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College Catalog 2011-2012 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HIST 236 - Consumer Nation: American Consumer Culture in the 20th Century Cross-Listed as ENVI 236
“Of all the strange beasts that have com slouching into the 20th century,” writes James Twitchell, “none has been more misunderstood, more criticized, and more important than materialism.” In this course we will trace the various twists and turns of America’s vigorous consumer culture across the twentieth century, examining its growing influence on American life, its implications for the environmental health of the world, and the many debates it has inspired. Spring semester. (4 Credits)
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HIST 237 - Environmental Justice Cross-Listed as
Poor and minority populations have historically born the brunt of environmental inequalities in the United States, suffering disproportionately from the effects of pollution, resource depletion, dangerous jobs, limited access to common resources, and exposure to environmental hazards. Paying particular attention to the ways that race, ethnicity, class, and gender have shaped the political and economic dimensions of environmental injustices, this course draws on the work of scholars and activists to examine the long history of environmental inequities in the United States, along with more recent political movements-national and local-that seek to rectify environmental injustices. Every other fall. (4 Credits)
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HIST 244 - US Since 1945
This course examines the tumultuous changes that define the postwar era in U.S. society and culture. Themes of the course will vary depending on instructor. Topics may include: cultural tensions of the Cold War era, the civil rights movement and Black Power, the women-s movement, postwar prosperity, suburbanization, the Vietnam War, and the New Right. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 248 - Jim Crow Cross-Listed as
This course examines the political, cultural, economic, and social ramifications of segregation in the United States from approximately 1865 to the present. While much of the course will focus on the South, we will also consider how racial boundaries were drawn in the West and North. The course will pay special attention to the ways racial boundaries became “fixed”, and how black men and women defied Jim Crow in the streets, courts, and in their homes. Additionally, this class examines how segregation has been forgotten and how and when it is remembered. Offered alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 249 - African Americans and the Transformation of the City: 1890-1945
This course investigates two mutually influencing transformations of the first half of the twentieth century: 1) the urbanization of the Afro-American people; and 2) the emergence of the modern American metropolis as the site of congregation and segregation of distinct racial and ethnic groups. Principal points of focus for this course include the causes and patterns of black migration from the rural South to the urban North; the formation of ghettoes in major northern cities; the internal life of those ghettoes, including changing gender roles and the development of new cultural forms; and the rise of new political and social ideas within these communities. Offered occasionally. (4 Credits)
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HIST 256 - Transatlantic Slave Trade Cross-Listed as AMST 256
This class examines the Atlantic commerce in African slaves that took place roughly between 1500 and 1800. We will explore, among other topics, transatlantic commerce, the process of turning captives into commodities, the gendered dimensions of the slave trade, resistance to the trade, the world the slaves made, and the abolitionist movement on both sides of the Atlantic. Students will read a range of primary and secondary sources in order to gain a more complex understanding of the slave trade and how it changed over time. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 257 - Empires
This course will survey the evolution of modern European empires from their inception in the mid-nineteenth century to their aftermath in the 1980s and 1990s. The course will be organized topically, separate modules being devoted to theory, imperial administration, race and segregation in the colonies, cultural and economic exploitation of colonies, European culture and imperialism, indigenous anti-colonial movements and decolonialization, and the issue of colonialism’s role in globalization. Materials will be drawn from the experiences of the British, French, German, Dutch and Russian empires. Lectures, class discussions and films. Essay exams prepared outside of class and quizzes. Courses 200-299 are intermediate in material and/or approach and ordinarily taken by sophomores or juniors. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 258 - Europe Since 1945
A survey of European history from the end of World War II to the present, emphasizing social and economic history and including both western Europe and the former socialist republics of eastern Europe. The course tests the hypothesis that Europe constitutes a social and political entity as well as a geographic one. Among the topics the course will cover are a comparison of European post-World War II reconstruction (East and West), Europe’s power decline in a global context, Europe as a tool and a participant in the Cold War, political trends and their roots in social and economic change, and the origins and European-wide implications of the collapse of the socialist states of eastern Europe. Courses 200-299 are intermediate in material and/or approach and ordinarily taken by sophomores or juniors. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 260 - Rise/Fall of Tsarist Russia
A survey of the development of Russian social and political institutions from Peter the Great (1682-1724) to 1917. The course will explain the growth of the tsar’s authority, the origins and outlooks of Russia’s major social/gender groups (nobility, peasants, merchants, clergy, women, minorities, Cossacks) and the relations which grew up between the tsar and his society. The course will conclude with an appraisal of the breakdown of the relationship in 1917, and the tsarist legacy for Russia’s social and political institutions in the Soviet Union and beyond. Courses 200-299 are intermediate in material and/or approach and ordinarily taken by sophomores or juniors. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 261 - Making History: Russian Cinema as Testimony, Propaganda, and Art Cross-Listed as RUSS 261 .
