2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Courses of Instruction
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Film Studies |
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FLM 250 - Contemporary World Cinema 1 course unit
This course offers a selective survey of some of the most cutting-edge films produced around the world in the last 10-20 years, including those that offer sustained insight into specific national cultures and those that are more global in orientation and address the worldwide mixing and mingling of people and cultures. Films explored in this course will likely include Bad Education (Spain), Amores Perros (Mexico), Code Unknown (Austria/France), Chunkging Express (Hong Kong/China), The World (China), A Separation (Iran), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Turkey), The Best of Youth (Italy), Waltz with Bashir (Israel), The Class (France), and District 9 (South Africa), among others. Special attention will be paid throughout to contemporary developments in film style, evolving cultures of film taste and reception, and film art as cultural expression. Open to all students at all levels.
Attendance at weekly film screenings is required.
Meets general academic requirement DE and HU.
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FLM 325 - French New Wave Cinema 1 course unit
This course explores the very rich period in French Cinema during the 1950s and 1960s that is known as the French New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague). Spearheaded by a group of young directors who also wrote their own screenplays (Truffaut, Godard, Malle, Chabrol, Resnais, among others), this movement gave rise to “Le cinema d’auteur” as an innovative and influential way to produce films. To understand this very important film movement, we will study the uses of script, image, and sound in the films themselves with special emphasis on storyline, subplot, and character. We will also pay considerable attention to the cultural and economic contexts in which the films were produced and the biographies of the directors themselves.
Attendance at weekly screenings is required.
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FLM 330 - New Asian Cinemas 1 course unit
This course surveys contemporary cinema in Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, and the Philippines. Though the course addresses seminal developments in national cinematic traditions, such as the postwar Japanese nuclear-horror film Godzilla and the avant-garde Face of Another, it concentrates on films produced in the last 10-15 years. These will likely include the cyber revenge fantasy, Tetsuo Iron Man, from Japan; Hong Kong “new wave” films such as Chungking Express; Jia Zhangke’s Touch of Sin and 24 City, and experimental docudrama on the effects of China’s rapid urban re-development; films that explore directionless Asian youth subcultures (The Power of Kangwon Province and Goodbye South, Goodbye); the pleasantly bewildering Uncle Bonnmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives from Thailand and the relentlessly shocking Oldboy from S. Korea, among others.
Attendance at weekly screenings is required.
Meets general academic requirement DE and HU.
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FLM 332 - Film Cultures of North Africa & the Middle East 1 course unit
This course will focus on the development of national cinematic traditions in Egypt, on the struggle for cultural self-definition in the former French colonies of Algeria and Tunisia, on cinematic representations of post-revolutionary Iran, and on how Arab and Israeli filmmakers address the so-called “question” of Palestine. In order to provide students with a grounding in the film cultures in question, the course will also explore literary works and the commercial, social, and political conditions that inform film production, distribution, and reception.
Attendance at weekly screenings is required.
Meets general academic requirement DE.
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FLM 334 - Bollywood: Indian Popular Cinema 1 course unit
India’s Bombay/Mumbai-based cinema is one of the world’s few challenges to the influence of American film. This course examines the world’s largest film industry with the aim of understanding the place of popular cinema outside of the Hollywood model. We will consider the role of popular film in the development of Indian nationhood, its influence on notions of gender and caste, and its function as a binding influence on the Indian Diaspora.
Attendance at weekly screenings is required.
Meets general academic requirement DE.
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FLM 336 - African American Cinema 1 course unit
This course surveys African American filmmaking from the silent era to the present, along with a few films that represent the broader African Diaspora. In addition, readings put all the films in the context of theoretical discussions concerning what constitutes “Black,” “African,” or “Third Cinema,” politically and aesthetically. As the course proceeds chronologically, it briefly demonstrates images of African Americans in mainstream Hollywood films but focuses primarily on how filmmakers of African descent have sought to respond to mainstream representations and create their own narratives and styles.
Attendance at weekly screenings is required.
Meets general academic requirement DE.
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FLM 348 - Cinema’s Altered States 1 course unit
From the avant-garde to Hollywood blockbusters like The Matrix and Inception, the cinema provides a fertile ground for playing at the edge of narrative and for testing credibility by constructing alternate logic. When films provide the rules of their own reality, spectators and their surrogate characters grope for a foothold of understanding and sanity. This course explores the phenomenon of film experience within the experience of film’s poetic manipulation of “reality”.
Attendance at weekly screenings is required.
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FLM 349 - Film Reviewing 1 course unit
This writing-intensive course focuses on the art of reviewing films for both popular and scholarly outlets. Students will write reviews of classic and contemporary films in a variety of lengths and formats, for different intended audiences. The course will also include extensive practice in editing and re-writing and include weekend trips to local cinemas to review films on short deadlines. Students will create an online archive of all finished work and learn about ways to develop and market their own critical voice.
Attendance at weekly screenings is required.
Meets general academic requirement W.
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FLM 354 - Film Noir 1 course unit
Dark shadows, low-key lighting, unusual camera angles, flashbacks, a sense of paranoia, and males manipulated by sultry, cigarette-smoking, seductive femme fatales characterize film noir, the only typically American film genre after the Western to emerge from Hollywood. Created during the 1940s and 50s, many by Jewish émigrés from Central Europe, film noir is usually considered a combination of German Expressionist cinematic style and the American hard-boiled detective story. This course will examine classic works of the genre within their sociopolitical context and investigate why they were so popular among audiences and were able to violate some rules of the Production Code, why certain actors are inextricably linked to the genre, and why neo-noirs are still being made.
Attendance at weekly screenings is required.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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FLM 360 - Major Filmmakers 1 course unit
This course focuses on one or two major filmmakers and considers repeated and/or developing themes in his or her body of work. While the filmmakers under consideration vary, the course deals with similar questions each time: the validity of the auteur theory as a way of understanding film, the relationships between filmmakers and their art, and the nature of our ideas about art and artistic production.
Attendance at weekly screenings is required.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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FLM 450 - CUE: Film Studies Seminar 1 course unit
Advanced study and analysis of selected areas in film studies designed for majors and other qualified students. Topics may include auteur studies, genre or form studies, national or regional film studies, film theory, or explorations of film and popular culture. Special emphasis is placed on advanced textual and film analysis, scholarly discussion, and writing.
Attendance at weekly screenings is required.
Prerequisite(s): FLM 201 Film History I: 1895-1950 , FLM 202, 204 Film History II: 1950-Present , and COM 240 Introduction to Film Analysis and senior film studies major or permission of the instructor.
Meets general academic requirement W.
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FLM 970 - Film Studies Independent Study/Research
Each independent study/research course is to be designed in consultation with a faculty sponsor.
