United States Foreign Policy

Principles of American foreign policy with an emphasis on the historical, political, and administrative sources of contemporary policies. Analysis of the foreign policy-making process with specific reference to illustrative case studies. (Gen.Ed. SB) Recommended: POLISCI 101 or 121 or equivalent course.

FYS-HFA Opportunity Scholars

HFA Opportunity Scholars seminar encourages the development of the skills students need in order to become engaged and informed members of the campus community, as well as leaders and essential members of the new communities that they encounter or create during their time on campus. Students will discover what it means to be a self-learner, receive individualized support towards reaching their desired goals and establish the tools and understanding that will empower them to successfully navigate the complexities of life as a student and beyond.

FYS-HFA Opportunity Scholars

HFA Opportunity Scholars seminar encourages the development of the skills students need in order to become engaged and informed members of the campus community, as well as leaders and essential members of the new communities that they encounter or create during their time on campus. Students will discover what it means to be a self-learner, receive individualized support towards reaching their desired goals and establish the tools and understanding that will empower them to successfully navigate the complexities of life as a student and beyond.

Jewish Hist Jewish Lang

(Offered as HIST 202 and ASLC 202) This course explores Jewish history through the diverse languages spoken by Jewish communities from antiquity to today. From the scriptural centrality of Biblical Hebrew to the vibrancy of modern Yiddish culture in the United States, we will investigate what attitudes towards language reveal about Jewish creative, spiritual, and political life. Engaging directly with texts in Aramaic, Ladino, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, and other Jewish languages (in translation), students will examine how Jews interacted historically with surrounding cultures.

Islamic History to 1800

(Offered as HIST 138 and ASLC 138) At the dawn of the sixteenth century, the world’s largest land-based empires were in the Islamic world, stretching from the Atlantic shores of Morocco across the Indian Ocean to Pacific coasts of Indonesia, from the steppe of Central Asia to Zanzibar in East Africa. We depart from the origins of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula to explore the evolution of legal and scholarly traditions, art, architecture, science, technology, literature and a wide array of social institutions as they took shape across fast expanding Islamic empires.

Modern Jews Middle East

(Offered as HIST 107 and ASLC 107) This course introduces students to the histories of Jews in the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1950s, beginning with the Ottoman reforms of the 1850s and concluding with the mass migration of Middle Eastern Jews to Israel-Palestine. Spanning topics from Jewish newspapers in India to musicians in North Africa, it examines how Jewish communities responded to the religious, political, and cultural transformations associated with modernity.

Jewish Hist Jewish Lang

(Offered as HIST 202 and ASLC 202) This course explores Jewish history through the diverse languages spoken by Jewish communities from antiquity to today. From the scriptural centrality of Biblical Hebrew to the vibrancy of modern Yiddish culture in the United States, we will investigate what attitudes towards language reveal about Jewish creative, spiritual, and political life. Engaging directly with texts in Aramaic, Ladino, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, and other Jewish languages (in translation), students will examine how Jews interacted historically with surrounding cultures.

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