Courses in History
Course Description
Prerequisite: HIST 1623 or HIST 1233 or junior standing or permission of instructor.
This course surveys key events and ideals that have shaped the modern nation of France. We will engage literature, history, film, and sociology to develop a more nuanced understanding of France and its place in the world. We will focus particularly on the roles played by gender and religious identities in constructing or complicating definitions of French citizenship.
(F) [IV-WC]
Course Description
Prerequisite: HIST 1483 or HIST 1493 or junior standing or permission of instructor.
Covers the world's oldest prejudice from ancient times to the present. Topics include Christian Antisemitism; medieval demonization of the Jews; Inquisition; Dreyfus case; pogroms; American Antisemitism; Nazism and Holocaust; Arab and Muslim Antisemitism; and African American Antisemitism.
(Irreg.) [IV-WC]
Course Description
Examine American attitudes toward the environment since the founding of American colonies, evolution of natural resource policies, and lives of prominent figures in the "conservation" and "ecology" movements of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
(F) [IV-WC]
Course Description
Examines conformity and dissent in the 1950s and 1960s. Topics include the consumer culture, suburbia, the impact of television, 'McCarthyism', the Beats and the 1960s counterculture, student protest, civil rights and black nationalism, and women's liberation.
(Irreg.) [IV-WC]
Course Description
Prerequisite: HIST 1483 or HIST 1493 or junior standing or permission of instructor.
The course examines American Jewish experiences from 1654 to the present, and the ways in which Jews adapted to American life, constructed American-Jewish identities, and contributed to American politics and culture. Topics include: immigration, assimilation, gender norms, antisemitism, McCarthyism, suburbanization, the Holocaust, Israel, the civil rights movement, and political behavior, among others.
(Irreg.)
Course Description
Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor.
Through a close reading of Genesis and its Jewish interpreters, this class takes one mode of reading to ask: How a minority tradition understands key passages, terms & theologies. It also addresses how deducing the Bible's message depends on one's own presuppositions, and how another tradition can enhance one's own reading of Scripture.
(Irreg.)
