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3.00 Credits
This course surveys Middle Eastern political and cultural developments. Particular emphasis is placed on the last 200 years of the region's history. Topics include the rise of Arab nationalism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the challenges of Islamist movements, and terrorism.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the recent Chinese past from the last imperial dynasty to the late 1980s. It explores the many facets of revolution in China through a study of the people, events, and personalities that have given Chinese history in the past 150 years its dramatic and often tragic tone. Particular attention is also paid to the social, cultural, and intellectual currents that lay behind the more visible manifestations of change.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the history of China from the tenth century to the final decade of the imperial order, and deals in the basic elements of social, cultural, and political history. Emphasis will be placed upon two major issues: that of discovering internal, linear change in the Chinese state and society, and that of making sense of China's decline in the presence of foreign aggression in the ninetheenth century.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the History of South Africa as a regional powerhouse in the sub-continent. The course begins with the history of the Khoisan, the earliest inhabitants of the sub-continent, and traces developments in the economy, culture and politics to the end of the Apartheid era in 1994. (PM)
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3.00 Credits
This regional survey explores equatorial Africa, focusing on the social structures that shaped societies of region, the impact of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, and finally, the problematic politics of independence. (PM)
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3.00 Credits
This regional survey explores the rich history of East Africa, from the earliest times of cultural and economic exchange to the rise of states and a bustling coastal trade with the Indian Ocean world. The course will also examine how the diversity of colonial powers and experiences impacted the region into the independence period. (PM)
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3.00 Credits
This is a regional survey that examines the history of West African peoples from the agricultural revolution to independence. A central aim of the class is to highlight the diversity of experience in West Africa, culturally, economically, and politically. Major themes include the earliest agricultural synthesis, long-distance trade and its significance, the practice of Islam, the slave trade, and the colonial imprint in the region. (PM)
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3.00 Credits
The post-1945 period was an era of dramatic change in American history, one whose repercussions still shape the world in which we live today. In this course, we will focus on some of the major developments of the period, including the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the dramatic shift in gender roles that has changed the lives of both women and men. We will also cover related subjects, such as the domestic war on poverty and the foreign war in Vietnam.
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3.00 Credits
Cross-listed as GEND 267.
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3.00 Credits
A history of Arkansas from earliest times to the present.
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