HC 421H: Turkish History and Culture Come Alive!

The rule of the Ottoman Empire, one of the longest-lasting empires in world history, transformed large areas of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The wealth of Constantinople (known now as Istanbul and the capital of modern-day Turkey) was legendary and its location played a central role in east-west cultural and economic exchange. Still, Turkey bridges the continents of Europe and Asia and continues to maintain a major presence in Middle East affairs.

HC 431H: Turkey From Empire to Republic

This field course, “Turkey from Empire to Republic,” offers an in-depth exploration of the creation of modern Turkey; from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the birth of the contemporary nation. The course delves into the study of political economy and development, examining what it means to be an emerging economy and the importance of institutions to create a robust and functioning state.

HC 231H: Music and Politics

How does music relate to politics and power in social movements, subcultures, and the marketplace? This course will explore the relationship of music to politics, focusing on popular music in the 20th century in the US and UK. We will read about, write about, and listen to music from across genres and political moments including labor and civil rights songs, blues, R&B, hip hop, and pop, and we will look at the political contexts in which these forms of music are produced, performed, and consumed.

Intensive Oxford Tutorial

Six to eight quarter credits.An eight-week, very Intensive Oxford Tutorial course, taught in the Oxford style by a regular Oxford tutor. The tutorial will be in a subject selected from a list of 130+ diverse options, presumably but not necessarily in the your major. In some cases, self-selected tutorial topics can be arranged for this "bigger" tutorial course, though not all subjects are available.

England and Englishness

This courses explores cultural and historical expressions of Englishness from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century.  Notions of Englishness are always embedded in specific contexts: there is no ahistorical core to English identity.  Yet some themes have been remarkably pervasive through the centuries, even while being reiterated in new circumstances: we will return again and again to questions of language, gender, and relations with non-English communities in the British Isles and beyond.
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