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3.00 Credits
This course explores the development of ancient civilizations in Africa, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Egypt, India, and China as well as the Mediterranean basin. The course examines the progress made by these civilizations toward the development of ideas leading to selfgovernment, the growth of cities with urban services, religion, the creation of economic systems that helped to knit empires together and how these civilizations met the challenges of earthquakes, famines and invasions. Each of these civilizations contributed ideas and institutions that have lasted and influenced our current civilization.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the mythology and reality of the nation's history as seen in the classic films of the last century.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys American economic history and institutions from the colonial period to the present. The course examines the changing economic patterns in American history from the mercantilism of the eighteenth century, laissezfaire capitalism of the nineteenth to socialist innovations of the twentieth century.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the political, economic, social, and cultural forces that have shaped the national experiences from the post World War II era to the present. Special emphasis is placed on the losses and gains of the period in the context of such topics as the Cold War, McCarthyism, The Fifties, the revolts and travails of liberalism in the Sixties, Civil Rights, Rock and Roll, the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, The Vietnam War, Nixon and Watergate, Jimmy Carter and restoring faith, The Reagan Revolution, the Clinton Presidency and impeachment, and the experience of the nineties to the problems and opportunities facing the Nation's third century.
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3.00 Credits
Investigates the culture and history of the 1960s, including its music, literature, and films. In addition to historical events such as the Vietnam War, the moon walk and the assassinations of national leaders, the course examines diverse social movements such as the Civil Rights Movement, the Women's Liberation movement, the Counterculture, the Anti-War movement, and student activist movements. Core designated Knowledge Area course.
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3.00 Credits
Provides an overview of the United States from 1918 to 1980. Topics include the Roaring Twenties, Prohibition, The Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II and the Cold War, domestic prosperity, Vietnam, and the post- Watergate era.
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3.00 Credits
Undertakes an interdisciplinary study of Catholicism in America: its history, sociology and cultural expressions, and its pertinence to contemporary American life and issues.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the political, cultural, economic and religious development of the Irish people from 1600 to the present, supplementing historical texts with literary works. Special consideration is given to the Province of Ulster to provide students with an historical context for current political conflict in Northern Ireland.
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3.00 Credits
Examines family structure, patterns of authority and economic production that have evolved for the American family as the result of industrialization and technological change. The course considers farm, industrial, Native American, slave, immigrant and nontraditional families. Students trace the history of their own families (or another of their choice) and learn oral history techniques in order to organize a genealogy, prepare an Ahnentafel report and organize their own results within the context of historical change for the American family.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes American urban civilization including the growth of cities, urban-rural relationships, development of city planning and the effect of these processes upon city government and the economic environment.
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