious, gender, and immigrant identities inform notions of blackness. We conclude by examining contemporary Black European social movements.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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AFST 330.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Daniel Williams 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 101 Introduction to Art History I 6 credits
An introduction to the art and architecture of various geographical areas around the world from antiquity through the “Middle Ages.” The course will provide foundational skills (tools of analysis and interpretation) as well as general, historical understanding. It will focus on a select number of major developments in a range of media and cultures, emphasizing the way that works of art function both as aesthetic and material objects and as cultural artifacts and forces. Issues include, for example, sacred spaces, images of the gods, imperial portraiture, and domestic decoration.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ARTH 101.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 140 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 101.01 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 101.02 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 101.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤 · Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:60
- M, WBoliou 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 104 9:40am-10:40am
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 101.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 104 10:00am-11:10am
- FBoliou 104 9:50am-10:50am
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ARTH 101.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 101.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 101.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 102 Introduction to Art History II 6 credits
An introduction to the art and architecture of various geographical areas around the world from the fifteenth century through the present. The course will provide foundational skills (tools of analysis and interpretation) as well as general, historical understanding. It will focus on a select number of major developments in a range of media and cultures, emphasizing the way that works of art function both as aesthetic and material objects and as cultural artifacts and forces. Issues include, for example, humanist and Reformation redefinitions of art in the Italian and Northern Renaissance, realism, modernity and tradition, the tension between self-expression and the art market, and the use of art for political purposes.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ARTH 102.01 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 102.02 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 102.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Wendy Sepponen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 102.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤 · Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:60
- M, WBoliou 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 104 9:40am-10:40am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 102.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤 · Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:60
- M, WBoliou 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 104 9:40am-10:40am
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 102.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤 · Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:60
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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ARTH 102.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤 · Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:60
- M, WBoliou 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 104 9:40am-10:40am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 102.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤 · Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:60
- M, WBoliou 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 104 9:40am-10:40am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 102.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 172 Modern Art: 1890-1945 6 credits
This course explores developments in the visual arts, architecture, and theory in Europe and America between 1890 and 1945. The major Modernist artists and movements that sought to revolutionize vision, culture, and experience, from Symbolism to Surrealism, will be considered. The impact of World War I, the Great Depression, and the rise of fascism will be examined as well for their devastation of the Modernist dream of social-cultural renewal. Lectures will be integrated with discussions of artists’ theoretical writings and group manifestoes, such as those of the Futurists, Dadaists, Surrealists, Constructivists, and DeStijl, in addition to select secondary readings.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 172.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 172.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 235 Revival, Revelation, and Re-animation: The Art of Europe’s “Renaissance” 6 credits
This course examines European artistic production in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. The aim of the course is to introduce diverse forms of artistic production, as well as to analyze the religious, social, and political role of art in the period. While attending to the specificities of workshop practices, production techniques, materials, content, and form of the objects under discussion, the course also interrogates the ways in which these objects are and, at times, are not representative of the “Renaissance.”
- Spring 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One Art History course or instructor permission
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ARTH 235.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 235.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 235.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FBoliou 161 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARTH 236 Baroque Art 6 credits
This course examines European artistic production in Italy, Spain, France, and the Netherlands from the end of the sixteenth century through the seventeenth century. The aim of the course is to interrogate how religious revolution and reformation, scientific discoveries, and political transformations brought about a proliferation of remarkably varied types of artistic production that permeated and altered the sacred, political, and private spheres. The class will examine in depth select works of painting, sculpture, prints, and drawings, by Caravaggio, Bernini, Poussin, Velázquez, Rubens, and Rembrandt, among many others.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 236.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 236.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 236.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 161 1:45pm-3:30pm
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ARTH 236.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 240 Art Since 1945 6 credits
Art from abstract expressionism to the present, with particular focus on issues such as the modernist artist-hero; the emergence of alternative or non-traditional media; the influence of the women’s movement and the gay/lesbian liberation movement on contemporary art; and postmodern theory and practice.
- Fall 2018, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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Any one term of art history
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ARTH 240.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 240.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 104 11:30am-12:40pm
- FBoliou 104 11:10am-12:10pm
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ARTH 240.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 247 Architecture Since 1950 6 credits
This course begins by considering the international triumph of architecture’s Modern Movement as seen in key works by Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and their followers. Soon after modernisms rise, however, architects began to question the movement’s tenets and the role that architecture as a discipline plays in the fashioning of society. This course will examine the central actors in this backlash from Britain, France, Italy, Japan, the United States and elsewhere before exploring the architectural debates surrounding definitions of postmodernism. The course will conclude by considering the impact of both modernism and postmodernism on contemporary architectural practice.
- Fall 2019, Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 247.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 247.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 263 European Architectural Studies Program: Prehistory to Postmodernism 6 credits
This course surveys the history of European architecture while emphasizing firsthand encounters with actual structures. Students visit outstanding examples of major transnational styles–including Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Moorish, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical and Modernist buildings–along with regionally specific styles, such as Spanish Plateresque, English Tudor and Catalan Modernisme. Cultural and technological changes affecting architectural practices are emphasized along with architectural theory, ranging from Renaissance treatises to Modernist manifestoes. Students also visit buildings that resist easy classification and that raise topics such as spatial appropriation, stylistic hybridity, and political symbolism.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Architectural Studies in Europe
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Participation in OCS Architectural Studies Program
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ARTH 264 European Architectural Studies Program: Managing Monuments: Issues in Cultural Heritage Practice 6 credits
This course explores the theory and practice of cultural resource management by investigating how various architectural sites and urban historic districts operate. Students will consider cultural, financial, ethical and pedagogical aspects of contemporary tourism practices within a historical framework that roots the travel industry alongside religious pilgrimage customs and the aristocratic tradition of the Grand Tour. Interacting with professionals who help oversee architectural landmarks and archaeological sites, students will analyze and assess initiatives at various locations, ranging from educational programs and preservation plans to sustainability efforts and repatriation debates.
