Related Courses: European Area Studies
There are many graduate and undergraduate courses on European societies and cultures offered through the Anthropology and other departments at UMass. Participants are strongly encouraged to pursue additional coursework that will help prepare them for their research project. Because courses change and new ones are constantly being created, students should consult department web sites and the course catalogue for up-to-date listings. Here, we list courses in Anthropology, History, and Political Science.
Anthropology - European Studies
Anth 396/697: Gender and Postsocialist Transformations. Julie Hemment. This course examines the transforming states of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union from the perspective of gender. The so-called collapse of Communism in the late 1980s paved the way for amibitious projects for social and political change. However, policies aimed at democratization and economic liberalization in postsocialist states led to increased stratification and impoverishment. Women have borne the brunt of many of these changes. The course examines the gender realignments of the postsocialist period, and women's responses to these changes. Themes to be discussed are: Gender and socialism (the socialist "gender regime" and the meaning of work, home, family); women and the market; identity and identity politics (feminism, NGOs, and women's activism) and gender and globalization. We will ask: How do these readings challenge our ideas about the "West" and gender regimes we have grown up with? How does the post-socialist case challenge our notions of community, family, the state, capitalism, justice, and democracy?
ANTH 797: Population and Governmentality. Betsy Krause. This seminar explores the meaning and materiality of population(s) with particular attention to the practices and politics of states. This class draws heavily on European ethnography and is geared toward students working on population issues: race and immigration, gender and new reproductive technologies, identity and sovereign membership, cultural politics of demographic paradoxes, and histories of populations marked as criminal, deviant, or mad.
Anth 697E: Professional Anthropology. Martin Wobst.This course is designed to help graduate students clarify their (area) of interest within the discipline, to identify their training and education needs; to find out how to drum up good will and financial support and a job; to formulate research questions, strategic goals and tasks.
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History - European Studies
HISTORY 600: European Historiography to the Enlightenment. Oglive. Critical evaluation of the techniques and ideas of major historians and influential schools of historical interpretation from the Greeks through the Enlightenment.
HISTORY 601: European Historiography Enlighenment - Now. Rearick. Techniques and ideas of major historians and influential schools of historical interpretation; relation of historiography to intellectual and political history of modern Europe.
HISTORY 615: Topics in Early Modern Europe. Gordon, Ogilvie. The transformation of Europe in the period 1400-1800. Evolution of the state, social classes, moral codes, and mentalities. Emphasis also given to theoretical interpretation of the period as a whole.
HISTORY 616: Topics in the Age Of Enlightenment. Gordon. Movement of ideas in Atlantic civilization during the 18th century. The mind and writings of representative European and American thinkers. Emphasis on politics, religion, science, literature and the arts.
HISTORY 621: Topics in Recent European History. Rearick. Selected topics in modern European history.
HISTORY 636: Topics in Russian History. Jones. Russia in 19th and 20th centuries. Emphasis on Russian and Soviet historiography. Intensive reading and analyses of selected topics.
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Political Science - European Studies
POLISCI 710: Prosem-Cmprtv Poltcs. Srirupa Roy. New methodologies and theories that focus on institutions, ideologies, and systems. Also, interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to the study of culture and history. Guest speakers with expertise in area studies.
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