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After a broad survey of prehistoric Indian cultures in North America as they existed before contact with Europeans, this course focuses upon European contact and its effects on Native-American culture.The course explores the Native American's role in the colonial period of eastern North American history and the ways in which Native American societies west of the Mississippi River responded to U.S.expansion in the 19th century and to that of the Spanish earlier.The evolution of federal Indian policy from the American Revolution to the late 20th century is a major topic .This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Using topical, geographic, and critical approaches, this course examines the interaction of the United States and Western Europe with the rest of the world in the 20th century, giving considerable attention to non-Western perspectives such as those of Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Arab world, Russia, and Eastern Europe.The course includes an introduction to the history of U.S.foreign relations, international organizations, social change in the developing world, and world systems theory.Three credits.
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This course examines the role that Africans played in the building of America after their forced migration to these shores.It emphasizes the rise of the plantation system, the cultural transformation of Africans into African-Americans, and the essential roles that slaves and slavery played in the emergence of the United States as an independent nation and its political and economic consolidation into a modern nation-state.Slaves and free blacks figure in this history, not just as tools and backdrop, but as social and political actors, rebels, and major builders of American civilization. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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At the intersection of race, gender, and class, African-American women often challenged the codification of blackness and femaleness as well as a limited conception of class consciousness.From the diaspora to the present, they created forms of resistance, devised survival strategies, and transmitted cultural knowledge while defying racial/gender stereotypes.The multiple roles assumed by African-American women during their struggle from slaves to citizens in the United States represent a complex study of the relational nature of difference and identity.This course focuses on African-American women as subjects and agents of pivotal importance within the family, community, and labor force. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines the role people of African descent played as freed people and free people during Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the 20th century.It emphasizes the Southern origins of African America, the politics and economic activism of common people, and the recurring theme of struggle against racial injustice. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course, an intermediate (second core) history course, surveys the history of global humanitarian action in the face of famine, war, plague, n natural disaster, refugees and other crises, since the middle of the nineteenth century.We will focus on intervention by European powers, the United States, the international community, and non-governmental actors.Special focus in case studies will be on 20th century war, famine, and genocide.Each student will research a case study with a focus on potential points of life-saving intervention.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This core history course explores the extraordinary story of accommodation, resistance, and oppression in Central and Eastern European societies during the second half of the 20th century and the crucial role that cultural and intellectual forces played from the period of fascist and wartime occupation, through the communist period to the overthrow of communism and the development of new societies in the period 1985 to the present.The course interweaves film from Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, and Hungary, historical texts and documents, and memoirs and writings of key dissident intellectuals, such as Vaclav Havel.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines, using topical, geographic, and critical approaches, the interaction of the United States and western Europe with the rest of the world in the 20th century, giving considerable attention to non-Western perspectives such as those of Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Arab world, Russia, and Eastern Europe.The course also includes an introduction to the history of U.S.foreign relations, international organizations, social change in the developing world, and world systems theory.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Topics in this course include the modernization of Russia since Peter the Great; the impact of Western culture in the 18th century; Catherine the Great as reformer; intellectual protest against autocracy and serfdom; revolutionary ferment: Slavophiles and Westerners; from populism to Marxism-Leninism; the revolution of 1905; the industrialization of Russia to 1914; and the revolutions of 1917. This course meets the world diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Students explore the history of Russia from Peter the Great to the present through the political, social, and cultural heritage of Peter's city - St.Petersburg - Russia's "window on the west." St.Petersburg served as imperial Russia's capital from 1703 to 1918.After the consolidation of Soviet power, St.Petersburg (as Leningrad) continued to play a key role in 20th-century Russian social, political, and cultural history.The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to the rebirth of St.Petersburg as a cultural center.The course emphasizes historical sites and cultural accomplishments of St.Petersburg through the use of slides, video, and music.This course meets the world diversity require ment. (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three cre
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