Information for undergraduate students seeking to transfer into Northwestern, for Northwestern students seeking to take classes elsewhere and transfer credit to Northwestern, including study abroad, and how test credit is awarded. While it is unlikely that we will be able to offer the world a definitive definition of "early American history" by the end of this course, we will nonetheless dip our toes into over four centuries of events performed by people who might be called "Americans," in a manner that may seem "American," in a space with disputable borders called "America," and attempt to arrive at some understanding of this thing called early American history. It also generated a long shadow that continues to define ongoing regional conflicts such as those in Kashmir, continual anxieties about majoritarian and minoritarian identity politics viewed alternately with dread and jubilation in both India and Pakistan, and a persistent desire among South Asian creative artists to make sense of the pain of this violent event. This seminar explores the entangled histories of imperial and environmental history in the colonial Atlantic world. Survey of Asian diasporas in the United States and elsewhere in the 19th and 20th centuries, emphasizing causes of migration, process of settlement, relations with other ethnic groups, and construction of diasporic identities. This course explores some of the major questions and problems of American legal history from the colonial era to 1850. Get an advanced degree with Northwestern College, online or on-campus. However, it is possible for students to complete the three quarters of this course with respectable grades but not be awarded honors. ANTHRO 214- Archaeology: Unearthing History. Information about what events are compatible with the general purpose classrooms. Archaeological surveys and their unique contributions to research about past peoples and places. Please note that not all courses are offered every quarter. These particular histories will allow students to examine how popular music has mediated the tensions that resulted from processes of development and urbanization. Course Listings. Could this warring continent achieve peace? Just as possession of the Land of Israel/Palestine is contested between Israelis and Palestinians, so the right to that land is contested between the two peoples, and for both sides, it is history that establishes that right, as if conferring a title deed to the country they both claim as their own. NMC truly is a fantastic place to further your education. And the 2020s have offered a weird replay, from a failed war to hyper-inflation to impeachment to debates about identity. What is the relationship between drag and social movements? It meets weekly in the fall quarter but less often in winter and spring. Information for first-year and transfer undergraduate students at Northwestern, Summer Term enrollment processes differ from the regular academic year. Northwestern University | All Rights Reserved. In our weekly readings, special emphasis will be given to texts produced by Soviet authors, as we will consider the Soviet experience not only from the vantage point of foreign observers, but also from within. How is the relationship between researcher and participant altered when both are LGBTQ+ (or assumed to be)? There are so many classes available to choose from and I have really enjoyed my time at NMC., Register/add/drop/refund dates for each semester are listed here, View the 20222023 Catalog online on the NMC Academic Catalog site, View/download a PDF version of the 20212022 Catalog (5.5 MB), viewed, downloaded and printed as PDF files online here, addendums to the current catalog will be listed here. You will be graded on written reading responses, in-class participation, and the final product (a short video, less than five minutes). En route we will explore the intellectual history of revolution in the works of Tocqueville, Marx, Lenin, James, Guevara and Scott, juxtaposing these texts with more recent scholarship to shed light on their multiple qualities: primary sources, political prescriptions and analytical frameworks. As we seek to answer these questions, we will read academic as well as at medical and sexological texts, political manifestoes, newsletters, memoirs, and zines. Pre-colonial to the Civil War. The first-year seminar, each limited to 15 undergraduates, introduce students to modes of historical analysis through the student of various topics in history. We will read first-hand accounts and analyze primary documents written by victims and perpetrators as we seek to understand the causes, course, and consequences of the genocidal policies of Germany and its Axis allies. Societies forge the objects they value most. We studied how various historical actors used different forms of oral expression to engage in processes of formation of political consciousness, collective identities, social movements, and states in Latin America during the Cold War. IParticipatory research methods have been key to queer studies since its inception. To develop your research projects, the class foregrounds different methodological approaches: 1) To move beyond journalism, we will conduct primary and secondary historical research to understand the complex historical roots of each case study. What are the key legacies? In 2023, the art of drag has reached a fateful juncture. The result was the almost complete annihilation of Ottoman Armenians, as the result of a series of events culminating in genocide, known as Medz Yeghern in Armenian, before Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide.". Restitution (return of confiscated property), reparations (various forms of material compensation for what cannot be returned physically), and apologies (public recognition of wrongdoing and assuming responsibility for it) are perhaps the most widespread transitional justice methods used to amend the massive breaches of human rights perpetrated by colonial empires, dictatorships, authoritarian regimes, and democracies throughout history. Undergraduate Catalog Office of the Registrar. Course Title. The Victorians: liberalism, empire, and morality, 1780-1900. testimonio, life histories, journalistic interviews, and truth commission reports) helped victims of violence to put an end to dictatorships and civil wars, intervene in the peace processes and democratic transitions that followed, and fight for justice, reparation, truth, and reconciliation. This course examines major developments, movements, controversies, and figures in American religious history from the end of the Civil War, as the nation struggled to make sense of the carnage of war and to apportion responsibility, to the 1930s, when economic crisis strained social bonds and intimate relations and challenged Americans to rethink the nature of public responsibility. 