Participation in OCS Architectural Studies Program
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Participation in OCS Architectural Studies Program
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CAMS 211 Film History II 6 credits
This course charts the continued rise and development of cinema 1948-1968, focusing on monuments of world cinema and their industrial, cultural, aesthetic and political contexts. Topics include postwar Hollywood, melodrama, authorship, film style, labor strikes, runaway production, censorship, communist paranoia and the blacklist, film noir, Italian neorealism, widescreen aesthetics, the French New Wave, art cinema, Fellini, Bergman, the Polish School, the Czech New Wave, Japanese and Indian cinema, political filmmaking in the Third World, and the New Hollywood Cinema. Requirements include class attendance and participation, readings, evening film screenings, and various written assignments and exams.
Extra Time required. Evening Screenings.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Winter 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 211.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 211.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 211.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 211.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 211.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 133 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 214 Film History III 6 credits
This course is designed to introduce students to recent film history, 1970-present, and the multiple permutations of cinema around the globe. The course charts the development of national cinemas since the 1970s while considering the effects of media consolidation and digital convergence. Moreover, the course examines how global cinemas have reacted to and dealt with the formal influence and economic domination of Hollywood on international audiences. Class lectures, screenings, and discussions will consider how cinema has changed from a primarily national phenomenon to a transnational form in the twenty-first century.
Extra Time required. Evening Screenings.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 214.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 214.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CAMS 214.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 214.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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CAMS 214.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 214.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CCST 270 Creative Travel Writing Workshop 6 credits
Travelers write. Whether it be in the form of postcards, text messages, blogs, or articles, writing serves to anchor memory and process difference, making foreign experience understandable to us and accessible to others. While examining key examples of the genre, you will draw on your experiences off-campus for your own work. Student essays will be critiqued in a workshop setting, and all work will be revised before final submission. Some use of blended media is also possible.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2023, Spring 2023
- Arts Practice Writing Requirement
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Students must have participated in an off-campus study program (Carleton or non-Carleton) or instructor permission
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CCST 270.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Scott Carpenter 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:50pm-4:50pm
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CCST 270.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Scott Carpenter 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WLanguage & Dining Center 345 1:50pm-4:50pm
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CCST 270.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Scott Carpenter 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WLanguage & Dining Center 335 1:50pm-4:50pm
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CCST 270.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Scott Carpenter 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WLanguage & Dining Center 330 1:50pm-4:50pm
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CCST 270.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Scott Carpenter 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WLanguage & Dining Center 345 1:50pm-4:50pm
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ENGL 114 Introduction to Medieval Narrative 6 credits
This class will focus on three of the most popular and closely connected modes of narrative enjoyed by medieval audiences: the epic, the romance, and the saint’s life. Readings, drawn primarily from the English and French traditions, will include Beowulf, The Song of Roland, the Arthurian romances of Chretien de Troyes, and legends of St. Alexis and St. Margaret. We will consider how each narrative mode influenced the other, as we encounter warriors and lovers who suffer like saints, and saints who triumph like warriors and lovers. Readings will be in translation or highly accessible modernizations.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2022, Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 135 Imperial Adventures 6 credits
Indiana Jones has a pedigree. In this class we will encounter some of his ancestors in stories, novels and comic books from the early decades of the twentieth century. The wilds of Afghanistan, the African forest, a prehistoric world in Patagonia, the opium dens of mysterious exotic London–these will be but some of our stops as we examine the structure and ideology and lasting legacy of the imperial adventure tale. Authors we will read include Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rudyard Kipling and H. Rider Haggard.
- Spring 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 135.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Arnab Chakladar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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ENGL 203 Other Worlds of Medieval English Literature 6 credits
When medieval writers imagined worlds beyond their own, what did they see? This course will examine depictions of the afterlife, the East, and magical realms of the imagination. We will read romances, saints’ lives, and a masterpiece of pseudo-travel literature that influenced both Shakespeare and Columbus, alongside contemporary theories of postcolonialism, gender and race. We will visit the lands of the dead and the undead, and compare gruesome punishments and heavenly rewards. We will encounter dog-headed men, Amazons, cannibals, armies devoured by hippopotami, and roasted geese that fly onto waiting dinner tables. Be prepared. Readings in Middle English and in modern translations.
- Winter 2021, Winter 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 219 Global Shakespeare 3 credits
Shakespeare’s plays have been reimagined and repurposed all over the world, performed on seven continents, and translated into over 100 languages. The course explores how issues of globalization, nationalism, translation (both cultural and linguistic), and (de)colonization inform our understanding of these wonderfully varied adaptations and appropriations. We will examine the social, political, and aesthetic implications of a range of international stage, film, and literary versions as we consider how other cultures respond to the hegemonic original. No prior experience with Shakespeare is necessary.
Second 5 weeks
- Spring 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 219.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 161 10:20am-12:05pm
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2nd 5 weeks
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ENGL 350 The Postcolonial Novel: Forms and Contexts 6 credits
Authors from the colonies and ex-colonies of England have complicated understandings of the locations, forms and indeed the language of the contemporary English novel. This course will examine these questions and the theoretical and interpretive frames in which these writers have often been placed, and probe their place in the global marketplace (and awards stage). We will read writers such as Chinua Achebe, V.S Naipaul, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Salman Rushdie, Nuruddin Farah, Arundhati Roy and Zadie Smith as well as some of the central works of postcolonial literary criticism.
