Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

An interdisciplinary introduction to Asian Studies will touch upon the history, politics, economics, philosophy, geography, arts, and cultures of Asia. Sample topics include political economy, religious and cultural exchanges, international relations, the Asian experience in America, and the role of Asia in the twenty-first century. Students will develop conceptual frameworks for exploring the subjects covered by the Asian Studies curriculum.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement,Cultural Diversity Opt B

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A survey of European culture, politics, and society from antiquity to the seventeenth century, examining such topics as: the Greek, Judaic, and Roman heritage; the rise of Christianity; feudal society in the Middle Ages; Renaissance and Reformation; the Scientific Revolution; and the development of absolutist and constitutional governments.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

Term Offered

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A survey of European culture, politics, and society from the Scientific Revolution to the present, examining such topics as the development of absolutist and constitutional governments; the Enlightenment; the French Revolution; Industrialization and urbanization; nationalism and imperialism; World War I, World War II, and the Cold War; the decline of Europe as a world power.

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

2.00

Description

Begin with a walking tour of the Freedom Trail conducted by Charles Bahne, author of The Complete Guide to Boston's Freedom Trail. Stops include the Old South Meeting House, the Old State House, Faneuil Hall, the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company Museum, Paul Revere House, and the Old North Church. Students will learn the historical significance of each site and its connection to Bostons role in the American Revolution. In addition, they will develop their research skills during a visit to the Massachusetts Historical Society. The course concludes with a guided walk along the Black Heritage Trail through Beacon Hill, home to some of Bostons key abolitionist leaders. *An additional field trip fee applies for various visits throughout Boston This course does not fulfill core requirements.

Term Offered

Summer

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A survey of the civilizations of the ancient fertile Crescent, China, India, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, the rise of Islam, Africa, the Americas, the Chinese borderlands and medieval Europe from the beginning of history to 1500. We study the uniqeness and similarities of each civilization, how they interacted with each other, and how they changed over time. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A survey of human civilizations from 1500 to the present. Course explores themes such as the development of new trading networks, including the slave trade, religious and intellectual innovation, the rise of nationalism and creation of nation-states, the democratic revolutions, imperialism and world war. We study social change such as gender and race relations; technological and scientific revolutions; and cultural achievements of all civilizations. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This is the first of the two-course series of Empires and Globalization in World History. Course discusses the origins and development of globalization and capitalism from the perspective of economic history. Major issues include the formation of the medieval trade system, the development of finance and capitalism in the early modern ages, and economic changes prior to the Industrial Revolution. The specific topics may change every year due to new academic developments and publications. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This is the second of the two-course series of Empires and Globalization in World History. Course discusses the origins and development of globalization and capitalism from the perspective of economic history. Major issues include state-making, wars, and the rivalry among early modern empires, economic development, the Industrial Revolution and the formation of the global trade system. The specific topics may change every year due to new academic developments and publications. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This seminar will introduce students to resources and techniques in African American genealogy. During the seminar students will explore methods of applying genealogical research to the larger African American and American story by working on an African American genealogy project. Note: This course is identical to BLKST 169.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A survey of American history from European colonization up through the era of the Civil War. Topics include interactions with Native Americans; slavery; the American Revolution; the founding of a new republic; social and economic developments in the early nineteenth century; expansion; party politics; sectional conflict; the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A survey of American history from the 1870s to the present. Topics include the new industrial order; farmer and worker protests; progressivism; America's emergence as a world power; the two World Wars; the Great Depression; the New Deal; the Cold War; post-World War II American society; the Civil rights movement; Vietnam; dissent and counterculture in the 1960s; the women's movement; economic, social, and political changes in the late-twentieth century; America's relationship to a "globalized" world.

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

What does it mean to study history? Why is history a particularly valuable means of understanding human experiences and problems? Historians do more than acquire facts about people and societies of the past. Historians debate the past as they uncover new information, develop new interpretative frameowrks, and ask new questions. This course introduces students to history as a method of thought and inquiry, the development of history as a discipline, and to new trends and methodologies in the field. Prerequisite: Must be a History Major with at least sophomore status.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course focuses on traditional Chinese society from 1800 to 1949, taking up such areas as family and kinship, social mobility, education, economic and social differentiation, community and social life, and popular belief. Examining the practices and ideologies underlying each area will enhance our understanding of the nature of traditional Chinese society, and help explain how elements of Chinese traditional culture contribute to modern Chinese identity and everyday life.

Term Offered

Course Types

Humanities & History

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The first British Empire (1607-1783); the second British Empire in the nineteenth century; dominion and Commonwealth status; dissolution of the Empire after 1945; the constituent territories of the Empire, their relationship with Britain, and their interrelationship within the Empire.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

An examination of the Viking phenomenon between the eighth and eleventh centuries, including the origin of the Vikings in Scandinavia and the expansion and impact of the Danes/Normans in Germany, the Baltic region, England, France, and Sicily; the Varangians (Swedes) in Kievan Rus and Constantinople; and the Norse in Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland (Newfoundland and Labrador).

