This course focuses on various aspects of witches/witchcraft in order to examine the historical construction of the witch in the context of the social realities of women (and men) labeled as witches.

How do writers grapple with legal questions? How does the law respond to issues raised in the realm of cultural or popular expression? Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this survey course will examine the legal history of the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries against a larger historical frame which includes literature, film, journalism, and other forms of cultural expression.

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Due to the increasingly powerful presence of Internet venues such as Byliner, the long-form narrative is once again receiving the shine it should as a vehicle for thoroughly researched and compellingly presented journalism. Students will read classics in the genre and then try their hand at a major piece of writing in the tradition of practitioners such as Katherine Boo, John Hersey, Marjorie Williams, Truman Capote, Tracy Kidder, and Joan Didion among others.

This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-Semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union.

This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-Semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union.

This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-Semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union.

This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-Semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union.

This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-Semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union.

This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-Semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union.