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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with POSI-AREAS2 · returned 42 results

  • 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
    • EUST transnatl supporting crs Posi Area Studies 2 HIST Early Mdrn Europe HIST Pertinent Courses
    • EUST  100.00 Fall 2017

    • Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • M, WLeighton 303 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 303 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • EUST  100.00 Fall 2018

    • Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • M, WLeighton 301 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 301 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • EUST  100.00 Fall 2019

    • Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • M, WLaird 204 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLaird 204 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • EUST  100.00 Fall 2020

    • Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • M, WLeighton 236 11:30am-12:40pm
    • FLeighton 236 11:20am-12:20pm
    • EUST  100.00 Fall 2021

    • Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • EUST  100.00 Fall 2022

    • Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • M, WLeighton 301 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 301 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • EUST  100.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
  • 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
    • Posi Area Studies 2 EUST Core Course FRST Elective French Pertinent Course FFST Social Sci Conc
    • EUST  110.00 Winter 2017

    • Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • EUST  110.00 Winter 2019

    • Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • EUST  110.00 Winter 2021

    • Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 305 11:30am-12:40pm
    • FLeighton 305 11:10am-12:10pm
    • EUST  110.00 Winter 2022

    • Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 303 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 303 12:00pm-1:00pm
  • 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
    • Posi Area Studies 2
    • EUST  249.00 Winter 2017

    • Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
    • EUST  249.00 Winter 2020

    • Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 236 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 236 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • EUST  249.00 Spring 2021

    • Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 305 11:30am-12:40pm
    • FLeighton 305 11:10am-12:10pm
    • EUST  249.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
  • 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
    • Posi Area Studies 2 CCST Regional MARS Core Course EUST transnatl supporting crs HIST Early Mdrn Europe History Atlantic World MARS Supporting Acad Cvc Engmnt/Appl French Pertinent Course FFST Hist & Art Hist Conc FRST Elective History Modern
    • HIST  139.00 Fall 2018

    • Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
    • HIST  139.00 Spring 2021

    • Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THWeitz Center 236 1:45pm-3:30pm
    • THLeighton 304 1:45pm-3:30pm
    • 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
  • 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
    • Posi Area Studies 2 CCST Regional FRST Elective EUST transnatl supporting crs HIST Early Mdrn Europe Political Economy Lower Level French Pertinent Course FFST Hist & Art Hist Conc EUST Core Course
    • HIST  141.00 Spring 2017

    • Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
    • HIST  141.00 Spring 2019

    • Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
    • HIST  141.00 Spring 2022

    • Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
  • HIST 151 History of Modern Japan 6 credits

    This course explores the modern transformation of Japanese society, politics, economy and culture from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 to the present. It is designed to provide students with an opportunity to explore basic issues and problems relating to modern Japanese history and international relations. Topics include the intellectual crisis of the late Tokugawa period, the Meiji Constitution, the development of an interior democracy, class and gender, the rise of Japanese fascism, the Pacific War, and postwar developments.

    • Spring 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2023
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
    • Posi Area Studies 2 Asian Studies Humanities Asian Studies East Asia HIST Asia
    • HIST  151.00 Spring 2017

    • Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
    • HIST  151.00 Winter 2019

    • Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 202 1:15pm-3:00pm
    • HIST  151.00 Winter 2023

    • Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 402 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 402 2:20pm-3:20pm
  • HIST 152 History of Early China 6 credits

    At what point can we talk about the formation of China as an organized political entity? What did it mean to be a Chinese at different points in time? This course is an introduction to the history of China from its beginnings to the end of the Han dynasty in 220. Students will examine the emergence of philosophical debates on human nature, historical consciousness of time and recording, and ritual theories in formation. Students will focus on the interplay between statecraft and religion, between ethnicity and identity, and between intellectual (e.g., Confucianism) and socio-cultural history (e.g., feminine and popular mentalities).

    • Winter 2020, Winter 2024
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
    • East Asian Core Posi Area Studies 2 Asian Studies Humanities Asian Studies East Asia HIST Asia
    • HIST  152.00 Winter 2020

    • Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 301 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 301 2:20pm-3:20pm
    • HIST  152.00 Winter 2024

    • Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 301 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 301 12:00pm-1:00pm
  • HIST 156 History of Modern Korea 6 credits

    A comparative historical survey on the development of Korean society and culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Key themes include colonialism and war, economic growth, political transformation, socio-cultural changes, and historical memory. Issues involving divided Korea will be examined in the contexts of post-colonialism and Cold War. Students are also expected to develop skills to analyze key historical moments from relevant primary sources against broader historiographical contexts.

    • Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Winter 2022
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
    • East Asian Supporting East Asian Core Posi Area Studies 2 Asian Studies Pertinent Asian Studies Disciplinary Asian Studies Humanities Asian Studies East Asia HIST Asia Polisci/Ir Elective
    • HIST  156.00 Spring 2018

    • Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 301 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 301 9:40am-10:40am
    • HIST  156.00 Spring 2020

    • Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 202 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 202 2:20pm-3:20pm
    • HIST  156.00 Winter 2022

    • Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 301 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 301 9:40am-10:40am
  • HIST 161 From the Mughals to Mahatma Gandhi: An Introduction to Modern Indian History 6 credits

    This is an introductory survey course; no prior knowledge of South Asian History required. The goal is to familiarize students with some of the key themes and debates in the historiography of modern India. Beginning with an overview of Mughal rule in India, the main focus of the course is the colonial period. The course ends with a discussion of 1947: the hour of independence as well as the creation of two new nation-states, India and Pakistan. Topics include Oriental Despotism, colonial rule, nationalism, communalism, gender, caste and race. 

    • Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2022
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
    • Posi Area Studies 2 Asian Studies Humanities Asian Studies South Asia HIST Asia South Asia Studies SAST Humanistic Inquiry
    • HIST  161.00 Spring 2017

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
    • HIST  161.00 Spring 2018

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
    • HIST  161.00 Spring 2019

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
    • HIST  161.00 Fall 2019

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
    • HIST  161.00 Fall 2020

    • Faculty:Brendan LaRocque 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WWeitz Center 230 10:00am-11:10am
    • FWeitz Center 230 9:50am-10:50am
    • HIST  161.00 Spring 2022

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
    • HIST  161.00 Fall 2022

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
  • HIST 165 From Young Turks to Arab Revolutions: A Cultural History of the Modern Middle East 6 credits

    This course provides a basic introduction to the history of the wider Muslim world from the eighteenth century to the present. We will discuss the cultural and religious diversity of the Muslim world and its varied interactions with modernity. We will find that the history of the Muslim world is inextricably linked to that of its neighbors, and we will encounter colonialism, anti-colonialism, nationalism, and socialism, as well as a variety of different Islamic movements.

    • Spring 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
    • Posi Area Studies 2 HIST Asia Middle East Studies Foundation Ccst Encounters
    • HIST  165.00 Spring 2018

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THLeighton 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
    • HIST  165.00 Winter 2020

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
    • HIST  165.00 Winter 2022

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THLeighton 305 10:10am-11:55am
    • HIST  165.00 Winter 2024

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THCMC 306 10:10am-11:55am
  • HIST 170 Modern Latin America 1810-Present 6 credits

    This course focuses on the legacy of colonial rule and asks how nascent nation-states dealt with new challenges of political legitimacy, economic development, and the rights of citizens. Case studies from the experiences of individual nations will highlight concerns still pertinent today: the ongoing struggle to extend meaningful political participation and the benefits of economic growth to the majority of the region’s inhabitants, popular struggles for political, economic, and cultural rights, and the emergence of a civic society.

    • Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Winter 2023
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
    • Posi Area Studies 2 LTAM Social Science CCST Regional HIST Latin America LTAM Electives LTAM Pertinent Courses
    • HIST  170.00 Winter 2018

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
    • HIST  170.00 Winter 2019

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 301 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 301 9:40am-10:40am
    • HIST  170.00 Fall 2019

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • T, THLeighton 305 10:10am-11:55am
    • HIST  170.00 Fall 2020

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • M, WWeitz Center 161 10:00am-11:10am
    • FWeitz Center 161 9:50am-10:50am
    • HIST  170.00 Fall 2021

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
    • HIST  170.00 Winter 2023

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLanguage & Dining Center 330 9:40am-10:40am
  • 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
    • Posi Area Studies 2 HIST Africa & Diaspora History Atlantic World FFST Hist & Art Hist Conc French Pertinent Course FRST Elective AMST 1 Term Survey Africana Studies Humanistic in Africana Studies Survey Course
    • HIST  181.00 Winter 2018

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • HIST  181.00 Fall 2019

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
    • HIST  181.00 Fall 2021

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
  • 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
    • Posi Area Studies 2 FRST Elective HIST Africa & Diaspora French Pertinent Course FFST Hist & Art Hist Conc Africana Studies Survey Course Africana Studies Humanistic in History Modern Ccst Encounters
    • HIST  184.00 Spring 2019

