Which Class Sounds the Most Interesting?

tenisghs
Wed, 03 May 2006 18:31:33 +0000

History Courses:

1) **Impact and Legacy of Reagan Administration in Domestic/Foreign Policy<a href=“How%20successful%20was%20Reagan%C2%92s%20presidency,%20and%20by%20what%20standards?%20What%20impact%20did%20his%20policies%20have%20on%20the%20Cold%20War%20and%20its%20end?%20How%20revolutionary%20was%20the%20%C2%93Reagan%20Revolution?%C2%94%20These%20questions,%20which%20will%20be%20taken%20up%20in%20this%20course,%20have%20played%20a%20central%20role%20in%20scholars%C2%92%20growing%20efforts%20to%20place%20the%20impact%20and%20legacy%20of%20the%20Reagan%20administration%20in%20historical%20perspective.%20Such%20an%20examination%20necessarily%20ranges%20beyond%20matters%20of%20presidential%20policy%20to%20examine%20American%20society%20and%20culture%20in%20the%201980s.%20In%20particular,%20public%20discussions%20about%20issues%20of%20gender,%20the%20emerging%20AIDS%20crisis,%20and%20domestic%20social%20programs%20created%20cultural%20and%20political%20tensions.”>/b

2) **Stability and Unrest: U.S. Social Movements in the 50’s and 60’s<a href=“Students%20in%20this%20course%20will%20examine%20the%20development%20of%20the%20Cold%20War%20at%20home.%20More%20specifically,%20readings%20and%20class%20sessions%20will%20explore%20how%20foreign%20policy%20during%20this%20period%20influenced%20domestic%20politics,%20culture,%20and%20social%20movements.%20This%20seminar%20will%20seek%20to%20complicate%20the%20conventional%20wisdom%20of%20this%20period:%20that%20of%20a%20story%20of%20an%20era%20of%20stability%20and%20unity%20(the%201950s)%20giving%20way%20to%20one%20of%20turbulence%20and%20social%20unrest%20by%20the%20late%201960s.%20Topics%20will%20include%20domesticity,%20suburbanization,%20the%20civil%20rights%20movement,%20women’s%20liberation,%20gender%20and%20foreign%20policy,%20and%20conservatism.%20Course%20materials%20will%20connect%20local%20experiences%20of%20unrest%20with%20high%20politics%20of%20great%20power%20diplomacy,%20paying%20close%20attention%20to%20issues%20of%20gender%20and%20race.”>/b

3) **Gender and Black Masculinity<a href=“This%20course%20views%20gender%20to%20be%20an%20ideological%20construct%20as%20important%20as%20is%20race,%20class,%20and%20sexuality,%20in%20the%20development%20of%20individual%20identity.%20This%20course%20explores%20the%20relations%20between%20racial%20gender%20identity%20and%20white%20patriarchal%20hegemonic%20power.%20Specifically,%20this%20course%20approaches%20the%20study%20of%20black%20manhood%20and%20masculinity%20through%20analyzing%20historical%20texts,%20interrogating%20examples%20of%20cultural%20expressivity,%20and%20deciphering%20meaning%20embedded%20in%20specific%20social%20practices:%20work%20(agricultural,%20industrial,%20skilled,%20entrepreneurial,%20professional)%20,%20leisure%20(sports,%20consumption,%20performance,%20fraternities),%20family%20(home,%20parenting,%20and%20sexuality),%20religion,%20spirituality,%20and%20culture%20(literature,%20music,%20art,%20film,%20photography%20etc.).%20In%20sum,%20this%20course%20explores%20the%20diverse%20competing%20historical%20visions%20of%20black%20masculinity.”>/b