An introductory-level course designed to introduce College of Humanities and Fine Arts majors to new learning strategies, career assessment tools, and campus resources to enhance student academic success.

In this course students will create a professional portfolio. They will set goals, explore interests and passions, learn how to build a campus support network, create a cover letter and resume, learn interviewing techniques (including etiquette), meet alumni, and practice interviewing for a career of interest. This course includes several experimental components that will enable students to be evaluated on their ability to market themselves prior to an actual job search.

In this course students will create a professional portfolio. They will set goals, explore interests and passions, learn how to build a campus support network, create a cover letter and resume, learn interviewing techniques (including etiquette), meet alumni, and practice interviewing for a career of interest. This course includes several experimental components that will enable students to be evaluated on their ability to market themselves prior to an actual job search.

This seminar will consider the history of childhood and youth in its global context. Beginning with the presumption that age as an important category of analysis, we will critically interrogate changing ideals and experiences of childhood and youth across time. Using studies of child soldiers in Africa and children in the American Civil war, we will investigate the impact of war in different contexts. From comparative studies of child policies in Europe, North America, and Asia, we will consider how and when different nations have chosen to invest state resources in their children.

Directed research or writing for qualified students.

The phenomenon of cultures of memory has emerged over the past decade as a subject of serious historical scholarship. The aim of this seminar is to discuss the problem of national memory cultures since the Second World War. We will begin the semester by looking at theories of memory and national identity since 1945. Although the primary thrust of our readings will deal with remembering the Second World War, we will also delve into other areas of remembering.

This doctoral-level course will examine the cultural construction of sanctity. Although the focus will be on the premodern Christian west, we will also consider comparative examples, and students will be encouraged to read and present in their own areas of interest. Readings will include general works on religion and religious history as well primary sources (in translation) and recent scholarship. Although historians of previous generations dismissed many aspects of the study of saints, recent work has shown that they are a rich source for cultural history.

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This seminar will consider the history of childhood and youth in its global context. Beginning with the presumption that age as an important category of analysis, we will critically interrogate changing ideals and experiences of childhood and youth across time. Using studies of child soldiers in Africa and children in the American Civil war, we will investigate the impact of war in different contexts. From comparative studies of child policies in Europe, North America, and Asia, we will consider how and when different nations have chosen to invest state resources in their children.

Directed reading, research or writing for qualified students.