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • M, WCMC 301 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FCMC 301 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • HIST  184.00 Winter 2022

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • M, WWeitz Center 235 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FWeitz Center 235 1:10pm-2:10pm
  • HIST 240 Tsars and Serfs, Cossacks and Revolutionaries: The Empire that was Russia 6 credits

    Nicholas II, the last Tsar-Emperor of Russia, ruled over an empire that stretched from the Baltic to the Pacific. Territorial expansion over three-and-a-half centuries had brought under Russian rule a vast empire of immense diversity. The empire’s subjects spoke a myriad languages, belonged to numerous religious communities, and related to the state in a wide variety of ways. Its artists produced some of the greatest literature and music of the nineteenth century and it offered fertile ground for ideologies of both conservative imperialism and radical revolution. This course surveys the panorama of this empire from its inception in the sixteenth century to its demise in the flames of World War I. Among the key analytical questions addressed are the following: How did the Russian Empire manage its diversity? How does Russia compare with other colonial empires? What understandings of political order legitimized it and how were they challenged?

    • Spring 2021, Fall 2023
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
    • Posi Area Studies 2 HIST Early Mdrn Europe EUST Country Specific Course Russian Pertinent POSI Elective Non POSC subjct Russian Elective
    • HIST  240.00 Spring 2021

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WWeitz Center 132 11:30am-12:40pm
    • FWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:10pm
    • HIST  240.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THLeighton 305 10:10am-11:55am
  • HIST 241 Russia through Wars and Revolutions 6 credits

    The lands of the Russian empire underwent massive transformations in the tumultuous decades that separated the accession of Nicholas II (1894) from the death of Stalin (1953). This course will explore many of these changes, with special attention paid to the social and political impact of wars (the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, the Civil War, and the Great Patriotic War) and revolutions (of 1905 and 1917), the ideological conflicts they engendered, and the comparative historical context in which they transpired.

    • Winter 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
    • Posi Area Studies 2 EUST Country Specific Course HIST Early Mdrn Europe Russian Pertinent History Modern
    • HIST  241.00 Winter 2019

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
    • HIST  241.00 Fall 2021

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
    • HIST  241.00 Fall 2022

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
  • HIST 242 Communism, Cold War, Collapse: Russia Since Stalin 6 credits

    In this course we will explore the history of Russia and other former Soviet states in the period after the death of Stalin, exploring the workings of the communist system and the challenges it faced internally and internationally. We will investigate the nature of the late Soviet state and look at the different trajectories Russia and other post-Soviet states have followed since the end of the Soviet Union.

    • Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
    • Posi Area Studies 2 HIST Early Mdrn Europe Russian Pertinent Democracy, Society & State 2
    • HIST  242.00 Winter 2018

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
    • HIST  242.00 Winter 2020

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 305 3:10pm-4:55pm
    • HIST  242.00 Winter 2022

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 304 3:10pm-4:55pm
    • HIST  242.00 Winter 2024

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 304 3:10pm-4:55pm
  • 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
    • Posi Area Studies 2 FRST Elective MARS Core Course HIST Early Mdrn Europe EUST Country Specific Course MARS Supporting History Atlantic World French Pertinent Course FFST Hist & Art Hist Conc
    • HIST  243.00 Spring 2018

    • Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
    • HIST  243.00 Spring 2020

    • Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 301 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 301 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • HIST  243.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLaird 206 10:10am-11:55am
  • HIST 250 Modern Germany 6 credits

    This course offers a comprehensive examination of German history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will look at the German-speaking peoples of Central Europe through the prism of politics, society, culture, and the economy. Through a range of readings, we will grapple with the many complex and contentious issues that have made German history such an interesting area of intellectual inquiry.

