The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization? by Chafe, Tony5: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present This
course is a rapid survey of landmark events in European history since
the late fifteenth century. We focus on the interpretation of primary
sources and the use of films to make sense of the transformational dates
and historical processes in the making of modern Europe.
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Peter Sahlins
Hearst Annex B1
MTuW 1-3:30, May 22 – June 30
Class #: 15566
First 6 Week Session |
7B: The United States from the Civil War to Present
This course is an introduction to American history since the Civil
War. It is also an introduction to the way historians think and write.
We will cover the major events of the past 150 years, including such
topics as the Civil War, industrialization, eugenics, the Great
Depression, immigration, the Cold War, the suburbs, human rights, and
9/11. While broadly surveying major developments, we will focus on three
major themes. The first theme, Slave Society and Its Consequences,
traces how the legacy of slavery and emancipation has shaped American
ideas about racial hierarchy, multiculturalism, and model minorities.
The second theme, Capitalism and Its Critics, follows the rise of
industrial society, the growth of consumer economy, and finally the
creation of finance capitalism—and how Americans experienced and managed
these transitions. Finally, Dechristianization of America, follows how
the United States was understood as a Protestant nation, then a
Judeo-Christian one, and, finally, as a post-Christian country. Students
will sharpen their analytical and critical thinking skills through
their engagement with these three themes in lectures, readings, movies,
music, and art.
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Daniel M Robert
180 Tan
MWTh 10-12, June 19 – August 11
Class #: 11776
8 Week Session |
N100: Short Course - American Business History When
President Calvin Coolidge declared in 1925 that “the chief business of
the American people is business,” he was not making a historical
argument, though it would have been a defensible one. Nearly a century
earlier, French visitor, Alexis de Tocqueville, made a similar
observation. Indeed, America was colonized by joint-stock corporations!
Understanding the history of American business can therefore unlock a
great deal about America itself. How did the exchange of capital become
capitalism? How have markets and firms been constructed politically and
socially? Is the history of American business primarily one of creative
entrepreneurs or exploitative opportunists? What is the relationship
between capitalism, gender, and race? In this course, we will explore
these questions on a chronological journey from seventeenth-century
joint-stock colonization to twenty-first century high-frequency trading.
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Daniel M Robert
July 3 – August 11
Class #: 15370
Second 6 Week Session |
100E: Latin America and Film This
class is based on the idea that films can be used as the basis of
historical inquiry and analysis. We will consider the content, form, and
execution of a set of outstanding films from Latin America from about
1940 to about 1970, focusing on this period of cultural and political
development in the countries with major film industries: Mexico, Brazil,
Cuba, and Argentina. Our discussions and readings will include
histories of the film industry and national cultural policy, the idea of
melodrama as a Latin American genre, film criticism, and more general
examinations of the political and social issues raised in the movies,
for example:
- The portrayal of race and gender.
- Depictions of poverty and inequality, in particular in the context of postwar urbanization.
- And, how films have contributed to the creation of national
mythology and icons, the ways
movies have been used both as part of
national projects and challenged dominant narratives about national
identity.
Students will be expected to attend several movie nights or make
arrangements to see movies outside of class time at the Media Resource
Center. Assignments include two short papers based on the course films
as well as a final paper.
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Sarah Selvidge
May 22 – June 30
Class #: 15569
First 6 Week Session |
N100: Short Course - Hip-Hop and History in America The
class will treat rap lyrics selected from multiple time periods as
texts that students will read in conjunction with historical
scholarship, which will offer the broader context for the themes that
emerge in these songs. Although the first week will begin by providing
an overview of rap and hip-hop, this is not a history of hip-hop
class. We will not be studying the history of the musical genre.
Rather, the aim is to illuminate the many ways that history, and
African-American history in particular, inform the themes and subject
matter upon which the selected lyrics focus. Some possible weekly themes
include: slavery; racism; the war on drugs, police brutality, and mass
incarceration; the exoticization of mixed race and light skinned women,
and the commodification of women more broadly; rap, whiteness and
cultural appropriation, sexuality; religion; capitalism; and revolution.
Students do not need to purchase any books for this class. All required materials will be available via bCourses.
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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
May 22 – June 30
Class #: 11781
First 6 Week Session |
106A: The Roman Republic A
history of Rome from the foundation of the city to the dictatorship of
Caesar. The course examines the evolution of Republican government, the
growth of Roman imperialism, and the internal disruptions of the age of
the Gracchi, Sulla, and Caesar.
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54 Barrows
MWF 1-3:30, May 22 – June 20
Class #: 15568
First 6 Week Session |
109C: The Middle East From the 18th Century to the Present This
course is an introduction to the political and intellectual history of
the modern Middle East from the late eighteenth century to the present.
The primary geographic focus will be the lands of the Ottoman and Qajar
Empires and their post World War I successor states and mandates,
including Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, mandate Palestine,
Israel, and the states of the Arabian Peninsula. Subjects covered
include: the rise and fall of constitutionalism, ideas of institutional
and political reform, the role of religion in political and social life,
imperialism, nationalism, post-colonialism, development, the
Arab-Israeli conflict and the impact of the Soviet Union and United
States in the region. We will also discuss the rise of political Islam
and popular challenges to the post-imperial secular state and conclude
with a discussion of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Arab
Spring and the rise of ISIS.
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Aimee Genell
121 Latimer
MTuWTh 10-12, July 3 – August 11
Class #: 15286
Second 6 Week Session |
122AC: Antebellum America: The Advent of Mass Society
This course examines half a century of life
in the United States (roughly from the War of 1812 until the secession
of the Southern states), focusing on race relations, westward expansion,
class formation, immigration, religion, sexuality, popular culture, and
everyday life. Assigned readings will consist largely of first-person
narratives in which women and men of a range of ethnic and cultural
backgrounds construct distinctive visions of life in the new nation.
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242 Dwinelle
TuWTh 2-4:30, July 3 – August 11
Class #: 11791
Second 6 Week Session |
N124B: The United States from World War II to the Vietnam Era Immediately
prior to World War II, the U.S. military ranked 17th in the world, most
African-Americans lived in the rural south and were barred from voting,
culture and basic science in the United States enjoyed no world-wide
recognition, most married women did not work for wages, and the census
did not classify most Americans as middle-class or higher. By 1973, all
this had changed. This course will explore these and other
transformations, all part of the making of modern America. We will take
care to analyze the events, significance and cost of U.S. ascendancy to
world power in an international and domestic context.
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56 Barrows
MTuWTh 12-2, July 3 – August 11
Class #: 11792
Second 6 Week Session |
N131B: U.S. Social History from the Civil War to Present Social
history centers on the experiences of groupings of people, their ideas,
values, and behaviors, and the impact of these on their interaction
with each other as well as with their place in society. In this course,
we will consider major events in US history through the experiences of
major populations in the United States that, until the relatively recent
emergence of social history as a method of study, had been left out of
the historical narrative. Lecture and course readings will trace the
experiences of the working class, immigrants, women, youth, and racial,
ethnic, and sexual minorities and their interactions with the structures
and systems they lived in. Driven by the recurring theme of inclusion,
the course will also consider some of the central topics of study in
social history, such as racism, identity, gender, sexuality, crime,
family life, and education. In- class instruction and exercises will
teach students the historical thinking, reading, and writing skills they
need to complete course assignments. Students will leave the course
understanding how historical and structural forces contributed—and
continue to contribute—to the US’s ongoing struggle with equality and
inclusion. This course satisfies the American Cultures requirement.
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Natalie Mendoza
50 Barrows
MTuWTh 2-4, May 22 – June 30
Class #: 11793
First 6 Week Session |
136C: Defiant Women: Gender, Power and Violence in American History
Taking as its focus diverse groups of women who have shaped the
course of North American history, this class will explore the
relationship between gender, power and violence from the colonial period
to the modern era. We will discuss how women have challenged
conventional notions of “womanhood” through their words and their deeds,
how their respective communities understood their behavior, and we will
contemplate the ways in which these women simultaneously constructed
narratives of power that do not conform to contemporary
conceptualizations of their lives. Moreover, students will contemplate
prevailing narratives of powerlessness which render these women, and
their acts, invisible to us and the role gender ideologies played in
their construction. Students will read about famous and less well-known
cases of “deadly women” and in the process, they will understand how
different bodies of law, social customs, and economic systems affected
the lives of men and women differently and allocated disproportionate
amounts and kinds of power to them. We will evaluate how these
hierarchies of power facilitated women’s defiant, revolutionary and
sometimes murderous acts. Conversations about the impacts that race,
ethnicity, economic class, and religion had upon the lives of these
women will be central to the course as well. Themes that will be covered
include: involuntary servitude, witchcraft, interracial and same-sex
love and relationships, infanticide, prostitution, murderesses, female
victims of lynch mobs, and female members of revolutionary, terrorist,
and racist/supremacist groups.
Students do not need to purchase any books for this class. All required materials will be available via bCourses.
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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
219 Dwinelle
TuWTh 1-3:30, May 22 – June 30
Class #: 15369
First 6 Week Session |
N158C: Europe from 1914 to Present The
twentieth century was the most devastating in the history of Europe.
This course surveys the major developments that led to the wars and
revolutions for which the century is famous. It stresses the supreme
importance of the commanding actors on the political stage as the
century unfolded--Lenin and Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler, Churchill and
de Gaulle, Walesa and Thatcher and Gorbachev, and focuses on the
differing approaches to European relations taken by American presidents
from Wilson to George W. Bush. The course will seek to squeeze every
ounce of drama out of the century's most famous -- and infamous --
events: Europe's last summer -- the incredible days of July 1914; the
slaughter of World War I; the rise of Communism, Fascism, and Nazism;
Munich; the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939; the decimation of World War II;
the bombing of London and Dresden; the destruction of the European
Jewry; the German invasion of Russia; D-Day, the suicide of Hitler, the
origins and development of the Cold War; the fall of the Berlin Wall;
the revolutions of 1989; the disintegration of the Soviet Union; the
collapse of Yugoslavia; and the first and second Gulf wars. All this and
more we will explore through books, documents and, not least, films and
documentaries.
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David Wetzel
June 19 – August 11
Class #: 11794
8 Week Session |
N160: The International Economy of the 20th Century The
twentieth century witnessed both international integration through
market-based exchange as well as numerous experiments, left and right,
at economic independence from reigning financial superpowers. National
governments, and the international organizations they created,
alternatively relied on market mechanisms and on planning to spur
economic growth, raising the living standards of millions in some
instances but also fueling mass unemployment, famine, environmental
degradation and even genocide in other instance. Topics include the Gold
Standard, the Great Depression, the economics of the two World Wars,
decolonialization, and post-war financial crisis.
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Andrej Milivojevic
141 Giannini
MTuWTh 2-4, July 3 – August 11
Class #: 11795
Second 6 Week Session |
N174: Study Abroad in Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic — The
Contours of Coexistence: “Otherness” and Belonging in Modern Europe Travel across multiple countries and explore the limits of coexistence in both the "old" and "new" Europe.
- Study theories of co-existence in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany
- Analyze the usage of voices, museums, food, music, histories,
protests, organizations and government initiatives to better understand
how ideas of "Europe" and "Europeaness" changed over the past 100 years
and continue to change
The program focuses on both historical and contemporary minorities:
the Jews of Europe and most specifically Poland; the Roma of Northern
Bohemia; the Vietnamese in Prague, the Turkish in Germany and recent
refugees across European Union member states.
For information on applying, visit studyabroad.berkeley.edu/summerabroad/poland-germany-czech
To contact the instructor, email scramsey@tulane |
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