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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the various genres of literature in the German language, including poetry, short stories, novellas, plays, and novels (or novel excerpts). Students will learn vocabulary and concepts necessary for the interpretation and analysis of literature and will write several papers and engage in critical discussion about the works read. Many historical periods will be represented. Pre requisite: GN 204 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to several major works of German literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. We will examine currents of thought running through certain periods of modern German literature and their relationship to the social and historical context in which the texts were written and read. Prerequisite: GN 204 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended as an introduction to German film. Throughout the course, we will look at the films within their historical and social contexts in order to expand knowledge of German culture. Class meetings will be spent primarily on discussion, viewing of film clips, student presentations, and in-class writing assignments. Students will be required to view films in the language lab. Class will be conducted in German. Prerequisite: GN 204 or permission of instructor.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Independent study is open only to highly qualified students who receive permission from the instructor. Independent study may be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: GN 204 and department chair approval.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the history of colonial America and the United States to the end of the Grant administration, paying particular attention to the socioeconomic, ethnic, cultural, political, and ideological diversity of the American people.
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3.00 Credits
A comparative study of world history from the migratory communities of the Neolithic to the development of regional empires, this course will emphasize significant technological developments and their impact on ancient civilizations. What civilization means and what role technology played in the creation of the world's first major regional and cultural zones are the major themes of the course. Note: HI 140, World Civilizations I is not a prerequisite for HI 141, 142, or 143. These four introductory courses are equivalent in level and satisfy the same general education and major requirements.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the violent and meaningful expansion of Europeans throughout the globe and the responses of non-Europeans to that expansion. From Columbus to British imperial supremacy and the era of New Imperialism, the impact of European expansion will be assessed from a global perspective. (See note after HI 140.)
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3.00 Credits
From great strides in medical science to the Nazi Reich's industry of death to the World Wide Web, this course examines the steady application of technology to the essential spheres of human existence. Of particular interest is the relationship between technology and human culture. Relying on comparative methods of study, students will examine the significant achievements of the world's most recent history to discover how societies have responded and developed as a result of an ever-expanding world system. (See note after HI 140.)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to familiarize students with the Nazi period and its major figures and political structures for the years 1933-1945. Through the medium of film, literature and political history, the course will be roughly divided into two parts: for the first several weeks, we will trace the rise of Russian Communism, Italian Fascism and the National Socialists in Germany from the period 1900 to the time of Hitler's ascension to the Chancellorship in 1933. The second (and much lengthier) part of the course focuses on the 1930s-1945, and is specifically concerned with the National Socialists and Adolph Hitler; their social programs, expansionist ambitions, the national pogrom against Jews (and homosexuals, gypsies and other "enemies" internal and external), and the war itself. (Cross-listed as PS 225.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides practical experience in using the techniques of historical research and writing a research paper based upon primary sources. Prerequisite: 3 credit hours of history.
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