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Course Criteria
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This course is an intensive study of a significant topic in history not otherwise covered in history course offerings. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the forces that pushed Europeans into Africa and the Americas from 1400 to 1800. It also examines the wide variety of societies that developed once Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans encountered each other around the Atlantic Ocean. Special attention is given to the role of indigenous peoples in North and South America, the rise and fall of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, the influence of Africa in the Americas, and the differing economic, political, and social approaches to colonization by the various European powers. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the creation, and political, social, and economic development of empires and their decline from ancient times to the present. Particular emphasis is placed on cultural centralization and diffusion, historical forms of empire, and the scholarly debates surround the concept of empire. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the impact of European colonization of the Americas, Africa, and Asia in comparative perspective, including challenges to colonialism. The approach is interdisciplinary, and integrates history, economics, sociology, and geography. Students will read extensively from sources addressing multiple regions affected by European colonization. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers present-day global issues in the context of anticolonialist and globalist developments of the twentieth century. The approach is interdisciplinary, and integrates history, economics, sociology, and geography. Students will read either a history, a biography, a regional geography, or a travelogue from each of seven regions affected by postcolonialism: Latin America, Africa, East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East, North America, and Australia/Oceania. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the history of Japan from earliest times to present, with primary emphasis on its emergence as a world power since the late nineteenth century. Coverage includes changes in political institutions, economic policies, and sociocultural relationships, with particular attention to the impact of industrialization and the Meiji Restoration. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers Russian history from Peter the Great to the present, economic, and social developments of Russia in both the imperial and Soviet periods, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of class divisions and the evolution of a state-managed economy. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the evolution of modern political, economic, and ideological institutions as they emerged in the context of the British Isles in the seventeenth-century. Particular emphasis will be placed on the development of liberal democracy, limited executive power, the nature of political authority, the role of religion, and the origin of capitalism. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of French history from the reign of Louie XIV through the end of the French Revolution. Topics include political structures, the rise of the bourgeoisie, Salon culture, the controversy over Huguenot political status, French expansion and colonization, the mercantile economy, the Enlightenment, conflicts between rural and urban society, the collapse of absolute monarchy, the Reign of Terror, the rise of Bonapartism, and the Napoleonic Wars. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the history of Germany from the mid-eighteenth century through reunification. Emphasis is on changing definitions and uses of German nationalism from Frederick the Great through the present, including the actions of Bismarck, Hitler, and Adenauer. Coverage includes German cultural, social, and economic trends examined within the evolving framework of German political traditions. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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