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Academic Year 2000/2001


Sophomore Seminar: Nationalism and National Identity in 20th-Century Europe
HIST 264 FA

This course will examine the making and remaking of national identities in 20th-century Western Europe. It will first consider various understandings of nationalism and proceed to investigate the processes of inclusion and exclusion that produce national identities; women's suffrage; anti-Semitism; the fascist state and its legacy; social citizenship in the welfare state; immigration and citizenship; the nationalism of the new right; and the construction of public memory and national myths in fil m and fiction.

MAJOR READINGS

B. Anderson, IMAGINED COMMUNITIES R. Brubaker, CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONHOOD IN FRANCE AND GERMANY A. Coombes, REINVENTING AFRICA A. Kaes, FROM HITLER TO HEIMAT: THE RETURN OF HISTORY AS FILM M. Ignatieff, BLOOD AND BELONGING J. Kramer, UNSETTLING EUROPE

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Several short papers

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Not open to students who have taken HIST214. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001


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