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5.00 Credits
Designed to develop student's ability to research and write an interpretive paper on a specific topic. Seminar participants practice the skills of library research, historical and historiographical analysis, and writing and revising. Paper in lieu of final examination. The Schedule of Classes will list topic selected. 4 lectures and research project. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Areas A1 and A3, and junior standing or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Theoretical approaches used to study the past, including scholarship on history and memory, the influence of interdisciplinary studies, the significance of race and gender as categories of analysis, and the place of history and the historian in contemporary society. 3 seminar meetings and research project. Prerequisite: HIST 303; junior standing or consent of instructor; and History major.
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4.00 Credits
A history of the development of witchcraft ideas, persecutions, and skepticism in the western world from 1400 to 1800, focusing on the legal, economic, social, and intellectual currents that produced, fired, and eventually ended the phenomenon. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A and two courses from Areas D1, D2, D3, D4. History majors will not receive GE Area D5 credit.
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4.00 Credits
Intellectual and cultural history of Europe from the nineteenth century to the present. Liberalism, radical thought, feminism, evolutionary theory, psycho-analysis, structuralism, existentialism, and postmodernism. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A and two courses from Areas D1, D2, D3, D4. History majors will not receive GE Area D5 credit.
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4.00 Credits
The African, Islam and Euro-American dimensions of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, with focus on its varying roots, organization and impact on cross-cultural and global levels. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A and two courses from Areas D1, D2, D3. History majors will not receive GE Area D5 credit.
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4.00 Credits
The cultures of West African and the African Diaspora, with special attention to the intersection of Animist, Islamic and Western cultures, and the survival of African cultures in the Americas as manifested in the artistic, religious, literary, and other humanistic legacies of the African Diaspora. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Areas A, D1 and D3. History majors will not receive GE Area D5 credit.
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4.00 Credits
The pre-modern and modern histories of China and Japan. Focus on the traditional era, the transition to modernity, cultural uniqueness within East Asian civilization, and western images of Asia. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A and two courses from Areas D1, D2, D3, D4. History majors will not receive GE Area D5 credit.
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4.00 Credits
Political, social, and economic development of the Middle Eastern countries in the context of regional history and international politics since the birth of Islam. Particular attention to the resurgence of religious movements and their connection with nationalism and anti-colonialism in the region. 3 lectures and research project. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
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4.00 Credits
Modern histories of China, Japan and Korea: great disruptions of modernity that have transformed these societies, common characteristics of modernity in East Asia, great differences between Chinese, Japanese and Korean histories, and the mutually constitutive nature of these East Asian histories. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A. Completion of two courses in lower-division Area D (preferably D2 and D3), or consent of instructor. History majors will not receive GE Area D5 credit.
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4.00 Credits
Modern histories of South and Southeast Asia: traditional empires and cultures, spread of modern capitalism, Western and Japanese colonialism, decolonization and independence, ethnic and religious tensions, roles in contemporary economy and geopolitics. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A. Completion of two courses in lower-division Area D (preferably D2 and D3), or consent of instructor. History majors will not receive GE Area D5 credit.
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