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Academic Year 2001/2002
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
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2002
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