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Students must enroll in HIST-B200 23697 with Prof. Ipsen.

W325 is a seminar taught in a foreign language in conjunction with a
subject course on a topic related to Western Europe. Language
proficiency in target language equivalent to completion of fourth
semester or consent of instructor is required.

HIST-B200 description:

This course will focus primarily on the Italian mafia. The main text
will be John Dickie’s "Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian
Mafia." That work does also explore links to the US mafia. In
addition to the mafia we will look at related areas of Italian “deep
politics” (or Italy’s mysteries) including some (but probably not
all) of the following: Salvatore Giuliano, right and left wing
terror and the strategy of tension, the Vatican banking scandal, P2,
Ustica. A possible second text is Carlo Ginzburg’s "The Judge and
the Historian." Lecture will be supplemented with assorted feature
and documentary films.