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In this class, we begin by studying the Renaissance, interrupted by wars on Italian soil between France and Spain, the culture of the counter-reformation Church, Austrian influence, and end with the impact and legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte.We cover artistic currents in painting, architecture, music, decadence, regionalism, nascent nationalism, urban and rural economies, politics, rich and poor, and religion and science of Early Modern Italy.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course surveys the vast array of civilizations arising in the ancient Near East and Egypt from 3000 to 330 B.C.E.The course examines the history and culture of these fascinating peoples and, through the many texts recovered and translated from their myriad ancient languages, sees once again through theireyes the vivid and turbulent times in which they lived.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This comprehensive study of the political, social, artistic, literary, and military transformation of Rome from the middle of the second century B.C.E.through the reign of Augustus gives special attention to Rome's response to the cultural and governmental challenges imposed by its growing empire and how its responses forever changed the course of Western civilization.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course covers the political, social, and cultural development of France from the 16th-century Wars of Religion to the ascension of Napoleon I in 1804, with an emphasis on the effects of revolutionary change on daily life (including the role of women, popular piety, the church and religious dissent, and labor relations), and on the impact of new political languages beyond the borders of France itself.Source readings, from the salon writings of the Bourbon court to the raucous songs of the streets of Paris, aid in considering if a French identity was formed during the period.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course covers material from the coming of the American Revolution through the Age of Jackson, including the Constitutional Convention, the Federalist era, Jeffersonian republicanism, and Jacksonian democracy.The course emphasizes the development of political parties in this era of alternating cohesion and division, giving special attention to the religious and reform movements of the antebellum period, including Shakerism, transcendentalism, Mormonism, abolitionism, and feminism.The role of outsiders - free and enslaved Africans, women, and American Indians - is stresse d.This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This Ignatian Residential College course explores the experiences of individuals and social movements throughout U.S.history, who from a variety of religious and philosophical traditions found meaning in their lives and made an impact on U.S.society.Individuals range from Mary Dyer and Roger Williams to Lucretia Mott, Walter Rauschenbusch, Dorothy Day, John Cardinal Murray, and Jonathan Kozol, from the abolitionists to the anti-war movement.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Participants study the major transformations in U.S.economy, society, and politics from the decade of the crisis that led to the Civil War until the beginning of the Progressive Era.The course analyzes forces of change in the United States - urbanization, industrialization, the maturation of corporate capitalism, and the growing importance of international affairs - and their effects on the way people lived, thought, and acted.The experiences of African-Americans, immigrants, and women receive special attention.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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The course surveys developments in American social, political, and economic life since 1900.Major themes include problems of advanced industrial society, the growing government role in the economy, America's growing role in the world, and social movements of the 1930s and 1960s.Ethnic and cultural diversity within American society receive attention .The course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Little fanfare and much derision accompanied the re-emergence of a women's movement in the mid-1960s.Within less than a decade, massive changes were underway.From the dismantling of gendered employment ads to the identification of domestic violence as a crime, few argued that Second Wave Feminism was meaningless.Students in this course discuss the depth and range of women's grass roots activism as well as the features of a social movement; they trace the development of consciousness, the growth of different ideologies, and the formation of agendas.The course also explores movement fault lines such as the fictive category of woman, racism, and "structurelessness," in addition to the difficulties of sustaining coalition.From the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 to the Houston Conference 22 years later, students encounter the women who illuminated the political nature of issues once relegated to the private arena.Course material includes extensive use of autobiogra phy.This course meets the U.S. diversity requiremen t. (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credit
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This course, offered by two historians who specialize in 20th-century American history, explores the 1960s from the dual perspectives of history and the arts.Political and artistic change happened concurrently in this era, and was often instigated by people who promoted societal change via the creation of art.The course approaches the period as "the long '60s," beginning in the early 1950s and ending in 1975 with the U.S.withdrawal of forces from Vietnam.Class sessions combine lecture, discussion, and experiential events as a means of understanding how art and activism worked hand-in-hand.Students may choose to take this course for either visual and performing art or history core credit.Also listed as TA 2 41.This course meets the U.S. diversity requiremen t. Three credits
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