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4.00 Credits
Surveys the complex interrelationships between socialist ideology, gender, and ethnicity in Russia and China during the twentieth century in this comparative study of women and gender in two socialist societies. Examines the ways in which Communist revolutionaries confronted national traditions of subordination in their efforts to transform women's conditions in Russia and China. Although vast differences exist between the two countries, there are several important points of comparison that provide critical material: deep-seated patriarchal traditions, socialist revolutions in which women's equality was pushed to the forefront against "backward" national traditions, and modern postrevolutionary backlashes against women's rights in both countri
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4.00 Credits
Examines social, cultural, and political developments using film, novels, and primary documentary sources in twentieth-century Europe from 1914 to the present. Explores Europe's shift from domination through the implosion of Europe in the Great Depression and World War II, decolonization, the student movements of 1968, the reconstruction of Europe in the postcolonial world, and the place of Europe in the global system. Topics include men's and women's reactions to immigration and racism, the rise of welfare states, and the Cold War
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on interpreting major patterns and connections in world history through discussion and assignments.
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1.00 Credits
Designed for students in the education program currently enrolled in HST U315. This one-credit adjunct is primarily for preservice teachers of history. Students survey the world history of both early and recent times using major textbooks, readers, monographs, and electronic resources for world history.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on a number of cities in Europe and the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth century until present times, and examines such themes as urban identity and citizenship, mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion within the city, as well as typologies of cities, such as colonial, global, and port cities.
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4.00 Credits
Traces the history of industrialization and analyzes the impact of economic growth on individual standards of living in the affluent and lesser developed nations of the world between 1815 and the present.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the relationship between technological innovations and the world in which they take place through a series of discrete case studies reaching across national boundaries and through the entire scope of human history. Discusses conditions necessary for discovery and innovation and the impact of technology on political, economic, and social environments.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the historical development of contemporary patterns of work and leisure from early industrial societies to the present in Western Europe and America. Begins by examining contemporary dilemmas such as the balancing of work and leisure; issues such as wage equity; and the impact of new technologies on workers. Looks at the historical background of these dilemmas. Examines the transformation of work under industrial capitalism and the new forms of leisure that accompanied it; forms of resistance to work; gender and race differences in work; the rationalization of work and leisure in the twentieth century, and the meanings of "globalization" for workers today.
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4.00 Credits
Offers elective credit for courses taken at consortium institutions.
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4.00 Credits
Covers the discovery and exploration of the New World, the settlement of the English, French, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, and Russian colonies on the North American mainland, their development to 1763, the origins of their clashes with England, and the American Revolution.
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