Through the study of Russian films starting from the silent era up to the present day, the course will explore how storytelling in cinema differs from professional history and fiction, as well as how power relations, technology, and aesthetics shaped cinematic depictions of major historical events in Russia and the Soviet Union, from medieval times to post-Soviet era. Students will view and analyze films that are among the essential Russian contributions to world cinema, by directors including Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Mikhalkov, and Sokurov. Course readings will draw upon film theory, history, fiction, and memoirs. We will use our readings to create a conceptual framework for examining the films as documents of real events, as vehicles of proaganda, and as imaginative works of art. In addition to attending weekly film screenings and discussing the films and readings in class, stduents will give presentations on topics of their choice arranged in consultation with the instructors. Two professors will teach the course jointly, one a historian of Russia and the other a specialist in Russian literature and visual culture. Alternate spring semesters. (4 Credits)
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HIST 274 - History of Traditional China Cross-Listed as
A study of the culture and society of China from earliest times to the eighteenth century, when the impact of the West was strongly felt. The course will feature themes in Chinese history, including the birth of the Great Philosophers, the story of the Great Wall, the making and sustaining of the imperial system, the Silk Road and international trade and cultural exchange, the emergence of Chinese Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism, Genghis Kahn and his Eurasian Empire, the splendid literary and artistic achievements, the Opium War and its impact on modern China. Lecture/discussion format. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 275 - History of Modern China Cross-Listed as
A study of leading institutions and movements of nineteenth- and twentieth-century China. Major emphases include the impact of Western imperialism, intellectual and cultural changes, the transformation of peasant society through revolution, the rise of Mao Tse-Tung, and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and the rise of China as a world power. Special attention will be given to China’s international relations. Every year. (4 Credits)
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HIST 276 - History of Traditional Japan Cross-Listed as
A survey of the major political, social, religious, intellectual, economic and artistic developments in Japan from earliest times to the opening of Japan in the 1850s. The course will revisit Japan’s emperor system, Shintoism, feudalism, Samurai as a class, selective borrowing from China, Korea, and the West, and the background of Japan’s rapid modernization after the Meiji Restoration. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 277 - History of Modern Japan Cross-Listed as
Japan’s rapid industrialization in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and its phenomenal rise as the number two economic power in the world after the devastation wrought by World War II, have led many scholars to declare Japan a model worthy of emulation by all “developing” nations. After an examination of feudal Japan, this course probes the nature and course of Japan’s “amazing transformation” and analyzes the consequences of its strengths as a nation-state. Considerable study of Japanese art, literature, and religion will be undertaken and American attitudes toward the Japanese and their history will also be examined. Every year. (4 Credits)
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HIST 281 - The Andes: Race, Region, Nation Cross-Listed as LATI 281
This course provides a survey of Andean history with an emphasis upon the formation of collective identities. Class discussion will treat continuities and divergences between the Andean colonial and post-colonial experiences, especially the intersection between racial and regional tensions and their impact upon the emergence and construction of nation-states. Recent topics explored have included the role of landscape in Andean culture, Incan and neo-Incan cultural mythologies, the conflation of racial and class identities in the twentieth century, violence and guerrilla movements, urbanization, and the various shades of indigenismo. Offered every year. (4 Credits)
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HIST 282 - Latin America: Art and Nation Cross-Listed as LATI 282
This course presents an historical overview of the interaction between artists, the state, and national identity in Latin America. After an introduction to the import of images to crafting collective identities during the colonial era and the 19th century, we will focus on the 20th century. Topics to be discussed include the depiction of race, allegorical landscapes and architectures, the art of revolution, and countercultures. Multiple genres will be explored with an emphasis on the visual arts, architecture, and popular music. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 294 - Topics Course
Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
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HIST 314 - Africa and American Connection
The purpose of this course is to investigate cultural continuities between Africa and the African Diaspora by looking at how history shaped the development of distinct cultural practices on both sides of the Atlantic. We will explore the dispersal of African people through the Middle Passage and the development of new cultural constructs during the period of slavery. Students will become familiar with the major debates on the study of culture and identity for people of African descent in the New World and current research on African influences in American culture. Possible topics include African retentions in Gullah culture of South Carolina, the Blues and its West African roots, and the emergence of Voodoo in Haiti and Louisiana. Courses 300-399 are advanced in material and/or approach and ordinarily taken by juniors and seniors. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 330 - Advanced Studies: Historians and Critical Race Theory
This two credit course is designed for advanced students, particularly those who might participate in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program. The course, using different materials and pursuing different emphases each semester, examines the development and application of critical race theory, its place within the historiography of various disciplines, and its intersections with feminist, postcolonial, and other perspectives. The course pays particular attention to the development (structurally, ideologically, culturally) of race and racism within not only a US context but also within transnational and diasporic frameworks. The course also provides an opportunity to explore graduate programs and the processes of application and self-presentation. This course is intended not only to further the goals of the MMUF Program but also to encourage the intellectual success and development of students who might be drawn to the goals and activities of this program. Signature of instructor required. Courses 300-399 are advanced in material and/or approach and ordinarily taken by juniors and seniors. Every year. (2 Credits)
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HIST 331 - Racial Formation, Culture and US History Cross-Listed as AMST 331 and MCST 331
This interdisciplinary course will employ the methodologies of cultural and media studies within an historical framework to ask: What roles did “race” (the presence of diverse races; the relationships among those groups of people; the construction and representation of racial identities; the linking of material privileges and power to racial locations) play in the development of the United States? How have relationships of class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality been linked to “race”? How has “race” been a site of struggle between groups? How is the present a product of historical experiences? Our coursework will rely on reading historical studies, theory, cultural analysis, and memoirs, and on viewing and analyzing cultural performances and films. This course is designed for students with experience in history, cultural studies, African American or ethnic studies. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 340 - US Urban Environmental History Cross-Listed as ENVI 340