356-2 History of South Africa, 20th Century. Primary and secondary course materials will include historical, social science, performance, cinematic, literary, and digital texts. Throughout the course we will explore why the authors of these statements chose to testify and what we can (and cannot) learn from their testimony. Introductory seminar for non-majors and majors interested in a variety of topics related to a historical event, period, or broader historical problem. An in-depth survey of anthropological, sociological, liteary, philosophical and religious explorations into the problem of hope. In the winter quarter, students will finish researching their thesis and write a first draft. COVID-19 had no exact parallel, but it resembles the HIV/AIDS crisis that began in 1981 and launched the career of Dr. Anthony Fauci. The course offers a well-tested template for conducting, organizing, and writing up your own research on a topic that interests you. Because the world around us has been radically altered by SARS-coV-2, you will have an opportunity to place in historical context this pandemic's roots and its ongoing cycles. What do these debates teach us about how norms of citizenship, morality, gender, and sexuality were negotiated on and off the stage? The class meetings will consist of lectures, discussions, presentations, teamwork, activities, video/audio materials and projects. The course will focus on the history of college athletics, operations, finances, strategic planning, and critical issues and future trends that impact college sport. This module will provide students with the necessary historical and psychological knowledge to understand why these theories formed throughout history and how they have become widespread. Policy. Our convenient and cost-competitive Graduate & Adult Learning programs are designed to fit your life. See current and upcoming courses below. Examination of changes in gender ideals and in the lives of women and men in Europe and America as a result of world wars, Russian revolution, fascism, and the Cold War. See Caesar for current course description. 251 The Politics of Disaster: A Global Environmental History. We will work on this step by step throughout the quarter, with consistent feedback and support to enable you to become independent researchers. Office of the Registrar. Privacy This class will examine various facets of Shanghai's complex bequest as the paradigmatic modern Chinese city due to its place as a colonial port city and center of industry, culture, and politics. 201-1 European Civilization: High Medieval Through Mid-18th C. Culture and structure of preindustrial society, high medieval through mid-18th century. This empire had its capital in Constantinople, todays Istanbul. Fossil record and reconstruction of phylogeny, morphological and behavioral adaptation of early hominids and forebears. 210-2 History of the United States, Reconstruction to the Present. Hijra. We will examine: 1) the origins and effects of mixed jurisdictions (or legal pluralism) in different regions; 2) the ways empires have shaped key concepts of sovereignty and citizenship; 3) the role of transnational corporations in bolstering imperial rule; 4) the roots of empire in the history of human rights and global governance; 5) tensions between scientific and legal definitions of race, reality, and indigeneity; 6) Catholic canon and Islamic law; and 7) entanglements between cultural and intellectual property. The United States joined the club in the nineteenth century and, unlike the rest of the colonized world, a non-Western nation, Japan, participated in this tradition of territorial conquest and cultural hegemony. This graduate seminar will ask how scholars have defined and studied the state in the United States and discuss exemplary historical scholarship in the field. 270 Middle Eastern/Islamic Civilization. 373-2 The Ottomans: From "Second Empire" to the Age of Nationalism, 1622-1918. 317-1 American Cultural History: 19th C. Changing values of the American people, how they have been transmitted, and how they have shaped American society, politics, and the economy. 362-3 Modern British History, 1900-Present, 366 Race and Nation in the Independence Era. "Middle period" of American history, emphasizing origins of the Civil War, its revolutionary nature, and its immediate and long-term consequences for the South and the nation. Please view the following document with last year's courses:2020-21 Course Listing2021-22 Course Listing. This course considers the bilateral Sino-American relationship in its larger global context and in connection to the issues of war, diplomacy, race, gender, religion, and material and popular culture. We will use op-eds by the famous world poli sci pundits, journalism blogs of Ukrainians who write during air raids, video clips and movies filmed over last thirty years in the independent Ukraine, poems and novels reflecting the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Archaeological Survey of Colonial Dominica, About Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Geographic Information Systems Laboratory, Courses primarily for first-year students and sophomores, Courses primarily for juniors and seniors. AF_AM_ST212-1andHISTORY212-1are taught together; may not receive credit for both courses. Prerequisite: 211, or consent of instructor. Students hoping to enroll in these courses should consult the course descriptions on the Department of English website for the procedures for applying for admission. In the second and third parts, we will study the "archives of terror" of the Latin American Cold War, and how various forms of orality (i.e. Aspects of the development of Latin America's socioeconomic, political, cultural, and religious institutions and practices. 