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Civilization of Medieval Europe
3 credits
Society, culture, and politics in western Europe from late
antiquity to the early Renaissance. Classical, Jewish, and
Christian influences. The Germanic invasions. Rural environment
and its economy, the revival of urban life, variety of lordship
and community, Gothic art and architecture. Extensive use
of visual or computerized materials.
21.6 Humanism and the Classical Tradition
3 credits
The career of humanism from the ancient world through the
Enlightenment, including its origins in Greek and Roman antiquity
and development of the classical tradition from the Middle
Ages to the eighteenth century in poetry and philosophy, treatises,
letters, and histories. Fusion of humanist awareness of the
classics with a Christian world view, leading to the expression
of themes and problems fundamental to the development of a
modern consciousness.
22 Christianity and the Church in Medieval Europe
3 credits
Life and spirituality of Christian communities and their impact
on Western society from the third century through the Middle
Ages. Martyrs, monks, relics, pilgrims, crusaders, mystics.
Papacy and kingship, faith and reason, heresy and inquisition,
art and architecture. Multi disciplinary focus on historical,
literary, and artistic records.
The Italian Renaissance
3 credits
Society, politics, and culture of the Italian Renaissance
from 1300 to 1550. Topics include rural and urban life; courtly
and civic culture; neighborhoods, guilds, and confraternities;
women and children; education and the family; the papacy and
the clergy, lay piety, heresy, and mysticism; war and diplomacy;
medicine, law, and the universities; art and literature; humanism
and its contribution to pedagogy, political and social theory,
philosophy and religion, and the arts.
27.7 Socialism, Anarchism, and Marxism in Europe,
1789 to the Present
3 credits
The ideas, leading figures, and movements of the Left. Emergence
of the Left in the French Revolution, Utopian socialism, Marxism,
anarchism, revolutionary syndicalism, Fabian socialism, national
Left parties, the Internationals, revisionism, communism,
and contemporary socialism.
27. 8 Women in Modern Europe
3 credits
History of women in Europe from the Industrial and French
Revolutions to the present. Change in and interaction of women’s
economic, social, and political roles, and relationship of
these to contemporary concepts of women’s nature.
30.2 Jesus and the Christian Tradition
3 credits
A cultural history of Christianity from the first century
to the present; quest for the historical Jesus; images of
Jesus in major eras of world history in scripture, theology,
literature, art, and music; the place of Christian culture
in the history of world civilization.
History of Feminism
3 credits
Definition of feminism; feminists in the Renaissance and early
modern Europe; feminists demands arising from the French Revolution;
early radical feminism in the United States, France, and the
Germanies; liberal and Marxist feminism; women’s movements
from the 1850s to World War I in the West; the development
of women’s movements outside of Europe and America; imperialism,
feminism, and national independence; the “second wave”: women’s
liberation movements since 1968.
41.3 Racial and Sectional Crisis in the United States
3 credits
Development of the American republic, 1828 to 1880. Jacksonian
democracy, slavery abolition, sectional conflict. Civil War
and Reconstruction and consequent changes in policies affecting
race and gender.
41.6 Twentieth-Century America: 1914-1950
3 credits
United States history from the Wilson presidency through the
U.S. entry into the Korean War and the onset of McCarthyism:
consolidation of progressivism and the Wilson presidency;
entry into World War I and the Wilsonian agenda; the rise
of the corporatist state; the United States and the world
of the 1920s; clashes of culture in interwar America; the
Depression and the emergence of a Democratic majority; the
importance of dissenters; Franklin Roosevelt and American
reform; the battle over the role of the Supreme Court; the
United States and the World War II; postwar politics; nuclear
weapons and the militarization of the Cold War.
43.5 Afro-American History
3 credits
Origins and development of American thought on the role of
blacks in American history. Consideration of such topics as
African heritage, blacks in the plantation society, slavery
and the American idea of equality, black Reconstruction, rise
of Jim Crow, the myth of white supremacy, and the nature and
origins of the black revolution. Colonial era to the present.
43.11 Religious Experience in America
3 credits
Development of the major American traditions of Protestantism,
Catholicism, and Judaism. Puritanism and its legacy; the Great
Awakening; Christianity, slavery, and the Civil War, the religious
experience of black Americans. Interaction between religious
thought and such other aspects of American culture as ethnicity,
social change, sexual mores, intellectual life.
43.16 Immigration and Ethnicity in American History
3 credits
History of immigration to America from the first European
settlers to the present. Old and new waves of immigrants;
immigration and citizenship in the age of revolution; the
rise of nativeism; immigration policies; assimilation, ethnic
resilience, and cultural hegemony in immigrant communities;
the impact of race on ethnic identities; culture, politics,
work, and gender in immigrant communities; post-World War
II immigrants. migrants, and refugees; America’s newest immigrants.
63 Colloquium in Social History
3 credits
Classes, groups, and mass movements in history. Topics may
include the European nobility, growth of the modern labor
movement, immigration and migration, the history of childhood
and the family, the bourgeoisie, frontiers in history, urbanization,
and industrialization. |
