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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq: At least two history courses and consent of the department. Enrollment normally open only to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Concentrates on forms of contact between people in different parts of the world. Examines how encounters across borders inform, affect, and relate to issues such as trade, the environment, conflict, notions of other, gender perceptions, and colonialism. Ortega.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: At least two history courses and consent of the department. Enrollment normally open only to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Examines revolutions and reforms in modern Asia, focusing primarily on the watershed events occurring in the 20th century. Topics include comparisons between bloody or nonviolent revolutions and gradual or radical reform. Liu.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: At least one 200-level history course, preferably an East Asian course or consent of the instructor. Explores the social, cultural, ideological, and psychological dimensions of the Japanese aggression that culminated in the Nanjing Massacre, the exploitation of comfort women, forced labor, and human experimentation in WWII. Examines explanations for the absence of discussion on these human rights violations in the ensuing Cold War until the late 1980s and how that absence helped shape postwar East Asia. Liu.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq: At least two history courses and consent of the department. Enrollment normally open only to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Examines narratives connected to September 11th and focuses on the debate within academic and policy circles, on terrorism as a form of warfare, on globalization and 9/11, and on the creation of post-9/11 policies. Provides an understanding as to how these narratives affect how we interpret the event it causes and subsequent decision-making. Ortega.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq: Consent of the department. Enrollment normally open only to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Considers how the mass murder of the Holocaust has impacted postwar collective memory and imagination. Uses literature, memoirs, and film to examine how different forms of memory shape the way we make sense of the event. Examines such issues as the problems of interpreting memory, trauma, and the use of oral testimony. Leonard.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq: At least two history courses and consent of the department. Enrollment normally open only to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Examines the theory and practice of public history for those who plan to apply their academic historical studies in public settings. Focuses on the rich, complex, and sometimes fraught relationship between academic historians and public historians, as seen in public venues. Curtin.
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4.00 Credits
4-8 sem. hrs. Prereq.: Consent of the department. In collaboration with the Career Education Center and under supervision by a department faculty member, students intern 10 to 15 hours a week (for four credits) in workplace sites connected to their major. Students complete a final paper that reflects on their experience and brings together theory and practice. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem hrs. Prereq.: At least two history courses and consent of department. Enrollment normally open only to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Focuses on varied developments in New England, the Middle Colonies, and the South during the 17th and 18th centuries, with special attention to political institutions, social structure, race relations, and gender roles. Topics vary each year. Berry, Crumpacker.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: At least two history courses and consent of the department. Enrollment normally open to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Focuses on topics in the cultural, social, and political history of the U.S. during the course of the "long" 19th century, between the Jacksonian Eraand the Jazz Age. Prieto, Crumpacker.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: At least two history courses and consent of the department. Enrollment normally open only to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Focuses on topics in the cultural, social, and political history of the U.S. after 1890. Themes include urbanization, progressivism, immigration, the development of consumer culture, the Great Depression, Cold War culture, and movements for civil rights. Prieto, Larson.
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