Utopias, Declarations, and Manifestos: Constructing Modern Worlds

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This course serves as an introduction to modern world history, centered on the idea of justice, equity, and identity in a global world. The class focuses on themes of utopias, declarations, and manifestos. It places these documents in historical context in order to explore the relationships between individual and state, cultural encounters and social change, identity, representation, power, and technology.