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French |
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FRN 101 - Elementary French I 1 course unit
An introduction to basic grammar and vocabulary as well as communication skills in French within its cultural contexts. Students will use a variety of authentic texts and media resources to acquire and enhance linguistic skills. The first semester is designed for students with no knowledge of or with a weak background in French, the second for students with limited but residual previous exposure to French. Assignment by placement test. Four class hours per week.
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FRN 102 - Elementary French II 1 course unit
An introduction to basic grammar and vocabulary as well as communication skills in French within its cultural contexts. Students will use a variety of authentic texts and media resources to acquire and enhance linguistic skills. The first semester is designed for students with no knowledge of or with a weak background in French, the second for students with limited but residual previous exposure to French. Assignment by placement test. Four class hours per week.
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FRN 203 - Intermediate French I 1 course unit
An accelerated review of basic French grammar through speaking, reading, writing, and other linguistically appropriate activities. The introduction of more advanced grammatical structures and a variety of authentic texts and multimedia resources will enhance the students’ linguistic skills and sociocultural awareness of the French speaking world. The development of functional skills and communicative ability is emphasized. Students also acquire the linguistic tools needed to continue learning French as it pertains to their fields of interest. Assignment by placement test. Three class hours per week.
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FRN 204 - Intermediate French II 1 course unit
An accelerated review of basic French grammar through speaking, reading, writing, and other linguistically appropriate activities. The introduction of more advanced grammatical structures and a variety of authentic texts and multimedia resources will enhance the students’ linguistic skills and sociocultural awareness of the French speaking world. The development of functional skills and communicative ability is emphasized. Students also acquire the linguistic tools needed to continue learning French as it pertains to their fields of interest. Assignment by placement test. Three class hours per week.
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FRN 301 - Communication & Cultural Understanding 1 course unit
This course provides intensive practice in conversational French, centered on cultural aspects of the French-speaking world. French and Francophone movies serve as the thematic backdrop for in-class discussions, oral presentations, and papers emphasizing correct usage of French linguistic and grammatical structures. This course also focuses on understanding the nuances of advanced French grammar, stylistic expressions, and conversational strategies. Students learn strategies for cultural understanding that will allow them to explore and adapt to modern Francophone cultures.
Offered fall semester
Prerequisite(s): FRN 204 Intermediate French II .
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FRN 304, 306 - Approaches to Textual Analysis 1 course unit
This course emphasizes formal writing skills necessary for advanced courses in French, including critical analysis, information literacy, and research techniques. Advanced grammar study, translation, and vocabulary building are additional aspects of this course, since many of the errors students at this level make in their speaking/writing stem from inaccurate translations from English. Throughout the semester, students will be reading and discussing authentic French and Francophone cultural texts in order to improve upon their ability to engage with and meaningfully respond to the different writing genres studied in the course.
Offered spring semester.
Prerequisite(s): FRN 204 - Intermediate French II
Meets general academic requirement W when offered as 306.
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FRN 310 - French for the Professions 1 course unit
Using applications from the real world, this course introduces students to professional uses of French in France and the francophone world. Contacts with local professionals, both inside and outside of the classroom, allow students to explore the numerous possibilities of using their French linguistic and cultural knowledge beyond the academic arena (such as working for companies with international offices, working with global agencies, providing translation services, working in international law, and so forth). Moreover students will apply the strategies they learned in their French studies to a service-learning project with the Allentown community. This course focuses on acquiring the proper writing, analytical, and oral presentational skills necessary to succeed in a career using French. In addition to linguistic training, students create an on-line portfolio that will prepare them for their future career. Taught in French.
Offered in alternate spring semesters.
Prerequisite(s): FRN 204 Intermediate French II .
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FRN 313 - French Theatre of Resistance 1 course unit
Theater in the French Caribbean (with a focus on Martinique and Guadeloupe) has evolved from servile reproduction of European norms and texts by the béké (white colonist) ruling class in colonial times to a vibrant, multicultural, and decolonizing practice in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries when the islands became administrative departments of France. This class will examine both plays written by French- and Creole-speaking Caribbean playwrights (in English translation) and theoretical works by Black Caribbean intellectuals which will serve as historical and philosophical context for our close readings. We will interrogate the intersections of language (colonial French vs Creole), gender, politics and colonial history with the aesthetic and cultural traditions that inform contemporary French- and French-Creole-speaking Caribbean theater: the creole storytelling tradition, the European cultural patrimony, the Black Liberation and Civil Rights movements in the USA, as well as certain African theatrical and cultural practices. Readings will include Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism and A Tempest, Ina Césaire’s Island Memories, Maryse Condé’s The Tropical Breeze Hotel, Gerty Dambury’s Trames, Simone Schwarz-Bart’s Your Handsome Captain, Edouard Glissant’s Caribbean Discourse, and In Praise of Creoleness by Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant. In English.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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FRN 330 - Introduction to Francophone Studies 1 course unit
This course introduces students to the diverse cultures of the Francophone world and their relationship to France (as the former colonizer) and to each other. Each unit explores the history, culture, and prevailing societal structures of a particular Francophone region (North Africa, the French-speaking Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa) while highlighting its importance within today’s globalized world. In addition to short historical texts, students will also read literature, newspaper articles, listen to music, and watch films that underscore the linguistic, economic, political, and cultural complexities of the French-speaking postcolonial world. Taught in French.
Prerequisite(s): FRN 204 Intermediate French II
Meets general academic requirement DE and HU.
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FRN 333 - France & Asia 1 course unit
In this course, we will focus on cultural encounters between France and Asia. In particular, we will study French and Francophone authors, directors, musicians, manga artists, etc., who have explored in their work the complex relationship between France and Asian countries such as India, China, Japan, and Vietnam from a cultural and political perspective. We will address questions of colonialism, identity formation, gender, and language and will try to situate Franco-Asian cultural exchanges within the larger context of the colonial, postcolonial, and transnational conditions. Taught in English.
Meets general academic Requirements DE and HU
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FRN 335 - The Francophone Arab World 1 course unit
In this course, we will study the cultures, histories, religions, and arts of the francophone Arab world. We will study the history of both the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) and the francophone Mashreq (Lebanon) before, during, and after colonization. Our focus will be on cultural production in the French language and the questions it raises about the multilingual and multicultural realities of the francophone Arab world today. We will build our discussions around the following themes: negotiating plural identities (linguistic, religious, political, and other); situating one’s self within the economic and political complexities of a globalized world; redefining the francophone Arab countries’ relationship with France; war and terrorism; and the Arab Spring. Taught in English.
Meets general academic requirements DE and HU.
