Save up for summer school?
This looks like the class for me, in Evanston, Tuesday nights during the summer:
AMER ST 310-0 Sec. 28
Studies in American Culture: Domesticity and the Cold War
CAESAR Class Number: 42492
8 weeks, EVAN, 6/23 - 8/11
Tu 6 - 9:30pm
Kate Baldwin
This course will examine the dawn of the "nuclear family," named as it was for this particular period in post World War II history. Through a variety of media, including film, memoir, novel advertising and short story, we will examine the ways in which domesticity took on a new political relevance during this period. Looking not only at US but also Soviet responses to this reformulated version of American home life, this course will be a comparative study of the early 1950s and 60s. We will seek to understand the ways in which private life took on a new public relevance during this period, and the methods through which this new focus on privacy was instantiated. Texts include The Bell Jar, Revolutionary Road, Imitation of Life, Raisin in the Sun; advertising campaigns for Maytag, Chevrolet, and Revlon; and histories of architectural and interior design.
Oooo.... or this one:
HISTORY 319-3 Sec. 26
History of American Foreign Relations, 1945-present
CAESAR Class Number: 42976
6 weeks, EVAN, 6/21 - 7/28
MW 6:30 - 9pm
Charlotte Cahill
This course examines the United States and its role in the world at the height of American power, from the end of World War II to the present. It will explore America's place in the international political, cultural, and economic order, as well as how U.S. actions shaped that order, through the study of key developments in U.S. foreign relations, including the nuclear arms race, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the war in Vietnam, détente, the end of the Cold War, human rights politics and humanitarian interventions, and September 11 and the war on terror. The course will examine the roles of state and non-state actors in these events. We will pay special attention to the ways in which cultural concerns and social pressures, at home and abroad, shaped U.S. foreign policy, the ways in which policymakers deployed culture as a diplomatic tool, and the impact that engagement abroad has had on American society and culture. Reading List: * Mark Danner, The Massacre at El Mozote * David Farber, Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter With Radical Islam * Walter LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2006 (10th edition) * William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick, The Ugly American * Samantha Power, A Problem From Hell: America in the Age of Genocide * 9/11 Commission Report
Nope, this is the one for me:
HISTORY 392-0 Sec. 58
Radical Europe, 1789-1968
CAESAR Class Number: 40689
8 weeks, EVAN, 6/22 - 8/10
Tu 6 - 9:15pm
Erin-Marie Legacey
This course examines the significance of revolution in the development of the modern world. It analyzes four pivotal European revolutionary periods. We begin with the French Revolution of 1789 and the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. Second, we explore the development of a nineteenth-century revolutionary tradition across Europe. During this part of the course, students will learn about the wave of national revolutions in 1848, the importance of figures such as Karl Marx, and the rise of radical ideologies such as socialism and radicalism. Next, we analyze the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the varied international responses to the rise of a communist state. The class concludes with the student and worker uprisings that swept across Europe in 1968. Throughout the course students will discuss important themes such as: the relationship between democratic ideals and revolutionary violence; the place of human rights in revolution; the importance of culture during large-scale change; and the influence of ideas on action. Although it covers almost two hundred years of history, this course unites seemingly disconnected events by searching for evidence of a transnational revolutionary tradition.
AMER ST 310-0 Sec. 28
Studies in American Culture: Domesticity and the Cold War
CAESAR Class Number: 42492
8 weeks, EVAN, 6/23 - 8/11
Tu 6 - 9:30pm
Kate Baldwin
This course will examine the dawn of the "nuclear family," named as it was for this particular period in post World War II history. Through a variety of media, including film, memoir, novel advertising and short story, we will examine the ways in which domesticity took on a new political relevance during this period. Looking not only at US but also Soviet responses to this reformulated version of American home life, this course will be a comparative study of the early 1950s and 60s. We will seek to understand the ways in which private life took on a new public relevance during this period, and the methods through which this new focus on privacy was instantiated. Texts include The Bell Jar, Revolutionary Road, Imitation of Life, Raisin in the Sun; advertising campaigns for Maytag, Chevrolet, and Revlon; and histories of architectural and interior design.
Oooo.... or this one:
HISTORY 319-3 Sec. 26
History of American Foreign Relations, 1945-present
CAESAR Class Number: 42976
6 weeks, EVAN, 6/21 - 7/28
MW 6:30 - 9pm
Charlotte Cahill
This course examines the United States and its role in the world at the height of American power, from the end of World War II to the present. It will explore America's place in the international political, cultural, and economic order, as well as how U.S. actions shaped that order, through the study of key developments in U.S. foreign relations, including the nuclear arms race, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the war in Vietnam, détente, the end of the Cold War, human rights politics and humanitarian interventions, and September 11 and the war on terror. The course will examine the roles of state and non-state actors in these events. We will pay special attention to the ways in which cultural concerns and social pressures, at home and abroad, shaped U.S. foreign policy, the ways in which policymakers deployed culture as a diplomatic tool, and the impact that engagement abroad has had on American society and culture. Reading List: * Mark Danner, The Massacre at El Mozote * David Farber, Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter With Radical Islam * Walter LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2006 (10th edition) * William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick, The Ugly American * Samantha Power, A Problem From Hell: America in the Age of Genocide * 9/11 Commission Report
Nope, this is the one for me:
HISTORY 392-0 Sec. 58
Radical Europe, 1789-1968
CAESAR Class Number: 40689
8 weeks, EVAN, 6/22 - 8/10
Tu 6 - 9:15pm
Erin-Marie Legacey
This course examines the significance of revolution in the development of the modern world. It analyzes four pivotal European revolutionary periods. We begin with the French Revolution of 1789 and the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. Second, we explore the development of a nineteenth-century revolutionary tradition across Europe. During this part of the course, students will learn about the wave of national revolutions in 1848, the importance of figures such as Karl Marx, and the rise of radical ideologies such as socialism and radicalism. Next, we analyze the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the varied international responses to the rise of a communist state. The class concludes with the student and worker uprisings that swept across Europe in 1968. Throughout the course students will discuss important themes such as: the relationship between democratic ideals and revolutionary violence; the place of human rights in revolution; the importance of culture during large-scale change; and the influence of ideas on action. Although it covers almost two hundred years of history, this course unites seemingly disconnected events by searching for evidence of a transnational revolutionary tradition.