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

An examination of the purposes, ideology, structure, institutions, context, and historical evolution of Europe's most enduring, most important, most influential, and (before the European Union) most inclusive political formation, the Holy Roman Empire, during its thousand-year history from the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 to its dissolution in the Napoleonic Europe of 1806.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A focus on the life of William Lloyd Garrison, whom Frederick Douglass called, "the chief apostle of the unconditional emancipation of all the slaves." We will focus on the words of Garrison, on his support from the Boston "colored" community, and his role in the national Abolition movement. Garrison's confidence in the power of moral agitation to overcome institutional inertia will be a theme. The views of a spectrum of historians, writing from the context of many years, will raise questions about movement strategies relevent also today.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course surveys the law's historical development, from the uncodified customs of the ancient world, to the first legal code of Hummurabi, to the European legal tradition: Roman law, Canon law, and the Anglo-Saxon common law. We will examine the law's historical development and its role in different historical moments. We will explore modern law and legal institutions; the relationship between law and society in the transition from feudalism to capitalism; the rise of human rights and the rule of law in Western democracies, including the rise of the "legal exception" (slavery, for example).

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

What is meant by the term "civil rights"? How do civil rights affect notions of what it means to be an American? In Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century, students will explore the history of civil rights movements- from the Reconstruction era through the Conservative revolution of the 1970s and 1980s- to answer these questions, and to try to understand the contested definition of civil rights in modern America. We will begin with the emancipation of four million African-Americans during the 1860s; we will continue through the "first wave" feminist movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and the labor movement from the Gilded Age through the New Deal; and we will conclude with the Black, women's, and gay rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and their relationship to the rise of the New Right during the 1970s and 1980s. Special attention will be paid to primary documents written by civil rights leaders and their followers, as well as analysis of secondary material on how civil rights has evolved over time.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt A,Humanities Literature Requirement,Humanities & History

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Russia--the world's largest country, leading energy exporter, a major nuclear and space power, and a permanent member of the UN Security Council, also exhibits many third-world drifts. We'll address Russia's contradictions and paradoxes. How did the Byzantine, Nomadic, and West European cultural layers help form the Russian civilization? How Russian were some of the famous Russian - the poet Pushkin, Catherine the Great, Stalin? What impact did the Mongols have in their 200-year rule? How did Russia compete and expand against more advanced and wealthier foes? Why was Ivan the Terrible actually terrified? How did Peter the Great's reforms 'Westernize' Russia, accelerate its development, but lead Russian intellectuals to challenge Czar's authority and ultimately bring about the 1917 Revolutions? Did Russia have a democratic tradition in the earliest times, or is it a 20th century Western import?

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities Literature Requirement,Humanities & History

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The course reviews modern Iranian politics with a special attention on the history of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. It evaluates the factors which caused the revolution and its impacts on Iranian society, the Middle East, and the world. Among the important topics of discussion will be the role of the United States in Iranian politics (1953-1979); the policies of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1941-1979); the hostage crisis (1979-1981); the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988); the Reform Movement (1997-2005); and the re-emergence of radical policies under Ahmadinejad since 2005.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement,Cultural Diversity Opt B

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course seeks to provide students with an understanding of the broad historical forces, conflicts and major events that have shaped the contemporary nations of the modern Middle East. The course begins with the emergence of the modern Middle East from the empires of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It deals with forces which attempt to meet the European challenge; the age of colonialism; the rise of nationalism; socialism, capitalism, the impact of Israeli and Palestinian conflict on the region; oil, the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the rise of Islamic fundamentalist movements, U.S. policy, and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This class uses a series of films to demonstrate the changes in people's lives in contemporary China. It focuses on the Reform Era between 1980 and present. The topics include Chinese politics, economic growth, social change, and popular cultures. Cultural Diversity B.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Asian Studies,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course will explore the history of Africa from prehistoric times to the ninteenth century to give students an introduction to African Studies and a sense of Africa's place in world history. Topics include: the Nile Valley civilizations, West African empires, the trans-Saharan trade, the slave trade, the spread and impact of Islam. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course will cover the history of Africa from 1800 to the present and enable students to develop an understanding of issues that affect the relationship between modern Africa and the world. Topics include: the African tradition; the impact of Islam and Christianity, abolition of the slave trade, European imperialism and colonialism, African independence movements, African nationalism, Pan Africanism. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Compares and analyzes the history of race and politics in South Africa and the United States from the 17th century to the present. Examines how race as a social and ideological construct influenced and inforomed political conflicts over land, labor, and social relations in the two countries including slavery, segregation, apartheid, and the struggle to create racial democracies. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The political, social, economic and cultural development of Italy in fourteen hundred years, from Rome to the Renaissance, to the unification of the country, the fascist regime of Mussolini, and the birth of the Republic in 1948.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course is a survey of the history of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1900 to the present. We will examine the end of tsarist rule, the October Revolution and the Civil War, Lenin's rule, Stalin and the Stalinist system, the Great Patriotic War, Kruschev's de-Stalinization, Brezhnev's economic stagnation, and Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost. The final section of the course examines the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of Yeltsin, and the Putin-Medvedev era.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The history of the Mediterranean from the ancient times to the 20th century, to understand the extraordinary interaction between the rich cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds of the peoples of Europe, Middle East, and North Africa.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course will look at early modern France (1400-1789), emphasizing the development of religious, political, and legal institutions. Topics that we will cover include the emergence of France as an absolute monarchy; the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in France; the religious wars of the sixteenth century; France's role overseas; war and diplomacy with other European countries; the Enlightenment; the French Revolution; and the rise of Napoleon. Students will be expected to write a research paper, write a short paper on a primary source, participate in class discussions, and take two in-class exams. The class is primarily a lecture class, although we will have periodic discussions on the readings.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course will examine the history of Africans in the United States from their arrival in the colonies to the Civil War and the end of legal slavery. Topics include: the slave trade, the development of the slave system, African-Americans and the Declaration of Independence, and the abolition movement. Cultural Diversity A

