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  • HIS 315: Contemporary America

    3.00 Credits
    Wesleyan College

    Goal To enhance understanding of the forces that have shaped contemporary American foreign and domestic policy and the opposition to that policy. Content The impact of the Great Depression and of World War II, America's role as a major power especially in relation to Europe, the growth of the imperial presidency, and the quest of the excluded for recognition. Attention to matters of race, gender, and class. Taught Spring. Alternate years. Credit 3 hours.
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  • HIS 317: Modern France

    3.00 Credits
    Wesleyan College

    Goal To familiarize students with the major events and trends of modern French history and have students engage in critical analysis of the most significant historiographical debates in the field. Content This course focuses on the development of politics and society in France during the 19th and 20th centuries. Particular attention will be paid to women's role in French society, the changing relationship between individuals and the state, the results of military defeat and loss of empire to understandings of French power, and the changing perceptions of what it means to be "French." Taught Spring. Alternate years. Credit 3 hours.
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  • HIS 320: American Constitutional Development

    3.00 Credits
    Wesleyan College

    Goal To explore the principles and processes that have shaped America's development as a constitutional democracy; to develop the ability to critically analyze important constitutional questions. Content Examines the framing of the Constitution, judicial review, and changing approaches to constitutional interpretation; separation of powers and federalism; civil liberties and civil rights, including First Amendment rights, equal protection, privacy, and criminal due process. Taught Fall. Alternate years. Credit 3 hours; cross-listed as POL 320.
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  • HIS 323: 20th Century Genocide

    3.00 Credits
    Wesleyan College

    Goal To familiarize students with the history of genocide during the twentieth century and encourage them to think critically about defining and responding to instances of mass killing. Content The first half of the course will be spent studying the largest and most influential of these Genocide, the German murder of approximately six million civilians during World War II. We shall consider the origins of the Holocaust, its social, cultural, political, and economic aspects, and the results of this genocide for European and world history. In the second half of the course we shall turn to the legal definition of genocide as established by the United Nations following the Holocaust. Using this definition we shall survey other alleged and confirmed acts of genocide from the twentieth century. Taught Fall. Alternate years. Credit 3 hours; cross-cultural.
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  • HIS 337: United States Women's History

    3.00 Credits
    Wesleyan College

    Goal To enhance students' understanding of the social, economic, and political position of women in America from the colonial era to the present. Content The course focuses on major themes in US women's history, including family, sexuality, work, and reform, within the broader context of American history. Taught Fall. Alternate years. Credit 3 hours.
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  • HIS 355: Modern Germany

    3.00 Credits
    Wesleyan College

    Goal To enhance understanding of the modern German state from the mid-19th century to its reemergence as a unified country in 1990. Content Germany's history of disunion; the role of Otto von Bismarck in the first unification; the defeat of liberalism and the Second German Empire; Germany's industrialization; socialism and feminism; Germany's "guilt" in World War I; the WeimRepublic; and the Depression. The Holocaust will represent a central component of this course. The course ends with the rise of Hitler and World War II, the years of partition and recovery, and reunification. Taught Spring. Alternate years. Credit 3 hours.
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  • HIS 367: Women in Modern Europe

    3.00 Credits
    Wesleyan College

    Goal To enhance understanding of the social, economic, and political position of women in Europe in the industrial age. Content Introduction to feminist theory and women's history; women's lives and women's work in industrializing Europegender and 19th century class formation; the feminization of religion; feminism as a social and political movement; women in nationalist and revolutionary movements; and women and war in the 20th century. Taught Fall. Alternate years. Credit 3 hours; cross-listed as WST 367.
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  • HIS 396 ,397: Special Topics in History

    3.00 Credits
    Wesleyan College

    Goal To enhance a deeper understanding of and/or an analysis of a highly specialized topic. Content An in-depth examination of a special topic in history. Topics vary. A student may take no more than two such special topics courses. Representative special topics include the American twenties; the American sixties; the Vietnam War. Taught Offered occasionally. Credit 3; 3 hours.
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  • HIS 399: Methodology and Philosophy

    3.00 Credits
    Wesleyan College

    Goal To introduce students to the nature of historical inquiry, to the questions such inquiry raises, and to the basics of writing research papers. Content A study of the basic methods and tools of historical research and of the philosophical problems posed by the discipline. Required for history, history/political science, and international relations majors who should take it in their junior year. Taught Fall. Credit 3 hours; S-course.
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  • HIS 401: The Contemporary World

    3.00 Credits
    Wesleyan College

    Goal To enhance understanding of the social, economic, and political forces that have shaped the contemporary world scene. Content The forces that have shaped world history since World War I; the emergence of colonial nationalist movements and the end of formal European empires; the development of a "Third World"; "second wave" and "third wave" feminism andemergence of the modern international women's movement; and late 20th-century ethnic and religious conflict. Taught Fall. Alternate years. Credit 3 hours.
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