- Winter 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one additional 6 credit English course
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ENGL 350.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Arnab Chakladar 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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EUST 100 Allies or Enemies? America through European Eyes 6 credits
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, America often served as a canvass for projecting European anxieties about economic, social and political modernization. Admiration of technological progress and political stability was combined with a pervasive anti-Americanism, which was, according to political scientist Andrei Markovits, the “lingua franca” of modern Europe. These often contradictory perceptions of the United States were crucial in the process of forming national histories and mythologies as well as a common European identity. Accordingly, this course will explore the many and often contradictory views expressed by Europe’s emerging mass publics and intellectual and political elites about the United States during this period.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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EUST 100.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 303 12:00pm-1:00pm
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EUST 100.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 301 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 301 12:00pm-1:00pm
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EUST 100.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 236 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLeighton 236 11:20am-12:20pm
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EUST 100.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
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EUST 100.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 301 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 301 12:00pm-1:00pm
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EUST 100.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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EUST 159 “The Age of Isms” – Ideals, Ideas and Ideologies in Modern Europe 6 credits
“Ideology” is perhaps one of the most-used (and overused) terms of modern political life. This course will introduce students to important political ideologies and traditions of modern Europe and their role in the development of political systems and institutional practices from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. We will read central texts by conservatives, liberals, socialists, anarchists and nationalists while also considering ideological outliers such as Fascism and Green Political Thought. In addition the course will introduce students to the different ways in which ideas can be studied systematically and the methodologies available.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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EUST 159.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 305 12:00pm-1:00pm
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EUST 159.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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EUST 159.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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EUST 159.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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EUST 159.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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EUST 249 The European Union from Constitution to Crisis 6 credits
It has become commonplace to say that Europe is in crisis – yet what does that mean? It is difficult to overestimate the importance of crises considering that the European Union played a large part in overcoming Europe’s “Long Civil War” between 1914 and 1945. The collective decision-making processes created by European treaties are often credited with bringing peace and prosperity to Europe. Yet they have also instituted idiosyncracies, asymmetries and inequities that stand in the way of solving the continent’s most pressing problems. We will examine decision-making processes in the European Union and the much-debated “democratic deficit” of its institutions. These debates about the foundations of the Union will be rounded off by an overview and brief history of Euroscepticism. The course will include a discussion of a number of case studies that confront member states of the European Union across the board: the reconstruction of the welfare state, immigration and the refugee crisis, and the rise of the far right.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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EUST 249.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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EUST 249.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 236 12:00pm-1:00pm
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EUST 249.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 305 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLeighton 305 11:10am-12:10pm
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EUST 249.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 206 Contemporary Francophone Culture 6 credits
This course aims to improve knowledge of France and the Francophone world and written and oral expression. Through an analysis of texts written by novelist and sociologist Azouz Begag, journalist Françoise Laborde and novelist Maryse Condé, we will discuss various aspects of national, racial and family identity in France.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or equivalent
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FREN 206.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 206.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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FREN 206.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 206.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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FREN 206.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 2:20pm-3:20pm
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FREN 206.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 255 Islam in France: Historical Approaches and Current Debates 6 credits
In this course, students will explore the historical, cultural, social, and religious traces of Islam as they have been woven over time into the modern fabric of French society. Through images drawn from film, photography, television, and museum displays, they will discover the important role this cultural contact zone has played in the French experience. The course will take advantage of the resources of the city of Paris and will include excursions to museums as well as cultural and religious centers.
Requires participation in OCS Program: French and Francophone Studies in Paris
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or the equivalent and participation in Paris OCS program
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FREN 257 French and Francophone Autofiction 6 credits
How to transcribe the self? How is a self created, examined, or reinvented through storytelling? Is cultural context inextricable from self-writing? Our inquiry will be informed by readings from Montaigne, Descartes, Maryse Condé, and the controversial contemporary author Édouard Louis; a film by Agnès Varda; an autofictional graphic novel; and songs by the Franco-Rwandan singer Gaël Faye. During the course of the term, students will also produce their own autobiographical/autofictional projects. Offered at both the 200 and 300 levels, and coursework will be adjusted accordingly.
- Fall 2021
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or the equivalent
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FREN 259 Paris Program: Hybrid Paris 6 credits
Through literature, cultural texts, and experiential learning in the city, this course will explore the development of both the “Frenchness” and the hybridity that constitute contemporary Paris. Immigrant cultures, notably North African, will also be highlighted. Plays, music, and visits to cultural sites will complement the readings.
Requires participation in OCS Program: French and Francophone Studies in Paris
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or the equivalent and participation in OCS Paris program
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FREN 308 France and the African Imagination 6 credits
This course will look at the presence of France and its capital Paris in the imaginary landscape of a number of prominent African writers, filmmakers and musicians such as Bernard Dadié (Côte d’ Ivoire), Ousmane Sembène (Senegal), Calixthe Beyala (Cameroun), Alain Mabanckou (Congo-Brazzaville), Salif Keïta (Mali) and others. The history of Franco-African relations will be used as a background for our analysis of these works. Conducted in French. This course is part of the OCS winter break French Program in Senegal, involving two linked courses in fall and winter terms. This courses is the first in the sequence, students must register for French 246 winter term.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One French course beyond French 204
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FREN 308.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 244 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:10pm-2:10pm
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FREN 308.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 2:20pm-3:20pm
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FREN 308.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 347 Gender and Sexuality in the Francophone World 6 credits
From Marie/Germain Garnier, an early modern trans figure, to the contemporary singer of Christine and the Queens (aka “Chris”), from Senghor’s “Femme noire” to Sylvie Chalaye’s “Corps marron” [brown body], conceptions of gender and sexuality are essential to the study of francophone cultures. We will explore examples of historical and contemporary manifestations of gender and sexuality in France, francophone Africa, Lebanon, and Québec. “GPS” (Genre, Politique, Sexualité), including the intersectional questions of race and class in context, will be analyzed through novels, films, graphic novels, sociological studies, poetry, and music. Conducted in French.
- Fall 2019, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 347.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Cathy Yandell 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 347.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Cathy Yandell 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 353 The French Chanson 6 credits
In Beaumarchais’s oft-cited words, “Everything ends with songs.” This course will study the distinctiveness of French chanson (song) and its unique role in French history and culture especially since the post-World War II years. We will examine the rise of the singer-songwriter; the changing dynamics between lyrics (poetry), music, and performance over time; song categories such as yéyé, the politically engaged song, and the eclectic nouvelle chanson française; rap and slam’s poetic affiliation with chanson; and the clout of the music industry. Artists may include Trenet, Piaf, Gréco, Brel, Ferré, Brassens, Barbara, François, Aznavour, Renaud, Goldman, MC Solaar, Zaz, Stromae.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One French course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 353.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Éva Pósfay 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 1:10pm-2:10pm
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FREN 353.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Éva Pósfay 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 2:20pm-3:20pm
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FREN 357 French and Francophone Autofiction 6 credits
How to transcribe the self? How is a self created, examined, or reinvented through storytelling? Is cultural context inextricable from the writing of a memoir? Such readings as Montaigne, Descartes, Nathalie Sarraute, and Assia Djebar, as well as the films of Agnès Varda and Gillaume Galienne, the graphic novel L’Arabe du futur, and the Franco-Rwandan singer Gaël Faye, will inform our inquiry. During the course of the term, students will also produce their own autobiographical/ autofictional projects.
