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4.00 Credits
A history of Latin America from pre-Colombian times to the early nineteenth century. Examines the encounters among Iberian, American, and African peoples in America and the consequent creation and development of Colonial Spanish and Portuguese institutions and new American cultures. Themes include strategies of conquest and resistance, imperial and local economies, social relations, and political and religious institutions. Concludes with an examination of late colonial society, Bourbon Reforms, and the context for independence movements.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of Latin American history from independence to the present. Studies political, social, and economic developments of the twenty republics of Latin America with a focus on Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Central America and the Caribbean. Topics include wars of independence, dilemmas of national organization, economic development strategies, reform and revolution, social change, and inter-American relations.
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4.00 Credits
An introductory course on the modern history of the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Although the main focus of the course will be on the history of the region, it also deals with the socio-cultural and political changes in the region since the nineteenth century. In addition, particular attention will be paid throughout the course to Islam and its influence over socio-political history of the Middle East. The basic tenets of Islam and its significance and role in the historical, cultural, and political development in the region will be critically examined. Generally, the course will strike a balance between chronological and thematic/analytical approaches. Offered only in international programs. (GE)
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4.00 Credits
Studies American Indians from Columbus to the present, emphasizing tribal responses to European and United States cultural contact and government policy.
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4.00 Credits
Historical studies that reflect trans-national or global phenomena, such as slavery, migration, genocide, colonialism and imperialism, decolonization, revolution, and technological change. May be repeated as topics vary.
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4.00 Credits
Topics in the history of specific nations other than the United States. Historical studies emphasizing a particular national experience on a specific theme and/or in a specific period, such as Hitler and the Third Reich, Tudor-Stuart England, the history of Argentina, and others. May be repeated as topics vary.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the major civilizations of the ancient world before the emergence of the Greeks and Romans in the Mediterranean. The political, religious, cultural, and social histories and legacies of the Egyptian and the Mesopotamian civilization will be studied in detail, as will the histories of less widely-studied cultures such as those of pre-dynastic China, the Indus River and Ganges civilizations, and the Celts. Special attention is given to the monotheistic cultures of the Jews and Persians and to the role of archaeology in ancient history. (GE)
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the political, social, intellectual, and religious histories of the Greek and Roman civilizations and, in particular, how each contributed to the development of Western Civilization. Special attention will be given to critical examination of original sources and to the origins of the discipline of history. Particular emphasis will also be given to the rise and development of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Chronologically the course will cover the period from Archaic Period of Greek History to the consolidation of Byzantium under Justinian in the sixth century.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the politics, social structure, culture, economic development, intellectual transformation, and social experience of Western Europe from the Fall of Rome in 476 to the Renaissance in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Specific topics that will be addressed include the heritage of the ancient world in Western Europe, the evolution of the Germanic kingdoms, the recovery of Europe in the eleventh century, the revival of learning in the thirteenth century, and the effects of the Black Death in the fourteenth century.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the major events of Western European history from 1350 to 1650, with a special emphasis on the Renaissance and on the transformation of European society occasioned by the Protestant Reformation and the subsequent Catholic response. It will not examine only the religious, political, and elite cultural manifestations of these historical trends, but will also look at the social and economic contexts of both the Renaissance and the Reformation, as well as how those elite historical trends affected and were affected by the non-elite populations of late medieval and early modern Europe.
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