    • Spring 2019, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
    • Posi Area Studies 2 HIST Early Mdrn Europe EUST Country Specific Course History Modern
    • HIST  250.00 Spring 2019

    • Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
    • HIST  250.00 Winter 2021

    • Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WAnderson Hall 121 11:30am-12:40pm
    • FAnderson Hall 121 11:10am-12:10pm
    • HIST  250.00 Winter 2023

    • Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
  • HIST 257 Ott Family Lectureship in Economics and History: Chinese Capitalism in Global Perspective 6 credits

    Chosen as the inaugural course to launch Carleton’s new Ott Family Lectureship in History and Economics, this course includes the extended participation of three separate Ott Family Lecturers’ visits. Together, we will explore comparative dimensions of Chinese economic history from the sixteenth century to the present, examine classical and recent scholarship on Chinese economic development, global movement of capital and labor, origins of Chinese capitalism, “world-system” theories, agrarian “involution,” arguments about East Asia’s economic divergence from Europe, and market reforms with “Chinese characteristics.” Christopher Isett (University of Minnesota) will explain how economic historians apply history methods and approaches. Yingjia Tian (Wesleyan) will share his business history case study on 1950’s Shanghai electric companies. Brent Irvin ’94 (Tencent Corporation/China) will discuss the state of the business world in contemporary China. Each Ott Family Lecturer will also present a public talk for the class, campus, and wider community; public talk attendance is a required component of this course.

    Extra time

    • Spring 2019, Fall 2022
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
    • HIST Asia History Modern Posi Area Studies 2 Asian Studies East Asia Asian Studies Humanities
    • HIST  257.00 Spring 2019

    • Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
    • HIST  257.00 Fall 2022

    • Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLibrary 305 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLibrary 305 12:00pm-1:00pm
  • HIST 260 The Making of the Modern Middle East 6 credits

    A survey of major political and social developments from the fifteenth century to the beginning of World War I. Topics include: state and society, the military and bureaucracy, religious minorities (Jews and Christians), and women in premodern Muslim societies; the encounter with modernity.

    • Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
    • Posi Area Studies 2 Ccst Encounters HIST Asia Middle East Supporting Group 1
    • HIST  260.00 Fall 2017

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 304 3:10pm-4:55pm
    • HIST  260.00 Fall 2019

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
    • HIST  260.00 Spring 2022

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 330 3:10pm-4:55pm
    • HIST  260.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 304 3:10pm-4:55pm
  • HIST 263 Plagues of Empire 6 credits

    The globalization of disease is often seen as a recent phenomenon aided by high-speed communication and travel. This course examines the history of the spread of infectious diseases by exploring the connection between disease, medicine and European imperial expansion. We consider the ways in which European expansion from 1500 onwards changed the disease landscape of the world and how pre-existing diseases in the tropics shaped and thwarted imperial ambitions. We will also question how far Western medicine can be seen as a benefit by examining its role in facilitating colonial expansion and constructing racial and gender difference.

    • Spring 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
    • History Environment and Health
    • HIST  263.00 Spring 2017

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • HIST  263.00 Winter 2018

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • HIST  263.00 Spring 2019

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
    • HIST  263.00 Spring 2022

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 236 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLeighton 236 1:10pm-2:10pm
    • HIST  263.00 Spring 2023

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
  • HIST 265 Central Asia in the Modern Age 6 credits

    Central Asia–the region encompassing the post-Soviet states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, and the Xinjiang region of the People’s Republic of China–is often considered one of the most exotic in the world, but it has experienced all the excesses of the modern age. After a basic introduction to the long-term history of the steppe, this course will concentrate on exploring the history of the region since its conquest by the Russian and Chinese empires. We will discuss the interaction of external and local forces as we explore transformations in the realms of politics, society, culture, and religion.

    • Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
    • Posi Area Studies 2 CCST Regional HIST Asia Asian Studies Central Asia Asian Studies Humanities Middle East Supporting Group 1 History Modern
    • HIST  265.00 Fall 2018

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
    • HIST  265.00 Fall 2020

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:27
    • T, THLeighton 304 1:45pm-3:30pm
    • HIST  265.00 Fall 2022

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • HIST 267 Muslims and Modernity 6 credits

    Through readings in primary sources in translation, we will discuss the major intellectual and cultural movements that have influenced Muslim thinkers from the nineteenth century on. Topics include modernism, nationalism, socialism, and fundamentalism.

    • Winter 2023
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
    • HIST Asia Posi Area Studies 2 Asian Studies Humanities Asian Studies Central Asia RELG Islamic Traditions Ccst Encounters Middle East Supporting Group 1 History Modern Polisci/Ir Elective
    • HIST  267.00 Winter 2023

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
    • Through readings in primary sources in translation, we will discuss the major intellectual and cultural movements that have influenced Muslim thinkers from the nineteenth century on. Topics include modernism, nationalism, socialism, and fundamentalism.

