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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the diverse history of Africa from 11450 to the present. Topics examined include the development of African societies and political systems, internal and external slave trades, African societies and politics, African resistance to foreign rule, European colonization, nationalist struggles for independence, and legacies of colonial rule.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the history of historical writing based on primary sources, and devoting attention to the theories, philosophies, methodologies, and issues of interpretation that arise from the texts. Completion of a research paper on an approved topic. Required of all History majors and suggested for History minors. Offered every semester.
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4.00 Credits
Freshman Seminar: What can the history of food tell us about larger processes of historical change What is the relationship between food, culture, and the environment The search for nourishment has shaped political, economic, and cultural institutions around the world. This seminar examines the development of food production systems, the role of crop, technology and cultural exchange, the diversity of food cultures, the politics of food shortage, and the emergence of a global cuisine. Case studies primarily will derive from Africa and the United States. Offered intermittently.
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4.00 Credits
Systematic approach to the spatial distribution of resources, populations, cultural features, processes, and relationships. Required of students who would like to obtain a teaching credential in the Social Sciences. Offered every other year.
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4.00 Credits
An interpretive political history of the world since 1945, focusing on major actors, events, and international affairs, both Western and non-Western. Offered intermittently.
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4.00 Credits
The rise and development of the societies, cultures, religions and governments of the eastern Mediterranean (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Palestine, Asia Minor, Minoan Crete and Mycenean Greece), from the fourth millennium to about 1000 B.C. Offered every other year.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the new forms of society, culture, economy, and government that arose in the central and eastern Mediterranean after the collapse of ancient civilization around 1200 B.C.; the origins of the Greek city-states; the creations of the new empires by Athens, Alexander the Great, and the Romans; the creation of classical literature, philosophy, and art. Offered every other year.
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4.00 Credits
The origins and evolution of Roman imperial society, government, and culture, from the first century B.C. to the third century A.D. The class also examines the interrelationship between archaeology and history as a means of discovering the past. Offered every other year.
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4.00 Credits
The evolution and reorganization of the late Roman Empire, and a study of its social, cultural, religious, and political transformations. Offered every other year.
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4.00 Credits
The social, economic, political, cultural and administrative revolutions of the twelfth through the early fifteenth century in Western Europe. Offered every other year.
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