In the minds of many Americans, cities are places where nature is absent-places where nature exists only in the crevices and on the margins of spaces dominated by technology, concrete, and human artifice. This course confronts this assumption directly, drawing on the scholarship from the relatively young field of urban environmental history to uncover the deep interconnections between urban America and the natural world. Among the other things, we will examine how society has drawn upon nature to build and sustain urban growth, the implications that urban growth has for transforming ecosystems both local and distant, and how social values have guided urbanites as they have built and rearranged the world around them. Using the Twin Cities has a backdrop and constant reference point, we will attempt to understand the constantly changing ways that people, cities, and nature have shaped and reshaped one another throughout American history. (4 Credits)
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HIST 343 - Imperial Nature: The United States and the Global Environment Cross-Listed as ENVI 343
Although the United States accounts for just five percent of the world’s population, it consumes roughly twenty-five percent of the world’s total energy, has the world’s largest economy, and is the world’s largest consumer and generator of waste. Relative to its size, its policies and actions have had a significantly disproportionate impact on global economic development and environmental health. Mixing broad themes and detailed case studies, this course will focus on the complex historical relationship between American actions and changes to the global environment. (4 Credits)
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HIST 345 - Car Country: The Automobile and the American Environment Cross-Listed as ENVI 345
At the dawn of the twentieth century, automobiles were newfangled playthings of the very wealthy; by century’s end, they had become necessities of the modern world. This momentous change brought with it a cascading series of consequences that completely remade the American landscape and touched nearly every aspect of American life. This course will explore the role that cars and roads have played in shaping Americans’ interactions with the natural world, and will seek an historical understanding of how the country has developed such an extreme dependency on its cars. In the process, we will engage with current debates among environmentalists, policymakers, and local communities trying to shape the future of the American transportation system and to come to grips with the environmental effects of a car-dependent lifestyles and landscapes. (4 Credits)
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HIST 350 - Race, Gender, and Science
How has science informed definitions of race, sex, and gender in the past? This class examines the scientific discourses and methodologies that have, historically, sought to explain racial and sexual difference. We will examine scholarship that considers the social effects of science and the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and science. Among the topics under consideration: the definitions of deviance in colonial and post-colonial societies, eugenics, contemporary debates on race, sexuality, and genetics. Offered alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 352 - Modern Britain
The development of English politics and society from the time of George III to the twentieth century. Among the topics to be considered are: the transition from rural to urban society; the American Revolution; the rise and decline of Britain as world leader; Victorian and Edwardian society; England and Ireland; and the future of Britain in the modern world. Courses 300-399 are advanced in material and/or approach and ordinarily taken by juniors and seniors. Offered occasionally. (4 Credits)
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HIST 362 - Soviet Union and Successors
A survey of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet history from the Russian Revolution to the present. Topics include the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, Bolshevik rule and its tsarist heritage, Soviet “monocratic” society under Lenin and Stalin, dissent in the USSR, the “command economy” in the collapse of Communist political power, and national consciousness as an operative idea in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Courses 300-399 are advanced in material and/or approach and ordinarily taken by juniors and seniors. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 364 - Germany from 1871 to Present
A survey of the history of German society and politics from the Bismarckian unification to the present with emphasis on the origins of the German and world catastrophe of 1933-45. Among the major issues covered will be Bismarck and his legacy for German politics, the army and German political life, the Weimar Republic and German political culture, the origins and development of the Nazi party, Germany between the United States and the USSR, and Germany’s significance in post-Cold War Europe. Courses 300-399 are advanced in material and/or approach and ordinarily taken by juniors and seniors. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 366 - Europe in the Age of Upheaval and Revolution
A study of European politics, culture and society during the years (1780-1850) in which Europe experienced the most profound social and political transformations in its history. Among the topics to be considered are the French Revolution, urbanization, industrialization, new concepts of the family, Darwin, and the growth of new ideologies. Courses 300-399 are advanced in material and/or approach and ordinarily taken by juniors and seniors. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 376 - Public History
This course introduces students to the ways history is being practiced in the public sphere. We will examine a wide array of topics that fall under the rubric of public history including the study of archives, museums, and oral histories. The course will also consider historical reenactment, commemoration, digital history, and the preservation of historical sites. As we explore these topics we will be asking larger questions about who practices history, the role of audience, and the relationship between history and memory. No prerequisites. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 378 - War Crimes and Memory in East Asia Cross-Listed as ASIA 378
This course’s main goal is to introduce evidence of the major crimes and atrocities during World War II in East Asia such as the Nanjing Massacre, biochemical warfare (Unit 731), the military sexual slavery (“comfort women”) system, the forced labor system, and inhumane treatment of POWs. The course will also help students understand the contemporary geo-political and socio-economic forces that affect how East Asians and Westerners collectively remember and reconstruct World War II. Offered occasionally. (4 Credits)
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HIST 379 - The Study of History
This advanced course is required for majors. It examines the various forms of analysis used by historians through a study of different kinds of historical texts and sources. It provides an opportunity for students to develop the skills and habits of thinking essential to practicing the discipline of history. This course invites students to address some of the myriad questions and controversies that surround such historical concepts as “objectivity,” “subjectivity,” “truth,” “epistemology,” and thereby to develop a “philosophy” of history. At the same time, it stresses the acquisition of such historical tools as the use of written, oral, computer and media sources and the development of analytical writing skills. The subject matter for study changes each year. Recent themes of the course have been memory, empires, and class formation. Courses 300-399 are advanced in material and/or approach and ordinarily taken by juniors and seniors. Every year. (4 Credits)
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HIST 381 - Transnational Latin Americas Cross-Listed as INTL 381 and LATI 381
This course examines critical and primary literatures concerning the transnational, hemispheric, Atlantic, and Pacific cultures that have intersected in Latin America since the early colonial era, with a particular focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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HIST 394 - Topics Course
Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
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HIST 490 - Special Advanced Topics
