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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Concentrates on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries of the "Middle East" (Arab World, Israel, Turkey, and Iran), the links with southwest Asia (Pakistan, Afghanistan), and U.S. engagement with the Middle East. This course seeks to provide students with effective interdisciplinary analytical skills as well as historical, political, ethical, social, cultural, religious, and economic perspectives on the Middle East.
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4.00 Credits
Examines major themes in the history of Europe from 1500 to the present, emphasizing the conceptual tools historians use to think about European history, and drawing on historical documents, literature, and film. Examines the emergence of states and nations as theoretical constructs and political realities; men's and women's experience of social conflict-rebellions, revolutions, and wars-and the complex relationships between Europeans and non-Europeans. Attention is given to how race, class, and gender shaped the way people made and understood their history.
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0.00 Credits
Provides small-group discussion format to cover material in HST U170.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the history of the African continent from 1000 C.E. to the present era. Topics include medieval kingdoms (Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Zimbabwe, the city-states of East Africa, and the Kongo kingdom); slave trades (Indian Ocean, trans-Saharan, and transatlantic); the partition of Africa and European colonization; and the decolonization process. Emphasizes the interactions of African peoples with the rest of the world, particularly the relations between Africa and Europe after 1500 C.E.
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4.00 Credits
Relies on historical and literary sources, as well as such other cultural artifacts as architecture and photography, and focuses on interaction and changing relations and perceptions between Europe and the Middle East. Surveys the major political and economic events that have linked the trajectory of both civilizations, as well as broad patterns of human activity, such as migrations, conversions, and, cultural exchange. Emphasizes the commonality of encounters, and analyzes the construction of an "other" and its enduring legacy in modern times.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys major themes in Latin American history from the arrival of the first human inhabitants until the present through a diversity of primary and secondary sources. Examines the social, cultural, political, and economic transformations that shaped Latin America during this period. Emphasizes how concepts of race, class, gender, and sexuality informed these changes and the people's experiences of them. Topics include migration, colonialism and postcolonialism, war and revolution, slavery and abolition, nationalism and nation building, democracy and despotism, urbanization, modernization, religion, imperialism and underdevelopment, human rights, drug policy and international relations, labor, the arts, popular culture, and the environment.
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4.00 Credits
Investigates the history of modern India and the debates surrounding the histories of the south Asian subcontinent. Examines topics such as the Mughal dynasties, the British Raj, the Indian nationalist movement, the influence of Mahatma Gandhi, independence, the partition of India into the new states of India and Pakistan, post-1947 India, and the effects of globalization and development initiatives in the Indian subcontinent. Engages themes that include colonialism, resistance, gender, social organization, religion, nationalism, development, and diaspora. Addresses popular conceptions of India as it has been represented in the West over time. Also draws upon Indian popular culture, literature, film, music, and media.
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4.00 Credits
Offers elective credit for courses taken at consortium institutions.
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4.00 Credits
Offers elective credit for courses taken at consortium institutions.
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4.00 Credits
Offers elective credit for courses taken at consortium institutions.
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