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FRN 337 - The French Revolutionary Spirit 1 course unit
French history has long been marked by revolutions of various kinds, the most famous of course being the French Revolution of 1789. What is it about the French political and cultural spirit that has sparked these revolutions? In this course, we will investigate this revolutionary spirit across the centuries, beginning in the eighteenth century and traveling through time into May 1968 and the current strikes and protests that continually appear in the news. We will analyze in particular the cultural medium in which these revolutions occur, such as theatrical presentations, novels, manifestos, pamphlets, newspapers, films, and art. Taught in English.
Meets general academic requirement HU and is a cluster course.
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FRN 341 - French & Francophone Cinema 1 course unit
In this course, we will explore cinema as an artistic expression of international culture. As we trace the history of French film, arriving at current French and Francophone cinema, we will analyze the historical and cultural context of these films while examining the formal and stylistic elements of this visual art - in other words, we will be exploring content and form. We will view films (subtitled in English) from France, Africa, North America, and Western Europe, presenting new voices and perspectives of the Francophone world through film. All film viewings will take place outside of class. No previous training in Film studies is required. Taught in French.
Prerequisite(s): FRN 204 Intermediate French II
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FRN 343 - Family, Sexuality, & Gender in the Francophone World 1 course unit
This course will trace the evolution of family formations in France, Québec, francophone Africa, and the French Caribbean from the 1950s to the present day through the study of French-language films. In particular, we will be looking at the definition of what a family is as intricately linked to the larger socio-historical context within which distinct gender and sexual identities are articulated and performed. We will be reading a number of authentic cultural documents (newspaper articles, excerpts from memoirs, interviews, poetry, narrative, essays, etc.) that will help us better contextualize our understanding of the films viewed. Taught in French.
Prerequisite(s): FRN 204 Intermediate French II
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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FRN 417 - Negotiating Identity in Contemporary France 1 course unit
This course examines the situation of French residents, especially youth, whose family immigrated to France from North and Sub-Saharan Africa, the French-speaking Caribbean, and Asia. They frequently find that they are caught between two worlds, struggling to be accepted as fully French, but wanting to understand their African, Caribbean, or Asian cultural heritage. Often not considered French, despite their French citizenship, they suffer from racial prejudice, whether on the streets, in the workplace, or in the education system. In addition to these difficulties are the clashes between the culture of their parents’ native countries and the principles and values of the French Republic. Through an examination of novels by contemporary authors, several sociological studies, bande dessinée and films, students will come to understand the complexities involved in defining what it means to be “French” in France today. Taught in French.
Prerequisite(s): FRN 301 Communication & Cultural Understanding and FRN 304, 306 Approaches to Textual Analysis
Meets general academic requirements DE, HU, and W.
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FRN 418 - Francophone Communities in North America 1 course unit
This course will examine the evolution of French-speaking communities in North America, beginning with the founding of Québec in 1608 and following with the subsequent migrations into New England, Louisiana, and the Midwest. By studying historical documents as well as literary texts, music, folktales, and films, students will analyze how the French have helped shape the United States and Canada. Students will also explore personal connections to the Francophone communities in New England, allowing them to better understand the importance of personal narrative within larger literary and cultural traditions. Taught in French.
Prerequisite(s): FRN 301 Communication & Cultural Understanding and FRN 304, 306 Approaches to Textual Analysis
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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FRN 420 - Myth & Memory in Quebec 1 course unit
In this course students will explore the founding and development of Quebec, focusing particularly on the themes of memory and myth in the creation of Québec’s identity. Québec’s motto, “Je me souviens” (I remember) clearly establishes this pattern of relying on memory - and the myths that evolve from those memories - in order to distinguish the Québécois cultural identity from the surrounding anglophone majority. Students will explore political speeches, cultural artifacts, literary texts, films, and media within their historical and cultural context, arriving at an understanding of today’s culturally vibrant and diverse Québec. Taught in French.
Prerequisite(s): FRN 301 - Communication & Cultural Understanding and FRN 304, 306 - Approaches to Textual Analysis
Meets general academic requirements HU and W.
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FRN 422 - Popular Literature & Culture in the Francophone World 1 course unit
In this course we will read current best-selling novels in France or another Francophone country (focus will alternate with each rotation of the course), exploring the cultural, historical and sociological issues manifested in each author’s perception of his or her society. Where available, we will compare the film adaptations of these novels with the written form, analyzing the implications of the cinematic choices made by the directors. Individual research and theoretical discussions will help students arrive at a deeper understanding of the cultural practices and perspectives of modern French or Francophone societies. Taught in French.
Prerequisite(s): FRN 301 Communication & Cultural Understanding and FRN 304, 306 Approaches to Textual Analysis
Meets general academic requirements HU.
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FRN 424 - Francophone Women Writers of Africa & the Caribbean 1 course unit
This course examines texts written by French-speaking women writers from Africa and the Caribbean, exploring ways in which these writers seek to identify themselves in relation to their male counterparts as well as to the predominantly European literary models available to them. The degree to which these writers choose to accept or reject these literary traditions suggests certain cultural perspectives unique to the post-colonial Francophone world. Our analyses will include historical and cultural overviews of each region and reflect upon the representation of contemporary gender issues in these literary works. Taught in French.
Prerequisite(s): FRN 301 Communication & Cultural Understanding and FRN 304, 306 Approaches to Textual Analysis
Meets general academic requirements DE, HU, and W.
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FRN 426, 427 - Paris Through the Ages 1 course unit
This course will explore the mythic icon of Paris throughout the ages, beginning from its foundation and continuing to contemporary society. Through various media, including novels, poetry, theater, film, and music, we will analyze the cultural and political importance of Paris in French society. Discussions and readings will also include Paris’ relationship with the global Francophone world, investigating its role within a post-colonial context. Taught in French.
Prerequisite(s): FRN 301 Communication & Cultural Understanding and FRN 304, 306 Approaches to Textual Analysis
Meets general academic requirement HU (and W when offered as 427).
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FRN 428 - Globalization & the Legacy of Empire in the Francophone World 1 course unit
In this course, we will study the rise, fall, and legacy of the French Empire from the middle of the nineteenth century through the decolonization era to the postcolonial financial, political, and cultural institutions that govern France’s relationship with francophone countries in today’s globalized world. Through the study of historical, anthropological, sociological, and literary texts, film, music, and the arts, we will explore the following themes: the economic and political pressures that made the imperial project viable in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the rise of anti-Semitism in France and its relevance to larger debates on Empire and race; the military, social, and cultural role French colonies played in both World Wars; post-World War II independence movements within the context of the Cold War; and finally, the specific challenges with which the processes of globalization have presented different areas of the francophone world in the last thirty years (debt, civil war, migrations, women’s rights issues, etc.). Taught in French.
Prerequisite(s): FRN 301 Communication & Cultural Understanding and FRN 304, 306 Approaches to Textual Analysis
Meets general academic requirements HU and W.