- Winter 2018, Fall 2021
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One French course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 357.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Cathy Yandell 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 359 Paris Program: Hybrid Paris 6 credits
Through literature, cultural texts, and experiential learning in the city, this course will explore the development of both the “Frenchness” and the hybridity that constitute contemporary Paris. Immigrant cultures, notably North African, will also be highlighted. Plays, music, and visits to cultural sites will complement the readings.
Requires participation in OCS Program: French and Francophone Studies in Paris
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 230 or beyond and participation in OCS Paris program
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FREN 360 The Algerian War of Liberation and Its Representations 6 credits
Over fifty years after Algeria’s independence from France, discourses and representations about the cause, the violence, and the political and social consequences of that conflict still animate public life in both France and Algeria. This class aims at presenting the Algerian war through its various representations. Starting with discussions about the origins of French colonialism in North Africa, it will develop into an analysis of the war of liberation and the ways it has been recorded in history books, pop culture, and canonical texts. We will reflect on the conflict and on its meanings in the twenty-first century, and analyze how different media become memorial artifacts.
- Spring 2020, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One French course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 360.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:00pm-1:00pm
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GERM 221 (re/ex)press yourself: Sexuality and Gender in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Art 6 credits
This course explores German and Austrian literature and art of the turn of the century (c. 1880-1920) with a focus on the topics of sexuality and gender. We will read, among others, Freud, Schnitzler, Wedekind, Hofmannsthal; study artists such as Klimt and Kokoschka; and listen to composers such as Mahler, Zemlinksy, and Schoenberg. Texts and class discussions will be in English.
In Translation
- Spring 2018, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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GERM 221.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Juliane Schicker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
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GERM 221.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Juliane Schicker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:15pm-3:00pm
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GWSS 243 Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe Program: Situated Feminisms: Socio-Political Systems and Gender Issues Across Europe 7-8 credits
This course examines the history and present of feminist and LGBTQ activisms across Western and East-Central Europe. We study the impact of the European colonial heritage on the lives of women and sexual/ethnic minorities across European communities, as well as the legacies of World War II, the Cold War, and the EU expansion into Eastern Europe. Reproductive rights, LGBTQ issues, “anti-genderism,” sex work, trafficking, and issues faced by ethnic minorities are among topics explored. These topics are addressed comparatively and historically, stressing their ‘situated’ nature and considering their divergent sociopolitical national frameworks.
OCS GEP GWSS Program in Europe
- Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Acceptance into the WGST Europe OCS Program required
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GWSS 244 Women’s & Gender Studies in Europe Program: Cross-Cultural Feminist Methodologies 7-8 credits
This course explores the following questions: What is the relationship between methodology and knowledge claims in feminist research? How do language and narrative help shape experience? What are the power interests involved in keeping certain knowledges marginalized/subjugated? How do questions of gender and sexuality, of ethnicity and national location, figure in these debates? We will also pay close attention to questions arising from the hegemony of English as the global language of WGS as a discipline, and will reflect on what it means to move between different linguistic communities, with each being differently situated in the global power hierarchies.
OCS GEP GWSS Program in Europe
- Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Acceptance into the WGST Europe OCS Program required
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GWSS 325 Women’s & Gender Studies in Europe Program: Continental Feminist, Queer, Trans* Theories 7-8 credits
Addressing the impact of Anglo-American influences in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, this course examines European, including East-Central European, approaches to key gender and sexuality topics. It raises questions about the transfer of feminist concepts across cultures and languages. Some of the themes explored include nationalism and gender/sexuality, gendered dimensions of Western and East-Central European racisms, the historical influence of psychoanalysis on Continental feminist theories, the implications of European feminisms in the history of colonialism, the biopolitics of gender, homonationalism, as well as Eastern European socialist/communist theories of women’s emancipation.
OCS GEP GWSS Program
- Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Acceptance to WGST Europe OCS Program
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HIST 100 Exploration, Science, and Empire 6 credits
This course provides an introduction to the global history of exploration. We will examine the scientific and artistic aspects of expeditions, and consider how scientific knowledge–navigation, medicinal treatments, or the collection of scientific specimens–helped make exploration, and subsequently Western colonialism, possible. We will also explore how the visual and literary representations of exotic places shaped distant audiences’ understandings of empire and of the so-called races of the world. Art and science helped form the politics of Western nationalism and expansion; this course will explore some of the ways in which their legacy remains with us today.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2017, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 100.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 301 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 301 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 100.03 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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HIST 100.04 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- M, WWillis 203 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 203 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 100.03 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 303 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 100.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 231 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 231 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 100 Migration and Mobility in the Medieval North 6 credits
Why did barbarians invade? Traders trade? Pilgrims travel? Vikings raid? Medieval Europe is sometimes caricatured as a world of small villages and strong traditions that saw little change between the cultural high-water marks of Rome and the Renaissance. In fact, this was a period of dynamic innovation, during which Europeans met many familiar challenges—environmental change, religious and cultural conflict, social and political competition—by traveling or migrating to seek new opportunities. This course will examine mobility and migration in northern Europe, and students will be introduced to diverse methodological approaches to their study by exploring historical and literary sources, archaeological evidence and scientific techniques involving DNA and isotopic analyses.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2021
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 100.03 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 100.05 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 236 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 236 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 100.05 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 301 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 301 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 137 Early Medieval Worlds 6 credits
Through the intensive exploration of a variety of distinct “worlds” in the early Middle Ages, this course offers an introduction to formative political, social, religious, and cultural developments in Europe between c.300 and c.1050. We will pay special attention to the structures, ideologies, practices, and social dynamics that shaped and energized communities large and small. We will also focus on developing the ability to observe and interpret various kinds of textual, visual, and material primary sources.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 137.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤 · Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLeighton 305 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 305 2:20pm-3:20pm
- M, WLeighton 402 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 402 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 137.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 236 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 236 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe 6 credits
A narrative and survey of the early modern period (fifteenth through eighteenth centuries). The course examines the Renaissance, Reformation, Contact with the Americas, the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment. We compare the development of states and societies across Western Europe, with particularly close examination of the history of Spain.
