Course Guides 2000-2009

Note: For the years 2000 through 2003, the Spring Supplements were to be used with the previous year's Fall course guide, which included preliminary Spring course listings. In Fall 2003, the College moved away from printed course guides, instead making them available on the College's website as two pdfs: one a list of courses offered, and the other containing the full course descriptions.

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Course Guides 2000
   January 2000,  Spring 2000 Supplement 1, Spring 2000 Supplement 2, Fall 2000, Fall 2000 Supplement 1, Fall 2000 Supplement 2, Fall 2000 Supplement 3

Course Guides 2001
   January 2001,  Spring 2001 Supplement 1, Spring 2001 Supplement 2, Fall 2001, Fall 2001 Supplement 1, Fall 2001 Supplement 2, Fall 2001 Supplement 3

Course Guides 2002
   January 2002,  Spring 2002 Supplement 1, Spring 2002 Supplement 2, Fall 2002, Fall 2002 Supplement 1, Fall 2002 Supplement 3

Course Guides 2003
   January 2003, Spring 2003 Supplement 1, Fall 2003 List, Fall 2003 Descriptions

Course Guides 2004
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Course Guides 2007
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Course Guides 2008
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Course Description  Fall 2008
SS282                                           Spirit in a World Without Spirit: The Cuban and Iranian Revolutions
                                                     Carol Benglesdorf, Berna Turam

Revolutions are rare and unique social revolts in human history against the habits of everyday life. The extraordinary qualities of revolutionary moments have always fascinated social scientists, artists, and others with historical and critical sensibilities. In this course we will study the Cuban and the Iranian revolutions and their distinct visions. These revolutions are different in their ideologies (one is Marxist and the other Islamic) and their modes of social mobilization (guerrilla movement vs. urban mass movement). Yet, they shared common aspirations and desires (both sought to overthrow repressive and corrupt governments allied with the U.S., both promised a radical utopian vision, and they both are dominated by modernizing states). In this course, we will look at different readings and meanings of revolutions in general and the Cuban and Iranian revolutions in particular. How does one interpret the intense movement we call revolution? How do scholars and intellectuals read these historically significant events? And more importantly, how do ordinary people narrate their experiences in these revolutions and what are their stories of hope and loss?