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4.00 Credits
The roots of conflict in Vietnam, American involvement, the course of the war, and its legacy for both Americans and Vietnamese. Four credit hours. H, U.
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4.00 Credits
A seminar on major issues in African ecological and economic history. Topics include early human occupation and technological change; the agricultural and horticultural revolutions; the impacts of tropical disease; ecological change in the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods; the debates over rainforest destruction, desertification, and conservation biology; and interpretations of the food crisis and international aid. Four credit hours. H, I.
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3.00 Credits
Latin America's 20th century was an age of political extremes of the left (social revolutions in Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Peronist Argentina) and right (military dictatorships in Chile, Brazil, and Argentina). How changes in gender and art shaped revolutionary and reactionary societies and how political transitions changed notions of family and love and spurred creativity in literature and mural art. Subjects include Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in revolutionary Mexico, Evita Peron and working women in Argentina, revolutionary cinema and family reforms in Cuba, and the politics of divorce and childhood in military dictatorships. Prerequisite: Social science coursework in Latin America. Four credit hours. H, I.
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4.00 Credits
Listed as Religious Studies 334. Four credit hours.
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4.00 Credits
A comprehensive introduction to the construction of gender in the Islamic Middle East. Puts the lives of contemporary Muslim women and men into a deeper historical perspective, examining the issues that influence definitions of gender in the Islamic world. Through monographs, essays, novels, stories, and film, examines the changing status and images of women and men in the Qur'an, hadith/sunna, theology, philosophy, and literature. Traces changes and developments in those constructions of identity beginning with the rise of Islam and continuing through contemporary understandings. Four credit hours. H, I.
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4.00 Credits
Listed as Ancient History 393. Four credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the historical circumstances of the Crusades primarily from a Middle Eastern perspective. The goal is to foster a broader understanding of the sociopolitical, religious, and economic forces driving the Crusades and their effects on the Middle East. Focus primarily on the Crusades of the 11th-13th centuries, but consideration is also given to their legacy and long-term effects. The nature of "Holy War" from both Christian and Islamic perspectives, the nature of Christian-Muslim conflict, armed conflict in a premodern context, and whether there was such a thing as an East vs. West conflict. Three credit hours. H, I.
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4.00 Credits
Focus on the cultural, social, and political development of Iran from the rise of the Safavid dynasty to the election of Muhammad Khatami in 1997. Particular points of focus: state formation, the influence of the West on 19th-century economic and intellectual development, 20th-century internal struggles between the religious and political elite, the effects of oil and great power intervention, the rise of activist Islam and the revolution, the war with Iraq, and life after Khomeini. Four credit hours. H, I.
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4.00 Credits
A seminar that explores major issues in humankind's relationship to the natural world. Topics include the food crisis in prehistory, the human use of fire, disease and urbanization, the domestication of animals, the global exchange of flora and fauna, the impacts of industrialization and global capitalism, tropical deforestation, and the conservation movement. Four credit hours. H, I. WEBB
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3.00 Credits
A critical examination of one of the most famous figures in history within the context of 15th-century French history and particularly the Hundred Years' War with England. Focus will be on the role of narrative and interpretation in the understanding of history from the time of Joan of Arc to our own. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Four credit hours. H, I. TAYLOR
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