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt A,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course will examine African American history from the end of slavery to the present. Topics include: Emancipation and Reconstruction, Reconstruction and the Constitution, the Exodusters, the Harlem Renaissance, Pan Africanism, the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power Movement, African-Americans at the turn of the twenty-first century. Cultural Diversity A

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt A,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

An exploration of the condition of European women from 1800 to 1914. Readings focus primarily on women's experiences in France and Great Britain. Topics include: the effects of industrialization on the lives of working-class women; working and middle-class women's negotiation of marriage, work, and family life; the rise of feminism, women's greater participation in the public sphere, and conservative reaction to these changes in women's place in society; women and crime; Victorian ideas about female sexuality; the politics of class and gender in nineteenth-century European society. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

An examination of the changing place of women in European society since 1900. Topics include: women's suffrage and the political advances of the 1920s and 1930s; the revolution in sexual mores, birth control, and the rise of companionate marriage; women and the consumer economy; the anti-woman policies of Fascist Italy and Germany under National Socialism; liberation of women and retrenchment in the Soviet Union; World War II; feminism, sexual liberation, and women's political engagement since the 1960s; and, throughout the twentieth century, women's continuing negotiation of work and family responsibilities. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The development of Latin American states: society, economy and culture, from colonial origins to the present. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This class studies this international relationship in the context of the global anti-colonial revolutions, the collapse of communism, and the influence of Catholic liberation theology. The course highlights the Nicaraguan revolution, the Salvadoran civil war, the Guatemalan military campaign against Mayan villages, the U.S. invasion of Panama, and the relative stability but great differences among Honduras, Belize and Costa Rica.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

An introduction to Latin America's colonial history through the Revolutionary Wars for Independence. The course examines topics that are relevant to issues and challenges facing Latin American and Caribbean peoples today, including poverty, corruption, human rights, the power of religion, race and identity, the environment, international trade, political representation, foreign intervention, cultural survival, and the exploitation of land, labor and resources.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

How did Atlantic crossings impact American societies? In this course, students with little or no prior knowledge of the Atlantic World will gain an understanding of the inter-connections that developed among peoples of Europe, Africa and America after 1492. We will see how the migration of peoples facilitated a new level of exchange in technology, culture, and especially ideas. Topics include European thoughts on America and its peoples; the Columbian Exchange of flora, fauna, and diseases; Euro-American accounts of life in the New World; and cultural syncretism such as language, music and religion. Previously HST 495

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course explores the history of the United States from 1810 to 1910. Students will study the growth of American institutions, the rise and effects of a market society, westward expansion and Indian affairs, the enlivening of U.S. civic ideals, debates over free labor and slavery, the causes and effects of the Civil War, post-Civil War redefinitions of citizenship, immigration, Progressivism, and the nation's entry on to the world stage.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The history of modern U.S. foreign relations. Key topics include the emergence of the U.S. as a world power, America's involvement in the two world wars, the Cold War, Vietnam, and globalization. U.S. relations with Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa are explored.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course explores the political, economic, social, and cultural history of America from the decade prior to the Civil War to the end of the nineteenth century. Students will focus on the political, social, and racial catalysts that led to the Civil War, its aftermath, and the ideologies behind Federal Reconstruction between 1863 and 1877. Through primary and secondary source materials, students will explore the following: What were the long term effects of American slavery, American expansion, and the Civil War? How did different groups of Americans- north and south, Black, White, Asian, Latino- understand themselves, their government, and what it meant to be an American citizen? How did the social structure of white supremacy - epitomized in ante-bellum slavery, Indian removal, and rising anti-Chinese sentiment - contribute to the long-lasting social structure of American racism?

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Cultural Diversity Opt A,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This is a research seminar designed to give students the opportunity to explore the rich yet difficult history of busing in Boston, and develop their research skills by using the material on Boston's school desegregation in the Moakley archives. This will be augmented by discussions with local figures who were also involved in the events of the era. Class time will be divided between classroom meetings and work in the archives with the documents. Students will be responsible for a final project based on their work in the archives. This course is identical to BLKST 299.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

An analysis of the origins and the local, regional, and international dimensions of the Palestinian-Israeli-Arab conflict, this course will examine the conflict through the eyes of the major protagonists and the roles played by them from the early twentieth century to the present: Zionists/Israelis, Palestinians and other Arabs, British, Americans, Soviets. We will also explore the questions of why this conflict has captured the world's attention and why it has gone unresolved since World War II. Finally, we will examine the possibilities and attempts for resolution of what appears to be an intractable human tragedy.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course focuses on the African-American freedom struggle. It describes the consolidation of segregation and disfranchisement laws, the rise of Booker T. Washington, the NAACP's fight for civil rights, black nationalism, African American participation in both world wars, the Harlem Renaissance, and Depression Era struggles. We will also consider the history of non-white groups including Hispanics, Asian-Americans, and Native Americans.

