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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the 12th-century renaissance--the moment during which universities first develop, Gothic cathedrals and churches are built all over northern Europe, literature in the form of Arthurian legends, courtly love, and fabliaux reach all levels of society, and when speculative philosophy and theology engage the minds of the leading thinkers. Concentrating on Paris between 1100 and 1250, exploring the culture of this period through interdisciplinary studies. Four credit hours. H, I.
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4.00 Credits
The social and intellectual developments of the Enlightenment, attitudes toward monarchy in the pre-revolutionary period, connections between the American and French revolutions, and the immediate political and economic causes of revolution. Explored in depth are the changes in revolutionary France from the fall of the Bastille to the Terror and the Thermidorean Reaction. Four credit hours. H.
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4.00 Credits
Covers the origins of the war, its impact on European societies, the experience of soldiers and of civilians on the home front, and the war's long-term legacy in Europe and the wider world. Includes an individual research component. Four credit hours. H, I.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the origins of World War II, its military, civilian, and diplomatic aspects, and its effects. Includes debates on the Versailles peace order, appeasement, collaboration and resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe, war aims, the mass murder and deportation of civilian populations, and the rebuilding of Europe after 1945. Although the focus is on Europe, the global dimensions of the war receive ample consideration. Four credit hours. H, I. SCHECK
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3.00 Credits
Many workers and peasants, and of course political elites, supported the Stalinist system, overlooking, discounting or even justifying the great human costs of collectivization, industrialization, and the Great Terror as needed to create a great socialist fortress. An examination of the nature of regime loyalty under Stalin, making extensive use of primary sources. Prerequisite: Sophomore or higher standing. Four credit hours. JOSEPHSON
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the first French exploration of Canada, from Jacques Cartier in 1534-5 until the surrender of New France to British troops in 1760. Topics include the religious and economic motivation of the colony, involvement of King Louis XIV and his minister Colbert, life in the colony, Jesuits and Ursulines, conflict with British North America, and relations with the native populations. Possible field trip to Québec or Louisbourg in Nova Scotia. Prerequisite: A course in early European or American history. Four credit hours. H. TAYLOR
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4.00 Credits
The American revolutionary period (ca. 1760-1820), blending political, social, intellectual, and cultural history, from 18th-century America as a society built on contradictions (liberty and slavery, property and equality, dependence and independence) through the rebellion against Britain to the democratic, slave-owning, egalitarian, libertarian, and hyper-commercial world of the early republic. Four credit hours. H, U.
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3.00 Credits
A seminar in which biographies and autobiographies of prominent individual American women are used to explore not only their lives but also critical issues in American women's history, in the discipline of biographical/autobiographical historical writing, in developing a concept of historical greatness. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Four credit hours. H, U.
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4.00 Credits
The utopian hopes for government during the Kennedy and Johnson years, both in solving social problems and in containing communism around the world. Readings focus on the shaping of federal policies, their domestic and global impact, and the cultural and political legacy of this era. Four credit hours. H, U. WEISBROT
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4.00 Credits
The interconnections among Russian politics, intellectual life, and culture in 19th-century and revolutionary Russia through reading of literature (e.g., Gogol, Pushkin, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pasternak) and interpretation of film. Four credit hours. H, I.
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