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Next: Fall 2008 After brief discussion of the background of Chinese history, focuses on twentieth century China, analyzing the causes of the Chinese revolution, strategy and tactics of the successful Communists, and policies followed by the Communists since their victory. This course meets the international/multicultural requirement.
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Alternate Fall Semesters Next: Fall 2008 An in depth look at German history in the 20th century. The course will begin with German unification in 1871 and will conclude with a look at the recently reunified Germany at the beginning of the 21st century. Major topics addressed include German industrialization, World War I, the German revolutions of 1919 and the Weimar Republic, Nazism, and World War II. The course continues with the post-WWII occupation of Germany, Germany’s role in the Cold War, the reunification of East and West Germany, and Germany at the dawn of the 21st century. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing and P&H 1030 or 1040.
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Next: Fall 2009 An in depth look at the history of France in the 20th century. The course begins with the defeat of the French in the Franco- Prussian War and the founding of the Third Republic in 1871, and continues through the present. Topics to be addressed include French society before and during WWI, the emergence of the organized working class movement, the Popular Front, French defeat in WWII, the Vichy regime and Resistance. Post- WWII topics include economic growth, French intellectual life, and European integration. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing and P&H 1030 or 1040.
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3.00 Credits
Spring Semester; Summer An analysis of urban social systems with a focus on lifestyles and change in contemporary American society. The course will center on ethnicity and ethnic groups, using cross-cultural case studies, data on immigrants, and life-styles and family framework. Emphasis will be placed on strategies groups employ to manage and effect political and economic change in an urban ethnic setting. (Same course as CJ 2160, SOC 2160). This course meets the international/multicultural or CLAC I requirement.
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Next: Spring 2008 “You can’t fight City Hall!” “Or can you?” This course concentraon non-violent tactics and systemic tactics (working within the political system) analyzing means of affecting all levels of government. Individual projects are required. CLAC I. This course meets the CLAC I requirement. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or 1000-level P&H Course.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes contemporary international politics using many examples from American foreign policy. What is the role of force in interstate relations? How important is foreign aid? What role does the United Nations play? What conditions are needed to have international peace?
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3.00 Credits
Fall Semester Will examine the changing position of women from colonial times to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the role of class, race, and ethnic differences in shaping women’s experiences and on the relationship between economic change and shifting notions of womanhood. Topics will include the “Cult of True Womanhood,” female activism, paid and unpaid work, the “modern” women of the 1920’s, the women’s movement, well as other contemporary issues.
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3.00 Credits
Next: Spring 2008 Between 1890 and 1945, the foundations of modern American social, political, and economic life began to take shape, and the country emerged from relative isolation to become a superpower on the world stage. To understand these transitions, the course will study political movements including Populism, Progressivism, the labor movement, and women’s rights; America at war in World Wars I and II; modernism, consumerism, and sexual liberation in the 1920s; the causes and consequences of the Great Depression; the emergence of welfare capitalism; and battles for civil rights in Jim Crow America. Prerequisite: 1000-level P&H course and sophomore standing.
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3.00 Credits
Alternate Fall Semesters Next: Fall 2009 A study of the American constitutional system as it has developed through interpretation by the U.S. Supreme Court. Special attention is given to civil liberties. The emphasis is on original case material. The course is strongly recommended to students interested in law. Prerequisite: P&H 1060, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Fall Semesters Will examine the social, economic, and cultural domestic developments that shaped and defined “modern” America. Studentswill be encouraged to think critically; to analyze their personal “history” as both products of and participants in social change.Topics include: the rise of U.S. pluralism, the new left, the new right, the family, Civil Rights Movement, feminism, the decline of the middle class, deindustrialization, and the labor movement.
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