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FRN 430 - Strangers, Foreigners, & Others 1 each course unit
The theme of the class is representations of Otherness, Strangeness, and Alterity in the French-speaking world from the Middle Ages to the present day. We will be looking at figures of the “Other” not only as strangers, outsiders, or outcasts, but also as the articulation of difference within ourselves as individuals or members of a community. This course will invite students to think of otherness, foreignness, and alienation in culturally and historically defined ways. It will also encourage them to think critically about rhetorical and thematic specificities as we consider otherness in texts belonging to different genres. Taught in French.
Prerequisite(s): FRN 301 Communication & Cultural Understanding and FRN 304, 306 Approaches to Textual Analysis
Meets general academic requirements HU.
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FRN 490 - CUE: French Research Project 0.5 course unit
In their senior year, students majoring in French must complete a CUE (culminating experience) project in a 400-level class in the major. The CUE experience will include a research paper and a formal presentation. The research project should bridge the content from at least two upper-level courses in French. Students prepare a project proposal to be approved by a CUE faculty advisor and receive 0.5 credits for successful completion of their research projects.
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FRN 970 - French Independent Study/Research
Each independent study/research course is to be designed in consultation with a faculty sponsor.
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Geography |
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GEO 101, 102 - World Geography 1 course unit
This course offers an introduction to the basics of physical and cultural geography, including climate, vegetation, landforms, language, economy, and religion and the study of physical and cultural geographical features of the various regions of the earth. In addition, it examines human, theoretical, and physical geographic structures of world regions while questioning thoughts and experiences with and of geographic understandings. The course intentionally integrates investigation of educational systems and geographic curriculum into geographic inquiry.
When offered as 102, meets the cluster requirement, the general academic requirements SL and DE, and is a linked (IL) course.
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German |
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GRM 101 - Elementary German I 1 course unit
An introduction to basic grammar and vocabulary as well as communication skills in German within its cultural contexts. Students will use a variety of authentic text and media resources to acquire and enhance linguistic skills. The first semester is designed for students with no knowledge of or with a weak background in German, the second for students with limited but residual previous exposure to German. Assignment by placement test. Four class hours per week plus Language Learning Center assignments.
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GRM 102 - Elementary German II 1 course unit
An introduction to basic grammar and vocabulary as well as communication skills in German within its cultural contexts. Students will use a variety of authentic text and media resources to acquire and enhance linguistic skills. The first semester is designed for students with no knowledge of or with a weak background in German, the second for students with limited but residual previous exposure to German. Assignment by placement test. Four class hours per week plus Language Learning Center assignments.
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GRM 203 - Intermediate German I 1 course unit
An accelerated review of basic German grammar through speaking, reading, writing, and other linguistically appropriate activities. The introduction of more advanced grammatical structures and a variety of authentic text and multimedia resources will enhance the students’ linguistic skills and sociocultural awareness of the German speaking world. The development of functional skills and communicative ability is emphasized. Students also acquire the linguistic tools needed to continue learning German as it pertains to their fields of interest. Assignment by placement test. Three class hours per week plus Language Learning Center assignments.
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GRM 204 - Intermediate German II 1 course unit
An accelerated review of basic German grammar through speaking, reading, writing, and other linguistically appropriate activities. The introduction of more advanced grammatical structures and a variety of authentic text and multimedia resources will enhance the students’ linguistic skills and sociocultural awareness of the German speaking world. The development of functional skills and communicative ability is emphasized. Students also acquire the linguistic tools needed to continue learning German as it pertains to their fields of interest. Assignment by placement test. Three class hours per week plus Language Learning Center assignments.
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GRM 255, 256 - Berlin in Film 1 course unit
This course will examine the cinematic representation of the cosmopolitan metropolis Berlin from the 1920s to the present. Students will look at characteristic films from the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the Allied occupation, the divided country, and post-unification Germany. Offering a chronological overview of German film art set in Berlin, the course will explore how the mass medium of cinema reflected, influenced, and commented on the historical, cultural, and political developments in Germany. Students will investigate major cinematic movements, styles, innovations, genres, and directors. They will also be introduced to some major film theories and criticism. Taught in English.
Meets general academic requirement HU (and W when offered as 256).
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GRM 257 - Freud’s Vienna 1 course unit
Using Carl E. Schorske’s Fin-de-Siecle Vienna as a starting point, this course will explore the literature, art, architecture, and social sciences as indicators of social and cultural transformation in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Vienna. After beginning with a brief historical and cultural overview of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the course will focus on the progression from Austrian liberalism to modernism. Some of the topics to be investigated are the Ringstrasse and the modern architecture of Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos; the failure of liberalism and the resulting political and artistic secessions, such as Theodor Herzl’s Zionism as a reaction to Austrian anti-Semitism and the Secession artists such as Gustav Klimt and their interrelationship with the Wiener Werkstatte arts and crafts movement; the new paradigms by Freud and Mach for understanding reality and how instinct, the irrational, and empiriocriticism are presented in the literary works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Arthur Schnitzler (Freud considered Schnitzler his Doppelganger, whose novellas and dramas present the same problems that the former had diagnosed in his patients and his time period); expressionism in art (Schiele and Kokoschka). These social and artistic strands will be synthesized to produce a richer understanding of the dynamic relationship between the arts and social sciences. This course covers some literary works, artworks, and films that deal with mature subject matter, such as human sexuality. Students will be expected to study and discuss these works in a mature manner.
Meets general academic requirement HU and is a cluster course and a linked (IL) course.
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GRM 301 - German Conversation & Composition 1 course unit
Exercises in spoken and written German designed to increase accuracy and freedom and facility of expression. Topics of contemporary interest will be selected for presentation and discussion.
Prerequisite(s): GRM 204 Intermediate German II .
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GRM 303 - Advanced German Conversation & Composition 1 course unit
Continuation of GRM 301. Advanced exercises in spoken and written German, including the study of idiomatic expressions, review of persistent grammatical difficulties, and stylistic analysis.
Prerequisite(s): GRM 301 - German Conversation & Composition .
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GRM 313 - Sex & Death/German Stage 1 course unit
This course aims to give students a background in the literary history of German drama with an emphasis on significant plays written between the 1770s and the present. Major plays of the Enlightenment, Storm and Stress, Classicism, Naturalism, fin de siècle Vienna, Expressionism, the post-war period, and the present will be discussed in their literary and historical contexts. Taught in English.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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GRM 316, 317 - German Cinema 1 course unit
A survey of German films from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to contemporary works with special emphasis on the Golden Age of Weimar cinema and the so-called New German Cinema (Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, and Sanders-Brahms). Through a close analysis of these films, the student will gain an understanding and appreciation of cinematic techniques as well as the cultural, social, and political background which shaped these works. Taught in English.
