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We will examine the cultural, religious and political history of the High and Later Middle Ages, focusing on themes such as the relationship of sacred and secular power, the interaction of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, religious movements, heresies, and persecution. We will read a variety of primary sources including accounts of the crusades from eastern and western perspectives, and the letters of Abelard and Heloise. Assessment will include quizzes, a midterm and research papers.

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This is a stand-alone independent study designed by the student and faculty sponsor that involves frequent interaction between instructor and student. Qualitative and quantitative enrichment must be evident on the proposed contract before consent is given to undertake the study.

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Alexander the Great's conquests in the Mediterranean, North Africa, and Western Asia made him one of the most talked about figures in antiquity. Yet our ability to understand Alexander is difficult. Most of the primary sources were composed hundreds of years after his untimely death. In investigating Alexander and the world that was engendered through his conquests in the fourth century BCE, we must consider the basic question: Are the available primary sources reliable?

The course examines video games as vehicles for representing the past, distinct from traditional formats such as books, articles, and film. It explores the historical development of digital games and gives students the tools needed to critically analyze them. The course will not just focus on in-game worlds, but will also examine the broader socio-economic, political, and cultural context in which the games are developed and played. Assignments include an exam, online discussion through Perusall, detailed game play logs and a final project.

This course explores the war of 1948 in Palestine from the UN partition resolution of November 29, 1947 to the cease-fire agreements in early 1949. It has two narratives. The first thread of the course focuses on the voices of Jewish, Palestinians, and British contemporaries taken from diaries and letters from the period. We seek to capture the human element in this event, marked by such different outcomes as redemption and catastrophe, while telling a story of commingled Jewish and Palestinian histories.

This class examines the history of American gridiron football from its earliest days as a game played primarily at elite colleges through its development into the most popular spectator sport in the United States. The class examines the complex and contentious history of race and ethnicity in football, and its place in American politics from Theodore Roosevelt?s intervention to keep the sport legal to present-day controversies over everything from race and sexuality to patriotism.