2012-2013 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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GOVT 152 CM - U.S. Policy in Asia A study of the dynamic development of U.S. policy toward Asia in diplomatic, strategic, economic, and cultural fields and of the opportunities and challenges faced by the United States in the Asian Pacific region. Special attention is paid to the emerging issues of political realignment, regional security, economic interdependence, and cultural diplomacy.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT152 CM
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GOVT 154 CM - Policymaking in International Organizations This course examines the nature, processes, and implications of official international organizations and their growing role in international affairs. How and why does multilateralism arise, what are the relationships between official international organizations and the member countries, how do they make decisions, what implications do these processes have on international cooperation and conflict? The course will focus largely on international economic organizations such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, but will also focus on mutual security and environmental organizations.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT154 CM
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GOVT 155 CM - Human Rights, Failed States, and Conflict Resolution The current widespread interest in human rights grew out of the effort to assign responsibility for World Wars I and II and to punish those held responsible for starting the wars and for committing atrocities and war crimes. When the Cold War ended, dozens of new states emerged that were riven by religious and ethnic conflict and weakened by illegitimate state structures, resulting in mass murder, famine, terrorism, and genocide. This course relies on philosophical, historical, and political texts to provide a basis for understanding the causes of the most recent outbreaks of human rights abuses and the most promising methods of preventing them. The course also draws on documentaries, biographies, autobiographies, and novels to convey the depth of human suffering during the past two decades.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT155 CM
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GOVT 156 CM - The Korean War A study of the origin, development, and consequences of the Korean War with special emphasis on the U.S. decision-making processes, the role of the United Nations, the Chinese participation in the war, the Truman-MacArthur controversies, the cease-fire negotiations, and the effects on inter-Korean relations. Archival materials and documentary films are used.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT156 CM
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GOVT 156C CM - War This course is a great books seminar on war. Students would be expected to read one book a week and then meet once weekly to discuss how the text illuminates the use of war as an instrument of politics, the evolution of warfare (perceptions, strategy, tactics, players, and technology), and the ethics of war. The books selected cover war from ancient times to modern as well as internal and international warfare. The course provides a comprehensive overview of war for students of international relations and for those interested in security studies more specifically.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT156C CM
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GOVT 157S CM - Special Topics in International Relations This course examines special topics in international relations. The topics will vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT157S CM
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GOVT 158 CM - International Relations and Domestic Politics This course offers students the opportunity to examine the domestic influences on U.S. foreign policy and foreign influences on U.S. domestic policies. Students will learn to identify and consider the implications of competing domestic interests and their effects on U.S. behavior abroad as well as global and international influences on U.S. domestic politics. As part of our examination, we will discuss lobbies and interest groups, competing federal and state agendas, electoral politics, and conflicting domestic and international priorities. We will also consider international pressures, obligations, and opportunities as they affect U.S. policy-making.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT158 CM
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GOVT 159I CM - Politics of Divided Korea and the United States This course examines the US-Korea (both South and North Korea) relations since the U.S. military occupation of the southern part of the Korean Peninsula from 1945 to 1948 after World War II. The course will explore the U.S. influence on Korea in the following critical junctures in modern Korea: (1) the historical origins of the Division and the Korean War; (2) the rise and fall of authoritarianism; (3) economic development; (4) the origin and development of the recent North Korean nuclear threats and the reactions to these threats. In particular, this course will explore the evolving pattern of US-South Korea alliance and examine the recent political challenges, such as the rising anti-Americanism in South Korea.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT159I CM
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GOVT 160 CM - Statesmanship and Leadership A study of the phenomenon of statesmanship, its relation to political life, and its status vis-a-vis the philosophical life, and of the profound change from statesmanship to the modern concept of leadership. The course has two parts: readings in political philosophy, and readings in political history and biography that examine the lives of actual statesmen and leaders.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT160 CM
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GOVT 161 CM - The Natural Law An inquiry into the idea of natural law as expounded and criticized by ancient, medieval, and modern political philosophers. Readings from Aristotle, Cicero, Aquinas, Hobbes, Kant, and others.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT161 CM
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GOVT 163 CM - Democracy in Crisis: the Statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln This course will consider the obstacles to emancipation posed by democratic institutions and how Abraham Lincoln attempted to overcome them without vitiating those institutions. Readings will be taken primarily from the speeches and letters of Lincoln and his contemporaries.