Term Offered

Course Types

Humanities & History,Cultural Diversity Opt A

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Intellectual and cultural developments of the Renaissance, and of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in their social and political contexts. Topics include: Humanism, the rise of the city-state; art, and science; changes in family and social life; the causes of the Reformation (intellectual, social, technological); Calvinists, Lutherans, and Radical Reformers; Counter-Reformation and its political consequences; the Wars of Religion.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This class will look at the history of sports in America from the era of American independence to the present. This course will examine the various roles which sports has played in American society including entertainment, cultural, social, political, and business.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Black music has been one of the primary cultural factors in the United States. From the African roots to hip hop in the 21st century Black music has served as an expression of African American consciousness, providing commentary on many aspects of black life. This art form provides commentary on many aspects of black life including social and political. It has also been a major force in shaping the culture of the United States as a whole. As such it provides an excellent window for exploring the history of Black America as well as the history of all America. With the use of texts, videos, and recordings this class will examine the music of Black America in the context and communities in which it was created and performed, and also in relationship to the wider world. Cultural Diversity A

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Cultural Diversity Opt A,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course presents a coherent account of the origin and history of Islam since its foundation in Arabia in the seventh century A.D. to the present. Analyzes the terms, events, characteristics, developments, movements, and institutions that have been part of the shaping of Islam. Ideological challenges and impact of Islam in the world today from both spiritual and political perspectives are examined. Concentrations VIII, XII. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Cultural Diversity Opt B

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The background and outbreak of revolution; the French Republic; the Reign of Terror; the European impact of the Revolution; the career of Bonaparte; Napoleonic warfare, the rise, fall and significance of the Empire.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Begins with an overview of the Old Worlds (Africa, America, Asia and Europe) before the rise of the European hegemony. Next we will look at the growth of Europe's nation-states and their movement into the control of world trade. Then we will cover the period from the fifteenth to the nineteeth centuries - the transition from exploration to colonization to imperialism. The final segment of the class will pick up with the colonial/imperial system and its impacts on the modern world. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The long Russian Revolution (1900-1930) is one of the most important events of the 20th century. It brought 19th-century Russia in conflict with the political and socio-economic forces of the 20th century. We will examine the long-term trends and challenges and address the "what ifs" of history - that helped unleash the crises of 1917-1919. What were the reasons for and extent of Rasputin's influence at the imperial court? Was the Revolution brought about by the West? Then how and why did Russia become less westernized due to the revolution? Was the new Bolshevik regime confronted by the same challenges that crippled the Czarist regime? Could and should the revolution have been avoided? Was it a necessary step and stage towards "progress" and "modernization"? What similarities did the new USSR begin to have with the capitalist democracies of the West? How did the revolution affect the status and role of workers, women, and peasants in USSR? How were Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin different as leaders and individuals? When did the revolution end? (Formerly HST 433)

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Emphasizes the continuities and changes that take place within civilizations; the similarities, differences, and relationships that exist among contemporary civilizations around the world. Special attention given to the evolving conflict between traditionalism and modernity. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Requires instructor's consent to register

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This class will introduce students to the richness of Senegalese culture and history, from the eleventh century to the modern era. Along with history, students will examine Senegal's culture and customs through lectures, readings, music and film. In some years there will be a travel component connected with the class. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Topics include the Progressive Era, U.S. intervention in World War I and its domestic consequences, the cultural clashes of the 1920s, the Great Depression of the 1930s, the New Deal, and World War II. Note: formerly history 495.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

American history in the decades immediately following World War II. Topics include the origins of the Cold War, McCarthyism, the emergence of a consumer society, the growth of the suburbs, the Civil Rigihts movement, the new women's movement, Vietnam, and the politcal upheavals of the 1960s.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

American history in the period since Vietnam and Watergate. Topics include the end of the post-World War II economic boom, the late-20th century culture wars, the rise of the New Right and decline of the New Deal domestic order, the end of the Cold War, growing involvement in the Middle East, the emergence of new technologies, globalization, and the impact and aftermath of September 11.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course offers an introduction to the high classical period of Greek thought. Close readings of selections from major historians, poets, dramatists, and philosophers will be examined in the context of Periclean Athens. Topics such as the relationship between democracy and empire, written law (nomos) and natural inclination (physis), and the influence of the Sophists and the Presocratics will be discussed from the perspectives of writers such as Thucydides, Aeschylus, Pindar, and Plato. This course is identical to HUM 336.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A survey of archaic thought from Greek myths of origin and Hebraic accounts of Genesis to Mosaic law and Aristotelian ethics. Major topics include: polytheism and monotheism, Homer's Troy, the presocratic philosophers and early conceptions of the universe; the complexities of desire and identity in the song of Songs and Sappho's lyric poetry; God's covenant with Israel as depicted in Exodus, Samuel, and the Psalms; self-knowledge and justice in Greek tragedy. Note: This course is identical to ENG 411 and HUM 338.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A survey of the monumental transformation from Pagan thought to Christian belief. Topics include the relation of the soul to the cosmos, the city of man and the city of god, hope, eros and agape, Stoicism and Pagan tragedy vs. Christian comedy. We will pay particular attention to the way Pagan images evolve into Christian symbols, as when Sibyl's wind-scattered leaves become, in Dante, the pages of the bible bound by love. Major figures include: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The class examines Japanese history from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth century. The topics include early modern Japan during the Tokugawa era, Meiji Restoration, Japanese imperialism and World War II, Japan's emergence as the second largest economy in the world. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Asian Studies,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The class discusses the early-modern history of East Asia, specifically China and Japan, in a global context.It examines the difference between East Asia and the West in their transitions to modern society, whether or not there was a "great divergence,"" and if there was one, what was the underpinning dynamic in the process. This comparative approach usually requires the class to read one book (in English) on Chinese or Japanese history and another one on European or global history.

