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3.00 Credits
3 credits American foreign policy and diplomatic relations from colonial times to the beginning of the 20th century. The course integrates cultural, political, and historical perspectives.
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3 credits American foreign policy and diplomatic relations: the role of the United States in world politics since 1900. The course analyzes major events and policies including World War I and the Versailles settlement, American “isolationism,” and the Cold War.
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3 credits Studies the relationship between history and its representation on film. By viewing and closely analyzing cinematic accounts of the past, we will touch on the links between history, film, and myth. Film will be analyzed as a primary source for understanding cultural history.
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3 credits This course will survey the early period of American history from the Elizabethan period to the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War. Geographically, it will focus on North America, with occasional forays into the Caribbean. It will center on two main themes: migrations—of enslaved Africans and a range of European groups (especially the French, Dutch, and English)—and exchanges of commodities and ideas between Europeans and Native Americans
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course will focus on two of the most pivotal events in early American history: the American Revolution and the Constitution. Over the course of the semester, we will decide just how revolutionary the Revolution was—what changed as a result of it and, equally important, what did not. We will discuss several of the period’ s key figures (especially Hamilton, Madison, and Jefferson) and issues (especially slavery, native Americans, the extension of a market economy, and the extent of federal power). Over the course of the semester, students will prepare a short research paper based on the course readings, other readings chosen by the student, and original research in primary sources.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits An examination of the era of Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill, and the Second World War. We will emphasize the social and political consequences of the Russian, German, and Nazi Revolutions, the experience of total war, and the origins of the Holocaust.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course combines the study of world population, natural resources, culture, and economics with a series of in-depth examinations of the effects of geography in history. Some examples of the latter would be land power versus sea power and the role of geography in the U.S. Civil War.
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3 credits This is the first part of a two-part introductory series designed to provide a broad acquaintance with African culture, civilization, and history from the earliest times to the eve of the colonial era. The course will discuss the origins of humankind, the development of civilization in Africa, and other general continental themes; it will then focus on ancient African states and societies and their evolution into the modern era.
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3 credits Introduces students to the study of African cultures and societies since 1800. The focus is on changes in indigenous African cultures and states, colonialism (including apartheid) and its aftermath, and issues facing independent Africa. Due to the size of the continent and diversity of cultures in Africa, we will not be able to discuss all its regions in equal depth. Instead, we hope to expose students to broad themes and case studies.
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3 credits The colonial and early national experience, 1600 C1830: A survey of women’ s collective history in the United States, with emphasis o n women 痵 legal and political statu s, women ’s work, religion, familial and sexual relationship
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