2017-2018 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HIST100C CH - Chicana/Latina HistoriesSee Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST100C CH
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HIST100I CH - Race, Culture, and Identity in Latin AmericaSee Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST100I CH
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HIST100N CH - The Mexico - United States BorderSee Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST100N CH
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HIST101 CM - Freshman-Sophomore Honors SeminarSelected topics in history. By invitation only.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST101 CM
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HIST103A CM - From Village to Empire: The History of the Roman Republic, 750-44BCEThis course explores the history of Rome from its foundations as a small village in the middle of the 8th century BCE to its establishment as an imperial power over the Mediterranean world through the 1st century BCE. Rome’s expansion from a city-state to a world power and the social, political, and economic implications of this expansion will constitute the primary focus of the course. But we will also examine material culture, religion, social customs, sub-elites, and women, and the dynamics of cultural interaction in the ancient Mediterranean. Students will concentrate throughout the course on the primary evidence and the ways in which historians use literary and material sources to uncover different perspectives on the Roman past. First part of a sequence on Roman history.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST103A CM
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HIST103B CM - Governing Rome: The History of the Roman Empire: 44 BCE - 337 CEThis course examines the manifold techniques adopted and adapted by Roman emperors and their representatives to govern a vast territory that at its greatest extent stretched from the British Isles to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Particular attention will be given to changes in traditional Roman political, social, and cultural practices brought about by the emergence of a monarchical government, economic crises, ethnic diversity, and the rise of Christianity. Part two of a sequence on Roman history.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST103B CM
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HIST104 CM - Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: 284 - 888 CEDescribed as Late Antiquity or the Early Middle Ages, the period from Constantine to Charlemagne (roughly 300 to 800 AD) represents an age of vibrant and dynamic cultural transition sometimes viewed as a crucible for the blending of Roman, barbarian and Christian cultural elements. Using the major primary sources and the standard modern accounts for the period, this course will examine the key categories in which cultural change presents itself to the historian-the movement of migrant peoples, the political development of “successor” states, the consolidation of diverse religious practices and the rise of the Catholic Church, material and social changes in urban society, reorientation of economy and land use, and the transmission of an intellectual culture through art and literature that was both heir to Classical tradition and aware of its own novelty.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST104 CM
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HIST107 CM - Reading Ancient and Medieval HistoriansWorks surviving from the great historians of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean populate the imagination with impressions of distant worlds. But to what extent do these impressions depend on how authors chose to tailor past events to a contemporary political and social background? To what extent did the “great histories” interact with competing versions of the past? This course will address these and other questions by unpacking the famous Greek, Roman, and early-medieval historians and by considering how contemporary contexts shaped the writing of the past. This course offers a comparative cultural and literary approach to reading Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus, Ammianus Marcellinus, Procopius, Gregory of Tours, and Bede. Continuities and differences in the historical portrayal of such themes as politics, violence, gender, and religion will receive particular attention.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST107 CM
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HIST108 CM - The Age of Cicero: Politics, Philosophy, and Culture at the End of the Roman RepublicThe life, works, and death of Cicero is in some ways iconic for the last stages of the Roman Republic. Cicero’s life spanned a period of intense political, social, and intellectual change that would inevitably lead to the rise of autocratic emperors. Sometimes a participant, and always an acute observer of affairs in Rome, Cicero provides us with a remarkably detailed picture of an ancient society in evolution. This course will follow, and question the nature of, the end of the Roman Republic through a close inspection of Cicero’s political speeches and court cases, letters to friends (and enemies), and moral and philosophical treatises.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST108 CM
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HIST110 CM - Topics in Ancient HistorySelected topics in ancient history.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST110 CM
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HIST110S CH - Latina/o Oral HistoriesSee Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST110S CH
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HIST111 CM - Topics in European HistorySelected topics in European history.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST111 CM
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HIST112 CM - Topics in American HistorySelected topics in American history.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST112 CM
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HIST113 CM - US Environmental HistoryThis course introduces students to the major themes, movements, and moments in the environmental history of the United States. Environmental historians see the natural world as both a material place and a historical and cultural idea. This class focuses on the theme of “nature:” how human societies have shaped the natural world, how the natural world has shaped human societies, and how ideas about what is “natural”have been created, challenged, and changed in American history from the colonial period to the present.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST113 CM
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HIST114 CM - Race and Racism in The Colonial AmericasThis course examines the development of ideas of race and racial difference in the Atlantic World from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Contact and interaction between indigenous Americans, Europeans, and Africans produced fabricated categories of social standing that continue to the present day. The class will explore how colonial regimes worked aggressively to police those racial lines. Yet, we will also consider how relations between and among those groups challenged and altered these racial constructs. This will culminate in an overall discussion on the evolution of modern racial attitudes.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST114 CM