Term Offered

Course Types

Humanities & History,Asian Studies

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A survey of pre-modern Chinese history from antiquity to the sixteenth century. Topics include: Confucianism; the making of an imperial bureaucratic system; conflicts and interactions among different ethnic groups; the Mongolian Empire; early modern Chinese society. (Formerly HST 131) Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Asian Studies,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A survey of modern Chinese history from the sixteenth century to the present. The class focuses on two major themes. First, we will study the conflict between the modern state and traditional society. We will discuss China's turbulent transition from an old empire to the Communist regime, the dynamics behind this transition, and the price that ordinary Chinese people have paid. Second, we will study China's interactions with the outside world from the irst Opium War to China's entrance to the World Trade Organization. (Formerly HST 132) Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Asian Studies,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

An overview of Japanese history from ancient times to the nineteenth century. Topics include imperial Japan, the emergence of the samurai, and Tokugawa society.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Asian Studies,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course explores the history of samurai and its cultural meaning for Japanese society. It examines not only how the samurai class developed into a major political force, but also how it has been represented by literatures and films in different eras. Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course examines the Second World War from political, military and socio-cultural perspectives. It connects experiences of combatants and civilians with issues of total war, and shows how global conflict fundamentally altered both the world's geopolitical contours and the consciousness of those who waged and endured it.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This is a general survey course, covering the most transcendental social, cultural, economic and political developments in the history of Spain, from the Neolithic to the Early Modern Period. The broad history of the nation and its peoples will be examined, placing emphasis on three central themes: diversity within the Iberian Peninsula, the region's social and geo-political structures, and the transformation of the Old Order of the ancient kingdoms into a modern, nation-state. The course material will be covered in a series of thematic blocks: the Pre-historical period, Roman Hispania, the Medieval Kingdoms, Islamic Civilization, the Christian Reconquest, the Catholic Monarchy, Imperial Spain under the Habsburgs, and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire in the 17th century.

Term Offered

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course will examine and explore the political, economic, and social history of Spain from 1700 to the present. Topics include: the War of Spanish Succession; the Bourbon state; the Enlightenment in Spain; the impact of the French Revolution; Spain in the Napoleonic Wars; the rise of liberalism, socialism, and anarchism; the crisis of 1898; the problems of modernization; the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime; the transition from dictatorship to democracy; Spain's international position today.

Term Offered

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Topics will include the Plains Indian Wars; ethnological aspects of Indian tribes; the pitfalls of Indian reform movements; Indian resistance to U.S. assimilation and reservation policies; the Indian New Deal; activism and the American Indian Movement; Indians' future prospects. Cultural Diversity A

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt A,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Why did men (and some women) turn pirate? Why is there a continuing fascination with pirates? This course will explore the reality and fiction of pirates and piracy, focusing on the Golden Age of Piracy from 1690 to 1730, with particular attention to the pirates of New England. We will examine primary sources, historical accounts, and fictional presentations - both books and films - to better understand piracy, why it happened, and why it continues to fascinate us.

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Considers the history, theory, and techniques of public history presentation. Learn what visitors want for themselves and their families when they choose to spend their time at a historic site, historic house or history museum. Modes of presentation covered include film documentary, Web site exhibition, popular historical writing, and reenactment. Students produce a project using survey data and information learned throughout the course about preserving history through media and method to demonstrate what the future of historic preservation might resemble. Note: There will be travel involved to visit various historic sites. Please allow time before and after scheduled class time.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement,Expanded Classroom Requirement

Prerequisites

take HST 181

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Meeting alternatively at Suffolk and at Boston's historical sites, students in this course will learn the principles and techniques of Museum Education. How does a museum create educational programs? What kinds of programs work best for different audiences? Students will have opportunities to work with museum professionals in designing and implementing educational programs.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Working with historic houses in Boston, students will learn that art of interpreting history. Using collections, archives, and other repositories, students will research the houses and the people who lived in them. Many of these houses have existed from colonial times and had various uses. As part of the course, students will offer tours of the houses to visitors. Formerly: HST 368 Introduction to Historical Interpretation.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Expanded Classroom Requirement,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course will explore American history through objects - from spinning wheels and silver cups to electric typewriters and cocktail glasses. What was an object's purpose? How was it made and who made it? How do we interpret the material culture of life? Topics covered will include the decorative arts, vernacular architecture, archaeology, industrial design, ethnicity and gender, visual culture, and landscapes. Lectures and discussions will be complemented with visits to museums, historic houses, and other sites. Students will learn how to research and write, placing objects or spaces in their historical context.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