309-0-20 American Environmental History. This course explores the social spaces of science and medicine in early modern Europe during the so-called 'Scientific Revolution.' HISTORY320-0andLEGAL_ST320-0are taught together; may not receive credit for both courses. We accomplish these objectives by watching films, telenovelas and TV shows; reading selected works of history, sociology, anthropology, and journalism (film criticism in particular); and using the tools and technologies of digital humanities in a series of individual and collaborative projects. 395-0-22 Gender and Sexual Minorities in History. With an acute eye toward human agency, students will explore the myriad ways in which African Americans mobilized their collective resources to demand the recognition of their rights as citizens, women and men, and, more broadly, human beings. are taught together; may not receive credit for both courses. How has the idea of "Europe" inspired both admiration and revulsion? Students are required to petition for permission to enroll in the class (see instructions in the "Registration Requirements" section). Next, we will explore the legal, political, and social forces that led to the American Revolution and the framing and ratification of the United States Constitution, where Americans drew on their legal experiences and called for freedom in powerful but partial ways. This course examines the years 1968-2022, the recent past that most US history courses never get around to discussing. In spite of the relatively small size of their communities, the local Jews triggered a lot of interest in the Great powers' and local states' political-diplomatic circles who debated their status (often conceptualized as the "Jewish Question") at the major peace conferences marking the end of various conflicts such as the 1877-1878 Russian-Ottoman War, World War I, and World War II. Prerequisite: 200-level course in anthropology or consent of instructor. We will discuss Nazi ideology; the complex interface between the Nazi regime's espousal of racism and the motivation of perpetrators on the ground; the interface between politics and law; the victims' reactions to persecution; conditions of life in the ghettos and camps; the response of the international community; the complex question of the role of 'collaborators,' 'bystanders,' 'beneficiaries'; and the aftermath of the war. Varieties of historical encounters between Jews and Christians. Social and cultural history of urban Japan. Quick Links. First-year research seminar. The process of Latin American independence, from the colonial background to 19th century insurgency wars, economic development, and nation formation, with emphasis on race and "the Indian question" in liberal thought. A varying menu of courses in methodology and/or theory. Taught with ENV POL 385-0; may not receive credit for both courses. Social, political, and institutional history, 1688-1815. The "rules of the game" during this period have changed radically in terms of corporate control, business management and wealth creation. Starting in the 19th century, in the Western European colonial and postcolonial imagination, Southeastern Europe (known as the Balkans) became the typical locus of Orientalism at the fringe of Europe, depicted as a place of socio-economic backwardness, bloodthirsty tribalism, and ingrained inter-ethnic and inter-religious hatred and violence targeting especially the minorities, such as the Jews. The course will help students understand the concept of arbitrage and the limits of arbitrage opportunities. This seminar offers an intensive exploration of the history of abortion in the United States. We will explore the transformations in business and commerce during the past four decades that have led to current trends and problems. Students will have an opportunity to learn about the environmental effects of urbanization, industrialization, population growth, market economies, empire-building, intercontinental warfare, energy extraction, and new technologies. City characteristics of urban society in America from the period of settlement to the present. Humanitarian activists have rescued capsizing boats and brought migrants to shoreat which point they have been arrested as "smugglers" for aiding unauthorized migration. Along the way it considers the specific risks and rewards of studying the recent past, asking what sources we can rely on, where is the line and what is the relationship between history and the present. View our college catalogs now to know more about us. Is drag inherently liberatory, radical, and progressive, or actually conformist, oppressive, and misogynist? The sequence of events unleashed by these political and industrial revolutions overthrew the old monarchical social order of nobles and peasants to redraw the map of the world and create much of our ongoing social reality: capitalism and socialism; imperialism and national liberation movements; fascism/Nazism and liberal democracy; feminism, conservatism, racism, nationalism, and the very idea of revolution itself. This course takes students along a sonorous trip through Latin America and the Caribbean. The course begins with a study of traditional (mainly Ottoman) institutions; it then traces the forces which weakened those institutions and examines the efforts of Middle Eastern leaders to resist or encourage change. May not receive credit for both this course and ECON360-1. Students should check the annual course schedule to determine the precise quarter(s) in which particular seminars are offered. The human relationship with the supernatural and action patterns accompanying beliefs. This class will explore the history of American