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ARTH 140 African Art and Culture 6 credits
This course will survey the art and architecture of African peoples from prehistory to the present. Focusing on significant case studies in various mediums (including sculpture, painting, architecture, masquerades and body arts), this course will consider the social, cultural, aesthetic and political contexts in which artistic practices developed both on the African continent and beyond. Major themes will include the use of art for status production, the use of aesthetic objects in social rituals and how the history of African and African diaspora art has been written and institutionally framed.
- Winter 2019, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 140.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 140.02 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- 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 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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CAMS 219 African Cinema: A Quest for Identity and Self-Definition 6 credits
Born as a response to the colonial gaze and discourse, African cinema has been a deliberate effort to affirm and express an African personality and consciousness. Focusing on the film production from West and Southern Africa since the early fifties, this course will entail a discussion of major themes such as colonialism, nationalism and independence, and the analysis of African symbolisms, world-views, and their links to narrative techniques. In this overview, particular attention will be given to the films of Ousmane Sembène, Souleymane Cissé, Mweze Ngangura, Zola Maseko, Oliver Schmitz, Abderrahmane Sissako and many others.
Extra Time
- Spring 2017, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 219.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 219.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 231 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 231 9:40am-10:40am
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EUST 110 The Nation State in Europe 6 credits
This course explores the role of the nation and nationalism within modern Europe and the ways in which ideas and myths about the nation have complemented and competed with conceptions of Europe as a geographic, cultural and political unity. We will explore the intellectual roots of nationalism in different countries as well as their artistic, literary and musical expressions. In addition to examining nationalism from a variety of disciplinary perspectives–sociology, anthropology, history, political science–we will explore some of the watershed, moments of European nationalism such as the French Revolution, the two world wars, and the Maastricht treaty.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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EUST 110.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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EUST 110.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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EUST 110.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 305 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLeighton 305 11:10am-12:10pm
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EUST 110.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 303 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 303 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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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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 239 Banned Books 6 credits
Recent events in France have highlighted the issues of free speech and religious intolerance, among other cultural questions. Some of the most fascinating and now canonized works in French and Francophone literature were once banned because they called into question the political, religious, or moral sensibilities of the day. Even now, books deemed to be subversive are routinely censored in certain Francophone cultures. Through readings of such writers as Rabelais, Voltaire, Sade, Camus, Franz Fanon, Assia Djebar, and Hergé (Tintin), as well as contemporary articles from Charlie Hebdo, we will explore the crucial role of forbidden works in their cultural contexts.
- Winter 2020, Fall 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or equivalent
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FREN 239.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Cathy Yandell 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 243 Cultural Reading of Food 6 credits
Through the thematic lens of food, we will study enduring and variable characteristics of societies in the French and Francophone world, with a comparative nod to the American experience. We will analyze various cultural texts and artifacts (fiction, non-fiction, print, film, and objects) from medieval times to the present with a pinch of theory and a dash of statistics.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
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French 204 or equivalent
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FREN 243.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Christine Lac 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 136 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 136 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 243.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 1:10pm-2:10pm
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FREN 244 Contemporary France and Humor 6 credits
This class is an overview of France’s social, cultural, and political history from 1939 onwards. The core units of this class (WWII, decolonization, May 1968, the Women’s liberation movement, the rise of the National Front, globalization, and immigration) will be studied through their comic representations. Sources for this class will include historical, political, literary and journalistic texts as well as photographs, paintings, videos, blogs, and music. The contrast between comical and non-comical texts and objects will highlight the uses and functions of humor in communicating about history, and illustrate the impact of comic discourses in everyday culture. In French.
- Fall 2020, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or equivalent
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FREN 244.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:20am-12:20pm
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FREN 244.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤 · Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 245 Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean 6 credits
Reading and discussion of literary works, with analysis of social, historical and political issues.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or the equivalent
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FREN 245.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 136 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 245.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 345 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 345 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 340 Arts of Brevity: Short Fiction 3 credits
The rise of newspapers and magazines in the nineteenth century promotes a variety of short genres that will remain popular to the present day: short stories, prose poetry, vignettes, theatrical scenes. In this short course (first five weeks of the term) we’ll study short works by such authors as Diderot, Sand, Balzac, Mérimée, Flaubert, Allais, Tardieu, Le Clézio. Conducted in French.
- Winter 2020, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One French course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 340.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Scott Carpenter 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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1st 5 weeks
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FREN 340.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Scott Carpenter 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 233 1:10pm-2:10pm
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1st 5 weeks
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FREN 341 Madame Bovary and Her Avatars 3 credits
Decried as scandalous, heralded as the first “modern” novel, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (published in 1857) sparked debate, spawned both detractors and followers, and became a permanent fixture in French culture and even the French language. In this five-week course we will read the novel, study its cultural context and impact, and see how it has been variously re-interpreted in film and other media. Conducted in French.
- Fall 2016, Winter 2020, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One French course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 341.00 Fall 2016
- Faculty:Scott Carpenter 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 302 1:50pm-3:35pm
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2nd 5 weeks
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FREN 341.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Scott Carpenter 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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2nd 5 weeks
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FREN 341.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Scott Carpenter 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 233 1:10pm-2:10pm
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2nd 5 weeks
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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 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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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 181 West Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade 6 credits
The medieval Islamic and the European (or Atlantic) slave trades have had a tremendous influence on the history of Africa and the African Diaspora. This course offers an introduction to the history of West African peoples via their involvement in both of these trades from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. More specifically, students will explore the demography, the economics, the social structure, and the ideologies of slavery. They also will learn the repercussions of these trades for men’s and women’s lives, for the expansion of coastal and hinterland kingdoms, and for the development of religious practices and networks.
- Winter 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 181.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 181.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 181.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 184 Colonial West Africa 6 credits
This course surveys the history of West Africa during the colonial period, 1860-1960. It offers an introduction to the roles that Islam and Christianity played in establishing and maintaining colonial rule. It looks at the role of colonialism in shaping African ethnic identities and introducing new gender roles. In addition, we will examine the transition from slave labor to wage labor, and its role in exacerbating gender, generation, and class divisions among West Africans. The course also highlights some of the ritual traditions and cultural movements that flourished in response to colonial rule.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 184.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 235 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 235 1:10pm-2:10pm
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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 243 The Peasants are Revolting! Society and Politics in the Making of Modern France 6 credits
Political propaganda of the French Revolutionary period tells a simple story of downtrodden peasants exploited by callous nobles, but what exactly was the relationship between the political transformations of France from the Renaissance through the French Revolution and the social, religious, and cultural tensions that characterized the era? This course explores the connections and conflicts between popular and elite culture as we survey French history from the sixteenth through early nineteenth centuries, making comparisons to social and political developments in other European countries along the way.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
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HIST 243.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 243.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 301 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 301 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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POSC 251 Modern Political Philosophy: Liberalism and Its Critics 6 credits
Liberalism is the dominant political philosophy of our time. Living in a liberal polity, each of us has been shaped by liberalism. But is liberalism the best political order? Do we even know what liberalism is? What are the strongest arguments in its favor, and what are the deepest criticisms we might level against it? In this course we will examine liberalism’s philosophic roots and engage with some of its most forceful advocates and most profound critics. Our readings will include authors such as Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Mill, and Nietzsche.
- Spring 2018, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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POSC 251.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- M, WWillis 203 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 203 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Cross-listed with POSC 371
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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 278 Memory and Politics 6 credits
The ways in which human societies narrate their past can powerfully impact their politics. It can enhance their capacity to be just or it can undermine it. The fashion in which history is told can help societies avoid conflict and it can heal the lingering memory of previous wars. At the same time, historical narratives can escalate violence and deepen socio-cultural and political divisions, inequality, and oppression. In this course we will learn about the various connections between history and politics by reading the works of G. W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Ricoeur.
- Winter 2019, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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POSC 278.00 Winter 2019
- 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 278.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THAnderson Hall 036 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 348 Strangers, Foreigners and Exiles* 6 credits
The course explores the role that strangers play in human life, the challenges that foreigners create for democratic politics, the promises they bring to it, as well as the role of exiles in improving the cultural capacity of societies to live with difference. We will read texts by Arendt, Kafka, Derrida, Sophocles, Said, Joseph Conrad, Tzvetan Todorov, and Julia Kristeva. Special attention will be given to the plight of Roma in Europe, as a typical case of strangers that are still perceived nowadays as a menace to the modern sedentary civilization.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2020, Winter 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 348.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 348.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 348.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 109 1:15pm-3:00pm
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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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SOAN 256 Africa: Representation and Conflict 6 credits
Pairing classics in Africanist anthropology with contemporary re-studies, we explore changes in African societies and in the questions anthropologists have posed about them. We address issues of representation and self-presentation in written ethnographies as well as in African portrait photography. We then turn from the visual to the invisible realm of African witchcraft. Initiation rituals, war, and migration place selfhood and belonging back in this-world contexts. In-depth case studies include, among others: the Cameroon Grassfields, the Bemba of Zambia, and the Nuer of South Sudan.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Winter 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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The department strongly recommends that Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses numbered 200 or above
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SOAN 256.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 256.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 3:10pm-4:55pm
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SOAN 256.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 395 Ethnography of Reproduction 6 credits
This seminar explores the meanings of reproductive beliefs and practices in comparative perspective. Using ethnographies, it explores the relation between human and social reproduction. It focuses on (but is not limited to) ethnographic examples from the United States/Canada and from sub-Saharan Africa (societies with relatively low fertility and high utilization of technology and societies with mostly high fertility and low utilization of technology). Topics examined include fertility and birth, fertility rites, new reproductive technologies, abortion, population control, infertility, child survival and child loss.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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SOAN 395.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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SOAN 395.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 301 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 395.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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SOAN 395.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 1:15pm-3:00pm