HDFS 846 (1ON) - Human Sexuality
Human Sexuality
Term: Summer 2020 - Summer Session I (05/18/2020 - 06/19/2020)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
CRN: 70280
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5/18/2020 | 6/19/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
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5/18/2020 | 6/19/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
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5/18/2020 | 6/19/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
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5/18/2020 | 7/24/2020 | Hours Arranged | TBA |
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5/18/2020 | 7/24/2020 | Hours Arranged | TBA |
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6/22/2020 | 7/24/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
HIST 425: ENERGY & SOCIETY
Course Description: The course explores the historical relationship between human societies and energy. Consider the contemporary United States, for instance. Its citizens make up some 5 percent of the world’s population but account for a quarter of the world’s energy consumption. Why? Is there something in American society that predisposes it to high energy consumption, or did the high consumption make American society? In other words, what is the relationship between the political, economic, and cultural evolution of modern America, and the evolution of its energy systems? And what does that relationship look like in other parts of the world?
Over the course of the semester, we will examine the history of energy production, distribution, and consumption around the world, together with the varied and evolving sociotechnical systems built up around those activities. We will grapple with questions of technological and social determinism – whether certain technologies make certain societies inevitable, or whether perhaps it is the other way around. Each week, we will explore one or two sources of energy, and look at their impact on the societies and people involved in its generation, distribution, and consumption. We will see how energy can shed light on topics as varied as geopolitical power relations, war, labor organizing, gender roles, leisure activities, and the climate.
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5/18/2020 | 6/19/2020 | Hours Arranged | TBA |
The Vikings spread terror and destruction for hundreds of years throughout modern Britain, northern France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Russia. They also developed remarkable art forms and cutting edge naval technology, constructed important new cities (such as Dublin) and new kingdoms, including Novgorod and Kiev, and explored the New World half a millennium before Columbus. So who were these fierce warriors, intrepid explorers, and famed poets? In this course, we will investigate the origins of the Vikings in Scandinavia, the impetus for their explosion onto the European stage, as well as their culture, technology, and art. Students will read scholarly articles about the Vikings as well as source materials produced by the Vikings, themselves, and their enemies. Students will write short response papers to scholarly articles and participate in live discussions via Zoom about important sources such as the Norse Sagas. This course fulfills the Historical Perspectives Discovery Category.
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5/26/2020 | 5/29/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
War and Society in Europe: 1870-1949
This course is a brief military history of the decline of European dominance due to imperialism and conflict. Through historical articles and film, this course will cover British imperialism and German militarism in the 19th Century that helped lead to conflict in both world wars as well as their decline as the European hegemons by the start of the Cold War. British global dominance through naval supremacy and use of military force throughout its colonial empire complimented a Victorian society whose pride in England influence imperial action. Prussian military efficiency and effectiveness highlighted by their swift victory over their main continental rival, France, in the Franco-Prussian war spurned German unification, nationalism, and a quest to challenge the United Kingdom for dominance. This rivalry was a major factor to two destructive world wars that caused a decline in both nations who were replaced by the United States and the Soviet Union as the most influential nations over Europe.
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8/17/2020 | 8/20/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
Red, White, & Occult: A Brief History of Spiritualism, Magic, & Secret Societies in the United States
This course is a short religious-cultural history of the American esoteric movement, and serves as an introduction to the account of the occult in the United States. Students will be exposed to film of magic rituals, testimonies of mediums, and the diary entries of ‘the wickedest man in the world’ and his cohorts. We will cover American spiritualism and strange topics such as American Witchcraft, the Abraham Lincoln connection to spirit rapping and the rise of Spiritualism, Aleister Crowley and his Scarlet Women, and the rise of Anton LaVey and Satanism. This often ignored history serves as the nightmare fuel for countless musical groups, horror films, and ghost tours. Further enlightenment of this field will contextualize the strange people and curious events that have beat at the back of the American imagination for centuries.
Start Date | End Date | Days | Time | Location |
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5/18/2020 | 8/7/2020 | Hours Arranged | TBA |
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5/18/2020 | 6/19/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |