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department Societies of the World (X) |
This course spotlights familiar aspects of everyday life in contemporary America, and reveals how a deper understanding of them often requires study of peoples and events in distant places and times. In addition to making startling discoveries about global history, students will also learn the creative use of electronic databases and archival resourses, and gain experience with multimedia presentations (mini-documentaries, podcasts).
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Examines the present financial and economic crisis and how it spread from financial markets to the real economy worldwide. Explores efforts to understand the causes of economic slumps from the Great Depression to the present in the context of fundamental ideas about how economies work and grow. Critically assesses proposals for reforming the relation between finance and the real economy to produce more stable and inclusive economic outcomes and for rethinking economic analyses of crises.
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Considers the political, economic, social and cultural development of Europe since the end of the Second World War. Examines post-war reconstruction; decolonization and the Cold War; the development of social democracy, new social movements, and the welfare state; the birth and expansion of the European Union; the emergence and importance of "immigrant politics" and new extreme-right movements; the events of 1989 and their significance.
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This lecture course examines the theory and history of genocide. It compares and contrasts the dynamics of genocide from Sparta to Darfur, with particular reference to the Ottoman Empire, Germany, Cambodia, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sudan. The course sheds light on the origins of "final solutions" and their disastrous effects as well as the problem of prevention. Insights are drawn from a variety of disciplines, including law, political science, sociology, psychology, and history.
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This course examines how German-speaking Europe and its inhabitants have interacted with the wider world over the last four centuries. Political and military dimensions receive attention, but so do trade and commodity flows, migration, ecological exchanges, travel, exploration, colonialism, and cultural transfers. The course, in which visual materials play an integral part, seeks to show how a national history can be seen in new ways when viewed through a transnational perspective.
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This course introduces the principal health problems of populations ranging from their physiological basis to their epidemiological context. Emphasis is placed on methods for measuring population health, the evidence base for effectiveness, risks, and costs of interventions, and analytic tools for decision making. While emphasizing science driven policy, through comparative case-studies students will learn how access to effective interventions is critically influenced by systemic factors, health system capacity, and the economic, social and political climate.
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Examines, through lecturers and case-based discussions, a collection of global health problems rooted in rapidly changing social structures that transcend national and other administrative boundaries. Students will explore case studies (addressing AIDS, tuberculosis, mental illness, and other topics) and a diverse literature (including epidemiology, anthropology, history, and clinical medicine), focusing on how a broad biosocial analysis might improve the delivery of services designed to lessen the burden of disease, especially among those living in poverty.
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East Asian economies burst onto the center stage of global capitalism in the late 20th century. How were the lives of ordinary people in this part of the world affected? Who has gained and lost in the process of economic development? This course uses ethnography as well as "hard data" to study these questions in Japan, South Korea, and
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Explorations of the origins, glory days and collapse of the Aztec Empire and other key Mesoamerican civilizations followed by the political and sexual interactions of the Great Encounter between Mesoamerica and Europe. Focus on archaeology, cosmovision, human sacrifice, divine kingship and rebellion in Mesoamerican cities and in colonialism. Hands-on work with objects at the Peabody Museum aid in examining new concepts of race, nation and the persistence of Montezuma's Mexico in Latino identities in the Mexico-US Borderlands.
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A survey of the creation of modern politics in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy from the feudal period to the 20th century, focusing on the causes and consequences of crucial developments such as the English and French Revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, 19th-century democratization, and the appearance of fascism. Emphasizes the usefulness of comparative, historical analysis for understanding the origins of contemporary politics and competing approaches to understanding the processes of change associated with the development of the modern state.
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From the scientific revolution to the industrial revolution, from democracy to the consumer society, from imperialism to nationalism and socialism, the ideas and institutions of "the West" (meaning Europe and its colonies of settlement) came to dominate the world in the four centuries after around 1600. But what were the mainsprings of Western power? Taking a comparative historical approach, this course seeks to identify the key economic, cultural, social, political and military differences between the West and "the Rest".
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