This class addresses the history of the Second World War within the context of its origins in Europe. The course will discuss some of the many wars that made up this global conflict, such as the civil wars between collaborators and resistance movements in Nazi-occupied Europe, the Allied bombing war that targeted civilians, the Nazi war against the European Jews. The course will highlight the moral dimensions of World War II that appeared in the daunting choices faced by both individuals and groups. We will examine the attempts, at the war's end, to administer justice and address questions of memory and of loss.
Days: TU TH  02:00-03:20 PM

How does the legacy of human evolution affect our world today?  How have technological innovations shaped human societies?  How have human societies explained the natural world and their place in it?  Given the abundance of religious beliefs in the world, how have three evangelical faiths spread far beyond their original homelands?
This class follows the major themes of world historical development through the sixteenth century to consider how developments in technology, social organization, and religion—from the origins of farming to the rise of Christianity—shaped the world we live in today.

(Satisfies Pre-1800 Requirement)
Days: TU TH  09:30-10:50 AM

This course covers the most important themes in the history of Armenians and Armenia in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries and does so within a regional (i.e., Middle East and Caucasus) and global context. This course will have a strong thematic approach as we proceed from imperial rule in the nineteenth century through twentieth-century genocide, brief independence, sovietization, and independence again, culminating in the Velvet Revolution, and most recently the war over Artsakh/Karabakh. As we explore this history, we will focus on Armenians as imperial and national subjects in ancestral lands as well as transimperial and transnational subjects in a diaspora that has had a complex relationship with the idea and reality of homeland.
Days: MO WE  09:30-10:50 AM

Jewish thought and practice have developed over millennia as an extended conversation between thinkers and writers in different places and times, their texts both reflecting and shaping the course of Jewish history. In this class, we will be tapping into this conversation. We will consider some of the foremost texts in Jewish history; the questions that have engaged Jewish writers; and how they have built on and responded to one another across centuries and continents. We will wrestle with their ideas, both as universal questions of perennial human concern and as expressions of a particular sense of Jewishness. Throughout, we will reflect on authority and interpretation, controversy and heresy, and will consider how texts have become cultural touchstones whose adaptations and reinterpretations stand as cultural practices in their own right.
Days: TU TH  03:30-04:50 PM

Emphasis/Category: Environment, Economies, and Conflicts
English   106     TECHNO-ORIENTALISM

***This course is approved with syllabus approval if sufficient MENA content.***

Emphasis/Category: Histories, Cultures, and Identities, Geographies, Migrations, and Politics
UPPP   116     CITIES & CLIMATE CH

***This course is approved with syllabus approval if sufficient MENA content.***

Emphasis/Category: Histories, Cultures, and Identities, Geographies, Migrations, and Politics
UPPP   131     SUSTAINABILITY I

***This course is approved with syllabus approval if sufficient MENA content.***

Emphasis/Category: Histories, Cultures, and Identities, Geographies, Migrations, and Politics
UPPP   132     SUSTAINABILITY II

***This course is approved with syllabus approval if sufficient MENA content.***

Emphasis/Category: Histories, Cultures, and Identities, Geographies, Migrations, and Politics
UPPP   140     GLOBALMETROPOLIS

***This course is approved with syllabus approval if sufficient MENA content.***

Emphasis/Category: Histories, Cultures, and Identities, Geographies, Migrations, and Politics
***This course is approved with syllabus approval if sufficient MENA content.***

Emphasis/Category: Histories, Cultures, and Identities, Geographies, Migrations, and Politics
***This course is approved with syllabus approval if sufficient MENA content.***

Emphasis/Category: Environment, Economies, and Conflicts
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Emphasis/Category: Environment, Economies, and Conflicts
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Emphasis/Category: Histories, Cultures, and Identities, Geographies, Migrations, and Politics
***This course is approved with syllabus approval if sufficient MENA content.***

Emphasis/Category: Histories, Cultures, and Identities, Geographies, Migrations, and Politics
***This course is approved with syllabus approval if sufficient MENA content.***

Emphasis/Category: Histories, Cultures, and Identities, Geographies, Migrations, and Politics
***This course is approved with syllabus approval if sufficient MENA content.***

Emphasis/Category: Environment, Economies, and Conflicts, Histories, Cultures, and Identities, Geographies, Migrations, and Politics
(same as 67370 Pol Sci 172A, Lec A)

Emphasis/Category: Environment, Economies, and Conflicts, Geographies, Migrations, and Politics, Histories, Cultures, and Identities
(same as 67330 Pol Sci 158D, Lec A;   and 70560 Soc Sci 188A, Lec A)

Emphasis/Category: Environment, Economies, and Conflicts, Histories, Cultures, and Identities, Geographies, Migrations, and Politics
(same as 21680 AsianAm 144, Lec A)

***This course is approved with syllabus approval if sufficient MENA content.***

Emphasis/Category: Environment, Economies, and Conflicts, Geographies, Migrations, and Politics, Histories, Cultures, and Identities
(same as 64440 Intl St 165, Lec A;   and 70560 Soc Sci 188A, Lec A)

Emphasis/Category: Environment, Economies, and Conflicts, Histories, Cultures, and Identities, Geographies, Migrations, and Politics
(same as 64280 Intl St 145A, Lec A)

Emphasis/Category: Environment, Economies, and Conflicts, Geographies, Migrations, and Politics
(same as 64440 Intl St 165, Lec A;   and 67330 Pol Sci 158D, Lec A)