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HIST116 CM - Slavery: A World HistoryThis course examines the history of slavery in several different locations across multiple periods of time. Beginning with ancient forms of bound labor, it traces the growth of slavery in the Americas, built initially upon native slavery, but ultimately most successful with African workers. The course closely follows the rise of the transatlantic slave trade from Africa, which produced distinct and variable slave regimes in the Americas. In the process, the class will explore what the lived experiences were like for those who were enslaved, and includes considerations of modern forms of oppression.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST116 CM
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HIST117 CM - Race and Ethnicity in BrazilThis course examines the Brazilian national narrative of “racial democracy,” or the idea that Brazilian society is a “racial paradise,” lacking racial distinctions due to racial mixing. We examine dominant racial ideologies that preceded the idea of Brazil as a racial democracy, how racial democracy turned into a national project of the Vargas Era (1930-45), and challenges proposed by black intellectuals and indigenous groups. After 1945, the course addresses how ideas of racial democracy intersect with gender/sexuality, modernization policies, people excluded from the national mixed-race type, authoritarian rule, and popular culture. At the end of the course, students debate contemporary racially based policies such as Affirmative Action in Brazil.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST117 CM
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HIST119 CM - Women and Politics in AmericaThis course will analyze the history of American women in political life, broadly defined, from the mid-19th century to the present. Following a historical chronology, we will consider the debate over the 15th amendment, the movement for female suffrage. Reforms of the Progressive era, activism through church and community groups, the New Deal, the Civil Rights movement, the women’s movement, and women officeholders today. Throughout we will consider women’s political work as legislators, public policy makers, reformers, and activists. Previously HIST175 CM.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST119 CM
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HIST120 CM - Native American HistoryThis course examines Native American history from the era before European contact to the present. It focuses on the cultural, social, and economic developments of a number of indigenous societies throughout this period. Native people not only built the foundations upon which colonial societies grew, but they were also instrumental in the progression of history in the Americas. This course will explore how Native Americans reacted and adapted to the arrival of European settlers, as well as to how they helped shape the story of the United States.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST120 CM
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HIST120E CM - American Suburbia and Its ConsequencesThis course will examine the political, cultural, economic and social processes of suburbanization and its consequences in the United States over the past century. We will analyze the policies that gave rise to the growth of American suburbia as well as the popular culture and political constructions that shaped the ideal of the American Dream. Topics include the urban crisis and battles over desegregation, race and class inequality, sprawl and land-use planning, family, education, youth culture, consumer capitalism, the subprime mortgage crisis, and new immigrant, racial and ethnic enclaves. We will pay particular attention to Southern California and the Inland Empire. Previously HIST171 CM.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST120E CM
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HIST121 CM - United States History Since 1945This course provides a topical and thematic approach to the history of the United States since 1945. The intersection between politics, culture, and society serves as the course’s main emphasis. Topics include the Cold War, Vietnam, suburbanization, mass consumer culture, the fate of liberalism and the rise of conservatism, the social movements of the Left and the Right, globalization, and the “War on Drugs.”
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST121 CM
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HIST122E CM - American FamiliesThis seminar will explore the history of American families in the 20th century. We will examine the changing structure and functions of the family and analyze how the family reflects and shapes larger social, political, and economic developments in American life. Readings an discussions will consider the family in relation to gender, sexuality, childhood, immigration, race, social welfare, and the state.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST122E CM
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HIST123 CM - History of the American WestThis course examines the role of the American West within U.S. history from the Gold Rush era to the present. Students will examine major themes within the field such as migration and settlement, the environment, role of the federal government/public policy, popular culture, and the peopling of the West. The course will address historian Frederick Jackson Turner’s thesis regarding the uniqueness of the American experience and character on the frontier.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST123 CM
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HIST125 CM - Asian American History, 1850 to the PresentThis survey course examines the history of Asian immigrant groups and their American-born descendants as they have settled and adjusted to life in the United States. We will explore issues such as the experience of immigration, daily life in urban ethnic enclaves, and racist campaigns against Asian immigrants. Throughout the course, we will ask how these issues relate to a larger history of American nation-building and diplomatic relations with Asia.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST125 CM
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HIST127 CM - Civil War AmericaThis seminar examines the American Civil War, from its causes to its legacy. Rather than a traditional military history of the war, we will focus on the political, social, and cultural issues that defined its time. Through primary and secondary sources, we will discuss topics such as slavery, sectionalism, social transformations on the battlefield as well as the home front, emancipation, Reconstruction, and Civil War memory.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST127 CM
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HIST128 CM - U.S. Gay and Lesbian HistoryThis course explores the experiences of people in the United States whom we might today define as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. Drawing on recent scholarship, it analyzes those experiences in the context of American political, economic, social, legal, urban, and military history, with emphasis on the 20th century. Topics include changing categories of identity, the role of state policies and actions, the effects of wartime, Cold War persecution, the rise of gay and lesbian liberation movements, the impact of the AIDS epidemic, the emergence of queer theory, debates over military exclusion and gay marriage, and the significance of race, religion, class, gender, and region.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST128 CM