How have ordinary American working people shaped and been shaped by the experience of work in a capitalist economic order? This course surveys the world of work and workers, free and unfree, from 1800 to the present. Topics include changing conceptions of work, formation of workers' consciousness and communities, working-class cultures, movements for labor reform, and the impact of race, ethnicity, and gender on labor markets, workplace dynamics, and working-class families and communities. The course also explores workers' experiences of industrialization and technological innovation, immigration and migration, consumerism and globalization. Cultural Diversity A

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt A,Humanities & History

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course traces the roles, images and experiences of women in America from colonial times to 1865. Topics include the family, work, religion, education, health care, motherhood, sexuality, social and political activism legal status, labor activism and popular culture. With attention to ethnicity, race, class, age, region of residence, disability and sexual orientation, the course focuses primarily on the everyday lives of ordinary women. Cultural Diversity A

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt A,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course examines the social and cultural history of women in the United States from the close of the Civil War to the present. Using not only gender but also race, ethnicity, class, age, disability, region of residence, and sexual orientation as important categories of analysis, this course focuses on women's private and public lives. Topics include the family, work, religion, education, health care, private lives, motherhood, sexuality, social and political activism, legal status, labor activism, and popular culture. Course materials include novels and films. Cultural Diversity A

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt A,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course will examine the history of human rights from the Enlightenment to the present. We will look at the historical origins of human rights and delve into subjects such as slavery, imiperialism, women's rights, and genocide. We will also be asking how the overall concept has evolved - or stagnated - over time.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A look at the migration of people, along with their culture, to and from the Caribbean and Latin America. The first half of the course looks at how European, Asian and African diasporas settled in the region, assimilated and contributed to the ethnic and cultural base of Caribbean and Latin America countries in the colonial period. The second half offers insight into how and why people from the Caribbean and Latin America would later form diasporas of their own in countries like the United States in the twentieth century. Students taking this course will get a sense of the struggles, accomplishments and culture of Caribbean and Latin American peoples in the United States. Formerly HST 286.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Plymouth beyond the Mayflower Pilgrims, Thanksgiving and Plymouth Rock; this course will examine the history of Plymouth Colony from its origins in Reformation England to its absorption into Massachusetts in 1692. Particular attention will be paid to Native Wampanoag culture before, during and after King Philip's War. Students will read primary and secondary sources; investigate Plymouth Colony's material culture through architecture, food, and artifacts; field trips to sites in the Old Colony area will be arranged; and the lasting cultural significance of the Pilgrims and Plymouth will be examined.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Sophomore Standing

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course emphasizes the founding and settlement of English colonies in America; their social, economic, and political development; the Great Awakening; the British-French struggle for control of the North American continent; the background and causes of the American Revolution.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course provides an analysis of the background, progress and results of the American Revolution. Emphasis is placed upon military aspects of the War for Independence, and on post-war efforts to establish a permanent workable American government culminating in the Federal Constitution.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

One History course

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The development and influence of Boston from its foundation in 1630: the Massachusetts Bay Colony, cradle of the American Revolution; Boston as a Yankee merchant capital, Brahmin cultural center, immigrant melting pot, and modern metropolis. When offered in the hybrid format, this course will meet at the regularly-scheduled time, but lectures and other course materials will be available on the course Blackboard site in case you cannot attend. ECR

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Expanded Classroom Requirement,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Numerous walking tours will highlight an overview of Boston‚??s history (its foundation in 1630 as part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; as cradle of the American Revolution; as a Yankee merchant capital, Brahmin cultural center, and immigrant melting pot; and as a modern metropolis) leading to a consideration of the history of Suffolk University and its relations, as product and contributor to Boston history and culture, as well as to its immediate urban neighborhood.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

Sophomore Standing Required

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The development of American constitutional government. Topics will include the drafting and ratifying of the state and federal constitutions in the 1770s and 1780s; the problems of individual liberty versus government power; state rights; race and slavery; war powers; pluralism.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Sophomore Standing Required

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course will explore changes in the American constitutional system since the Civil War. Topics will include due process and national citizenship; the growth and expansion of federal power; the evolution of segregation; the New Deal; the return of civil rights; the expansion of individual rights; the role of courts and states in the federal system.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Topics include the antebellum reform and expansion movements, especially as they affected slavery, and the deepening sectional crisis of the 1850s. An in-depth analysis of the violent war which followed, and Southern Reconstruction to 1877.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Permission of Instructor Required

Course Credits

4.00

Description

An overview of American history from the perspective of its racial and ethnic minorities. Topics include: Native American efforts to retain cultural independence and to shape relations with the majority; Asian Americans and the "model minority" myth; African Americans and the Constitution; recent refugees and current immigration legislation. Cultural Diversity A

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt A,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

An examination of the dispersion of Africans to the Americas during the era of the slave trade and the establishment of New World communities of Africans and people of mixed descent. Topics include: the Slave Trade, comparative Slave Systems, Religion, Resistance and Revolutionary Movements, Return and Redemption Movements, Pan Africanism, Race and Class. Cultural Diversity A Cultural Diversity B

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Cultural Diversity Opt A

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course explores the social, political and cultural development of the German-speaking population of central Europe from the beginning of the Reformation to the proclamation of the Second Reich, with major attention to the Wars of Religion, the emergence of Prussia and its competition with Austria, and the development of German nationalism.

