Issues covered include social and economic trauma after the First World War, the relationship between state and society in the Weimar Republic, political fragmentation, the reaction against modernist culture, the National Socialist power, everyday life in National Socialist Society, women and National Socialism, racist ideology, and extermination. This course is designed to educate and prepare students about the war in Vietnam and its effects on U.S. society. The course is grounded in an historical approach and also uses literature, film, and music. Issues covered are abolitionism, woman suffrage, temperance, labor, peace, reproductive rights, and general rights.
Students investigate issues, ideologies, strategies, tactics, and personalities.
The course provides students with the knowledge to incorporate new teaching materials about women's history into U.S. History courses and to gain a broader understanding of women as actors in U.S. politics. The seminar tests the applicability of these disciplines, methods, and theories to specific spheres of activity and thought, including community, class, work, house and household, clothing, dining, landscape, and play. Causes and conditions for the Christian split off from Judaism and its transformation into the single most powerful religious movement in Europe will be approached from the social developments in many regional centers, using archeology and social histories of indigenous peoples. This course surveys Middle Eastern History from its beginnings to the present. The course explores religion, politics, social institutions and gender history of Muslim civilizations as its expansion and confrontation with other civilizations sharpened its own self-image.