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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Examines the development of the United States through an era of social and political tensions and reforms, Civil War, territorial expansion, and industrialization to reveal the sources of its international and domestic strengths and weaknesses on the eve of World War I.
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4.00 Credits
Investigates the roots of the modern American temper, the nature of America's changing role in world affairs, and the evolution of a domestic, social compromise.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the experience of African Americans in the United States from their home in Africa through colonization to the present. An emphasis will be placed on the mid-19th century to the modern era, focusing on the dynamics of social, political, economic, and cultural changes that occurred in America during this period. Major topics include slavery, reconstruction, the philosophies of Black leaders, thinkers, and writers, the Civil Rights movement, and the present status of African Americans.
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4.00 Credits
Latin America from the arrival of Columbus through the independence movements of the early nineteenth century. History of the Spanish and Portuguese empires in America. Conquest and colonization, political organization, race and society, the church, the economy, the Enlightenment, and various independence movements. Offered alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of Latin America from the 19th-century independence movements to the present, emphasizing events in the four principal nations of Latin America -- Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Traces the traditional struggles of monarchists versus republicans, and conservatives versus liberals as they evolved into modern revolutionary reform movements. Roles played by the Church, the military, and other power groups.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of how major disciplines in the humanities and social sciences--including anthropology, communications, history, literature, political science, psychology, and sociology--have theorized gender.
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4.00 Credits
A study of modern Chinese history from the early 19th century to the present. The course will focus on a range of subjects, including the decline of the Qing Dynasty, European and Japanese imperialism in China, indigenous reform efforts, and China's political transformation from a Republic to state socialism to post- Mao economic and cultural transformations.
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4.00 Credits
A study of modern Indian history from the end of the Mughal period to the rise of British imperial rule to Indian independence and statehood. Particular emphasis will be placed on indigenous assimilation of British socio-political customs and corresponding resistances to them through various Indian political and literary figures, India's unique cultural heritage and its increasing rise to prominence as a global political and economic power.
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4.00 Credits
Courses that bring an in-depth analysis to some topic of American history or explore American history from the perspective of a specific historical sub-discipline. See class schedule each quarter for possible offerings.
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4.00 Credits
This course will study the impact of epidemic disease and environmental illness in history. It will focus most specifically on the devastating effect of smallpox had on the people of the Americas, the role of disease in the American Revolution, typhoid and its impact on America's developing public health system, and what role race, gender, and cultural bias play in the formation of health policy and the delivery of medical services.
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