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HIST129 CM - London and Paris in the 19th CenturyA seminar comparing how these two great urban centers experienced the tremendous social upheavals of the 19th and early 20th century. How did the developments of capitalism, revolution, war, urbanization, modernity, and alienation play themselves out in London and Paris between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the end of the First World War? We will examine historical texts, maps, economic and demographic data, art, architecture, novels, poetry, popular culture, detective stories, photography, and early film.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST129 CM
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HIST130 CM - Ottoman Power and Urban HistoryThis course questions both modernist and Orientalist assumptions concerning urban life in the Middle East on the cusp of a transformative moment in global history—commercialization and the emergence of new imperial forms. We will explore the complex problem of the emergence of a “middle class” which includes changes in the definitions of masculinity and femininity, domestic versus public space, non-Muslim and Muslim participation in civic society, political administration, and the creation and production of culture. Our chronological focus will be on urban centers during the evolution of Ottoman modernity and our historiographic focus will be on the relationship between the built environment and structures of power.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST130 CM
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HIST131 HM - The Jewish Experience in AmericaA consideration of the interactions between Jews and American society from the colonial period to the present. Topics include Anti-Semitism, American responses to the Holocaust, the United States and Israel, Black-Jewish relations, and the meanings of Jewish identity in contemporary America.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST131 HM
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HIST131C CM - Crusading MentalitiesThis seminar explores the causes, meanings, meaningfulness and commemoration of new religious identities shaped by war: from the reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula, to the new heretics in Central Europe and clashes between Latin and Orthodox Christians in Constantinople; and from contentious labels of heretic, Jew, infidel and pagan, to new institutional mechanisms for defining cultural difference around the Mediterranean. The course objective is to understand how a series of events in medieval history that shaped medieval culture led to the invention of a violent paradigm of Islamic-Christian relations intended to mask internal social and religious divisions, and continues to shape the rhetoric of cultural encounter that divides our world today.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST131C CM
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HIST132 CM - Genocide & Human Rights in 20th Century EuropeDuring the twentieth century, the totality and modern features of the mass murder of civilians proved so alarming and unprecedented that by mid-century observers, led by Raphael Lemkin, developed a new concept for this historical phenomenon: genocide. This course will focus on case studies of genocide and genocide prevention in Europe. How do border changes, nation-state formation, and the collapse and rise of empires trigger ethnic cleansing and genocide as occurred in the Ottoman Empire, the Second World War, and more recently in the post-Soviet conflicts in the former Yugoslavia? Lectures and discussions will delve into specific topics, such as the role of racism, anti-Semitism and biopolitics, the psychological responses of victims, the inclusion of rape as a genocidal war crime, the response of bystanders, perpetrator motivation, and trends in post-genocidal societies such as trials, memorialization and compensation.
Offered: Every Two Years
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST132 CM
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HIST132E CM - European Intellectual History: 16th Century to the PresentThis course examines the reorientation of European thought in the secularization of culture and the beginning of the modern state in the 16th century; the new ideologies concerning the relation of the individual, society, and nature with the rise of modern science in the 17th century; the emergence of ideas and progress of evolution in the industrial and post-industrial revolutions of the 18th to 20th century; post-modern thought in the late 20th century.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST132E CM
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HIST133A CM - Late Imperial Russian History, 1861-1917This course is designed to offer students a basic knowledge of late imperial Russian politics and culture, and to provide background for understanding the rise of Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST133A CM
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HIST133B CM - Modern Russian History, 1917 to the PresentThis course analyzes Russian society and politics in the Soviet and Post-Soviet periods. Emphasis will be placed on the Russian revolutionary experience, on the origins and implications of Stalinism, on the Soviet Union after Stalin, and on the collapse of the Soviet system in 1991.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST133B CM
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HIST134 CM - Dostoevskii’s RussiaThis course is: (1) a study of Dostoevskii’s life, his religious and ideological beliefs as articulated in major fictional and non-fictional works, his contributions to 19th-century debates about Russia’s place in the world and its historical “mission”; (2) The Russian social, religious and ideological context(s) in which Dostoevskii operated.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST134 CM
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HIST135 CM - PseudohistoryThe objective of this course is to develop the skills needed to distinguish between reliable and unreliable historical arguments. We will examine several sensational arguments about the past that been widely discredited by professional historians - what might be called pseudohistory. The case studies touch on a wide range of regions, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. By comparing pseudohistorical works with serious works of history, and by studying the ways in which professional historians interpret evidence, we will define and analyze the basic elements of historical writing that make an argument trustworthy.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST135 CM
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HIST138 CM - Europe’s Total WarsThis course examines Europe’s 20th century as a series of “total wars,” from the Great War in 1914, through the Second World War and Holocaust, and concluding with the Cold War. It approaches these wars and genocide as a combination of military, economic, ideological, political, cultural, and social developments. The historical concept of “total war” will be discussed, and its horrific reality in modern Russia, Germany, France, England and the Soviet Union will be studied through the written, oral and visual accounts of political leaders, theorists, and ordinary individuals. Special attention will be paid to the themes of children at war, gendered aspects of warfare and genocide, and memory.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST138 CM
