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The following list represents the complete list of all e-seminars. Using the search boxes to the left, narrow your results by using keywords, subject, or professor name.
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| | Art and Understanding
| | Arnold Aronson |
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Hosted by Arnold Aronson, Professor of Theater at Columbia University's School of the Arts in New York City, this seminar has gathered prestigious artists/theorists from Columbia and asked them to weigh on the question "what is art?" Basing their answers specifically on their own personal work, these individuals engage questions of art and the artist. There is a course-long exercise that will help you measure your engagement with the material. Finally, there are various media elements—from paintings to video work, from music to photographs—to enhance your learning experience. Enter.
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| | Crucible of Pluralism: Religion in Modern America
| | Randall Balmer |
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Since the 1960s, the religious landscape of the United States has undergone striking changes. In recent decades, we have become the most religiously diverse nation on earth. Despite the American ideal of protecting religious diversity, these developments have challenged and disturbed many Americans. In this e-seminar Randall Balmer provides a larger historical context in which to consider the tension between religious conformity and religious diversity in our nation. Enter.
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| | Biography of the AIDS Epidemic: Creating an Oral-History Project—E-Seminar 1, From Idea to Interview: Launching an Oral-History Project
| | Ronald Bayer and Gerald Oppenheimer |
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In the first of two e-seminars on their oral history of the AIDS epidemic, Professors Bayer and Oppenheimer take the student on a tour through the planning of their oral-history project. Through anecdotes, constructive advice and tips, collected readings and resources, and sample planning documents, you will learn to conduct interviews for an oral-history project and to address sensitive issues that may arise during and after the interviews. You will also learn to use oral-history materials to construct a nonarchival project, and to present and evaluate your project. Enter.
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| | Biography of the AIDS Epidemic: Creating an Oral-History Project—E-Seminar 2, Talk to Text: Completing an Oral-History Project
| | Ronald Bayer and Gerald Oppenheimer |
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In this second of two e-seminars on their oral-history of the AIDS epidemic, Professors Bayer and Oppenheimer take the student on a tour through the execution of their own oral-history project. Through anecdotes, constructive advice and tips, collected readings and resources, and sample documents, you will become well versed in the issues that need to be addressed before beginning an oral history project, and become equipped to complete the steps needed to plan your oral-history project to the point of conducting interviews. Enter.
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| | Schoenberg and Modernism
| | Ian Bent |
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In Schoenberg and Modernism Professor Ian Bent explores the life and work of Arnold Schoenberg in two modules. The first delineates the various schools of Modernism that emerged in Europe and America at the turn of the twentieth century and places Schoenberg's early career in the context of German Expressionist painting and the "Second Viennese School" of composers. The second module provides an in-depth examination of a seminal work of twentieth-century music, Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire. Enter.
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| | The Origins of the First World War
| | Volker R. Berghahn |
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In this e-seminar Volker R. Berghahn, Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University, explores the international developments and pressures, and the decisions made by German leaders that inexorably led to the First World War. Photographs, maps, and primary documents complement Professor Berghahn's dramatic and lucid account. Enter.
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| | Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945—E-Seminar 1, The Crisis of Victorianism
| | Casey Nelson Blake |
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Between the end of the Civil War and 1900, educated Americans reacted against Victorian values. In the first in a series of e-seminars, Casey Blake describes the new attitudes about the future, the separation of the sexes, masculinity, and the role of women. He concludes by reflecting on the beginnings of modernism at the end of the nineteenth century. Enter.
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| | Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945—E-Seminar 2, The Search for a Scientific Culture
| | Casey Nelson Blake |
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By the end of the nineteenth century, science and technology were exerting a tremendous influence on life in the United States. In this second e-seminar of the series, Casey Nelson Blake explores why Darwin's ideas seemed so revolutionary and how Darwinism helped to move the United States toward a more secular and scientific modern culture. Enter.
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| | Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945—E-Seminar 3, Pragmatism and Its Critics
| | Casey Nelson Blake |
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In this third e-seminar of the series Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890-1945, Casey Nelson Blake explores the philosophy of pragmatism, details the lives and contributions of James and Dewey, and describes the critiques of pragmatist thought. Enter.
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| | Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945—E-Seminar 4, Ethnic Pluralism
| | Casey Nelson Blake |
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In this fourth e-seminar of the series Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890-1945, Casey Nelson Blake presents the range of early-twentieth-century responses to immigration, including arguments for diversity and the contribution of W.E.B. Du Bois. Enter.
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