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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.
Comparative Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine, Fall 2004
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Abstract: A comparative study of the grand strategies and military doctrines of the great powers in Europe (Britain, France, Germany, and Russia) from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Examines strategic developments in the years preceding and during World Wars I and II. What factors have exerted ... More »
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 »
Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature, Spring 2005
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Abstract: Studies important twentieth-century texts from Spain and Latin America that represent the principal fictional genrespoetry, theatre, short story, and the novel. Includes works by Bombal, Lorca, Neruda, Vallejo, Machado, and Garca Mrquez. Taught in Spanish. Subject offered Spring 2003 and Fall 2004.
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 »
Readings in American History Since 1877, Fall 2003
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Abstract: Aims to develop a teaching knowledge of the field through extensive reading and discussion of major works. The reading covers a broad range of topics -- political, economic, social, and cultural -- and represents a variety of historical methods. Students make frequent oral presentations and prepare a ... More »
Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl: Chinese East Asia, Fall 2004
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Abstract: Examines the experiences of ordinary Chinese people as they lived through tumultous change in the twentieth-century. Class discussion focuses on personal memoirs and films. Includes comparisons of the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. 21F.991 is for students pursuing a minor ... More »
Social Movements in Comparative Perspective, Spring 2005
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Abstract: Subject explores why people join mass political organizations and social movements; what accounts for the ultimate success or failure of these organizations; how social movements have altered political parties and institutions. Critically considers a range of theoretical treatments and a variety of national ... More »
Technology and Gender in American History, Spring 2004
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Abstract: This course centers on the changing relationships between men, women, and technology in American history. Topics include theories of gender, technologies of production and consumption, the gendering of public and private space, men's and women's roles in science and technology, the effects of industrialization ... More »
The Conquest of America, Spring 2004
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Abstract: In this course the conquest and colonization of the Americas is considered, with special attention to the struggles of native peoples in Guatemala, Canada, Brazil, Panama, and colonial New England. In two segments of the course-one devoted to the Jesuit missionization of the Huron in the 1630s, the other ... More »
The Creative Spark, Fall 2004
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Abstract: Creative activity (isn't) the icing on the cake. Human creativity is the cake. (Jerry Hirschberg) Creativity - "The mastery of information and skills in the service of dreams" (Hirschberg) - is much prized in the arts, science, business and the classroom. What does the creative process look like? Under ... 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 »
Theories and Methods in the Study of History, Fall 2004
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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 »
Turning the Century
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Abstract: Students will create a museum display illustrating life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.