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Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT163 CM
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GOVT 164 CM - Political Rhetoric This course is devoted principally to examining the classical understanding of political rhetoric and the problems and possibilities connected with it. Readings are Plato’s Gorgias and Aristotle’s Rhetoric. In the final part of the course, some famous speeches from the American political tradition are examined.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT164 CM
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GOVT 165 CM - Political Philosophy and History An examination of the turn from nature to history as the ground of politics, philosophy, and being, and of the significance of this turn for the conduct and understanding of modern politics. Readings in Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, and Heidegger.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT165 CM
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GOVT 167 CM - The American Founding An inquiry into the character of the American regime as intended by the Founders. The method of the course will be the close reading of the writings and speeches of the Founders, supplemented occasionally by secondary accounts and interpretations.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT167 CM
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GOVT 169 CM - American Political Thought I This course will examine the emergence in America of revolutionary ideas about law and politics and their embodiment in wholly new forms of government. The course will then consider the implications and contradictions in these ideas and institutions, as revealed in the debates leading up to the Civil War.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT169 CM
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GOVT 170 CM - American Political Thought II This course will examine the transformation of the American idea of natural rights and natural law under the influence of Social Darwinism, Progressivism, and Pragmatism, as well as the emergence of modern American liberalism and conservatism in their distinctive modes. The effort throughout will be to understand the significance of these developments for the philosophy, and conduct, of republican government in America.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT170 CM
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GOVT 171 CM - From Theocracy to Democracy This course will examine the historical conditions and theoretical presuppositions of modern secular society, or how democratic principles came to replace theological claims as the basis for political legitimacy in the Western world. Readings will be drawn from the Bible, Luther, Calvin, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Thomas Jefferson, Mirza Abu Talib Khan, Tocqueville, U.S. Supreme Court cases, and contemporary writings concerning modernization and democracy in the Islamic world.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT171 CM
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GOVT 171C CM - Religion and Liberalism: Enlightenment Approaches to Comparative Constitutional Secularism This course offers students an engagement with the major debates in political philosophy and constitutional practice over religion, liberalism, and secularism. Major themes include Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment debates over religious church establishment, toleration, and official state secularism; multiculturalism and religious immigration in the EU; and comparative constitutionalism and secularism in an era or religious revival and globalization. Readings include Enlightenment thinkers such as Hobbes and Locke, contemporary political theory (John Rawls), and theories of multiculturalism and religious revival and migration in Western liberal democracies. Case studies include American disestablishment and Supreme Court First Amendment jurisprudence, EU multiculturalism, and secularism in comparative contexts (focusing on Turkey and India).
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Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT171C CM
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GOVT 172 CM - Political Philosophy and Foreign Policy After a brief consideration of contemporary debates on moralism versus realism in foreign policy, the fundamentally different positions of Aristotle and Machiavelli on the relative status of foreign and of domestic policy are examined. The course concludes with Thucydides, the relation of domestic institutions to foreign policy, and the role of justice in foreign affairs.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT172 CM
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GOVT 173 CM - Politics of Eastern Europe and Russia This course examines the fundamental questions of postcommunist transformation. By investigating the political and economic transitions in several East European countries, including among others Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Romania, students will gain a better understanding of the radical changes that have taken place in post-Communist Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The course is divided into four sections: historical background, democratization and political transition, the political economy of market reform, and issues of national identity.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT173 CM
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GOVT 173C CM - Russian Politics This course provides an in-depth study of Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politics. The course begins with an analysis of the Communist system and analyzes the nature of the regime, its sources of legitimacy and sustenance, and the reasons for the system’s decline. The course then examines Russia’s post-Soviet period in order to understand the successes and failures within political and economic liberalization. In this course, we will examine the transformation of political institutions, national identities, and economic systems that followed from the collapse of the Soviet system. While this course reviews the main historical events in Russian politics, the main focus of the course is to evaluate Russian political developments within the context of theories in political science on democratization, national identity, and the role of ideology in political and economic regime change. The course concludes with a special focus on Russian energy politics and the evolution of Russian foreign policy toward Eastern Europe and the “Near Abroad.”
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT173C CM
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GOVT 174 CM - Topics in Political Philosophy A topic of enquiry will be chosen to reflect current challenges and concerns in the field of political philosophy.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT174 CM
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GOVT 174C CM - Politics, Philosophy, and War: Xenophon’s Political Philosophy Xenophon, like Plato, was a student of Socrates. But Xenophon led a more active life, traveling to Persia where he became general of an army of Greek mercenaries. This practical bend is reflected in the Anabasis, describing his adventures in Persia, and the Education of Cyrus, an account of how to conquer the world that earned Machiavelli’s approval. Yet Xenophon also wrote the Memorabilia, a work devoted to a consideration of Socrates and his more contemplative way of life. This class will consist of a close reading of these works with particular attention to the tension between the political and philosophic life.
Offered: Occasionally
Course Number: GOVT174C CM
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GOVT 175 CM - Politics and Law in American Sports In this course, several political and legal issues or circumstances connected with sports will be examined, including: Supreme Court decisions (Tollson, Floyd v. Kuhn, Radovich v. NFL, etc.), civil rights concerns, economic-political issues, labor laws, unionization, strikes and lockouts, equal protection and integration on the basis of sex and race, the political and legal aspects of franchises and stadium building, regulations and investigations concerning gambling and the use of performance-enhancing drugs, House and Senate investigations, local and state legislation, issues of interstate commerce, presidential politics, the political use of sports by the military, anti-trust considerations, the Mitchell report, federal legislation, and similar issues.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT175 CM
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GOVT 175C CM - Psychoanalysis and Politics This course examines how the discipline of psychoanalysis can prove useful in the understanding of political behavior and political thinking. Concern with the relation between psychological investigation and political activity has a long history, and goes back to the portrayal of Achilles in The Iliad and Suetonius’ investigation of perverse leadership in The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. In its modern form it originates in Freud’s 1921 essay, “Mass Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.” In the realm of political science, Harold Lasswell (Psychopathology and Politics) studied politics through psychoanalytic ideas, and he has been followed by many other political analysts.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT175C CM
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GOVT 175E CM - Elizabethan Politics in Shakespeare’s Political Plays A study of politics in Elizabethan England as reflected in Shakespeare’s political plays, with special focus on his history plays. The plays will be viewed, not read, as Elizabethan audiences experienced them. Readings in political and historical texts.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT175E CM
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GOVT 176 CM - American Constitutional History The development of American constitutional and legal institutions and ideas from the colonial period to the present. Topics of focus include the constitutional conflict with Britain, the framing and ratification of the Constitution, federalism in the early republic, slavery and sectional conflict, the Fourteenth Amendment and civil rights, total war and civil liberties, private law and public policy, and the political role of the modern Supreme Court. Also listed as HIST 126 CM .
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT176 CM
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GOVT 177 CM - Representation and the Supreme Court Examines the Supreme Court’s adjudication of political rights disputes, e.g., voting rights, equal representation, and access to policy-making agencies. Gives special attention to the influence of the Court’s “clientele” of the elected branches, appointing authorities, law reviews, etc., to techniques of influencing the Court, and to aspects of the decision-making process. Evaluates the impact of voting rights reforms on American democracy.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM . Some constitutional law desirable.
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT177 CM
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GOVT 181 CM - Crime and Public Policy Assesses the nature and adequacy of government’s response to the crime problem in the United States. Specific topics include the extent and nature of the problem; the response of police, prosecutors and courts; the nature and extent of punishment imposed for criminal behavior; the philosophic basis for punishment; the role that public opinion does and ought to play in guiding criminal justice policy; and the performance of representative institutions in meeting the crime problem.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT181 CM
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GOVT 182 CM - Liberty of Conscience This course explores the historical and philosophical origins of the 1st Amendment’s protection of speech and religion. It begins with arguments for liberty of conscience in Milton’s “Areopagitica” and Locke’s “A Letter Concerning Toleration,” tracing them through the American Founders and the framing of the 1st Amendment, which embeds freedom of speech and religion in the Constitution. Alongside these thinkers, we will examine Supreme Court opinions that take up the meaning and reach of the 1st Amendment, asking if liberty of conscience is truly the “first” liberty in our constitutional order.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT182 CM
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GOVT 183 CM - Comparative Constitutional Law: Lessons from Abroad In framing the American Constitution it was argued that America was creating a new form of government. Since then, constitutional government has become common. This course examines basic questions of constitutional law from a comparative perspective. How do different nations create and sustain a political order? How do they organize the government or understand and protect civil liberties and rights? Situating political and philosophical question about foundational law in a comparative perspective, this course attempts to shed light on the nature of constitutional government, the law, and political community.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT183 CM
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GOVT 185 CM - The Supreme Court and Criminal Procedure Intensive analyses of major judicial opinions on the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments, focusing on search and seizure, self-incrimination, right to counsel, and other procedural rights of accused persons.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT185 CM