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The political, economic, social and cultural development of the principal European states from 1815-1914. Topics include: restoration and resistance after the Congress of Vienna; the evolution of the "rising" European middle class; the revolutions of 1848; the effects of industrialization and urbanization; nationalism and imperialism; socialism, feminism, and conservative reaction; Modernist culture and the rise of the Avant-garde; the political and diplomatic antecedents to World War I.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Sophomore standing or permission of instructor.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The political, economic, social and cultural developments of the principal European states since 1900. Topics include: World War I; the social and economic dislocations of the 1920s and 1930s; the rise of Fascism and National Socialism; World War II; the remains of colonialism; modernization and Americanization since the 1960s; the European Union; Europe after the Cold War; and throughout the twentieth century, the importance of class and class conflict, nationalism, and war in shaping the European experience.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

German and European preconditions; the Versailles Treaty and the failure of the Weimar Republic; Hitler's ideas, collaborators and institutions; Nazi foreign and domestic policy; World War II and the concentration camps.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Irish origins and medieval background; Anglo-Irish history from the Tudor invasion of Ireland in 1534 to the present will be explored with emphasis on the interrelationship between developments in the two nations.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course will elucidate the transitions in the Czech culture and art scene after 1989, together with their socio-historical context. It will explore different understandings of post-communist movements as represented in the performances by Czech artists. Czech cultural perspectives will be confronted with Western literary and cultural criticism. Focus will be placed on how to "read" contemporary performances, literature and activism. How and why do performances address and fascinate their viewers? What value-hierarchies and culture-changing signs do they produce? The course will familiarize students with the notions of cultural identity, performance art, counterculture, mass culture and semiotics while focusing on the central European art scene and culture. Students will acquire both theoretical tools and practical experience to approach texts and performances and develop awareness about how art and performance affect the contemporary Czech society. The practical part of the course will consist in several visits to performances, concerts, exhibitions and their subsequent analysis. In-class discussions with Czech artists may also be organized. Offered each semester in Prague as part of the Suffolk Semester in Prague Program.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This is a seminar in Czech cultural history, especially as illuminated and viewed through Czech literature and philosophy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Offered yearly in Prague as part of the Suffolk Semester in Prague Program.

Term Offered

Summer

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

An examination of the situation and contributions of the principal Central European ethnicities (the Germans, Austrians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Hungarians, and Ashkenazi Jews)and their political and cultural foromations from early medieval times until the present. Included will be the Great Moravian Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Czech, Polish, and Hungarian kingdoms, the Austro-Hungarian and German Empires, the Middle European successor states after World War I, the Third Reich, the Soviet Empire, the fall of Communism of 1989, the subsequent transitions of the principal Central European states, and their relations with the European Union.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

In this course, we shall study the origins and different forms of Romanticism in Central European cultures (Czech, Slovak, and partially also Austrian, German, Polish, and Hungarian), read specimens of Czech romantic literature and selected theoretical or historical texts, and some representative works of twentieth-century central European literatures. We shall examine the ways these works reflect romantic themes or cultural paradigms, and respond to the questions and dilemmas of national identity. Offered each semester in Prague as part of the Suffolk Semester in Prague Program.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The educated classes of Europe, their sociology and their culture, from 1800 to the present: nineteenth-century liberalism and conservatism, socialism, modernism, Totalitarianism, and Postmodernism.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

One previous history Course, Sophomore status

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course examines the social and political development of European society between the two world wars, primarily through the literature, art, and films of the period. Topics include: the dissolution of pre-1914 middle class society; deviance and sexuality in the 1920s; the role of decadence in art and the Fascist response to deviance in life and art; women, workers, and the new technology; the rise of Fascism; political engagement and polarization throughout European society in the face of economic and social crisis.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course will look at religion in European society from 1400-1650. We will examine organized religion and the personal devotional experiences of ordinary women and men. We will consider such topics as Catholic liturgy; the protestant and Catholic Reformations; the Wars of religion; and heresy and the Inquisition.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The course will focus on the Soviet Union, Germany and their neighbor states, beginning with an exploration of the contradictory genesis of Glasnost and Perestroika in economic stagnation and in the liberation tradition of socialism. It examines the impact of these movements and their related dislocations on the Europe of the late 1980s and 1990s, as well as their implications for the new Europe of the twenty-first century.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A case-study approach to studying the various means by which people in the Caribbean sought to overcome the legacies of colonial exploitation of their land, labor and resources. The course also offers lessons from the case-studies for approaching/achieving positive social change. Students will learn about the people's struggles to improve their social lives, reduce poverty, access land, expand human rights, reduce illiteracy, and gain accountability from their governments through violent and non-violent means.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Topics in this seminar on ancient China will include the emergence of early Chinese states, feudalism during Chinese antiquity, the emergence of Confucianism and other competing political ideologies, and the consolidation of the imperial power.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Asian Studies

