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3.00 Credits
3 credits Geography is the study of the relationship between humans and the environment - addressing both the impact of the people on the earth, and the influence that the physical environment has had on the development of societies, political systems, and cultures. The course will focus on the human and natural composition of the world's great geographic realms, focusing on their location, their make-up, and their likely future in this changing world. Students will be introduced to the range of topical (systematic) fields of geography, including cultural geography, environmental geography, urban geography, economical geography, political geography, and historical geography.
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3 credits This course presents the basic conceptual vocabularies that we use to study the perspectives, institutions, and ideas that are shaping the world around us. Students will deepen their understanding of how the social sciences and the humanities study and compare distinct cultures by examining the interrelationship between humans and their physical, political, cultural, and economic environments. The course stresses the overall importance of geographical and political literacy, and of the ongoing dialogues among the past, the present, and the future in the disciplines that shape cultural studies. Prerequisites: CPOLS 2101 or CGEOG 1001.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits The course will focus on the study, presentation, and research of the United Nations structure and issues facing the U.N., its member countries, and the international community. The student's work will be divided into three components: 1) research and training in preparation for participation in the Harvard National Model United Nations; 2) four-day full-time participation as A U.N. delegate representing the Lesley country selection at the HNMUN Conference; 3) analysis, reflection, and assessment of the conference and delegate experience. Prerequisite: CPOLS 2101 or CECON 2125 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits In this integrative seminar, students will read and analyze current scholarship in social science and history and, as appropriate, natural sciences and humanities, that focus on unfolding issues that will give shape to the new century. Each student will also develop and pursue an appropriate and original research, scholarly, or creative project. Prerequisite: CPOLS 3131 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
1-12 credits An independent study offers students an opportunity to explore A topic not available through the current course offerings, or to explore A subject in greater depth than is possible in A regular course. For more information, see Independent Study guidelines. Prerequisites: Upperclass standing and permission of the instructor and division director for Global Studies. CHLTH 2XXX
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course will explore and compare two periods of intersection between the United States and the wider world: the Era of Imperialism, Progressivism, and World War I (c. 1885-1925) and the Post-Cold War, Globalizing Contemporary World (c. 1980-Present). Making use of materials that range from newspapers to city plans, from presidential addresses to short stories, from treaties to philosophical tracts, from battle deaths to symphony programs students will pick up the separate threads that, in different intensities and weaves, form the historical fabric of each era. The overall goal is to acquire some sense of historical development from earlier to later. What has changed significantly about the United States and the world during the "long twentieth century," and what has remained much the same?
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Survey of world civilizations from pre-historic times until 1500. Emphasis is on understanding and interpreting social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and political developments in ancient classical and medieval Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits An extension of World Civilizations I: 4000 B.C.E. to 1500 C.E., This course carries forward introductory enquiry into institutions, thought, and patterns of change in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania from approximately 1500 to the present. Particular emphasis will be on the shaping influence of civilizational commonalties within and across continental settings, and on the ubiquitous dynamics of modernization and globalization.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course examines major themes and events in the history of America from European colonization to the Civil War. The interaction among the cultural, political, economic, and social forces that shaped America during this period will be given special emphasis. We shall also search for possible parallels between past events and current circumstances. Topics to be covered include: the pre-Columbian settlements; Europe on the eve of colonization; cultural encounters in colonial North America; the formation of colonial society; revolutionary America and the framing of the Constitution; the growth of the party system; emerging industrialism and its impact on American society; cultural, intellectual and reform currents of the Early Republic; westward expansion; slavery; sectionalism; and the coming of the Civil War.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits A comparative analysis of the historical experience and interaction of diverse ethnic groups in America, viewed in the context of major themes and events in American history. The course will explore such topics as the differences and similarities in the way various ethnic and racial groups have interacted with the American environment and with one another; the different ways Americans have answered the question of what it means to have an "American" identity; the evolution of immigration policy and its socio-economicunderpinnings; and contemporary debates about the role of multicultural perspectives in shaping curricula in America's schools and colleges.
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