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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall Semester For description, see EC 206.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Spring Semester This course examines the origin and development of modern societies in the context of the European global expansion and increased cross-cultural exchange. This course also emphasizes the cultural ties and tensions generated by these encounters. Themes include imperialism, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall Semester This course explores the history of the human community up to c. 1600. Focus is on the development of the major world societies of Africa, America, Asia, and Europe and emphasizes cross-cultural and trans-regional interactions. Themes include environmental influences, social and political evolution, trade networks, cultural encounters, and religious and intellectual movements.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 This course seeks to locate Modern Latin America (c. 1800-present) within a global framework and to understand the origins and development of the political, economic, social, and cultural issues that challenge and define Latin America today, including US foreign policy and changing ethnic, gender, and class relations.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2009, 2011 Rise of Medieval Europe through the "barbarization" and Christianization of theRoman Order. Idea of Empire and Christendom, the conflict of Papacy and Kingship. Feudalization of Europe and the rise of cities, popular religious movements. The culmination and crisis of this order in Renaissance cities and its fragmentation in the political and religious conflicts of the Reformation Era.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall Semester An examination of the historical development of culture and society in the pre-modern era with a focus on the theoretical justifications for authority, law, freedom, and community.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Spring Semester A survey of the rise of the nation state and nationalism among the masses from the 16th century to the present. This course explores such topics as industrialization, geography, modern warfare, colonization, totalitarianism, and the Cold War.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2009, 2011 Over the past two hundred years, China has undergone dramatic, and often traumatic, change. This class surveys the impact of imperialism, orientalism, and communism, and recent economic globalization on modern Chinese society, as well as the internal conflicts generated by China's transformation from a pre-modern empire into a modern nation-state.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 Many Japanese often see themselves as a homogeneous island race with a unique culture. This class looks at Japanese history through the prism of exchange between Japan and other cultural systems to critique modern constructions of "Japaneseness" in both Japanitself and recent American literature and film.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 This course examines the history of Brazil from 1500 to the present and explores its richly diverse culture, politics, economy, and geography that ultimately tie it to the histories of Europe, Africa, Asia, the U.S. Major themes include: race relations, national development, military dictatorships, and popular culture.
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