S-Food, Culture & Policy

The food systems that we all participate in are products of historical processes. We will historically contextualize practices of food production, distribution, and consumption through a range of topics, such as trends in food advertising, the rise of the supermarket, the mass production of prepared foods, the creation of nutritional norms, changing agricultural policies, the farm labor movement, and the contemporary popularity of organic foods.

S-US&EuroWomn&GendHist

This Junior Year Writing Seminar on US and European women's history through fiction will explore the ways that novels, plays, short stories, and poems incorporate, respond to and reflect in their style and content historical and geographical realities for women. We will examine the historical and biographical context for an author's work and her or his anticipated and actual audience. We will also study scholarly critical analyses of the relationships between fiction and history

S-The End of Slavery

Writing Seminar: Up until the Civil War, the United States was a slaveholding republic. Most of the nation's leaders were slaveholders, and in 1857 six of the nine judges on the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protected slave property. Four million Americans were slaves, and they were worth over three billion dollars on the open market, seven times the amount of money invested in manufacturing. Thus outlawing slavery, even in the midst of the bloodiest war in American history, was a major undertaking.

S-The American Empire

Writing Seminar. Through common readings and films this course explores the modern history of U.S. global power. How might we understand and define America's empire? What were the causes, costs, and consequences of the quest for supremacy? What were the relationships between various forms of power? - military, economic, political, and cultural?
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