Special Topics Seminar
Investigation of a topic pertinent to the advanced study of German language, literature and culture. May be repeated once with new topic.
Investigation of a topic pertinent to the advanced study of German language, literature and culture. May be repeated once with new topic.
This course is designed to expose students to a range of theories and debates centering on or pertinent to women, gender, and sexuality in the field of postcolonial studies. Here, the field is understood in its widest and most interdisciplinary sense, inclusive of studies of Empire, the independent so-called "Third World", and diasporas. Topics for study will include classical texts in the field, current postcolonial readings on gender and sexuality in empire, representation, trans/nationalism, and diasporas.
An examination of the political, social, economical, environmental, and cultural dynamics that have shaped modern Kentucky.
U.S. women's lives and experiences across cultures and regions from pre-settlement to 1900. Addresses current debates and scholarship in the field.
A history of Greece and the Greek world from the death of Alexander to the Roman conquest of Egypt.
This course examines the development of the various legal systems to which people in western Europe had recourse between the fourth century and the fourteenth century.
This course examines the history of Germany from the end of World War I until the present, including the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the occupation regimes after World War II, East reunified Germany since 1990. The main focus of coverage will be on political and social history, with lesser emphasis on cultural, diplomatic, and military history.
Constantine the Great to the capture of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453.
An analysis of political, religious, cultural, and economic changes in Britain during the reign of the Tudor and Stuart kings and queens, a period when Britain became increasingly prominent in world affairs.
A survey of the many Westerners, women as well as men, Native Americans, Chinese, and Hispanics as well as whites, sodbusters as well as six-shooters, and of the many Wests, wild and not-so-wild, from the prairie homesteaders to the Sagebrush Rebellion; and how they made, inherited, and were imprisoned by the frontier heritage.