  • HIST 270 Nuclear Nations: India and Pakistan as Rival Siblings 6 credits

    At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947 India and Pakistan, two new nation states emerged from the shadow of British colonialism. This course focuses on the political trajectories of these two rival siblings and looks at the ways in which both states use the other to forge antagonistic and belligerent nations. While this is a survey course it is not a comprehensive overview of the history of the two countries. Instead it covers some of the more significant moments of rupture and violence in the political history of the two states. The first two-thirds of the course offers a top-down, macro overview of these events and processes whereas the last third examines the ways in which people experienced these developments. We use the lens of gender to see how the physical body, especially the body of the woman, is central to the process of nation building. We will consider how women’s bodies become sites of contestation and how they are disciplined and policed by the postcolonial state(s).

    • Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
    • HIST Asia Asian Studies South Asia GWSS Additional Credits South Asia Studies Posi Area Studies 2
    • HIST  270.00 Fall 2017

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
    • HIST  270.00 Fall 2018

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • HIST  270.00 Winter 2020

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
    • HIST  270.00 Winter 2022

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
  • 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
    • One course in Modern European History or instructor consent

    • EUST transnatl supporting crs Russian Pertinent POSI Area Studies HIST Early Mdrn Europe Democracy, Society & State 2 Posi Area Studies 2
    • HIST  341.00 Fall 2017

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
    • HIST  341.00 Spring 2020

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
    • HIST  341.00 Spring 2022

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
  • 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
    • HIST Early Mdrn Europe EUST transnatl supporting crs Judaic Studies Pertinent Leadership, Peace, Security 2 Posi Area Studies 2
    • HIST  346.00 Winter 2020

    • Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
    • HIST  346.00 Spring 2023

    • Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
  • 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
    • Leadership, Peace, Security 2 Polisci/Ir Elective HIST Early Mdrn Europe EUST transnatl supporting crs AMST Group II Topical POSI Area Studies History Modern Posi Area Studies 2
    • HIST  347.00 Winter 2019

    • Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
    • HIST  347.00 Fall 2021

    • Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLeighton 301 10:10am-11:55am
  • HIST 360 Muslims and Modernity 6 credits

    Through readings in primary sources in translation, we will discuss the major intellectual and cultural movements that have influenced Muslim thinkers from the nineteenth century on. Topics include modernism, nationalism, socialism, and fundamentalism.

    Not open to first year students. First year students should register in HIST 267.

    • Spring 2019, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
    • At least one prior course in the history of the Middle East or Central Asia or Islam

    • Posi Area Studies 2 Ccst Encounters RELG Pertinent Course Asian Studies Humanities Asian Studies Central Asia HIST Asia RELG Islamic Traditions Middle East Supporting Group 1 History Modern Middle East Supporting Group 1
    • HIST  360.00 Spring 2019

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:20
    • T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
    • HIST  360.00 Winter 2021

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
    • HIST  360.00 Winter 2023

    • Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
  • LTAM 300 Issues in Latin American Studies 6 credits

    This required course for Latin American Studies minors and majors explores complex issues pertinent to the study of Latin America. These issues may include the emergence of indigenous cosmopolitics in the Andean region, the workings of narco states and their networks, and the contemporary urban cultural production in major Latin American cities, among others. The course emphasizes the necessity of a multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research perspective for understanding the changing nature of Latin American Studies today. Designed by the faculty in Latin American Studies, the course will include regular guest lectures from among these faculty.

    • Fall 2017, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
    • International Studies Social Inquiry
    • Latin American Studies gateway course

    • LTAM Required Courses CCST Regional Posi Area Studies 2
    • LTAM  300.00 Fall 2017

    • Faculty:Silvia López 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:35pm
    • LTAM  300.00 Fall 2020

    • Faculty:Silvia López 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
    • FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
    • LTAM  300.00 Fall 2022

    • Faculty:Silvia López 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • M, WWillis 114 1:50pm-3:35pm
  • POSC 122 Politics in America: Liberty and Equality 6 credits

    An introduction to American government and politics. Focus on the Congress, Presidency, political parties and interest groups, the courts and the Constitution. Particular attention will be given to the public policy debates that divide liberals and conservatives and how these divisions are rooted in American political culture.

    • Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2018, 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
    • Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
    • Posi Area Studies 2 AMST 1 Term Survey AMST Group III Topical AFAM Pertinent Courses Polisci/Ir Elective EDUC Cluster 3 Pub Pol&Reform American Studies Survey 1
    • POSC  122.01 Winter 2017

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
    • FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
    • POSC  122.02 Winter 2017

    • Faculty:Richard Keiser 🏫 👤
    • Size:35
    • M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
    • POSC  122.01 Spring 2017

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • M, WWillis 204 8:30am-9:40am
    • FWillis 204 8:30am-9:30am
    • POSC  122.00 Fall 2017

    • Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
    • POSC  122.00 Winter 2018

    • Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • POSC  122.00 Fall 2018

    • Faculty:Richard Keiser 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WWillis 204 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FWillis 204 2:20pm-3:20pm
    • POSC  122.00 Spring 2019

    • Faculty:Richard Keiser 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THCMC 210 1:15pm-3:00pm
    • POSC  122.00 Fall 2019

    • Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
    • Size:35
    • M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • POSC  122.00 Winter 2020

    • Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
    • Size:35
    • M, WWillis 204 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FWillis 204 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • POSC  122.00 Spring 2020

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:35
    • M, WWillis 204 8:30am-9:40am
    • FWillis 204 8:30am-9:30am
    • POSC  122.00 Fall 2020

    • Faculty:Kristin Lunz Trujillo 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WOlin 149 2:30pm-3:40pm
    • FOlin 149 3:10pm-4:10pm
    • POSC  122.00 Winter 2021

    • Faculty:Kristin Lunz Trujillo 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WAnderson Hall 223 1:00pm-2:10pm
    • FAnderson Hall 223 1:50pm-2:50pm
    • POSC  122.00 Spring 2021

    • Faculty:Kristin Lunz Trujillo 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WAnderson Hall 223 10:00am-11:10am
    • FAnderson Hall 223 9:50am-10:50am
    • POSC  122.00 Fall 2021

    • Faculty:Richard Keiser 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • Not Writing Rich

    • POSC  122.00 Winter 2022

    • Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • POSC  122.00 Spring 2022

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • M, WCMC 306 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FCMC 306 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • POSC  122.00 Fall 2022

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:25
    • M, WWeitz Center 235 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FWeitz Center 235 2:20pm-3:20pm
    • POSC  122.00 Winter 2023

    • Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
    • Size:35
    • M, WWeitz Center 133 9:50am-11:00am
    • FWeitz Center 133 9:40am-10:40am
    • POSC  122.00 Spring 2023

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:35
    • M, WWeitz Center 235 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FWeitz Center 235 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • POSC  122.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Ryan Dawkins 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WHasenstab 105 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FHasenstab 105 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • POSC  122.01 Winter 2024

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
    • POSC  122.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:30
    • M, WWeitz Center 230 9:50am-11:00am
    • FWeitz Center 230 9:40am-10:40am
  • POSC 221 Latin American Politics 6 credits

    Comparative study of political institutions and conflicts in selected Latin American countries. Attention is focused on general problems and patterns of development, with some emphasis on U.S.-Latin American relations.

    • Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Fall 2021
    • International Studies Social Inquiry
    • Democracy, Society & State 2 Posi Area Studies 2 CCST Regional LTAM Electives LTAM Pertinent Courses LTAM Social Science Polisci/Ir Elective Ltam Elective Group 2
    • POSC  221.00 Spring 2017

    • Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WWeitz Center 233 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FWeitz Center 233 2:20pm-3:20pm
    • FLAC

    • POSC  221.00 Spring 2020

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:25
    • M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • POSC  221.00 Fall 2021

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:25
    • T, THWillis 204 3:10pm-4:55pm
  • POSC 227 Contemporary Capitalisms 6 credits

    This course examines the intersections between political and economic power: how markets are embedded in social and political institutions and how they in turn shape political life and institutions. It begins with a survey of classic and contemporary theoretical frameworks, followed by an overview of the history of contemporary market economies and the search for “development,” both in the global north as well as the south. It then analyzes the contemporary varieties of capitalism across the globe, with a focus on their varying responses to challenges like globalization, economic crises, technological transformations, and climate change.

    • Spring 2023
    • International Studies Social Inquiry
    • POSI Elective LTAM Social Science LTAM Electives Ltam Elective Group 1 Polisci/Ir Elective CCST Regional Posi Area Studies 2 POSI Elective Non POSC subjct
    • POSC  227.00 Spring 2023

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:25
    • T, THHasenstab 105 3:10pm-4:55pm
  • POSC 242 Middle East Politics 6 credits

    This course introduces the politics and political structures of states in the Middle East. We explore the political origins of Middle Eastern states, and investigate how regional politics are shaped by colonialism, religion, tribes, the family, and more. We examine the persistence of authoritarianism and its links to other issues like nationalism and militarism. The course covers how recent and current events like the revolutionary movements of the ‘Arab Spring’ civil society affect the states and their societies. We conclude with a consideration of the future of Middle Eastern politics, evaluating lingering concerns and emerging prospects for liberalization and reform.

    • Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2024
    • International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
    • Posi Area Studies 2 Democracy, Society & State 2 Polisci/Ir Elective Middle East Studies Foundation
    • POSC  242.00 Winter 2020

    • Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
    • POSC  242.00 Fall 2020

    • Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WWillis 204 10:00am-11:10am
    • FWillis 204 9:50am-10:50am
    • POSC  242.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WCMC 301 9:50am-11:00am
    • FCMC 301 9:40am-10:40am
  • POSC 264 Politics of Contemporary China 6 credits

    This course examines the political, social and economic transformation of China over the past thirty years. Students will explore the transformation of the countryside from a primarily agricultural society into the factory of the world. Particular emphasis will be placed on economic development and how this has changed state-society relations at the grassroots. The class will explore these changes among farmers, the working class and the emerging middle class. Students will also explore how the Chinese Communist Party has survived and even thrived while many other Communist regimes have fallen and assess the relationship between economic development and democratization.

    • Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
    • International Studies Social Inquiry
    • East Asian Supporting Posi Area Studies 2 Asian Studies East Asia Democracy, Society & State 2 Asian Studies Social Science Polisci/Ir Elective POEC Wrld Trade&dev Upper Lvl
    • POSC  264.00 Fall 2018

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:25
    • M, WWillis 211 9:50am-11:00am
    • FWillis 211 9:40am-10:40am
    • POSC  264.00 Fall 2019

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:25
    • M, WWillis 203 9:50am-11:00am
    • FWillis 203 9:40am-10:40am
    • POSC  264.00 Spring 2021

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:25
    • M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
    • FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
    • POSC  264.00 Fall 2021

    • Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
    • POSC  264.00 Fall 2022

    • Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WHasenstab 105 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FHasenstab 105 1:10pm-2:10pm
    • POSC  264.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLibrary 344 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLibrary 344 9:40am-10:40am
  • 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
    • Polisci/Ir Elective Leadership, Peace, Security 2 EUST transnatl supporting crs EUST Country Specific Course
    • POSC  284.00 Winter 2019

    • Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WWillis 114 9:50am-11:00am
    • FWillis 114 9:40am-10:40am
    • 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
    • POSC  284.00 Spring 2023

    • Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WHasenstab 105 9:50am-11:00am
    • FHasenstab 105 9:40am-10:40am
  • POSC 294 Central and Eastern European Politics Program: Perceptions of Otherness in Modern Eastern and Central Europe 6 credits

    Is nationalism fundamentally flawed in its inclusionary capacity? Can the same power of imagination to bring strangers together, which made nation-building possible, be deployed for inventing post-national forms of solidarity? The course will explore representations of strangers and foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century, with a special focus on Roma and Jews. The aim will be to understand how these representations will work to legitimize different forms of exclusionary politics. An important part of the course will explore the role that exiled and displaced people can play in reimagining identities on a cosmopolitan level.

    Participation in Carleton OCS Central & Eastern Europe

    • Spring 2018, Spring 2023
    • International Studies Social Inquiry
    • POSI Elective Democracy, Society & State 2 POSI Area Studies Posi Area Studies 2 Ccst Encounters
    • POSC  294.07 Spring 2018

    • Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • POSC  294.07 Spring 2023

    • Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
  • POSC 295 Central and Eastern European Politics Program: Nation-Building in Central and Eastern Europe between Politics and Art 6 credits

    The state and its cultural politics played a pivotal role in building the Romanian nation. The first part of the course will analyze the difficulties of nation-building in modern Romania, with a special emphasis on the incapacity of Romanian liberalism to prevent the rise of extreme right wing politics. The second part will explore different images of Romanian national identity that art provided both during the communist regime and in the post-1989 decades, also in a comparative perspective with Hungary, Bulgaria, and Serbia. The course will include visits to galleries, architectural sites and neighborhoods in Bucharest and its surroundings.

