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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes the force of nationalism in shaping and threatening the European state system. Imperialistic rivalries, new thought patterns and the road to World War I will also be examined.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the period covering World War I and World War II in Europe. The impact of the Russian Revolution and the rise of Italian Fascism and German Nazism as well as the weaknesses and strengths of European democracies are analyzed.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the revival of Europe during the Cold War and World War II. The impact of American and Russian power rivalry, the fall of the Soviet empire and the dynamism of Europeans in reshaping their continent will be explored.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to deepen the student's understanding of the problems and possibilities of historical research. Through a laboratory format, the student develops the facility to ask relevant historical questions, to gather and evaluate data, and to present generalizations in a variety of written and graphic forms. Readings, a series of tightly delineated research projects, and field trips to protype libraries are utilized. Spring semester. The purpose of this course is to deepen the student's understanding of the problems and possibilities of historical research. Through a laboratory format, the student develops the facility to ask relevant historical questions, to gather and evaluate data, and to present generalizations in a variety of written and graphic forms. Readings, a series of tightly delineated research projects, and field trips to prototype libraries are utilized.
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3.00 Credits
Individual research under the guidance of a faculty member. Every semester.
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3.00 Credits
The Revolution was the most important event in American history. After the Seven Years War, Britain faced enormous fiscal problems. This course will cover the disputes between the mother country and thirteen of its New World colonies that arose out of British efforts to deal with those difficulties, from the first attempt to impose an internal tax on the colonists to the inauguration of George Washington as the first president under the federal Constitution. Along the way, students will consider the military, diplomatic, constitutional, social, economic, intellectual, and religious history of the period, as well as the Revolution's effect on the institution of slavery and the people who lived with it.
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3.00 Credits
THis course will cover the history of the United States during the Early Republic. Topics considered will include the inception of the Federal Government, the First Party System of Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans, Indian relations, foreign policy, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall, slavery, sectionalism, the influence of religion upon life in that period, the intellectual history of the time, and the Louisana Purchase.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover the history of the United States from the end of the War of 1812, the "Second War for American Independence," to the secession of four Middle South States and the formation of the Southern Confederacy in 1861. Topics covered will include the political, intellectual, constitutional, social, religious, and racial history of the time.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the creation of American frontiers from the colonial period to the present. Topics include the New England frontier, the settlement of the "Wild West", the experiences of Native Americans, and twentieth century interpretations of the frontier in film, fiction, and politics.
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3.00 Credits
The development of modern economic thought with attention to the historical order. Individual economists and schools of thought are examined for historical background, essential ideas and usefulness. A study from the time of mercantilism to modern neoclassical and Keynesian economics. Included in the study will be economists such as Adam Smith, Thorstein Veblen, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman and John Kenneth Galbraith. Offered periodically.
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