The senior seminar is team taught every fall by 2-3 members of the department, around themes that easily cross chronological and geographic lines. Recent topics include Documenting History, and Texts and Contexts. Courses 400-649 are advanced seminars and independent projects ordinarily taken by seniors. Every fall. (4 Credits)
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HIST 494 - Topics Course
Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
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HIST 601 - Tutorial
A student or a small group of students may get together with a department member to examine a theme in which the latter has considerable expertise but which is not normally covered in his or her regular courses. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (1 Credits)
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HIST 602 - Tutorial
A student or a small group of students may get together with a department member to examine a theme in which the latter has considerable expertise but which is not normally covered in his or her regular courses. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (2 Credits)
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HIST 603 - Tutorial
A student or a small group of students may get together with a department member to examine a theme in which the latter has considerable expertise but which is not normally covered in his or her regular courses. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (3 Credits)
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HIST 604 - Tutorial
A student or a small group of students may get together with a department member to examine a theme in which the latter has considerable expertise but which is not normally covered in his or her regular courses. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
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HIST 611 - Independent Project
Students may carry out independent research on specific topics under the supervision of a member of the department with expertise on that particular field. The work should result in an original paper or series of papers. Only one independent study may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (1 Credits)
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HIST 612 - Independent Project
Students may carry out independent research on specific topics under the supervision of a member of the department with expertise on that particular field. The work should result in an original paper or series of papers. Only one independent study may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (2 Credits)
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HIST 613 - Independent Project
Students may carry out independent research on specific topics under the supervision of a member of the department with expertise on that particular field. The work should result in an original paper or series of papers. Only one independent study may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (3 Credits)
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HIST 614 - Independent Project
Students may carry out independent research on specific topics under the supervision of a member of the department with expertise on that particular field. The work should result in an original paper or series of papers. Only one independent study may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
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HIST 616 - Independent Project
Students may carry out independent research on specific topics under the supervision of a member of the department with expertise on that particular field. The work should result in an original paper or series of papers. Only one independent study may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (6 Credits)
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HIST 621 - Internship
A student may register for an internship with any member of the department. Off campus learning experiences must have explicit historical content. The student, the faculty sponsor, and the site supervisor will negotiate a learning agreement which specifies the student’s goals, means of achieving them, and the manner in which the internship will be evaluated. A standard internship will involve ten hours per week and earn four credits. Only one internship may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Internship Office. (1 Credits)
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HIST 622 - Internship
A student may register for an internship with any member of the department. Off campus learning experiences must have explicit historical content. The student, the faculty sponsor, and the site supervisor will negotiate a learning agreement which specifies the student’s goals, means of achieving them, and the manner in which the internship will be evaluated. A standard internship will involve ten hours per week and earn four credits. Only one internship may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Internship Office. (2 Credits)
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HIST 623 - Internship
A student may register for an internship with any member of the department. Off campus learning experiences must have explicit historical content. The student, the faculty sponsor, and the site supervisor will negotiate a learning agreement which specifies the student’s goals, means of achieving them, and the manner in which the internship will be evaluated. A standard internship will involve ten hours per week and earn four credits. Only one internship may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Internship Office. (3 Credits)
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HIST 624 - Internship
A student may register for an internship with any member of the department. Off campus learning experiences must have explicit historical content. The student, the faculty sponsor, and the site supervisor will negotiate a learning agreement which specifies the student’s goals, means of achieving them, and the manner in which the internship will be evaluated. A standard internship will involve ten hours per week and earn four credits. Only one internship may count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Internship Office. (4 Credits)
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HIST 631 - Preceptorship
Students may arrange to precept a course with a department member. They will normally be expected to attend the course, do the reading and participate in discussion, look over student writing, and provide guidance or tutor as necessary. Preceptorships do not count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs. (1 Credits)
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HIST 632 - Preceptorship
Students may arrange to precept a course with a department member. They will normally be expected to attend the course, do the reading and participate in discussion, look over student writing, and provide guidance or tutor as necessary. Preceptorships do not count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs. (2 Credits)
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HIST 633 - Preceptorship
Students may arrange to precept a course with a department member. They will normally be expected to attend the course, do the reading and participate in discussion, look over student writing, and provide guidance or tutor as necessary. Preceptorships do not count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs. (3 Credits)
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HIST 634 - Preceptorship
Students may arrange to precept a course with a department member. They will normally be expected to attend the course, do the reading and participate in discussion, look over student writing, and provide guidance or tutor as necessary. Preceptorships do not count toward the ten courses required for a history major. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs. (4 Credits)
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INTD 191 - Supplementary Writing Workshop
One-credit (1 cr) supplementary Writing Workshop, that will be graded S/N. Instructors will be from a variety of departments. Participation by invitation only; if interested, please contact the Academic Programs Office. (1 Credits)
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INTD 401 - Urban Studies Colloquium
