Flight Culture and the Human Experience
“Flight Culture and the Human Experience” provides students with a cross-cultural, multi-media survey of flight’s social, cultural, political, and military impact on world history. Among the numerous topics that will be addressed in this course are: the physics of flight;
Stalinism: Culture and Civilization
This course examines the efforts of the Soviet state and Soviet society to build a civilization of a new type based upon the principles of Marxist-Leninist-STALINIST ideology. During the course of the semester, students will explore major elements of emergent
History of Imperial Russia
A comprehensive introduction to Russian history from the earliest East Slavic settlements to the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in 1917, this course incorporates original documents, literary works, and artistic productions including music and painting, to investigate the major
The Great War, 1914-1918
Beginning with a survey of the European Imperial order c. 1900 and concluding with an in-depth account of the global human and economic costs of industrialized conflict, “The Great War, 1914-1918” examines the fundamental transformations wrought by history’s first “total
technology : culture : society
This course explores the inter-relationship between technological, cultural, and social change from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution to the age of the Internet. Beginning with the rise of modern factory production and concluding with the communication revolutions of the
History of Video Games
“History of Video Games” is an open-world edutainment adventure focusing on the technological, cultural, and other forces and that have shaped (and been shaped by) electronic amusements from c. 1950 to the present. Over the course of the semester
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