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GOVT 187 CM - Women and the Law The purpose of this course is to explore whether and how gender matters in American law, and to examine the constitutional and statutory legal doctrines that apply in sex discrimination claims. More specifically, the course will (a) examine the ways gender has affected citizenship status; (b) address major constitutional themes that are invoked in sex discrimination cases and their evolution across time; and (c) consider how alternative schools of legal thought address these issues. Particular attention will be paid to employment law, reproductive rights, family law, and criminal law.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT187 CM
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GOVT 189 CM - Seminar in Legal Studies An interdisciplinary seminar focusing on selected contemporary problems in the law. Examples include: (a) constitutional interpretation, (b) development of the rule of law, and (c) presidential war powers. The topics will vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT189 CM
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GOVT 191 CM - Public Policy Since the New Deal This course will examine the development of American public policy starting with the Great Depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. While offering a broad overview of economic and social policy in this era, the course will focus particular attention on the New Deal of the 1930’s, the Great Society of the 1960’s, and the Reagan Revolution of the 1980’s. The course material will also illuminate how policy is the product of the interaction of people, ideas, politics, and events.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT191 CM
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GOVT 192 CM - Liberalism and Conservatism The course examines the character of the political opinions calling themselves liberalism and conservatism, from their emergence in the 18th century to their flourishing and possible decline in the 20th century and beyond. Though the course will focus on their American forms, it will contrast these with the appropriate British and Continental counterparts. Throughout, attention will be paid to the variety of doctrines within each school of thought, and to what unites as well as divides the politics of liberalism and conservatism as a whole.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT192 CM
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GOVT 193 CM - Presidential War Powers This course is a research seminar on presidential war powers. It focuses on the legal issues surrounding the use of force by American presidents, including whether the president may on his own authority introduce American armed forces into combat overseas (as many presidents have done), and what powers the president may exercise domestically when the nation is at war. May he, for example, suspend habeas corpus, relocate and intern American citizens, seize private property for military purposes, order “unlawful combatants” to be tried by military tribunals, or spy on the communications of American citizens with foreign enemies - all of which American presidents have done. An overarching issue throughout is the perennial tension between law (“a government of laws and not of men” - Massachusetts Constitution of 1780) and human discretion (“the good of the society requires, that several things should be left to the discretion of him, that has the Executive power” - John Locke, 1689).
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT193 CM
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GOVT 199 CM - Independent Study in Government Students 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: GOVT199 CM
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HIST 017 CH - Chicano/a and Latina/o Histories Survey introduction to Chicana/o and Latina/o historical experiences across the span of several centuries, but focused on life in the United States. Analyzes migration and settlement; community and identity formation; and the roles of race, gender, class and sexuality in social and political histories. Letter grade only.
Offered: Every year.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST017 CH
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HIST 025 CH - All Power to the People! A survey of 20th-century movements for change, with a focus on those created by and for communities of color. Examines issues of race, gender, and class in U.S. society while investigating modern debates surrounding equity, equality, and social justice.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST025 CH
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HIST 031 CH - Colonial Latin American History Examines the rise of the Aztec and Incan Empires; the Spanish conquest and settlement of the Americas; the evolution and consolidation of colonial institutions; the significance of race, gender, and sexuality in shaping the culture of the colonial society from the perspectives of Indigenous, European, and African peoples; and the settlement of Brazil and the impact of the Age of Revolution, especially the Haitian Revolution, on the process of independence.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST031 CH
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HIST 032 CH - Latin America Since Independence The history of Latin America from 1820s to the present, including the complex process of national consolidation, the character of new societies, the integration of Latin American nations into the world market, the dilemma of mono-export economies, political alternatives to the traditional order and relations with the United States.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST032 CH
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HIST 035 PO - The Caribbean: Crucible of Modernity See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST035 PO
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HIST 040 AF - History of Africa to 1800 See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST040 AF
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HIST 041 AF - History of Africa from 1800 See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST041 AF
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HIST 050A AF - African Diaspora in the United States to 1877 This course examines the diverse and complex experiences of people of African ancestry in the United States beginning with pre-European contact in West and Central Africa to the end of the Reconstruction era. Working from a Diasporic focus, parallels will be drawn between specific cultural expressions, forms of nationalism and other types of protest in the United States and in other parts of the Americas.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST050A AF