Meets general academic requirement HU (and W when offered as 317).
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GRM 351 - German Literature in Translation I 1 course unit
Readings and discussion of selected masterpieces of German literature from the medieval period to the age of Naturalism. Concentration on major works of literature which have influenced the course of development of German literary history, thought, and culture. Introduction to the terminology as well as the methods and techniques of literary analysis. Emphasis on the development of a sense of appreciation of literature as art. Taught in English.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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GRM 353 - German Literature in Translation II 1 course unit
Readings and discussion of selected masterpieces of German literature from the age of Naturalism to the present. Concentration on major works of literature which have influenced the course of development of German literary history, thought, and culture. Emphasis on genres, themes, traditions, reading sensitivity, and personal response. Taught in English.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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GRM 412 - German Prose 1 course unit
A survey of German prose. Close readings and interpretations of selected short stories, Novellen, and novels from Goethe to Grass. Taught in German.
Prerequisite(s): GRM 301 German Conversation & Composition .
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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GRM 970 - German Independent Study/Research
Each independent study/research course is to be designed in consultation with a faculty sponsor.
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HBW 101 - Elementary Hebrew I 1 course unit
An introduction to basic grammar and vocabulary as well as communication skills in Hebrew within its cultural contexts. Students will use a variety of authentic text and media resources to acquire and enhance linguistic skills. The first semester is designed for students with no knowledge of or with a weak background in Hebrew; the second is for students with limited but residual previous exposure to Hebrew. Assignment by placement test. Four class hours per week plus Language Learning Center assignments.
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HBW 102 - Elementary Hebrew II 1 course unit
An introduction to basic grammar and vocabulary as well as communication skills in Hebrew within its cultural contexts. Students will use a variety of authentic text and media resources to acquire and enhance linguistic skills. The first semester is designed for students with no knowledge of or with a weak background in Hebrew; the second is for students with limited but residual previous exposure to Hebrew. Assignment by placement test. Four class hours per week plus Language Learning Center assignments.
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HBW 203 - Intermediate Hebrew I 1 course unit
An accelerated review of basic Hebrew grammar through speaking, reading, writing, and other linguistically appropriate activities. The introduction of more advanced grammatical structures and a variety of authentic text and multimedia resources will enhance the students’ linguistic skills and sociocultural awareness of the Hebrew speaking world. The development of functional skills and communicative ability is emphasized. Students also acquire the linguistic tools needed to continue learning Hebrew as it pertains to their fields of interest. Assignment by placement test. Three class hours per week plus Language Learning Center assignments.
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HBW 204 - Intermediate Hebrew II 1 course unit
An accelerated review of basic Hebrew grammar through speaking, reading, writing, and other linguistically appropriate activities. The introduction of more advanced grammatical structures and a variety of authentic text and multimedia resources will enhance the students’ linguistic skills and sociocultural awareness of the Hebrew speaking world. The development of functional skills and communicative ability is emphasized. Students also acquire the linguistic tools needed to continue learning Hebrew as it pertains to their fields of interest. Assignment by placement test. Three class hours per week plus Language Learning Center assignments.
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HBW 430 - Hebrew Literature in Translation 1 course unit
A survey of Hebrew literature from the post-biblical era of the second century B.C.E. to the period of emergent modernism in the seventeenth century C.E. Readings embrace the genres of prose fiction, drama, and selections from the Talmud and medieval and religious prose, poetry, and prayers.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HBW 970 - Hebrew Independent Study/Research
Each independent study/research course is to be designed in consultation with a faculty sponsor.
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History Courses in History are numbered as follows:
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100 - 149 |
Acquaint beginning students with the academic study of history. |
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200 - 299* |
Concentrate on broad chronological studies of countries and regions. |
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300 - 399* |
Examine more focused topics or themes in history. |
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400 - 449 |
Reading Seminar in History and |
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450 - 499 |
Research Seminar in History are capstone experiences open only to majors and minors |
*200 and 300 level courses are not distinguished from each other by degree of difficulty or assumed background knowledge.
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HST 100-149 - Introduction to History 1 course unit
Using a topical approach, this course will introduce the student to the study of history. The course will develop critical, analytical, and writing skills using historical data and methods. Each course will consider historical developments in time, introduce the student to different modes of historical study, familiarize the student with appropriate primary and secondary sources, and encourage an appreciation of the diversity of the historical past. Topics will be announced and described in the course information each semester.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 101 - Introduction to History: Democracy in America 1 course unit
When the French aristocrat Alexis deTocqueville visited the United States in the 1830s he was impressed by the degree of democracy he observed. For most modern-day Americans, however, democracy is something we too often take for granted. This course, which broadly examines American history from colonial times to the present, explores the establishment and growth of democracy in America, as well as the significant threats it sometimes faced. Topics include colonial demography, forms of government, slavery, social classes and economic democracy, and wartime propaganda.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 102 - Introduction to History: Representation of Disabilities in America 1 course unit
This course will examine how disabilities have been defined in American culture, historically, educationally, and in terms of social policy and medical models. How disabilities have been represented and in some instances misrepresented across time and populations will be analyzed through multiple perspectives, including those of history, education, psychology, sociology, and media. Students will explore these issues through scholarly readings, literature, documentaries, and film.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 103 - Introduction to History: African History Through Film 1 course unit
This course explores transformations in African history through the lens of film. Throughout the course of the semester, we will examine key themes in African history, including African empires and civilizations, the Atlantic trade, the carving of Africa, the rise of African nationalisms, independence, neocolonialism, and contemporary social and political movements. In addition to exploring Africa’s complex past, we will consider the ways Africa and Africans have been depicted to audiences and the consequences of such portrayals. We will interrogate stereotypes about Africa in film and identify historical, social, economic, political, and cultural forces at play in the making and marketing of films about Africa and Africans.
Meets general academic requirements HU and DE.
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HST 104 - Introduction to History: Reformers & Radicals in U.S. History 1 course unit
This course will examine Americans who, individually and in groups, offered radical alternatives to accepted patterns of social and political thought and behavior from early America to the twentieth century. Key questions will include: What have been the achievements and limitations of different approaches to effecting change in American culture and society? How have reformers and radicals been portrayed in works of art from fiction to film? Why has American culture valorized some radicals and vilified others? What can the ideas and actions of activists tell us about the broader contours of American history? About race, gender, and class in America? About social change? About justice?