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This class is designed to provide students with a deeper understanding of the Reconstruction era by working with the microfilm of the Freedmen's Bureau papers. To accomplish this there will be a classroom component and an on-site component. In the classroom component, students will be introduced to the Reconstruction era and its history. In the on-site component students will work with the microfilmed copies of the Freedmen's Bureau papers. Class meetings will be divided between the Suffolk University campus and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) site in Waltham, MA. This course is identical to BLKST 469.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course examines American debates over the natures, capacities, and responsibilities of men and women from settlement of the New World through the present. Emphasis is given to three elements of the self: social and civic personhood, the body, and sexuality. We will focus on representations of womanhood and masculinity - across racial, ethnic, and class lines - and their effects on men and women in society, politics, and at law. Course readings will also examine concepts of human nature and the interplay among mind, body, and sexuality.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

An interdisciplinary examination of the history of Boston. Special focus will be on Boston in fiction, poetry, and film, as well as on the analysis of historical documents and accounts. This course is recommended for History and Literature Honors majors. Jointly taught by professors from the History and English Departments.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Do we all feel the same emotions across cultures and throughout history, or do we learn to feel according to the rules of our own time and place, or does the truth about human emotion lie somewhere in between? This course will first explore ideas about emotional life from the fields of history, anthropology, sociology, and psychology. We will then turn to our own examination of the evolution of emotion rules and prescriptions, focusing on western Europe and the United States since 1700. In the eighteenth century, emotions were seen as a positive influence on politics and public life, especially during the French Revolution. After the fall of Robespierre, the emotions were banished to the private sphere - so we will read both primary sources and recent scholarship on 19th- and 20th- century ideas masculinity and femininity, romantic love and marriage, childrearing, and about what parents and children are supposed feel toward each other. How have ideas about these subjects changed over time - and do our feelings change with them?

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement,Cultural Diversity Opt A

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course will examine the impact of organized reform movements on American History from 1800s to the 1960s. Themes include utopianism, assaults on injustice, and attempts to control the behavior of the undesirable groups. Topics include anti-slavery agitation and religious revivalism before the Civil War, problems of industrialism and the working class, progressive political and social reform, temperance and prohibition, women's suffrage and women's rights, civil rights and the counter culture.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Permission of the instructor

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course is intended for Honors students and for students interested in graduate study in history. It will focus on the nature of historical thought - with special attention to issues of current concern to the profession. A limited-enrollment seminar.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course will examine the history of El Salvador through readings, discussion, film, and most importantly, a fortnight in the Central American nation. Our goal is to explore how events ranging from the Spanish conquest of the sixteenth-century, the nineteenth century indigenous uprisings against land concentration, and the bloody and divisive civil war of the 1980s shaped today's El Salvadorans. ECR

Term Offered

Course Types

Expanded Classroom Requirement,Humanities & History,Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

An Independent Study form must be submitted to the CAS Dean's Office.

Course Credits

1.00- 4.00

Description

By special arrangement, members of the History department will schedule seminars or individual discussion sessions with students interested in directed reading and research. Open to Juniors and Seniors with the permission of the instructor.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Permission of instructor required.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

History Internships require approximately 12 hours of work per week in a history-related position, for instance, at a museum, historical society, or archive, and are designed to introduce the student to the professional opportunities and responsibilities in the field of public history or historic preservation. Interested students should consult the instructor in advance. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor is required.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

made inactive per catalog. 07 Feb 2009 12:03pm Crystal White

Course Credits

1.00- 6.00

Description

An in-depth examination of American history from the founding through the 20th century. Participants will read first-person accounts and analyze historical documents, visit historical sites, and historical repositories. Each student will prepare curriculum plan focused on one historical site or set of documents, to teach American history with documents, paintings, and artifacts. Questions to be addressed include: How have immigrants contributed to American nation building? How have immigrants fought for American citizenship? How have immigrants responded to pressures to assimilate? How have global crises altered immigration patterns and policies? How has immigration changed American civic ideals? In Part 2, participants will narrow their focus to particular topics in American history, and will receive training using historical repositories. Designed as a graduate course for 3rd, 5th, and 8th grade teachers, and school librarians.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Permission of the Instructor required.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) rose from relative poverty and obscurity to become one of the most powerful and successful men of his century. This course will examine the political, scientific, and literary, an diplomatic cultures of the eighteenth century by focusing on Franklin's life, reading Franklin's Autobiography, and selections from his political, scientific, and satirical writings. This is an Honors-level course.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Permission of the instructor required.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course investigates how Americans have understood and responded to health, illness, and death from the eighteenth century to the present. The course will examine interactions among patients, healers (orthodox and heterodox), the medical and scientific professions, business, and government. We will explore the effects of scientific and technological advancements, industrialization, urbanization, immigration, war, and social movements on the nation's moral and political economies of health, and on evolving ideas about bodily integrity and autonomy, linked to historical relations of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Cultural Diversity A. This is an honors-level course.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement