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3.00 Credits
The capstone seminar is a course that explores in depth a shifting field of topics. It helps students relate the subjects they have studied in their major field and assists students in demonstrating their familiarity with Hispanic cultures and in methods of analysis and presentation, culminating in the preparation and presentation of a major research project. It is primarily a discussion course that relies heavily on individual as well as collective effort. Required for Hispanic Studies majors. Category varies. Prerequisite: 307 plus at least two 400- level courses offered in the department of Hispanic Studies or consent of the instructor. Every spring. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
Category varies. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. (1-4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
Category varies. Not available to substitute regularly offered courses. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. (1-4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
Category 3. Prerequisites: four courses in Hispanic studies numbered 204 or above and consultation with the instructor. (1-4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
Preceptorships give students the opportunity to observe and practice teaching skills. Available to highly accomplished students. Most require some background reading and training in foreign language teaching. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. (1-4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
An introductory survey treating all periods, regions, and peoples, but focusing on contact and exchange between empires, civilizations, and cultures as peoples encountered one another throughout history in a process which accelerated dramatically at the beginning of the modern era and ultimately made the very activity of studying world history possible in our own time. Every year. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
A one semester introduction to the study of European history focusing on a selected period; designed primarily for lower division students who have no previous college-level background in this general field. Every year. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This introductory level course uses historical frameworks and methodologies to explore the bumpersticker motto: "Think Globally-Act Locally." Through readings, films, lectures, and discussion, this course explorecentral trends in world history-economic change, from industrialization and commercialization to globalization and the information economy; political activism, inside and outside electoral politics; the construction of gender, race, and class, and their impact on everyday lives; urbanization and the development of neighborhoods; immigration and the transformation of communities. We will use similar resources plus site visits, tours, guest lectures, and hands-on activities to explore how these trends have shaped the state of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. There will be key points where we will explore how local developments have shaped national patterns. Throughout, students will be positioned as historians to analyze the changing relationships between "the global" and "the local." In the end, they will understand not only olocal community better, but they will be better prepared to analyze any community in which they find themselves. Every year. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to the history of Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines major themes relating to change in the colonial period such as European conquest and imperialism, the development of the colonial economy, African responses to colonialism and the rise of nationalist movements that stimulated the movement towards independence. Students will examine these themes by applying them to case studies of specific geographic regions of the continent. Fall 2008. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course surveys the political, economic, and cultural development of the peoples of the ancient Greek world from the late Bronze Age through the Hellenistic era. Students will hone their critical thinking skills while working with translations of ancient literature, archaeological remains and works of art. The basic structure of the course is chronological, but we will examine major themes across time and space, which may include the interaction between physical landscape and historical change; rule by the one, the few and the many; the nature and development of literary and artistic genres; the economic, military, and/or cultural dimensions of empire; or the intersections of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, slave/free status and civic identity in the Greek world. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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