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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Contextual Competency. A study of the African American experience in America. The course will explore African origins and cultural influences and examine the social and political significance of African Americans in American history. Offered Each Year (Spring).
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Fulfills core competency: Contextual Competency. This course deals with the story of Europe during the tumultuous 20th century. While we will focus much of our attention on political, economic and diplomatic developments; considerable time will be devoted to social and cultural phenomena as well. Offered As Needed.
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Fulfills core competency: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving. A study of the history and nature of the Vietnam War, the causes of both the war and America’s intervention in it, the turbulence and social currents of the U.S. in the 1960s and the impact of the war on participants and American society. Offered Alternate Years (Spring).
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Fulfills core competency: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving. This course is an interdisciplinary overview of the language, concepts, and issues in the field of Women’s Studies. We will explore the construction of gender by focusing upon the intersection of race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion in shaping women’s lives, and will look at women’s efforts to define their identities through work, creative activity, and through feminis m. Offered Each Year (Fall)
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Fulfills core competency: Contextual Competency. This course will focus on five specific developments: 1) the transition from the Roman world to the medieval world; 2) the emergence of several distinct cultures within the territories of the old Roman empire; 3) the key role played by religion in the various medieval cultures; 4) the burst of creative energy and economic expansion associated with the High Middle Ages; and 5) the crises of the 14th century (church schism, the Black Death, etc.) that devastated medieval Europe. Offered As Needed.
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A comparative study of the four American colonial empires: French, Spanish, Portuguese and English. Topics include patterns of colonization, slavery, European-Indian relationships, religious developments, imperial control and movements for independence. Offered As Needed.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills core competency: Contextual Competency. This course, an introduction to American civilization from the age of exploration and colonization through the Civil War and Reconstruction, focuses on central themes and issues in the development of American society and institutions by raising questions about human values, economic growth, institutional change, cultural development, and political democracy in the American past. Major themes include: exploration and colonization; life in early America; the creation of a slave society; colonial America and the British empire; the establishment of representative government; the American Revolution; establishing a new nation; the era of Andrew Jackson; the first industrial revolution; social and cultural life in the early republic; expansion and sectional crisis; and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Offered Each Year (Fall).
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Fulfills core competency: Contextual Competency. This course seeks to have students gain a perspective on the position of the United States among the nations of the world and on the controversies and agreements among Americans concerning the desired attributes of their own culture, government, and ideals. Major themes include: conquest of the West; the Populist movement; the creation of the Jim Crow system; industrialization and its effects on the American society, economy, and political processes; immigration and urbanization; the American Empire; Progressivism and the struggle for social justice; World War I; social changes of the 1920s, the Great Depression, and the New Deal; World War II; post-war affluence and social change, the Cold War and anti-communism; the liberal state; minorities and civil rights; the Vietnam era; the New Right and neo-conservatism; and the recent past. Offered Each Year (Spring).
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Fulfills core competency: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving. A study of the growth of the city from colonial times to the present. Will relate the development of cities to broad national events such as the American Revolution, settlement of the West, industrial revolution, ethnic and racial conflict, changing economy of the twentieth century. The history of Buffalo will also be studied as a microcosm of the nation’s urban development. Offered As Needed.
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Fulfills core competency: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving. A study of World War II, the origins of the Cold War, the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam War, U.S. interventions in the Third World, and other major issues since World War II. Offered Each Year (Fall).
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