- Fall 2018, Spring 2021, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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HIST 139.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 139.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 236 1:45pm-3:30pm
- THLeighton 304 1:45pm-3:30pm
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HIST 139.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
- FLeighton 301 9:40am-10:40am
- FLeighton 301 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century 6 credits
This course explores developments in European history in a global context from the final decade of the nineteenth century through to the present. We will focus on the impact of nationalism, war, and revolution on the everyday experiences of women and men, and also look more broadly on the chaotic economic, political, social, and cultural life of the period. Of particular interest will be the rise of fascism and communism, and the challenge to Western-style liberal democracy, followed by the Cold War and communism’s collapse near the end of the century.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 141.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 141.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 141.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 231 Mapping the World Before Mercator 6 credits
This course will explore early maps primarily in medieval and early modern Europe. After an introduction to the rhetoric of maps and world cartography, we will examine the functions and forms of medieval European and Islamic maps and then look closely at the continuities and transformations in map-making during the period of European exploration. The focus of the course will be on understanding each map within its own cultural context and how maps can be used to answer historical questions. We will work closely with the maps in Gould Library Special Collections to expand campus awareness of the collection.
Extra time is required for a one-time map show in the library during 6a which we will schedule at the beginning of term.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
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HIST 231.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WLibrary 344 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 344 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 231.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
- M, WLeighton 303 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 303 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 232 Renaissance Worlds in France and Italy 6 credits
Enthusiasm, artistry, invention, exploration…. How do these notions of Renaissance culture play out in sources from the period? Using a range of evidence (historical, literary, and visual) from Italy and France in the fourteenth-sixteenth centuries we will explore selected issues of the period, including debates about the meaning of being human and ideal forms of government and education; the nature of God and mankind’s duties toward the divine; the family and gender roles; definitions of beauty and the goals of artistic achievement; accumulation of wealth; and exploration of new worlds and encounters with other peoples.
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HIST 232.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 304 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 233 Cultures of Empire: Byzantium, 843-1453 6 credits
Heir to the Roman Empire, Byzantium is one of the most enduring and fascinating polities of the medieval world. Through a wide variety of written and visual evidence, we will examine key features of Byzantine history and culture such as the nature of imperial rule; piety and religious controversy; Byzantium’s evolving relations with the Latin West, Armenia, the Slavic North, and the Dar al-Islam (the Abbasids and Seljuk and Ottoman Turks); economic life; and Byzantine social relations. Extra time may be required for group projects.
Extra Time
- Fall 2019, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 233.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 233.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 305 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 235 Bringing the English Past to (Virtual) Life 6 credits
This course will explore the history of England from the time of the Tudors through the Industrial Revolution, with a particular focus on the history of poverty and social welfare. We will use new technologies to develop innovative ways to teach and learn about the past. Using a specially designed digital archive, students will construct life stories of paupers, politicians and intellectuals. One day per week, the class will work in a computer lab constructing 3-Dimensional, virtual institutions and designing computer game scenarios that utilize their research to recreate the lived experience of the poor.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 235.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤 · Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 138 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 138 12:00pm-1:00pm
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 136 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 235.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 236 The Worlds of Hildegard of Bingen 6 credits
Author, composer, artist, abbess, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) used words, images and sound to share unique mystical experiences with her community and the broader world. At the same time, developments in Christian-Jewish relations, church-state relations, and the arts made the Holy Roman Empire a dynamic environment for religious, cultural, and political innovation. Through close examination of Hildegard’s works (writings, images, and music) and her contemporaries informed by current scholarship, we will investigate this period of creativity, conflict, and possibility, especially for women. Extra time relates to a collaboration with the early music ensemble Sequentia and work with Carleton Special Collections.
Extra time relates to a collaboration with the early music ensemble Sequentia and work with Carleton Special Collections
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HIST 236.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 132 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 238 The Viking World 6 credits
In the popular imagination, Vikings are horn-helmeted, blood-thirsty pirates who raped and pillaged their way across medieval Europe. But the Norse did much more than loot, rape, and pillage; they cowed kings and fought for emperors, explored uncharted waters and settled the North Atlantic, and established new trade routes that revived European urban life. In this course, we will separate fact from fiction by critically examining primary source documents alongside archaeological, linguistic and place-name evidence. Students will share their insights with each other and the world through two major collaborative digital humanities projects over the course of the term.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 238.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 238.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WAnderson Hall 329 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 329 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 238.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 238.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 239 Hunger, Public Policy and Food Provision in History 6 credits
For the first four weeks, the course covers the comparative history of famine, and will be led by internationally renowned economic historian Cormac O’Grada, the 2020 Ott Family Lecturer in Economic History at Carleton College. We examine causes and consequences (political, economic, demographic) and the historical memories of famines as well as case studies from Imperial Britain, Bengal and Ireland. In the second half of term, the course broadens its focus to examine the persistence of hunger and the nature of public policies related to food provision in comparative historical contexts.
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HIST 239.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 244 The Enlightenment and Its Legacies 6 credits
The Enlightenment: praised for its role in promoting human rights, condemned for its role in underwriting colonialism; lauded for its cosmopolitanism, despised for its Eurocentrism… how should we understand the cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment, and what are its legacies? This course starts by examining essential Enlightenment texts by philosophes such as Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, and then the second half of the term focuses on unpacking the Enlightenment’s entanglements with modern ideas around topics such as religion, race, sex, gender, colonialism etc.