This course provides students with a culminating experience in the urban studies concentration. Students will use the course to integrate past coursework in urban studies and reflect on where their interests in the diverse field of urban studies lie. Weekly meetings will explore the breadth and diversity of urban studies through guided readings, meetings with faculty in the urban studies program, and conversations with urban studies professionals in the community. Students will also be responsible for organizing a colloquium meeting and making a presentation on an interest of theirs germane to urban studies. S/D/NC grading only. Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing; , at least two discipline-based theoretical courses, and at least one applied course as identified in the description for the Urban Studies concentration. Instructor permission required. (2 Credits)
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INTD 411 - Sr Seminar in Community and Global Health
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INTL 110 - Introduction to International Studies: Globalization - Homogeneity and Heterogeneity
Globalization is upon us, resulting in unprecedented cultural interpenetration and civilizational encounter. Most of what animates this condition is old. However, the contemporary velocity, reach, and mutations of these forces suggest a new “world time,” full of contradictions, perils, and promises. This course introduces students to globalization by asking What is globalization, and how does one study it? What are the principal forces (social groups, ideas, institutions, and ecological circumstances) that shaped and now propel it? What are its concrete consequences, and how are we to respond? Open to first- and second-year students. Every year. (4 Credits)
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INTL 111 - Introduction to International Studies: Literature and Global Studies
One of the most significant trends of the current era has been globalization: the shrinking of distances, the greater interpenetration of the world’s peoples, and the rise, perhaps, of a so-called global culture. Yet it is too simple to say, “it’s all a big mix,” for the questions of how the mixing is done, and who mixes, are complex. The study of literature illuminates these questions. By reading important recent texts, this course tackles “world” questions: what does it mean to be from a certain place? what is a culture? and who are we in it? We’ll work to link our own personal readings with the texts in dialogue with the world. Texts will be drawn from U.S. multicultural, “world,” and travel literature, and rich theoretical readings. Open to first- and second-year students. Every year. (4 Credits)
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INTL 112 - Introduction to International Studies: Globalization, Media, and Cultural Identities
This course investigates the effects of the globalization of media and popular culture on the identities and identifications of the world’s peoples. We will interrogate where cultural identity and symbolic communities come from and consider the politics and possibilities of common cultures. Combining theory, and case studies of worldwide media (film, video, digital media, music and more), we will explore numerous paradigms (modernization, cultural imperialism, post-modernism, post-structuralism) as frameworks of understanding. Open to first- and second-year students. Every year. (4 credits) (4 Credits)
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INTL 113 - Introduction to International Studies: Identities, Interests, and Community
Open to first- and second-year students. This course develops a base of knowledge, concepts, and analytical skills for engaging with International Studies’ multi-dimensional concerns. Ranging across disciplines but with an emphasis on social science, we study global theories of interaction and conflict between human groups and explore sites and implications of increasing encounter. Focusing on culture, people flows, nationalism and ethnicity, democratization, contending interests, security, religious fundamentalism, gender, and modes of community integration, we examine how particular cases reflect broader processes. Every year. (4 Credits)
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INTL 114 - Introduction to International Studies: International Codes of Conduct
Can we all live by one set of rules? This course investigates the broad field of global studies by addressing fresh and age-old issues in international law from the personal to the global, including borders, sources and enforcement of international law, law of the sea, immigration and asylum, post-national federation, colonization, world order, and global citizenship. Readings include case studies, memoirs, fiction, and other texts focusing on individuals, cultures, and states. Open to first- and second-year students. Every year. (4 Credits)
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INTL 194 - Topics Course
Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
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INTL 202 - Global Media Industries Cross-Listed as MCST 202 .
We view the world and its peoples primarily through the “consciousness industry” of the media. As such, the way it is organized vitally impacts how we understand the world and our place in it. When did global media industries emerge, how are they organized, who owns them, and how have they transformed? In this course, we will investigate historical and contemporary forces of media production, explore theories for understanding the role of media in society, as well as consider paradigms that contest both practices and discourses of media globalization. (4 Credits)
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INTL 225 - Comparative Economic Systems Cross-Listed as
This course examines the workings of economic systems from the perspective of the incentives facing the firm and consumer. The course provides an introduction to the economics of information and organization which is used to evaluate resource allocation under the specific institutional environment of different economic systems. Our understanding of the incentive system is then used to evaluate the overall economic system. The focus of the course is primarily on the U.S., Japan and the former Soviet Union/Russia. As time permits the course may examine China, Germany and Central Europe. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119 . (4 Credits)
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INTL 238 - Globalization and Environment Cross-Listed as
This introductory course interrogates rapidly evolving global economic and political systems from a framework of environmental sustainability. Multiple economic, political, scientific, and philosophical perspectives are considered, as are proposals for system changes. Particular attention is paid to the role of multi-national corporations, international trade and finance patterns and agreements, and global climate change. Questions related to consumption, population, and food production are also considered. Every other fall. Prerequisite(s): Strong interest in the subject. (4 Credits)
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INTL 245 - Introduction to International Human Rights
This course offers a theoretical and practical introduction to the study and promotion of human rights. Using broad materials, it focuses on the evolution and definition of key concepts, the debate over “universal” rights, regional and international institutions, core documents, the role of states, and current topics of interest to the human rights movement. Every fall. (4 Credits)
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INTL 253 - Comparative Muslim Cultures Cross-Listed as
This course examines the cultures of three globally influential Islamic civilizations: Arab, Persian, and Indian. We will explore pre-Islamic frameworks, and engage diverse primary Islamic political, intellectual, and spiritual sources and recent scholarship. We’ll ask, what (if anything) is essential to all Islamic societies? What varies? What of interactions with neighboring religions and traditions? And how have these core traditions extended into today’s North American, French, German-Turkish, East or West African, British, and other forms of Islam? Offered most years. Prerequisite(s): or (4 Credits)
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INTL 265 - Translation as Cross-Cultural Communication Cross-Listed as
When communication takes place across language barriers, it raises fundamental questions about meaning, style, power relationships, and traditions. This course treats literary translation as a particularly complex form of cross-cultural interaction. Students will work on their own translations of prose or poetry while considering broader questions of translation, through critiques of existing translations, close comparisons of variant translations, and readings on cultural and theoretical aspects of literary translation. Prerequisite(s): Advanced proficiency in a second language. (4 Credits)
