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4.00 Credits
4 Credits, 4 Hours Prerequisite: HEB 201 or 3years ofhi$i school Hebrew This is the second semester of a one-year course in the Hebrew language focusing on listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
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3.00 Credits
Also offered in an Honors section. 3 hours, 3 credits. Who were the Ancients? Why did the Greeks invent democracy, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy? How did the Hebrews preserve monotheism? What did the Romans do besides “decline and fall?” What did Jesus bring and what do we owe Islam? Yesterday’s solutions highlight today’s problems, as the course moves through the lives of men and women transforming their society of master and slave, knights and peasants, popes and crusaders into a world beginning to look much like our own.
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3.00 Credits
Also offered as an Honors section. 3 hours, 3 credits. What forces helped create the French Revolution? Hitler’s rise to power? The Cold War? Why are people today willing to fight for their nations and where did their nations come from? What were the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution, the Industrial Revolution? By exploring governments ranging from absolute monarchy to democracy and dictatorship, this course helps explain the interrelationships of today’s complex world.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits, 3 Hours An exploration of the mysteries and unresolved issues of history, particularly those affecting western culture. Moving from the ancient Middle East to the Americas, the evidence in each situation will be analyzed critically and the reasons for considering the case a mystery developed. In historical reconstructions the course focuses on those cases relevant to the emergence of our modern world, those which present challenging problems and others typical of frauds or manipulated presentations.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits, 3 Hours (Cross-listed with POL 142) The course will document and trace the history of the natural and built environments of the Americas, and the United States in particular, from the Native-American occupation to the American suburb, and the edge cities in the post-industrial era. SUNY Rockland Community College
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3.00 Credits
Also offered as a telecourse. 3 hours, 3 credits. This course traces the settlement as well as political, social and economic developments in the United States from Native American origins to the end of the Reconstruction in 1877. Topics include the American Indian, Hispanic, Afro-American and Northern European contributions, the Enlightenment in America, the struggle for independence, the formation of a national government, democratic and popular developments, westward expansion, the controversy over slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. A social cultural study of the United State from 1877. Topics include urbanization and immigration, Progressivism, World War I, the “Roaring 20s” and the end of Progressivism, the Depression years and the New Deal, the impact of World War II on American Society, suburban culture, McCarthyism and the Eisenhower years, the war in Korea and Vietnam, the civil rights movement and counter-culture. Reagan’s Era New Conservatism, post-industrial America and the state of the economy in light of cyclical economic theories are also examined.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Major developments in European history since 1890 are presented and discussed, including the causes and aftermath of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles; the Russian Revolution and the emergence of Stalinist autocracy; the political, social and economic systems of Italian Fascism and German Nazism; the origins of World War II; and postwar European attempts to rebuild and unite. Offered fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Most historians are interested in what happened. Psycho-history is interested in why it happened. By using new analytic techniques derived from modern psychology, psychohistory explores how individuals and groups act out unconscious wishes symbolically in political life. Firmly established as part of historical study, psychohistory examines the personalities of leaders and the ways in which the history of childhood, family dynamics and human sexuality help explain the outbreak of wars and revolutions.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Prerequisite: HIS 213. Despite more than 60,000 books and articles on Hitler, historians find that traditional explanations fail to explain much about the events surrounding Nazism. By exploring the history of childhood, various Hitler psycho-biographies and the explanations psychohistorians have offered for group phenomena, this course explores the conscious and unconscious motivations behind Nazism, World War II and the Holocaust. Special topics in current affairs are also covered.
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