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Explores the history of and myths surrounding the Salem witch trials, and, more generally, the politics of scapegoating. Readings, including trial transcripts, will focus on the origin, development, and legacy of the trials, and on Puritanism, witchcraft, legal practices, and the status of women in colonial-era New England. Visits to local historical sites will enhance understanding of the trials. The course will also examine more recent witch-hunts and instances of hysteria associated with McCarthyism, AIDS, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Satisfies the Social Science core requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Crosslisted with AMS 225. (Cr: 3)
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An interdisciplinary examination of the American past up to and including the Civil War. Course covers American Indian history and culture prior to and after the arrival of European settlers; the founding of the republic; and the ideals, contradictions, and emerging identity of a growing nation. Students will study key events, institutions, reform campaigns, and literary movements, and the broader cultural and ideological contexts in which they arose. Satisfies the Arts and Humanities and Writing Designated core requirements. Prerequisites & Notes Crosslisted with ENG 226. (Cr: 3)
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Surveys the history of Boston from the colonial era to the present. Examines the legacy of the Puritan presence in the 17thcentury, the city's role in the Revolutionary War, the immigrant experience, reform movements, race relations, urban planning, and politics. Satisfies the Social Science core requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Crosslisted with AMS 227. (Cr: 3)
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Surveys the history of the American West from the pre-colonial era to the recent past. Topics include the Lewis and Clark expedition; the impact of westward expansion and government policies on Native Americans; the significance of the frontier in American history and culture; the building of the transcontinental railroad; the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II; and the West in popular culture. Satisfies the Social Science core requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Crosslisted with AMS 229. (Cr: 3)
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A survey of the unique history, contributions and struggles of African Americans from 1619 to the present including: slavery; the abolitionist movement; the emergence of free black communities; the Civil War; emancipation and Reconstruction; segregation in the Jim Crow South; African American leadership and institution building in the North; Blacks during the depression and the roots of the post-WWII Civil Rights Movement. Satisfies the Arts and Humanities core requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Crosslisted with AMS 230. (Cr: 3)
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This course is a survey of Chinese history from 1800 until the contemporary period. This course examines the experience and interpretation of the 1911 Revolution, the Nationalist Revolution, the Communist Revolution and the Cultural Revolution. The course also considers the role of the West in China 's development, China 's place in the East Asian world, intellectual trends, economic transformation, the natural environment, and the dilemmas of modernity for Chinese governments, intellectuals and working people . Satisfies the Social Science core requirement. Prerequisites & Notes One social science core curriculum course. (Cr: 3)
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An introduction to religion in the United States, from Native American religions and European-Indian contact in the colonial era, to present-day movements and ideas. The course will explore a variety of themes in American religious history, such as slavery and religion, politics and religion, evangelicalism, fundamentalism, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam in the United States, "cults" and alternative spiritualities, New Age religions, and religion and popular culture, with an emphasis on the impact of gender, race, and national culture on American spiritual life . Satisifes the Arts and Humanities core requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Crosslisted with REL 251. (Cr: 3)
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Surveys the history and culture of Latin America from its struggle for independence to the recent past. Examines the geography and economy of Latin America and the role of religion and race in the region. Political traditions in Latin America, e.g. dictatorships and movements for democracy, and the region's role in international affairs and its relationship to the United States, will also be covered. Satisfies the Arts and Humanities core requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Crosslisted with IST 260. (Cr: 3)
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Analysis and comparison of the major ideological movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. The course goes on to analyze 19th century "Liberalism," the Utopian Socialists, Marx and Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, the "Revisionists," the Fabian and Christian Socialists, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitl er. Satisfies the Social Science core requiremen Prerequisites & Notes One core social science course. (Cr: 3)
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A thorough analysis of the origins and historical development of Soviet Russia, Czarist background, the 1905 Revolution, Marxist-Leninist ideology, World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution and Civil War, Russia in the 1920's, the triumph of Stalin, the Five Year Plans, the Purge, Soviet foreign policy, World War II, the Cold War, De-Stalinization, Detente and Brezhnev to the present. Satisfies the Social Science core requirement. Prerequisites & Notes HST 102. (Cr: 3)
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