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History

Not all courses are available to SSP students. For example, some courses are offered only for graduate credit. Note especially any listed prerequisites.

HIST S-40x Summer Seminar—Disco Decade: The 1970s (32106)
(Print version)
Lisa Ann Szefel
(4 credits: UN) Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.
Summer Seminars are open to Secondary School Program students who are juniors or seniors in high school as well as to college undergraduates.

*** HIST S-40x has been CANCELED.***
The 1970s is a misunderstood and underestimated decade, but the ideas, individuals, and events of this era dramatically transformed American life. Political alignments, race relations, class, and gender underwent fundamental changes that continue to dominate American society. In this course we examine Richard Nixon and Watergate, Jimmy Carter and the crisis of confidence, Ronald Reagan and the rise of conservatism, along with the women's movement, Black Power, and the rise of the Sunbelt South. We investigate television shows (All in the Family, Happy Days, Mary Tyler Moore), music (Rolling Stones, Cher, The Clash), and films (Shaft, American Graffiti, Saturday Night Fever) in order to understand the impact of political change on contemporary culture.

HIST S-42 Study Abroad in Tokyo (Waseda): Constructing the Samurai (32096)
(Print version)
Mikael Adolphson
Limited enrollment.
June 18-July 20. Study abroad programs are restricted to students 18 years of age or older.

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HIST S-44i Summer Seminar—The Golden Age of Piracy (32084)
(Print version)
Mark Gillies Hanna
(4 credits: UN) M-Th 3:30-6 pm, Sever Hall, Room 111. Short session I. Tuition $2,275. Limited enrollment.
Summer Seminars are open to Secondary School Program students who are juniors or seniors in high school as well as to college undergraduates.

This course is an interdisciplinary study of the golden age of piracy in the Anglophone world. We place pirates on center stage as a lens through which to study the massive transformations of the late sixteenth to the eighteenth century that marked the early phases of what is today called globalization. Students are introduced to interdisciplinary studies and the use of primary sources. We focus on a range of topics including global economics, international law, imperial politics, gender, literary studies, social class, journalism, and religion.

HIST S-75 Study Abroad in Korea: The Two Koreas (32125)
(Print version)
Carter J. Eckert
Limited enrollment.
June 18-July 25. Study abroad programs are restricted to students 18 years of age or older.

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HIST S-1160 Study Abroad in Venice: The Serenissima, the Ottomans, and "the Other Turks"--Venice, Istanbul, and Central Asia after Marco Polo (32141)
(Print version)
Giampiero Bellingeri
Limited enrollment.
June 21-August 3. Study abroad programs are restricted to students 18 years of age or older.

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HIST S-1475 Schools and Universities, 1400–1800 (32148)
(Syllabus) (Print version)
Joseph S. Freedman
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.

*** HIST S-1475 has been CANCELED.***

HIST S-1512 Modern Ukraine, Late Eighteenth Through the Twentieth Century (31590)
(Print version)
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.

*** HIST S-1512 has been CANCELED.***

HIST S-1572 Summer Seminar—The Holocaust in History, Literature, and Film
(4 credits: UN) Short session I. Tuition $2,275. Limited enrollment.
Summer Seminars are open to Secondary School Program students who are juniors or seniors in high school as well as to college undergraduates.

Section 1 (32168) (Syllabus) (Print version)
Kevin Madigan, M-Th 9:30 am-noon, Sever Hall, Room 211. Short session I.

Section 2 (32192) (Print version)
Kevin Madigan, M-Th 9:30 am-noon, Sever Hall, Room 211. Short session II.

This seminar approaches the Nazi persecution of European Jewry from several disciplinary perspectives. Initially it explores the topic historically using a variety of historical materials dealing with the history of European antisemitism, German history from Bismarck to the accession of Hitler, the evolution of anti-Jewish persecution in the Third Reich, and the history of the Holocaust itself. Sources include primary sources produced by the German government between 1933 and 1945 and by Jewish victims-to-be or survivors, documentary films, and secondary interpretations. The aims of this part of the seminar are to understand the basic background and narrative of the Holocaust, to introduce students to the use of primary historical sources, and to familiarize them with some of the major historiographical debates. Students then ponder religious and theological reactions to the Holocaust, using literary and cinematic resources as well as discursive theological ones. They consider the historical question of the role played by the Protestant and Catholic churches and theologies in the Holocaust. The course concludes with an assessment of the role played by the Holocaust in today's world, specifically in the United States.

HIST S-1580 Study Abroad in Venice: The Jews of Venice in the Age of the Ghetto—Jewish Culture Between Segregation and Integration (32142)
(Print version)
Giuliano Tamani
Limited enrollment.
June 21-August 3. Study abroad programs are restricted to students 18 years of age or older.

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HIST S-1607 The American Revolution (31487)
(Syllabus) (Print version)
Sally E. Hadden
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) M,W 9:30 am-noon, Sever Hall, Room 107. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.

This course examines thematically the major issues confronting Americans in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the American Revolution, as well as the main events and major figures of the revolution itself. By exploring social, cultural, political, and economic developments in America's revolutionary period and the ultimate break that occurred between Americans and their British cousins, we gain a greater understanding of the formative event in our nation's history.

HIST S-1609 The Early Modern Anglophone World: An Interdisciplinary Study (32085)
(Print version)
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) Short session II. Tuition $2,275.

*** HIST S-1609 has been CANCELED.***

HIST S-1620 The Old South (32089)
(Syllabus) (Print version)
Sally E. Hadden
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) M,W 6-8:30 pm, Sever Hall, Room 110. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.

This course examines Southern history (focusing on the period from 1800 to 1861), including myths and facts about Southern society and culture, as well as slavery and Southern distinctiveness. Attention is paid to political events that ultimately created a short-lived Southern nation and triggered the Civil War in 1861.

HIST S-1662 The United States in the Twentieth Century (30175)
(Print version)
Brett Flehinger
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) M,W 3:30-6 pm, Sever Hall, Room 206. Eight-week session. Required sections to be arranged. Tuition $2,275.

This course studies the major political, social, cultural, and intellectual events of American history between the turn of the twentieth century and the 1980s. Topics include progressive reform, women's suffrage, the Great Depression and New Deal, both world wars, McCarthyism, the modern civil rights movement, "second wave" feminism, Watergate, and the rise of conservatism. This course takes a wide-ranging point of view and attempts to integrate national development with rising social division in twentieth-century America.

HIST S-1855 Film and History in Postwar Japan and Post-Mao China (31557)
(Website) (Print version)
Charles W. Hayford
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) T,Th 6-9:30 pm, Sever Hall, Room 110. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.

Japanese films after 1945, especially those of Kurosawa, Ozu, and anime, and Chinese films after the end of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in 1976, especially those of the Fifth Generation directors, are classic cinema; they are also historical documents showing how societies publicly grapple with historical change. Through lecture, discussion, and writing analytical essays, students in this course explore Chinese and Japanese debates over history, culture, and memory.

HIST S-1886 The Middle East: Rapprochement and Coexistence (31770)
(Print version)
Nafez Yousef Nazzal and Laila Ahed Nazzal
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) T,Th 9-11:30 am, Harvard Hall, Room 102. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.

This course is an overview of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since its inception. We focus primarily on the shaping of Palestinian identity and nationalism, the development of Zionism, the British Mandate, the causes and effects of the wars in the region, and the changing attitudes and policies of Arabs, Israelis, and Palestinians. We also review the negotiations and agreements between the parties since 1990 and examine the prospects of peace in the Middle East.

HIST S-1887 Perspectives on Islam: Religion, History, and Culture (31789)
(Print version)
Nafez Yousef Nazzal and Laila Ahed Nazzal
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) T,Th 12:30-3 pm, Harvard Hall, Room 102. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.

This course is an overview of Islam in its religious, historical, and cultural context. We focus on the beliefs, practices, sects, family organization, and status of women. We discuss the relationship between religion and politics, and the concepts of war, peace, and human rights. We also examine Islam's contribution to the arts and sciences, its encounter with the West, the impact of modernization, and the rise of revivalism, fundamentalism, and terrorism.

HIST S-1918 Colonialism in Africa (31964)
(Syllabus) (Print version)
Poppy Fry
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) M-Th 9:30 am-noon, Sever Hall, Room 306. Short session II. Required sections to be arranged. Tuition $2,275.

This course explores the background to European colonization of Africa; the diverse and multifaceted encounters between colonizers and African peoples; and the political, economic, and social ramifications of colonial rule. Focusing on African initiatives and local experiences during this period of rapid change, topics include societies of late precolonial Africa; conquest and resistance; mission Christianity; colonial government and "native policy"; cities and workers; education, tradition and modernity; women, sexuality, and health; youth and popular culture; and African nationalism and independence.

HIST S-1967 From Cold War to Global Terror: World History 1945 to the Present (32150)
(Website) (Print version)
Donald Ostrowski
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) T,Th 6-8:30 pm, Harvard Hall, Room 102. Eight-week session. Optional sections W, 6-7 pm. Tuition $2,275.

This course is an integrative study of the world from the end of World War II to the present. Topics include the cold war; the Arab-Israeli conflict; creation of independent states in Africa; apartheid and its demise; Latin America's struggle for democracy and economic stability; the development of the EU; the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the Soviet Union; the rise of China; shooting wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf; the expansion of rights for women; atomic power and the problem of energy resources; environmental changes; space exploration; the computer revolution; and the phenomenon of global terrorism.

 



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