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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Studies the many manifestations of the genius of Mediterranean civilization in the Greco-Roman era. Examines Greek democracy, theater, and thought; Hellenistic medicine and city life; and Roman law, culture, and imperialism. Concludes with the merger of these many creative strains in early Christianity. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Explores selected aspects of medieval civilization, beginning with the fourth and ending with the 15th century. Emphasizes social and economic organization and cultural patterns. Gives special attention to northwest Europe. Coates.
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4 sem. hrs. Provides a thematic exploration of the social, political, and cultural developments in Italy. Pays close attention to the cultural and intellectual developments of the period (ranging from civic humanism to painting, literature, and architecture). Makes use of the Boston-area museums. Ortega, Leonard, Coates.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Surveys the impact of social, cultural, economic, and medical forces in modern Europe. Explores the advances of women in the face of persisting gender stereotypes and legal restrictions and the ways medicine, psychology, and literature defined gender roles. Leonard.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Beginning with the Enlightenment, traces the intellectual and political causes of the revolution of 1789. Explores how the revolutionaries developed their concepts of nation through political ideology, state rites, language, and symbols. Examines counter-responses to the new regime's attempts to create new political identity. Makes extensive use of slides, art, and literature. Leonard.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines the rise of Nazism in the 1930s as well as the policies and mechanisms Hitler implemented in his plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe. Uses literature, memoirs, and film to examine the devastating conditions of life in the camps and its continuing legacy. Leonard.
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4 sem. hrs. Examines interactions between the Americas, Africa, and Europe in the early modern era. Special consideration of the Atlantic slave trade, the development of transatlantic colonial empires - especially the Spanish, British, French and Dutch empires - and interactions between American Indians and white colonizers. Covers social, economic, and political change. Berry.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Provides a comparative look at several of the major political and intellectual revolutions that transformed the West from an unimportant corner of the world in 1500 to a major site of world economic and cultural power. Covers the Scientific, American, French, and Russian Revolutions, as well as others. Leonard.
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4 sem. hrs. Explores the U.S.'s emerging global involvement - its origins and underlying values - as wellas ensuing problems, tensions, and conflicts that arose in relation to American diplomacy. Considers a range of foreign policy issues from the emergence of imperialism to the Cold War. Liu.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines the origins of the Cold War in the dramatically altered balance of international forces at the end of World War II. Also considers the historic impact of Third World revolutions and the surge toward detente, ending in the sudden termination of the Cold War in the Gorbachev era. Liu, Park.
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