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INTL 266 - Performance/Documents/Rights Cross-Listed as THDA 266
This course examines experimental techniques in contemporary performing arts and media that theorize the history, politic, and everyday practice of human rights. Locating the avant-garde as a site for critical interdisciplinary work in performance and rights, we study the prevalence of contemporary uses of “the archive,” which works between database and narrative in order to think the interlinking challenges of memory, narrative, and documentation. We engage works in Theatre Studies, Performance Studies, Dance Studies, Critical Theory, Legal Studies, Media and Documentary Studies, Visual Art, as well as plays, multimedia performance texts, literatures, film, and events. Sources include artistic projects from Latin America, Algeria, Morocco, France, Germany, South Africa, Hungary, former-Czechoslovakia, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, England, and the US. Offered alternate years. (4 Credits)
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INTL 269 - Economics of International Migration Cross-Listed as
This course will examine the global movement of people through an economic lens. The course will study the impact that emigration has on the economy of the home country, such as brain drain and population change, the historic role that migration has played in economic development, and finally the effect that immigration has on immigrant-receiving countries. The various economic issues in the current immigration debate in the United States will be analyzed including the economic assimilation of immigrants, and the impact of immigration on native born workers. Every other spring. (4 Credits)
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INTL 272 - Post-Nationalism: The Post-Soviet Sphere Cross-Listed as
The USSR’s 1991 dissolution ended one of history’s great experiments. Socialism sought to dissolve ethnicity and overcome ethnic conflict with a focus on equality. Instead it exacerbated nationalism and created-separated identities. But how? Topics include ethno-creation, control, and resistance; ethnic animosities and the USSR’s destruction; new states after 1991; “diaspora” populations beyond ethnic homelands; local rebellions; new “native” dictatorships; and recent international organizations. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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INTL 275 - Work, Ethics, and Vocation in the Era of Globalization
Macalester students widely seek to do “global good.” Yet the concrete effects of many transnational careers are unclear. Positive worldly transformation? Imposition of Western values? This course examines ethics and consequences in international elite agency, focusing on cosmopolitan lives and selected professions, capped by a highly tailorable final project. Recent Macalester alumni serve as resources to support rich inquiry in transnational vocation. (4 Credits)
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INTL 280 - Indigenous Peoples’ Movements in Global Context Cross-Listed as
During the last three decades, a global indigenous rights movement has taken shape within the United nations and other international bodies, challenging and reformulating international law and global cultural understandings of indigenous rights. The recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights in international law invokes the tensions between sovereignty and human rights, but also challenges the dominant international understandings of both principles. In this course, we examine indigenous peoples’ movements by placing them in a global context and sociologically informed theoretical framework. By beginning with a set of influential theoretical statements from social science, we will then use indigenous peoples’ movements as case studies to examine the extent to which these theoretical perspectives explain and are challenged by case studies. We will then analyze various aspects of indigenous peoples’ movements and the extent to which these aspects of the movement are shaped by global processes. Every other year. (4 Credits)
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INTL 285 - Ethnicity and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe
This course explores ethnic nationalism’s causes and consequences in Eastern Europe. Drawing on several disciplines, we begin by examining the core concepts and theories in the contemporary study of nationalism. We then explore both the historical roots of Eastern European nationalisms, and their implications for democracy, minority inclusion, regional stability, and European integration. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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INTL 286 - Media and Cultural Studies of Latin America Cross-Listed as LATI 286 and MCST 286 .
This course explores cultural and media industries and texts - including folktales, art, performance, sport, film, and television - within their socio-political and historical context in Latin America. Organized around case studies that will allow us to apply learned cultural theories and methodologies to specific texts and historical moments, this class is imagined as a cultural studies “laboratory” in which we will collectively investigate varied topics in the field. Offered every year. (4 Credits)
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INTL 288 - Race and Ethnicity in Japan Cross-Listed as AMST 288 and JAPA 288 .
One of the founding myths of the modern Japanese nation-state has been the illusion of racial and ethnic homogeneity. This course aims not only to challenge this myth but also to historicize and contextualize it by investigating varous racial and ethnic minorities in Japan: Ainu, Burakumin (outcasts), Okinawans, Koreans, African Americans, Nikkeijin (South Americans of Japanese descent), and Caucasians. These groups pose fundamental questions about the boundaries of “Japan” and about the meanings of “race” and “ethnicity” as categories of identification and difference. The purpose of this course is two-fold: 1) to familiarize students with the history of minority discourse in Japan, and 2) to encourage students to think critically and comparatively about race and ethnicity in general. All readings are in English or English translation. Every year. (4 Credits)
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INTL 294 - Topics Course
Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
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INTL 300 - Advanced Feminist/Queer Theories and Methodologies Cross-Listed as
This course is an in-depth study of some specific theories and methodologies on which contemporary feminist and queer thinkers have based their analysis, critique, and reconstruction of men’s and women’s roles. Some guiding questions are: What is a nation? Who are its citizens? How do language and gender roles shape the ways we imagine our roles as men and women? Do sexuality or economy affect how we subscribe to or resist political ideologies? In previous offerings, the course has explored the intersection of Postcolonialism (specifically gendered critiques of colonizing sociopolitical structures) with Postmodernism (specifically gendered critiques of language and sexuality). The course will include film, photography, music, and the writings of Butler, Foucault, Chodorow, Kristeva, hooks, Spivak, and Trinh, among others. It offers ways to create links with local community and social-work organizations. Prerequisite(s): junior standing or permission of instructor and at least one intermediate WGSS core course. (4 Credits)
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INTL 317 - Writers and Power: The European East in the 20th Century
Eastern European writers and filmmakers have long been prominent figures, reflecting their confrontation with the 20th century’s three most powerful ideologies: fascism, communism, and democracy. This course explores the interactions between writers and these systems of power in the works of major figures such as Ionesco, Kundera, Havel, Milosz, Forman, and Kusturica. We follow written and cinematic engagements with power at both social and individual levels, and extend to broad questions of history and community. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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INTL 322 - Culture and Global Capitalism Cross-Listed as LATI 322 and MCST 322 .