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HIST139E CM - Culture and Society in Weimar and Nazi GermanyA study of the transformation of German culture and society from 1919-1945. Begins with intellectual dilemmas of 19th-century Germany. Examines flourishing culture and political turmoils of Weimar democracy, Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, and Nazi perversions of culture. Focuses on literature, art, architecture, film, and music. Themes include the artist’s role in society, the rise of modernism, art as propaganda, and responses to the Holocaust.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST139E CM
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HIST140 CM - Gender and Revolution in Europe, 1500-1900This seminar examines gender and revolution in two intertwined ways. First, how do historical revolutions, including the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; New World colonialism and slavery; political revolutions, including the French Revolution; 19th-century feminism, and modern industrialization confront gender roles and the family? Second, how do gender, sexual, and familial identities undergo historical change and revolution? Students will engage both primary and secondary sources, including philosophical, feminist, anthropological, and biological theory. CMC History majors may use this course to fulfill their pre-1700 requirement by arrangement with the instructor and department chair.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST140 CM
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HIST142 CM - The Culture of Fascism in 20th Century EuropeProvides an understanding of facism in modern Europe by exploring its cultural and intellectual components. After surveying the various fascist movements and considering the competing definitions of the concept, specific topics to be treated include: intellectual roots, theories of psychological appeal, management of the arts in national socialist and fascist Italy, film, architecture and monuments, and the role of the Church. Previously HIST184 CM.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST142 CM
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HIST142E CM - Culture and Politics in Turn of the Century Europe, 1880-1918Explores the relationship between politics, culture, and social change in Western and Central Europe. Units will focus on important cities including Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Prague, Budapest, and Paris. Topics include the rise of psychoanalysis, impressionism, and expressionism, conceptions of decadence, cultural pessimism, and anxieties about changing gender roles.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST142E CM
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HIST143 AF - Slavery & Freedom in the New WorldSee Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST143 AF
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HIST143A CM - Revolutions in the Atlantic World: Britain, North America, and France in the Age of EnlightenmentThis course examines the political, economic, intellectual, and cultural revolutions in the northern European and North American world from the late 17th century to the early 19th century, exploring the rise of democracy, republicanism, liberalism, and the public sphere. Topics will include comparative conceptions of rights, citizenship, and nationalism; the Enlightenment; economic change; women and revolution; violence; culture and the arts as registers of change. Though the course examines the American Revolution, the focus is primarily European.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST143A CM
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HIST143D CM - Atlantic Revolutions, 1760s-1830sThe purpose of this course is to explore the unprecedented wave of servile insurrections, anti-colonial revolts, political revolutions, and wars for independence that spread across the Atlantic world at the turn of the 19th century. Questions we will ask include: Why did European states and empires suddenly crack apart one by one? How important was the diffusion of new ideas? Why did some colonies seek and win independence, and why not others? How do slave insurrections and native American wars for independence fit into the history of the revolutionary era? What were the connections, both material and ideological, between the North American, French, Haitian, and Latin American revolutions, and how can we understand their different outcomes?
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST143D CM
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HIST144 CM - Reagan’s America: The Politics and Culture of the 1980sSome see the 1980s as “Morning in America” while others view it as a “New Gilded Age.” This course aims to make sense of this polarized reaction by examining a wide range of issues and events. We will pay particular attention to the relationships between politics and popular culture and between foreign and domestic affairs, and the effect of policies and politics on everyday life. In doing so, we will situate the decade within its broader historical context and assess whether the United States today still lives under the shadow of the 1980s.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST144 CM
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HIST145 PO - Afro-Latin AmericaSee Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST145 PO
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HIST146 CM - History of Germany, 1740 to the PresentTraces the history of German lands from Frederick the Great to recent reunification. The rise of Prussia, the mixed responses to the Enlightenment, the emergence of Bismarck, and the creation of a unified German state in 1871, are examined as foundations of modern Germany and as prelude to the devastation of two world wars. Other topics include the nature of the Third Reich, the evolution of the genocidal program, postwar efforts at denazification, the establishment of two Germanies, the tensions of the Cold War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST146 CM
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HIST149 CM - America in Depression and WarThis course examines the transforming effects of two cataclysmic events in the 20th century. We will study the ways in which the Great Depression and World War II led to a major reordering of American society, politics, and culture. Topics include social welfare, the growth of the state, race and gender relations, work and organized labor, the impact of new forms of media, economic mobilization, and war and social change.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST149 CM
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HIST150E CM - The Age of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare: Tudor-Stuart Britain, 1485-1640Explores the triumphant rise of the 16th-century Tudor monarchs and their impact on politics, society, religion, and culture, and the troubled role of the 17th-century Stuart monarchs, the English Civil War, and “Glorious Revolution.” By using several of William Shakespeare’s plays and other cultural sources, the course analyzes how theater, literature, the visual arts, print, and popular culture created mythic national histories and reflected contemporary socio-political concerns. Other topics will include: kingship and state building, the Protestant Reformation, women and family, crime and the poor, early empire building, and slavery.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST150E CM
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HIST151 CM - Jane Austen’s BritainThis course uses Jane Austen’s novels and other primary and secondary sources to explore Britain and the British Empire between 1760-1830. Major themes include: the importance of slavery in the American colonies, including the West Indies; the impact of the American and French Revolutions and Napoleonic Wars; the status of women and the role of family in the making of British identity; the articulation of psychological and moral self-awareness through the domestic novel.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST151 CM
