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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Examines film, television, music, and style since World War II. Themes include the cultural dimensions of domination, the rise of countercultures, and the role of mass media in shaping American perceptions of class, gender, sex, and race.
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4.00 Credits
The New World empires of Spain and Portugal, 1500-1800. Emphasizes the Indian past, discovery and conquest, plantation and mining societies, black slavery, race relations, and city life.
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4.00 Credits
Latin America since 1800. Focuses primarily on Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina; emphasizes elitist politics, the church and anticlericalism, economic dependency, social change, urbanization and industrialization, and revolutionary aspirations.
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4.00 Credits
Development of the major islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, from colonial times to the present. Emphasizes evolution of plantation societies, slavery and race relations, international rivalries, economic dependence, political independence, and social revolutions.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as African Studies 364.) Political, social, economic, and cultural history of sub-Saharan African civilizations, from the rise of the Sudanic empires through the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as African Studies 367.) Evolution of South Africa from a society based on the principle of systematic racial segregation to a multiracial democracy. Origins of racial segregation and apartheid, nationalist struggles, challenges of post-aparthed development.
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4.00 Credits
The rise of Islam, life of Muhammad, medieval Arab dynasties, the Crusades, rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire, other European-Near Eastern contacts, and the origins of modern Arab nationalism.
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4.00 Credits
Topics include the fall of the Ottoman Empire; British presence and departure from Egypt; World War I diplomacy; the rise and development of Arab nationalism; the emergence of the Arab states of Turkey, Iran, Israel, and the Arabian peninsula countries; Islamic resurgence; inter-Arab political history; oil; and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Jewish Studies 370.) Evolution and growth of Israel. Equal emphasis on Ottoman Palestine and on the mandatory and Israeli statehood periods. Topics include Zionism, Arab-Jewish relations, the British colonial presence, Israeli domestic issues, and foreign policy.
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