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 105 - Introduction to History: Modern European History 1 course unit
This course offers a one-semester introduction to the History of Europe and the development of European Civilization from the late Middle Ages to the present. It will focus on issues and problems in European history and try to explore major trends in the development of European thought and society and the growth of the modern state. After a two-week introductory section examining some ideas of ‘history’ as a discipline of study, the course will spend roughly two weeks on each century from the fifteenth to the twentieth. In the process, we will focus on the Hundred Years War, the Bubonic Plagues and Great Schism of the late Middle Ages, and the concurrent rise of ‘national monarchies’; the Renaissance and Humanism; Luther, Calvin, and the Protestant Reformation; the growth of the modern state and the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century; the Enlightenment and political and social revolutions of the eighteenth century; the industrialization of Europe and development of nationalistic and revolutionary ideologies in the nineteenth century; and the world wars of the twentieth century.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 107 - Introduction to History: China’s Magical Creatures (and Where to Find Them) 1 course unit
A cultural history of the strange in pre-modern China. How did the Chinese people explain the existence of ghosts, demons, immortals, fox spirits, unicorns and many other strange creatures? What do the encounters between humans and these creatures tell us about the pre-modern Chinese worldview, and how much of that tradition is still alive in China now?
Meets general academic requirement HU and DE.
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HST 108 - Introduction to History: World War I & the Twentieth Century 1 course unit
As the Twentieth Century draws to a close, the century as a whole seems to have certain themes: social revolution, emergence of national states, the development of mass wealth and political participation, the appearance and then, seemingly, the passing of global conflict. Why did these develop in the Twentieth Century? Can they be traced to a common source? This course will look at the origin of these developments by examining the impact of the First World War (1914-1918) on individuals and on the social and political order.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 109 - Introduction to History: Gender & Jim Crow 1 course unit
This course explores the advent of Jim Crow in the American South when southern politicians took away the right to vote from African American men and imposed the stringent racial and social code of segregation in southern society. In our study of the period, we will ask: “Why did Jim Crow emerge?” and “How did southern men and women exercise power of participation in southern society in that framework?” We take a particularly close look at how rhetorical strategies and ideas about womanhood and manhood shaped the transition. Frequent writing assignments inclusive of analytical essays and analyses of primary sources will help you to develop your own perspectives on the development of Jim Crow as well as evaluations of the utility of gender as a category of analysis for interpreting political transformations.
Meets general academic requirement HU and DE.
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HST 111 - Introduction to History: Holocaust in Cinema 1 course unit
Film is one of the primary means by which people across the world come to think about the Holocaust. And the cinematic representation of the Holocaust is deeply inscribed by historians’ and popular conceptions of the Holocaust contemporary to each film. Our study of Holocaust film, therefore, is necessarily a study of the history of the Holocaust, the history of its changing representation, and the great debates on its origins, development, and impacts. Students will devote most of the semester to examination of films on the Shoah from six countries. The films of the United States, Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, and Poland will allow us to compare and contrast different nation’s memories of these events and to explore the surprising controversies that surround popular representation of the Holocaust.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 112 - Introduction to History: Movie-Made America 1 course unit
Since their invention in the late nineteenth century, movies have both reflected and helped to shape our understanding of the American nation. Through selected readings in secondary and primary historical sources, and through careful analysis of feature films, this course seeks to explore both how our understanding of American history has been reflected in these forms of popular entertainment and how the films have helped shape our view of the nation.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 113 - Introduction to History: The Birds & The Bees 1 course unit
This course offers an introduction to the history of reproduction in the United States from the colonial period to the present. Topics include histories of birth control, fertility, sex education, pregnancy, maternal and fetal health, gynecology, and childbirth. We will explore tensions between individuals, community groups, the medical profession, and government agencies regarding sexual and reproductive health in the United States. We will also examine how medical and public health knowledge and practice have changed over time. An important part of this course will be to question how religious, socio-economic, and racial status influenced the reproductive lives of men and women throughout American history.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 115 - Introduction to History: Disorderly American Cities 1 course unit
Katrina and 9/11 represent shocking urban disorder. Congestion, frustration, and violence currently plague American cities. Are these problems endemic to urban living? What are the sources of disruption? Is disorder necessary and sometimes desirable for positive change? What larger social, economic, political, diversity, and international issues have contributed to urban tensions? This course explores the history of U.S. urban disorder in several key periods, and may include: 1) riotous Philadelphia in the 1820s-1840s; 2) the city of the nineteenth century - Chicago - from the great fire to the riots of 1919; 3) the imagined city of Los Angeles from World War II to the urban racial violence in the 1960s and 1990s. We will end with New York City since its revitalization after the 1970s to 2001.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 116 - Introduction to History: Pop Culture & Politics: Africa 1 course unit
This course centers on the role of popular culture in modern Africa and how different avenues of expression and consumption reflect and engage in discussions of globalization, politics, diplomacy, and change on a global stage. Specifically, this course focuses on the changing nature of the continent of Africa as it relates to larger global issues from approximately 1800 to the present. Throughout the semester, we will delve into continuity and change in Africa, but also how African individuals and communities respond to popular culture as a space of leisure and activism. Thus, this course will address oral traditions, music, art, dance, literature, and dress as a way of exploring African expression, colonialism, decolonization, neocolonialism, globalization, various issues in the continent of Africa in the past and present. Students will grapple with global political, economic, and cultural trends and how these factors influenced the making of modern Africa. Similarly, students will also consider how Africa and Africans contributed (and continue to contribute) to global discourses on development, modernity, and politics in this increasingly interconnected world.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 117 - Introduction to History: Mediterranean Encounters 1 course unit
The Mediterranean Sea has long been the arena for interactions between the peoples and cultures of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. This course will explore the changing diplomatic, military, economic, and cultural relationships in the Mediterranean during the Early Modern period. Particular focus will be on the encounters between the Ottoman Empire and its European counterparts. Readings will emphasize the experiences of both European and Ottoman travelers, merchants, captives, soldiers, and diplomats.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 118 - Introduction to History: American Women in the mid-Twentieth Century 1 course unit
Women were encouraged to give up jobs for a bread winner in the 1930s, seen as Rosie the Riveters during World War II, encouraged to become suburban housewives in the 1950s, participated in the sexual revolution in the 1960s, and became liberated in the 1970s. This course focuses on the lived experiences of American women in the mid-twentieth century. We will go beyond the cliches about women in those decades to see the depth and breadth of women’s experiences. We will read memoirs, analyze films, and listen to women’s voices to understand the complex and diverse lives of American women.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 119 - Introduction to History: Frontiers in History 1 course unit
This course uses the frontier as an excellent perspective from which to study history – an approach that is particularly useful when placed in a comparative context. The course will first examine the theoretical and historiographic study of frontiers, including Frederick Jackson Turner’s ‘Frontier Thesis’ of American history and its critics, attempts to apply Turner’s ideas to other parts of the world, Owen Lattimore’s work on Inner Asia, and recent anthropological studies of frontiers and colonial expansion. This will be followed by an analysis of specific problems and cases from a variety of cultures and historic periods, including frontiers in ancient Rome; frontier conflicts in medieval Spain and England; the interactions between the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires in the early modern period; European expansion in North America and Southern Africa; ethnicity and identity among frontier populations; and depictions of frontiers in literature and film.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 122 - Introduction to History: African Freedom Fighters 1 course unit
This course offers an introduction to African activists and liberation movements from the nineteenth century to the present. We will examine the personalities, politics, and struggles of key African activists, intellectuals, and artists. By examining Andre Matsoua, Ashley Kriel, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Kwame Nkrumah, Diana Ferrus, and many others, we will analyze political and social transformations and the making of contemporary Africa.