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HIST151E CM - The Making of Modern BritainFrom the age of George I to the defeat of Hitler, this course will examine how the British politically, economically, and culturally constructed their nation and empires. Themes will include the British Enlightenment; the rise of capitalism and industry; the acquisition of a world-wide empire in the Americas, India, Africa, and elsewhere; the cultivation of nationalism, Victoria, and Victorianism; the growth of mass politics and culture; the early welfare state; the Seven Years War; the American Revolution; The French and Napoleonic Wars; the Crimean and Boer Wars; the World Wars; the effect of these wars on the home front, literature, and politics.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST151E CM
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HIST152 CM - Politics and Art in Europe from the Enlightenment to FascismHow do visual imagery, satire, fiction, and film convey political meanings and critiques? Why and how do political revolutionaries use the arts to help remake society? How do political critics use the arts to make their points in more or less provocative ways? How can we read the arts as political artifacts? This seminar will answer these questions by focusing on William Hogarth and 18th-century Britain; the French Revolution and 1848-1871; imagery of nationalism, race, and colonialism in late 19th-century Britain and Empire; politics, film, and modernity in Paris, 1919-1945.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST152 CM
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HIST153 CM - Caste and Class in India and South AsiaWhy is “caste” the single most important topic in South Asian study that interests both laypeople and specialists? This course is a lecture plus discussion course that looks at the history, politics, sociology, and meanings of caste over the course of Indian history and the present. We will ask whether all its changing formations refer to the same reality. We will study its relations to religion, both Hinduism and other religions, to gender, to the family and society, and to economic exchange and profit. Most of all we look at alternative divisions of society and question how “caste” may be differentiated from “class.”
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST153 CM
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HIST154 CM - Makers of Modern India & PakistanThis course focuses on Gandhi, Jinnah and Nehru, and looks at a dozen other important leaders of the 19th and 20th centuries in South Asia. We are interested in two groups of questions. The first includes: what about the social, economic, political and intellectual contexts of the period produced leaders like these? How are leaders created in modern South Asia? Who is excluded? The second cluster includes: what kind of a new nation did these leaders wish to create? What were the creative impulses in their vision? What were the limitations? We will read original works by these and other leaders and sift through the most important interpretations of their leadership.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST154 CM
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HIST157 CM - Gender and Sexuality in Latin AmericaThis course introduces students to the emerging historiography on gender and sexuality in Latin America. We examine changing gender roles and shifting constructions of masculinity, femininity, and honor in Latin America with particular attention to issues of sexuality, sexual preference, sexual constraints, and sexual transgressions. Topics include the encounter between Indigenous peoples and Europeans, slavery, honor, and whiteness during the independence era, prostitution, maternalism, patriarchy, queer studies, feminism, labor and class, nationalism, and dictatorships, social protest, and transgendered studies. Readings include works on the colonial period and the 19th century, but most of the course will focus on these issues in the context of the 20th century.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST157 CM
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HIST158 CM - Japanese Empire: Korea, China, Taiwan, and ManchuriaFollowing the Meiji Ishin (1868), Japan became an imperial power as it seized territories and resources in various parts of East Asia. By the start of the Pacific War in December 1941, Japan had become one of the largest imperial powers in Asia with its colonization of Taiwan and Korea, control of vast parts of southern China and establishment of the puppet regime of Manchukuo (Manchuria). This class looks at how Japan became an imperial power in East Asia and how this development impacted those affected by Japanese rule, including Korea,China, Taiwan, and Manchuria. In particular, the class seeks to trace why and how people in Korea, China, Taiwan, and Manchuria sought to forge new ideologies, customs, and practices to not only deal with Japanese imperialism, but also modernity.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST158 CM
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HIST161 CM - Modern Korean HistoryExamination of the evolution of modern Korean culture and society within the context of political and institutional history. Consideration of such topics as the opening of Korea, Korean reactions to imperialism, the colonial experience, national division and civil war, and contemporary Korea.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST161 CM
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HIST162C CM - China: Warring States to First Emperor: The Origins of Imperial China (500-200BCE)The consolidation of the small kingdoms of the late Zhou into seven major states, the bloody struggles among these contenders, and the creation of a unified empire by the First Emperor in 221 BCE. Major themes include: the technological and economic forces that made possible consolidated territorial kingdoms; the intellectual ferment that produced Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism; the development of political and military stratagems; religious practices as represented by the tomb of the First Emperor, concepts of leadership, and personalities of the First Emperor and other major figures. The course also will explore the collapse of the Qin Empire less than twenty years after unification, its institutional and intellectual legacy to the making of imperial China, and the figure of the First Emperor in political debates in the Maoist era and contemporary commercial films.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST162C CM
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HIST163 CM - Modern Chinese History, 1750 to the PresentThis course examines the various processes that define China’s struggle for a modern identity and state. It begins by evaluating the changes in 18th-century Chinese society and the economy resulting from population growth, increased commercialization, and environmental problems. It then traces the decline and collapse of the 19th-century state due to popular rebellion and foreign imperialism. The course then focuses on 20th-century revolutionary movements, efforts at state building, and currents of cultural change culminating in the Maoist revolution, and concludes with the dramatic changes in the reform era following Mao’s death.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST163 CM
