[bioundgrd] Fwd: Please forward - New History Subjects - Spring 2009

[Janice Chang]

>From: Mabel Chin <mchin at MIT.EDU>Subject: Please forward - New 
>History Subjects -  Spring 2009
>Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:34:40 -0500
>
>SPRING 2009 - NEW HISTORY SUBJECTS
>
>21H.106J Black Matters:  Introduction to Black Studies (also 
>24.912J, 21A.114J, 21L.008J, 21M.630J, 21W.741J)
>HASS-D, Category IV
>MW 11-12.30
>Interdisciplinary survey that explores the experiences of people of 
>African descent through the overlapping approaches of history, 
>literature, anthropology, legal studies, media studies, performance, 
>linguistics, and creative writing. Connects the experiences of 
>African-Americans and of other American minorities, focusing on 
>social, political, and cultural histories, and on linguistic 
>patterns. Includes lectures, discussions, workshops, and required 
>field trips that involve minimal cost to students.
>deGraff / James / Lee
>
>21H.115 Christianity and Slavery in America
>TR 2.30-4
>
>Examines the encounter between Christianity and slavery and the 
>attempts of Christian philosophers and ordinary Christians to 
>understand human bondage. Begins with a survey of early European 
>Christian understandings of unfreedom. Focuses on the impact of the 
>Atlantic slave trade and African enslavement in the Americas on 
>Christian belief systems.
>C. Wilder
>
>21H.511 Chinese Popular Religion
>TR 1-2.30
>Explores China's popular religious practices in their social and 
>sectarian contexts, from the ancient to the contemporary. Examines 
>questions raised and solutions offered by Chinese religious 
>traditions. Examples include changing notions of the soul and 
>afterlife; the roles of family, village, temple and state in 
>religious life; how gender affects salvation; and the relationship 
>between religion, science, and political ideologies. Addresses the 
>religious revival in post-Mao China, and tradition and innovation in 
>Taiwan and Hong Kong.
>I. Chapman
>
>21H.916 The Ghetto from Venice to Harlem
>Provides an in-depth look at a modern institution of oppression: the 
>ghetto. Uses literature to examine ghettoization over time and 
>across a wide geographical area, from Jews in Medieval Europe to 
>African-Americans and Latinos in the 20th-century United States. 
>Also explores segregation and poverty in the urban "Third World."
>C. Wilder
>
>MIT History Faculty homepage
><http://web.mit.edu/history/www/>http://web.mit.edu/history/www/
>
>21H subject listings
><http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m21Ha.html>http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m21Ha.html
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