business during the past 40 years. The relationship between material objects and social life; review of theoretical approaches to gifts and commodities; ethnographic collecting in colonial and postcolonial settings; the relationship between culture and aesthetics. These historical detective stories are juxtaposed with social histories to analyze why people go to the trouble of making fakes; why other people buy them; and what their efforts tell us about societies ranging from Imperial China to revolutionary Mexico. Current and Upcoming Schedules Quarterly Class Schedules The class time and instructor are listed. Academic Policies and Procedures. Using contextualization and unique primary sources, this course explores how East European Jews managed to build a robust civilization that lasted over a millennium, how they perceived historical upheavals such as wars, revolutions and pogroms, how they interacted with Christians and Muslims, and how the imperial politics in Russia, Poland, and Austria shaped Jewish identities that continue to frame Jewish mentality. 271-3 History of the Islamic Middle East: 1789 - Present. Second half of the first-year research seminar. The first-year seminar, each limited to 15 undergraduates, introduces students to modes of historical analysis through the study of various topics in history. This seminar is designed to acquaint graduate students with classic and emerging scholarship in Early Modern European history between roughly 1400 and 1800. Above all, this course is about power - who has been able to seize it and how they have done so, who has been subordinated by it and how they have responded. he Fourteenth Amendment's role in defining and protecting citizenship, privileges and immunities, due process, and equal protection from its nineteenth-century origins to the present. ANTHRO 319- Material Life & Culture in Europe, 1500-1800AD. We will discuss "hot button" issues such as the debate regarding whether student-athletes are university employees; name, image and likeness opportunities for student-athletes; the NCAA Gender Equity Review related to the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments; coach and student-athlete behavioral issues; social justice consciousness related to racial equality and opportunity and its significant impact on the entire sports landscape; the NCAA governance structure; the Alston Supreme Court Case; the student-athlete transfer portal; conference re-alignment; transgender student-athletes and other pertinent issues. Easy! This class will help you think about how narratives about the past are arguments, as well as how the kinds of sources we use as historians shape the kinds of narratives we can tell. To develop your research projects, the class foregrounds different methodological approaches: 1) To move beyond journalism, we will conduct primary and secondary historical research to understand the complex historical roots of each case study. Using primary and secondary sources, the class will look at how women in the past terminated pregnancies, the drive to restrict or outlaw abortion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the relationship between abortion regulation and other questions of constitutional "privacy," the reproductive rights and reproductive justice movements that emerged in the twentieth century, Roe v. Wade and other major Supreme Court decisions, the legalization of abortion and its consequences, and the anti-abortion movement of the 1970s and later. In the search results, click on the name of the user you are searching for. Explore. Social, political, economic, and everyday history within the context of East, West, and unified Germany. In spite of the relatively small size of their communities, the local Jews triggered a lot of interest in the Great powers' and local states' political-diplomatic circles who debated their status (often conceptualized as the "Jewish Question") at the major peace conferences marking the end of various conflicts such as the 1877-1878 Russian-Ottoman War, World War I, and World War II. This is the first quarter of a two-quarter sequence on late imperial and modern China. It surveys the rise and fall of free market values in the United States and the world over the past half-century to explain such things as rising inequality, mass incarceration, mass immigration, party polarization, and political extremism. Personal computers, HBO, Nike, and Dillo Day all originated in the 1970s, so too the Democratic and Republican parties as we know them. Mid-20th century. The method gives a voice to those who otherwise left no written record of their lives. 395-0-32 Participatory Research in Queer Studies. Topics include international context, political rationales, military engagements, popular attitudes, cultural exchange, and lasting legacies. Fall 2022 Winter 2023 Spring 2023 Annual Class Schedules The course is taught by a leader in the Chicagoland non-profit community and combines both a consulting experience with area non-profits facing organizational strategy issues with classroom lectures and discussions on the nonprofit sector. Theories of interactions between culture and biology that affect human health. How did the World Wars transform and revolutionize drag? The year 2015 was the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, and witnessed the organization of commemorative events and scholarly meetings worldwide, including one at Northwestern University. Course Title Instructor Syllabus Days/Time Location; SESP 384: Experiential Learning . The 1970s were a time of high prices, energy crises, violent crime, public corruption, diplomatic defeats, and general "malaise." You will be graded on written reading responses, in-class participation, and the final product (a short video, less than five minutes). We will study the historical construction and histories of anticolonial movements on many forms of the campus educational institutions (PWIs, HBCUs, Tribal colleges, boarding schools), military bases, religious institutes, museums, and corporate landholdings.

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