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4.00 Credits
Readings from Greek prose works, such as the Histories of Herodotus and Plato's Apology of Socrates, together with a review of grammar and an introduction to Greek thought. Prerequisite: One year of college Greek or equivalent. Offered fall semester in even-numbered years.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Foreign Languages across the Curriculum is a tutorial program which seeks to enable students with at least intermediate-level proficiency in a foreign language to access authentic materials in that language that are relevant to a cognate course. Students will use their acquired skills to read and interpret texts in the foreign language and/or conduct research in the language. Knowledge gained will be applied to the work of the cognate course. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Signature of instructor required.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the development of the United States from first contact between Europeans and Native peoples through the Civil war and reconstruction. Covers such issues as the rationale for contact and conquest, the nature of colonial development, the American revolution, the transformation of the republic into a democracy, expansion to the Pacific, industrialization, the development and implications of slavery, and national collapse and reunion. Offered fall semester.
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4.00 Credits
The social, cultural, economic, and political changes that created a distinctive American society in British North America from first contact through 1760. Special attention to interactions between European, African, and Native Americans and the rise of distinctly American institutions and ideas. Enrollment priority: given to HIST majors and minors. Recommended: HIST 1 or 15. Offered fall semesters in odd numbered years.
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4.00 Credits
The revolutionary conflict between the American colonies and the British Empire that produced an independent American nation, situating that conflict within dramatic social, cultural, and economic transformations in eastern North America in the late eighteenth century and addressing how contemporaries understood the nature and limits of revolutionary potential in the process of creating a new polity. Offered spring semester in odd-numbered years.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the breakdown of national consensus and compromise in 19th-century America and the growth of Southern and Northern identities and conflicts. Studies the nature of the slave system and its effects on Southern society and the industrial system and its effects on the North, as well as the Civil War itself, the battles and leaders, and its impact on the two "nations." Offering to be determined.
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4.00 Credits
The intellectual history of American popular culture criticism examines different literatures about popular or "mass" culture and its supposed effects, its production, and its patterns of consumption, drawing on historical critiques in general along with recent analyses of particular genres. Prerequisite: Some lower division history.
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4.00 Credits
This course discusses fundamental shifts in the nature of work in America from the 17th through the 20th centuries, alongside the social, cultural and political changes that invested work with different meanings over time. Topics covered include the origins of a slave labor system, the impact of the industrial revolution on both men and women's work, the evolving relationship between workers and the state, the development and impact of an organized labor movement, as well as the "new economy" in postwar America. Recommended: Recommended HIST 1,2,15, or 16. Offered spring semester in odd-numbered years.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the major changes in contemporary American society since 1945. Explores the effects of the Cold War, the modern consumer economy, and technology on the institutions and values of the American people. Offered annually.
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine U.S. foreign relations and interaction with the wider world during the twentieth century. While necessarily proceeding chronologically, the course will also focus on key junctures and episodes. The course will examine the Untied States in the world with emphasis on such issues as the role of leaders as well as organizations, private and non-state actors, ideology, imperialism, revolution, and the political economy of war. The course will also examine the changing way sin which the world has judged American power, presence & influence over the years. Students will deal with these matters through secondary sources as well as primary sources of policymakers, activists, and intellectuals. Enrollment priority: Priority given to history majors and minors. Offering to be determined.
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