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HISTORY 424A: The Soviet Civilization
Socialist visions and practices of the organization of society and messianic politics; the Soviet understanding of mass violence, political and ethnic; and living space. Primary and secondary sources. Research paper or historiographical essay.
HISTORY 424B: The Soviet Civilization
HISTORY 424C: The End of Communism in Europe
Causes, course, and consequences.
HISTORY 439A: Graduate Research Seminar: Modern Britain and the British Empire
HISTORY 439B: Graduate Research Seminar: Modern Britain and the British Empire II
HISTORY 443A: Human Origins: History, Evidence, and Controversy (HISTORY 243S)
Research seminar. Debates and controversies include: theories of human origins; interpretations of fossils, early art, and the oldest tools; the origin and fate of the Neanderthals; evolutionary themes in literature and film; visual rhetoric and cliché in anthropological dioramas and phyletic diagrams; the significance of hunting, gathering, and grandmothering; climatological theories and neocatastrophic geologies; molecular anthropology; the impact of racial theories on human origins discourse. Background in human evolution not required.
HISTORY 444C: The History of the Body in Science, Medicine, and Culture (HISTORY 244C)
The human body as a natural and cultural object, historicized. The crosscultural history of the body from the 18th century to the present. Topics include: sciences of sex and race; medical discovery of particular body parts; human experimentation, foot binding, veiling, and other bodily coverings; thinness and obesity; notions of the body politic.
HISTORY 445A: Research Seminar in African History
Primary sources such as government records and missionary archives. Students present work in progress. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
HISTORY 445B: Research Seminar in African History
Primary sources such as government records and missionary archives. Students present work in progress. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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