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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course examines major themes and events in the history of America from the Civil War to the present. 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 legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction; the growth of industrial America; America's emergence as A world power; prosperity, depression, and the New Deal; World War II and the post-war world; sixties radicalism and the declining liberal consensus; the end of the Cold War; and America in the global economy.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course inquires into the important preoccupations, developments, and calamities of the last sixty or seventy years from which the meaning of the twentieth century can be considered. Special attention is given to the aftermath of World War I; the emergence of Communist Russia and Fascist totalitarian states in the 1920s and 1930s; the causes, dimensions, and consequences of World War II; the Cold War; the emerging aspirations of non-Western societies; and the many forces (national, regional, international, economic, technological, and ideological) that have shaped the possibilities and the dangers of the world for the last two decades.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course examines questions of rights and obligations within the context of major legal, ethical, and political traditions in American history. The meaning of the Constitution as A public text will be explored, as well as important struggles that have engaged Americans in such issues as the scope of political authority and its limits, freedom of expression, property rights, crime and punishment, privacy, minority and women's rights, civil disobedience, abortion, and the right to life. Prerequisite: CLITR 1100, OR one 1000- or 2000-level CHIST or CHUMS course, OR A 4 or 5 on the AP History test, OR permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits How four revolutions - religious, political, scientific, and economic - transformed England fromA feudal, insular country into A commercial, industrial, and colonial power in the centuries between the reigns of Elizabeth I (1558-1601) and Victoria (1838-1901). We will use Shakespeare, Dickens, and Marx, among others,as well as current scholarship, to seek the 'meaning' of modernization and the presence of its inherenttensions, e.g. country vs. city, monarchy vs. parliament, self-possession vs. class, gender and colonial identities, and 'little' England vs. 'greater' Engla nd. Prerequisite: CLITR 1100, OR one 1000- or 2000-level CHIST or CHUcourse, OR A 4 or 5 on the AP History test, OR permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course explores the life of Jews in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing primarily, but not exclusively, upon the Jewish experience in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The course seeks an understanding of the phenomenon of widespread anti-Semitism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the forces contributing to the growth of Zionism, debates about the meaning and significance of the Holocaust, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the persistence of anti-Semitism in the contemporary world. Prerequisite: CLITR 1100, OR one 1000- or 2000-level CHIST or CHUMS course, OR A 4 or 5 on the AP History test, OR permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits An introduction to the major institutional developments in modern Europe, e.g., the French Revolution; the onset of industrialization; nineteenth century nationalism and colonialization; and totalitarianism, socialism, and World Wars in this century. Considerable attention is given to the significant thought systems and artistic movements that both inspired and commented on those changes. Prerequisite: CLITR 1100, OR one 1000- or 2000-level CHIST or CHUMS course, OR A 4 or 5 on the AP History test, OR permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course examines the black experience of, and contributions to, American life. The inquiry begins with a brief overview of African institutions and culture in the early modern period and proceeds to explore A number of important issues, such as the genesis of African-American culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Reconstruction; the emergence of "Jim Crow" citizenship; and patterns of urbanization, segregation,and integration in the twentieth century. The variety of black responses to American life and the philosophies of liberation and change that have been espoused by blacks will be emphasized. Prerequisite: CLITR 1100, OR one 1000- or 2000-level CHIST or CHUMS course, OR A 4 or 5 on the AP History test, OR permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is an inquiry into the historical development of the interactions among children, families, and schools. The course focuses on important periods of turmoil and reform in the history of American education and examines particularly the influence of social changes and educational philosophies on the understanding of roles, authority, the purposes of schooling, curricula, career aspirations, and the responsibilities of government. Prerequisite: CLITR 1100, OR one 1000- or 2000-level CHIST or CHUMS course, OR A 4 or 5 on the AP History test, OR permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course will highlight the people, ideas, events, and developments that shaped the history of America since World War II. Sources of disquiet at home, e.g., the McCarthy Era; the Civil Rights Movement; Sixties Radicalism; the revived Women's Movement; the Reagan "Revolution;" the post-industrial economy; persistininequality; and increasing voter apathy will be explored along with important challenges that the United States has faced abroad, e.g., the Cold War; the conflict in Vietnam; the collapse of Communist regimes in Russia and Eastern Europe; the global economy; genocide and ethnic cleansing; crises in the Middle East; and the threat of international terrorism. Prerequisite: CLITR 1100, OR one 1000- or 2000-level CHIST or CHUMS course, OR A 4 or 5 on the AP History test, OR permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The major moral and intellectual issues in Europe and America from the 1880s through the aftermath of World War I are examined, with considerable emphasis on their treatment in literature and the fine arts. The issues to be examined include the birth of modernism in the arts and literature; explorations of the irrational in human behavior; new directions in science and technology; totalitarian vs. democratic politics; socialism vs. capitalism; imperialism, nationalism, racism and modern war. Prerequisite: CLITR 1100, OR one 1000- or 2000-level CHIST or CHUMS course, OR A 4 or 5 on the AP History test, OR permission of the instructor.
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