- Winter 2022
- International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 244.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 287 From Alchemy to the Atom Bomb: The Scientific Revolution and the Making of the Modern World 6 credits
This course examines the growth of modern science since the Renaissance with an emphasis on the Scientific Revolution, the development of scientific methodology, and the emergence of new scientific disciplines. How might a history of science focused on scientific networks operating within society, rather than on individual scientists, change our understanding of “genius,” “progress,” and “scientific impartiality?” We will consider a range of scientific developments, treating science both as a body of knowledge and as a set of practices, and will gauge the extent to which our knowledge of the natural world is tied to who, when, and where such knowledge has been produced and circulated.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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HIST 287.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 287.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 287.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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HIST 287.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 236 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 287.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 287.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 236 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 332 Image Makers and Breakers in the Premodern World 6 credits
What roles do images play in premodern societies? What are these images thought to be and to do? Why, at particular moments, have certain groups attempted to do away with images either completely or in specific settings? How do images create and threaten communities and how is the management of the visual integrated with and shaped by other values, structures, and objectives? This course will examine these and related questions by looking in depth at image-making and veneration and their opponents in a range of case studies (from the medieval west, Byzantium, Muslim lands, and Protestant Europe) and by examining theoretical discussions of images, vision, and cognition from the fourth through sixteenth centuries. This course is discussion intensive and each student will develop a research project on a topic of their own design.
- Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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Previous history course or instructor consent
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HIST 332.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 341 The Russian Revolution: A Centenary Perspective 6 credits
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the twentieth century. It transformed much beyond Russia itself. This course will take stock of the event and its legacy. What was the Russian revolution? What was its place in the history of revolutions? How did it impact the world? How was it seen by those who made it and those who witnessed it? How have these evaluations changed over time? What sense can we make of it in the year of its centenary? The revolution was both an inspiration (to many revolutionary and national-liberation movements) and used as a tale of caution and admonition (by adversaries of the Soviet Union). The readings will put the Russian revolution in the broadest perspective of the twentieth century and its contested evaluations, from within the Soviet Union and beyond, from its immediate aftermath, through World War II, the Cold War, to the post-Soviet period. The course is aimed at all students interested in the history of the twentieth century and of the idea of the revolution.
- Fall 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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One course in Modern European History or instructor consent
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HIST 341.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 341.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 341.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 346 The Holocaust 6 credits
This course will grapple with the difficult and complicated phenomenon of the genocide of the Jews of Europe. We will explore anti-Semitism in its historical context, both in the German-speaking lands as well as in Europe as a whole. The experience of Jews in Nazi Germany will be an area of focus, but this class will look at European Jews more broadly, both before and during the Second World War. The question of responsibility and guilt will be applied to Germans as well as to other European societies, and an exploration of victims will extend to other affected groups.
- Winter 2020, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 346.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 346.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 347 The Global Cold War 6 credits
In the aftermath of the Second World War and through the 1980s, the United States and the Soviet Union competed for world dominance. This Cold War spawned hot wars, as well as a cultural and economic struggle for influence all over the globe. This course will look at the experience of the Cold War from the perspective of its two main adversaries, the U.S. and USSR, but will also devote considerable attention to South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Students will write a 20 page paper based on original research.
- Winter 2019, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 347.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 347.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 301 10:10am-11:55am
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MELA 230 Jewish Collective Memory 6 credits
Judaism emphasizes transmitting memory from one generation to the next. How have pivotal events and experiences in Jewish history lived on in Jewish collective memory? How do they continue to speak through artistic/literary composition and museum/memorial design? How does Jewish collective memory compare with recorded Jewish history? We will study turning points in Jewish history including the Exodus from Egypt, Jewish expulsion from medieval Spain, the Holocaust, and Israeli independence, as Jews in different times and places have interpreted them with lasting influence. Research includes work with print, film, and other visual/ performative media.
- Winter 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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MELA 230.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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MELA 230.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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MELA 230.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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MUSC 111 Western Art Music: The Last 1000 Years 6 credits
A general overview of art music practices in the European tradition from the medieval period to the present. Students will encounter representative examples from the major style periods-Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern, and contemporary classical. Genres include chant, the madrigal, opera, symphony, and chamber music. Listening assignments introduce students to the music, and reading assignments explain relationships between music and politics, society, and the other arts. Ability to read music not required.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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MUSC 111.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 231 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 231 2:20pm-3:20pm
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MUSC 111.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Caitlin Schmid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 230 9:40am-10:40am
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MUSC 111.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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MUSC 111.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 230 1:15pm-3:00pm
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MUSC 111.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
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MUSC 211 Baroque and Classical Music 6 credits
This course provides an introduction to the music of the Baroque and Classical periods. Students will learn about musical form, expressive conventions such as the doctrine of affections and musical topoi, performance practice, and the social function of music. We will encounter examples from keyboard repertory, dance music (both court ballet and aristocratic social dance), theater music, the symphony, and chamber music.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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MUSC 211.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WOld Music Hall 103 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FOld Music Hall 103 1:10pm-2:10pm
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MUSC 211.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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MUSC 211.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 231 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 231 2:20pm-3:20pm
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MUSC 215 Western Music and its Social Ecosystems, 1830-Present 6 credits
This class expands students’ understanding of Western music by concentrating on the social ecosystem of performers, musicians, and consumer-listeners of both past and present. Students will explore broad themes in music history, such as concepts of sound, materiality, religion, politics, embodiment, and narrative. Through a variety of assignments including listening analyses, creative responses, and a final project, students will develop critical thinking, research, and communication skills to help them be successful in their various musical endeavors.
- Winter 2022, Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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MUSC 215.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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MUSC 215.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 230 9:40am-10:40am
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PE 338 Sports and Globalization in London and Seville: Global Athletics 6 credits
With their rich history and current success, English and Spanish sport will serve as a framework to examine the emergence of contemporary athletics and current issues facing participants, coaches, administrators, and spectators. The course will explore the world of sport and specifically football (soccer) from a generalist’s perspective. London and Seville will provide rich and unique opportunities to learn how sport and society intersect. With classroom activities, site visits, field trips to matches, museums, and stadiums students will examine sport from an historical and cultural perspective while keeping in mind how our globalized world impacts sport. Lastly, we will seek to understand ways athletics can break down barriers and create understanding between others.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Sport and Globalization in London and Seville
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- International Studies
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PHIL 272 Early Modern Philosophy 6 credits
This course offers an introduction to the major themes in European metaphysics and epistemology during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Key issues to be examined include the scope and nature of human knowledge, the relationship between the mind and the body, God, the physical world, causation, and the metaphysical categories of substance and attribute. We will place a special emphasis on understanding the philosophical thought of Rene Descartes, G. W. Leibniz, Anne Conway, and David Hume. Two particular themes will recur throughout the course: first, the evolving relationships between philosophy and the sciences of the period; second, the philosophical contributions of women in the early modern era.