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HIST164 CM - Mao’s China: Revolutionary Leadership and Its ConsqequencesThis course explores the life, ideas, policies, and leadership style of Mao Zedong, one of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century. Even today Mao remains a national hero to many Chinese, although others view Mao as the archetype of tyranny and despotism. This course uses Mao’s biography to illuminate a variety of issues about Mao the man, Mao the leader, the Chinese revolution, and the meaning of the Maoist party-state. Each week’s assignment covers a chronological period while introducing thematic materials on topics such as child raising, peasant behavior, the cult of the leader, mass mobilization, and reactions to totalitarianism. The course also explores the nature of charismatic leadership and the role of the individual as an agent of historical change.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST164 CM
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HIST167 CM - Gender and History in South AsiaThis seminar looks at the way gender is constituted with a case study of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh). We will use feminist approaches to discuss how ‘women’ and feminity, and ‘men’ and masculinity are produced. After a quick survey of South Asian history to locate gender, we will look at three specific problems areas: how the state and its legal system apportion power to women and men; how education works to produce different gender identities; and how in the arts the human body is differently used and interpreted, and experiences and emotions become gendered.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST167 CM
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HIST167E CM - Modernities: South Asia and OthersDoes South Asia have ‘modernity’ and how do we measure it or understand it? What is the significant difference between this modernity and that of the modern West? Should we then speak of modernities in the world? The course begins with a discussion of modernity in the West in which we clarify some historical landmarks and some interesting debates about the meanings and discourses of what we call ‘modernity.’ We then move on to South Asia and locate its different historical landmarks: educational transformation, nation-building, the emergence of new social classes, changes in gender relationships, industrial and technological growth and the discourses of modernity.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST167E CM
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HIST169 CM - Topics in Asian HistorySelected topics in the Middle East (169a), South Asia (169b), or East Asia (169c).
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST169 CM
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HIST173 AF - Black Intellectuals and the Politics of RaceSee Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST173 AF
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HIST174 CM - Design ActivismThis seminar studies the relationship between the world of design and social transformations from the early twentieth century to the present. In particular, it examines the history of modern design movements in the non-West, especially Latin America, Asia and the Middle East, from the early twentieth century to the present, and how these movements have negotiated processes of political economy to produce new forms of agency, identity, community and social exchange for the transformation of everyday life and ultimately social renewal. Previously HIST141 CM.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST174 CM
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HIST176 AF - Civil Rights Movement in the Modern EraSee Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST176 AF
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HIST176 CM - Early American FamiliesThis course examines the meaning and construction of family units in the Atlantic World from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Economic changes, imperial migrations, interracial sex, and transatlantic ideas molded and shaped the notion of what a family was. Similar concepts, such as marriage, illegitimacy, and households shifted in turn. In this seminar, we will explore these changes in different imperial systems during the era of European Atlantic colonization. The course also develops vital research skills and methodologies needed by historical scholars.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST176 CM
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HIST179 CM - Researching the HolocaustExploration of research and reflection on the cutting-edge of current issues and debates surrounding Nazi Germany’s attempt to annihilate the Jews. In a seminar-style inquiry designed for students who want to take their previous Holocaust studies to a more advanced level, attention focuses on film and internet resources, as well as on recent books and articles. Previously HIST137 CM.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST179 CM
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HIST182 CM - Human Health and Disease in American HistoryThis seminar explores how health and disease shaped American societies, culture, and politics from the colonial period to the present. Topics will include the changing science of human health, folk medicine, the professionalization of American medicine, and the politics and ethics of biomedical research in a historical context. Readings, assignments, and in-class exercises will prepare students to produce an original research paper. This course fulfills the research requirement for the history major.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST182 CM
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HIST183 CM - The Fall of Rome and the End of EmpirePolitical corruption, economic failure, barbarian invasion, religious rupture, and even the plague have all been offered as explanations for the end of the Roman Empire. But do we really understand how and when a political system and culture that enjoyed such remarkable longevity finally came to an end? This course will examine the often widely divergent interpretations of material and documentary evidence offered by historians, classicists, and archaeologists. Political, economic, military, religious, social, and environmental factors will receive careful attention.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST183 CM
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HIST186B CM - Revolutionary London & Paris: 1688-1815This upper-level research seminar explores the Enlightenment and 18th-century revolutions by focusing on London and Paris as epicenters of culture, commerce, and politics. How did urban institutions, print culture, an emerging consumer marketplace, and a booming population contribute to new social relations and tensions? How did both cities’ networks and urban landscape facilitate revolution? Using historical texts, maps, economic and demographic data, art, architecture, literature, and the contemporary press, we will research how urban life in London and Paris shaped the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution, the Enlightenment and French Revolution, and how inhabitants experienced these transformations.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST186B CM
