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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2009, 2011 History and culture of the Indian subcontinent from earliest times. Development of civilization and interaction of philosophic and religious concepts with art, literature, social structures, and politics. Coming of the Mughal Empire, and the Europeans, establishment and success of British rule. The rise of the independence movement and eventual victory.
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Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 Classical history of Islam from pre-Islamic Arabia to the rise of the Ottoman Empire up to the sixteenth century. Rise of Arab, Persian, and Turkish cultures in their Islamic context and development of history, philosophy, literature, and art.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2010, 2012 Development of the Middle East from the decline of the Ottoman Empire to the present. Interrelations with the West leading to current crisis: Israel, Palestine, terrorism, the rise of nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism, oil, and the Iraqi war.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 The history of the Byzantine Empire from the time the Emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Empire from Rome to Byzantine in 330 to the capture of Constantinople in 1453. The course covers the importance of the Byzantine Empire to the West and its many contributions to civilization, especially as a bulwark against the Muslim armies. The history of the Byzantine provinces, in particular the Balkans, and the impact made by the Byzantine Empire on them, is also discussed.
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Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 An examination of the history of horror films. This course is an excursion that will compare and contrast the fictional world of the macabre with the historical realities that form and challenge our social and cultural lives. With the aid of film, literature, and art, this course will analyze the phenomenon of the horror genre down through the ages.
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Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 This course is a survey of the historical, economic, political, social, and cultural development of colonial Latin America from before the European discovery to the era of independence. It addresses the major themes and substance of the three centuries of colonial government and an appreciation for the complexity and diversity of colonial Latin America.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2008, 2010 An examination of the rise of modern France from the 1789 Revolution to France's role in the search for European Union. This includes a study of the reign of Napoleon, the Franco- Prussian War, the German Occupation and the Vichy regime, and De Gaulle and the Fifth Republic. The course will place special emphasis on the lives of French men and women.
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Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 Samurai and Geisha: these two stereotypical images often hide the diversity of Japanese identity from most Western observers. This course looks at Japanese history and culture from the perspective of shifting models of male and female ideals. Topics include the nature of imperial court life, the evolution of samurai ideals, and the impact of Western culture on Japanese animated films.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 A history of Modern Germany from the 1871 unification under Chancellor Otto von Bismark through the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification in 1990. The course material will consider such topics as German colonization, the World Wars, National Socialism, and Communism.
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Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 An examination of Russian History from the February and October Revolutions of 1917 to the present. The rise of the Bolshevik state, the impact of Stalinism and the purges, consequences of World War II and the Cold War for Soviet development, the implementation of perestroika and glasnost in the 1980s, and the collapse of the Soviet Union will all be highlighted.
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