14 courses with the subject HIS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HIS 4602CONTEMPORARY CHINA4
4 Advanced Liberal Art This advanced history course analyzes the impact of the Chinese Communist Revolution on the state and culture of the Peoples' Republic of China (P.R.C.) from 1949 to the present. We will focus on attempts during the Mao period to transform China through campaigns of social mobilization, industrialization, rural collectivization, and cultural policies. The second half of the course examines the Economic Reform Era, including the rise of consumer culture, development of a modern legal system, and increased tension between the majority Han Chinese and minorities, particularly in Tibet and Xinjiang.
4 advanced liberal arts credits (Elective Abroad) This experiential learning course will travel to Tulsa, Oklahoma to study the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, its history, and its profound contemporary impact. Students will learn about the Creek Nation of Native people who first chose the name Tulsa, meaning "Old Town"; chart the city's development into a thriving African American community in the 1920s; study the lingering impact of the massacre by examining North Tulsa's economic and health disparities. We will then immerse ourselves in public and private enterprises that work toward resilience and justice--including justice for Native and Black people, for incarcerated people, gender and LGBTQ+ justice, environmental and food justice. We will collaborate with an innovative North Tulsa nonprofit, distributing fresh food from regenerative farms to local residents and building a Babson partnership for sustainability, food security, and good health. Students in this course will think about the role of business in delivering justice. Credits 4 209
4 Advanced Liberal Arts Credits In this Advanced Level course, students will explore Boston’s history, from the seventeenth century to the present, and consider how the city’s religious values, economic leadership, and intellectual traditions shaped American identity. Selected topics for the class include Boston's Puritan heritage, its place in the American Revolution, the city's intellectual and social movements, the creation of its museums and civic institutions, and struggles with immigration and race. As part of their responsibilities for the course, students will participate in field trips to the historic sites of Beacon Hill, Boston Common and the Public Garden, the North End, Back Bay and Copley Square, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
4 Advanced Liberal Arts Credits This course explores global cities to understand the varied and discrepant historical experiences of urban modernity. Drawing on a wide variety of literature from different disciplines and regions, we will critically examine the shaping of cities across the world: Boston, London, Paris, Shanghai, Mumbai, Singapore, Dubai, Bangalore, and Brasilia among others. We will examine city-space at two levels: first, at the more formal level o the state and town planners; and, second, at an everyday level, where city dwellers contest and redraw town plans in their daily lives. The course begins with an analysis of race, class, and gender that segregated the industrial metropolis. We will then discuss colonial cities using space as a lens to review empire and imperialism. Next, our focus will be on neoliberal governance; megacities; the conceptualization of ‘community’ in a neoliberal city; gentrification; privatization of urban space; urban informality; and the new language of urban inclusion/ exclusion. A specific focus of this course will be on the impact of globalization on South Asian city space: has globalization sharpened class, caste, and religious divides in these cities?
4 Advanced Liberal Arts Credits Course considers Chinese history through an emphasis on the social and cultural roles of Chinese women and their changing role over time. Topics include women and the family, and women as shamans, prostitutes, nuns, rulers, writers, revolutionaries, and politicians. Close attention is given to the social-historical context, regional class, and ethnic differences in order to counter the common misconception that pre-modern China is an unchanging monolith. Through this approach and concentration on the roles of women, students gain a more realistic understanding of traditional Chinese society and of the complex legacy of the pre-Communist past in contemporary China.
