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Baseball into the Millennium (Coursera)

May 20th 2024
Baseball into the Millennium (Coursera)
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In this course, we will explore the more recent history of baseball in America, through similar lenses as ones we have already used. Money & labor, culture, shutdowns, and patriotism & nationalism are our main themes for this fourth and final course. We will also look at how contemporary [...]

Moneyball and Globalization (Coursera)

May 20th 2024
Moneyball and Globalization (Coursera)
Course Auditing
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This course will explore baseball’s historical connections to money and globalization, two of the most powerful forces in the modern era. Baseball may be a child’s game, but it has been inextricably intertwined with money and profit since its very inception in the late nineteenth century. The Reserve Clause, [...]

Baseball and Americanism (Coursera)

May 20th 2024
Baseball and Americanism (Coursera)
Course Auditing
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This course will explore baseball and Americanism. What does it mean that baseball is the national pastime? What does national pastime even mean? What about national? When you think of the United States, what do you think of? Is baseball a part of that? These are some of the [...]

Race, Gender, and Culture (Coursera)

May 20th 2024
Race, Gender, and Culture (Coursera)
Course Auditing
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This course will explore baseball through the lenses of race, gender, and culture. For good and for ill, baseball has been at the forefront of how the United States has dealt with these issues. Does baseball leading the way with desegregation negate that the sport was at the forefront [...]

Visualizing Women's Work: Using Art Media for Social Justice (Coursera)

May 20th 2024
Visualizing Women's Work: Using Art Media for Social Justice (Coursera)
Free Course
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Discover the historical erasure of women’s work through social justice art. Public art has often ignored the work and legacy of minorities and women, but recently there has been a welcome reappraisal of publicly displayed visual monuments and art media. This course dives into the artistic process, exploring how [...]

Odesa: Jews in the Modern World (Coursera)

May 20th 2024
Odesa: Jews in the Modern World (Coursera)
Course Auditing
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In this course, Peter Kenez and Murray Baumgarten, both emeritus professors at UC Santa Cruz, tell the story of the Jews of the Black Sea port of Odesa. Kenez and Baumgarten include music, literature, and history in their analysis of a city like no other. The course is for [...]

Old Norse Mythology in the Sources (Coursera)

May 20th 2024
Old Norse Mythology in the Sources (Coursera)
Course Auditing
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This course is an introduction to the religion of the Vikings as it is recorded in Old Norse and Scandinavian literature from the medieval period. You will learn about the different written sources and what they can teach us about pre-Christian religion in northern Europe in the Viking Age. [...]

Violences et religions (Coursera)

May 20th 2024
Violences et religions (Coursera)
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La question « violences et religions » est d’actualité, et pas seulement depuis les attentats d’Al-Qaïda ou de Daech. Pour bien la comprendre, ce cours propose de prendre du recul et de l’envisager sous un angle historique et comparatiste. Le domaine concerné étant l’espace euro-méditerranéen, ce sont essentiellement le [...]

Applied Public History: Places, People, Stories (Coursera)

May 20th 2024
Applied Public History: Places, People, Stories (Coursera)
Course Auditing
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This course introduces learners to applied public history: understanding and interpreting the past today, and engaging diverse communities in the practice of making and sharing histories. The course draws on project case studies, expert insights and diverse perspectives to model exciting approaches to researching and sharing the history of [...]

Intellectual Change in Early China: Warring States and Han (Coursera)

This sequence of four courses will propose a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of Chinese cultural history conceived of as a succession of modes of rationality (philosophical, bureaucratic, and economic). The focus will be on the moments of paradigm shift from one mode of rationality to another. For each [...]