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4.00 Credits
An exploration of public life in America from Colonial times to the present, considering not only the elections, parties, and movements that have defined the American political landscape but also the social and cultural changes underpinning it. Four credit hours. H, U. OPAL
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4.00 Credits
A social, political, and cultural survey of the Civil War, its origins, and its aftermath. Was the war a watershed in American history, as historians have commonly suggested And if so, what kind of watershed Four credit hours. H, U.
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3.00 Credits
Since the Enlightenment, many Western thinkers have promoted the practical arts, technology, and science as the keys to the betterment of the human condition. They have advocated the use of various production and processing technologies to ensure adequate resources for present and future generations. They have assumed that "progress," based on technological achievements, in and of itself was good. The roots of this notion and its development from the late 1700s until the mid-1900s. Three credit hours. H, U.
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Historical analysis of the concepts of race and gender in four different ways: their institutional basis, their scientific content, epistemological issues that surround notions of race and gender, and the cultural and social background of the scientists and science that developed from 1800 to the present. Consideration of importance of historical issues for contemporary society. Concurrent enrollment in Biology 245 encouraged but not required. Four credit hours. H, U.
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4.00 Credits
Adopting a technologically determinist argument, the instructor will subject to withering criticism the way in which Westerners, and in particular Americans, have embraced such technologies as automobiles, computers, reproductive devices, rockets, and reactors, with nary a thought about their ethical, moral, political, or environmental consequences. Students will be encouraged to argue. Four credit hours. H. JOSEPHSON
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4.00 Credits
The nature of racism, the experience of slavery, the role of African Americans in shaping the nation's history, and the struggle for equality from Colonial times until the present. Four credit hours. H, U. WEISBROT
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4.00 Credits
The history of China from 200 to 1200 C.E. The evolution of aristocratic culture and society through the rise and fall of successive dynasties, focusing on political thought and institutions, religious and philosophical traditions, literature and art. The ways in which men and women defined their roles and identities within the shifting dimensions of their world. East Asian Studies 151 recommended. Four credit hours. H, I.
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3.00 Credits
A close reading of the Analects of Confucius, the Daodejing of Laozi, and other texts to examine the problems and solutions posed by early Chinese thinkers in their historical context. The place of these schools of thought in the intellectual foundations of imperial China. Three credit hours. H, I.
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The Ming dynasty was a period of great flux in Chinese history in terms of political and social order, moral philosophy, gender relations, and artistic and literary representation. An examination of the social and cultural dynamics of this period through reading and discussion of a variety of materials, including political treatises, philosophical essays, religious texts, fiction, drama, and art. Three credit hours. H, I.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the evolution of culture and society of Japan from the eighth to the 16th centuries, examining changes in the rise and fall of the Heian aristocratic world and the development of the warrior culture of the Kamakura and Ashikaga periods. Readings and discussions will explore these processes of change in politics and society, religion and thought, and literature and art. East Asian Studies 151 recommended. Four credit hours. H, I.
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