Spring 2023 Courses

GLBL 100 Intro to Global Studies

Credit: 3 Hours

Instructor: Multiple

Foundation course for understanding a range of contemporary issues and learning to analyze them from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Students consider globalizing trends within themes of wealth and poverty; population, cultures, and human rights; environment and sustainability; and governance, conflict, and cooperation. Course objectives are to enhance knowledge of human cultures, their interactions and impacts on the world; develop skills for successfully negotiating realities of contemporary societies; and promote values for global learning, diversity, and sustainable futures.

HEBR 202 Elementary Modern Hebrew II

Credit: 5 Hours

Instructor: Guy Rahat

Continuation of HEBR 201, with introduction of more advanced grammar, and with emphasis on more fluency in speaking and reading. Participation in the language laboratory is required.

HEBR 404 Intermediate Modern Hebrew

Credit: 4 or 5 Hours

Instructor: Liat Maggid Alon

Continuation of HEBR 403. Concentration on ability to engage in reasonable fluent discourse in Hebrew, comprehensive knowledge of formal grammar, and an ability to read easy Hebrew texts. Israeli television programs and movies are used to develop communicative skills and cultural knowledge. Participation in the language laboratory is required.

HIST 200 Introduction to Historical Interpretation

Credit: 3 Hours

Instructor: Multiple

Through the careful examination of a specific topic or theme, this course provides a thorough introduction to historical interpretation. Particular attention will be devoted to research strategies, writing practices, handling primary and secondary sources, and the analysis of historiography.

HIST 312 Immigrant America

Credit: 3 Hours

Instructor: Yuridia Ramirez

History of immigration and immigrant groups in the United States from 1830 to 1980. Covers major waves of immigration and focuses on the diverse cultural heritage, social structure, and political activism of immigrants from Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

HIST 269 Modern Jewish History (Online)

Credit: 3 Hours

Instructor: Gene Avrutin

HIST 456 Twentieth Century Germany

Credit: 3 or 4 Hours

Instructor: Peter Fritzsche

Political upheavals of twentieth-century Germany; topics include the First World War's impact on German society, the war's revolutionary aftermath, the political struggles and cultural achievements of the Weimar Republic, the rise of Hitler, the Third Reich, the Holocaust, the Second World War, and the divided postwar Germanies; novels and films complement readings.

JS 212 Israeli Cinema and Television

Credit: 3 Hours

Instructor: Liat Maggid Alon

Examination of Israeli cinema from its documentary beginnings to its internationally award winning feature films. First established as a way to record the developments of the Jewish community in Palestine, after Independence in 1948, it became a way to explore the ideals and values of the new state. Trapped between Eastern and Western cinematic tradition, we will view heroic cinema, new wave, and bourekas films. Through lectures, readings and film screenings this seminar examines the diversity of Israeli society, including religious/secular divisions, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, the Holocaust, gay cinema and the country's ethnic diversity including Palestinian, Russian, and Mizrachi identity. All films are subtitled and no previous knowledge of cinema or Israel is required.

MUS 523 Seminar in Musicology

Sound & the State: Music, Sovereignty, and Belonging in the Contemporary World

Credit: 4 Hrs

Instructor: Donna Buchanan

How do we come to experience our affinity to nation and state, our sense of citizenship and community belonging, through sound? How is state sovereignty sonically proclaimed, legitimized, refuted, or dissolved? This interdisciplinary graduate seminar considers anthropological, ethnographic, ethnomusicological, and area studies literature theorizing these and other relationships between sound and state in different world regions characterized by contrasting governance structures. Units will target major concepts of statehood and belonging—borders; citizenship; diaspora, displacement, and migration; ethnicity; heritage; Indigeneity and itinerant groups; nations and nationalism; sovereignty and statelessness; and more—as instantiated through sound and expressive culture. Beyond weekly readings and discussions, students will develop a research or creative project pertinent to their interests and the course topic. Graduate students from outside Music who wish to register for this course should contact the instructor for permission.