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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) Discusses how the cultures, economies, and societies of the world developed since 1500 C.E. Explores issues of class and class conflict, personal and cultural identity, race, work, industrial development, colonialism, ecology, and political and economic life pertaining to the history of civilizations in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
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(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) Explores social, material, cultural, and intellectual bases of European civilization and relates them to major Afro-Eurasian civilizations. Examines hunting- gathering and early agricultural societies; ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Judea; classical Greece and Rome; rise of Christianity; nomadic invasions of Europe; Byzantine and Islamic influences; and Europe's "medieval synthesis.
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(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) Human migration is the story of individual lives enmeshed in larger historical issues of identity, culture, work, social institutions and various forms of coercion. Explores how work and migration have intersected in the last 500 years to shape the world in which we live today.
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(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) Examines the Middle East from before the rise of Islam to the Muslim conquest of Constantinople. Includes the life style of the desert nomad, Muhammad and founding of the Islamic state, its expansion through the Middle East and beyond, and the various non-Arab dynasties and empires that took over.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) Explores history through the complex medium of theater. Focuses on a variety of dramatic and theatrical techniques, including readers' theater, role-playing debates, improvisation and formal dramatizations. Scripts historical literature into performance. Studies various plays in order to gain a broader understanding of key historical issues in diverse cultures.
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(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) Investigates roots of present-day events in Modern Middle East since 1600 CE. Surveys history of the region, pre-modern empires, European colonization, and renaissance of Middle East culture in the 18th and 19th century, movement toward independent states, and emergence of Pan-Arabism and Islamist ideologies of the 20th century.
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(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) Introduction to Latin American history and culture focusing on diversity of Latin American societies and their multicultural heritage. Topics include colonialism and indigenous societies, growth of plantation and mining economies, enslavement of Africans, struggle for independence, distribution of political power, recurrence of popular rebellion, and artistic and cultural life.
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(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) A historical overview of Chinese civilization from Neolithic origins to the Ming Dynasty (1368). The foundations of Chinese civilization and the core of Chinese culture will be elucidated through a focus on key aspects of governance, economy, foreign relations, literature and the arts, and their development over this period.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) Overview of contemporary Asian history and culture focusing on the diversity of Asian societies. Includes distribution of political power, ideological and structural stratification between East and West, impact of "Orientalism" in global context, impact ofimperialism, effects of sexual and religious stratification, and discussion of political and religious differences.
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(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) Survey of major themes, issues, and personalities in African history since 1500. Topics include: kingdoms and empires, population movements, spread of Islam, slave trade era, abolition of slave trade, European imperialism, impact of colonialism, religious and cultural movements, nationalism and pan- Africanism, ethnicity and identity in modern Africa.
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