2022-2023 Academic Year

Fall 2022

FYSM 100 First-Year Seminar
The First-Year Seminar (FYS) introduces students to Dickinson as a "community of inquiry" by developing habits of mind essential to liberal learning. Through the study of a compelling issue or broad topic chosen by their faculty member, students will: - Critically analyze information and ideas - Examine issues from multiple perspectives - Discuss, debate and defend ideas, including one's own views, with clarity and reason - Develop discernment, facility and ethical responsibility in using information, and - Create clear academic writing The small group seminar format of this course promotes discussion and interaction among students and their professor. In addition, the professor serves as students' initial academic advisor. This course does not duplicate in content any other course in the curriculum and may not be used to fulfill any other graduation requirement.

HIST 253 Autocracy/Uprisings/Daily Life
Cross-listed with RUSS 253-01. This course will survey the first 1000 years of the eastern Slav lands that are now Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus and the expanding empire of the former into Central Asia and the Caucasus. Students will gain a better understanding of the region’s political, economic, social, and cultural development and how it can inform our understanding of Russia today. We will examine the early formation of multi-ethnic clans into a large multinational empire while highlighting state formation, the role of women, church power, the arts, and nationality conflict. The course concludes with the impending collapse of the Russian empire under Tsar Nicholas II.

RUSS 253 Autocracy/Uprisings/Daily Life
Cross-listed with HIST 253-01. This course will survey the first 1000 years of the eastern Slav lands that are now Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus and the expanding empire of the former into Central Asia and the Caucasus. Students will gain a better understanding of the region’s political, economic, social, and cultural development and how it can inform our understanding of Russia today. We will examine the early formation of multi-ethnic clans into a large multinational empire while highlighting state formation, the role of women, church power, the arts, and nationality conflict. The course concludes with the impending collapse of the Russian empire under Tsar Nicholas II.

HIST 404 Modern Children's History
We all have one, but why do we not historicize it? Childhood is the only thing that all humans share. As historian Peter Stearns points out, understanding childhood is key to understanding a lot about who we are and where we came from – not only personally, but collectively – as humans living in human societies. In short, the study of childhood(s), and the children who experience them, is an important part of the study of history. Some of those childhoods may be tragically short, but we all have one even if our experiences vary widely by place and across time. Not all people have adolescence or adulthood. Until recently childhood was not a concept, much less a site of scholarly inquiry. This exciting subfield is relatively new and examines topics as diverse as education, children’s leisure (e.g. toys, games, play), child rearing, criminality, children’s literature, children as victims of war and violence, and many more. Following a study of the historiography and methods, students will begin their own original research on an approved topic of modern children’s history for their final paper.

Spring 2023

GRMN 250 The Holocaust
Cross-listed with HIST 376-01 and JDST 316-01. The course explores the causes of the Shoah/Holocaust, including anti-Semitism, the eugenics movement, the growth of the modern state, and the effects of war. Themes will also explore perpetrator motivation, gendered responses, bystanders and rescuers, and the place of the Holocaust among other genocides. Students will approach the Holocaust through its historiography, which will equip them to interpret facts and understand how and why scholars have shifted interpretations over time.

HIST 254 Revolut/War/Daily Life Mod Rus
Cross-listed with RUSS 254-01.

RUSS 254 Revolut/War/Daily Life Mod Rus
Cross-listed with HIST 254-01.

JDST 316 The Holocaust
Cross-listed with GRMN 250-01 and HIST 376-01. The course explores the causes of the Shoah/Holocaust, including anti-Semitism, the eugenics movement, the growth of the modern state, and the effects of war. Themes will also explore perpetrator motivation, gendered responses, bystanders and rescuers, and the place of the Holocaust among other genocides. Students will approach the Holocaust through its historiography, which will equip them to interpret facts and understand how and why scholars have shifted interpretations over time.

HIST 376 The Holocaust
Cross-listed with GRMN 250-01 and JDST 316-01.