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3.00 Credits
This course examines the Iraq War that began in 2003. While a variety of background topics will be covered, including the United States' historical relationship with Iraq, Operation "Desert Storm," and the impact of 9/11 on U.S. policty toward the Middle East, emphasis will be placed on the more immediate build-up to the 2003 war, the execution of that war, and the challenges that face the Iraqi state. (S
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with the decline and fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity, this course will focus on Western Europe from about 400 to 1300. Particular attention will be given to the intertwining of Classical, Christian, and Germanic cultures that resulted in the birth and early development of Western Civilization. (PM)
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the social, political, economic, and cultural developments in Western Europe (with particular concentration on Italy) in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and early sixteenth centuries. Emphasis will be given to the questions of whether these developments are best understood as a repudiation or as a continuation of Medieval culture, and whether they should be seen as the origins of Modernity. (PM, R)
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3.00 Credits
Among the topics stressed in the study of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution, with the cultural changes associated with them. The development of the modern State system of Europe is also considered. (PM)
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3.00 Credits
This is an introduction to the interconnected history of the Americas (Brazil, Caribbean, United States) and Africa. We will examine the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on African peoples and follow the transportation and settlement of enslaved Africans to the Americas. Our focus is the contribution of African peoples to the history, culture, and politics of the Americas. (PM, R)
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3.00 Credits
This seminar focuses on selected readings concerning the cultural impact of colonialism in Africa. Topics include domesticity, health and medicine, etiquette, music and clothing styles, gangsters, films, and Christianity. (S)
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3.00 Credits
This course begins at the turn of the century and attempts to explain the success of the Bolsheviks, the development and dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the current condition of Russia. (R)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the major genocides that have occurred during the 20th and 21st centuries. The course's case-studies include Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, the Balkans, and Darfur. These will be investigated with an eye toward determining the causes of genocide in the modern era. (R)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines Europe's turbulent 18th-centry Enlightenment with an eye toward determining the causes of the upheavals that followed. The French Revolution of 1789 and Napoleon Bonaparte's later conquest of Europe are then considered. Particular attention will be given to intellectual, political, and military history. (S)
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3.00 Credits
This course treats the topic of nationalism within the European context from the 18th century to the present. Students will read scholarly theories about the origin, character, and spread of Europe's nationalisms and apply those theories to an analysis of nationalist texts from the past and present (S)
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