Courses

Analysis of African American achievement in the genres of film and media, from the earliest days of the silent film to the contemporary moment. We will pay close attention to the political, historical, and artistic contexts of African American representation, participation, and creative agency in the motion picture industry. This course provides an opportunity to study some of the most significant films, actors, and directors in African American cultural history.

This interdisciplinary seminar examines the African American intellectual tradition from the early American republic to the present. Through the works of Walker, Douglass, Jacobs, DuBois, Ellison, King, Morrison and others, students will explore the unique development of an African American tradition both within and against a larger American intellectual tradition.

A study of absolutism of the European monarchs and the influence of the Enlightenment on the intellectual life of Europe. Political, economic, social and cultural developments are analyzed with a view to marking the major transformations of the period and the effects on later Western culture.

This course studies the development of Europe from 1648 to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, Napoleon, industrialization, imperialism, World War I, World War II, Cold War Europe, and modern times.

Reading of some of the major works of Goethe (excluding Faust), Schiller, Holderlin, and Kleist.

The development of the American Republic from the end of the American Revolution until the Compromise of 1850, with special emphasis on the influence that Jefferson and Jackson had on the evolution of democratic attitudes and institutions. HY 453 Sectional Conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction, 1850-1877 (3) Prerequisite(s): a HY sequence at the 100- or 200-level, or by permission of the instructor.

The development of the American Republic from the end of the American Revolution until the Compromise of 1850, with special emphasis on the influence that Jefferson and Jackson had on the evolution of democratic attitudes and institutions.

A study of the nation’s founding, democratization, expansion, religious and reform movements, the War of 1812 and the Mexican American War.

A study of the works of Samuel Johnson and of his most important contemporaries, from about 1745 to 1798.

A study of the works of Samuel Johnson and his most important contemporaries, from about 1745 to 1798.