[bioundgrd] Fwd: Spring 2016 History Subjects

[Janice Chang]

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From: Charles T Munger <cmunger at mit.edu<mailto:cmunger at mit.edu>>
Subject: Please Forward to Your Students/Spring 2016 History Subjects
Date: December 1, 2015 at 11:12:29 AM EST

Dear Students,
I am excited to call your attention to some Course 21H History subjects and would like to introduce you to two new History faculty members:
Tanalis Padilla: Latin America, and Caley Horan: US History.
You can view all our History courses here<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m21Ha.html>:
Please contact me if you have any questions:
Chuck Munger
cmunger at mit.edu<mailto:cmunger at mit.edu>

Spring 2016
(New)  21H.273 From Coca to Cocaine: Drug Economies in Latin America
Units: 3-0-9   Lecture: MW2.30-4 (4-257<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=4>)
Explores how drug production and consumption has affected Latin America's political, cultural and economic life and shaped US foreign policy toward the region. Discusses the history of different psychoactive substances and analyzes why certain drugs became illegal. Pays particular attention to the relationship between strategies of interdiction, poverty, and drug violence. Limited to 35.
T. Padilla

(New)  21H.350 Business in China Since 1800
Units: 3-0-9   Lecture: T EVE (7-9.30 PM) (E51-285<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E51>)

Analyzes the characteristics of business in China since 1800 to provide a historical context for its contemporary economic development. Topics include China's place in the world economy; early efforts at state-led industrialization; legal and social frameworks for business; foreign investments, companies, and competition; the emergence of a Chinese business class; the influence of socialism and reform-era politics on business. Includes case studies of contemporary companies and a research project.
C. Leighton

21H108J WGS.110 Sexual and Gender Identities
Lecture: T EVE (7-10 PM) (66-168<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=66>)

Introduces scholarly debates about sexual identities, gender identities and expressions, and sexual orientation and its representation in various media. Topics may include lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) sexual identities as well as their histories in Western and non-Western cultures; queer theory and theories of identity; the origins of social movements for equality; issues of race and diversity within LGBT communities; questions of visibility and media representation; and the politics of sexual orientation in contemporary American institutions. Materials include secondary readings in history, philosophy and cultural theory as well as novels and plays, films and television programs, community studies, oral histories, and legal cases.
C. Horan

21H.201 The American Revolution
Units: 3-0-9   Lecture: MW2-3.30 (4-253<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=4>)

English and American backgrounds of the Revolution; issues and arguments in the Anglo-American conflict; colonial resistance and the beginnings of republicanism; the Revolutionary War; constitution writing for the states and nation; and effects of the American Revolution. Concerned primarily with the revolutionary origins of American government and laws. Readings emphasize documents from the period--pamphlets, correspondence, the minutes or resolutions of resistance organizations, constitutional documents and debates.
J. Cullon

Chuck Munger
cmunger at mit.edu<mailto:cmunger at mit.edu>
Undergraduate Academic Administrator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
History Section, SHASS
Bldg. E51-255F
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
617 324-5134
http://history.mit.edu/


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