Meets general academic requirements HU and DE.
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HST 124 - Introduction to History: Half the Sky: Women in Chinese History 1 course unit
Where are the women in Chinese history? Men dominate the pages of most textbooks and surveys of Chinese history: emperors, generals, and scholar-officials are the ones making history. Yet “Women hold up half the sky,” as chairman Mao said, and there were female warriors, historians, poets, artists, rulers, and one even proclaimed herself “Emperor”. This course uncovers that hidden half of Chinese history. Using primary sources in translation, including many written by women, this course traces the story of women from the early traditional patriarchal society up to the twentieth century.
Meets general academic requirement HU and DE.
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HST 126 - Introduction to History: Coming to America 1 course unit
It is a cliché, but also true, that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants. In this course, we will use the words of immigrants themselves, alongside the voices of scholars, to consider the ways that immigrants’ choices and experiences were shaped by, and in turn shaped, the social, cultural, political, and legal climate of American life from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Central questions for the semester will include: what drew immigrants to America? How did their ideas of the U.S. measure up against the reality of their experiences? How have immigrants been received in American life? What has motivated the major political and legal debates about immigration, and how have those debates changed (or not) over time?
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 130 - Introduction to History: America’s Consumer Nation 1 course unit
Modern America is a nation of consumers. Not only do we purchase products to use, but we also define our political, social, and personal identity through the consumption of goods and services. This course explores the evolution of America’s consumer ethos from the early ideal of thrift and industry to the current ‘I need to buy it now’ mentality. U.S. consumer history has been shaped by wars, the frontier experience, depressions, the growth of downtowns and shopping malls, industrialization and deindustrialization, the evolution of advertising and credit, the global economy, as well as by gender, race and class. In this course, we will analyze the history of America through the eyes of our buying habits.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 131 - Introduction to History: World War & Memory 1 course unit
The course examines the memory and commemoration of the two world wars, with an emphasis on European memories. Students will study the political, social, and cultural construction of both personal and national memories during and after the wars. We will read about and discuss the fierce debates regarding major political decisions, personal initiatives, the experience of war, and issues of personal and national guilt and responsibility for war crimes.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 134 - Introduction to History: Immigrants to America since 1890 1 course unit
This course surveys immigrant groups and their struggles to acculturate within the United States in language, education, and social mores. Acculturation to the diversity of the U.S. society was often limited and still limits newcomers and their children who experience prejudice that misjudges their intelligence and abilities, especially within the English only mentality of the United States. In this course we read accounts written by first generations of a wide range of immigrant groups recounting their lives adapting to American language, culture, education, and social traditions. Students will experience the lives of immigrants through memoir, family stories, and media representations of the ethnicities in film and documentaries. We will aim to recapture the lives of those who postponed and still seek full membership in the benefits of American society for the hopes of their families in the future. We are a nation of immigrants and therefore it is important to know how the diversity of our history enriched and shaped us.
Meets general academic requirement HU and is a linked (IL) course.
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HST 135 - Introduction to History: Latin American History Through Women’s Eyes 1 course unit
This course will examine women’s ways of telling history through a comparative study of memoirs and fiction and political and economic histories of Latin America written by and about women. This approach will take into account religious, racial, class, and ethnic differences and reflect on the hybridization of cultures born out of native, European, and African cultures. The course will begin with an examination of broader issues of women’s history such as alternative subjects, sources, and periodizations.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 136 - Introduction to History: Nazi in Popular Imagination 1 course unit
The course examines the Nazi in popular novels and films and assesses these images in light of past and recent historical scholarship. Students will analyze how war, foreign policy, domestic conflicts, the Holocaust, national guile, national pride, and popular culture shaped different countries’ representations of the Nazi.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 137 - Introduction to History: People and their stuff in Chinese History 1 course unit
From fine paintings and calligraphy in imperial collections to everyday household items like chopsticks and tea cups, and from the Great Wall to the small needle of the magnetic compass, objects and the way people interacted with them tell us much about China’s past. This course explores the historical context of some of the most iconic objects of Chinese history, and traces the link between China’s traditional material culture and the present. We also look at how attitudes towards objects and their historical significance have changed through the centuries.
Meets general academic requirements HU and DE.
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HST 139 - Introduction to History: Visual Culture in Latin America 1 course unit
This course explores how Latin American personal and national identities are formed and expressed through visual mediums, such as film, caricatures, sketches, paintings, photography, and the written word from the point of European contact to the present. Through selected images and text, we will explore how images are transmitted, consider how Latin Americans project and receive images of themselves, and trace change over time. Materials for the course include political cartoons from and about Latin America and a text that examines images of race and ethnicity in Brazil. Identifying what images and texts reveal (and obscure), this course considers the creation of nations through race, ethnicity, gender, and politics.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 141 - Introduction to History: Reacting to the Past: Race & Power 1 course unit
This course focuses on major political transitions in history with a specific focus on race. We will use the Reacting to the Past model of LARPing (Live Action Role Playing) to think through historical processes, ideas, and structures. Students will complete three multi-week simulations over the course of the semester. Students will receive a character role at the beginning of each simulation; some of these characters are prominent historical figures, while others are composite characters based on age and social positions of important sectors of a given society. Each character has specific goals to achieve that correspond to a political or social position in the specified country during a time of conflict. Students will rely on primary and secondary sources to guide their actions in each simulation as they strive to achieve their victory objectives. Students will read a range of sources, strengthen their close reading skills, and put their analytical and acting skills into action through discussions, debates, performances, and negotiations. The three simulations are: Red Clay, 1835: Cherokee Removal and the Meaning of Sovereignty, Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945, and The Collapse of Apartheid and the Dawn of Democracy in South Africa.
Meets general academic requirement HU and DE.
