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Mar 13, 2026
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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GFS 321 Exploring National Identify in Central Europe
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This course will study how nation-states develop a common national identity and its importance to government power. Students will develop an awareness about a nation-state’s use of visual culture to form or project a national identity. This course will study the cultural artifacts that have been used throughout history to form national identity and nationalism, including architecture, monuments, memorials, and art. Students will visit Krakow, Poland, Budapest, Hungary, and Vienna, Austria, and read an array of sources that examine the importance of capital city architecture, memorialization of key historical moments, as well as the use of museums to preserve national artifacts and art that construct national narratives, identity, and history. Before exploring the international sites, students will examine the United States’ national identity and visit Washington D.C. to explore how our government uses architecture, monuments, memorials, and art used to construct an American identity and shape our own cultural and historical narratives.
Open to sophomores, junior and seniors.
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