From the colonial sugar plantations of the Caribbean and new continental tastes for sweets, to Ford’s mass production lines and Fordist mass consumption, to Sony’s multinationally produced video technology and Sonyism’s transnational networks of information societies, to Google and YouTube today, the worlds of capitalism and culture have been closely intertwined. This class will study forms of global economic exchange, and their associated systems of international relations, cultural texts, and popular resistances. Offered every year. (4 Credits)
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INTL 323 - Economic Restructuring in Latin America Cross-Listed as ECON 323 and LATI 323 .
This course uses economic principles to examine the transition from Import Substitution Industrialization to trade liberalization in Latin America. The goal of the course is to understand the economic antecedents to free trade as well as the resulting impact on workers and resource allocation. The course also addresses peripheral aspects of economic restructuring, such as the drug trade, migration, and the maquiladora industry. Requires an Economics 200 level course from the Group A electives, Economics 221 preferred.Offered every year. Prerequisite(s): ECON 200-level course ( ECON 221 preferred). (4 Credits)
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INTL 325 - China, Russia and Central Europe in Transition Cross-Listed as
This course surveys the theoretic and empirical literature on Soviet-style central planning and the transition to a market economy. The economic history of central planning is examined with emphasis on the experience of the Soviet Union and its variants in Eastern Europe and China. The tool of analysis is the branch of economics known as the economics of organization and information, which will be used to analyze the operation, strengths, and limitations of central planning. The legacy of central planning forms the backdrop for an examination of the transition to a market economy. Alternate years Prerequisite(s): ECON 119 and one 200s level ECON course from Group A electives; ECON 221 or ECON 225 are recommended. (4 Credits)
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INTL 333 - Economics of Global Food Problems Cross-Listed as ECON 333 and ENVI 333 .
This course will examine food distribution, production, policy, and hunger issues from an economics perspective. It explores and compares food and agriculture issues in both industrialized and developing countries. Basic economic tools will be applied to provide an analytical understanding of these issues. Topics such as hunger and nutrition, US farm policy, food distribution, food security, food aid, biotechnology and the Green Revolution, the connection between food production and health outcomes, as well as other related themes will be explored in depth throughout the semester. Offered every other spring semester. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119 and one 200-level Economics course from Group A electives; or recommended. (4 Credits)
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INTL 345 - Advanced Themes in Human Rights
This course closely investigates human rights violations and the dilemmas facing the actors and institutions that seek to address them. The specific focus may vary with each offering, responding to instructor expertise and focus, emerging and volatile situations worldwide, or new advances in the field. Prior coursework on human rights, or instructor’s permission required. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): Prior coursework in human rights or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
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INTL 352 - Transitional Justice
This course explores the rapidly evolving field of transitional justice, examining how and why regimes respond to wide-scale past human rights abuses. Drawing on examples worldwide, it asks why states choose particular strategies and examines a variety of goals (truth, justice, reconciliation, democracy-building), approaches (trials, truth commissions, file access, memorialization, reparation, rewriting histories), actors (state, civil society, religious institutions), experiences, results, and controversies. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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INTL 362 - Culture and Globalization Cross-Listed as
The world is far more interconnected today than ever before, but what does this mean in terms of culture? This course looks at the impact of globalization on cultures and at examples of global cultures such immigrants, media and popular cultures, world cities, and transnational intellectuals, ethnicities and ideologies. It also looks at the way cultures interact at geographic borders and in the margins of society. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): or (4 Credits)
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INTL 364 - Culture and Revolution Cross-Listed as
This course examines the relationship between cultural and political change during three very different revolutions: France 1789, Russia 1917, Iran 1979. How do people change when governments are overturned? How do revolutions shape popular consciousness? Do people understand events as revolutionaries intend? To answer these questions, we will examine symbols and political ideologies, mass media, education, social identities, the culture of violence, popular participation and resistance, and other issues. Readings will include revolution-inspiring works of Voltaire and Rousseau, Marx and Lenin, Khomeini and the Koran. We will read sympathetic and antagonistic contemporary accounts, and look at popular culture to see how events were understood. Fashion and etiquette, comics and caricatures, movies and plays will be used. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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INTL 367 - Postcolonial Theory Cross-Listed as ENGL 367 .
Traces the development of theoretical accounts of culture, politics and identity in Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean and related lands since the 1947-1991 decolonizations. Readings include Fanon, Said, Walcott, Ngugi and many others, and extend to gender, literature, the U.S., the post-Soviet sphere, and Europe. The course bridges cultural, representational, and political theory. Prior internationalist and/or theoretical coursework strongly recommended. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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INTL 368 - Sustainable Development and Global Future Cross-Listed as ENVI 368 .
