To see those descriptions, please see the undergraduate course descriptions . Central topics in American cultural life and thought from the late 19th century to the present. Special focus on the changing sense of personal selfhood among specific ethnic and religious groups, social classes, genders, and professions. Examination of how this changing sense has manifested itself in cultural froms. The Holocaust will be examined against the backdrop of modern Jewish and modern German history.
Major focus is on the Hippocratic treatises as primary sources.
Topics include the environment and peoples of the region, the emergence of hierarchical societies, the economic and political changes of the nineteenth century, the era of European imperialism, the transformations associated with the colonial period, and African independence. Studies social, economic, cultural, and political development from 1821 to 1990. Major topics include coffee and liberalism, United States and Nicaragua, the ero of reform, revolution and counter-revolution. Society and culture on the Japanese archipelago from their origins to the high middle ages. Prehistoric Jomon and protohistoric Yayoi.