CEUS-U 320 TPCS IN CENTRAL EURASIAN STDS (3 CR)
Class #32708 10:10A-12:05P WH203 Hooker L
TOPIC: COMPARATIVE URBAN CULTURE IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY
ABOVE CLASS MEETS SECOND EIGHT WEEKS ONLY
ABOVE CLASS CARRIES CULTURE STUDIES CREDIT
ABOVE CLASS CARRIES COLL S & H DISTRIBUTION CREDIT
This course uses readings from cultural history and urban sociology, literature, film, and the arts to shed light on the East-Central European urban experience from the early nineteenth century to the present. Cities in this region share a common experience of transformation of urban space from modernization in the late nineteenth century (mostly under foreign rule), independence and further development between the wars, rebuilding and expansion under state socialism and Soviet hegemony after WWII and new kinds of rebuilding and expansion since 1989. Though the nations in this region have frequently thought of themselves as emerging from rural ³peasant² cultures, even that identity is often defined from cities whether through politics, the social sciences, or the arts.
The language of course readings will be English, although those with other language skills will be encouraged to explore sources in their original language.