This course thoroughly examines the concept of sustainable development. We will define the term, examine its history, and evaluate its political, philosophical, scientific, and economic significance. Implementation of sustainable development in both the world’s North and South are considered. Close attention is given to non-governmental organizations and nation-states, the loss of global biodiversity, and existing and proposed remedial actions. Prior coursework in international, development, political, scientific, and/or environmental issues is strongly recommended. Next offered 2012-2013. (4 Credits)
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INTL 372 - Post-Nationalism: The European Union
The European Union aims to overcome nationality for the common good. Its successes have challenged traditional customs and identities, and it has stumbled over cultural questions, foreign policy, and constitutional foundations. Topics will include genesis of the EU; erosion of national sovereignty and consequent anxieties; European institutions vs. local control; cultural norms confronted with EU economic, political, and human rights; incorporating new member-states, and the very notion of “Europe.” Throughout we will ask whether one can get “beyond nationalism.” Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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INTL 381 - Transnational Latin Americas Cross-Listed as HIST 381 and LATI 381
This course examines critical and primary literatures concerning the transnational, hemispheric, Atlantic, and Pacific cultures that have intersected in Latin America since the early colonial era, with a particular focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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INTL 384 - Langston Hughes: Global Writer Cross-Listed as
The great African American writer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is best known as the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance. But his career was vaster still. He was a Soviet screenwriter, Spanish Civil War journalist, African literary anthologist, humorist, playwright, translator, social critic, writer of over 10,000 letters, and much more. This course engages Hughes-s full career, bridging race and global issues, politics and art, and makes use of little-known archival materials. (4 Credits)
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INTL 394 - Topics Course
Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
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INTL 415 - Cultural Resistance and Survival: Indigenous and African Peoples in Early Spanish America Cross-Listed as LATI 415 and HISP 415
In the Old World, Spain defined its national identity by locating its “others” in Jews, conversos, Muslims, moriscos, Turks, gypsies, pirates and Protestants. In the New World, Spaniards employed many of the same discursive and legal tactics—along with brute force—to subject Amerindian and African peoples to their will and their cultural norms. But indigenous and African populations in the Americas actively countered colonization. They rejected slavery and cultural imposition through physical rebellion, the use of strategies of cultural preservation and the appropriation of phonetic writing, which they in turn wielded against European hegemony. We will examine a fascinating corpus of indigenous pictographic codexes, architecture, myths, and histories and letters of resistance, along with a rich spectrum of texts in which peoples of African descent affirm their own subjectivity in opposition to slavery and cultural violence. What will emerge for students is a complex, heterogeneous vision of the conquest and early colonization in which non-European voices speak loudly on their own behalf. Prerequisite(s): HISP 307 or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
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INTL 416 - Mapping the New World: Exploration, Encounters, and Disasters Cross-Listed as HISP 416 and LATI 416 .
Europeans were by no means the first peoples to explore new territories and human populations. Renaissance scientific methodology, however, led European travelers to meticulously document each New World encounter in writing and develop new tools with which to navigate and represent space, devices that subsequently became weapons of colonial domination. But as Nature and indigenous populations refused to be subjected to European epistemology, failure and disaster were frequent events: shipwrecks left Old World survivors stranded among unknown lands and peoples in the Americas; Amerindians rejected the imposition of a foreign culture and religion, murdering colonists and missionaries; Africans rebelled against slavery and escaped to mountains and jungles to form autonomous communities. An examination of maps, exploration logs, missionary histories, travel literature, historiography and colonial documents will provide the foundation for this course on the ambivalent reality of the Old World’s encounter with the Americas, in which Europeans were often the losers. Prerequisite(s): HISP 307 or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
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INTL 477 - Comparative Environment and Development Studies Cross-Listed as
A concern for the relationship between nature and society has been one of the pillars of geographic inquiry and has also been an important bridge between other disciplines. By the 1960s, this area of inquiry was referred to variously as “human ecology.” Over the last decade, certain forms of inquiry within this tradition have increasingly referred to themselves as “political ecology.” The purpose of this seminar is to review major works within the traditions of cultural and political ecology; examine several areas of interest within these fields (e.g., agricultural modernization, environmental narratives, conservation, ecotourism); and explore nature-society dynamics across a range of geographical contexts. Towards the end of the course we will explore how one might begin to think in practical terms about facilitating development in marginal environments. Offered occasionally. Prerequisite(s): GEOG 232 or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
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INTL 480 - Paradigms of Global Leadership
Leadership is among the deepest features of associational life, pervading every profession and institution, especially in the age of complex global change. Thus this seminar explores leadership. We begin with the relationship between structure and agency, and then focus on vision and invention, integrity and legitimacy, flexibility and decisiveness. Readings draw from Western, Islamic, and Chinese sources. The main paper will focus on a major individual from any century or locale, chosen by the student. Open to juniors and seniors in any department. (4 Credits)
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INTL 485 - Senior Seminar: Confronting Global Hatred
Drawing on several disciplines, this course confronts global hatred from three angles. The first is the hater’s internal world and looks at how human nature, genetic structure/instincts, and individual psychology may foster hatred. The second is external, exploring the role history, culture, ideology, social structure, religion, and mass psychology play. The third seeks to apply the insights gained from the first two, asking: how might we break the devastating cycles of hatred so present in our world? Alternate years. (4 Credits)
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INTL 488 - Senior Seminar: Universalism: Confronting Global Thought
Rapid globalization in all areas of modern life raises afresh the question of universalism: do we live in one world or many? This course reviews classic inquiries into attempts at thinking the world as one. Varying from year to year, the course ranges across world-historical studies, Russian “Eurasianism,” theories of Weltliteratur, debates in the Americas and the Caribbean, contemporary writing on global culture and business, and other topics. Throughout, we will ask: in whose interest is the universal? is there any local left? does global mean homogeneous? is it possible to be cosmopolitan? is there any center left, and if so, who or what occupies it? A course less about research or fact than about thought. (4 Credits)
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INTL 489 - Senior Seminar: Paradigms of World Order
The end of the Cold War eliminated a large divide in international society. However, the initial astonishments of this event now give way to arguments about the nature and direction of transnational life. For some, the situation is seen as the disappearance of an aberration, and the return of the “natural” processes of Western modernization and progress, guaranteed by free markets and liberal democracy. Others read the changes as the unveiling of a deeper, more complicated divide, requiring fundamental rethinking as well as reconstitution of world order. Through various readings, this senior seminar interrogates these and other interpretations of the interregnum and their correlative visions. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing (4 Credits)
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INTL 494 - Topics Course
Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
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