by bartmann | Jul 14, 2025
Few events transformed the modern world like the Great Depression. In this six-week seminar, we will examine the economic collapse of 1929 and its profound impact on American society, politics, and global affairs. From breadlines and Dust Bowl migrations to...
by bartmann | Jul 14, 2025
How do buildings shape our experiences of light—and what deeper meanings emerge through that interplay? This ten-week seminar explores how architects in premodern societies used light as both a design tool and a symbol of transformation. Drawing on the anthropological...
by bartmann | Jul 14, 2025
How have relationships between men and women been understood across the centuries? This seminar investigates gender roles and partnerships in the medieval and early modern world, focusing on literary reflections of love, conflict, power, and mutual respect. While...
by bartmann | Jul 14, 2025
What can travel writing reveal about identity, power, and place? This seminar explores how the Balkans—a region shaped by empire, migration, and resistance—have been imagined through the eyes of foreign travelers from the Ottoman era to the present day. We’ll examine...
by bartmann | Mar 12, 2025
What insights can art, literature, film, and music provide about Black life in the western United States? This dynamic six-week course invites you to explore the rich history of people of African descent in the American West, from Spanish colonization to the late...
by bartmann | Mar 12, 2025
The Spanish Civil War unfolded in what a distinguished historian once referred to as a backwater of Europe. This conflict marked the final chapter in a century-and-a-half-long civil struggle between forces seeking reform and those clinging to reactionary ideals. It...
by bartmann | Oct 10, 2024
This seminar will be taught by several professors in the Department of German Studies. Classes will focus on areas of each professor’s expertise and range from the Middle Ages to contemporary German literature, culture, and language. Key topics include medieval...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
This course will explore how the political developments at the turn of the twentieth century shaped the culture of Vienna. The failure of liberalism after its brief period in power due to the economic crisis of the 1870s, the rise of anti-Semitic parties, and World...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
China’s rise may be the single most transformative event of the contemporary world. Many have called attention to the economic and political impact of China’s rise, but what of China’s cultural renaissance? What does it bode for the future? The reinvention of China’s...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
2018 marks the centennial of the Great War, as World War I was originally known. The War ended the Concert of Europe, reworked global geography and transformed the domestic structures of the combatants. This course will examine the War’s origins, explore how it ended...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
The Balkans has typically been described stereotypically and which countries belong in the Balkans today remains contentious. In this course, we will examine the Balkans from a variety of perspectives: the cultural-historical background of the Balkans as a...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the central conflict of the twentieth century. Our approach to the topic will be roughly chronological and will attempt to treat each of the major theaters and battles, themes, and ideas of the conflict. We will trace...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Most of the people in the world know something about the American West. Usually popular ideas about it come from the work of novelists, artists, performers, filmmakers and TV producers, who created a mythical time and place where self-reliant pioneers overcame...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
This course will survey the fundamentals of ancient Egyptian religion from the Predynastic period (ca. 4000 BC) to the end of the New Kingdom (ca. 1000 BC). Material will be covered both as an overview of how things unfolded over the various periods as well as how...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Sorry! This course has sold out. Click here to join the course waitlist Many of us are familiar with and may have even visited the seemingly mystical places in the Four Corners of the U.S. Southwest on the Colorado Plateau, including Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Canyon...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Romanticism embraces love and sensuality, but it includes much more. The romantic movement powerfully affected all forms of literature and the arts, and even science. In this seminar we investigate several texts in historical, political, philosophical, literary,...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Please Note: Summer 2020 Course Registration Opens Online on Monday, May 11th at 8AM Rhythm and blues music emerged as a genre in the late 1940s, coinciding with the rise of multiple civil rights movements in the United States. This course explores culture and...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
This course was originally scheduled for Spring 2020 but was postponed due to COVID-19 Many of us are familiar with and may have even visited the seemingly mystical places in the Four Corners of the U.S. Southwest on the Colorado Plateau, including Mesa Verde, Chaco...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Sorry! This course has sold out. Click here to join the course waitlist This course explores the nuances and key features of the Russian cultural-societal-historical experience often called “the Russian Soul.” Caught between East and West, Asia and Europe, and...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Since the end of the Cold War the US has been widely viewed as an imperial power–one having a truly global level of influence with no peer. Instead of colonies the US has hundreds of military bases throughout the world. The “imperial”...