    Participation in Carleton OCS Central & Eastern Europe

    • Spring 2018, Spring 2023
    • International Studies Social Inquiry
    • POSI Elective Democracy, Society & State 2 POSI Area Studies Posi Area Studies 2 Ccst Encounters
    • POSC  295.07 Spring 2018

    • Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • POSC  295.07 Spring 2023

    • Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
  • POSC 296 Central and Eastern European Politics Program: Challenges to the Nation-State in Eastern and Central Europe: Immigrants and Minorities 6 credits

    How do democracies react when confronted with massive bodies of immigrants? Do the problems that Eastern and Central European countries face in dealing with immigrants reflect deeper challenges to their capacity of thinking of the nation along inclusionary lines? We will explore the legal and political issues that EU countries and their societies, particularly, in Eastern and Central Europe, face when confronted with a migration crisis. Then we will look at Roma’s history of exploitation and injustice in Eastern and Central Europe. The course will include visits with community groups and NGOs, as well as encounters with minority rights activists.

    Participation in Carleton OCS Central & Eastern Europe

    • Spring 2018, Spring 2023
    • International Studies Social Inquiry
    • POSI Elective Democracy, Society & State 2 POSI Area Studies Posi Area Studies 2 Ccst Encounters
    • POSC  296.07 Spring 2018

    • Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • POSC  296.07 Spring 2023

    • Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
  • RELG 152 Religions in Japanese Culture 6 credits

    An introduction to the major religious traditions of Japan, from earliest times to the present. Combining thematic and historical approaches, this course will scrutinize both defining characteristics of, and interactions among, various religious traditions, including worship of the kami (local deities), Buddhism, shamanistic practices, Christianity, and new religious movements. We also will discuss issues crucial in the study of religion, such as the relation between religion and violence, gender, modernity, nationalism and war.

    • Winter 2018, Spring 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2024
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
    • East Asian Core Posi Area Studies 2 Asian Studies Humanities Asian Studies East Asia RELG Buddhist Traditions Religion Breadth
    • RELG  152.00 Winter 2018

    • Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
    • RELG  152.00 Spring 2021

    • Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:45pm-3:30pm
    • T, THLanguage & Dining Center 335 1:45pm-3:30pm
    • RELG  152.00 Fall 2022

    • Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
    • RELG  152.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
  • 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
    • The department strongly recommends that Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses numbered 200 or above

    • Posi Area Studies 2 CCST Regional FRST Elective AFAM Social Inquiry French Pertinent Course FFST Social Sci Conc Africana Stds Social Inquiry Ccst Encounters
    • SOAN  256.00 Spring 2017

    • Faculty:Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
    • SOAN  256.00 Spring 2020

    • Faculty:Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 426 3:10pm-4:55pm
    • SOAN  256.00 Winter 2023

    • Faculty:Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
  • SOAN 257 India Program: Culture and Politics in India 6 credits

    India is a region of immense diversity where more than one billion people live. We will explore social structures in India–through a focus on key areas of everyday life such as family, religion, economy, systems of stratification and social movements. Close attention will be given to religious nationalism, globalization and militarism as dominant trends affecting contemporary India. We will consider: How has India been represented in the Western imagination and why do such representations matter? What are the forces of modernity and tradition in India? What are the similarities and differences in systems of stratification in India and the United States?

    • Winter 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2023
    • International Studies Social Inquiry
    • Posi Area Studies 2 Asian Studies South Asia GWSS Additional Credits SAST Social Inquiry GWSS Elective
    • SOAN  257.07 Winter 2019

    • Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • SOAN  257.00 Fall 2020

    • Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
    • SOAN  257.07 Winter 2023

    • Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • Requires participation in OCS India Program

  • SOAN 353 Ethnography of Latin America 6 credits

    This course explores the origins and development of contemporary lived experiences in Latin America as interpreted through ethnographic works in anthropology. We will examine and analyze the structural processes that have shaped contact among indigenous, European, and non-European immigrants (e.g. African and Asian peoples) in Latin America since the Conquest and through colonial periods to understand today’s Latin American societies. We will pay special attention to the impacts of global capitalist expansion and state formation, sites of resilience and resistance, as well as the movement of Latin American peoples throughout the world today. Course themes will address gender, identity, social organization, indigeneity, immigration, social inequality and environment.

    Not open to students who have taken SOAN 250

    • Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Winter 2022
    • International Studies Social Inquiry
    • The department strongly recommends that Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses numbered 200 or above

    • CCST Regional LTAM Electives LTAM Pertinent Courses LTAM Social Science Posi Area Studies 2 Ltam Elective Group 1
    • SOAN  353.00 Spring 2019

    • Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLeighton 236 3:10pm-4:55pm
    • SOAN  353.00 Spring 2021

    • Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:45pm
    • SOAN  353.00 Winter 2022

    • Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLeighton 426 8:15am-10:00am

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