- Spring 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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PHIL 272.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 304 12:00pm-1:00pm
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PHIL 272.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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PHIL 272.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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PHIL 272.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
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PHIL 272.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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PHIL 272.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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PHIL 272.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Hope Sample 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
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PHIL 272.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Hope Sample 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 230 12:00pm-1:00pm
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PHIL 274 Existentialism 6 credits
We will consider the emergence and development of major themes of existentialism in the works of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, as well as “classical” existentialists such as Heidegger, Sartre and De Beauvoir. We will discuss key issues put forward by the existentialist movement, such as “the question of being” and human historicity, freedom and responsibility and look at how different authors analyzed the nature and ambitions of the Self and diverse aspects of subjectivity.
- Fall 2018, Spring 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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PHIL 274.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Anna Moltchanova 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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PHIL 274.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Anna Moltchanova 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 236 11:30am-12:40pm
- FWeitz Center 236 11:10am-12:10pm
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PHIL 274.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Anna Moltchanova 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 120 Democracy and Dictatorship 6 credits
An introduction to the array of different democratic and authoritarian political institutions in both developing and developed countries. We will also explore key issues in contemporary politics in countries around the world, such as nationalism and independence movements, revolution, regime change, state-making, and social movements.
- Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:35
- M, WWillis 204 8:30am-9:40am
- FWillis 204 8:30am-9:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLeighton 305 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 305 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:35
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:35
- M, WWillis 204 8:30am-9:40am
- FWillis 204 8:30am-9:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:35
- M, WWillis 204 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 204 1:10pm-2:10pm
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:35
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:20am-12:20pm
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 8:30am-9:40am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 8:30am-9:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:35
- M, WAnderson Hall 329 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 329 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 305 1:10pm-2:10pm
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 120.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 238 Sport & Globalization London/Seville Pgm: Globalization and Development: Lessons from Int’l Football 6 credits
This course uses international football (soccer) as a lens to analyze topics in globalization, such as immigration and labor, inequality, foreign investment, trade in services, and intellectual property. Students will be presented with key debates in these areas and then use cases from international football as illustrations. Focusing on the two wealthiest leagues in Europe, the English Premier League and the Spanish Liga, students will address key issues in the study of globalization and development, and in doing so enhance their understanding of the world, sports, and sport’s place in the world.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Sport and Globalization in London and Seville
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 244 The Politics of Eurovision 3 credits
At first glance, Eurovision, the decades-long, continent-wide singing contest, is nothing more than a mindless pop culture event. Dismissed as a celebration of (at best) mediocre music, Eurovision seems like it would be the last place to learn about serious politics. In this class, however, we will explore Eurovision as a place where art is deeply political and often engages in debates about gender and sexuality, race, the legacies of colonialism, war and revolution, nationalism, and democracy—not just within the context of the competition itself but how these discussions spill over into broader social and political dynamics.
5 weeks
- Spring 2022, Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 244.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 236 12:00pm-1:00pm
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1st 5 weeks
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POSC 244.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FHasenstab 105 2:20pm-3:20pm
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1st 5 weeks
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POSC 247 Comparative Nationalism 6 credits
Nationalism is an ideology that political actors have frequently harnessed to support a wide variety of policies ranging from intensive economic development to genocide. But what is nationalism? Where does it come from? And what gives it such emotional and political power? This course investigates competing ideas about the sources of nationalism, its evolution, and its political uses in state building, legitimation, development, and war. We will consider both historic examples of nationalism, as well as contemporary cases drawn from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States.
- Fall 2019, Winter 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 247.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 247.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 253 Welfare Capitalisms in Post-War Europe 6 credits
In this course students will explore the different kinds of welfare states that exist in Europe, the political economic and social conditions that made them possible and the debates about their strengths, weaknesses and prospects. We will review the so-called “varieties of capitalism” literature along with key welfare policies such as social insurance, health care, education, unemployment insurance, family and income support, and pensions. Welfare states use combinations of these policies differently to insure citizens against “old” and “new” risks. Finally, the course looks at how welfare regimes have responded of migration, financial, and public health crises.
- Fall 2021, Fall 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 253.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 253.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 255 Post-Modern Political Thought 6 credits
The thought and practice of the modern age have been found irredeemably oppressive, alienating, dehumanizing, and/or exhausted by a number of leading philosophic thinkers in recent years. In this course we will explore the critiques and alternative visions offered by a variety of post-modern thinkers, including Nietzsche (in many ways the first post-modern), Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida.
- Winter 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 255.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 255.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 255.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 233 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 257 Marxist Political Thought 6 credits
A discussion seminar focussed on an in-depth reading of Karl Marx’s “Capital” as well as an exploration of “Marxism after Marx” in the work of Engels, Lenin and Bernstein. The second part of the course will focus on themes raised by Marx in the Political Economy literature today: economic growth and inequality, the role of the state, taxation and redistribution.
- Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 257.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 257.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 265 Capitalist Crises, Power, and Policy 6 credits
This course examines the interaction of national politics and international economic activity. Topics include the relationship between national and international finance, global competitiveness, and economic development. Case studies drawn from every continent.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2023, Fall 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Statistics 120 strongly recommended, or instructor permission
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POSC 265.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 265.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 265.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 114 12:00pm-1:00pm
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Extra Time
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POSC 265.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 265.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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POSC 265.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 235 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 235 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 265.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:40am
- FHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:30am
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POSC 265.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:40am
- FHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:30am
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POSC 268 Global Environmental Politics and Policy 6 credits
Global environmental politics and policy is the most prominent field that challenges traditional state-centric ways of thinking about international problems and solutions. This course examines local-global dynamics of environmental problems. The course will cover five arenas crucial to understanding the nature and origin of global environmental politics and policymaking mechanisms: (1) international environmental law; (2) world political orders; (3) human-environment interactions through politics and markets; (4) paradigms of sustainable development; and (5) dynamics of human values and rules.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2021, Spring 2024
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 268.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 233 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 268.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THAnderson Hall 329 10:20am-12:05pm
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POSC 268.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 002 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 276 Imagination in Politics 6 credits
The course explores the bipolarity of imagination, the fact that imagination can be both a source of freedom and domination in contemporary politics. The main focus of the course is the capacity literature and film have to either increase the autonomous capacity of individuals to engage culture and language in a creative and interactive manner in the construction of their identities, or in a direction that increases their fascination with images and myths and, consequently, the escapist desire to pull these out of the living dialogue with others.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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POSC 276.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 276.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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POSC 276.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 233 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 283 Separatist Movements 6 credits
This course explores the emergence and resolution of separatist movements around the world. While separatist movements are often associated with the violent dissolution of states, not all separatist movements result in violence and not all separatist movements seek independence. We will investigate the conditions under which separatist pressures are most likely to develop and when such pressures result in actual separation. We will contrast the tactics of movements, from peaceful approaches in places like contemporary Quebec or Scotland, to peaceful outcomes like the “velvet divorce” of Czechoslovakia, to violent insurrections in places like the Philippines, Spain, and Northern Ireland.
- Winter 2018, Fall 2020, Winter 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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POSC 283.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 283.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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POSC 283.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 105 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 284 War and Peace in Northern Ireland 6 credits
This class examines the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland between Catholics and Protestants known as “The Troubles.” We will investigate the causes of violence in this region and explore the different phases of the conflict, including initial mobilization of peaceful protestors, radicalization into violent resistance, and de-escalation. We will also consider the international dimensions of the conflict and how groups forged transnational ties with diaspora groups and separatist movements around the world. Finally, we will explore the consequences of this conflict on present-day Northern Ireland’s politics and identify lessons from the peace process for other societies in conflict.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 284.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 114 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 284.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:10am-12:10pm
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POSC 284.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 9:50am-11:00am
- FHasenstab 105 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 352 Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville* 6 credits
This course will be devoted to close study of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, which has plausibly been described as the best book ever written about democracy and the best book every written about America. Tocqueville uncovers the myriad ways in which equality, including especially the passion for equality, determines the character and the possibilities of modern humanity. Tocqueville thereby provides a political education that is also an education toward self-knowledge.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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POSC 352.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 231 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 352.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 352.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 10:20am-12:05pm
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POSC 352.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 109 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 358 Comparative Social Movements* 6 credits
This course will examine the role that social movements play in political life. The first part of the course will critically review the major theories that have been developed to explain how social movements form, operate and seek to influence politics at both the domestic and international levels. In the second part of the course, these theoretical approaches will be used to explore a number of case studies involving social movements that span several different issue areas and political regions. Potential case studies include the transnational environmental movement, religious movements in Latin America and the recent growth of far right activism in northern Europe.
Extra Time
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 358.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWillis 203 1:50pm-3:35pm
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POSC 358.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 1:50pm-3:35pm
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POSC 358.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWillis 204 10:20am-12:05pm
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Extra time
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POSC 358.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 109 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 222 Trauma, Loss, Memory: Holocaust and Genocide 6 credits
Building on the legacy of Holocaust memory and commemoration, this course considers how different losses touch and, in the process, illuminate each other in their similarities and in their differences. It asks questions about what it means to do justice to these legacies. Students will read works by James Young on monuments and memorials, Marianne Hirsch on postmemory, Michael Rothberg on multidirectional memory, and Svetlana Boym on diasporic intimacy and the possibility of connection after traumatic loss. Students will be encouraged to consider a range of texts and legacies of trauma and loss placing them in conversation with course readings.
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RELG 222.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 301 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 231 From Luther to Kierkegaard 6 credits
Martin Luther and the Reformation have often been understood as crucial factors in the rise of “modernity.” Yet, the Reformation was also a medieval event, and Luther was certainly a product of the late Middle Ages. This class focuses on the theology of the Protestant Reformation, and traces its legacy in the modern world. We read Luther, Calvin, and Anabaptists, exploring debates over politics, church authority, scripture, faith, and salvation. We then trace the appropriation of these ideas by modern thinkers, who draw upon the perceived individualism of the Reformers in their interpretations of religious experience, despair, freedom, and secularization.
- Spring 2020, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 231.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLibrary 305 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLibrary 305 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 231.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLeighton 301 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 301 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 329 Modernity and Tradition 6 credits
How do we define traditions if they change over time and are marked by internal conflict? Is there anything stable about a religious tradition—an essence, or a set of practices or beliefs that abide amidst diversity and mark it off from a surrounding culture or religion? How do people live out or re-invent their traditions in the modern world? In this seminar we explore questions about pluralism, identity, authority, and truth, and we examine the creative ways beliefs and practices change in relation to culture. We consider how traditions grapple with difference, especially regarding theology, ethics, law, and gender.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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RELG 329.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 301 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 301 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 329.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 303 9:40am-10:40am
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SPAN 318 Islamic Spain 6 credits
Muslims conquered Spain in 711 and lived in the country roughly until 1614. This course will examine the Islamic origins of Spain from a variety of disciplines, including literature, religion, history, and art history. Topics covered include:Hispano-Arabic literature, the fall of Granada, the repression of Moriscos under Philip II, aljamiado literature (literature written in Spanish with Arabic characters), the expulsion of Moriscos, and the diaspora in Tunisia. We will also devote two weeks to the study of the representation of Turks, Muslims, and Moriscos in Cervantes’ plays and novels, including several chapters of his famous Don Quixote. All texts are in Spanish, including Arab sources by Ibn Hazm, Wallada, Muhya, and other Hispano-Arabic and Morisco writers.
- Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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Spanish 205 or above
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SPAN 318.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Humberto Huergo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 9:40am-10:40am