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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, WR100 or WR101, and written permission of the instructor. Focuses on the attempts of Americans to control explosive change in the early twentieth century urbanization, the impacts of industrialization, and the troubling relationship between big business and political institutions in a democracy. Topics include the background and motivations of pro- gressive reformers; their attempts to assimilate or coerce immigrants; and the effect of the progressive conscious- ness on matters of race, gender, and social class. Counts toward American Studies minor.
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Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, WR100 or WR101, and written permission of the instructor. Focuses on the African background to American history. Premised upon the notion that Africa occupies a more prominent position in the study of the genesis of American culture than is usually acknowledged, the multidisciplinary course examines the structures (for example, the trans-Atlantic slave trade) that ushered Africans to British America from the seventeenth through the early nineteenth cen- turies. Throughout the course, students are encouraged to sense the Africans' experiences from their point of departure to their arrival and subsequent process of enslavement in the New World. Taking into full account the Africans' role in the Americas, student are asked to reexamine and challenge the negative stereotypes that have historically perpetuated misunderstanding about peoples of African descent.
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3.00 Credits
The Evolution of American Business Leadership, 1600-1990s (3.00 cr.) Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, WR100 or WR101, and written permission of the instructor. Focuses on the changing organization and operation of American busi- ness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exam- ines the changing values, activities, functions, and recruit- ment of businessmen during the evolution of American enterprise. Analysis is organized along three major stages of enterprise: business as personal enterprise dominated by merchants; the rise of large-scale entrepreneurial enterprise in the late nineteenth century; and the devel- opment of modern-day, professionally managed business organizations. Counts toward American Studies minor.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, WR100 or WR101, and written permission of the instructor. Focuses on the British colonies in mainland North America and the West Indies during the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Par- ticular attention is paid to three broad issues: the rela- tionship between the physical environment and process of colonization; cultural interactions and conflicts between Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans and the influence of those relationships on the development of colonial societies; and the social and economic integra- tion of the colonies with one another and with the broader Atlantic world during this period. Counts toward American Studies minor.
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3.00 Credits
of Alcohol and Drugs in America (3.00 cr.) Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, WR100 or WR101, and written permission of the instructor. Psychoactive sub- stances, both legal and illegal, have been integral compo- nents of economic, cultural, social, and political life in the United States. Focusing on the nineteenth and twen- tieth centuries, topics include the social and class func- tions of drinking and bar culture; gender and alcohol; the rise of drugs in modern culture; temperance reform; successes and failures of alcohol and narcotics regulation and prohibition; and the contradictory post-war devel- opments of a diseased-based, therapeutic model of drug and alcohol dependency; and the popularity of alcohol and drugs in consumer society and counterculture.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, WR100 or WR101, and written permission of the instructor. The Hundred Years War did more to disrupt the politics, economy, and society of continental Western Europe, thus bringing an end to the Middle Ages, than did any other event. This course follows the chronology of the war by high- lighting its origin; military conflicts; effect on society, economy, ecclesiastic affairs, and politics; and conclu- sion. It focuses on the major players-France, England, Burgundy, the southern Low Countries-with frequent visits to the conflict's spread into the Holy Roman Empire, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, and even into the Middle East. Counts toward Medieval Studies minor.
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3.00 Credits
in the Middle Ages (3.00 cr.) Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, WR100 or WR101, and written permission of the instructor. Medieval Europeans were surrounded by peoples who were not like them. Encounters between the Europeans and those living on the frontiers were frequent. They occurred for differ- ent reasons, including warfare, conversion, pilgrimage, exploration, and tourism. This seminar studies the interaction of each group separately. Frontier peoples195 include Germanic barbarians, Huns, Scots-Irish, Auars/ Magyars, Vikings, Andalusian Muslims, Mongols, Cathars, Livonians, Hussites, Tartars, and Ottomans.
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3.00 Credits
in Seventeenth-Century Europe (3.00 cr.) Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, WR100 or WR101, and written permission of instructor. European societies were in crisis in the seventeenth century. Religious pas- sions and political rebellions, wars, famine, and intellec- tual revolution threatened social order. The resolution of this turmoil produced the English Parliamentary system and the French form of "absolutism"-two verdifferent paths to stability. This seminar examines the courts of Louis XIV and other monarchs to determine how they achieved solutions to the problems of their times. It also studies the creation of cultural policies that encouraged the spread of new ideas.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, WR100 or WR101, and written permission of the instructor. An exploration of the causes, nature, and extent of early Christian perse- cutions until Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century. Topics include the Jewish-Greek-Roman environment of early Chris- tianity; Rome's policies toward foreign cults; Christians'reputation for extreme promiscuity and cultic atrocities; comparison with competing cults; the danger of open profession of the new faith; and Christian acceptance of the ancient world. Given the muddled understanding of the early Christian persecutions, we shall examine and dispel the myths and bring some order to the chaos. Counts toward Catholic Studies minor. Same course as CL324.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, WR100 or WR101, and written permission of the instructor. Between 1700 and 1900, the whole conception of popular protest, public order, and crime prevention altered radically, giving birth to new institutions of law enforcement and social control. An in-depth look at the changing structure and role of the forces of order in Europe, which analyzes the intellectual, social, and political pressures that brought about their reform.
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