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HST 143 - Introduction to History: Epidemic America 1 course unit
This course examines American history through the prism of epidemic diseases from the 1721 smallpox epidemic in Boston to the AIDS epidemic at the end of the twentieth century. How society and culture responded to these crisis points in American history reveals much about the changes in America from the early eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century. The course will explore how epidemic diseases have had an impact on religion, science, medicine, the rise of the city, sanitation, public health, and civil rights.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 144 - Introduction to History: Music/Civil Rights Movement 1 course unit
African American activism and agitation for racial equality profoundly impacted the social, political, and cultural histories of the United States. This course will introduce students to the history of the black freedom struggle with particular focus on the years between 1954 and 1968. African American musical expression during the years under consideration in this course offers a particularly powerful lens through which to examine the issues, events, and individuals of the period. Although music has been an essential element of the struggle since coded field songs were used to transmit information among the slave communities, it took on a more overtly activist tenor during the Modern Civil Rights Movement. No longer shrouded in code, music forthrightly declared its clear intention of rallying support and inspiring specific strategies and tactics to overcome Jim Crow. The music of folk artists like the Freedom Singers, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and Odetta will be included but particular emphasis will be given to the works of jazz artists such as John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Max Roach, and Thelonius Monk. Music will be played, discussed, and analyzed during each class period.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 146 - Introduction to History: Sexuality in U.S. History 1 course unit
This course is based on the central idea that sexuality is a social category that is historically specific and changes over time and place. To this end, this course examines sexuality in history from the period of early colonization to contemporary America. Broadly, the course includes four main objectives: to read primary and secondary sources that reflect a variety of ways in which sexuality has been discussed in education, religion, law, government, medicine, science and popular culture; to consider popular attitudes and responses to these discussions and their relationship to other social relations and forms of social difference such as race, gender, and class; to obtain a basic understanding of the processes of historical change that create different conceptions of sexuality; to gain greater insight into the relationship between past and present meanings of sexuality.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 147 - Introduction to History: Popular Culture in Latin America 1 course unit
Examining the culture ‘of the people’ of Latin America, this course explores a wide spectrum of ‘popular’ practices located outside the realm of ‘high culture,’ including samba, carnivals, folk ritual and magic, oral narratives, sports, and televised soap operas, or telenovelas. By underscoring broad and diverse cultural production, this course demonstrates how popular culture facilitated mobilization and resistance of the people. It also examines western influences, portrayals of race, class, gender, and how state regulation of culture influenced these processes.
Meets general academic requirement HU and DE.
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HST 149 - Introduction to History: Remembering the American Revolution 1 course unit
This course will examine the history of the American Revolution and its lasting resonances in American culture and politics. We will begin by briefly examining the Revolution itself and the ways that it changed - and failed to change - American politics, culture, and society. Then, we will look at some ways that the story of the Revolution was remembered, retold, fictionalized, and even spoofed during the first century after its conclusion. Using sources ranging from newspapers to novels, we will look at the war as moral lesson, as myth, as farce, and as powerful touchstone for a number of social and political movements from anti-slavery and women’s rights to labor activism and partisan politics.
Meets general academic requirement HU.
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HST 400-449 - CUE: Reading Seminar in History 1 course unit
A reading seminar devoted to an in depth examination of an historical topic or era. Topics of seminars will vary and will be announced prior to registration. Required of all history majors and minors. Students must register for the corresponding research seminar in the following semester to satisfy the requirements for the history major or minor.
History Majors and Minors ONLY
Prerequisite(s): Any two history courses.
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HST 450-499 - CUE: Research Seminar in History 1 course unit
A research and writing seminar, paired with a CUE: Reading Seminar in History, that provides students with the opportunity to engage in significant independent research on an aspect of the readings seminar topic. This seminar will also address different approaches to history, the nature and types of historical sources, bibliographic aids in research, general research skills, the authenticity and reliability of sources, and the techniques and processes of various types of historical writing. Required of all history majors and minors.
History Majors and Minors ONLY
Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of the CUE: Reading Seminar in History paired with the CUE: Research Seminar.
Meets general academic requirement W.
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HST 209, 210 - Africa Since 1800 1 course unit
This course is a survey of processes of historical change in sub-Saharan Africa from the nineteenth century to the present. We will explore the final decades of the Atlantic slave trade, the rise of colonial rule, the fraught process of decolonization, neo-colonialism and the Cold War, and historicize contemporary issues in Africa. Students will analyze how Africans participate in discussions about race, gender, sexuality, politics, and change on local, regional, and global levels. By examining key historical texts in the field, music, art, and literature, this course will introduce students to the diversity of experiences that define the rich and complex history of Africa.
Meets general academic requirements HU and DE (and W when offered as 210).
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HST 259 - Korean History
This course surveys the history of Korea from the earliest times to the present. With a focus on primary sources (in translation) this course explores changes in Korea’s long history in society, politics, economy, culture, literature and arts. Topics will include origin myths, the spread of Buddhism, the complex relations with China and Japan through the centuries, as well as the Korean war and the split between North and South Korea, and the globalization of Korean pop culture. Appropriate for students with no prior college level history.
Meets general academic requirements HU and DE.
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HST 267 - Introduction to Traditional Japan 1 course unit
This course surveys the traditional culture and history of Japan down to the beginning of modernization. Major topics are the court culture, the samurai, and the culture of the townspeople. Appropriate for students with no prior college level history.
Meets Department pre-Modern Requirement
Meets general academic requirement DE and HU.
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HST 269 - Introduction to Traditional China 1 course unit
Introduction to Traditional China surveys the culture, society, and political institutions of China before the onset of modernization. Pre-imperial China, traditional Chinese ways of thought, the development of the imperial structure of state, and the introduction of Buddhism will be covered in the course.
Meets Department pre-Modern Requirement
Meets general academic requirement DE and HU.
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HST 271 - Modern China 1 course unit
China’s last imperial dynasty, the increasing impact of Western influence, China’s collapse, and the development of the Communist state will be examined through lectures, readings, and discussion.
Meets general academic requirement DE and HU.
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HST 273 - Modern Japan 1 course unit
The Tokugawa period, the Meiji Restoration, Japan’s emergence as a major power in East Asia, World War II, and Japan’s postwar transformation will be examined through lectures, readings, and discussion.
Meets general academic requirement DE and HU.
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HST 213, 214 - Seventeenth Century Europe 1 course unit
A detailed treatment of political, social, cultural, and intellectual developments in Europe from 1598 to 1715. The principal focus will be on Western Europe. Themes shall include the evolution of the dynastic monarchies, the “cultural crisis” and the Scientific Revolution, and the emergence of a European state system in the Age of Louis XIV.
Meets Department pre-Modern Requirement
Meets general academic requirement HU (and W when offered as 214).
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HST 215, 216 - Eighteenth Century Europe 1 course unit
A detailed treatment of political, social, cultural, and intellectual developments in Europe from 1715 to 1795. The principal focus will be on Western Europe. Themes shall include the political and social structure of ancient regime Europe, the diplomacy of the European state system, the Enlightenment, and the transition from despotism to revolution.
Meets Department pre-Modern Requirement
Meets general academic requirement HU (and W when offered as 216).
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