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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 Survey of modern Japan social history from 1945 to the present. Class work emphasizes a multi-disciplinary approach that combines readings, visual media, and expressions of modern Japanese material culture to cover topics ranging from politics and economics to anime and plight of illegal workers in Japanese factories.
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Three Credits Fall Semester Concise yet comprehensive study of American historical development which highlights important themes in American history. Topics include modes of colonial life, geographical perspectives, the Revolution and the Constitution, formation of political parties, revivalists and reformers, plantation society, New England mill villages, westward movement and Civil War.
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Three Credits Spring Semester An analysis and interpretation of the development of Reconstruction, the gilded society, world power, reform movements, geographical perspectives, the New Deal, the Cold War, John F. Kennedy, affluence, and discontent.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2008, 2010 This course examines major developments in East Asian history to highlight key themes in the political, social, and cultural life of the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans. Drawing upon primary sources, secondary scholarship, and examples of material culture (art, architecture, and clothing), the course emphasizes complex multiplicity of Asian identity.
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Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 An introduction to modern China, Japan, and Korea that analyzes the often tense relationships between these nations against the backdrop of Western imperial and economic expansion. In addition to political and military themes, the course also considers the role of cultural exchange in modern Asia, and the growing importance of East Asian nations in present day globalization.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2008, 2010 The history of women from the colonial era through the end of the nineteenth century. Examines the diversity of experiences among women of different races and classes in America, focusing on issues central to female experience: reproduction and family life, work, religion and reform, and political struggles for civil rights.
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Three Credits Fall Semester This course examines the social consequences of colonization, migration and war in early America, 1500-1775. Emphasis is placed on the evolution of regional cultures, and the interaction of British colonies with competing European cultures (French, Spanish, Dutch), with Native Americans, and with African American slaves.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2008, 2010 An investigation of U.S. popular culture focusing on its ability to illuminate important themes in the nation's social, economic, and political development. A special emphasis will be given to twentieth-century popular culture. Important questions and themes will include popular culture's role in perpetuating attitudes regarding race and gender.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 This course studies the political, social, and economic life of the United States in the post World War II era. Historically significant individuals, events, and programs and their contribution to the American nation are analyzed through presentations, critical reading, and writing.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2009, 2011 Explores the tumultuous years following the American Revolution when Americans fought over the meaning of the war and the future direction of the country. We will examine the major conflicts of the period, including ratification of the Constitution, slavery, reform movements, Indian removal, immigration and capitalist development.
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