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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
IThis course is a comparative study of societies and cultures from prehistory through the Renaissance. It emphasizes the interaction between the West and the world in order to understand the current world. Three class hours a week. 3 credits Fall, Spring, Summer
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IIThis course is a comparative study of societies and cultures from the Renaissance to the present. It emphasizes the interaction between the West and the world in order to understand the current world. Three class hours a week. 3 credits Fall, Spring, Summer
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1877A survey of the American past from the age of exploration to the end of Reconstruction. The course will examine the major forces, personalities, events, and institutions which shaped the American experience through 1877. Topics and themes covered will include the development of colonial society, the American Revolution, the Constitution (Federal and Commonwealth of Massachusetts), the growth of the new nation, westward expansion, 19th century reform movements, the rise of sectionalism, and the Civil War. The course concludes with an overview of the Reconstruction period. Three class hours a week. 3 credits Fall, Spring, Summer
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1877A survey of the American experience from 1877 to the present. The course will focus on the forces, personalities, events and institutions that have shaped modern America since Reconstruction. Major topics and themes covered will be continued evolution and implementation of the Federal and State constitutions industrialization, immigration, urbanization, westward expansion and America's global role in the twentieth century. Three class hours a week .3 credits Fall, Spring, Summer
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AgesThis course examines civilization in Europe and the Middle East, emphasizing the spiritual, intellectual, political, social, and economic forces that shaped these societies. The course begins with the decline and breakup of the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries and continues to the time of the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries at the beginning of the early modern period. The course uses brief biographical sketches of the peoples of the Middle Ages across the broad social, political, intellectual, and economic spectrum of the period from 476 to 1500 to illustrate this fascinating, challenging, and transitional time in the West and the world. Three class hours a week. 3 credits Fall, Spring, Summer
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3 credits Terms offered: Fall, Spring, Summer This course examines the dramatic changes that occurred in the economic, political, intellectual, and social lives of people from the end of the Middle Ages to the era of the French Revolution. The rise of capitalism, the fall of absolute monarchies, the diversification and evolution of religious beliefs, and the movement of peoples, ideas, and commodities around the world make this time period key in understanding the development of the modern world. Three class hours a week. Prerequisite: None
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3.00 Credits
WomenA survey of women's lives in America from the beginning of English settlement to the present. The course considers marriage, family, childbearing and childrearing, work, religion and politics. Readings, lectures, and discussions emphasize the diversity of women' s lives according to age, race, ethnicity, social class, and place of residence. Three class hours a wee k.3 credits Fall
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3.00 Credits
HistoryA study of African civilizations before slavery, the slave trade, slavery in the United States, and the various stages in the development of African-American history in the United States. Three class hours a week. 3 credits Spring
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3.00 Credits
HistoryA survey of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet political, social, economic and intellectual history from 1890 to the present. Emphasis is placed on the legacy and traditions of the Czarist Empire, on the development of Russian Marxism, on the origins, course and affect of the Bolshevik (communist) Revolution and on the major changes within the former Soviet Union since 1991. Prerequisite: HST 22 or 23 or by permission of instructor. Three class hours a week. 3 credits Fall
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3.00 Credits
IIA one semester study of the origins, causes, events, and consequences of World War Two (1939-1945). The course will consider the war from a variety of perspectives and will examine the political, diplomatic, military, economic, technological, and intellectual developments related to the war. Three class hours a week. 3 credits Spring
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