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America in the Nuclear Age, Fall 2000
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Abstract: American experience at home and abroad from Pearl Harbor to the end of the Cold War. Topics include: America's role as global superpower, foreign and domestic anticommunism, social movements of left and right, suburbanization, and popular culture.
American Consumer Culture, Fall 2001
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Abstract: Examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define the "good life" through consumption, leisure, and material abundance. Explores how such things as department stores, advertising, mass-produced cars, and suburbs transformed the American economy, society, and politics.
Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century, Fall 2002
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Abstract: This class will study some of the changing ideas within modern physics, ranging from relativity theory and quantum mechanics to solid-state physics, nuclear and elementary particles, and cosmology. These ideas will be situated within shifting institutional, cultural, and political contexts. The overall ... More »
European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Spring 2006
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Abstract: From pineapples grown in Hawai'i to English-speaking call centers outsourced to India, the legacy of the "Age of Imperialism" appears everywhere in our modern world. This class explores the history of European imperialism in its political, economic, and cultural dimensions from the 1840s through the ... More »
John Cage and Merce Cunningham: 1942-1992
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Abstract: Essay on the 20th century composer, John Cage
Major English Novels, Spring 2004
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Abstract: Subject studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Austen, Scott, ... More »
Nobel Women
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Abstract: This lesson will focus on women in science, specifically as reflected in the Nobel Prize. This activity will be followed by a discussion of the changing role of women in science (and leadership) throughout the century.
Political Economy of Globalization, Spring 2006
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Abstract: Analyzes the impact of trade and financial flows and regional integration on the domestic politics of advanced industrial states. Pressures for harmonization and convergence of domestic institutions and practices and the sources of national resistance to these are examined. Cases include European Union ... More »
Symphony and Concerto, Spring 2007
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Abstract: A chronological survey of masterpieces of the symphonic literature, ranging from the mid-eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. Includes one work by each major figure. As a participatory subject, students give oral presentations concerning composers and their symphonies. Prior musical score-reading ... More »
Theories and Methods in the Study of History, Fall 2003
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Abstract: Focuses on the development of social and cultural history in the twentieth century since the rise of the Annales school. Topics include: agrarian history; class, race, and gender as historical categories; historical demography, new economic, military, and environmental history; and history on film. Topics ... More »
Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema, Spring 2003
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Abstract: 21F.031 examines the terms "avant garde" and "Kulturindustrie" in French and German culture of the early twentieth century. Considering the origins of these concepts in surrealist and dadaist literature, art, and cinema, the course then expands to engage parallel formations across Europe, particularly ... More »