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This thematically arranged intensive reading, writing, and discussion seminar on the history of U.S.immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries situates the United States within the context of global migration patterns and economic development.Students investigate patterns of migration and community settlement, family strategies of survival and adaptation, and immigrant cultures.They analyze how successive groups of immigrants were received by U.S.society by examining the origins and effects of recurrent waves of racism, nativism, and ethnic and class antagonism that pervade American history. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. ( Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course)Three credits.
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This research seminar explores the social history of grass-roots movements in the 20th-century United States and their effect on the contours of formal politics in American history.The course examines political processes such as pressure-group activity within the two-party structure, grass-roots political action, the rise of third parties and alternative ideologies, as well as the development, transmission, and change of popular political culture; the effects on politics of organization in other arenas; and the importance of racial and ethnic identities in American politics.(Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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This intensive reading, writing, and discussion seminar focuses on the origins, deepening, and decline of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991, covering such issues as Lenin-Wilson ideological antagonism, the shift from Grand Alliance to Cold War, the arms race, the rise and fall of detente, and the collapse of the Cold War order in Europe and the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991.The course attempts to approach the topic by understanding both sides of the conflict, studying decisions, policies, and actions in a bilateral fashion.(Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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This course considers the interaction of man and the American land from the earliest colonial settlements to the present and includes an analysis of the Turner thesis; a survey of regional evolution (New England and the Southwest, for instance); the westward movement; the experience of pioneer women; and mining, cattle, and farming frontiers.The course also examines changing attitudes toward the environment as reflected in the writing of American naturalists; man and the environment in different eras of the American past.(Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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The course begins with the 19th-century imperialist legacy that gave rise to Chinese nationalism and the Chinese revolution of 1911.Major topics include Sun Yat-sen's vision for China, the struggle between the nationalists and Communists for control of China, the impact of Japanese imperialism and World War II, and the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.Students analyze PRC's domestic and foreign policies through the "Great Leap Forward," the thought of Chairman Mao, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Sino-Soviet-bloc relations, Korea, Vietnam, and the "two Chinas issue" with the United States.This course meets the world diversity require ment. (Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three cre
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Are Chinese and Japanese women mere victims of a patriarchal society Do socialist revolution and industrial modernization liberate women This seminar examines those questions by studying the historical changes and continuities in the experience of women in China and Japan from approximately the 17th century to the present.The construction and representation of gender relations in China and Japan represent complex processes with many changes.Using verbal and visual texts, this course considers women's lives and their struggles to represent themselves in both societies as well as the historiography on those subjects .This course meets the world diversity requirement. (Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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During the 20th century the United States fought three wars in East Asia: the Pacific War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.How did the East Asians perceive and react to the wars How did the wars affect people's lives and societies in East Asia How did the wars affect postwar relations between the United States and East Asia Did race, culture, and ethnicity play significant roles in these wars This course examines those questions by studying East Asia in the three American wars as an oral and social history.The course focuses on the human dimensions of the wars as experienced by those East Asians who fought and lived through them .This course meets the world diversity requirement. (Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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Students examine Jewish history within the Middle East and North Africa from the rise of Islam until the creation of Israel.The course analyzes the development and key features of Judeo/Arab societies and the factors that contributed to their disintegration and destruction.Topics include Arab/Jewish relationships before Islam; the Prophet Muhammad and the Jews; the legal, social, and economic status of Jews in the Arab/Islamic Middle Ages; Jewish cultural development within an Arab/Islamic context; and Jews of the Arab and Turkish worlds in the 19th and 20th centuries. This course meets the world diversity requirement. ( Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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The course traces the Arab-Israeli conflict from the end of the 19th century until the present, emphasizing the political and socioeconomic transformation of Palestine as Zionists and Palestinian Arabs struggled for political sovereignty in the same land.Topics include Anti-Semitism and the Birth of Zionism; the British Mandate; the creation of Israel; the relationship between Israel and the Arab states; the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza; the rise of the Palestinian resistance; Israel's war in Lebanon; and prospects for the future.(Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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This course examines terrorism as it has been perpetrated by individuals, political-military groups, and states of varying political ideologies.Topics include political violence in antiquity and medieval times; the French Revolution; terrorism, anarchism, and Marxism; terrorism and national liberation; and terrorism and religion.(Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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