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HIST188 CM - Travel and Encounter in the Islamic WorldHow does travel shape self-definitions and regional stereotypes? What can studying the history of travel and tourism tell us about the shift from early modern empires to colonial worlds and to the contemporary processes of globalization? This class is designed to help you explore and formulate answers to these questions by looking at how the region, which we commonly refer to as the “Middle East” and the “Islamic World,” came to be constructed historically through circuits of travel and cross-cultural encounters. We will investigate tensions inherent in the history of travel itself: between travel as pleasure, leisure, and a means for spiritual fulfillment vs. travel as a mode of conquest, a strategy for economic and political survival and an experience of alienation. Our over-arching goal will be to analyze how travel functions simultaneously as a means of identification with another culture and as a re-affirmation of cultural difference. Previously HIST159I CM.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST188 CM
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HIST190 CM - Race and American CitiesThis upper-level research seminar will examine the relationship between urban development and race from the colonial era to the present. We will analyze the historical forces and institutions that have created forms of racial segregation and economic inequality and explore the role of cities as a site of racial conflict, interaction, collaboration and identity formation. Surveying a wide range of places, groups and issues, the course will provide a way to better understand the economics, politics and social life of American cities in the past and the present and to think spatially and geographically about historical continuity and change.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST190 CM
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HIST191 CM - Advanced Topics in Asian HistorySelected topics in Asian history.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST191 CM
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HIST194 CM - Advanced Topics in Ancient HistorySelected advanced topics in Ancient history.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST194 CM
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HIST195 CM - Advanced Topics in European HistorySelected advanced topics in European history.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST195 CM
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HIST196 CM - Advanced Topics in American HistorySelected advanced topics in American history.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST196 CM
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HIST197 CM - Advanced Topics in World HistorySelected advanced topics in world history.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST197 CM
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HIST199 CM - Independent Study in HistoryStudents who have the necessary qualifications and who wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for independent study under the direction of a faculty reader.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 0.5 or 1
Course Number: HIST199 CM
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DGHM150 CM - Digital Humanities StudioThe Digital Humanities are concepts and practices by which academic work can be enhanced by the introduction of new media, including but not limited to web technologies, mobile devices, GIS, and physical computing. This class will provide students the opportunity to develop their skills creating Digital Humanities projects in collaboration with scholars, designers, and technologists. Working in teams, students will engage in all phases of production including design, research in the relevant humanities disciplines, and technical solutions to execute scholarly arguments in digital form. Students will also immerse in critical conversations throughout the semester fostered by topical writing assignments, workshops, and invited guests.
Offered: Every semester through 2019
Credit: 1
Course Number: DGHM150 CM
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ID050 AF - Caribbean Society and CultureExamines the complexity and diversity of the Caribbean in terms of its socioeconomic reality, the lives of its people, and its artistic and intellectual products.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ID 050 AF
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ID076 JT - Intersections: Gender, Race and SexualityWhat assumptions do people address everyday in their lives about gender and sexuality? This introductory course focuses on this question, analyzing topics such as the historical emergence of feminism and feminist critique; social constructions of gender and the family; patriarchy and the state; the politics of gender and sexuality; the relationship between bodies and institutions; representations of gender in art, literature, film, and the media; and intersections with race/ethnicity, class, nation and other identities. Readings engage a broad range of disciplines including contemporary feminist theory, history, sociology, and literary and media studies. The course privileges a collaborative feminist approach to introduce students to social theories.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ID 076 JT
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ID120 CM - The Science of Making Life BetterThis course will examine theories about what leads to human happiness and fulfillment, including money, power, pleasure, fame, beauty, adventure, and pleasure. We also will explore another theory: the paradoxical notion that people are happiest when they pursue selfless behavior. This seems to challenge much of traditional economic and evolutionary theory, which posits that humans seek to maximize their own personal self-interest. Thus we will look at the science behind such phenomena as heroism, altruism, morality, and cooperation. Finally we will explore case studies of social entrepreneurs and innovators who seek to make life better for others in the world.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ID 120 CM
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ID150 CM - Contemporary African VoicesThis course is designed to provide an introduction to, or better understanding of, some of the most significant novels and other literary works by Anglophone and Francophone writers from Africa in recent years. Topics include: Home and Exile, Rwandan genocide, Truth and Reconciliation, Testimonies, Migration, and Cosmopolitanism.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: ID 150 CM
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ID196 CM - Gould Center SeminarThis is a standing course with a director and topic that change annually.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ID 196 CM
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KORE001 CM - Introductory KoreanKorean 1 is designed for students who do not have any Korean language background. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of four basic skills: comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. This course includes a tutorial session each week (times arranged).
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: KORE001 CM
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KORE002 CM - Continuing Introductory KoreanA continuation of KORE 001 CM , Korean 2 aims to equip students with basic communicative skills in Korean, with emphasis on conversation, reading, and writing. This course includes a tutorial session each week (times arranged).
Prerequisite: KORE 001 CM or equivalent
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: KORE002 CM
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KORE033 CM - Intermediate KoreanKorean 33 is the first semester of second year Korean. This course furthers development of four basic skills, with emphasis on conversation, reading, and writing. This course includes a tutorial session each week (times arranged).
