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THE HISTORY OF PARIS (HI3004)

Seeks to understand how Paris elucidates the history of France by following its history from its origins to the present. The site of religious and political revolution, Paris testifies to the trials and glories of French history.

VIENNA, 1800-1918 (HI3006)

Studies Vienna's culture and Austria's history against a background of spatial transformations from Baroque palaces to the historicist style of the Ringstrasse and the modernist architecture of Wagner and Loos. Investigates building styles, paintings, novels, memoirs, music and films to document the city's development. Some readings are: Freud, Roth, Schnitzler, Zweig. Includes a study trip to Vienna.

THE ISLAMIC CITY (HI3017)

Surveys the history of urban form in the predominantly Muslim cities of the Middle East and North Africa. Students will study the relationship between urban morphology and society, practices of sacred space, and the interplay of power, belief, and architectural form. Also covered are the politics behind the forms now seen as the defining features of Islamic building and the question of the image in Islamic building. On a contemporary note, students will explore the symbolic politics of the Muslim built heritage and examine the extreme conditions facing many Middle Eastern urban populations today. Includes a Study Trip. Please note that an additional fee will be charged for this course.

WOMEN IN THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE (HI3026)

Studies the ways women have been presented (and misrepresented) in Renaissance France. Case studies include Joan of Arc; the writings of Christine de Pisan and Marguerite de Navarre; political roles of queen mothers, daughters, sisters, and mistresses of kings (Diane de Poitiers and Catherine de Medici, the 'Reine Margot'); the ways women molded artistic realities and were pictured in art.

EUROPE FROM 1914 TO 1945 (HI3042)

Beginning with the First World War and the Russian revolutions of 1917, moves through the halcyon 1920s to the crises of the 1930s, and examines the causes, course, and consequences of the Second World War.

EUROPE FROM 1945 TO PRESENT (HI3043)

Examines the political, social, and economic forces driving European history between 1945 and the emergence of the Economic and Monetary Union. Seeks to define Europe's place in the contemporary world as an independent and vital political and economic regional power.

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY (HI3046)

Analyzes the formulation and practice of American foreign policy, with emphasis on its continually changing relation to the domestic political process. Topics include the constitutional and political power sharing between the President and Congress, NATO membership, the Korean War, the Middle East involvement, and the Cold War. Focuses particularly on US policy in the 'new world order'.

HISTORY WORKSHOP (HI3050)

The History Workshop is a course in the historian's craft that will give students an opportunity to learn about the discipline of history. Students learn how to pose researchable questions(problematiques), to gather evidence, and to present their findings before an audience of their peers in a seminar setting.

20TH CENT. DIPLOMATIC HISTORY (HI3054)

Examines the creation of the Bismarckian state, the origins of World War I and World War II, and the creation of a united Europe in the post-war period. Investigates the efforts of the European state system to adapt to the challenges of nationalism and globalization.

SOCIAL THEORY & POLITICAL UTOPIAS (HI3055)

Begins with Marx's critique of political economy and his social theory, together with Freud's metapsychology and investigation of the unconscious, then proceeds through selected works of Weber, Horkheimer, Mannheim to the political and psychological projects of Fromm and Marcuse.