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4.00 Credits
Examines movement to reform government in the United States and the results, with an emphasis on the Progressive Era, the New Deal, the Great Society, and the "Reagan Revolution" during the twentieth century.
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4.00 Credits
Examines Jewish political, social, and cultural history from the arrival of the first group of Jews at New Amsterdam in 1654 to the present. Themes include immigration, adaptation, family life, religion, anti-Semitism, Zionism, the Holocaust, and American-Israeli relations.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the experiences of Latin American and Caribbean origin groups-particularly Brazilians, Central Americans, Dominicans, Haitians, Puerto Ricans, and West Indians-in twentieth-century Boston. Studies the historical, economic, political, and cultural forces affecting immigration from each country.
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4.00 Credits
Presents an overview of U.S. and world history over the last 200 years from an economic perspective. Examines selected case studies, from Adam Smith's defining writings on capitalism to current world trade agreements, in the development of the modern world.
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4.00 Credits
Retired January 1, 2005; replaced by HST U256. Presents an historical analysis of gender dynamics and roles in China from late imperial times to the present. Examines notions of masculinity and femininity in Confucian culture, patriarchal practices including foot binding, chastity arches, and arranged marriages, and the ways in which the Chinese empire becomes feminized in the eyes of its elite as a result of Western intrusions. Explores women's efforts to acquire "personhood" and the rights of citizens during the period of nation building and to negotiate state regulatory powers over their labor, sexuality, and reproduction in recent times
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4.00 Credits
Explores how the Chinese have been moving and creating communities around the world for centuries. What, if anything, makes them "Chinese" despite such a large variety of historical experiences Attempts to understand this migration both in terms of large-scale trends and the unique experiences of local communities and cultural change. Also examines Chinese business networks, which are sometimes thought to present a powerful challenge to Western forms of capitalism. Is Chinese capitalism different from other capitalist business, and does Chinese culture play a role in shaping it
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4.00 Credits
Provides an analysis of the culture of the West (encompassing a geographic region stretching from Moscow to the Pacific) from the end of the Renaissance to the present, focusing on the conjunction of environmental, political, economic, social, cultural, and psychological forces that encouraged or discouraged creativity. Considers the interconnections among the arts, social sciences, and sciences within each of the periods covered.
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1.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2006. Offers additional intermediate academic experience by exploring course-related topics in greater depth with the professor. Available only to courses approved by the University Honors Program.
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1.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2006. Offers additional intermediate academic experience by exploring course-related topics in greater depth with the professor. Available only to courses approved by the University Honors Program.
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1.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2006. Offers additional intermediate academic experience by exploring course-related topics in greater depth with the professor. Available only to courses approved by the University Honors Program.
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