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HIST 050B AF - African Diaspora in the United States since 1877 Recognizing the diverse voices and experiences of people of African descent in the United States, this course introduces students to key issues engaging African Americans from Reconstruction to the late twentieth century. Points of discussion include national identity; distinct political, economic, and social approaches; continuing class and gender differences; urbanization; the State; and international influences.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST050B AF
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HIST 051 CM - Modern South Asian History through its Literature, 1700 to the Present This course uses South Asian literature in English translation to recover a picture of social, cultural, and political life in the period 1700 to the present. The literature includes diaries, poetry, novels, and essays. It gives us data on the everyday life of the period, but also on questions such as, What was the experience of modernity? and, How are gendered and class identities experienced? Students will read literature but learn how to think historically.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST051 CM
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HIST 052 CM - New Indian Civilizations: Origins to Mughuls This course is the first of two parts of an introduction to the civilization(s) of historical India, or present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The course is organized both thematically and chronologically. Topics will include: The state and the people; attitudes to the body, male and female; community; caste and class; religions and sects; and the arts. The readings and lectures are organized around these topics with special emphasis on changes over four major time periods: Harappan civilizations, Classical India, The Delhi Sultanate, and the Mughul Empire.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST052 CM
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HIST 053 CM - Everyday Life in South Asia, 1700 to the Present This course is the second of two parts of an introduction to the civilization(s) of historical India, or present-day status of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. These three hundred years consist of complex changes in the economy, social structure, and the values of this life and an after life. The course looks at the agencies of change such as colonial law and education, mass media and technology, and demography. The main focus, however, will be on the experiences of people of this change and the emergence of new identities.
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST053 CM
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HIST 054 CM - Bread and Circuses: The Politics of Roman Private Life This course explores various categories of Roman culture that defined both private lives and the public image of society. Topics include wealth, patronage, gender, slavery, violence, and death. By examining a variety of primary sources - histories, poetry, letter, and urban fabric - we shall better appreciate the ways in which private life in ancient Rome was a public performance.
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST054 CM
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HIST 055 CM - The Middle East: From Muhammad to the Mongols This survey is an introduction to the pre-Modern history of the peoples of the classical Islamic lands, from North Africa to Central Asia. The course will cover the time period from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions of the 13th century and their aftermath, examining topics such as geography and environment, relations between nomadic and sedentary peoples, the formation of Islamic law, science and philosophy, and the relation between the rulers and the ruled, the state and its subjects.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST055 CM
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HIST 056 CM - The Middle East: From the Ottomans to the Present A survey of the social, political, and economic history of Islamic societies since ca.1500. Beginning with an examination of the Turkic “gunpowder empires,” the course then explores the ways in which capitalist market economies, European penetration, and nation building projects transformed the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Subjects include state and society under the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals; colonialism and imperialism, capitalism and the integration of the region into the world system; responses to the West; the territorial settlement of the Middle East and the emergence of the Mandate System after the first World War; nationalism; the question of Palestine; and the modern revival of Islamic movements.
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST056 CM
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HIST 059 CM - Civilizations of East Asia The rise and development of Chinese (Sinitic/Confucian) civilization from neolithic origins to its full maturation in the 18th century and the struggle of countries on the periphery of the Chinese cultural zone - primarily Japan and secondarily Korea and Vietnam - to retain distinct cultural and political identities while borrowing aspects of Chinese culture. Themes include state building, the changing role of women, cultural and aesthetic traditions, religious values, and political patterns. Special attention is given to divergent paths of pre-modern development which helped condition 20th-century approaches to political/economic modernization.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST059 CM
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HIST 061 CM - The New Asia: China, Japan, and Indonesia in the Modern Era Revolution, state building, modernization, and socio-cultural change in four representative cultural zones of Asia. The first part of the course examines imperialism and de-colonization, socio-religious reform movements, changing gender roles, and dynamics of political revolution. The second part explores the new forces which have reshaped the countries: the passing of charismatic leaders and revolutionary development strategies, the Japanese/East Asian economic model, and problems defining culture.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST061 CM
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HIST 071 CM - The Making of Medieval Europe: 337-1300 This course offers a broadly based inquiry into the Greco-Roman, Germanic, Judeo-Christian, and Islamic cultures that constituted the western world from the late Roman empire of the 4th century to the height of medieval Christendom in the 14th century. Designed to provide students with an overview of the history of the Mediterranean world from ca. 337-1300, the course will explore such topics as the “fall” of Rome and the emergence of the Church as a governing institution; the rise and importance of monasticism; medieval notions of sexuality, ethnicity, and identity; the transformation of the feudal state into a commercial economy; Byzantine, Islamic, and Western Christian scholarship; kingship, knighthood and the Crusades.
