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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course surveys North American history from the colonial period through the American Civil War. Social and cultural interactions between diverse peoples, economic trends, and political developments including the formation of the United States are among the subjects which will be explored. Extensive use of primary sources will provide a mirror into the minds of the men and women of the past.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course surveys United States history from the Civil War through the present. Among the topics discussed are race relations from Reconstruction to today, industrialization, the Great Depression, the rise of the United States to world power and social and cultural trends, such as the rise of feminism, the new right, and mass culture. Extensive use of primary sources will provide a mirror into the minds of men and women of the past.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course provides a “macro-historical” introduction to the civilizations of the world from their inception to about 1500. The course investigates parallel developments, as well as cultural diffusion within and among civilizations of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course will survey world history from approximately 1500 to the present. An examination of traditional societies and their interrelation in the post-Columbian period. Starting with Iberian, Ottoman, Chinese, Indian, and West African states, the course proceeds to discover the cross-cultural and cross-intellectual impact of the age of reaching out. The course ends with an examination of the re-emergence of traditional societies in an age of fluid communication.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Required of all majors in the sophomore or junior year. Research techniques, historiography, and the historical method. * See course descriptions under departmental listings. HIS204 Black History in America to 1865 3 credits This course explores the African origins, the forced removal of Africans to the Americas, the development of slavery, and the resistance to that institution. We will also explore the free black communities and the institutions that African Americans developed. The latter part of the semester will be devoted to the African Americans’ role in the Civil War and during the period of Reconstruction.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course examines the history of African Americans from 1877 to the present. Emphasis is placed on post-Reconstruction historical problems, Jim Crow, self-help, enlarged dimensions of racial conflict, the Harlem Renaissance, post-war years, the Civil Rights Movement, and the African American Revolution.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course explores the social, cultural, and religious developments surrounding the fall of Imperial China in 1911, the failure of the Guomindang to create a viable republic, the victory of the Chinese Communists, and the events leading to the Tiananmen Massacre.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits England 1500-1714: A survey of the history of Tudor-Stuart England. Topics include the establishment of Tudor despotism, the Protestant Reformation, the English Civil War, the English Revolution of 1688, and the establishment of the British Empire.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course will deal with the major indigenous civilizations (Incas, Aztecs, and Mayas) in Latin America and with the development of the area after the “discovery,” conquest, and colonization by the Iberians.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course will include selected topics related to the cultural and political history of Latin America. Such areas will be discussed as: anti-Americanism in Latin American life, the cultural impact of migration to the United States, the role of religion, sexual attitudes, and the impact of the extended family on upbringing.
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