Study Abroad with the History Department
Professors on the history faculty at Augsbug have studied and/or lived on all five continents of the globe.
The courses below are led by those very history professors, often with professors from
other departments,
providing students with a range of
interdisciplinary experiences.
Since 2000, we have taken students to the Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Nicaragua, Poland,
and Turkey. For 2010, we're planning trips to Nicaragua, Germany/Poland/Czech Republic, and Scotland.
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Nicaragua, 2010
HIS 195: Globalization and Women's Grass-Roots Movements
INS 195: Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Faculty: Michael Lansing, Assistant Professor of History
Health care, human rights, free trade, natural resource use, sustainable local economies, and political reform all stand as issues facing Nicaraguans. Through conversations with Nicaraguan politicians, scholars, activists, workers, and peasants—coupled with the close study of women’s oral histories—students will explore the powerful role women played in Nicaragua’s recent past andhow it relates to their experiences today. The course will also examine how we, as citizens of the United States, affect life in Nicaragua and what our relationship with this country has to do with our own vocations. This class fulfills the Humanites LAF requirement as well as the Augsburg Experience requirement.
INS 195: Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Faculty: Michael Lansing, Assistant Professor of History
Health care, human rights, free trade, natural resource use, sustainable local economies, and political reform all stand as issues facing Nicaraguans. Through conversations with Nicaraguan politicians, scholars, activists, workers, and peasants—coupled with the close study of women’s oral histories—students will explore the powerful role women played in Nicaragua’s recent past andhow it relates to their experiences today. The course will also examine how we, as citizens of the United States, affect life in Nicaragua and what our relationship with this country has to do with our own vocations. This class fulfills the Humanites LAF requirement as well as the Augsburg Experience requirement.
Germany,
Poland, Czech Republic, 2010
HIS 195: World War II and Its Aftermath Through History, Film and Literature
ENL 270: Rites of Thematic Passage
Faculty: Bob Cowgill, Assistant Professor of English
ENL 270: Rites of Thematic Passage
Faculty: Bob Cowgill, Assistant Professor of English
Jacqueline de Vries, Associate Professor of History
Adorno famously remarked that after Auschwitz there could be no more poetry. In light of this lacerating insight (often misunderstood and attacked), and in light of transformed "new-century" Eastern European cities like Berlin and Prague in the post-Soviet, post-modern era, disturbing questions can be raised about the changing nature and value of historical consciousness and memory. How does a culture pay homage to a horrific past in an age that makes a commodity of place identity? How should the memory of the past be embodied in everyday life? What happens to the work of artists and writers haunted by the past when experience of the events in question begins to pass out of living memory, even while the events themselves seem to be firmly entrenched in mass culture through seemingly endless and often misleading representations of film and literature?
This interdisciplinary course will blend the methodologies of the historian, the literary theorist, the artist, and the humanely conscious moral person. Students will take a moral and critical journey to Eastern Europe - one never to be forgotten - guided by some of the most insightful texts of the last century that explore the uses of WWII for the purposes of art and construction of received memory. It will be offered in the Spring WEC schedule, and includes a 2-week travel component to important World War II sites in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic
Scotland, 2010
For other study
abroad
opportunities through Augsburg College, go to the Office of
International Programs.