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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Study of the expansion of the Diaspora during the Dark Ages; Babylonian Jewry, its institutions and history; Jews in Moslem Spain; the emergence of Franco-German Jewry; and Jewish life in medieval Christian Europe.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. The shaping of the European way of life, from 800 to 1450 A.D.: war and peace, work and play, trade and travel, town and country, religious practices, love and sex, clothing and housing, and diet and health care.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. PREREQ: HCU 160, HCU (HIA)330, HIA 112, or HIE 335, or permission of the faculty member in charge of HEB/HCU.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. The course focuses on the essential problems science has faced in theory, religion, and philosophy, providing a background to the understanding of science and its historical development. It studies the character of science in ancient Egypt and Babylonia; the content, methodology, and philosophy of science during the age of Plato and Aristotle; the emergence and decline of Islamic science; the contributions of the medieval period; the roots of the scientific revolution of the Renaissance; the significance of the work of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Vesalius, and Harvey; and the methods and values of science that emerged from an age of witchcraft, magic, and alchemy before the time of Isaac Newton.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits (maximum 6 credits). Various sections on specific topics in ancient and medieval history. (For specific topics and sections offered each semester, consult the Department.)
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3.00 Credits
One semester, 3 credits. (May be repeated for a total of 6 credits.) Individual reading and writing on a specific topic in ancient and medieval history, under faculty direction. PREREQ: Satisfactory completion of 60 college credits, including one 300- or 400-level History course, unless exempted, and instructor's permission prior to registration. History of Modern Europe *Courses preceded by an asterisk are Not expected to be offered in 2009-2011.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. The course examines the nature and significance of scientific thinking in general through the work of Descartes, Leibnitz, and Newton; the conflict between science and religion in the seventeenth century; materialism's penetration of biology from physics; the revolution in chemistry associated with Priestly and Lavoisier; the interface between science and the industrial revolution; the work of the French biologist Claude Bernard, illustrating the development of biology and experimental medicine; the startling work of Charles Darwin; and twentieth-century topics, such as field and atomic theory, relativity, and quantum theory and their important philosophical implications.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Conditions of life, society, and politics on the eve of the Reformation; abuses in the early sixteenth-century Roman Catholic church and Catholic reform before Luther; Luther's personality and theology; Luther's break from Rome; religious radicalism and peasant revolt as unintended results of Lutheran reform.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Religious persecution, ideological warfare, and political rebellion in the context of the sixteenth-century Counter-Reformation; Catholicism and Calvinism; the Spanish Inquisition; the Netherlands' revolt against Spain; the St. Bartholomew's Massacre; the French religious wars; and the Armada.
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