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3.00 Credits
This course will look at the development of Europe throughout the medieval period (600-1453). Classroom discussion will center around both the political, social, and cultural changes that affected the whole continent as well as the local developments of the many medieval kingdoms and regions. Close attention will be paid to the evolution of medieval ideas about gender, religion, politics, society, and the economy and how the intellectual climate of the period affected the institutions that emerged at this time. Students will work closely with several primary sources and documents.
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3.00 Credits
The founding of the People's Republic of China was the culmination of a series of political, intellectual, and cultural upheavals that fundamentally shook the country (and the world) since the mid-nineteenth century. What happened, who made it happen and why What have modernized and cultured globalization brought to the life of ordinary Chinese, and at what cost This course invites students to explore such questions by using a variety of primary sources .
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Analyzes the political, social and, economic aspects of the modern Middle East from the early nineteenth century to the present, emphasizing the rise of modern nation-states and their conflicts and crises, including the Arab Israeli conflict. here, the emphasis is on Europe's impact on the Middle East in the form of economic domination and colonialism, the importation of European ideas (nationalism, constitutionalism, democracy, capitalism, communism) and scientific developments (nuclear weapsons, television). The reaction of the Middle Eastern people to this Western invasion is central to the discusion of these ideas. Alternate fall or spring semesters. Analyzes the political, social and, economic aspects of the modern Middle East from the early nineteenth century to the present, emphasizing the rise of modern nation-states and their conflicts and crises, including the Arab-Israeli conflict. Here, the emphasis is on Europe's impact on the Middle East in the form of economic domination and colonialism, the importation of European ideas (nationalism, constitutionalism, democracy, capitalism, communism) and scientific developments (nuclear weapsons, television). The reaction of the Middle Eastern people to this Western invasion is central to the discusion of these ideas.
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A critical study of the major developments in the history of the continent of Africa from ancient times to the beginning of the Colonial Era in the nineteenth century. The concept periodization of African history is heavily stressed. Within this framework, the emphasis is on the three-pronged heritage of African history: Traditional (indigenous), Semitic (Hebrew and Arabic- Islamic) and European (Christianity, Slavery and Colonialism). Alternate spring semesters.
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3.00 Credits
A history of the continent of Africa in the ninteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics include African response to European penetration (collaboration vs. resistance), theories and practices of colonial rule, ideologies and organizational forms of African nationalism, and problems of development in present-day Africa. The major part of this course will cover twentieth century African history, with emphasis on colonial administration of the African continent, the development of the various African nationalist movements and their struggle for independence. Conditions in independent African states, inter-African relations as well as African relations with the outside world will be heavily emphasized. Alternates spring semesters.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the history of women in China from antiquity to the present, focusing on the sociopolitcal, economic, ideological, and cultural forces that shaped the lives of Chinese women. Topics include gender roles in Confucian ideology, women and the family, the cultural politics of the female body, alternative visions of women in Chinese religions, the 20th-century feminist movement, and women and the communist revolution. The class will examine a variety of primary sources, literary works, and films.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the beliefs and practices of the major Chinese religions--Confucianism, Daoism, Chinese Buddhism, and popular religion. Emphasis is on the sociopolitical and cultural contexts of their historical developments; the patterns of their interactions and mutual accommodations; their influences in shaping gender roles and family structures in traditional and modern China; their reflections in Chinese folklore, art and literature; and their spread to, and further evolution in Korea, Vietnam, and Japan.
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This class, will focus on the history of Europe during the early modern period, roughly the 14th until the early 17th centuries. Discussion begins with the question of what makes the events of these centuries "modern" rather than "medieval ". Then, the course examines the nature and manifestation of the "Renaissance" for the various cultures, classes, genders and media of Europe. Next, class discussion of the Reformation looks at the reverberations of this great religious upheaval in the political, social and economic institutions of the 16th century Europe. Finally, this class studies the Age of Exploration within the context of the Renaissance and the Reformation. Students will work closely with a number of primary sources and documents. Prerequisite : sophomore standing or written permission of the instructor .
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3.00 Credits
This class will focus on the history of Europe during the early modern period, roughly the 16th until the 18th centuries, emphasizing the great intellectual developments during the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment. The course begins by looking at how these two great movements grew out of the Renaissance, Reformation and Age of Exploration. Students will look at several primary sources and documents that demonstrate the great questions that these thinkers were asking and the new methods they used for answering them. Class discussion also analyzes the impact that these new answers had on society and see how the advances in science had a tremendous effect on the development of philosophy and political ideas during the Enlightenment. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or written permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the origins and course of the French Revolution, the Napolenic era and the Age of Reaction. The impact of the industrial and Romantic revolutions and the different ideologies of this era will receive special attention.
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