Prerequisite: KORE 002 CM or equivalent
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: KORE033 CM
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KORE044 CM - Advanced KoreanKorean 44 is the second semester of second year Korean. This course aims to equip students with advanced communicative skills in Korean, with emphasis on advanced grammar and vocabulary building. This course includes a tutorial session each week (times arranged).
Prerequisite: KORE 033 CM or equivalent
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: KORE044 CM
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KORE100 CM - Readings in Korean Literature and CultureThis course is designed to help students improve Korean language proficiency through extensive reading and discussions of a variety of texts, including short stories, poetry, essays, and newspaper articles. Reading and discussion topics are selected to extend students’ understanding of Korean society and culture. Emphasis is also placed on writing critical essays in Korean.
Prerequisite: KORE 044 CM or equivalent
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: KORE100 CM
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KORE199 CM - Independent Study in KoreanStudents who have the necessary qualifications and who wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for an independent study under the direction of a faculty reader.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 0.5 or 1
Course Number: KORE199 CM
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KRNT130 CM - Korean Cinema and CultureThis course examines Korean history, politics, culture, and society through analysis of their representation in contemporary Korean cinema. This course will follow the history of Korea chronologically from Yi Dynasty to the present focusing on the topics such as Confucianism, Colonial period, nationalism, Korean War, national division, military government, and democratic movements. The focus of the class will be equally distributed between the films themselves and the historical time and people captured on these films. Knowledge of Korean is not required.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: KRNT130 CM
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LEAD010 CM - Foundations of LeadershipThis course is designed to provide a solid foundation on how leadership is defined, viewed, and studied. Using multidisciplinary approaches, the course will review conceptualizations and theories of leaders and leadership from ancient times to the present.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: LEAD010 CM
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LEAD040 CM - Practicum in Event ManagementThis course will instruct students in leadership theory as it relates to event management and then provide them with the practical skills to be effective event managers. The course will prepare students for managing events, giving them hands on work experience at an established campus event, as well as the opportunity to design and implement their own event, consistent with CMC’s Personal and Social Responsibility Initiative. Students will work in small groups to design and implement management solutions for design, budgeting, operations, marketing, hospitality, social and traditional media, volunteer recruitment and training, risk management, and emergency planning.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: LEAD040 CM
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LEAD041 CM - Leadership in SportsLegendary coach John Wooden said, “I believe leadership is largely learned. Whatever leadership skills I possess were learned through listening, observation, study, and then trial and error along the way.” This course examines leadership in sports through analyses of coaches, athletes, and executives. Students will study leadership behavior to determine why certain coaches, athletes, and management teams are successful, measurement of success, the outcomes, barriers to, and social responsibility of successful leadership. Also examined are cases of failed leadership, the behaviors that lead to failure, and whether atonement for a coach, athlete, or organization is possible.
Offered: Each year
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: LEAD041 CM
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LEAD121 CM - Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social ProblemsThe news can seem depressing - full of gloom and doom, detailing everything that’s wrong with the world. This course will introduce students to “rigorous and compelling reporting about [positive] responses to social problems.” These are news stories that highlight the most promising ideas for solving the challenges of the 21st century - from improving education to increasing economic prosperity and opportunity for all. Students will also apply this knowledge to selecting a social change organization that deserves funding. Acting as philanthropists, they will evaluate and determine the initiative that can most effectively make a difference in the community.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LEAD121 CM
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LEAD122 CM - Civic LeadershipCivic leaders are people who strive to make a positive impact in their communities. Whether they are working to improve education, public health, human rights, the environment, freedom, or financial prosperity for all Americans, civic leaders are attempting to make the world a better place. How do they succeed? What are the most effective strategies and best practices? What are the obstacles, barriers, and challenges that civic leaders face most often? This course will explore the essential tools that nonprofits need to function efficiently and effectively for sustained growth and maximum impact.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LEAD122 CM
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LEAD142 CM - Leading Social Innovation: How Award-Winning Social Entrepreneurs Change the WorldSocial entrepreneurs are motivated by the desire to see the world as it can be, not merely as it is. This course is about the leadership opportunities and challenges of creating and sustaining creative solutions that address social problems-whether through nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid models of change. Students learn about the key determinants of social innovation: the complexity of the world’s problems, theoretical frameworks rooted in psychology and business management, community building and ecosystem development, governance and funding models, scalability and growth, and impact measurement techniques. Students learn from and work directly alongside multi-award winning social entrepreneurs and practitioners who are creating systems change in their respective sectors.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LEAD142 CM
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LIT031 CM - Introduction to Creative WritingThis course offers the chance to explore three genres of creative writing: fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. We’ll read contemporary short stories, poems, and personal essays, looking at the choices writers have made in terms of structure, technique, and content. We’ll then put this knowledge to use by trying our hands at fiction, creative non-fiction, and formal and free verse. By the end of the course, students will have had the chance to experience literature from the writer’s side, and perhaps will have found a genre to explore in more depth in further creative writing classes.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 031 CM
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LIT032 CM - Writer’s WorkshopThis workshop stresses students’ collaboration with each other and with the instructor and focuses on narratives growing out of the writer’s experience. The course will maximize student participation through frequent small-group work, class discussions, and peer critiques. Open to all interested students, whether experienced writers or beginners.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 032 CM
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