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Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, WR100 or WR101, and written permission of the instructor. Before and after enslaved Africans were transported to the New World, Africans were transported and sold in the Old World. This course includes tutorials and on-site learning, research, and discussion of historic locations through- out the Atlantic World that functioned as key ports in the transatlantic trade in African peoples and in slave- produced goods. It bears witness to "traces" of theAfrican presence from the past and makes observations of distinct African-diasporic communities that exist today. Additional costs may be incurred. Counts toward American Studies minor.
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Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. Students examine the Crusades, beginning with the efforts by western Europeans to to assist the Byzantine Empire to defend its borders against Middle Eastern Islamic enemies. Those efforts set the stage for centuries of warfare between European crusader forces and Islamic forces for control of the Holy Lands. Stu- dents study the early history of the Crusades, from both the Christian and non-Christian view, as well as their effect on the early modern and modern history of the world. A significant research paper is required. Counts toward Medieval Studies minor.
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World War (3.00 cr.) Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. Students examine the history of the Second World War and particularly military strategy and combat in both European and Asian theatres of war. Students confront historical controversies over appeasement, the Holocaust, and the decision to drop the atom bomb. The course also deals with memorials to the war and its combatants. A significant research paper is required. HS412 Gods and Monsters: An Iconography of Nineteenth-Century Europe (3.00 cr.) Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. Studies individuals whose careers mirrored and shaped the intellectual terrain of nineteenth cen- tury Europe. Among these are "Chinese" Gordon, heroof the Battle of Khartoum; Florence Nightingale, "sav- ior" of the Crimean War; and Oscar Wilde, poster boy for the Decadent art movement. These individuals are analyzed in the context of the most powerful critiques of nineteenth century assumptions, those of Marx, Darwin, Freud, and Nietzsche.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. The Middle Ages was a bellicose era. From the Germanic invasions to the Hundred Years War, from the Vikings to the Crusaders, the Middle Ages seems to have been made up of one major conflict followed by another. Traces the history of warfare throughout the Middle Ages as well as covering medieval strategy, tactics, combatants, technology, diplomacy, the role of religion, and the effects on nonmilitary society. Counts toward Medieval Studies minor.
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Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. Introduces the many roles of women in Euro- pean society from the 1600s to the 1950s. Uses women's autobiographies, novels, and letters as well as recent theoretical scholarship. Defines how women, of both elite and popular cultures, perceived themselves and were perceived by men. Counts toward Gender Studies minor.
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and the Boundaries of Belief (3.00 cr.) Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. This examination of late nineteenth century Victorian science explores both the assumptions upon which physics and psychics based their research, as well as the cultural milieu which provided such a fertile field for both sets of investigations-often performed by the same individuals. The discoveries of Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, and Dr. Anna Kingsford serve as the focus for a detailed study of the mutability of "facts" within the context of science as it developedin fin-de-siècle Britain.
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Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. Genius/buffoon, hero/villain, revolutionary/ reactionary-these are only a few of the dichotomous192 History labels attached to Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943 and founder of the modern political con- ception of totalitarianism. Similar controversy surrounds his regime, which was originally hailed by many in Europe as an exciting new "third way" which eliminatedthe excesses of both capitalism and communism. This course looks carefully at how Mussolini came to power, what he really managed to accomplish, and why he came to such an inglorious end-lost in the wake of Hitler and his Nazi juggernaut.
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Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. Was there a Trojan War What is the relation of Homer's epic Iliad to historical events of the Bronze Age Aegean What was its impact on the Greek world of the Geometric Era (the most likely period for the composition of the Homeric poems), a lively period of expansion, colonization, trade, and the rise of the nation-state of the polis. Investigates Homer's effect both on contemporary Greek national identity and later Greeks' understanding and deliberate construction of their own past. Interdisciplinary approach combining literary texts, archaeology, and secondary historical analysis. Same course as CL420.
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Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. They transformed a great republic into a mon- archy; killed (literally) millions of people; conquered a huge chunk of the Mediterranean World and Europe; carried out one of the greatest urban renewal projects in history; revived and transformed religion; revised the calendar; inspired Shakespeare, Shaw, and dozens of movies. And yet, the one wound up assassinated by his peers, and the other had so little control over his own family that he felt compelled to exile his jet set daughter to the Roman equivalent of Siberia. Who were they And how did the epochal events of their lifetime give birth to such genius monsters Same course as CL421.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. Examines American history through the lens of disasters. Disasters offer a unique perspective from which to examine social, political, and economic struc- tures and institutions. Explores disasters at various points in U.S. history in an effort to understand how these calamities have affected events; how the impact and understanding of disasters have changed over time; and ultimately, to provide a window onto the changing nature of American society over the past two hundred years. Counts toward American Studies minor.
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