Course Info: CSI-0239
| Course | CSI-0239 East Central Europe |
| Long Title | Coffeehouses, Catastrophe, and Culture: East Central Europe in a Century of Upheaval |
| Term | 2017F |
| Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 105 on M,W from 9:00-10:20 |
| Faculty | James Wald |
| Capacity | 25 |
| Available | 18 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Culture, Humanities, and Languages |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | Students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. |
| Description | In the past century, Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland have been transformed from provinces of a multiethnic empire into a series of small successor states whose experience went from independence to Nazi occupation and communist dictatorship and back again. Today, they are members of NATO and the European Union. These three regions, with their dynamic and at times unstable population mixture of Germans, Slavs, Magyars, and Jews, embodied the tension between nationalism and cosmopolitanism, tolerance and intolerance, the persistence of tradition and the exuberance of modernity. Our course treated the histories of the countries and cultures, the people who lived those histories and the literature, music, and art that gave voice to those tensions. In addition, we considered the appropriation and transformation of history through memory and memorialization in the present. The course was strongly recommended for participants in a summer 2017 program in Prague and Krakow, but was open to all students. |