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST071 CM
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HIST 072 CM - The Making of Early Modern Europe, 1300-1800 This course provides an introductory overview of European society from the late middle ages to the end of the French Revolution. The major events examined include the Black Death in the 14th century and the spread of smallpox in the New World in the 16th; the Renaissance, Protestant, and Catholic Reformations; the place of Jews and Muslims in the European imagination; intellectual and scientific movements; colonization of the Americas; the French Revolution and the rise of nationalism; and changes in gender relations and the family.
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST072 CM
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HIST 073 CM - The Rise of Modern Europe, 1750 to the Present An examination of the major issues in the rise of modern Europe from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Major topics include the secularization of culture, the industrial revolution, imperialism, the rise of the modern nation state, and rise of new political-economic systems such as capitalism, democracy, fascism, and communism. The course concludes by examining the devastation of two world wars, Europe’s post-war recovery, and Europe’s new relationship with the world.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST073 CM
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HIST 078 CM - Museums and Leadership: Past, Present, Future Museums count among the greatest institutions ever created. Yet they are more than repositories of knowledge and human accomplishment. They are national symbols, projections of power, and the embodiment of a people’s values. As such, they have often been at the center of political controversy. This course examines the history of museums and the challenges faced by their founders and leaders. Topics include the history of museums in the West; the debate over the possession of antiquities; the disposition of Nazi looted objects; the ethical challenges faced by the leaders of museums; and the future of museums.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST078 CM
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HIST 080 CM - Early America: From Invasion to Civil War This course will survey the history of North America from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. We will follow along as a small and diverse collection of ramshackle European settlements grew into wealthy colonies, how they fought for independence and established a united republic, and how that republic in turn grew into an empire. We will study this history not in isolation, but within the context of the Atlantic world, and the turbulent flows of peoples, goods, and ideas within it.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST080 CM
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HIST 081 CM - Modern America, 1865 to Present This introductory survey course, beginning with the United States’ emergence in the late 19th century as an industrialized, urbanized society, traces America’s evolution into a complex, heterogeneous, “modern” state.
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST081 CM
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HIST 090 CM - Making a Living in Early America: A History from the Bottom-Up Part social, part economic history, in this course we will study how the people of early America made their living, and then seek to understand how their many individual efforts together constituted an economic system. We will study the lives and labors of enslaved and free people; Native Americans; Africans and European migrants; men and women; northerners, southerners, and westerners; merchants, artisans, farmers, and fishermen; and we will consider various theoretical models that have tried to make sense of their systemic interdependence, including world systems theory and the so-called transformation to capitalism debate.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST090 CM
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HIST 100 CM - Freshman Honors Seminar Selected topics in history. By invitation only.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST100 CM
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HIST 100C CH - Chicana/Latina Histories See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST100C CH
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HIST 100I CH - Race, Culture, and Identity in Latin America See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST100I CH
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HIST 100N CH - The Mexico - United States Border See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST100N CH
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HIST 100NBCH - United States - Latin American Relations See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST100NBCH
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HIST 100R CH - American Inequality: Race in the 20th Century See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST100R CH
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HIST 100U AF - Pan-Africanism and Black Radical Traditions See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST100U AF
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HIST 101 CM - Freshman-Sophomore Honors Seminar Selected topics in history. By invitation only.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST101 CM
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HIST 103A CM - From Village to Empire: The History of the Roman Republic, 750-44BCE This 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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HIST 103B CM - Governing Rome: The History of the Roman Empire: 44 BCE - 565 CE This 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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HIST 104 CM - Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Described 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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HIST 107 CM - Reading Ancient and Medieval Historians Works 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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HIST 108 CM - The Age of Cicero: Politics, Philosophy, and Culture at the End of the Roman Republic The 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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HIST 110 CM - Topics in Ancient History Selected topics in ancient history.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST110 CM
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HIST 110S CH - Latina/o Oral Histories See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST110S CH
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HIST 111 CM - Topics in European History Selected topics in European history. The topic for fall 2012 is: America, Russia and the Cold War, 1945 - 1991
