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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Traces the development of business from the colonial era to the present, with an emphasis on the industrial era (1840-1920s) and the modern period. Examines the factors that shaped commercialism and consumerism in the United States.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the development of urban society in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with emphasis on the effects of immigration and industrialization upon the politics, thought, and society of American cities.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the life of elite individuals and groups in American society, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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4.00 Credits
Examines American expansionism from the Monroe Doctrine and manifest destiny to recent neo-imperialism and "globalization," with an emphasis on early twentieth-century expansion into Cuba, Hawaii, the Panama Canal Zone, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Samoa, and other Pacific islands. Focuses on cultural encounters, political debates, the economic impact of imperialism, and the perspectives of colonized peoples.
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4.00 Credits
Studies the importance of the oceanic environment in its cultural, economic, political, and naval aspects to U.S. history. Investigates the impact of the oceans on native peoples in the period before the European encounter, followed by an examination of the motives driving Europeans seaward and their methods and technology for oceanic exploration and navigation. Follows the development of the Atlantic maritime world in the postcolonial period, including the rise of the United States as a maritime power and the extension of U.S. maritime influence across the Pacific. Focuses on the evolution of maritime communities in which fishing, trading, and shipbuilding played a role in crafting a cultural environment, including the influence of the sea on literature and art. Examines the role in diplomacy and war of the United States Navy.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the far-reaching political, economic, and social changes in China from 1800 to the present. Examines the decline of the empire, the impact of the West, the rise of nationalism and industrialization, the changing roles of women, the origins of rural revolution, and establishing the communist state.
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4.00 Credits
Examines state formation, economic growth, imperialism and colonialism, war and defeat, and contemporary culture.
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4.00 Credits
Covers Japan and Korea since 1945 including military occupation, the Korean War, economic growth, social change, and international relations.
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4.00 Credits
Covers the social, economic, political, and cultural transformations of Europe from the Renaissance to the French Revolution. Traces the rebirth of Catholic Europe from 1300; the Reformation; the religious wars; struggles over religious and scientific beliefs; advances in technology, science, and warfare; overseas expansion; the scientific revolution; and the Enlightenment.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on Europe from the Franco-Prussian War to the post-World War I settlement: the growing tensions and rivalries and the declining certainties of the end of the nineteenth century, the origins of World War I, the war itself, the Russian Revolution, and the Peace of Paris.
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