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3.00 Credits
The course covers the period from the 1900s to the present, focusing primarily on the social, economic, technological and scientific environmental developments in the United States. It examines the roles these developments played in changing the U.S. environment and environmental policies in the contemporary period, and how the American public's view of their environment has changed over time. Students will also learn about hte U.S. government's role in shaping policies that affect the environment, especially since 1900. Students who are interested in environmental study will find the course significantly enhances their knowledge of the historical development of environomentalism in the United States.
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3.00 Credits
Europe from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Special emphasis on the pre-1914 War I era, the Great War and its impact, the Russian Revolution, the emergence of the Soviet Union as a world power, the inter-war fascist development, the origins and events of World War II, and the Cold War.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the Vietnam War, with special emphasis on the reasons for American involvement in the conflict, the consequences of that involvement, reactions to the war, and an assessment of its legacy in American history.
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3.00 Credits
The course covers the history of four aspects of medicine and desease that powerfully influenced western history. These are: major diseases, evolution of medical expertise, institutionalization of medical care, and the relationship of public health initiatives with the prevailing level of biological knowledge. Coursework will begin at the late Middle Ages (leprosy and Black Death) and proceed toward current issues in public health. Most class meetings will concern European history, and the chronology will emphasize the nineteenth century.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the concepts and methods of historical investigation. Emphasis on evaluation of historical documents through the preparation of major research paper on a selected topic in American history. (Capstone course for History majors. Recommended for the senior year. Must be taken at Mount Mercy College).
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the history of race and gender in the twentieth century. Special atttention to social, political, and economic developments among Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Mexican Americans, with emphasis on the changing relationships among these groups and mainstream Americans. Concentration also on gender issues, such as relationships between men and women, as well as the changing economic, political, social, and cultural roles of women in a historical perspective.
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3.00 Credits
The course explores crime, policing, and punishment in England, 1550-1875. Major topics include the use of public shame, professionalization of police, abstacles to prosecution, and the evolving use of prisons. Changes in penal culture are studied in relation to England's transformation from a rural kingdom into an urbanized and industrial center.
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3.00 Credits
British history from the formation of the United Kingdom in 1707 through the 1980s. Emphasis on major political, socio-economic, cultural, and religious movements of the period, with special attention to developments of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the role Britain has played in world history.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on revolutions that have shaped the history of several Latin American nations during the last century, providing an historical overview and analysis of the consequences of such revolutionary events in the evolution of each nation's development. Particular attention will be paid (in a variety of configurations in different semesters, often depending on current events in specific nations) to revolutions in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Cuba and Central America.
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3.00 Credits
Russian and Soviet history from the accession of the Romanovs to the present. Emphasis on the reforms of Peter the Great; the shaping of the Russian autocracy; the socio-economic, political, and cultural ferment of the nineteenth century; the Russian Revolution and the Bolshevik seizure of power; the age of Stalin and the Great Purges; post-World War II Soviet society; and the breakup of the Soviet Union. (Satisfies multicultural studies component of the general education curriculum).
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