My courses this term!

Origins of U.S. Global Power [History course/American studies course]
(Policies, strategies, and ideas that enabled the United States to become a world power. Manifest Destiny, expansion, and empire; American exceptionalism; nationalism and internationalism; capitalism and consumer culture; technological innovation; the relation between domestic politics and U.S. foreign policy, particularly with regard to race and gender; challenges and resistance to U.S. global power. Focus on the twentieth century, with introduction to critical moments in U.S. and international history during the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.)

French and Francophone Cultural History
Representations of the Orient in French literature from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries.

Eastern Europe since 1914, with Timothy Snyder
Eastern Europe from the collapse of the old imperial order to the enlargement of the European Union. Main themes include world war, nationalism, fascism, and communism. Special attention to the structural weaknesses of interwar nation-states and postwar communist regimes. Nazi and Soviet occupation as an age of extremes. The collapse of communism. Communism after 1989 and the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s as parallel European trajectories.

Structure and History of English Words 
Sources and resources of the English lexicon. The development and internal structure of English words, especially those of classical origin. Application of linguistic principles to the study of etymology, word meaning, and semantic change. Focus on understanding the richness of the English vocabulary and its cultural roots while acquiring tools to analyze words and their elements.

Ethics and International Affairs 
Moral reflection taken beyond state boundaries. Traditional questions about state conduct and international relations as well as more recent questions about intergovernmental agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and the design of global institutional arrangements.