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2.00 Credits
Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor and chairman are required for each semester of this year-long thesis. 2.00 units, Independent Study
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1.00 Credits
This course explores various genres of historical writing and debate. It focuses upon works of European and American historians from the modern period. Students learn to distinguish among schools and methods, and study the ways in which historians use source materials and archives. This is an unusually intensive reading course with several writing and library assignments. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This course will examine the major social and political developments that shaped the decade. Topics will include: the liberal impulse and policies of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations; the Great Society; urban decline and rebellion; the Civil Rights Movement; the student movement; the Vietnam War; the counter-culture; and the rise of a conservative movement in American politics and life. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This seminar presents a comprehensive view of the North Atlantic region in the period from about 1600 to the outbreak of the American Revolution. This course will explore three broad themes: identity, social structures, and conflict. Students will first meet the peoples of the larger North Atlantic society, giving special attention to the interaction of indigenous peoples; Spanish, Dutch, French, and English colonizers; and enslaved Africans. Readings and discussion will examine the transnational character of trade, culture, religion, migration, communication, law, and governance - in spite of national policies that discouraged such interaction. But, most strikingly, the North Atlantic region was a competitive and, even, dangerous environment. Wars of conquest, piracy and buccaneering, repression and exploitation, and internecine colonial warfare were dominant features of its history in the early modern period. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course will survey the various educational philosophies and pedagogical theories, as well as, the institutions of education themselves, in Europe as they developed from the 18th century to the present. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
"We shape our buildings, and afterwards they shape us," Winston Churchill declared in 1943. The relationship between architecture and society has always been crucial to a full understanding of any civilization. The built environment is the most obvious and permanent form of a nation's cultural history. Members of this course will examine the human and natural forces that have molded buildings and will reflect on architecture as an expression of contemporary political and social ideas. From the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, Britain grew to be the dominant global power, revolutionizing the face of the world and exporting its culture to every continent. This course will cover the British Caribbean, Bahamas, Bermuda, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India, and the North American colonies from Canada to Georgia. There will be one field trip to Historic Deerfield, Massachusetts on a Saturday. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
Urban life in the United States has roots in the colonial past. This seminar will study the role of the colonial city in the story of the Amrican Revolution. With an emphasis on Boston, Newport, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston; the course will begin with a profile of the colonial America city and its place in the Atlantic world. Students will then look at the impact of two mid-18th-century colonial wars on urban life and search for traces of tensions assoicated with the growth of cities in the Anglo-American political crisis of the 1760s and 1770s. The seminar will examine the part played by each of these urban centers in the War for Independence and conclude with an assessment of their postwar prospects in the new American nation. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This course will trace the history of New York City from its Dutch beginnings in 1623 through the English takeover in 1664 to the British evacuation at the end of the American War for Independence. More than anywhere else in Dutch and British North America, colonial New York was the embodiment of economic forces that shaped the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The city's turbulent history is rich in larger-than-life characters and dramatic shifts in fortune. Following lines of inquiry revealing New York's economic, social, political, cultural, and racial past, students will discover much about the character of the present-day metropolis in the 160-year history of the tiny colonial city perched at the tip of Manhattan. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This course will examine: 1) the origins/causes of World War I; 2) the war's major battles/military operations, and 3) the social, political, economic, psychological and artistic/cultural effects of the war--both during and after the conflict. Focus issues include the Fischer controversy regarding Germany's war guilt, the effects of new military technologies, and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of the war. Assigned readings include first-hand accounts of soldiers in the field. Note: Enrollment is limited to 15 students. 1.00 units, Seminar
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