This course analyzes the extended period of military and political tension between the United States and Soviet Union known as the “Cold War.” We will examine the American and Soviet rivalry in diplomacy and political affairs during such episodes as the Berlin blockade, the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the Afghanistan conflict, but will also look at the ideological and cultural dimensions of the conflict.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST111 CM
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HIST 112 CM - Topics in American History Selected topics in American history.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST112 CM
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HIST 121 CM - United States History Since 1945 This 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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HIST 123 CM - History of the American West This 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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HIST 124 CM - What is Political: Rethinking American Politics since 1900 This course explores the major events, movements, and elections that have defined the political landscape of the United States over the last century. It will move beyond a focus solely on Washington and the White House in order to create a broader understanding and definition of the political sphere. Through topics ranging from progressivism, the New Deal, the rise of New Right, to deregulation and culture wars of the 1970s, the course will help place contemporary events and issues within their historical and social context.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST124 CM
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HIST 124B CM - Recent American Politics, 1970 to the Present to the Present Against the backdrop of the post-World War II years, this course explores American politics and political development from the pivotal 1970s to the present. Focus is on controversies arising from such interrelated areas as economic and social regulation; values issues (e.g., abortion, religion in public life, and the character and private morality of public officials); federal fiscal policies; foreign involvements, the “war on terror,” and presidential authority; judicial activism; and civil rights and “identity politics.” A major theme is the relationship of established patterns and ideologies to continuity and change, often in the face of unanticipated events. Cross-listed as GOVT 108 CM .
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST124B CM
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HIST 125 CM - Asian American History, 1850 to the Present This survey course examines the journeys of Asian immigrant groups (and subsequent American-born generations) as they have settled and adjusted to life in the United States since 1850. The course addresses issues such as the formation of ethnic communities, labor, role of the state, race relations, and American culture and identity.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST125 CM
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HIST 126 CM - American Constitutional History The development of American constitutional and legal institutions and ideas from the colonial period to the present. Focuses include the constitutional conflict with Britain, the framing and ratification of the Constitution, federalism in the early republic, slavery and sectional conflict, the Fourteenth Amendment and civil rights, total war and civil liberties, private law and public policy, and the political role of the modern Supreme Court. Also listed as GOVT 176 CM .
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST126 CM
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HIST 128 CM - U.S. Gay and Lesbian History This 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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HIST 128 HM - Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States A study of the experiences of different ethnic groups in the U.S. from the colonial period to the present that addresses the meanings of cultural diversity in American history.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST128 HM
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HIST 129 CM - London and Paris in the 19th Century A 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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HIST 130 CM - Ottoman Power and Urban History This 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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HIST 132E CM - European Intellectual History: 16th Century to the Present This 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: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST132E CM
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HIST 133A CM - Late Imperial Russian History, 1861-1917 This 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: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST133A CM
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HIST 133B CM - Modern Russian History, 1917 to the Present This 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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HIST 134 CM - Dostoevskii’s Russia This 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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HIST 137 CM - Researching the Holocaust Exploration 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.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST137 CM
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HIST 138 CM - Europe’s Total Wars This 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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HIST 139E CM - Culture and Society in Weimar and Nazi Germany A 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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HIST 140 CM - Family, Women, and Social Change in Western Europe, 1500-1945 This course will analyze the relationships between family and gender, asking how men, women, and children’s roles are shaped by economic, demographic, religious, and cultural factors. In turn, we will consider how the family and gender provided a symbolic language in politics and society, and how political, economic, and religious revolutions often focused on remaking the family and altering the roles of women and men. From the Renaissance and Reformation to industrialization and nationalism of the late 19th century.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST140 CM
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HIST 142E CM - Culture and Politics in Turn of the Century Europe, 1880-1918 Explores 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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HIST 143 AF - Slavery & Freedom in the New World See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST143 AF
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HIST 143A CM - Revolutions in the Atlantic World: Britain, North America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment This 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: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST143A CM
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