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4.00 Credits
Offered every year. Ferrer.
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4.00 Credits
Recent topics have included African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean; Haiti and Cuba: Connections and Comparisons; the Cold War in Latin America; and Memory and Violence in Latin America. Students choose a research topic related to the semester's theme, conduct primary source research in area libraries, and produce a final, original research paper.
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4.00 Credits
See description under Hebrew and Judaic Studies.
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4.00 Credits
Topics vary from term to term. Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates Certain 1000-level courses in the Graduate School of Arts and Science are open to qualified undergraduates each semester, and qualified undergraduates are encouraged to enroll in those that fit the needs of their program. Permission of the instructor of the course and of the director of undergraduate studies is required.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the history of urban modernism in a range of national contexts during the 20th century. The goal is to understand the ambitions behind developments that are now often controversial. The cities examined include Brasilia, Chandigarh, Los Angeles, Marseilles, Milton Keynes, and New York, and the theorists considered include Ebenezer Howard, Corbusier, Reyner Banham, Jane Jacobs, David Harvey, and Mike Davis.
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4.00 Credits
Subjects covered vary according to instructor interest and student needs. Examples of topics covered include Urban Environments, Technology and Nature, The History of Human-Animal Relations, The History of Resource Management, and The Idea of Wilderness in Western Culture.
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4.00 Credits
This advanced lecture course varies in format and content each semester. In general, it examines different cultures comparatively over time and space, from the 15th century to the present. Department of History Research Seminars The research seminar is the culminating intellectual experience for the history major. Having taken the relevant lecture and readings courses to provide historical background and context, the seminar student undertakes the research and writing of an original paper. Research seminars should be taken in the senior year, but they are open to qualified juniors. They are small classes in which students present their own work and discuss the work of others. Historical Studies: Theory and Practice (HIST-UA 101) is a prerequisite for all history seminars. Any additional prerequisites are noted in the course descriptions below.
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4.00 Credits
A thematic approach to contemporary world history since the late 19th century. Considers the following topics, among several others: the reasons for Europe's unprecedented world domination in the final third of the 19th century; responses to Western hegemony; the world wars in global perspective; the new nationalism of the 20th century; the rise of authoritarian and fascist regimes; independence movements and decolonization; cultural change and the assertion of women's rights; the Islamic revival; and the collapse of world communism.
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4.00 Credits
See description under Religious Studies.
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4.00 Credits
Main currents of American historical development from the precolonial epoch to the Civil War. Analysis of the country's economic and political growth, intellectual traditions, and patterns of social development. Historical development, not as a series of discrete events, but as an unfolding process. Topics: Puritanism, mercantilism, the colonial family, the War for Independence, political party systems, the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian eras, free labor and slavery, Native American cultures, attitudes of race and gender, westward expansion, the industrial revolution, sectionalism, and the Civil War.
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